The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-21
HARRISON IS OUT
DELIVERS TEN SPEECHES IN INDI-
ANA FOR SOUND MONEY AND
M'KINLEYs
ovATloNS ALONG THE LINE.
PEOPLE OUT IN FORCE TO HEAR
AND CHEER THE EX-PRESI-
DENT.
DEFENDS HONOR OF THE NATION.
Considers the Democratic Federal
Interference Plank in One OF
the Addresses.

EVANSVILLE. Ind, Oct. 20.-Gen.
Harrison arrived at Evansville at
O'Clock this evening, having made ten
speeches during the day. Everywhere
there were great crowds and every
where great interest was manifested.
At Worthington he spoke for thirty
minutes, combining himself to a discus
sion of the silver question. At Ed
wardsport he spoke briefly. At Bush
rod he addressed several hundred min
ers who had gathered. At Vincennes
the silver question was again the topic.
Referring to Mr.. Bryan's declaration
that we can have bimetallism with free
coinage, he said:
1 say we cannot This government is
great and strong government, but it can
not fix the value Of everything. II you want
to know what anything is worth, you must
go to the market to find out. The statutes
may declare that bushel Of oats is OF the
same value as bushe of wheat, but that
does not make it so. We must stamp out
with the votes CT million of our people in
Indiana and in the adjoining states this her
eSy that is pressed upon us now.
What we want is to return to the condi-
ton Of things we had when we had a rev.
enue bill that paid the expenses of the gov
eminent, and cid not put Us to the necessity
of selling bonds to pay them. We shall find
prosperity just where we lost 1t. If you
wish to find anything you have lost, you
must go TO the place you lost it. You lost
prosperity when you inaugurated the Demo
cratic policy, and you must go back there
again, and my word for it, you will IND
what you have lost.
The demonstration of the day was at
Princeton. Leaving the train. Gen.
Harrison was escorted to the fair
grounds, where an immense crowd
awaited him. From the station to the
fair grounds the streets were filed with
people who cheered enthusiastically as
the distinguished visitor passed them.
A stand had been erected in front of
the grand stand facing the race track.
The grand stand and the space around
the speakers stand were filed with
people.
Gen. Harrison referred to his per-
sonal relation to the campaign and to
the fact that he spoke to them simply
as one citizen to another. He alluded
to the fact that Mr.. Bryan had at
tempted to show that ne occupied a
different position now from that oc-
cupied by him while president. on the
silver question. He quoted at some
length from speeches made by him In
1876 and 1878 and also from his mes
sage to congress. He said:
Mr.. Bryan stated that in my messages I
present utterances as was speaking pol
1tician. This is what l said TO congress and
the people Of the United States in 1889. My
voice then speaking under the responsible
tiles of great public office, was precisely
what it is today when l speak to you as a
private citizen.
There is one aspect of this campaign of
which l want to speak for few moments.
To me it is of supreme Importance and in
terest. Because if we should be beguiled
into free silver and fall into the slough of
a commercial panic, we would get out of 1t
after a while. We would repent ourselves
and deliver ourselves. But there is another
proposition involved In this campaign which
If we give cur assent to it, will injure the
government not in its statutes, which may
be repealed by the congress that follows.
but in its great national powers. The Chi
cago convention declared that it denounces
federal interference with the affairs of the
states. That was not general proclama-
ton. 1t had a particular aim. 1t was di-
rected to, and attempted to describe par
ticular event 1t was meant to rebuke Mr..
Cleveland for interfering in the Chicago riot
to open way for the United States mail
and for commerce between the two states.
1t was meant to declare that 1t was no part
of the business of the national government
to do that.
When Mr.. Bryan indorses that platform,
as he said he does, he declares that If in
any of our great states riot should break
out and the mail trains should be stopped
and interstate commerce stopped, he will
not feel that he has the right or power as
United States and for its interstate COM
merce. He has virtually ruid he would feel
that his duty, il elected president and Gov.
Altgeld is elected governor of Illinois. No,
1t will never happen, but l am only giving
you another reason why it should not hap
pen. If it should happen Mr.. Bryan has
put himself IN the attitude of saying that
If in any of the states the processes of the
courts of the United States should be de-
fed by mob and the trains should be
stopped and interstate commerce interrupted,
ident. to reinforce the United States mar
shals to execute his writs or push out Of
the way the distractions to the mails; but
that he would feel 1T his duty to go to Gov.
Altged and ask him to do it.
Now, in the name of the dead Of the great
war for the Union, in the name of the living
who fought with those who gave their lives
that the powers of this national government
might be maintained l protest against such
doctrine. l protest to the American people
that a man who says the United States has
not the constitutional power to support its
marshals in executing its writs and has not
the power to open the way for the mails and
interstate commerce, ought not to be the
president OF the United States. We had that
Kentucky thought Mr.. Lincoln had no right
to march troops through Kentucky. When
we got home we thought that doctrine was
dead, and | think when this election is over
we will find that it is dead
Mr.. Bryan has said that he has never said
anything to indicate that he would not enforce
the laws. say yes, when he said he be-
lieved in that platform, he said so. Gov
Altgeld has recently made speech in New
York city, only last Saturday night, and in
that speech in New York city, he clearly said
that those resolutions of the convention point
ed to the Chicago riot and to Mr.. Cleveland's
conduct in connection with it. He says that
the marshal of Southern Illinois called upon
him to help him and enforce the process of
the United States courts, and he complains
that the marshal of Northern Illinois, in
stead of calling upon him. called upon the
president of the United States to help him
No, cannot diminish the power or the
dignity or the honor of this great nation
We must hold to the doctrine that the pres
ident is the chief executive of the nation
sworn to execute the laws has power to ex-
ecute them on every foot of American SOIL
without asking anybodys consent.
At the conclusion Of his speech. the
crowd at the back of the platform de-
manded a speech and the general
spoke briefly.
At 7:90 p. m. the Evansville demon
stration was begun by a parade which
was reviewed by Gen. Harrison from a
stand erected at the court house After
the parade Gen. Harrison spoke to
1000 people in Evansville.