The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-21
SOME REMARKS BY
THE MAN ORATOR
EXPIRES ident Harrison Begins His Tours
Of the State Of Indiana.
IS RECEIVED WITH ENTHUSIASM
Immense Crowds Greet the Speaker
Everywhere..The Fallacies of the
Cheap Dollar Craze Are Pointed
Out in Plain Language and In.
diana Farm crs Are Advised Not to
Yield to Fake Notions Regarding
Imitation.

Imitation.
Spencer, Ind, Oct. 2O.-General Ben
jamin Harrison this morning began the
first of the tours he will make over In
diana soil during this campaign and
was favored with beautiful weather.
His train consisted Of two private cars,
loaned by II. Il. Il. Pierce, of the Glover
Leaf road, and with the eX-presdent
were number of prominent Indianap-
oils citizens and personal friends. The
train was cheered as it left the station
at Indianapolis at o'clock and the
days work began before the party had
gotten fairly out of town.
AT the Belt crossing, west of this city.
several hundred people had gathered
and the train was stopped for them.
Mr.. Harrison was Justify cheered as he
appeared at the rear platform. Among
other things he said:
You Will not expect me to speak per-
haps further than to say to you that
this is another campaign in which very
singular notions are being promulgated.
speak here to men who have gathered
from these industrial establishments
about the suburbs of indianapolis. The
effort this year is to persuade them that
the dollar they get every week Is too
good and that they ought to have one
not quite so good. ask you If that IL not
the sum of the whole argument. 1t Is
very plain, it seems that the silver dol-
lar, if the relative value of gold and
silver remains what il is, and silver IL
coined freely, will not buy as much as
gold dollar. How much less nobody
can tell-that Is guess work.
1T will be fiuctuating like the mer-
curry In the thermometer. l have lifted
my voice for thirty years in Indiana to
the laboring man and the farmer and
| have had just this message, In green
back and fiat money times, and now,
that of all the people in the world who
will be injured by cheap and fluctuat-
ing money the wOrkingman is the one
who will be worst hurt.
AN OVATION AT MOORESvILLE
The next stop was at Mooresville,
where n crowd of about 800 people had
gathered and the station was gay with
flags and bunting. General Harrison
appeared and was given an ovation.
He plunged at once into his subject.
He reviewed the fight the Democratic
party had been making for some years
for cheapness while the Republicans
have been cOntending that fair prices
were more conducive to prosperity and
happiness and called attention to the
entire change of front made by the
Democrats in this campaign. They had
abandoned the fight for cheapness and
were now declaring that the people
want higher priced things. They had
succeeded in their campaign in 1892,
had elected president and congress
Of their own way of thinking and had
brought in an era Of cheap things. The
fa ho pha 70
he had ever bought, and purchased
them with the cheapest wheat he had
ever sold. He declared that Mr. Bryan
had been one of the most ultra of the
free traders, who had brought about
this condition of things and that IL
elected president. would still advocate
the same principles. He appealed to
the farmers of Indiana, not to be tempt
ed by the fake" notion that they
could make themselves rich by declar-
ing a half dollar q dollar.
THE CROWDS AT MARTINSvILLE.
At Martinsville a crowd of about o.
900 people was gathered to greet Gen.
eral Harrison and gayly decorated
stand had been erected near the sta
ton. To this General Harrison was
led amid loud cheering. In his speech
that plank of the Democratic platform
denouncing the interference Of federal
troops in state affairs and recalled the
Chicago riots that had brought forth
this plank. He called attention to Mr..
Bryan's defense of this plank, and de-
clared that great evils were likely to
come from the election of a man who
entertained such ideas Of the preserva-
tiOn of public order. At the Hamlet
of Paragon, several hundred people
stopped the train and General Harrison
came out long enough to greet them
with word. He noticed many women
in the crowd and admOnished them to
see that their husbands did their duty.
At Spencer he was greeted by about
5000 people, and made an address of
about fifteen minutes. devoted entirely
to the silNNr question. At Worthing-
ton crowd of equal proportions had
gathered and the enthusiasm ran high.
BIG DAY FOR wORTHINGTON.
Evansville, Ind. Oct. 2O.-It was a
big day for WOrthington, 1t being es-
timated that 10000 people were in town.
In his address here General Harrison
referred to Bryan's remarks about the
Jekylls and Hydes. He said that he
had no disposition to retaliate in the
use of opprobrius epithets. This re-
mark Of Mr.. Bryan showed that he had
possibly lost his temper and was very
sure that in making lit he had lost his
sense of the prOprieties of the great
position to which he aspired.
After the Worthington stop. lunch
was served on the train, but it was not
finished, for a crowd of about 1,5O0
coal miners had gathered at Bushrod.
and General Harrison appealed to them
as wage earners and explained that in
a time of fluctuation of values Of cur
rency the man who works for wages
is always the one to suffer first and suf-
ferS most.
Brief stops were made at Sanborn
and at EdwardsDort, where over IL
thousand people were addressed for a
few minutes.
At Vincennes tremendous crowd
was encountered. A stand had been
erected in an open field near the sta
ton and the crowd of 5000 people
surged over the top Of three acres of
ground in their efforts to get near
enough to see and hear General Har-
rison spoke for thirty minutes, in the
course of which he argued the silver
question as thoroughly as the limited
time would permit.
At Princeton, couple of thousand
people met the train at the station
and followed General Harrison's car
rage to the fair grounds. where from
10000 to $4,000 people had been waiting
several hours. General Harrison's
speech at this point was about forty
minutes in length. and more elaborate
than any he had made during the day.
He reviewed not only the silver ques-
tion, but the other issues brought up
by the Chicago platform. and pointed
out the dangers to public peace and
craer that might arise from its sue
'esG ut the polls. He declared that Mr..
Bryan was the kind Of man who would
make Rood hia word IN carry o,,t ovovv