The record-union., 1894-04-26
INDIANA REPUBLICANS.
THE STATE CONVENTION IN SEs-
SION AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Over Seventeen Hundred Delegates
in Attendance-Addres by EX-
President Harrison.
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 25.-One thousand
seven hundred and fifteen delegates are
in attendance at the Republican State
| Convention. 1t was called to order at
10 o'clock by State Chairman Gowdy.
| There were 5000 people in Tomlinson
Hall.
The picture of ex-President Harrison
was suspended Immediately above the
Chairman's desk. The pictures of Secre-
| tary Blaine, the late Governor Morton,
Governor Mckinley and of Presidents
Lincoln, Garfield and Grant also adorned
the walls. Great bands of tri-colored
| bunting crossed and recrosSed the hall.
! In front of the presiding officers chair
was huge gilded eagle. The band play ed
popular airs and the bursts of applause
were frequent.
| When the venerable presiding officer,
ex-Secretary of the Navy Richard w.
| Thompson, came upon the stage the con-
vention cheered him Justify.
! Before the echo of DIR. Coulia's prayer
had subsided, a Justify lunged delegate
| cried, "Hurrah for Harrison!"
| The rules of the Fifty-tirst Congress, as
adopted and applied by Thomas Reed and
lately indorsed by the present Congress,
were adopted to govern the convention.
! When Chairman Thompson rose to de-
| liver his address he was unable to pro-
ceed for several minutes, owing to the ap-
plause.
! ExPresident Harrison addressed the
convention. He spoke of the existing
trade depression, saying: 81 believe to-
| day that all the tumult of this wild sea
would be stilled as by the voice of ON
impotence if the grand industrial and
n1 Ola 4
| know to-day that there would be no at
tempt to strike down protection in Amer
| lean legislation. Applause. The Re-
publican party is friendly to the restitu-
ton of the United States to take her place
of honor among the nations of the world.
| [AppIause. Some of my friends i'll the
| West thought was uttering new doctrines
when declared that l believed the free
use of silver upon an international
agreement that would assure its contin-
ued equality with gold would do more
| than anything | know of, save the estab-
| lishment of the protection principles, to
| bring again prosperity into our COM
merce [Applause.l The trouble upon
this question has been that some of our
| Western friends would not receive any
man as the friend of silver who believed
that we could not coin it freely and main
tain its parity with gold. They should
/ have been more liberal. l 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. a
nation that has followed England, the
| clear indications of the growth of a senti-
ment for an international agreement
upon this question. 1t is increasing in
power. and / believe if rightly and wisely
encouraged and directed from America it
will finally bring other nations by the
compulsion of their own necessities into
accord with us upon this subject" Zap
plause.]
/ Mr.. Harrison closed with warning to
Republicans against over-confidence, IN
which he said there was great danger to
the success of the party.