The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-06
INDIANA LABORING mem
Call Upon General Harrison in
Great Numbers.
MANY RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
And Miners Tender the Republican
Candidate Grand ovation-His
Splendid Speech aud its En-
uhusiastIc Reception.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 5.-Owing to {
misunderstanding about dates and the
heavy rains in Southwestern Indiana
about two hundred coal miners arrived
yesterday from Greene county and none
at nil from Owen county. Another day
will be fixed to receive the miners from
these counties about two weeks hence,
General Harrison came down to the new
Denison hotel and received the delega'
ton, but no speech-making was INDUCED
in on either side. The General then
went out for Il two-hours drive about
the city.
The special train over the Vandalia
road arrived shortly after o clock, bring.
ing in 500 members OF the Harrison and
Morton Railroad Club of Tcrre Haute.
The visitors were met ut the depot by
over 500 members Of the indianapolis
Railroad Club. 1t was after 8 o'clock be-
fore the column headed for General
Harrison's residence. The delegation
was by lar the most enthusiastic that has
visited the city, and the display was i'm
posing. At the
HEAD OF THE PROCESSION
was full.sized imitation OF a locomotive,
drawn by four horses on large platform
wagon. With calcium lights, headlight
and red fire emitting from the smoke
stack and changing bell, it moved up the
street, surrounded by hundreds OF rail
road men swinging their red and blue
lanterns. Conspicuous among the ban
ners carried was one reading: "Albert H..
Porter, the railroad strikers advocate /;
nominate him over his letter"
1t was 10 o'clock when the procession
drew up before General HarrisOn's resi-
dence, where several hundred people
congregated to witness the reception
The Harrison mansion was brilliantly
lighted, and when the General appeared
on the steps he was greeted with three
deafening cheers and waving of 800
lanterns. When the din and noise finally
subsidized, General Harrison, in ringing
voice, addressed the visitors us follows:
Gentlemen OF the Tcrre Hautc Rail
road Club and fellow citizens: | am
amazed and gratifed ut the character Of
this demonstration tonight. do not
find words to express the emotions which
swell into my heart as look into your
faces and listen to the kindly greeting
which you have given me through your
representative. He has not spoken in
too high praise OF the railroad men Of
the United States. The character OF the
duties they are called upon to discharge,
require great intelligence, in many de-
partmcnts the best skill in the highest
mechanic arts. and in all-even in the
lowest grades of labor in connection
with the railroad manngement-there is
required, for the safety OF the public
who entrust themselves to your care,
fidelity and watchfulness, not only in the
day but in the darkness.
THEY AREPICEED MEN.
The man who attends the switch, the
track man who observes the condition
OF the track-all these have put into
their charge and keeping the lives Of
men and women and the safety OF our
commerce. Therefore it is that the ex-
igencies OF the service in which you are
engaged have operated to select and call
into the service OF ourgreat corporations
a picked body OF men. gratefully nc.
knowledge tonight that service you
render to the country OF which ! am Il
citizen. The great Importance Ofthe en-.
terprise with which you are connected
has already suggested to our Legislators
that they owe duties to you rs well us
to the travelling and mercantile public
The Congress Of the United States has,
under that provision otthc Constitution
which commits to its care all foreign
and interstate commerce, undertaken
to regulate the great interstate railroads
in the interest OF equal and fair compe-
tition and in the equal interest OF all
members OF our communities. ! do not
doubt that certain and necessary pro.
visions for the safety OF the men who
operate these roads will yet be made
compulsory by public and general law.
[Applause.] [
The dangers connected with your
callinga are very great, and the public in
terest, as well us your own, requires
that they should be reduced TO the
minimum, and do not doubt that we
shall vet require that uniformity in the
construction OF railroad cars that will
diminish the danger OF those who must
pass between them in order TO make up
trains. [Applause.l | do not doubt,
either, that as those corporations are not
private corporations, but are recognized
by the laws to which have referred
and by the uniform decisions OF our
courts, us having public relations, We
shall yet see legislation in the direction
OF providing some suitable tribunal OF
arbitration ior the settlement Of differ
enCes between railroad men and the
companies that engage their services.
Applause.l
REFORMS SURE TO COME.
The laboring men OF this land may
safely trust every Just reform in which
they are Interested to public discussion
and-to the logic OF reason; they must
surely hope, upon these lines, which are
open to you by the ballot box, to ac'
complish, under our American institu-
tions, all those right things you have
conceived MS necessary to your higher
success and well being. Do not allow
yourself to doubt for one moment the
friendly sentiment OF the great masses Of
our people. Make your appeal wisely
and calmly and boldly for every reform
you desire, to that sentiment Of justice
which pervades our American public
Applause.]
You come tonight from one OF oul
most beautiful Indiana cities. 1t was
built on the Wabash, in the hope that
that stream would furnish the Channe
Of its communication with the outside
world. But the Wabash is small
tributary to-day to the commerce oI
Tcrre Hante. The railroads that span il
are the great vehicles OF your commerce
They have largely superseded the water
communication that was deemed so i'm
portant in the first settlement, and, per:
haps, was so decisive in the location O
your city. Terre Haute is conspicuous
for its industries. The smoke Of you
factories goes up night and day. Tho
farms about your city have become gar
dens, and the cordial and harmonious
relations between the railroad shops ant
the factory and the farms that lie abou
have a conspicuous illustration witt