The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18

lakes OF your country, taking IN their train inn
mense conveys of other vessels that possess no
power except that which the propeller gives,
aud takes them safe into port; lApplausel
while Allen c. Thurman is the best living illus
tration of the true Jeffersonian doctrine that is
near to every democratic heart Applause
and cries of "amenl. Now, fellow-citizens, with
such a ticket as that is there any doubt about
our success? lCries of mo, none."l Does not
every democratic heart throb of the men.
ton OF these names? And is not every
democratic hand ready to be up
lifted in defense OF that ticket with
box next November a ticket in favor of tho
electors who represent it? Applause and cries
OF "They arc all ready.
On the other hand what have the republi-
cans presented? They have nominated Gen.
benjamin Harrison OF Indiana and Levi P
ticket will only be known to poster
ity by the amount OF the expenditure
that he is expected TO make to secure
his election. Applause and laughter.l AS to
Gcn. Harrison, have no hard words TO say of
him. Personally, l respect him; he is my
neighbor. But, fellow citizens, he is republican
with all that that term implies [applausel; he is
neither better nor worse than his party laugh
teri; he believes in all its dogmas, religiously
believes them; he believes in that platform
framed at Chicago because he was careful to
say when the announcement was made to him
of his nomination in his personal response
that he had carefully read it and approved it.
lie began his political career with the
republican party. His first canvass was
made in 1856 for the first republican candidate
for the presidency, Col. John c. Fremont, and
he will end his political career in November
with his own defeat [great Gpplausel, and will
thereby prove to be the Alpha and Omega of
the republican party. If you want 10 know
what his record is simply look to the record of
his party and there you will hnd 1t. On the
h ,orFr
to the restriction of Chinese immigration he
voted with his party on that subject When
they proposed to extend 10 the Chi
ncse the right of naturalization, and conse-
qUenty the elective franchise, he voted with
them upon that; and then again when his
party took the other tack-thinking they had
gone little too far and 1t might be unpopular
and unproitable,-he voted with them there
[Applausc.] AS to the labor question, on that
be has no record at all. [Laughter.l lie is
not even as well off as poor Bridget, who
started to this country with q good character,
but lost it on the way applause and laughter;l
and the reason that be has no record on
that subject is that he has simply stood with
his party. The republican party have no record
on il. 1t has been the policy OF the repub-
lican party since its organization to lccislate on
the principle that if you take care of the rich,
the rich will take care of the poor Ia voice,
"they won't do i'll; and they have continued to
legiSlate on that principle until they have
built up the most colossal Fortunes alongside of
the most ablect poverty to be found anywhere.
[Applause.l And, my fellow-citizens, it is
just as difficult now for them to make
a character for Gen. Harrison on the
subject of the labor question as it is to
make for some of us q character on the war
question laughter after the war is over. For
instance, there is Gov Porter and myself.
lLaughter.] We were both able bodied men
when the war was on, but neither of us went to
it. Continued laughter.l In fact, so far as
am able to know, do not think either of us
was ever within range of the longest range
gun that the rebels fired during the war; and
as for my friend, Gen. Harrison, he ought to
be a little modest on this subject also, for he
suffered sixty-fve regiments from Indiana TO
march by his door before he put on the
Uniform aHf 0nnht e o@ and ~ voice
colonel of the Seventeen Indiana.
Therefore, he ought to be little tender and
not step on Gov. Porter's. toes or on mine
any too hard. l have no doubt he made very
good soldier, but he came very near missing his
And the reason why Porter and
l did not go has never been
made known to the world. A voice: What
was it?l If l were TO undertake to give you
the reason for it I would say that We had peri
haps some regard for the rebels and did not
want to destroy them all. [Great applause
and laughter And yet, fellow-citizens, they
expect to nominate Porter because they claim
that he has a record on the subject OF the labor
question, and that he can help Harrison out
there llaughterl and thatfIIarrison is TO help
him out on the war question. They will be
very much like Jack Spratt and his wife.
"Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
So betwiXt them both
They swept the cloth
And licked the platter clean"
And if they do nominate Porter have very
little doubt before the election that they will
prove that he, and not Mcpherson was killed at
Atlanta, and they will have his life-sized like
ness down here in the cyclorama. lGreat APP
plause and merrimentl We don't know what
a republican can do.
But fellow-citiZens, one word more in refer
ence TO the candidates themselves and the
campaign. In their platform AZ Chicago they
have a number of resolves" that are very
curious when we come TO consider them. One
is they resolve in favor of silver
currency and denounce the administration of
the democratic party for trying to des-
troy il when they themselves in 1873 demone-
tized silver, and when it had to be restored in
1878 over the veto of their president. i was
there in the senate myself and know about it.
lApplause.l They talk about the public lands.
After they have voted away to the mammoth
corporations of this country all of the public
lands that were OF any value, leaving nothing
but the mountain side and the sage brush, they
now talk about reserving the balance
of them for the settlers. [Laughter.l And
then they resolve in favor Of an honest election
and a fair count and then 90 right away and
elect Dorsey-No, am mistaken about that,
worse than that-Dudley as chairman of their
executive committee. STRAW Bail" Dudleyl
TGreat applause.l There are on the records
of the federal court to-day five indictments
against republican repeaters who were here
and repeated in 1880, and were arrested and
bound over for whom Dudley's deputies-he
being too cowardly TO be there himself in per-
son-took straw bail, and the men have gone
away. [Laughter.l Now do you suppose they
intend an honest election with that kind
of an organizationH (Cries OF mo, they
they viii have Dorsey in there some way. But,
fellow citizens, want TO say this % you, it
matters very little what they do. The man
that is now at the helm OF public affairs will be
continued there four years longer. Wild APP
plause and cries of 'He wIllp'] lie has
demonstrated TO the people of this
country that he is possessed of the
Jefersonian qualities of honesty and capacity
[Cheersl, and that he is administering the gov
eminent for the people at the least possible ex-
pense. Letme say to you, fellow citizens,
that the last public report of the
treasury, published on the End day
of this month shows that the or
binary expenses Of the government have been
brought down to $l45,000O0O, $l0.O00,O00 less
than last year, or more than forty millions less
than the average of the last republican adminis-
traGon. Enthusiastic cheerngl Do you
want any better Illustration of the wisdom of
his administration than that? lCries
of "No, non You do not
find now any federal officer or Office holder
with a commission in his pocket with Grover
Cleveland's name on it who has not something
to do. IApplausel. He is not standing around
idle, nor is he engaged either IN the trick and