Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-16
SHELBYvILLES BARBECUE.
Judge Thurman is Present and Reviews
the Parade.

SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Oct. 10.
Ten cars, with Col. Brice's private car
carrying Judge Thurman and party left
Cincinnati on the Big Four at $50 this
morning for big democratic barbecue at
Shelbyvile. Judge Thurman was enthusi-
astically received at every stopping place
en- route. The weather was wet and gloomy
but the people turned out in thousands to
welcome the old Roman who arrived at IL
o'clock. Judge Thurman was driven to
the home of John Beggs where he reviewed
the parade which was over a mile long.
Judge Thurman driven this afternoon
TO the fair grounds where a crowd of 80 900
to AZ, 900 people awaited him. There were
three stands. The speakers beside Judge
Thurman were Senator Voorhees,, Gen.
Black, Gov. Gray and others. The Old
Romun was enthusiastically applauded and
spoke easily and clearly.
Thurman's Speech.
In the course of his speech he called atten-
ton to the fact that when he spoke in Indiana
four years ago his opponents were actively
engaged in making gloomy predictions of
what would befall the country should Clcve-
land be elected President. Everywhere they
told us that mills and that all the factories
and furnaces would be shut down and that
the rebel debt would be paid rebel soldiers
would be pensoned and the Lord knows
what other evils. Now he has been
President little over three years
and half and these very
same republican orators declare that the Uni
ted States never was as prosperous as it is
this day. Applause. All their prophecies
of ruin, the payment of the rebel debt, the
pensioning of rebel soldiers, and all the
I Haunting of the bloody shirt have gone for
nothing, and are only remembered to be ridi-
/ culed. Applause. Friends, there never
was a President who took his seat under
more trying circumstances than Cleveland.
| The democratic party had been out of power
nearly quarter of century. Many demo-
Gratis thought that every democrat in the
land ought to have good Office. There
were others who wanted no Office but had
( peculiar notions as 10 how the government
should be conducted to satisfy the wishes OF
the people. Cleveland had the hardest task
ever encountered by any President. How he
has performed the task the people
will answer in the fact that after three
years and half of his administration the
democratic convention had renominated hin
by unanimous vote and the nomination
had been ratified by the democracy of the
whole country from Maine to Mexico with
the same unanimity. Now my friends no
second rate man was ever renominated by
unanimous vote, and the fact is Cleveland
has so conducted himself that his alminis-
tratIon has been so clean, so upright, SC
honest, so patriotic that the whole Democrat
ic party from one end of the republic to the
other said, .'let us give him another term
he has done well By the powers that have beer
conferred upon him once let Us take aim agar
for we know he will do well il
anotherterm. Loud applause. Let me
say once more that nc dishonest man, n,
second rate man, nobody but a great man
nobody but an upright, industrious an,
courageous man ever yet was honored 10 thi
way and therefore answer to what is sal,
against Cleveland. Ii is in behalf of tn,
American people that have. spoken in hi
favor. Applause
The Judge then spoke briefly on the tariff
expressing his well known views on thu