The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-05-04
GEN. HARRISON SPEAKS.
The Ex-President TALKS to EnthusiaS.:s
Indiana Republicans

GEN. HARRISON SPEAKS.
! The Ex-President TALKS to Enthusias::s
Indiana Republicans
At the state republican convention in
Indianapolis Gen. Harrison delivered a
ringing speech which was received
| with great applause. After announc-
ing that his services were at the COM
mand of the party he spoke on the sub
ject of protection as follows:
We have had, beginning with those years
when the senate champion Of whig principles
turning to Col Thompsonl spoke to his fellow
citizens Of Indiana, Gown to the last national
| campaign continuous debate upon the Ques-
ton of the tariff The people h I'VE now accept.
| ed one view of the question and now. turning,
have adopted the other. Applause
The debate seems to have worn itself out
Even your silvery eoQuence, sir. was hardly
equal TO tirr:ng great interest in the question
Or people became SO prosperous, 50 rich Ia
Dor was so universally employed al GOOD ages.
that men ceased to appreciate the danger and
the disaster tina, was involved in an abandon
ment Of protection principles Applause No
orator was equal to the task OF main tanning
their interests But events have stirred that
interest TO the profoundest depths OF our so
ciety. Applause
VIVA: the IRA or ana the pamphleter could
itself into ever home. and unto m any brought
| starvation has done AMI is doing to-daT- Our
friends may endeavJr TO persuade the Ameri
IN people that this period of depression is only
one of those periodic panics that thev
say at intervals, more or less certain,
necessarily fall upon US Some NAV en-
deavor to persuade you that the infu-
ences that have brought il about were
climatic or seismic Blu. l believe l do not
state it too strongly WHEN I sav tina. the COM
mon minds the cloSe observation OF those VINO
are educated and instructed by fact rather an
given to refined theories, ha; settled upon the
cause Of this present disastrous depression
They ind that tause IN the attempt to wipe out
protection IL gisialion and TO substitute for It
the doctrines Of revenue tariff They ind i.
In that uncertainty which has intruded itself
into every mans business enterprises. which
has paralyzs d mis- ent lies and viii, b has COM
PEELED the wheels to stop while this grea, issue
was being concluded.
The American workman is realizing TO-DAY
that it is not possible for him to separate him
self in interest from the manufacturer who EN-
ploys him: that he cannot listen to the wild aid
vicious appeals which have been made to him,
strike at the men who give employment to la
Dor without bringing the blow back in recoi'
upon himself and upon his family. Applause
The times are full OF unrest disaster and ap-
prehension believe to-day that ali the ;umult
Of Omnipotence if the grand industrial and
commercial classes of this country could know
to-day that there would be no attempt to strike
down protection BE- American legislation
lApplausel The republican party is friendly
to a restitution OF silver to place OF honor
among the money metals OF the worl lap
plauseI Some of my friends in the west
| thought I was uttering new doctrines when I
declared that I believed the free use OF
silver upon an international agree
ment that would assure its continued
equality with gold would do more than
anything that l knew OF, save the establish
ment of the protection principle to bring again
prosperity into our commerce. Applause.
The trouble on this question has been that
some of our western friends would not receive
any man as the friend Of silver who
believed We could not coin it freely
and maintain its par ty with gold b.
coming into an arrangement with other
great commercial ceniers OF the world They
should have been more liberal. 1 believe to-
day that We can see in England, the nation that
has stood most strongly against the larger use
of silver. and in GERMANY, nation that has
followed England, the clear indications Of the
growth OF q sentiment for an international
agreement upon this question
II is increasing in power:I believe il rightly
and wisely encouraged and directed from
America it will finally bring other nations by
the compu'sion of their own necessities. into
accord with US upon this subject Applause
My republican friends, l congratulate you upon
the hopeful and suspicious incidents that sur
round this meeting toda:. We enter upon this
campaign with better heart and higher courage
than upon any other campaign for many years
So great is the confidence that hear expressed
that would drop WORT OF caution for there
Is danger in overconfdence / beg to say to
you that in my opinion citizen. having alb
solutelv no interest except those that you have.
that every one OF you here and all those whom
you represent have never had an opportunity
in their lives to serve their country
more efficiently than by devoting themselves
industrousiy from now until No
vembe; 10 the support Of that ticket which
will here be nominated. We have state mat
tiers which should be set right-ihe eQua ity OF
men at the ballot box-the abolition Of ali
legislation that tends 10 enhance the power
of one man By abstractiny from the
just power Of another must be re-
established. We have fought this Gues-
ton Of iniQuitous legislative apportion-
ments for years, and We are to-day ihrottled
bv a gerre n inder that must be overturned
Applause For Years We have contended
that pure clean, non-partisan civil service
should be introduced into the management of
every benevolent and penal institution and
appeal to the good people to maintain and
tabiish it.