The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-02
HARRISON SPEAKS.
Addresses the Republican State
Convention at indianapolis.
TIMES OF UNREST AND DISASTER.
Tariff Legislation Discussed by the
Ex-President.

Tariff Legislation Discussed oy the
Ex-President.
The Indiana Republican stale convention
on Wednesday was the largest convention
ever held in Indiana. and i7I5 delegates fill
ed the lower floor Of Tomlinson hall.
The convention was formerly called to or
der BY State Chairman Gowdy at ten o'clock.
When the venerable presiding officer, ex-
Secretary Of the Navy Richard W. Thomp-
son, Of Terre Haute, came on to the stage
from the rear, in company with Charles W.
Fairbanks, the convention cheered hirl lus-
lily.
PandemOnium followed the appearance Of
ex-President Harrison, who followed the
presiding officer. Hats and handkerchiefs
were waved, and the audience arose 10 its
feet amid cheers. In his speech General
Harrison paid tribute to Presiding officer
Thompson. He said:
To you. my friends. ] come this morning
Of an acknowledgment of my grateful obi
cations for those unoeseryed and accumuia-
Ted favors which you have heaped upon me.
will not undertake this mOrning-it would
be inappropriste-any full discussion of Re
publican principles l viii not stand be-
tween you and the important work which
you have assembled to do and which you
are eager to be about At some time during
the campaign which so suspiciO1sly opens
to-day, If il be the pleasure of my fellow citi-
zens. I shall hold myself at their service for
a fuller discussion Great cheenng). l
cannot allow, as have said before, that an
ex-President has lost his citizenship.
Laughter and applause).
Nor can admit that calm and temperate
discussion of great public questions is un-
digniied in any man. (Applause). We have
bad, beginning with those years when, as
champion Of Wing principles, you turning
10 Colonel ThompsOn) spoke 10 Us fellow
citizens of Indiana, down 10 the last national
campaign, continuous debate upon the
question of the tariff. The people have now
accepted one view Of the question, and now,
turning, have adopted the other. Appause)
The debate seemed to have worn itself cut.
Even your silyery eloquence, sir, was hard
ly equal TO stirring great interest in the
question. Our people became so prosperous,
so rich labor was SO universally employed
at good wages that men ceased to appreciate
the danger and disaster that was involved in
an abandonment OF protection principles.
(Applausel
No orator was equal 10 the task OF main
tanning their interest. But even this has
stirred that interest to the profoundest
depths OF society. (Applsuse). What the
orator and pamphleteer could not do, bit
ter experience that has obtruded itself into
every home, and into many brought starva-
ton, has doae and IS doing to day. Oar
friends may endeavOr to persuade the Amer
ican people that this period of depression IS
only one Of those periodic panics that they
say at intervals more or less certain necessa-
rily fall upon Us. Some may endeayor to
persuade you that the influences that have
brought il about were climatic or seismitic.
But believe / do not state it too strongly
when ! say that the common mind-the
close observation of those who are educated
and Instructed by facts rather than given to
refined iheOries-has settled upon the cause
Of this present disastrous depression.
They find that cause in the attempt to
wipe out our protection legislation and 10
substitute for il the doctrines of revenue
tariff. They fad il in that uncertainty
when has in.ruded itself into every mans
| business enterprise, which has paralyzed his
enterprises and which had compelled the
wheel to stop while this great issue was be-
ing concluded. The American work man is
realizing 10 day that il is not possible for
! him 10 separate himself in interest from the
manufacturer who employs him; that be
cannot listen to the wild and vicious appeals
hich have been made 10 him to strike at
| the men who give employment TO labor
without bringing the blow back in recoil
upon himself and upon his family.
The times are full Of unrest, disaster and
apprehension. believe to-day that all the
tumult Of this wild sea wonld be stilled as
/ by the voice Of Omnipotenee if the great in
/ dustrial and commercial classes Ofthis cOun-
/ try could know that there would be no at
/ tempt TO strike down protection in Ameri-
can legislation. lApplause)
The Republican party is friendly TO a
restitution of silver 10 a place OF honor
among the money metals of the world.
/ tApplause) Some Of my friends in the west
/ thought was uttering new doctrines when
/ declared that believed the free use of
silver upon an international agreement that
would assure its continued equality with
/ gold would do more than anything that I
/ know OF, save the establishment of the pro
/ lection principles, TO bring again prosperity
/ into our commerce (Applause) The
| trouble upon this question has been that
some ofour western friends would not re-
ceive any man as the friend Of silver who be-
/ lieved that we could not coin il freely and
maintain its parity with gold without COM
| ing into an arrangement with the other
great commercial nations Ofthe world. They
should have been more liberal. belieye
/ to-day that We can see in England, the ma
/ ton that has stood most strongly against
the larger use of silver, and in Germany, a
nation that has followed England, the clear
indications of the growth Of sentiment for
an international agreement upon this ques-
tiOn- Il is increasing in power, and | be-
!ieye If rightly and wisely encouraged and
directed from America it will finally bring
I
| own necessities, into accord with us upon
this subject. Applause
In closing General Harrison said EVERY
man, have always contended, has right
hOnOrably 10 seek Office. and that President
had no right 10 complain that his time was
somewhat occupied in attending 10 them.
IApplause) But there is one contention
that goes with all this that must not be for
gotten. When a man has hODorably, earn
estly, By appeal to his friends or 10 the ap-
pointing power, sought a nomination and
failed, he is altogether TO be reprobated if he
carries his grievance nome with him and de-
| serts the party. So in advance I appeal to
this large body who are to be disappointed
to-day 10 put themselves at the front in
cheering for their more fortunate competi-
tors"
This ticket was nominated: Secretary of
state, A. d. Oven, Of Logansport; state
treasurer, f. G. Scholz, Of Evansville, and
auditor, A. c. Daily, of Boon county.
The platform adopted declares for protec-
ton and demands increased tariff duties
upon the imports from all countries which
oppose the coinage of silver upon basis to
be determined by an international congress
for such purpose II also denounces ''the
unpatriOtic action of the Cleveland admins
tfation in hauling down the American flag
at Hawaii"
Nine negro e have met violent death in
Madison parish. Louisana. in the last week.