The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-31
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON ONCE
MORE ON THE STUMP In IN
DIANA.
GREETED BY BIG CROWDS.
AT ANDERSON HE SPOKE TO TEN
THOUSAND LABORING
MEN.
TALKED FREE SILVER, LARGELY.
All But One of the Addresses of the
Day Devoted to the Currency
Question.


Harrison closed the first day Of his
second Indiana tour at Fort Wayne
this evening. He spent the day in the
northern part Of the state and deliv-
cred addresses to enthusiastic audi
ences at half a dozen different points.
The most important address of the
day was at Anderson, where the ex-
president spoke to workingmen, taking
up the charges Of coercion and speak
ing for time on the tariff issue. His
other addresses were devoted to the
currency question and were all Of
them short
Mr.. Harrison left Indianapolis at 9
o'clock this morning for his second
political tour of the state. He was
escorted to the station by the McKin-
ley and Hobart Bicycle club. At the
station, Gen. Harrison was greeted
by a number Of people who had gath
cred to give him a parting cheer. He
made no remarks, saying he wished to
save his. voice for the itinerary.
The first stop was at Greenfield.
where from stand a few feet from
the railroad Gen. Harrison spoke for
twenty minutes to 5000 or 1000 people.
He addressed himself to a comparison
of the financial plank of the Demo-
cratic platforms Of 1883, 1892 and 1896
At Knightstown fully 10000 people
were assembled on the public square
Gen. Harrison again discussed the
money question. At Anderson. Gen.
Harrison was greeted by an enthusi-
ast1c crowd. He said in part:
We are hearing great deal in this cam
palgn ABOUT coercion. and it has seemed to
me that we have a fine illustration here
dnese thousands of people, their intelligent
and interested faces, their cheers and en-
tnuslasm are the finest possible refutation
OF the suggestion that our people are being
coerced. You have been told speak now
ana skill are exercised in these great manu-
facturing establishments you have been ad
Vlsed by man who seeks your votes for the
IN most honorable office in the gift of free men,
ployers, to deceive your fellow men
by wearing a false button on YOUR
breast. by cheering for principles and can
didates that you do not favor, by marching
IN the parades Of a party whose principles
you do not adopt, and at the end of this
campaign OF stimulation and deception to 90
INTO the voting booth and vote for him It
1t not good advice. 1t is advice that does NOT
recognize the independent manhood and indi-
vloual worth Of the men who toll in these
great factories.
l say to YOU as a RanubIiean who he
i1eves tnat your interest Is to be found in
the maintenance of Republican PRINCIPLES
ana IN the election of William Mckinley
that II the reasons I advance for this faith
ana that have been advanced by others more
able to present them, do not convince vour
1nteilect that it Is to your interest to do So
peg you as one who esteems the dignity Of
America. without regard to the question of
employment, to be a man, and II YOU are
Tor ME- Bryan, to wear a Bryan button I
peg you not to consent to walk the Streets
70 stand at the bench where you are en-
PIoyed, proclaiming to the world and con-
1esslng to your own conscience that YOU have
surrendered your manhood and your political
independence.
We are listening now to gospel Of hate.
The workingman is appealed to to oppose his
employer, to vote another way. Those who
nave accumulated capital are denounced as
the enemies Of the people. 1 ask you to con-
slider first, would there be any work for any-
body to do in Anderson if somebody had not
capital enough to build a mill? 1t ia the
essential precedent of the work of mills and
factories, that somebody should have accu-
INFLATED money enough to build the mill and
put the machinery in it. Secondly, I 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 interests that these mills should
run six days in the week and six nights and
give employment not only to one shift of
men, but to two, to give employment not oniy
three days IN the week but six and not onIy
SIX but twelve, counting night work? How
are you going to bring that about? The man
who owns the mill won't run it at all unless
ne udheS sumo money. You should be glad
that the that did build it is making a
fair profit out of It. If he Is not he will shut
1t down. That being SO, up to that point are
your interests not his in common? You do
not press for higher wages when the owner
OF the mill does not care whether he shuts
down OF 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.
Four years ago we had prosperous times.
You know that these mills were running that
you were getting good wages and that every-
body was enjoying prosperity. Mr. Bryan's
was to repeal the protective tariff and to
substitute free trade. He and his friends
told you then that it would make you pros
porous. They appealed to you then not to
vote with your employer. They fnfamed your
passions against who had capital. and
they said "Stand out for yourselves and
vote against these men, and we will give Won
cheap coat" They were then preaching a
gospel Of cheapness; things were too high.
The Republican tariff bill was making things
high, and they wanted to make them cheap
er. Well. you got your cheap coat and you
paid for 1t out of reduced wages and a good
many of you wore it out in idleness They
prescribed free trade. Mr.. Bryan was one Of
the foremost advocates of it. He admits now
that the prosperity promised to you four
years ago did not come. You depended unon
his prophecy then. Can he deceive YOU
again?
Brief speeches were made at Muncie and
Winchester. Gen. Harrison combining himself
to the financial question.