The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-13
AT BRAZIL.
Big Demonstration and a Brief but
Pointed Speech by the General.

Big Demonstration and a Brief but
Pointed Speech by the General.
Hon s. n. Chambers left the train at
Greencastle to make speech there in the
afternoon. A Brazil committee consisting
of Mayor Hert. William Leavitt, ID. W.
Brattin. DR.. Joseph Clifford. DIR. Oliver
and w. M. Nees boarded the train as 1t
left Greencastle. These gentlemen were in
troduced to the party. This committee had
been appointed to accompany the party to
Brazil and inform il of the arrangements
that had been made to receive the dis
tinguished speaker. When General Harri-
was candidate for election the first
time he reduced an 800 Democratic ma
jo-ity in Clay county to f1fty-seven, and
the committee informed members OF the
party on the train that this year the Re-
publicans would carry the county II was
stated that there are eighteen strong Re-
publican clubs In the county, while the
Democrats without any.
A band was playing a lively air when the
train pulled into Brazil. A half dozen
yards from the track is the hotel, from
the balcony Of which General Harrison
spoke to audience of over $500. The
same enthusiastic reception that the speak
er met ar Greencastle he found at Brazil.
An immense flag covered almost the
tire front of the hotel and to reach the
balcony the ex-President had 10 go through
the house and come out a window which
covered by the big flag AS the ex-
President emerged from the folS- OF the
flag, whose honor has always been a para
mount consideration with him, there was
a rousing cheer. The audience, as at
Greencastle. made up of townspeople
and e great many farmers, who gave the
most earnest attention to the words of
the ex-President. On the balcony imme-
dietely under the General was one of his
familiar pictures wrapped in flags. On
either side Of the entrance TO the hotel,
the Rigby. were likenesses. one of the i'm
mortal Lincoln and the other OF Harrison.
Throughout the address there was ap-
olause. General Harrison said:
MY Fellow-citizens-I said Just now to
the people at Greencastle that in a large
sense and in the long run we, as a people,
are prosperous together or in distress
together Not long ago We heard a great
when the country was prosperous and wnen
that prosperity was generally distributed
talk about time when the rich were all
getting richer and the poor were getting
poorer. and. by way of curing that con-
Democrats said they would bring in a
time when the rich would all get poorer and
the poor ell get richer. Instead of that
they have Illustrated the general truth
that we prosper together cnd we suffer
together by bringing In time when we
are all getting poor together. The policy
OF a party that Is TO be accepted by a
people should be policy that brings and
maintains general policy and that aD-
peals to men in all pursuits In life.
Let us stop TO think of the promises
that were made 10 US. because out OF this
experience you ought to learn. Experience
iS hay I'd httf ffc chi -
ocrats talked to the laborng man about
the oppression OF the tariff, especially as
il was related to his coat. The theory
upon which their appeal went seemed 10
you had to- sell higher. and that the man
who made coats and the man who made
the cloth out of which the coats were
made would sell his goods very much
TO get the profit of the cheap coat and
the man who worked in the mine was 10
have an advantage: but you didn't get hold
OF the other side of that Droposition-that
IL was impossible TO bring in time when
everybody else should be selling what they
OF what you had TO sell, whether Ii was
labor or something else. Many of these
workmen Were told thet wages were not
equally shared by them and that the own
the profits. Possibly. in particular in
stances. this true But the appeal
made to you was TO smash the tariff, the
suggestion being that your wages would
remain as good as they had been. but that
everything you bought would be cheaper.
You were told that IL would be good
thing to smash this tariff umbrella under
which you and your employer had been
walking together and sharing the benefits
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