The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22
THE ORLEANS ALTON.
n IhFee-Mile Parade-Harrison on the
Doctrine of Cheapness

orleans, set down among the hills of
orange county, was the next stop. and
there seemed to be more people there than
the county contains. The crowd was com
puted at seven thousand and II had inst
finished a parade that stretched out three
miles in length. Every township in the
county had a delegation with a float. oIab
orateiy decorated with bunting, flags and
pretty girls and one of these floats was
drawn by forty horses. There We're cavalry
companies galore, the riders wearing gold
sashes and gold hats The young women
in the crowd seemed to have WED with
each other in the effort to get as much
yellow as possible into their costumes and
in the elaborate decorations of the town
yellow was the prevailing color. Gen Har-
rlson was greeted at the station with the
cheers of a great crowd and driven to
the high school yard, where stand had
been erected. He was given another ova-
ton upon his arrival there and made an
other telling speech to "a farmer audience
AS he faced the sunlight which poured into
the stand from which he spoke General
Harrison said:
MY friends / think it is Republican doc
trine that we should face the light and
suppose that accounts for the construction
OF the stand from which / have been
asked to speak this morning I have no
quarrel with the sunlight. 1t beauties and
fructlf1es the earth, and this country needs
Deautllylng just now and needs fructifica-
ton. l think it is agreed all around that
things are not at the best. 1 think every
statesman and every man who thinks he
is a statesman feels called upon TO pre-
scribe something for the country. No po-
liucal party would venture to go TO the
people now with the declaration that it in
tended TO maintain things as they are. We
would vote down a party of that kind unal--
imously, because we are unanimously
agreed that we do not want things to re-
main as they are.
we have had good times in this conn
try. We have had good times since 1873
and we had good times before 1873. / think
If we examine the industrial and CONNER
cial statistics we will find we have had
the best time since 1873 that we ever had
You know where you lost good times, don't
know Where you lost a thing, If you have
it. daughter and cheers)
Inc question IN this campaign is wheth-
er we VIII depend upon our own expert
ence and guide or whether we will give
our faith TO prophets-or perhaps / should
upon whose heads / see no trace of the
amounting Oil Experience is the soundest
teacher in the world, hard teacher lie
is an od-fashioned teacher and has n birch
rod in the schoolhouse wnich he lays on
well sometimes. Experience is a hard
teacher, but what We get hardly are
very apt to retain. What we get easily
we easily part with. i think we have had
a lesson in the last four years in the school
of experience, and the school has been un-
usually fun during this term. tLaughter
and applause) Everybody has been there.
Everybody in his business whether that
business was large or small whether ii
was agricultural, commercial or manutac-
turing, has had an ezperieuce-an evil ex-
perience- We had a panic IA lSa3 and since
then Things have been drying up
These farmers know what af August
drought is. They have seen thA springs
at which their stock refreshed themselves
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