Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-05-03
EX-PRESlDENT HARRISON
speaks Ringing Republican Words at the
indianapolis Convention.

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gathering. He said: "NIr President, my
venerable and honored friend, | congratu-
late you; congratulate the republicans of
Indiana that You are permitted ON this hope
full day to preside over gathering of the
republicans of this great State. Applause
You have battled for the principles of the
party for many years; you have been the
! able dauntlcsS champion of those great
principles which called the party into exist
ence, and which have won for it SO often
and through a series Of such brilliant years
| of administration the confidence of the peo-
| pie. Applause.
CAS- Won have been faithful to the party
| in the hours of weakness and darkness. we
are glad that YOU are here this morning,
when the country is awakened to the fact
that n restoration Of republican principles in
administration is essential to the prosperity
and happiness of the people. Great APP
pause
ITO you, my friends | come this morn
! ing with an acknowledgment of my CRATE
| fu obligations for those undeserved and ac-
! cumulated favols which you have heaped
upon me. ! will not undertake this morn
ing-it would be inappropriote--any full
discussion of republican principles | will
not stand between you and the important
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which you are eager to be about. At some
time during the campaign which so auspi-
ciouslv opens to-day--if it be the pleasure
Of my fellow citzens--l shall hold myself
at their service for further discussion.
Great cheering / cannot allow, as have
said before, that an eX-presiJent has lost his
citizenship. Laughter and applause Nor
can admit that a calm and temperate dis
cusson of great public questions is undigni-
| fled in any man. Applause.
I'VE have had, beginning with those
years when rs ex-champion Of wing princi-
pies you turning to Col. Thompson spoke
to your fellow citizens of Indiana, down to
the last national campaign a continuous de
| bate upon the question of the tariff. The
people have now accepted one view of the
question, and now, turning, have adopted
| the other. Applause. The debate seemed
TO have worn itself out Even your slvery
eioquence, sir, was hardly equal to stirring
| great interest IN the question Our peopl e
became 50 prosperous, So rich, labor was 50
universally employed at good wages. that
many ceased to appreciate the danger and
the disasters that were involved in an
abandonment of the protection principles
| applause
No orator was equal to the task of main
tanning their interest But even this has
| stirred that interest to the profOundest
depths of our society. Applause. What
the orator and pamphleteer could not do,
bitter experience that has intruded itself
into every home, and into many brought
starvation, has done aud is doing to-day
Our friends may endeayor to persuade the
American people that this period of depres-
sion is only oae of those periodic panics that
/ Il /.
fall upon us Some may endeavor to per
suadc You that the influences that have
brought it about were climatic or seismic
But believe DO not state il 100 strongly
when | say that the common mind. the close
observation of those who are educated and
instructed by facts rather than given
to refined theories, has settled up.
on the cause of this pr sent disas-
trous depression. They find that cause in
the attempt To- wipe out protective legisla-
ton aui to substitute for it the doctrines of
u revenue tariff. They find in it that uu-
certainty which has intruded itself into
| every man business enterprises, which has
larayled his energies, and which has com
PEELED the wheels 10 stop while this great
ISSUE wa, being concluded. The American
workman is realizing to-day that it is not
possible for him to separate himself in inter
est from the manufacturer who employs
hlh' thal ne cannot listen 10 the wild and
vicious appeals which have been made 10 him;
he cannot strike at the men who give en-
p'oymehl tolabor without bringing the blow
back IN rHroil upon himself and upon his
family. Applause The times are full of
unrest, disaster, and apprehension | believe
to-day that ali the tumult of this wild sea
would b" settled as by the voice OF DmnipO-
trnce II tine great industrial and commercial
Glasses OF tins country could know to-day
That there would be no attempt to strike
down protection IN American legislation.
Applause
The republican party is friendly to
restitution oil silver to place Of honor
among the money metals of the world. Ap-
plau-e.j some Of my friends i'll the West
thought | was utterlng new doctrines when
J declared TINT | believed the free Use of
silver dp'n an international agreement that
would assure It's continued equality with
gold would do more than ANYTHING that
knew OF to save tine establishment of the
projection principles, I" bring again prosper
nItv Ann