The record-union., 1896-10-31
At All the Stations on the Route He
Travelled.
Some of His Audiences Estimated at
Twenty to Thirty Thousand People
Points Out to the Democrats of
Their Ticket They Will Have to
Support Five Electors Who Are
for Watson.

FORT WAYNE, Oct. 30.-General
Harrison started on his second stump
ing tour of the State at y o'clock this
morning. A crowd Of several hundred
people were gathered at the station at
Indianapolis, and Harrison was greeted
with the widest cheers.
His train made it's first stop at Green
field at 9:3O o'clock. He spoke to a
crowd of 5000 and was given an ova-
ton.
At Knightstown Harrison spoke to an
enthusiastic audience of 10000 people.
Anderson was the next stopping place.
The crowd was estimated at from 25,OOO
to 10000 people.
At Winchester, where nothing of very
great magnitude had been expected,
General Harrison encountered one of
the greatest demonstrations of the day.
The people began to pour in early in the
morning, and by the time the big parade
started the managers of the demonstra-
tion estimated that from 20, 200 to % 900
people were on the ground.
On the way to Portland the party was
entertained by the Gold Bug" Club
Of Winchester A momentary stop was
made at Ridgeville, where General Har-
rison bowed his acknowledgements to sew
eral hundred people who had gathered
at the station.
Portland was scheduled for the long
est stop Of the day, and the event was
made general rally for all that sec
ton. Not one-third of the crowd could
get into the meeting. A few wearing
Bryan badges went to the station to
close in behind the train and cheer Bry-
an when Mr.. Harrison appeared. They
let go a few cheers about ten minutes
before the train arrived, and the vast
multitude closed in upon them with a
rush of such momentum that three or
four of them tainted. They were car
ried from the crowd, and no interrupt
ton of the proceedings was attempted.
A burst of tremendous cheering and
waving Of hats started when General
Harrison appeared and waved along the
crowd as far as could be seen up the
street. The multitude moved slowly
after the carriage as it moved out to the
open field where the tent was pitched,
and people were found packed for yards
around it.
Finally General Harrison and party
succeeded in reaching the stand, and he
was introduced by the County Chair
man, j. c. Adams,
General Harrison spoke at some
length and with great earnestness, TAX
ing UP in turn each of the more impor-
tant issues of the campaign and dis
cussing them.
OF
and Borne, where General Harrison
talked briefly to several hundred peo-
pie.
1t had become dark by the time Deca-
tur the county seat Of the densely Dem
ocratic county of Adams, was reached.
Four thousand people were gathered
about the station, where stand had
been erected. General Harrison was
given a warm reception, though num-
Der of cheers for Bryan were heard.
In his speech General Harrison went
over the history of the Republican
party in making good the promises of
the Government in reSuming specie
and declared that the Demo-
cratic party had faced completely about
on the money question in four years,
quoting the platform of 1892 and recent
speeches of Bryan in support of the as
sertion.
The particular point of his speech,
however, was in dealing with the ques-
ton of fusion. He told his old Demo-
cratic friends of Adams County that
they could not vote the straight Demo-
cratic ticket this time If they wanted to.
For whom do you expect to vote?" he
asked. For Bryan and Sewall? You
cannot do it. If you should carry Indi-
ana, five of your electoral votes would
go for Thomas Watson of Georgia, who
is not a Democrat and does not claim to
be Democrat. They have put five Pop
ulists upon your electoral ticket, and if
you vote it two-thirds of your vote goes
to Bryan and Sewall, your ticket, and
one third Of it goes to Bryan and Wat
son, the PopuliSts' nominees. And if
Thomas Watson should hold the bal
ance of power in the electoral college
you would have Watson as Vice-Pr
dent or nobody. You who have been
taking the straight thing for all these
years cannot get the straight thing this
year by voting the Democratic ticket.
But you can vote a straight Republican
ticket and thereby uphold many of the
for which Jackson and Jeffer-
son stood, principles that are now at
tackled by Mr.. Bryan and the Chicago
platform"
The train was considerably behind
time. and fast run was made to Fort
Wayne, which was reached at 6:15, only
a few minutes late. Here General Har-
rison rested quietly in.his car until 7:30
o'clock, when the Republicans of Allen
County gave one of the biggest demon
strations that have ever been given. A
night parade that required a couple of
hours in passing was given, followed by
a speech of nearly an hours length by
General Harrison in a circus tent that
had been procured for the occasion.
With his speech here tonight ex-
President Harrison closed his first day
of campaigning in Northern Indiana.
The ex-President and his party will
leave this city in the morning for tour
of the counties northwest Of here
The platform from which Mr. Harri-
son spoke here to- might broke down un-
der the great crowd upon 1t, and pre-
cipitated the ex-P President to the ground.