The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
AT FORT WAYNE.
Mr.. Harrison Talks to the Largest
Audience of His Trim.

| Wayne. The Democrats had pre-empted
the rink for speech by Eugene Debs, but
the Republicans had secured the largest
tent III the outfit of Barnum e. Bailey, hold
ing 10000 people, and it was filled to its
capacity to hear Mr. Owen. AT night an
other tremendous parade was organized,
starting at O'Clock, and it was $50 before
. the last of it had passed the point of start
! ing. There were torches and red lights and
bands galore, and the streets were packed
with people. The Democrats also gave a
small parade to act escort to DebS.
The police had feared trouble, but there
were not enough Bryanites abroad to Gre
ate a disturbance. At o'clock the recep-
ton committee called on General Harrison
at his car and he escorted to the tent
by the big parade amid continuous cheer
ing along the packed streets. The tent was
jammed with people, and yet not one-third
of those seeking admittance could get in.
The Generals Address.
General Harrison was given an ovation
upon his appearance that lasted five min
utes. He spoke follows:
MY Fellow citizens:-There is some mis-
take here tonight | had not intended to
speak at Fort Wayne. / was going TO rest
tonight TO prepare myself for an arduous
trip tomorrow, but upon urgent request of
some Fort Wayne friends l said l would
stop for few minutes and speak to the
people from the rear h o. my e car m ieP
gather there to hear me, but it was not in
my contemplation that | should be
t to the 'p greatest It audience f l think
J. have ever seen under cover. tApplause)
few, years ago when was speaking
throughout the State | spoke in the
Princess Rink in Fort Wayne. Our Demo-
cratic friends had chartered it for the sea-
son and they declined to let us use it UNI
less we would allow all their banners and
tranSparencies to be seen. ! remember one
of them in which they pledged Old Allen
for 4.5O0 majority for the Democratic ticket.
That transparency is out of date. Cap
plause.) If all these good people that have
been cheering Mckinley and that
sembled here tonight intend to vote the
Republican ticket, 1t will be 1000 for Nc
kinley. APPLAUSE But ! fancy that we
believe that it is within the range of pos
sibilities if every man who believes In his
country and believes in sound money in
Allen county does the best he can that we
shall carry Allen county for Mckinley for
Mckinley and Hobart. Why should we not,
my friends? The Democratic party has left
the old landmarks, has deserted the old
party paths. has cast off its old and hon
ored party leaders, and why should Demo-
Gratis support the ticket and platform that
is presented to them? Allen county has
been rather celebrated for taking its De-
straight daughter and cheers) but there is
no opportunity given to a Democrat to take
made up electoral ticket composed OF
five PopulistS and ten Democrats. You
nominated at your state convention Il reg
ular and full electoral ticket composed OF
the names of fifteen Democrats and those
electors were pledged to vote for Bryan
and Sewall and | suppose that is the Demo-
crat ticket. But since your State conven-
ton nominated these fifteen Democrat cleo
tors your State committee without anv au-
thority from the party, has pulled off five
Democrats from that electoral ticket and
has substituted five Populists, SO that if
the head of it this fall you will vote ten
hfteenths Democrat and five ffteenths
populist. You cannot vote the straight
ticket and seeing that you are in the habit
of taking things straight. I invite you to
vote the only straight ticket in the field
Mckinley and Hobart. (Applause.) Not only
have the Democrat managers thus surren-
dered the party to Populsm but they have
deserted the principles for which Democrats
contended four years ago.
Then on the money question you said
that you were in favor of free coinage.
preserve the intrinsic equality of the gold
ana OF the silver dollar. Sixteen 20 one
you sald then If that cannot be done, we
must have an agreement with the Euro
pean nations so that the parity between
the gold and the silver dollar shall be
maintained, or, if we cannot get that then
by our own legislation we must secure the
parity of the gold and the silver dollar.
land four years ago, You cheered for him;
of Indiana. told you that that was Demo
cratic doctrine You said further in that
PLATFORM that a deprecated dollar was a
and, above all other men, that it injured
and cheated the farmer and the laboring
man. You said It was essential in sound
finance that the equality of all our money
paper and coin--should be preserved -Four
Years ago you cheered for that doctrine
you voted for it. you elected men pledged
to maintain it, and this year under fhe
leadership of the Populistic element that
has possessed and captured the Democratic
party, you are asked to vote that 10 seek
an international agreement is "a lack of
PATRIOTISM; that 1t is un-American: that
n Emo
asking her consent. and that that prOnosi
ton is to be despised and rejected And
platform not only so. but you said that the
INTRINSIC parity of these coins was neces-
farthing whether the silver dollar is worth
as much as the gold dollar-indeed YOU
prefer not to have it so.
THE CHEAP DOLLAR.
You are advocating a 5O-cent dollar
Your leaders ask you to advocate a 5O-cent
dollar They ask you not to support it
by any legislation, by an international
agreement, but to send this 5o-cent dollar
out among the people to do it's work of
commercial disruption and of individual
fraud. So say to my Democratic friends
for L call them such--I have always re-
spected every mans political opinions and
/ have never had words of abuse or
contumely for man who differs from me
In politics. say to you tonight that upon
10 abandon, not only the views of JEFF
ferson and Jackson and Benton the old
ume leaders of the party, but you are
asked TO abandon the very platform upon
which you won four years ago. / do moi
beleve this invitation will be accepted by
the Democratic party of Indiana j do noe
belleVe they are prepared to east off the
instructions of three historical leaders and
TO cast off their greatest leaders of the
time and give their allegiance and their
rain entirely to the financial theories of
the Sentlman from Nebraska. who is read
lis OUT OF the party, or is threatening with
prescription IN the party, every Democrat
VINO uaFes TO vote against him. and yet. of
WhoIn IL Is currently believed that he voted
the fopuHSt ucket four years ago. [ want
70 give you little bit of prophecy: | pre-
dict that the Democrats who stand by the
old Things and the old leaders and re-
fuse to follow this new movement will
reorganize the Democratic party two years
from now and be its leaders. You are
asked not only to substitute an unsound
financial policy. to pay the public obliga-
tons OF the Nation in Il deprecated curren-
cX. to put II in the power-yes, to compel
men to pay their obligations in deprecated
money. to cut the soldiers pension i'm two
~ paying him 50-ceut dollar, to cut the
wage scale in two by paying II 50-cent dol
ar to the workingman instead of the full
aiue dollar he is receiving to-day but
nois, in support of a doctrine which he
octrine that WAS not Jacksons doctrine
namely. that the government of the United