The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-13
HARRISON ON THE STUMP.
,.rp,,s or CAMPAIGN SPEECHES
Jn INDIANA CITIZENS.

Tn. rrocramme originally mapped OUT ny INC
sat. Committee contemplated only six stops on
Tic railroad between this city and Evansville
~, nro,ests came in from nearly every place on
-. rnu,e, and more stops were provided for.
"a, CLAYTON a thousand persons surrounded
,bo rain. and cannon doomed = welcome as Gen.
Harrison appeared on the platform. He was
In,r,dureJ by capt. Mitchell Of his old regi-
ment, and he said:
.Tbcse ouict autumn days are good days for
r.s.c,ion. 4 GOOD time TO think, IS you walk over
tbc Geld. that you have titled, and as you gather
The harvest into your barns, and rs you sit by
these American fresides, that In spite OF all the
bardships Of the times this country Is the hap
riest and best in the world. Put in your time
thinking. We will get right on all these public
questions IL our people will think. IL Is preju-
dic,. Il il the fact that men don't think
bnt allow their minds to be warped by
n,cipdIce. allow phrases and denunciations Of
other men to warp them from u calm consider
alton " public questions. Let us all set before
ma this resolve that as citizens now-as when
,oi were soldiers during the war-our country's
honor and prosperity shall be first In our afec-
,ion, and first in our hearts. Let us see that
no,hing shall prevent us from acting as citizens
for what seems to us to be wise and good for all
our people and for the good old flag"
AZ Green Castle Gen. Harrison left the train
and spoke from q platform. A driEsling rain was
falling. The crowd numbered 5000. Dcpauw
University had given It's students . holiday In
honor Of the occasion. and Gen. Harrison's
speech was frequently Interrupted by the "Rah,
rab. rah, Dcpauw!' Of the undergraduates. Mr..
Harrison said:
81 thank you, my countrymen. for the interest
Won have shown this morning. inclement "a IL Is,
in the arrangements for this brief meeting. As
said TO the soldiers at Clayton, this II . good
time for thinking. The farmers have been too
busy to think much or read much through these
times Of ploughing and sowing and reapinE, but
the auieter days Of the fall have come now. and
it Ia a good time TO do q good deal Of thinking.
Can the workingmen expect to have good wages
when the mills don't pay any dividends 10 the
stookholders2 Can the farmer expect to have
good prices for his crops when the nottingham
Al Brazil Gen. Harrison aid
Mot long ago we heard a great deal from
try. was prosperous and when that prosperity
was generally distributed among all the people.
were all getting richer and the poor were getting
81 ching which aid not esi.s1 the Demo.
the poor All get Richer: instesa y that
prosper together and we suf'er, together by
bringing in 9 time when We are all getting poor
, .sssnssa s Tn: . p SsSpls Of must : s'5 s. : that policy |: e sh &
brings and maintains . general policy that ap-
peals 70 men in all pursuits In life. Let US stop
learn. Experience il q hard school. but IL les.
sons @r ss'f Gsm mt.n ~ i ssiEsd 'e % ss seY is SsSsI; man
IN IN. ~. ,sI.' = 9s 8; ,s ss' |. .. .. :.YPi Re- IN. N; \.
as good a. they had bean. but that everything
,imbrsli. under witch you and your employer
b bsa H.e q IL projection. You s were tod that
found when you had Smashed the umbrella
canniation. and had provided 70 Sim.eif VIII =
rubber coat while you were left In your shirt
THAR HAurh. Oct; ls.-Gen; Harrison and
party were welcomed here by 10000 persons
3ssiins e u. .ss .s s=ssssssas9t s ssr, The . ass insH S 4.
sso Oh; St sSsss o 3; sA a1 %sk,S S:g- disS e T. S.s
triumph here. In his speech, he said:
shadow has been pretty deep. It has clouded
I'VE have had a tariff debate that began be.
fore my venerable and beloved friend who pre-
, x%sr 9ssr s s%aIi, meeting FS, t SsEsR to take part 10
has talk ed about the tariff, but the talk at last
seemed TO wear put, But there has In the lasttwo
years entered into this discussion the most elO-
Iuent and forceful speaker that ever addressed
an audience; an orator who has more power TO
Experience. He has been talking for two years,
and am much mistaken IL he has not been
This question seemed TO be one of theory, so
far as the free T,t trade side is concerned. in this
I'll within the last two years. Be
fore that time they exercised themselves
would think they might have been consistent
In their platforms, but that Is not true. Some
Democratic platforms distinctly recognized the
force and effect of tariff legislation upon Ameri-
can interests and American wages and expressed
a sympathy with a policy that should protect
lion in favor OF tsriif for revenue only-a policy
which our distinguished fellow citizen, my
declared in a letter to Bsyiess Hanna to be great
But now we nave come to a time when the
power 10 deal with. this question. For the FIRST
limo there has been responsibility In the
There came a time when the Democrats party
must stop making platforms and begin making
1T may be important to settle the question as
To- what condition they. found the country in
when they assumed this responsibility.
tables or statistics or historical t~reatises
30 solve thst question; Our appeal is
i%diySiHSu.i' 1 experience. % Jass Before Sn hi, 70 rsdi saf
change in our responsible Government the
country was in the highest state OF prosperity.
,Dur foreign trade was larger than Il had ever
been In the history OF this country, and the
beauty OF II was that IL was something like two
port.
You all realize what that means. II means
that we were selling abroad more than we were
buying from abroad. There is not a farmer
here who does not know that he tests
he question AS Ia whether he has Prospered on
MS farm BY casting the balance between the
value OF what he brings tn town TO sell ard the
value OF what lac buys IN town and taxes home.
That II not all, everybody knows thai every
bndy then was busy, Everybody knOws that
rNtiy mlll was running. The comforts OF life
~ distributed among our people we're greater
said some years ago that the American
had the most favored lot OF any
worklngman in tho world, and this was evf-
deneed by the fact that the gates OF Castle
arden always swing inward tn the working
nlen seeking our shores. The woTkingnen know
ne land OF promise as well as the swallow
knows the land of summer.
could not say that to-day, because the
safes % Castle Garden have been swinging
inward. That Is one OF the few anchor
sung conditions In connection with the
distress 81 the country-that perhaps
'Ar population has diminished il is a chimeri-
~ suggestion that we can bring in a time when