Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-13
POLITICAL MATTER.
HarrisOn's Mail Hauled with
an Express Wagon.
A PERFECT DELUGE OF LETTERS.
The Task of Answering All of Them
Abandoned - Delayed
d Returns.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
INDIANAPOLIS, November u. = The
President-elect passed the day quietly at
his residence, receiving goodly num-
Der of neighbors and some friends who
called, and reading letters and Eastern
papers. Since the day of his election
General Harrison's mail has steadily in :
creased, until it has now reached man :
moth proportions. This morning it re-
quired an express wagon to haul the
bundles of letters and bags of newspapers
that had arrived since Saturday. About
1,500 letters and several bags OF ne wspa-
pers comprised to-day's mail. Some
thing like eighty kilograms were also re-
ceived. mostly Of congratulatory char
acter, as are also his letters. Heretofore
General Harrison has aimed to reply to
every letter, if only to acknowledge its
receipt, but with such an extraordinary
increase he now finds that the tax will
be too great for him to undertake, as it
would occupy his entire time. In view
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this evening requested the correspondent
of the Associated Press to publicly Convey
his cordial thanks to the several thousands
friends throughout the Nation who have
telegraphed or sent by letter their warm
expressions of congratulation and best
wishes. He was very particular to i'm
press upon the correspondents that it
would have afforded him real pleas ure
to personally acknowledge the receipt of
every communication, and up to to day
this was his intention, but the inventory
IT over 1000 kilograms and letters, with
several hundred additional letters arriv-
ing each day, has caused him to reluct-
antly abandon the attempt to answer in
dividually, and he asks the press Of the
to extend his kindest and warm
est thanks to his congratulatory friends.
Nothing has more profoundly i'm
pressed the President.elect than the
and heartfelt expressions
in the thousands of kilograms
he has received. Nearly 1000 of
these kilograms and letters were Of such
a purely personal character that General
Harrison felt it might be considered in
delicate for him to permit their publica-
ton, although many OF them are from
people Of political or social distinction.
Besides this class Of kilograms, there are
fully 1000 from men and women in the
humble walks of life, who express senti-
ments of admiration and rejoice in the
warmest personal terms. While it is
exceedingly gratifying to the General,
and calls forth his frequent mention in
conversation, yet the personal references
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public.
Owing to the size OF his mail to-day,
the General, up to this evening, had only
read about onethird of his letters.
Among them was one from ex-senator
Warner Miller, warmly thanking him
for his telegram of coincidence, and stat
ingsthat it was received just in time to be
read at a rouslng ratification meeting at
Herkimer, N. Y, and that his own de-
feat for the Governorship was swallowed
up in greater victory. The distin-
guished candidate closes his letter with
the statement that his is not a house of
mourning, but of rejoicing over the Ma
tional victory, and he tenders his warm
est congratulations to General and Mrs.
Harrison.
STATE RATIFICATION AGAIN POSTPONED.
The State ratification meeting fixed to
take place Wednesday night was at a
late hour tonight postponed by Chair
man j. N. Huston and other members
of the Committee of Arrangements until
Saturday. Complaints reached the COM
mittee to-day from the interior and from
the railroad companies that Wednesday
did not afford them sufficient time to
prepare for and participate in the big
demonstration, such as the committee