The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25
HARRISON At HOME
THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE AD-
DRESSED AT INDIANAPOLIS BY
THE EX-PRESIDENT.
PUBLIC FAITH AND CREDIT.
THESE THE ISSUES ATT STATxE IN
THE CAMPAIGN BEING
WAGED.
POSITION PECULIAR.
the Struggle by the Free Silver
Forces,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct 24.-Gen
Harrison spoke at Tomlinson. hall to-
night to 5000 people There was much
enthusiasm. He said in part:
Il thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the kindly greeting you have
given me tonight. 1 cannot but fear
that. the issues to be settled in this
campaign are peculiarly important. I
cannot but fear that we have to do, in
a very high measure, with the prosper
ity and happiness Of the people of our
whole country and with the honor and
the integrity of~.the nation Of which
this commonwealth Is a TART If you
will permit me, / will speak quietly
and with more elaboration the,. I have
been accustomed to in discussing these
issues.
L received today clipping from
paper published in one Of the silver
states, suggesting that was receiving
large pecuniary rewards for the speech
es that was making in this Campaign:
that had received for my address at
New York the large sum of $4,000.
My friends, I have never made a DO
iitical address for money In the cam
paign that I have made about this
state, no contributions have been levied
upon the towns through which I have
passed. I have not even been com
PEELED to say to- my fellow citizens:
Lend me your ears
This campaign is one Of the most
peculiar that has ever been conducted
in American politics. There is nothing
peculiar about the attitude Of the Re-
publican party. Whatever there Is of
popularity or grotesqueness relates to
the condition of the Democratic party
The Republican party now, as ALWAYS
in it's history, stands for the public
faith and credit, for the integrity of
the national administration and for the
integrity and honesty of our public
finances. The Democratic party ia in
singular state of Reorganization and
disruption. Its position has been sired bv
those who were not the old and trusted
leaders of the party, but men who have
recently come into prominence It's old
leaders have been swept to one side
and new men have taken the direction
OF the party, and if we may believe the
statements Of those to whom we have
been accustomed to look for the correct
and authoritative expressions of Dem
ocratic sentiment those now in control
OF it have turned it completely aside
from Democratic traditions and from
Democratic principles.
THE result Of this has been a revolt
and we now have the instructive and
reassuring spectacle In this country
OF large body of influential and con-
spfcuous Democrats throughout all the
country repudiating the platform
adopted at Chicago. repudiating it's
candidates and making a plea inde-
pendently-at whatever cost it may be
to themselves plea independently
for the integrity of the Democratic
party and for the principles of its old
leaders l say 1t is a reassuring spec
tacle for my countrymen. Though
always a Republican I have ALWAYS
held it to be a tenet of Republioanism
to put country, its interests, its in
tegrity and It's flag above craftsmanship
Il can hardly be expected at this
stage of the campaign to introduce
anything new into the discussion
which has now been progressing so
long.
''It has been in a higher degree than
any campaign of which / have know
ledge, an educational campaign and
in this work of education the news
paper press of the country has had
conspicuous and worthy part. Great
as has been the contribution to the
country In past campaigns of the
American press. it has never rendered
SO conspicuous a service as it has rem
dered In this campaign. The issues
have been lucidly and infinitely stated
in the hearing of the people with that
elaboration and temperance which is
practicable in writing where there Is
easy access to authority and to data
The voice of the campaign orator Is
limited; it depends upon the aid of the
press for any wide or permanent in
f1uence that it hayJ have. And never
before in the history of this country.
certainly never since the struggle of
1861, has the potent power of the great
newspapers of the country been so unit
edly, so intelligentTy cand so powerfully
exerted in behalf of true principles in
government and in finance