The Indianapolis journal., 1896-08-31
HARRISON IN NEW YORK.
How He Looked When Addressing the
Carnegie Hall Audience.



AS Mr. Harrison looked out over the au-
dience. stretching away and upward until
IT seemed TO overhang near the lofty cell
ing, he must have felt that speaker
could possibly be more honored than by tho
attehtion and applause OF such an assem-
bly,. They were typical of the mass OF the
neither in patches nor in fine linen, but
well-to-do people. with plenty TO eat, COM
and V With honest honest. com common-sense NOM brains in
their heads The leaders of the Republic
an party Of the State were not there. The
platform, as in the stalls and boxes, there
were plain people. neither very obscure nor
very conspicuous. And the attention they
a single point escaped them. Dr. Depsw's
mellow and soothing tones and Mr.. Har-
rison's clear high: rather thin tenor
reachest the furthest ears, and none went
away until they had done.
In the boxes were many OF the women
politicians OF New York-that large and in.
creasing body of political workers OF In
definite and indubisable influence. And
there were women in the other parts OF the
house. none of them dressed with any great
show Of fashion. In fact, the only thor
oughly fasnionable-looking person in tho
house was Mr.. Harrison. There were two
or three men In the boxes with evening
dress, but u was a sort of careless summer
halfway business. The General was tee
real thing.
on very long frock coat, with voluminous
tails and a great air that suggested Pic
adilly. although. of course. IL would be
scanoalous TO suspect so good projections
list cf a personal slight TO home industries
1t IL thankless business TO stand between
an audience, and the man 1t particularly
wishes 20 hear-that is. IL would be thank
| less FOR any except DIR. Depew. TO whom "A
man tar back shouted. with the earnest
proyal of everybody: We like you.
/ .r ri:arrison has one point I'm common
vita guean Victoria as that lady Is de-
her. re Is very short. ana entirely too
many inches round for the number OF
inshes up ana ore now thnn hn oNercoes ne these
serious defects. He has little personal
magnetism in private life. as many a sor-
| rowf1l politician has remarked. But on
| the platform he Is so clean and honest
| looking so full of a sort OF egotism that
| ins ,ires belief instead OF ridicule that few
| spe. lsers can interest and hold an audience
| as WEI as he. He has an air or saying
| cor yincingIy, Now listen 10 me and YOU
| viii no. regret it," and what he says soon
c9nviaces that he was not mistaken irphis
estimate Of himself and his grasp on the
Els voice is not especially agreeable.
| 1t IS far from strong. and sounds rather
| srreined at times. lie walked up and down
his hI notes. and now talking as II extem-
| poraneously. He looked 80 calm and 20
COIL and what he said was so sensible.
| that whel he closed a paragraph with
one of those clear unpretentious, yet most
significant epigrams for which he Is Ia
| NOUS. the audience responded as they did
| not TO even DR.. Depews wit. Two or
three times he betrayed a great deal OF
| feeling but i'm a strictly Harrlsonian way.
| feeling that seemed 10 result from men,
tai process and not from an emotion OF
| the heart. This was especially noticeable
| in what he said about the attack upon the
Supreme Court ana upon "a President for
doing what his GA N compels-
Again his face flushed and his extended
hands trembed when. after describing the
deprecia ted dollar the free siiverites wished
made into a 'egai tender. he exclaimed:
''Tnis policy ccCrces integrity'
In the earlier part Of his speech his
poses were careful and apparently studied
But as he warmed up. he put his hands
now on his hips and now into the arm
holes of his evening waistcoat.