The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-04
THE HOMESTEAD LAWS,
The Subject Of General Hari-
sons Speech Yesterday.
ANOTHER BIG DELEGATION
Calls Upon Him-ovcr Twenty-Five
Hundred Veterans Pay the Re-
publican Candidate Honor
Great Day In indianapolis.

! INDIANAPOLIS, August 3.-Perhaps the
most imposing demonstration yet made
by citizens from outside the city since
the campaign opened resulted to-day
from the joint efforts OF Montgomery
and Clinton counties. The delegation
from Charlottesville and other points in
Montgomery county numbered nearly
1000, and from Frankfort, in Clinton
county, $50.
Some minutes before General Har-
rison appeared, the small platform in
University Park was packed with veter-
ans and when General Harrison came
there was scarcely standing for him.
P.s. Kennedy, of Charlottesville, ad-
dressed the General in behalf OF the
Montgomery county delegation, aud
Judge J. G. Suit spoke for Clinton coun-
ty. General Harrison in responding
touched upon our homestead law and
the ownership OF lands. He spoke ms
follows:
My FELLOW CrTIZENs:-These daily
and increasing delegations coming to
witness their interests in the great issues,
which are presented for their consider
alton and determination, and leaving us
they do TO me their kind personal greet
ings, quite overmatch my ability to
tittingIy greet and respond TO them. You
are here from every walk in life; your
interests have had harmonious and
amazing growth under that protective
system to which your representatives
have referred, and you wisely demand a
continuation ofthat policy for their future
advancement and development. LAp-
plause.l
You are in large part members OF the
Republican party. You have IN the
past contributed yourpersonal influence,
us well us your ballots, to the great vic
tories which ii has won, Among the
great achievements Of our party, | think
we may worthiiy mention the passage
OF that benetiCent act OF legislation
known us the homestead law. 1t opened
way to an ownership OF the soil to q
vast number OF our citizens and there is
no surer bond in the direction ot good
citizenship than that our people should
thave property in the soil upon
which they five. 1t is one Of the
best elements of our strength us Il
State that our farm lands are so largely
possessed in small tracts and are TILED
by men who own them. 1t is one OF
tho best evidences Of the prosperity OF
our cities that so large n proportion OF
the men who work are covered by their
own roof trees. II we would perpetuate
this condition, we must maintain the
American scaie OF wages. Appiause.J
The policy OF the subdivision of thesoiI
is one that tends to strengthen our ma
tional life. God grant thatit may be long
before we have in this country ten
antry that is hopeiessiy such from one
generation to another. Applause.
That condition OF things which makes
Ireland land OF tenaRts, and which
holds in vast estates the lands OF England
must never gain footing here. Jap
plause.
Small farms invite the church and the
school into the neiShborhoed. Therefore
it was that in the beginning, the Repub-
iican party declared fOr free homes 0t a
quarter section each. That policy should
be perpetuated as long us our public
domain lasts, and all our legislation
should tend in the direction which l
indicated.
At the conclusion OF speech.m0kiug
each one OF the veterans was introduced
to the General, who then went through
the handshaking ordeal with the entire
twenty-five hundred or more people.
The effects Of the extreme heat and tue
exertion were visible on the General ut
the finish.
Among General Harrison's callers this
afternoon were Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the
well-known Iowa lecturer, who was &C.
companied by Chaplain Lozier, OF Mt.
Vernon, Iowa, the author OF many we'll
known war songs and campaign ballads.