St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-16
NOT AFRAID OF RAIN.
Democratic Dew Failed to
Dampen Hoosieps' Ardor on
Bandana Day.
Twenty Thousand Of Them Do
Honor to the Old
Roman.
In Hendricks Old Home He
Sees Signs of Democratic
Success.
Protective Fallaeies Exposed
Protective Fallaeies Exposed
and Tariff Reform Urged
Upon Indianians.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Oct. 15.-Atleast
10000 people Cid honor to the Old
Roman to-day. OF course, ShelbyviIle
of itself did not furnish this great con-
course. They came from Marion. Vigo,
Rush, Johnson and Bartholomew.
The Illinois border sent a contin-
gent. and Kentucky also contrib
uted her share from Louisville
and COvingtOn. The Thurman club
came up from Columbus; the Duck
wOrths from Cincinnati, and there were
scores of Indiana campaign clubs from
all over the state. There were also a
large number of Frances Cleve-
land clubs, composed of girls.
which was, perhaps. the most pic
turesque feature of the day.
Every man carried ban
dana handkerchief and every woman a
bandana umbrella, which latter proved
Of decided utility, as it rained steadily
throughout the morning. The rain had
no effect upon the Democrats, however,
and when Judge Thurman stepped upon
the platform at the fair grounds he
SAW A VAST sURGING CROWD
in front of him. Judge 0. S. Glessner
introduced Judge Thurman, who spoke
as follows:
My friends, before I commence the
brief speech that | shall try to make to
you to-day. want to make an eXplana-
ton. want to say to you that | have
been compelled TO decline shaking hands
with nv friends, whom under other
circumstances it would have given me
great pleasure to take by the hand. but
l have been on the stump now so long
and receiving so many delegations thai
this arm of mine is so sore as to make it
impossible for me to shake hands
with you. 1t would cause me more
suffering than l could bear, and
more than any of yOu would wish
to infiict upon me. | shall speak to you
very briefly, because, first, there are so
many other speakers here whom you
desire 20 hear that it would be ineXcus-
able in me to mOnODOliZe your time.
IAN AN ANTI-MONOPOLIST
great cheering from principle. and
therefore on the stump | never take the
time that belongs to other men. Now,
my friends, | wish TO say to you in the
utmost sincerity that | am happy man
to-day. l am happy to meet this
magnificent audience of the the un-
terrified Democracy of the noble
state of Indiana. | am happy to stand
in this gOodly city of Shelbyville. where
my dearly beloved friend. Thomas A.
Hendricks, [applausel lived so long and
hOnOrably. L am happy to see around
me so many of your distinguished
friends, and especially to meet with
In
honor to your state. and the grand
cause of Democracy. lApplause.l | am
thrice happy to see all around me the
signs of a grand victory in this state.
A victory in Indiana means the election
of Grover Cleveland to be the next
president of the United States. [Ap-
plause. Now, my friends, four years
ago here the speaker drew forth
his bandana, which was greeted
with prolonged applausel, four years
ago had the honor to speak at num-
Der of meetings in the state of Indiana.
| was advocating the election of Grover
Cleveland to be president of the United
States. Well, all his opponents now are
the same as those who opposed him
then, and wherever | went | heard
of their gloomy predictions of
what would befall the country in
the event of Cleveland's election.
Everywhere they said that all the mills
and factories and furnaces of the United
States would be shut down because they
could not live under the administra-
ton of Grover Cleveland. Every
where they talked about the
PAYMENT OF THE REBEL DEBT
and pensioning soldiers, and the Lord
only knows what other evils their vivid
imaginatiOns cOnjured up to frighten
the people and prevent their voting for
Grover Cleveland for president. but the
people didn't believe their sad
predictions. and they elected that
grand man to the presidential chair,
and now he has been president for
little over three years and half, and
what do we now hear? Why. from these
very same Republican orators we hear
it declared this United States never was
as prosperous as it is to-day. All their
predictions of ruin to the business
of the country, all their predic-
tons of the payment of the
rebel debt. all their pred1c-
tions of the pensiOning OF the rebel sol
dierS and that the mills and factories of
the country would shut down, has gone
for nothing. and has only to be men,
toned to be Tidiculed. Now, my friends.
there never was president who took
his seat under more trying circum-
stances than did Cleveland on the
4th of March. 1885. The Democratic
party had been out of power for nearly
aQuarter of a century. OF course there
were many Democrats who thought that
when we got Democratic administra-
ton every Democrat in the
land ought to have good
office. OF course there were 9TH
erS who wanted no office. but who
had their own peculiar opinions as to
how the government should be con-
Quoted. and to meet and satisfy the
wishes of the people: to satisfy the
wishes of those who had elected him
president. that man Cleveland
HAD THE HARDEST TASK
that was ever intrusted to a president.
and now how has he performed that
task? You learn happy and complete
answer TO that question in the fact that
after three and half years of his ad
ministratiOn the Democratic convention
at st. Louis renOminated him by
unanimous vote and that nOmina-
ton has been ratified by the
Democracy of the whole country from
Maine to Mexico with the same sort of
unanimity. No (. Second-rate man
was ever renOminated for the presi-
dency of the United States by unani-
nous vote. | will change that, and say
no second-rate man was ever nomi-
mated for the presidency of the United
States the second time. The fact that
Cleveland has so conducted himself than
his administration has been so clean, so
upright, so honest, SO patriotic, that the
whole Democratic party from one end
of the republic to the other said: "Let
- l,Fp onafbar farun No ho.