, 1888-10-16
Thurman at %sheIbyvlIIe.


SHELBYvHLE, Ind, Oct. 15.-Judgc
Thurman lett Cincinnati this morning for
a big Democratic barbecue to be held here
this afternoon. He was received with
great enthusiasm along the route and
arrived here and reviewed a procession of
Democratic organizations a mile long.
After dining Judge Thurman was driven
in a carriage drawn by gaily decorated
gray horses through the crowded streets
to the still more crowded fair grounds.
Fully 40, 1000 people were present and had
gathered around the three stands from
which the prominent speakers held forth,
among them being Senator Voorhees,,
Gen. Black, Governor Gray and others.
Judge Thurman was received with much
enthusiasm and spoke about as follows:
1 am thrice happy to see all around me
the signs of victory in this state [great
enthusiasm and cries of You bet''l, and
victory in Indiana means the election of
Grover Cleveland to the presidency of the
United States. Applause. Now, my
friends, there Thurman produced his ban
dana, which was the signal for another
outburst of applause, four years age l
had the honor to speak to a number of
meetings in the state of Indiana. L was
then advocating the election of Grover
Cleveland to be president of the United
States.
Our opponents were actively engaged
in the same contest, and wherever | went
| heard their gloomy predictions of what
would befall the country should Cleve-
land be elected President. "a voice we
still live" Everywhere they predicted
ruin to the business of the country; every
where they told us hat the mills, and
factories and furnaces of the United
States would shut down because they
could not live under the administration of
Grover Cleveland. Everywhere they
talked about the payment of the public
debt, p%ensioning rebel soldiers, and the
Lord knows what evils their vivid imag-
lnation did not portray to the people to
prevent them from voting for Grover
Cleveland for president of the United
States. The people did not believe their
sad prediction and they elected that man
to the presidency, and now he has been
president for a little over three years, and
what do we hear?
Why from these very same Republican
orators we hear it declared that the United
States never was so prosperous as they
are this day. Applause. All their
%prophesies to ruin the business of the
country, all their prophesies in regard to
the payment of the public debt, all pre-
dictions of pensioning rebel soldiers, all
Haunting of the bloody shirt, has gone
for nothing, and is only remembered to
be ridiculed. Applause. My friends,
there never was a president who took his
seat under more trying circumstances
than Cleveland did. The Democratic
party had been out of power for nearly a
quarter of a century. OF course there
were Democrats who thought that when
we got Democratic administration every
Democrat In the land ought to have a
good office. OF there were others
who wanted no office, but had
their W peculiar notions as
to how the government should
be conducted and to meet and satisfy the
wishes of the people of those who elected
him president of the United States, that
man Cleveland had the hardest task that
ever was encountered by a president, and
how has he performed that task? The
peoples answer to that question is found
In the fact that after three and a half
years of his administration the Democratic
convention at st. Louis re-nominated him
by a unanimous vote. Let me say once
more that no dishonest, no second-rate
man, nobody but a great man, nobody but
an upright, Industrious, courageous man
ever yet was honored in this way and
therefore the answer to what is said
against Cleveland is behold, the Ameri-
can people have spoken in his favor"