The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-12


Harrison's old regiment.
He addressed the crowd as follows: IN y
Friends, These quiet autumn days are
good days for reflection, good time to
think as you walk over the
fields that you have titled
and as you gather the harvest
into your barns and as you sit by these
American f1resides, that in spite of all
the hardships of the times, those fire.
sides are the happiest and the best in the
world.
Put in your time thinking We will
get right on all these public questions if
our people will think. 1t is prejudice;
it is the fact that men don't think, but
allow their minds to be warped by pref
udice, allow catch phrases and dennnci-
ations of other men to warp them from a
calm consideration of public questions
Let US set before us the resolve that
as citizens now when you were
soldiers during the our country's
honor aud prosperity shall be first in our
affections and our efforts Let US see
that nothing shall prevent US from act
ing as citizens for what seems to US to be
wise and good for all our people and for
the glory Of the good old flag"
At Greencastle.
At Greencastle 5000 people gathered
Gen. Harrison saidf in conserving, at
the urgent solicitation OF the Repu blican
state central committee, to make two
speeches in Indiana did not realize the
capacity of the committee for multipli-
cation. Laughter. They have ar
ranged to separate the beginning and the
end of this first speech of the campaign
bv very many hundreds of miles, the
peroration and the exordium. if L may
use such large phrases with reference to
these small talks, are very far apart.
Il thank you my countrymen for the
interest you have shown this morning,
Indictment as it is, for making arrange
= ri ~
the people at Clayton, this autumn time
is good time for thinking. The farmer
has been too busv to think or read much
through these times of blowing and SOW
ing and reaping, but the quieter days Of
the fall have come now and It Is good
time to do good deal Of thinking.
sCan the working man expect TO have
good wages when the mills do not pay
anv dividends TO the stockholders; can
the farmer expect to have good prices
for his crops when the workingman is
not employed and getting good wages
Address at Brazil
In his address to the Brazil audience
Gen. Harrison said: "N0t long ago we
heard a great deal from Democratic
newspapers at a time when the country
was prosperous and when the prosperity
was generally distributed among all the
DeoDIe a great deal of talk about a time
when the rich were all getting richer and
the poor were getting poorer and by way
Of curing that condition of things, which
did not exist the Democrats said that
they would bring in a time when the
rich would all get poorer and the poor
all get richer.
aBut instead of that they have illus
trated the general truth that we prosper
together and that we suffer together by
being in a time when we are all getting
poorer. The policy of party that is TO
be accepted by people should be pol,
icy that brings and maintains a general
policy and that appeals 10 men in all
pursuits of life
LET us stop to think of the promises
that were made US, because out of this
experience you ought to learn. Ex-
perience is hard school, but its
lessons abide with you longer than
any other. The Democrats talked to the