The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-21

talk once more TO the people OF Indiana
at the request OF my Republican friends
who have done so much for me. / felt
that 1 could not withhold this small con-
tribution In their interest. j am not less a
I have learned to have less partisanship
and 10 IA G a kindlier view OF all those
who diff with me-. / ike 20 believe. and l
IN life, that the great bulk of our people.
without any reference 10 their political or
Americans, who really desire to see their
country prosperous, happy and glorious. /
therefore talk to you today as one having
differ with mine. having no other object
than the words that | shall say may be
and given such weight as upon reflection
they may sem TO you TO be entitled TO.
LIT Is q HAPPY APP a0 0m i5per rnS' , 0u tbl peo OPP v are
campaign. We do not choose all the off,
Gers Of our State or national government.
are to choose a House of Representatives
at Washington. These bodies will exercise
a very important influence for t5e jmps9ss
and OF the Nation The Legislature OF this
State deals with important concerns-mat,
ters OF local taxation and improvement and
order. The House OF Representatives at
Washington deals with questions that in a
higher degree and more tremendously AFFECT
the business interests OF all our people
We have been discussing the tarin question
in the newspapers and on the stump ever
since the Oldest man before me was born.
There seemed likely TO be no end TO the
discussion But now there has come into
the field OF debate a new teacher. The gen.
Grafton that is now active In life has never
had any experience of any other tariff pol
icy than a protective tarin policy. You
have never tested free trade or a tarin Tor
revenue only. You have heard men eulO-
gize H.; you have heard men speaking IN
prophetic strains OF the good II would
s5opted. to but the nei e I they nor You
have had any experience Of It.
Now what was the result OF nose Yeas:
OF the Nation in wealth. | ask any canulu
Democrat 10 take his census reports ana
examine the eomParatiye an ~ The dIfrsr-
ent periods in our history, ana tell me
whether there has been any period in when
we have so rapidly and SO enormously IN
creased our national wealth as during this
period under a protective tarin: L am not
one OF those extremists who oeheve tnat a
tarin IS everything. L hearu once, many
years ago, our lamented friend. ex-Gov-
ernOr Hendricks, making a speech ana tell
ing what the democratic party nau uone
for the country in those old times before
claiming excessive credit for his party and
people that the early and the latter rains,
the Sc aging of the corn TO the ear, the
harves s. all had come OF the Democrauc
party. Perhaps you have heard some Re
publicans talk In similar strains or ex-
travagance. But my friends the underlying
element OF success, the underlying element
of increase in wealth. is the industry and
thrift OF our people. That is the bottom
rock OF all things; and there Is no politl-
cal policy, no tariff policy, no money policy,
no other policy that goes into laws that can
take the place of that. That must be at
the bottom and we must assume that. But
We may assume that that element in our
property Is pretty uniform. 1t is char
acteristic Of our people. Now what can,
wnat does, the tariff do for us? There can
be no doubt that it touches every business
interest. Every man who is making any
thing consults that list. He wants to know
at what rate goods made IN England, Ger
mIly and France can get into this mar
ket N competition with his goods. That is
one of the elements in his calculation; he
cannot leave il out
AT LOGANSPORT.
Quincy A. Meyers and a committee ac-
companied the party to Logansport. At
this beautiful city of the Wabash valley
carriages took General Harrison and
friends up to the rink. where the largest
crowd ever seen. under a roof in Logans-
port was found. People were packed close
ly as tobacco leaves in a cut of plug, There
were nearly four thousand there. The at
mosphere was suffocating, and people strug-
Cling for a breathing space made a hum
ming noise that was difficult to subdue.
For this reason General Harrison had some
difficulty in making himself heard, although
he spoke in his usual good voice w. T..
Wilson presented him with this brief re-
mark: II will not introduce General Har-
rison; you all know him" The address at
Logansport was only of fifteen minutes
duration.
Hon. Charles B. Lands. DR.. w. Smith
and Charles Harley was the escort COM
mittee from Logansport to Delphi.
The audience at Delphi was another sur
prise OF the journey through northern In
diana An audience of about $500 was an
ticipated. but it seemed that there were
fully five thousand about the rear end Of
the train when 1t stopped. Hon. Thomas
Nelson had been addressing the crowd.
General Harrison spoke for twenty min
utes, combining himself largely 10 the tariff.
From Delphi to Lafayette a very quick
run was made, much of the distance being
made at the rate OF a mile in less than a
minute. This enabled the train to reach
Lafayette on schedule time.