The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22
TWO BIG DAYS WORK
CLOSE OF GENERAL HARRIsON's
TOUR OF SOUTHERN INDIANA.
Eleven Addresses Made by the Ex-
President Yesterday to Crowds of
Farmers and Others.
$4,000 PEOPLE GREETED HIM
AND APPLAUDED HIS VIGOROUS RE-
PUBLICAN SPEECHES.
Monster Demonstration at New Al
bany, Where $4,000 People Sought
to Hear the General.
OVATIONS At OTHER TOWNS
0VATIONS At OTHER TOWNS
MULTiTUDES OF FARMERS AT SA-
LEM, ORLEANS AND BEDFORD,
And Good Crowds at Bloomington
Greencastle and EIsewhere-Text of
speeches and Features of Parades.

The second day of General Harrison's tour
of southern Indiana was, if possible, more
successful than the first. The weather was
of the finest that autumn produce, and
contributed not little to the bringing to-
gether of the enormous crowds that greeted
the ex-President. New Albany, Salem, Or
leans, Bedford, observation-disclosures of these
cities had ever seen such outpourings OF
people or such exhibitions of enthusiasm as
they experienced yesterday. With no big
city like Evansville along the line to swell
the total General Harrison was greeted
and seen yesterday by not less than 70, 200
people in the eleven speeches he made
though it impossible for half of them
to get near enough to hear word that he
said He reached home al 1880 last even
ing in excellent spirits, and his voice was
better in his last speech than in the first
he delivered Tuesday morning.
Several things have been demonstrated
by this southern tour. The first of those
is that General Harrison was never SO
strong in the hearts of the people of In
diana as he is to-day, when he is fighting
campaign in which he has no personal in
terest, and is contending for the integrity
the honor and the prosperity of his coun-
try. There has been as much of personal
tribute as of party enthusiasm in the ova-
t1OnS given MN. Ill mas been necessary at
almost every point where he left the train
to take extra precautions to protect him
from physical INJURY from the well-mean-
ing but thoughtless thousands who have
crowded upon him. eager to shake his hand,
to catch his smile or even to touch him.
People have swarmed about his car while
he was away from it, begging to be shown
the room in which he had slept the chair
in which he had sat, the table at which
he had eaten; and they have touched these
things reverently in order that they might
tell their children and in time their grand
children of the experience. Harrison huz-
Zas, Harrison badges and Harrison litho-
graphs have been features of the journey,
and thousands of Democrats have partici-
pated in the demonstrations on the ground
that now, since Harrison is out of politics,
they could afford to accord him the honor
due him as the most distinguished citizen
of their State.
Another thing demonstrated is the fact
that the farming population does not fight
shy of the word gold or of it's symbol
the yellow bunting. The big agricultural
parades glittered with yellow sashes, yell
low hats and yellow streamers. The girls
i'll the big floats were dressed largely in
yellow, the harness of the horses were
trimmed in yellow; yellow ribbons were
displayed on all sides and yellow was the
prevailing color in the decorations of the
small towns. Even the woodland all over
the State has taken on colors of bright gold
and red during these closing days of the
campaign.
And the most important point demon
strated is that the cause of sound money
and national honor and good government
is active, ready for the final contest
in the country a il is in the cities IF there
is any apathy among Republicans, if there
is any considerable straying away after
false theories of finance, if there is any
real danger to the cause for which the
party stands, it must be elsewhere than in
the counties through which this jour
ney was made, and yet the itinerary was
made up in the effort to reach those sec
tions in which the Popocrats are making
their loudeSt claims