The herald., 1896-10-21
Put on the Stump in McKinley's
Interest
SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE
GatEer Around to Look and Also to
Listen
Relics Of Bygone Days Are Certain to
Attract Attention, Especially If the
Exhibition Is Free.

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| Associated Press Speca. Wire
| EVANSVILLE, ILL.,, Oct. 20.-General
Harrison arrived at Evansville at 8
o'clock, having made ten speeches dur
ing the day. Everywhere there were
| great crowds and everywhere great in
terest was manifested. At Worthing-
ton. he spoke for thirty minutes, confin-
| ing himself to discussion Of the silver
question.
At Edwardsport he spoke briefly At
Bushrod he addressed several hundred
miners who had gathered.
At Vincennes the silver question was
again the topic. Referring to Mr.. Bry-
ans declaration that we can have BIZ
metallism with free coinage, he said:
Il say We cannot. This government
is great and strong government, but it
cannot fix the value Of everything. If
you want to know what anything is
worth, you must go to the market to
find out. The statutes may declare that
bushel Of oats is of the same value as
bushel of wheat, but that does not
make 1t so''
He concluded as follows: I'VE must
stamp out with the votes Of million
people in Indiana and in the adjoining
states this heresy that is pressed upon
us now. What we want is to return to
the condition Of things we had when
we had a revenue bill that paid the ex-
penses of the government and did not
put us to the necessity Of selling bonds
! to pay them. We shall find prosperity
just where we lost it. You lost prosper
! ity when you inaugurated this Demo-
cratic policy and you must go back there
again and. my word for it, you will find
what you have lost"
The demonstration of the day was at
Princeton. Leaving the train. General
Harrison was escorted to the fair
grounds. where an immense crowd
awaited him. From the station to the
fair grounds the streets were filled with
people who cheered enthusiastically as
the distinguished visitor PASSED them.
A stand had been erected in frontier the
grand stand. facing the race track. The
grand stand and the space around the
speakers stand were filled with people.
General Harrison referred to his per-
sonal relation to the campaign and to
the fact that he spoke to them simply
as one citizen to another. He alluded to
| the fact that Bryan had attempted to
snow that he occupied a different posi-
tion now from that occupied by him
while president. on the silver question.
He quoted at some length from speeches
made by him in 1877 and 1873 and also
from his messages to congress,
"Mr. Bryan has stated" he said. chat
IN my messages I was speaking as a.
statesman and that in my present ut
terances 1 am speaking as a politician.
This was what I said to congress and to
the people Of the United States in 1889
MY voice then. speaking under the re-
| sponsibility Of a great public office. was
precisely what 1t Is today when speak
| to you as private citizen. There is one
aspect of this campaign of which
want to speak for a few moments. To
me 1t is of supreme Importance and in
terest. Because If we should be beguiled
into free silver and fall in the slough
of commercial panic, we would get out
of 1t after awhile. We would repent our
selves and deliver ourselves But there
Is another proposition involved in this
campaign, which, If we give our assent
to 1t, will injure the government not in
its statutes, which may be repealed by
the congress that follows, but in
| jure it in its great national powers. The
| Chicago convention declared that 1t de-
nounced the fed eral interference with
the affairs of the states. That is not a.
general proclamation. 1t had a par
ticular aim. 1t was directed to and at
| 70 IN iha
| 1t was meant to rebuke Mr.. Cleveland
for interfering in the Chicago riot to
open way for the United States mail
and for commerce between the states. 1t
was meant to declare that 1t was no
part of the business Of the national gov
| ernment to do that.
"Mr. Bryan endorses that platform.
| as he says he does, every syllable of II:
he declares that If in any of our great
states riot should break out and the
mail trains should be stopped and in
terstate commerce stopped he will not
| feel that he has the right or power as
president to open way for the mails of
| the United States and for restoring in
terstate commerce. He has virtually
said he would feel 1t his duty, if elected
president. and Governor Altgeld is elect
ed governor of Illinois (cries Of "Never,
| never" .")-No, 1t will never happen, but
I am only giving you another. reason
why 1t should not happen. If 1t should
happen Mr.. Bryan has put himself in
the attitude Of saying that If in any of
the states the processes Of the courts of
the United States should be denied by
mob and the trains should be stopped
| and interstate commerce interrupted
he would not feel he could interfere, as
president. to reinforce the United States
marshal, that he might execute his writs
or push out of the way the obstructions
| to the mails, but that he would feel IT
| his duty to go to Governor Alogeld and
ask him to do it.
Now, in the name of the dead of the
great war of the union, in the name Of
the living who fought with those who
gave their lives that the powers of this
national government might be main
tained, I protest against such doctrine.
I protest to the American people that a
man who says the United States has