The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-06

calm, DlspasstOnate, Lucid Address
 on the Issues of the Hour-The Distin-
 guished Speaker Enthusiastically weI-
 comed-He Quotes Figures and Facts to
 Southerners.
 Richmond, Va Oct. 5.-Ex- President
 Benjamin Harrison addressed about
 5000 here tonight at the Auditorium
 building on the Exposition grounds. Of the number named about one half
 were colored people. General Harrison
 was met at the Hanover Junction by a committee of well known republicans,
 and on his arrival here was driven to
 the Jefferson hotel, where he and his
 party were called on by many promi-
 nent leaders of the republican party in
 this locality. Mrs. Harrison, who ac-
 companied her husband, was entertain
 ed for brief time between their arriv-
 well known ladies here. The committee
 which met General Harrison included
 ex-Judge Lewis, the republican candi-
 date for congress in this district, and
 Colonel J. D. Brady, of the state com
 mittee. After dinner at the Jefferson the party was driven to the Auditorium.
 General Harrison was cordially well comed by the committee Judge Lewis
 presided and made brief speech, in
 presenting the speaker of the evening.
 There were on the platform number of l,o k democrats, and there were many Bryan
 men in the audience About o'clock the electric lights in the hall suddenly went out, as they did when Mir. Bryan
 spoke in the same place recently. For
 about five minutes the building was in total darkness. During this time MT.
 Harrison sententiously remarked that "our party does not need so much light
 as our opponents" A colored man
 soon brought in torch, which he pass
 ed up to the speaker. The lights were turned on soon afterward.
 General Harrison in his address said: q will thank you to be as quiet as
 possible as l desire to speak to you in a quiet way of some things that att tract my interest, and I hope may en- gage yours. I have upon my return to my home in the west, been requested by some Virginia friends to speak to you a little while upon some of the great issues that are now agitating in
 an extraordinary way all the people of all sections of this great country Vir- ginia is not the enemy's country to me, It is my ancestral home, and it is cfti-
 zens are my fellow citizens. I believe that Virginia has as large number of great and good men under the ground as any other state in the union. But have never said ycu have not quite as many good men above ground as any other state.
 Without unnecessary violence, with l a restraint that was remarkable the | troops of the United States were sim l ply used to push out the way those 1 rioters who obstructed the progress of | the malls and of interstate commerce. | The courts of the United States were appealed to, and the right familiar to every lawyer and every intelligent l citizen, the right of injunction by | which the courts restrain lawless con- | spiracies to oppose the law, was used 1 by the circuit courts of the United | States. It is essential to the life of the | judiciary that it should have power of punishing those who insult his judges l or disobey it's orders These courts | proceeded with the most strict con- | formity to law. They proceeded upon | lines familiar to the profession and ju-
 dicial history, and yet the president 1 Ia hIy Sin hp forces of the United States and the
 courts that used their powers to an-
 ticipate and prevent violation of law
 are both denounced in the Chicago plat 1 form"
 | The speaker said that our communi-
 ties everywhere rested upon the law and it's enforcement for their security,
 and that of all sections the south should | be more jealous to see that the power of the law was preserved, and Virginia especially, the state that gave to the | United States that great chief justice, Marshall. The speaker then declared l that Senator Daniel introduced and had ! passed a resolution Tn the senate in- dorsing the act of President Cleveland, and yet he had presided over a conven-  Continuing on this subject, General Harrison said: Have you ever heard anything from the candidate of the Chicago convention? Has he ever said in any speech he has made that If he should be chosen president he would execute the law as MT. Cleveland exc cuted it? He has not said it, but he has accepted every word and sentence of the Chicago platform, and is there fore in effect pledged that if mob should lift the red flag of anarchy and stay your mails he would not interfere until the governor of the state asked
 him to. Citizens of Virginia, whatever may have been your party affiliations, are you prepared for that?"
 The remainder of MT. Harrison s speech was devoted to the discussion of the financial question in it's various phases. General Harrison left tonight
 on the private car of MT. Ingalls,, pres ident of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail- way.