The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-03
GEN. HARRISON SPEAKS.
The Ex-President Talks to Enthusissti'
 Indiana Republicans

Indiana Republicans.
 At the state republican convention in
 Indianapolis Gen. Harrison delivered d
 ringing speech which was received
 with great applause. After announc.
 maad 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, down to the last national
 campaign continuous debate upon the ques.
 tion of the tariff The people hIve now accept
 ed one view of the question and nov. turning
 have adopted the othr-. Applause
 The deblte ems to have worn itself out
 Even your silvory eoquence. sir. was hardly
 equal to stirring great interest in the question.
 Our people became 80 prosperous. so rlch la
 Dor was so universally employed at good ages.
 that men ceased to appreciate the danger and
 the disaster that was involved in an abandon ment Of protection principles Applause ] No orator was equal to the task of main taining
 their interests But events have stirred that interest 10 the profoundest depths of our so. ciety Applause
 What thc ora'or and the pamphleter could not do, bitter experience that has intruded itself into every home, anl unto m my br1utht starvation, has done anl is doing to-daS. Our friends may endeavor to persuade tho Amert cln people that this period of depression Is only oae of those periodic panics that they say at intervals more or less certain, necessarily fall upon Some may en. deavor 10 persuade you that the iniu. ences that have brought 1t about were climatic or seismic But believe I do not state it tod strongly when say that the com mon minds, the close observation Of those who are educated and instructed by fact rathert an given to refined theories, haJ settled upon the cause of this present disastrous depression They ind that cause in the attempt to wipe out protection l' gislation and to substitute for it the doctrines Of a revenue larlh They ind it in that uncertainty which has intruded itself into every mans business enterprises which has paralyztd his enCr.ies and whit has com pelled the wheels to stop while this great 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 em. ploys him; that he cannot listen to he wild and vicious Appeals which have been made to him, strike at the men who give employment to la bor without bringing the blow back in recoil upon himself and upon his family. Applause The times are full of unrest disaster and ap- prehension l believe to-day that all the tumult of this wild sea would be stilled as by the voice of Omnipotsnce if the grand industrial and commercial classes Of this country coulI know to- day that there wo3 3ld be no attempt to strike down protection by American legislation lApplause.l The republican party is friendly to restitution Of silver to a place of honor among the money metals of the worlL Alp. pause Some of my friends in the west thought I was uttering new doctrines when I declared that believed the free use Of silver upon an international agree. ment that would assure it's continued ffu krffh Al sk., anything that knew Of, save the establish ment of the protection principle to bring again prosperity into our comm arce. Applause. The trouble on this quest on 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 by coming into an arrangement with other great commercial centers Of the world They should have been more liberal. I believe to. day that we can see fin 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 ot sentiment for International agreement upon this question.
 IL is increasing in power; I believe if rightly and wisely encouraged and directed from America it will finally bring other nations, by the compu's sion of their own necessities into accord with Us upon this subj get tApplause.l My republican frienis, I congratulate you upon the hopeful and suspicious incidents that sur round this meeting to.da We enter upon this with better heart and higher courage ihan upon any other campaign for many years So great is the confidence that hear ex xpressed that would drop wori of caution, for there is danger in overconhdence l beg to say to you that in my opinion as citizen, having ab- solutely 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 from now until No | vember 10 the support of that ticket which | will here be nominated. We have state mat ters which should be set right-the equa ity of men at the ballot box-the abolition of all 1 legislation that tends to enhance the power l of one man by abstractiny from the | just power of another must be re- established. We have fought this Ques- ton of iniquitous legislative apporlion- | ments for years, and we are to-day throttled | by a gerrv minder 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 ins titution and I | appeal 10 the good people to maintain and es- i tab.ish It.