New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-30
CONGRATULATIONS FOR HARRISON.
DISPATCH FROM AN OLD SOLDIER WHOSE KNAPP
SACK HE CARRIE

sACh HE CARRIED.
indianapolis. June 90 (Special-General Harrison ha
received letter from friend In Illinois, stating that
tho Democrats circulating reports among labor
ing men, which thcy intended to be damaging in re-
gard to his during the railroad strikes OF 1877
IL do not know whether shall reply to his letter
or not, said he, for It isn't always best to wro
many letters. have dictated one and when IL IS put
in typewriter form shall determine whether or not
to send 1t. My stay out at the armory here in 1877
with company recruited largely from tho merchants
Of the place had many ludicrous features. I remem-
Der that the wife of prominent man, hearing Of the
hardshps undergoing, came out one night In
carriage with feather bed, pillow and his slip
pes. He Mortified when he her and ex-
clalmed Go home, Sarah please go home at once or
shall never hear the last Of this We wero only out
there night, and then relieved by three
panes of United States cavalry from the West and
two regiments of infantry from the South"
General Harrison received visit yesterday from
Elliott L. Shepard, of New-York proprietor OF The
Mail and Express of NewYork Mr.. Shepard has
been Chicago since tho adjournment OF the Republi-
National Convention. lie had made engagement
to meet General Harrison, but the latter desired to
have chat with him and invited him to stay to din
ner, invitation which was accepted by Mr. Shepard.
General IIarrlson's son, Russell, acts as his Soc
rotary. Republican Of Albany, n. Y, wrote 10
General Harrison, in his letter:
THANK God, England Will not slap you In the face
With Canada Goldfish and mako you believe 1t an Eng
lish army blanket a la Grover Cleveland"
A dispatch received from Newark, ". j., says: The
Republican League Of NewJersey unfured its banner
its Harrison banner, last nights
J. +. Snow, a private of Company D, OF the 10th
Regiment Of Indiana Volunteers General Harrfson's
RegimenD, sent the following dispatch from Hawker
City, Kansas: Congratulations from old soldier
of your regiment whose napsack you carried when he
was exhausted from sickness and fatigue in tine Atlanta
campaign
General Harrison also received the first campaign
poster which nas reached him has IN It's centre IRE
Vice President Levi p. Norton" Surrounding these
words Is border Of Growing roosters. To-day also
General Harrison received photograph from printer
which the latter said exact reproduction of
used IN the Harrison and Tyler campaign Of lS4O
Henry Iartsons famous log house. with barrel Of
hard cider standing by the front porch.
A TALK WITH SENATOR QUAY.
Pittsburg June 20 (SpeclaD.-United States Senator
Quay sat In tho library Of his Beaver home this after
noon, and speaking about the campaign said: "Yes,
1 have some IDEAS perhaps about Its conduct but
they are not for publication. do not think 1t good
politics to announce plans in advance. Whatever
plans Individual members Of the National Committee
may have unknown to me. was not at their
meeting in Chicago
"Will your duties a member Of the committee
interfere with your duties member Of the Senator
Il think not. The National Committee work will
not require great deal of time. The chairman, who
ever he may be, of course will have charge of the
campaign
"To what do you attribute the defeat OF MI sherman
in the Convention? 2"
Largely to the action OF the Iowa people. They
had agreed to 60 to Sherman alter their candidate
was Withdrawn. They failed 10 do so. New-York
was to go to Sherman Also after the second ballot
on Monday. but when Iowa gave her support to Harr
SON. of course NewYork could not have been expected
to docer i'm