The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22
HARRISON SPEAKS IN LYONS.
OPERA HOUSE NOT BIG ENOUGH
TO HOLD THE CROWD
He Pays His Respects 10 the Beneficiary
OF the Highway Manual Graft. state
Committeeman Belts, and Gives
Proof OF FurnaccSiIIe Canal steal.


LYONS. n. w. Oct. 2l--Francis Burton
Harrison, candidate for Lieutenant Cover
nor, closed his second campaign trip up
State tonight by addressing the fellow
citizens OF Charles Highwayman Belts.
No meeting Of any of his trips has been
more full OF the righteous anti-Odell wrath
which he has found all through the State.
Special trains over the West Shore and
New York Central railroads brought dele
cations and bands from both ends OF Wayne
county. The Memorial Hall, which has a
seating capacity Of 900, was not half large
enough to hold the crowd that fairly fought
for admission as soon as the doors
opened
During the afternoon Mr.. Harrison visited
the beet sugar factory near here. He met
the workmen, who are most OF them Demo-
Gratis. and urged them to work for their
candidates with all confidence OF victory.
Charles p. Williams presided at to-nights
meeting. Mr.. Harrison spoke substan-
TALLY as follows:
II is "A very great privilege for me to have
an opportunity Of meeting the Democrats OF
OF visiting two of the historic scenes in the
development Of Republican graft,that Is to
now in control OF that party in this, State.
This morning. on our way here from Medina.
we stopped at Albion. made memorable by
fraud.
This evening we visit the hannts Of that
man and author Charles Highway Manual
Belts. You need little instruction on the
present issue in this state. on the issue of this
campaign. with such striking sample Of il
constantly before your eyes. 1t pleased me
z, great deal on my arrival here to find that
Mr.. Belts. in his newspaper. has challenged
disrNSa the morality OF the HIGHWAY
Manual Venture with The Highway Manuel
will. | think. satisfy any warnings for such
discussion which may be lurking in the
breast OF MIR Belts
The statesman and author goes further.
He dares mo to talk about the benefits which
he alleges are conferred upon Il his community
BY indirect taxation would beg to remind
him. as do not need to remind this audience,
that the principles of indirect taxation were
5st put into prnStGe IN this state n f,G the
Mr. Belts. Democrats The Republica party
took up, these conservative BEGINNINGS and
whore the indirect taxes fall upon the widows
and the orphans in the form OF taxes on saw
and by laying all possible burdens upon those
members of the community designated by
Mr.; Belts as rumselers.
"a truly as they formerly paid the direct
taxes but nayns it. as they DO IN IN the form
constantly conscious of the drain on their
pocketbooks. And right there as has been
pointed out. lies the great danger OF rt M
to the extremes which arc 50 eulogz ed by
my friend the, statesman and author;
The people do not watch so ieal ously over
the expenditures Of money which il taken
from them in the heightened cost of living
dTsS do their
into the state treasury. IL follows that the
plan of indirect taxation Is one extremely
makes smooth the way for all sorts of ey-
travagances in State and nation. II not for
The claim made by Mr. Belts on behalf
Of the indirect system is about as ingenious
as the title of his celebrated bill. entitled
trbution Of Highway Manuals without ex-
SsTy glad that Rs, an not ssed to make Ike
str,Iments which could stand the strain.
Mr.. Harrison pointed out the extrava-
gance in the customs service, under which
Collectors at various points receive salaries
of from $500 to 81 200 year as results of the
carelessness with which indirectly collected
money was spent From such extrava-
gances as these, he said, the record went on
into the realms of post Office and other
department corruption, There are plenty
Of examples in the State He continued:
As have told you, it was my privilege
to-day to visit the site of the famous Furnace
vile Iron contract. wanted 10 see, for
myself the excavated dirt which We have
was "unreaiized profits" rock and hard
pan" II the matter had not been one of
experience would have been laughahle. We
approached a narrom field OF corn grow
ing on a mound beside the banks Of the canal
The sere yellow leaves were rustlinE in the
autumn wind, but the roots were growing in
the rock" for which the furnaceville Iron
odell's Canal Board, Of which his candidate
for Governor. Mr.. Higgins. was "A member,
haze Hpl nj rIllt
this summer on the surface that the Furnace
vile people CHARGED as rock Their shame
plough" the stun. but the honest farmer
who il now about to garner that corn had no
difficulty in poughing it.
| am farmer. but, believe me. know enough
about farming TO know that corn cannot be-
geology to know that the stun which was
scooped up In our hands from that pile is not
rock.
deposit Of this fraudulent 'rock" had great
holes scooped out of il by farmers who
for their fields because the earth is filed with
fine shells, which have most beneficial eject
NV friends. how outrageous it is that the
representatives. of n great party should dare
to 20 upon the stump to defend this iniauity.
How, dangerous to our judiciary is il that
within seven DAYS after issuing n statement
calculated only to confuse the minds of the
voters on this issue "A Justice Of the supreme
Court OF the S'hte OF New YORK should be
designated by Coy Odell TO sit in the. APP
pellnte Division. First Department, with an
Increase OF salary Of over slo,oo0.
Mr.. Harrison also rehearsed the Black
River Canal graft and the Grannis- o. Connor
contract graft AT some length. He then
returned TO the discussion of national
issues
John y. Carlisle. rejoicing. he said that
he was not circumscrbed 10y the limitations
of language which hem in candidate
nffpr Mr. RnttS with "a Climb The
approval of Mr. Harrison, went into deliri-
Gus Joy over Mr.. Carlisle's characterization
OF Belts. Origen II. Seymour and others
also spoke,