The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-24
HARRlSON'S TOUR.
1t Ended at Indianapolis After
Two Days of Continual
Speaking.

the Boyhood Home of Abraham
Lincoln-A Tariff Talk at the
Manufacturing Town of New
Albany - Enthusiasm Every
where.
Indianapolis, Ind, October 49,
Gen. Benjamin Harrison returned
to Indianapolis at s 80 this evening
from his campaigning tour through
Southern Indiana. His last speech,
which was the twentieth of the
trip and the thirteenth of the day,
was at Edinburgh, and his voice
rang out as clearly as when he
spoke first on yesterday. In many
of its phases this little journey of
two days was similar to the longer
journey of thirty days which he
took as President of the United
States three years ago. On this
trip his speeches were of a political
nature almost entirely, and as a re-
suit they were much longer than
those on the other trip. 1t was a
notable fact on his journey to the
south and west as President that a
large number of people who greeted
him were of opposite political faith.
On this trip the same fact was no.
ticed. Indeed, at one or two places
in the extreme southern part of the
state the greater part of his audi
ences were democrats, but they
listened with respect and interest
On this, as on the longer journey,
the children with their flowers and
flags, and old veterans of the late
war with their Grand Army but
tons formed conspicuous feature
of each gathering.
Leaving Evansville at 9 o'clock
this morning the first stop was
made at Boonville, where the
booming of cannon announced his
arrival. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
81 congratulate you upon the
improved weather conditions that
we are having this morning. The
friends | had the pleasure of meet
ing yesterday were standing in the
drip, but things are better to-day.
and that is the order of things
sunshine comes before the rain, and
it comes afterwards. We are here
this morning in a country where
there is about us everything in soil,
in climate and institutions to make
men happy and prosperous. We
come from varied pursuits in life
but no man is distinguished from
any other man by any titles that he
can pass to his children. He may
have been a justice of the peace, OIL
a representative in the legislature
or congressman, or captain ir
the army, but these things die with
him. Our children take up the
work of life for themselves. The
great glory of our American insti
tutions is that they give every mar
a chance. They do not put any
weights on him. They open thu
contests of life broadly for him ane
equip him for it by the magnif:en
provision which our common
schools afford for his education
Every man has to make his owr
way, and l am glad it is so.
"Some Of these pioneers whc
hear me today came into this re
gion when it was unsettled. They
felled the trees or deadened then
in order to- let in a little sunshin,
that the crops might grow. Nov
the trees are gone and the stump
are out of the way and the chill
dren come into improved heritage
We all like to give our boys an,
girls little better chance in lif
than we had ourselves, and mostl,
we are able to do it. These thing
are largely dependent on ourselves
but after all this is said everybod,
must admit that the legislation o
the national government upon sew
eral important subjects has direc
bearing upon the prosperity of tn
people. There can be no question
in the world to any man who vii
think that a tariff bill embracin,
several thousand articles, all of tn
great staples of commerce and o
the mill, does affect the entir
business of the country. 1t ma
affect it favorably or unfavorably
Now, my countrymen, we had tw
years ago good times. 1 know
some of our democratic friends ar
trying to make it appear that the
were'not so very good and tina
times since have not been so yer
bad. You know whether two year
ago things were not in a reall
highly prosperous condition, an
you know what we have gon
through since. l think that ever
man who will let his mind ru
over the question will see that thi
whole years agitation of the tart
question, this proclamation tia
duties were to be cut down a
along the line, this uncertaint