Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-21
EASTERN EVENTS.
The "Old Romans" Tri.
umphal Tour.
SOWING SEED BY THE wAYsIDE.
His Arrival at TOledO-The Tariff
Defined-The Bandana Flung
to the Breeze.

O'Clock this afternoon the special train
bearing Judge Thurman and party left
Columbus on the way to Port Huron via
this city. Besides the cold Roman" the
party consisted of Congressman Outh-
waite, of Columbus, Allen w. Thurman
and son Lee, F. P. Linn, of Columbus,
and several newspaper correspondents.
Judge Thurman said he was not feeling
we'll, but walked erect and firm. At Elm
wood the train stopped tor moment, but
the first crowd was encountered at Pow
ell, and in response to numerous calls
Judge Thurman spoke briefly. AS the
train pulled out the crowd gave three
cheers for the candidate. A sign on a
high pole next the car read, "Free mus
lin," and above the words was tame
coon.
VERY ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD
Was at the depot at Delaware, and the
air was red with bandanas as the crowd
cheered for Thurman. Hon. E. F.
Popleton and committee boarded the
train and brought the Judge to the plat
form where as soon as the cheering SUBJ
sided he spoke as follows:
If Mr.. Popleton had the making of the
next Vice-President Of the United States
have no doubt that would be the man
daughter and applause), but there are
great many others who have word to
say upon the subject. l can tell this,
my friends, that if you want this old fell
low to be your next Vice-President you
must go to work. Applause and cries of
"We'll do it, "Well do it,"
As have SO little time /
can't do better than to con-
fine myself to single idea. You have
heard great deal about the tariff. That
is the great subject on which speeches
are now made. l have heard, in long
practical experience, good many at
tenpts to humbug the people, but of all
the attempts that ever l saw or heard,
the pretensions that the high protective
tariff is for the benefit OF the laboring
man, is the greatest humbug. Ap-
plause. What is tariff? 1t is tax lev
led by the general government upon
commodities that the laboring man as
we'll as others use. 1t is tax that takes
hold of every thing from the crown of
your head to the soles of your feet; that
taxes your hat, your coat, your vest, your
UIOcCAoS, yOuI UOOt6s yOuT SIlTU, anu
each and every implement which you
use in your mechanical and agricultural
operations, and now to tell me that to
the top of his head to the soles of his
feet, and to tax him heavily, is to benefit
him, seems to me to be nothing but alb
surdity. [Applause.J
Here the speaker was interrupted by a
train hand and he jumped on as the train
pulled out amid enthusiastic cheers.
ENTHUSIASM ALONG THE ROUTE.
All the small stations along the way
were interested in the journey, and men,
women and children waved greeting as
the train sped by. At Marion working
men in their shirt sleeves, farmers on
horseback, business men, clerks, women,
boys and girls to the number of over
thousand, crowded about the train |
to give enthusiastic greeting to the
"Old Roman" This is the home of
Benton G. Young, the Democratic candi-
date for Secretary of State, and that
gentleman boarded the train and pre-
sented Judge Thurman to the crowd.
The Judge expressed regret that he had !
not time to speak as he wished. He |
spoke few words of commendation for |
Mr.. Young, and started to say some
thing about the prospects this fall, when |
the train moved away amid the cheers
of the crowd.
AT UPPER SANDUSKY, |
In response to calls from large and en-
thusiastic crowd, Judge Thurman ap-
Leared and said in part:
Under the limitation Of time as to the |
stoppage of the train at any one place, |
you will not expect me to make aspeech |
on the great questions that |
now agitate the people of the |
United States and the people Of Ohio. |
II l had time nothing could give me
greater pleasure than to say something |
to you upou this much discussed ques-
ton of tariff. / would like to expose |
some of the humbugs that are sought to
be made use of. When man tells a |
laboring man that tariff tax (for tariff |
is nothing but taxi which taxes him in |
the price he pays for everything he
wears, from the crown of his head to the
soles'of his feet, is good thing for
him, I answer that it is an
absurdity. [Applause.] What man
ever got rich by having his hard
earnings taken out of his pocket by taxa
ton? And that to say that country
would be made rich by heavily taxing the
people is an absurdity that nobody but a
high protectionist would dare to assert.
[Renewed applause
At this point supper was announced
and the Judge concluded by saying: So,
my friends, all / want to do now is to
thank you most heartily for the honor
you have done me in giving me SO or Eat
q welcome, and to say to you one and all
that am truly sensible to your kindness.
1 will bid you goodbye. [Great ap-
plause.]
At the conclusion of Judge Thurman's
brief speech the party adjourned to the
parlor OF the hotel, where an excellent
supper was served.
FULLY TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE
Stood in the light of the natural gas well
and cheered as the train came to stop
at Carey. After thanking the people for
their welcome and regretting his inabili-
ty to make an extended speech on public
affairs, the Judge concluded by saying:
It is long time since the people of
America had such fair and square issue
before them. Now you have in the
Treasury of the United States more than
hundred million dollars, utterly idle,
for not one dollar of which has the gov
ernment any use, but which is kept out
of the pockets of the people who might
l. L.