The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-28
INTRODUCED BY DR.. DEPEW.
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE CROWDED.
CARNEGIE HALL TO HEAR
THE ADDRESS.
ON THE SUPREME COURT
To Mr.. HarrisOn's Mind 1t Is the
Most Serious Issue of the
Year.

! cry tongue, ex-PreSident Benjamin
| Harrison acted as the Eastern proxy
| of the Republican candidate tonight
| and struck the keynote of the eastern
| campaign, in an explanatory and care
| full speech, to 5000 people. Half as
many people as composed the audi
ence were denied admittance because
of lack of room. The enthusiasm was
| tremendous, and the many brilliant
! points were received with hearty ap-
| plauSe. The audience was distin-
guished one, and from the early hour
when they cheered the bands inter
probation of America" displayed their
patriotism in every possible way. In
deed, the vast audience arose and sung
the national hymn with ardor. The
decorations of the auditorium were en-
tirely of the American colors. Flags
| were in many hands. Pictures of the
Republican national candidate adorned
the sides of the proscenium arch
which were festooned with silk bunt-
ing. The lower tier of boxes was gay
with beautifully dressed women and
men in evening attire. Mrs. Harrison
occupied one of the boxes with the
family of Chauncey M. Depew. Col
and Mrs. Fred Grant were in another
Mrs. Edward Lauterbach and friends
in another. On the stage were such
people of prominence as the nominee
for lieutenant governor, Timothy S.
Woodruff; Thomas c. Platt, John w
Vrooman, Lennuel E. Quigg, Chairman
Hanna, of the national committee, and
nearly every Republican Of prominence
in the city.
In the matter of applause the audi
ence was very impartial and liberal
not making any favorites. The main
part of the hall was filled early, and
every well known arrival was cheered
from George Francis Train to the chief
guest Of the evening, Gen. Harrison
and his escort, John Wanamaker and
| Cornelius Van Cott. This latter recep-
tion amounted to an ovation, the audi
ence standing and cheering, waving
hats, handkerchiefs and flags for fully
five minutes. Mr. Depew and DR.
David Hill, of Rochester, the other
orator of the evening, likewise received
demonstrations. There was vocal
solo, descriptive of the march to the
sea of Sherman, and then DR.. Depew
stepped to the front of the platform
/ When the hearty applause had sub
sided, DR.. Depew, as chairman, began
his remarks. He was unctious, and
every other sentence was filled with
sharp shafts of ridicule, which the au-
dience enjoyed heartily. He said:
INTRODUCED BY DEPEw.
This is an interesting and memorable meet.
| ing. 1t is the opening of the Republican cam
| paign. There is a peculiar fitness in having
nf fhn net fI-onn mt oT1vaC
| sounded by one of the ablest and wisest of the
| line of American statesmen. His presence Il
Republican platform. 1t is prosperity, worl
| and wages. The memory of his administra
! ton. and the benefcent conditions which pre-.
| vailed during it's continuance relieve the dis
| tress in which the country has since beer
| plunged, and is full of hope and promise fol
the future.
In these days of folly, run mad we calmly
point to the four years under Harrison and
confidently say that the politics of sound
vailed, with wise and capable president
will come again to the people of this coun-
try when the policies of sound money and
of protection once more prevail with another
wise and capable president.
| Every school boy in America has declaimed
and has been taught to declaim, the famous
| speech of Patrick Henry, which fired our fore
fathers to undertake the war for independence
He was pointing out the results which must
follow the continuance of the policy Of Great
Britain and enforcing the lessons that any
Sdcrlnce ana any peril were better than the
inevitable ruin and degradation which would
come from submission. Then 1t was he who
said: 81 have but one lamp by which my
feet are guided. And that is the lamp of ex-
perience / know of no way of judging the
future but by the past Fortunately, in act
ing as citizens upon issues which have beer
so suddenly forced upon us in this campaign
the past is full of experience and guidance
! 1t is all on one side. From the dawn of re-
| corded history down to Mexico and South
America, despotisms, constitutional monarchies
ond hnrvn &rs4 11L- H.
| rency. In every case the country has los
! its credit, its business and its industries have
| been demoralized or paralyzed, and it's peo-
! pie have been reduced to poverty and despair
| There is no instance in the whole range Of
| history, of wealth, national or individual
! flowing from reputation or dishonesty from
instrumentation or fraud, from putting the
| government stamp to measure value anl
Partisanship and patriotism can ordinarily
| declaring it to be double measure or value
in free country, travel upon parallel lines
! Those institutions are the safer and that
country is better governed where the two
great parties are striving for the mastery and
most equally divided. Each can claim upon
economic and industrial questions, upon mat
ters of revenue and International improve
| ments, that its policy will eventuate the
| greatest good to the whole people; each car
conndensiy7 ask that its programme be sub.
mltted tosthe test of experiment; each car
point to examples in our own history or thai
OF other countries, where its experiment has
| proved success. But when the question is
moral one, striking at the very foundation
OF natural justice and the rights of man. like
slavery, or one affecting the salvation of thf
country. like an effort to divide it by seces-
sion and rebellion, or attempt to put q
stain upon the national honor and doubi
upon the national credit, then patriots mus
act together, and there can only be one side,
then partisanship and party obligations are
/ in abeyance while the intelligence and na
trlotism of the nation are protecting its lih.
erty saving Its life or upholding its honor
Here again we have the lessons of experience
and the lamp of history.
In this crisis, when the national honor
and all that that involves to the business
the employment and the prosperity of tbe
country, Is at stake, the Republican party
comes with open arms to the assistance OF
patriotic Democrats who care more for their
| country than for an organization which has
been temporarily seized by the tumultuons
ana evanescent forces of revolution, of COM
munism, of
ANARCHY AND REPUTATION.
While we are fighting the platform which
means all of these. we find that unon If il
| placed ticket with one head and two tails
! one tail wagging to fool the wage-earner in
/ the East, and the other wagging to del,de
| the farmer in the West and in the South
| 1t was Abraham Lincoln who wisely said
You can fool all the people part of the
| time, and part Of the people all the time
but you cannot fool ali the people All the
time. Two millions of men marched to the
front, and half a million of them laid down
their lives to stamp out sectionalism. and
make these United States a united country
Inls EFFORT to array one section against an
other by an appeal to prejudice and ignor.
ance will be stamped out not bv 2 001 00f
men in arms. but by the intellieence and
patriotism. by the knowledge that each sec
] ton has nf 49, n+h-- ~ sr> SEALING that -.