The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-05

tApplause. We are not content to remain wholly
agricultural States in our relations to either New
England or old England. Applause We believe
that in all these great Western States there are
brains and arms Of our people, that will yet so
multiply and develop our manufacturing indus
tries as to give us q uearsr-home market for
much OF the products Of our soil lap
plsussI; and Tor that great surplus which
now, and always, perhaps, We shall not con-
sumo at home. vi think . New England mar ket
better than . foreign market. Enthusiastic and
prolonged cheering The Issue upon this great
industrial question is drawn as sharply rs the
lines were ever drawn bstween contendinR
armies. Men are readjusting their party rela-
tons upon this great question. The appeal that
is now made for the defense Of our American
system ID finding Its response; and many OF those
who are opposed to US upon other questions are
committing such questions TO the future for
settlement, while they help us to settle now and
for an indefinite future the great question OF the
preservation of our commercial independence.
[Applause The Democratic party has chal-
leneed our protected industries to q fight of ex-
termination. The wage-earners OF our country
have accepted the challenge. The issue of the
contest will settle for many years our tariff
policy. PROLONGED cheering
The eloquent description to which We have
listened, Of the material wealth of the great
State Of Michigan, has been full of interest to rs
as citizens of Indiana. We cannot doubt that
the peopls OF a State having such generous in
~vitations to the development of great home
wealth in manufacturing and mining pursuits
will understand the issue that il presented. and
will cast their influence in favor of that policy
which will make that development rapid and
sure; and. more than all, and better than ali,
will maintain in her communities q weii-paid
class of wage-esrners. Applause Ou- wage
workers vote; they are American citizens: and
1t is essential that they be kept free from the
slavery Of want and the discontents bred OF in
justice. Applause.
thank my Michigan friends for these hand
some specimens Of the products of their mines
and of their mills. 1 shall cherish them with a
grateful recollection OF this pleasant visit. lap
plause.
To my Indiana friends, always generous. I
return my thanks for this new evidence Of their
esteem.
To my Ohio friends, who so often before have
visited me with kind expressions of their re-
gard, l return the thanks Of q native-born
Ohioan. fApplause1 Three great States are
grouped here to-day. / remember at i ssaca,
when the field and staff of the regiments that
were to make the assault were ordered to dis
mount, there was q Michigan officer too sick to
go on foot and too proud to subject himself to
the imputarion of cowardice by staying behind.
He rode alone, the one horseman In that desper-
ate charge, and died on that bloody hillside
rather than subject his State TO the imputation
that one of her sons had fingered when the
enemy was TO be engaged. He was . noble type
OF the brave men these great States gave to the
country. Applause
At the close Of the Generals remarks the
Wurzburg & Bronson band, which accom-
panied the Grand Rapids delegation. gave soms
admirable selections, while the visitors were in
dividually presented 70 the nominee.