The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
CAMPAIGN FOR REPUBLICANS PRAC-
TICALLY CLOSED BY EXPIRES
IDENT HARRISON.
ALL MEETINGS In OPEN AIR.
NO HALLS couLD HAVE HELD THE
GREAT CROWDS THAT AS
SEMBLED.
TWELVE SPEECHES I'm THE STATE
In Addition There Were Litt1a
Talks at stations Not Down ON
the Regular Schedule.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. H.-Gen.
Harrison returned to his home In In
dianapolis this evening at O'Clock.
During the day he made twelve speech
es besides two or three little talks at
stations which were not on the sched-
ule. Every speech was made in the
open air. No hall in Indiana could
have held any one of the crowds that
gathered at these towns. The first stop
Of the afternoon was at Goshen, where
Gen. Harrison spoke from a stand on
the public square. He said, in part:
1t has done my soul good to see, upon this
trip, the magnificent interest and enthusiasm
of the Republicans of Northern Indiana. I
have never permitted myself to doubt since
the Chicago CONVENTION issued its pIatfcrm
and named its candidates that the Intelligence
patrlotlsm ana integrity Of our people would
reject the platform and reject the candidates
l have seen in the East during some weeks
sojourn there, almost the entire body of
leading Democrats, men who had conducted
the campaign OF the party, who had been its
ADVISERS turning away from the Chicago
platform and its candidates and declaring
that the platform did not enunciate Democratic
principles and that the candidates were not
well avouched Democrats. I saw the entire
great newspaper press of the East Demo-
cratic newspapers like Charles Dana's New
York Sun and the New Yorl, World and the
Times and all the leading Democratic news
papers of the East turing their backs on the
platform and the candidates. and declaring
that their success would be hostile to the
interest of the country. l saw the great
Democratic states of the East practically
abandoned by the Democracy, for New York
Connecticut and New Jersey will Just as
certainly vote for Mckinley as Massachusetts,
and by majorities that have never been known
in the history of those states
found that after two attempts on the part
OF Mr.. Bryan to call the Democracy to his
support in New York that only Tarnmany-
and Tammany only in part-seemed to be left
to rally around him. They seemed to have
concluded that the folks in the East are too
smart to be caught and they have since been
putting out traps i'm the West apparently
thinking our people, could be caught by these
heres1es which were so properly rejected by
Democrats in the East
l have great sympathy for an Indiana
Democrat. l always respected a Democrat
who held his convictions and his party allie
glance strongly and yet kindly. 1 always had
a measure OF respeet for a Democrat who
wanted to take things straight-his politics
and other things daughter and cheers)-and
| am sadly distressed for him this year in
Indiana, because while he can take the
other things straight he cannot take his pol
itics straight. Laughter and applause.) No
Democrat in Indiana can vote a straight
Democratic tickets-thea straightest one 1
know of is Palmer and Buckner--but the
other one, how have yeur trading managers
arranged that? You met in Democratic con-
cratic electors to support Bryan and Sewall
Your state committee, without authority of
any convention without your consent, has
pulled off FIVE Democratic electors and put
on five .Populists, so that IL you vote that
ticket this fall, your vote is fve-fifteenths
Populist and ,ten-hfteenths Democrat; that
is a mixed dring daughter and applause),
and there are great many straight-out
Democrats in Indiana. who don't like 1t and
won't drink IT.: they ARE not Populist they
are not fve-fifteenths Populists; they are
Democrats, and will. vote the party ticket
when the party gives them a party ticket,
but this one is mixed.
At Warsaw, Columbia City, North
Manchester and Wabash there were
great congregations; but the events
Of the day reached their climax at Ma
rion. 1t was 6 o'clock when the train
arrived at Marion. Gen. Harrison was
taken in a carriage through streets
filled with torchlight professions to
the public square, where he spoke from
a carriage which stood in the midst of
the vast throng which had gathered
to hear the ex-president. 1t was the
most enthusiastic audience of the trip.
Brief stops were made at Summitville
and Alexandria.