The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-26

INC delegates were up all night working
for tlieir favorite candidates ;hoy were
sustained by enthusiasm aud showed
no signs OF fatigue. 1t Ia tho largest
convention ever held in Indiana. and
Ills delegates filled tho lower floor OF
Tomlinson hall.
Tho hall was deliberately decorated.
A picture OF ex-PreSident Harrison, ton
by twelve feet, waa suspended imme-
diately above tho c%hairman's desk.
Pictures OF Blaine, the late Governor
Gray. Governor Mckinley. Garfield,
Lincoln and Grant also adorned tho
walls.
AT 0 O'clock the doors were opened
and the arduous lRbora OF tho corps OF
sergeant-at-arms began. The conyen-
ton was formally called 10 order by
State Chairman Goody at 10 o'clock.
When the venerable presiding officer,
ex-Secre.ary OF tho Navy Richard W..
Thompson, OF Terre Haute, came onto
the stage, the convention cheered him
Justify.
The committe on credentials and per-
manent organization was then adopted.
The report ID adopted provided that
"the rules OF tho Fittv-tirst Congress as
adopted and applied by Thomas B. Reed
and lately endorsed by tho present Con-
gress should govern"
When President Thompson arose to
address the convention he received an
ovation, and it was several minutes be-
fore he could speak.
Ex.Secretary Thompson in his speech
Raid that his work was nearly done
that he is no longer q boy. He urged
tho state Republicans to work zealously
for success in November, advocated q
protective tariff and deplored the pres
ent condition of affairs and charged it to
the misgovernment OF the party now in
power.
Pandemonium followed the appear
ance Of ox.President Harrison who fol-
lowed the presiding officer. Hats and
handkerchiefs were waved and the.
audience arose to its feet amid cheers.
In his speech Gen. Harrison hold q
tribute to Presiding Officer Thompson.
A PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.
Ex-President Harrison spoke as fol.
lows:
Nh. PRESIDENT, My, VENERABLE AND
HoSoRED FmEND:-I congratulate the
Republicans Of Indiana that you are
permitted on this hopeful day to pre-
eide over u gathering Of Republicans OF
this great state. [Applausel. You have
battlcd for the principles OF the party
for many years; you have been the
able, dauntless champion OF those great
principles which called tho party into
existence, and which have won for it so
often and through n series OF such bril-.
liant years OF administration the conf.
dence Of a people. l will 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
go auspiciousiy opens -to-day-if it be
the pleasure OF my fellow citizens-I
shall hold myself at their service for q
fuller discussion : [Great cheeringl.
/ cannot allow, as l have said
before, that an ex.Prcsident has lost his
citizenship. Laughter and applause.
Nor can | admit that n calm and tenn.
perate discussion OF great public ques.
tions is undiguified in any man. Ap-
plause. We have had, beginning with
those years when as achampion OF Wing
MISUNDERSTANDING to Colonel Thomp-
son) you spoke to us, down to the last
national campaign, q 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. [Applnuse.l The
debate seemed to have worn itself out.
Even your si!very e%loquencc. sir, was
hardly equal to stirring great interest in
the question. Our people became 80
prosperous, so rich; labor was so uni
verSally employed at good wages that
men ceased to appreciate the danger
and the disaster that was involved in
the abandonment OF tho protection
principles. [Applanse. No orator was
equal TO the task OF maintaining their
interest. But even this has stirred in
terestin the profoundest depths OF our
society. tApplanse. What the orator
and tho palnphleteer could not do. n
bitter experience that has intruded it.
SELF into every home and into many
brought starvation has done and Is
doing to-day.
CAUSE OF THE lard TIMES.
Our friends may endcavor to persuade
the American people hat this period
OF depression is only ono OF those pe-
riodic panics that they say ut intervals
moro or less certain necessarily fall
upon us. Some may endeavor 10 per.
Huade you that the influences that have
brought it about were climatic or seis.
matte. But l believe l do not state it
too strongly when l say that tho COM
mon mind-tho close observation OF
those who arc educated and instructed
by facts rather than given to refined
theories-has settled upon the cause OF
this present depression. They find it
in that uncertainty which has intruded
itself into every mans business enter
prizes, which has paralyzed his on.
ercies, and which has compelled the
wheels to stop while this great issue
was being concluded. The American
workman is realizing to-day tina. it is
not possible for him to separate him
seli in iuteres, from tho manufacturer
who employs him; that he cannot
listen to the wild and vicious appeals
which have been made ohm, to strikca at
the men who give employment to labor
without bringing the blow back in re-
coil upon himself and upon his family.
l~Applause.l Tho times are full Of un-
fest, disaster and apprehension. l be-
lieyc to-day that all the tumult OF this
wild sea would DO s,illed rs by tho voice
OF Omnipotnuce ii the great industrial
and commercial classes of this country
would know to-day that there would be
no attempt to strike down protection in
American lavio1atinp Anplansa ssl