The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
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MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE ADDRESSED.
The EX-Presideut Greeted by Nearl5
10000 Enthusiastic Hoosiers on
His Trip to Fort Wayne.
Money QuestiOn and the Law-NuIIify-
ing PIanIzs of Brynn's Platform
Presented with Great Force.
FEATURES OF THE MEETINGS
BIG DEMONSTR ATIGNS AT GREEN.
FIELD, KNIGHTsToNN. ANDERSON,
1uncie. Winchester. Portland. Deca
tur and Fort waNne-Debs Given
Severe Rebuff.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, Oct. 30.-General
Harrison passed through much more pop
ulous territory to-day than he did on his
southern tour, and, great as his crowds
were on that journey, they were largely
outnumbered to-day. Nearly $4,000 of the
people of Indiana turned out to him be-
fore he reached this city and the whole
population OF Fort Wayne, together with
other thousands who had come from other
points, crowded the streets here tonight
and cheered right Justify for the great son
of Indiana. The day was of tremen-
deus crowds, big demonstrations of patri
otic enthusiasm and telling speeches by the
man who above all others, has been able
to present the issues of this memorable
campaign in a way to bring the
truth home to mems bosoms and
stir their souls with de-
termination to save their country's credit,
to fight for their countrys honor and to
preserve their countrys free institutions
safe from the devastating hand of the
apostle of passion. jealousy and hate.
General Harrison talked in the Demo-
cratic hotbed of Hancock, Adams and AL
len, in the Republican strongholds of
Henry, Delaware and Randolph, and in the
usually close counties of Madison and Jay.
He talked to audiences composed largely of
farmers at Knightstown and Winchester to
great crowds OF wage earners at Anderson,
Muncie and Portland and to a cosmopolitan
audience at Fort Wayne, and everywhere
it was the same story of a speech so we'll
fitted to the character of the crowd that
he almost seemed personally ac-
quanted with his hearers, and which
elected the sort of spontaneous
applause that tells a speaker when
he has struck chord of intelligent
sympathy and thorough understanding.
Only a small percentage of the multitudes
that turned out to see and hear him were
able to get near enough to hear his voice,
but those who did hear We're busy an hour
afterwards telling their neighbors what he
had said. A conservative estimate of the
crowds along the line to-day is given;
Greenfield, 5000; Knightstown, 10000 An
derson, $4,000; Munce, 1900; Winchester
10000; Portland. 10000; Decatur, 1900; Fort
Wayne, 10000.
bleak wind from the East, with alter
mating dashes of cloud and sunshine was
the sort of weather put up for the north
ern journey of General Harrison to-day,
but if the atmosphere was a bit chilly the
warmth of the big crowds that made his
journey triumphal progress made up for
it right handsomely. General Harrison was
escorted from his home in Indianapolis by
the Mckinley Wheelmen and when they
reached Pennsylvania and Ohio streets the
uniformed division of the Marion Club fell
into line and marched to the station. There
the party boarded Pennsylvania special,
upon which the journey was made far
as Knightstown, where the train made up
of the private cars of r. B. F. Peirce was
found waiting, having run down by the Big
Four. A crowd of several hundred people
had gathered at the Union Station to see
the departure and there were loud cheers
as the train pulled out. General Harrison
was in excellent voice and the best of
spirits and ready for his big days work.