The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
ACRES OF PEOPLE.
At Least $4,000 People Crowded About
the Speakers stand ut Anderson.


the Speakers stand at Anderson.
Anderson seems able to produce more
people for political rally than any city
of its size n the State. There We're acres
of people there, besides the crowds that
fingered on the streets. and the assemolage
was estimated at from 25, COO to 30.C00 peo-
pie The Republicans of Madison county
| had made the co ming of General Harrison
the occasion of their big county rally and
during the morning, before he arrived,
they had an industrial parade that required
nearly two hours to pass given point.
In it was represented all the diversified
industries of this thriving natural gas CEN
ter, with long lines of cavalry. decorated
floats, pretty girls in yellow, long lines of
marching workmen on foot and clubs in
uniform. The same stand from which
Mr.. Bryan spoke last week had been
erected in the great open field near the
station and gathered upon the grassy slopes
were acres of people, hardly "a tenth of
them able to get near enough to hear a
word. They cheered- General Harrison
was driven to the stand through the avenue
that had been roped eff looking like a
swath cut through "a field of growing
wheat, and the cheering of the multitude
made a roar that was deafening.
The ex-President was given another ova-
was introduced by Colonel Chttendon. He
spoke as follows:
My Fellow -citizens-The vast extent of
this audience makes it impossible for my
voice to be heard by very many of you;
and yet the impreSSlveneSS and eloquonce
or SO vast an assemplage greatly transcends
the influence of any mans speech. We are
hearing good deal in this campaign about
coercion, and it has seemed to me that we
have Il fine illustration of it here this
morning. daughter ard applause.) These
ard interested faces, their cheers and en-
thusasn ara the finest possible refutation
of the suggestion that our people are being
cCerced.
II stand to-day in one of those new
cities of Indiana that has been made pop
ulouS and great and wealthy by the discoV
cry here of cheap fue. that has drawn
from other cities of the country many great
manufacturing establishments. Anderson
has made this wonderful stride in progress
Madison county las made this great adj
vance in wealth because there have been
|. Crened up great factories, employing many
tho usands of men, distributing among your
people every week many thousands of dol
lars. which find their way along the coun-
try roads to pay the farmer for the pro-
ductionS of the soil.
You have been tod--I speak now for the
moment TO the men whose Drawn and skill
are exercised in these great manufacturing
establishments-yo have been advised by a
man who seeks your votes for the most
honorable Office in the gift of free men, to
simulate, to deceive your employers to de-
ceive your fellow-men by wearing a false
principles and candidates that you do not
favor: by marching in parades of a party
whose principles you DO not adopt; and at
the end of this campaign of stimulation and
deception to so into the voting booth and
vote for him. 1t is not good advice: it is
advice that does not recognize the indepen-
dent manhood and the Individual dignity
and worth OF the men who toll in these
great factories.
lieVeS that your interest is to be found in
the maintenance of Republican principles
! say to ycu that if the reasons | advance
for this faith. ana that have been adj
vanced by others more able to present
them, do not convince your intellect that
it is to your interest to do SO. | beg you
one who esteems the dignity of man.
without regard to the question of his en-
ployment to be a man. and If you for
Bryan wear the Bryan button. Applause.)
] beg you not to consent to walk these
streets. 10 stand at the bench where you
are employed, proclaiming to the world
and confessii1g to your own conscience that
you have surrendered your manhood and
your political inde pendence. (Applause)
should be ashamed to do this thing myself
for any emolument that could be offered
to me. Money could not hire me to wear
the button of party that l opposed in my
heart. to march in it's parades cheer it's
candidates if | did not believe the princi-
Dles of that party were right (Applause,) }
/ do not believe that these intelligent ear
nest workingmen in the gas belt will accept
that suggestion as a compliment to their
manhood and their integrity (Applause.)
A GOSPEL OF HATE.
What is it that draws the workingman
now to march in the parade with the man
that gives him work? Is it not the commu-
nifty of interest? We are listening now TO
gospel OF hate. The workingman Is ap-
pealed to to oppose his employer to vote
another way These who have accumu-
lated capital are denounced as the enemies
of the people. / ask you to consider first.
would there be any work for anybody to
do in M haI bo.
capital enough to build mill? (Applause)
IT is the essential precedent of work of
mills and factories, that somebody should
have accumulated money, enough to build
the mill and put the machinery in it.
Secondly, | want to ask you whether It
is not to your interest that the man who
has put his capital into the mill and built
it should make a fair profit on the capital
he has invested? Is it not to your interest
that these mills should run six ays in the
week and six nights: and give employment
not only to one shift of men, but to give
employment not only three days in the
week, but six; and not only six but twelve
days. counting night work. How are you
going to bring that about? The man who
owns the mill won't run 1t at all unless he
makes some money. You would not II you
were In his place. Then isn't IL clear that
the next condition is that the man who
puts his money in the mill shall make
fair profit upon the use OF his money? So
far then. your interests and his to-
gether You should be glad that somebody
was able to build the mill. You should be
glad that the man who did build 1t Is max
ing a fair profit out of 1t. III he IL not he
will shut down. That being so. up to that
point are not your interests and his COM
mon? Where do your controversies usually
begin? 1t is over the question OF wages.
Now my friends-friends who have as
sociated rightly in these great trades
unions to protect the interests of them
il easy for you TO get wages put up? Is il
not when the mill is full of orders, and
when if ii shut down the owner would
lose money? Then Is the time that he IL
willing to listen to your suggestions of
higher wages. You do not press for higher
wages when the owner of the mill does not
care whether he shuts down or not; when
he would make money possibly by putting
out his fires In times like that you know
the question is not of higher wages but OF
keeping the wages you have: or It may be
that you faced with the question OF
consenting to lower wages in order that
true? tCries of Yes, yes,)
Then you might have the better chance
of getting your wages raised when the mill
is full of wcrk and orders and the mill own
er Is making "A profit in running the mill
That being SO. is IL not right for every
working man to consider whether the poli.
cies offered by the respective parties will
tend TO keep mills running whether they
will tend to shut mills up? lsn't that the
first thought?
MY friends. you know that four years
ago we had prosperous times You know
that these mills were running that you
body in this country was smiling under the
influence of the great prosperity You lost
1t. didn't you2 You have not got il now.