The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-20
GAS BELT is AWAKE
Concluded from First Page,

Harrison had paid so graceful and beau
tiful a tribute a short time before. Wagons
and buggies that had brought the farmers
TO town were so tightly damned In line
around the public square that it seemed
an intricate problem TO unwedge them.
From the courthouse doors up TO the
train steps and from the neighboring
streets the people surged, with hardly
breathing space between man and man.
When the audience manifested its appre-
citation of the speakers remark. the ap-
plause came in one roar Business was
suspended in the place for twenty min
utes. Hon. w. L. Taylor was left at ko-
komo TO address the crowd in the after
noon. j. f. Elliott introduced the EXPIRES
ident. A part OF General Harrison's
speech, which lasted until n:4o. is as fol-
lows:
MY Fellow-citizens OF Howard County-I
thank YOU for this great demonstration
not so much for. m-yself.because know
that the source OF your interest to-day lies
in public questions. not In men: 1t is not
very important who holds ar office In the
United States SO far as the mere man goes.
but it Is Of very great importance what
party is in power and what policies. execu-
tive and legislative, are TO be put In force
The Republican party, having been In
charge OF this government since 1s6l-never
wholly out of power-when II did not nave
DOAeI u lCSlcldlt ~ 10 VAL ~
had at least power to prevent the other
party from legislating destructively, and so
we were either managing things or we had
a brake on the other fellows so that they
could not run the team over the hill.
But two years ago the people endowed
the Democratic power with full power; For
the first time since Mr.. Buchanan's admin
istration they had the power 10 carry out
in law any policies, executive or legislative,
that yra they r insight aeIHrmip and lp fbe u Iask T fsli
into inexperienced hands,, because, as YOU
know, for that long lapse OF zine since
1861 our Democratic friends have had noth-
ing to do in national affairs except 20 COM
plain of and ~criticise Republican ~lsoiicies.
Now they were called upon to acr. You
all know that when they, took Charge OF
the government our people we're enjoying
a very high level of prosperity. The ltepub-
lican party had reared a great st-icirrt,
enormous in its size, towerlns IN lis height,
graceful in its proportions, giving
shelter and prosperity 20 a great and
said. in lS92, in their platform, When we
get IN charge We are going to take this
house down; we are not going to attempt
d 10 rnni TO the e. g g%a Mf az Ne se said to to 'i them II
We'll, won't you begin at one corner and
leave the roof on for a while for shelter"
roof off the first thing and then to take
the walls down and We are going to lay a
new plan on the ground So they did. The
roof came off when the people understood
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ten into law. All our people-workmen and
nanufacturers-had to move out. Such of
them as had tents went under shelter of
canvas, but a great many of them did not
naye tents and they cdmped under the
trees, and there they have been ever since.
~ want to make this point to-day: That
these people who undertook to take down
the house ought 10 have had a plan of the
new building before they tore down the
old. Ihey ought to have agreed upon some
thing among themselves so that the build
efs, at least, would know Just what was 10
De done. They ought to have had a plan
20 which the Democratic party had given
its consent. In the next place they ought
TO have made their ARRANGEMENTS to hurry
the work for the people were out In the
Weather camped under the trees: the pitt
less storm OF adversely was beating upon
tneir heads and the Democratic party
owed it TO the people TO have a plan, and
if they were going to tear down the good
old house to push the erection of the new
one as fast as they could. What was the
fact? They had no plan. They went TO
work tearing down before they had any
agreement among themselves as to what
kind of a house they were going to put up;
and that has been the great mischief in
connection with this legislation. The Dem
ocratic party had no principle upon the tar
in question that was so universally accept
ed that it could characterize the legislation
worst of it. When they had passed the
tariff law ii was one that Democrats did
not approve. They made a tariff bill which
Mr.. Cleveland says is SO bad, so inadequate,
so unequal in its provisions, that, Demo-
crat that he Is, the leader of his party,
after the tronges appeals from his party
friends to sign the bin for party harmony,
that his party might not be disrupted, says,
in effect: Il am not insensible to these
appeals, but this bill is SO bad a bill that /
cannot give IL my approval, and / will not
sign it, They have reared in place of the
stately ana secure structure In which our
people had dwelt with increasing happiness
and prosperity a ramshackle concern that
they themselves admit won't stand the
weather. They are going to place braces
outside and braces inside in order to make
IL stand nr auv