The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-13

pour had but little effect on the crowd or
its enthusiasm. A few feet from the sta
ton stand had been erected, and TINS
was draped in national colors and was sur
mounted by poles bearing national flags
Around this stand were over three thou-
sand people. and back hundred yards
were hundreds of vehicles lined up, showing
that the farmers had driven In from the
country to hear the distinguished speaker
Away from the stand in every direction
was sea of umbrellas that jostled up ana
down in waves as the people cheered me
president of DePauw University had dis
missed the classes for the occasion and the
college students joined their yells TO the
more modest cheers of the town people and
the farmers.
Thomas t. Moore, chairman OF the Put
nam county Republican committee, escort
ed the ex-Presdent from the train TO the
stand. the Silver Leaf coiored band OF
Greencastle, playing a march all the while.
Frequently was General Harrison applauded
in his speech, the farmers readily apprecl-
ating the strong points he made in COM
pairing the tariff system that had brought
prosperity and the system, the very antici-
patton of which, had paralyzed the IN
dustries of the country. AT n:U Generai
Harrison ceased speaking. having taken
just fifteen minutes. As he walked 10 the
train the DePauw boys gave their coiiege
yell. General Harrison. in his speech, SAID
in part
MY -ctizens-In consenting, at the
urgent solicitation of the republican state
in Indiana / did not realize the capacity
of the committee for multiplication. Oaugh-
beginning and the end of this lirst speech
of the campaign by very many hundreds
of miles. The perotation and the exordium
If / may use such large phrases with
reference to these small talks-are very far
apart: 49,
interest you have shown this morning, in
clement il is, in the arrangements for
this brief meeting. If a man would have
the people think well of him he must think
speaxers-I would not like to use names,
for / shall eschew names on this trip
greatly underestimate e It the En-. Intelligence OF
'.As / said to the people at Clayton. this
autumn time Is good time for thinking.
much or read much through these times of
plowlng and sowing and reaping. but the
auieter days Of the fall have come en- now;
thinking. l do not doubt that the great
mass OF our fellow-citizens Of all political
reason of pursuit or belief, desire the gen
eral coed OF the country and the prosperity
of all our people think We ought TO as
Zens. If there Is any purpose In a public
address upon these questions 1t is to reach
the minds OF men; and We shall never
reach the mind of an opponent If We start
into the discussion with the assumption
that his motives are bad, and that he does
not desire the general good. Now this de-
sire for a general prosperity is not wholly
unselfish, because think we have all come
to learn, or are coming to learn, that we
prosper together and that We suffer to-
gether; that this great American people,
spread over all these States, with their
diverse pursuits and personal interests. are
all sailing on one great ship, and that the
wind cannot be a headwind for you and
fair wind for me.
"Can the workingman expect to have
good wages when the mills don't pay
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? / have heard it
said-whether the calculation is true or not,
l cannot say-that the home consumption
of wheat has been a bushel per capita less
by reason Of the fact that mems incomes
and wages have been reduced, and that
they were pinched in their living
General Harrison, after continuing briefly
on this line, appealing to his hearers to
calmly and without prejudice consider the
questions of the hour, concluded.