The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-21
PRINCEToN's GREATEST DAY.


PRINCETON,s GREATEST DAY.
Over 10000 People Assembled to Hear
General Harrison.
The next stop was at Princeton, in that
same Gibson county where they have been
saying there was such a powerful lot OF
silver sentiment. If big crowds and un-
limited expression of enthusiasm for Nc
Kinley are any indication, this silver SEN
timent must be concealed somewhere in the
next county. Nothing like the outpourins
here had ever been known before at
Princeton. The people had been coming in
from all the surrounding country since
O'Clock in the morning and had a big par
ade that was two hours in passing one cor
ner Like the Worthington parade, it was
made UP of uniformed clubs, cavalry COM
panies and decorated wagons 1t was head
ed by a marching club OF hundred young
ladies, whose uniform consisted of a cap,
q black skirt and a waist of bright yellow
gold. Gold was the prevailing color in hats,
sashes. ribbons, badges and everything.
The city was elaborately decorated and
everywhere the gold bunting was in the
greatest profusion. General Harrison. and
party were driven in carriages to the fair
grounds followed by cheering crowd of
down to the train, and, preceded by a
company of cavalry to clear the way on
arrival at the grounds, they found vast
concourse of people. variousy estimated at
from 10000 to $1,000, swarming over the
place. The ovation given General Harrison
on his appearance upon the stand was
magnificent and the enthusiasm through
out beyond description. Not one
fourth of the people could get within the
sound of his voice, and the cheering on
the edges of the big crowd was incessant.
The Generals Speech.
General Harrison was introduced by Rep
resentative Hemenway and spoke in part
as follows:
MY Fellow-ctizens-Thi assemblage,
fear, is much too large for my voice. I
know how difficult it is to preserve quiet
when the speaker can be heard by but a
small portion OF great audience. L Will
ask you, however, to keep as quiet as you
can while 1 endeavor to speak to you about
paign, a campaign which has wonderfully
excited the interest of our people A Glib
with me, as l am not unacquainted with
you, for very many years ago l addressed
you and in many intervening campaigns
me your attention. l am here to-day in a
position of absolute disinterestedness. 1
have no personal ambition to promote; /
have no personal interest to serve; / come
10 speak to you as one citizen to another;
to sneak to YOU as one who has received
at your hands in the past many cOnSpicu-
Gus and touching favors and who is put
under obligation for what you have done
for him, to be very frank and very sim
cere in what he says tc you now. The
personal consistency of a man is not of
the highest Importance, but it is OF some
AN attempt has been made to create the
impression that | have said some things
inconsistent with my present position upon
1t is not true, my countrynen, as l shall
show you. The extract from one of my
Mr.. Bryan himself referred in some of his
speeches, is simply to this effect: That the
Sherman bill. by which the government mt
purchased at its market price 100000
ounces of silver per month. and issued a
paper currency based upon that silver bull
i.on-I did say that l thought the issuing
of that paper under the conditions which
accompanied it had had a favorable effect
upon the business and markets of the
country. l still say So But Mr.. Bryan
and those who quote that utterance forget
that every paper dollar that was issued
under the Sherman law was supported by
a gold dollars worth OF silver bought IN
every such bill was further supported by
the pledge of the government written in
that law that this government would main
tain the parity of those notes with gold.
That was a currency supp p7rted in the first
place by the bullion that. had been pur-
the market price of bullion in the markets
of the world; and. in the next place, by the
pledge of this government that it would
make every such note the equivalent of
gold dollar. If any man who now advo-
Gates the coinage of silver at the ratio of
Is to can find any comfort in that dec
lardtion he must be a very comtortleSS
man. U4aughter)
HARRISON'S VIEWS NOT CHANGED.
My position upon this question has never
been in doubt. Let me read to you a para
graph or two from some of my earlier say
ings upon this subject In 1876 / was, con-
trary to my wish, made the candidate of
the Republican party for Governor of In
diana. At that time there was a great deal
of talk about limitiess issue Of green
backs. The fiat money idea had begun to
pervade the minds OF many of our people.
/ then said in a speech at Danville, Ind:
1t is mainly, if not entirely, the ex-
pectation that the government will some
time other pay those notes that gives
them their purchasing value. The nooe of
never to be paid would never be worth
anything. 1t is beyond the power. of the
Shall buy two bushels of wheat. The man
that had the wheat will ask 50 or So for it,
according. as the demand and the value OF
the greenbach are i'll comparison with god.
ThG government cannot say: This nifty
dollar greenback shall be enough to buy a
horse That is for the man to say who
has the horse. it is the belief that the gov
will maintain it's honor before the
world and redeem its Obligations that gives
the greenback its value.
- a stable currency, one that has a fixed
value. that is worth the same to-day and
to lorroW is the best currency for Men in
all conditions of lie. and is the only one
with which men in all conditions will be
satisfied: and If there is any class OF men
in the world who have Il deeper interest
than others in having currency which is
the same from month to month and from
year to year 1t is the poor man, the labor
ing man, the men who are most liza bic to be
deceived by those who have better oppor-
tunites of information in regard to matters
of finance. The man who sits some
financial eminence can see beforehand the
fluctuations in the money market and save
himself from loss, but the man who cam
not is the man down in the valley, to whom
the financial changes comes
rency, when it goes UP labor is the last
thing to feel the rise, and when it goes
down labor is the first thing to feel the de-
preston Then il there is one class more
than another that has deep interest in
permanent stable currency it is the poor
man who has not the ability to watch its
and to arrange his finances
with reference to them.
THAT. my countrymen, was an expression
of my views in 1876. and | hold those views
to-day: that the poor mans dollar and the
farmers dollar. ii ne is not to be cheated
by it, must be Il dollar of fixed value: one
that is as good at the end of the year as
il was at the beginning. Again, in my mes
sage of 1888 / said:
Il THINK Il - clear that If we should
make the coinage OF silver at the present
ratio free, may expect that the diff
ference in the bullion values of the gold
and silver dollars will be taken account