Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-17
RICHMOND HEARS HARRISON
The Ex-President Speaks to an i'm.
mense Virginia Audience.
lie Scores Senator Daniels for Being
n Party to- the Chicago Plat
form After First In
dorsing Cleveland.

Richmond. Va, DC. Cat least 5000
people heard President Harrison last
night. on the stage were many of the
leading republicans and gold demo-
Gratis, General Harrison's wife was
present. She was accompanied by sew
eral Richmond ladies. The 'ex-president
was loudly applauded when he made
his appearance pa the stage.
Hon. l.. l.. Lwis, republican nominee
for congress, who presided. introduced
General Harrison. The rival applause
for Mckinley and Bryan interrupted
Mr.. Harrison several times. Once the
lights went out and the building was I'm
darkness five minutes, during which
General Harrison suspended his re-
marks. General Harrison said in part;
Virginia is not the enemy's country
60 me. 1t is my ancestral home, and
its citizens are my fellow citizens.
There was a time when the north and
south was arrayed against each other
In battle line. That time is nov only a
memory. We are all again a united
'oyal people. This state and all those
states hat participated in the civil
wan have sworn allegiance to the flag
and constitution and Virginia stands
rs firmly and united for their defense
as any state in the federal union.
I'VE are here tonight under che union.
We are here to claim for our states
those rights which the federal consti-
tuition gave them. We are here to say
that the constitutional powers Of our
national government shall not be tram
pied upon. | regret to notice the recent
assault upon our just constitutional
powers. The incident l refer to is the
great Chicago riot. Men in defense Of
law, In great organized bodies, went
through the streets with fire and sword
destroying property, stopping railroads,
blocking the mails and preventing COM
merce. These actions had their origin
In railroad strikes and were the work
of men under the red flag of anarchy,
Mr.. Cleveland felt his duty as the com
mander of the army and navy, to re-
store traffic and the movement of trains
The courts were appealed to and a writ
OF injunction granted to enforce the
laws. Violation of the order Of the
rourt resulted in contempt proceedings
and punishment Of the offenders, which
was right. These courts proceeded on
a line that vas legal, that vas upheld
by the constitution, and yet the presi-
dent and the supreme court are de-
bounced in the Chicago platform"
The speaker here scored Senator Dan
lei for being a party to the Chicago
platform when he had in the senate
fathered a resolution indorsing Presi-
dent Cleveland for sending troops to
Chicago. He held that the UNFOLDING
Of the constitution and the law was
the most important of all duties of cit
liens.
The second question hat General
Harrison discussed was the money
question. His argument against free
silver was along the line of those he
has used in other speeches. In closing
he advocated protection to American
Industries. Protection would be a great
boon to the south, he said. He men
toned Mckinley only once IN that
was in his ina appeal for law and or
der, sound money, protection and Nc
Kinley.
AT the close the general was vocifer-
ously applauded and many people
rushed forward to shake hands with
him. The ex-president n Mrs. Harrl-
son left Immediately for Charleston,
w. Va.