The Oskaloosa herald., 1894-05-03

| the stage from the rear, in company
| with Charles W. Fairbanks, the con-
| ventiOn cheered him Justify. lie was
| escorted to a seat next to Chairman
| Gowdy.
The report of the committee on Gre
| dentials and permanent organization,
| which was adopted, provided that the
rules of the Fifty-first congress, as
adopted and applied by Thomas B.
Reed and lately concurred in by the
| present congress, should govern"
When Chairman Thompson arose to
| address the convention he received an
| ovation. and it was several minutes be-
| fore he could proceed. Ex-Secretary
Thompson, in his speech, said that his
work was nearly dOne-that he is no
| longer a boy. He urged the state re-
publicans to work ZealOusly for success
in Novem Der, advocated a protective
tariff and deplOred the present condi-
| tiOn of affairs, AMI charged it to the
| misgOvernment of the party now in
power.
Ex-President Harrison Speaks.
Pandemonium followed the appear
ance of exPresiden Harrison, who fol-
lowed Mr.. Thompson. Hats and hand
kerchiefs We're waved and the audience
arose to it's feet amid cheers. In his
speech Gen. Harrison paid tribute to
Presiding officer Thompson. He said:
"Mr. President. my venerable and houored
friend: congratulate you; 1 congratulate the
republicans OF Indiana that you are permitted
on this hopeful day to preside over gathering
OF the republicans OF this great state.
You have battled for the principles OF the
party for many years; you have been the able
dauntless champion OF those great principles
which called the party into existence and which
have won for 1t so often and through series OF
| such brilliant years Of administration the con-
| hdence Of the people.
Great Republican Awakening.
| "As you have been faithful TO the party in
i the hours of weakness and darkness we are
glad that you are here this morning when the
| country is awakened 20 the fact that a restora-
/ tion Of republican principles in administration
is essential TO the prosperity and happiness OF
| the people.
ITO you, my friends, come this morning
| with an acknowledgment OF my grateful obliga-
| tions for these undeserved and accumulated
/ favors which you have heaped upon me-
| will not undertake this morning it
/ would be inappropriate, any full discus
| sion of republican principles l will not
stand between you and the impor-
work whsh S YOU aRs hsVH eagsr sse@Mf66 10 6s
| about At some time during the campaign
| which so ausptciously opens tO-day-if it be the
| pleasure Of my fellow citiZens-I shall hold my
self at their service for q fuller discussion. l
cannot allow, as 1 have said before, that
| an ex-president has lost his citizenship
| Nor can l admit that calm and
temperate discussion of great public questions
| IS undignihed IN any man. We have had, be-
| ginning with those years when, as champion
| OF whg principles, Col Thompson spoke to US
| fellow citizens of Indiana down to the last ma
| tional campaign, continuous debate upon
/ the question OF the tariff. The peo-
| pie have now accepted one view Of
| the question. and now turning have adopted
| the other The debate seemed 10 have worn
| itself out Even your silvery eloquence, sir,
| was hardly equal to stirring great interest in
| the question. Our people became so prosper
| Gus, 50 rich: labor was so universally employed
| at good wages that men ceased to appreciate
| the danger and the disaster that was involved
| in an abandonment Of the protection principles.
| No orator was equal 10 the task Of maintaining
| their interest
Taught hy Experience.
What the orator and the pamphleteer could
not do, bitter experience that has intruded
| itself into every home and into many brought
| starvation has done and is doing to-
| day. Our friends may endeaVor to persuade
| the American people that this period OF de-
| preston is only one OF those periodic pauics
tnat they say AT INTERVALS. more OF less
| necessarily fall upon US. Some may endeaVor to
persuade you that the influences that have
| brought 1t about were climatic or seismitic
1 But believe do not state it too strongly when
| I say that the common mind-the close obser-
| walton OF those who are educated and In
/ strueted by facts rather than given to refined
| theories-has settled upon the cause OF this
| present disastrous depression. They ind
| that cause in the attempt 70 wipe out
protective legislation and TO substitute for IL the
doctrines Of o revenue tariff They find II in
that uncertainty which has intruded itself into
/ every mans business enterprises which has
| paralyZed his energies and which has com
PEELED the wheels 20 stop while this great issue
was bStng concluded The American work
man is realizing 70 day shat IL Il not possible
| for him 70 separate himself in interest Il. N
/ the manufacturer who employs him; that
/ he cannot listen 70 the wild and vicious ap.
peals which have been made 10 him u
strike at the men who give employment "a
labor without bringing the blow 1aek in rscQg