Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-26
FIRM FOR PROTECTION.
Gen. Harrison Addresses the Indiana
Republican Convention.

Gen. Harrison Addresses the Indiana
Republican Convention.
The following ticket was nominated by
the Indiana republicans yesterday:
Secretary of state-A. d. Owen Of Lo-
gansport.
State treasurer-F. G. Scholz of Evans
ville
State auditor-A. c. Daily of Boon county.
The rules .of the Fifty-first Congress, as
adopted and applied by Thomas B. Reed
and lately Endorsed by the present Con-
gress." were adopted.
Ex-President Harrison said In the course
of his remarks:
Our friends may endeavor to persuade
the American people that this period of de-
preston is only one of those periodic PAN
les that they say at Intervals more or less
certain. necessarily fall upon U.S. Some
may endeavor to persuade you that the in
huences that have brought it about were
climatic or seismic. But / believe / do
not state ii too strongly when 1 say the
common mind-the close observation of
those who are educated and instructed by
1acts rather than given to refined theories
has settled upon the cause of this present
disastrous depression. They find that cause
In the attempt to wipe out the protection
idea and to submit the doctrines of a reye-
nue. tariff. They find IL in that uncertainty
which has intruded itself into every mans
business enterprises, which has paralyzed
his energies and which has compelled the
wheels to stop while this great issue was
being concluded. The American workman
Is realizing today that IL is not possible for
him to separate himself in interest from the
manufacturer who employs him; that be
cannot listen to the wild and vicious an
peals which have been made to him. strike
at the men who give employment to labor
without bringing the blow back in recoil
upon himself and upon his family. ZAP
plauSe.)
The times are full of unrest, disaster
and apprehension. / believe today that all
the tumult OF this wild sea would be stilled
as by the voice of omnipotence If the great
industrial and commercial classes of this
country could know today that there would
be no attempt to strike down protection in
American legislation. Applause)
The republican party is friendly to a res
tttution of silver to a place of honor among
the money metals of the world (Applause0
Some of my friends in the west thought /
was uttering new doctrines when 1 de-
clared that believed the free use of silver
upon an international agreement that
would assure it's continued equality with
gold would do more than anything that
know OF save the establishment of the
protection principle to bring again pros
perity into our commerce. (Applause) The
trouble upon this question has been that
some OF our western friends would not re-
ceive any man as the friend of silver who
believed that we could not coin it freely
and maintain its parity with gold by conn
ing into an arrangement with the other
great commercial nations of the world.
They should have been more liberal. L be-
heve today that We can see in England
the nation that has stood most strongly
against the larger use of silver, and in Ger
many, nation that has followed England.
the clear indications of the growth of a sem
timent for an international agreement upon
this question. 1t is increasing in power.
and believe, If rightly and wisely encour-
aged and directed from America, it will
finally bring other nations, by the compul-
sion of their own necessities, into accord
with us upon this subject" (Applause)
In closing Gen. Harrison said: Every
man, have always contended, has a right
honorably to seek Office, and that Presi-
dent has no right to complain that his
time was somewhat occupied in attending
to them. (Applause.) But there is one con-
tention that goes with all this that must
not be forgotten. When a man has honor
ably, earnestly. by appeal to his friends or
to the appointing power, sought a nominal
ton and failed he is altogether to be rep
rotated If he carries his grievance home
with him and deserts his party. So, in adj
vance, appeal to this large body who are
to be disappointed today to put themselves
at the front In cheering for their more for
tunate competitors