The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-02
TO CITIZENS OF WABASH.
Great Demonstration Made I'm One of
the Republican StrOnghOIds.

Hot Republican territory was again en-
tered after leaving Columbia City and at
North Manchester, the next stop, four
thousand people were found packed about
the station. They cheered Justify as the
train pulled In, cheered again upon Harri-
sons appearance, cheered at every point
he made in his speech of ten minutes and
gave three rousing cheers for Harrison"
when he closed
Wabash county seemed to be gathered at
Wabash, where the arrival was greeted by
cheers from an immense concourse of peo-
pie. The Republicans were out for their
closing rally of the campaign. and about
fifteen thousand were on streets to see
General Harrison. In the morning they
had had parade three miles long with
six bands, any number of floats marching
clubs and troops of male and female caval-
ry. 1t was by far the greatest demonstra-
ton of strength the Republicans OF this
county, which has never elected a Demo
cratic officer. have ever made. The great
quadrangle of the new Big Four shops had
been transformed into an enormous amphi-
theater and here speaking had been going
on all afternoon with Hiram Brownlee
Warren @. Sayre and others as the orators.
General Harrison's car was stopped in
the rear of the shops and he was led
through them to the stand thus avoiding
the exhausting experience of being jostled
through a jam of people he had undergone
so many times during the day. He was
given tremendous ovation when he ap-
peared in view of the multitude and was
introduced by l.. l.. Carpenter. In the
course of his speech he said:
'Fellow-citizens Of Wabash-This is a
nagnifcent dem onstratIon. 1t is another
evidence of the great interest which our
people feel in this campaign. now SO soon
TO close. l am sure that we have never
mad a campaign since the war in which
there was such general interest as in this
Every man and every woman in the land
has come to feel an intense personal in
terest in the result of it; and i think il is
because we feel that the issues involved
are not only as great as those involved
when the maintenance of our constitutional
union was at stake, but that we are called
upon again 10 fight issues that we supposed
had been forever put at rest. and which the
people OF the United States have deter
mined they will this time put forever at
rest. (Appiause.) We thought when Lee
gave up his sword to Grant that il had
been settled-settled by four years of
bloody and costly war-that the laws of the
President Of the United States and by the
courts or the United States without asking
the consent or the Governor of any State.
BUT that issue has been revived again.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois. who has been
more Than suspected of sympathy with the
Anarchists and destructionists raised the
issue with Mr.. Cleveland whether the
President had a right by the power the
Constitution puts into his hands to enforce
the laws of the United States without the
Governors consent; and he had sufficient
influence TO put into the Chicago platfOrm
a declaration against this power of the
President 'ie
My countrymen. we a Iaw-abiding
people; we believe in every man having al
MS rights; but We do not believe that ii is
any mans right to tear Up railroad tracks
and burn railroad cars and stone railroad
trains carrying innocent men and women
The Constitution puts the control of the
post routes o. the county into the hands
OF the United States; interstate commerce
Is matter that can only be regulated by
state commerce and postal laws are
offenses against United States laws. and
therefore we hold that 1t il not only the