Chapter VIII: Part 8

The third delegation comprised 1,200 voters from Jay County, Indiana, led by Gen. N. Shepherd, Theodore Bailey, Richard A. Green, John Geiger, E. J. Marsh, Frank H. Snyder, and M. V. Moudy, of Portland. Jesse M. La Follette was their speaker.

To these several addresses General Harrison, in response, said:

_My Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana Friends_--These cordial
manifestations of your personal regard move me very deeply [applause],
but I do not at all appropriate to myself the great expressions of
popular interest of which this meeting is only one. I understand
that my relation to these public questions and to the people is a
representative one--that the interest which thus expresses itself is
in principles of government rather than in men. [Cheers.] I am one
of the oldest Republicans; my first presidential vote was given to
the first Republican candidate for that office [applause], and it has
always been a source of profound gratification to me that, in peace
and war, a high spirit of patriotism and devotion to our country has
always pervaded and dominated the party. [Cheers.] When, during the
Civil War, the clouds hung low, disasters thickened, and the future
was crowded with uncanny fears, never did any Republican convention
assemble without declaring its faith in the ultimate triumph of our
cause [great cheering]; and now, with a broad patriotism that embraces
and regards the interests of all the States, it advocates policies
that will develop and unite all our communities in the friendly and
profitable interchange of commerce as well as in a lasting political
union. [Applause.] These great Western States will not respond to
the attempt to excite prejudice against New England. We advocate
measures that are as broad as our national domain; that are calculated
to distil their equal blessing upon all the land. [Cheers.] The
people of the great West recognize and value the great contribution
which those commonwealths about Plymouth Rock have made to the
civilization, material growth, and manhood of our Western States.
[Cheers.] We are not envious of the prosperity of New England; we
rejoice in it. We believe that the protective policy developed her
great manufacturing institutions and made her rich, and we do not
doubt that a continuance of that policy will produce the same results
in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. [Cheers.] We are not content to remain
wholly agricultural States in our relations to either New England or
old England. [Applause.] We believe that in all these great Western
States there are minerals in the soil and energy and skill in the
brains and arms of our people that will yet so multiply and develop
our manufacturing industries as to give us a nearer home market for
much of the products of our soil. [Cheers.] And for that great surplus
which now and always, perhaps, we shall not consume at home we think
a New England market better than a foreign market. [Enthusiastic and
prolonged cheering.] The issue upon this great industrial question
is drawn as sharply as the lines were ever drawn between contending
armies. Men are readjusting their party relations upon this great
question. The appeal that is now made for the defence of our American
system is finding its response, and many of those who are opposed to
us upon other questions are committing such questions to the future
for settlement, while they help us to settle now and for an indefinite
future the great question of the preservation of our commercial
independence. [Applause.] The Democratic party has challenged our
protected industries to a fight of extermination. The wage-earners of
our country have accepted the challenge. The issue of the contest will
settle for many years our tariff policy. [Prolonged cheering.] The
eloquent descriptions to which we have listened of the material wealth
of the great State of Michigan have been full of interest to us as
citizens of Indiana. We cannot doubt that the people of a State having
such generous invitations to the developments of great home wealth in
manufacturing and mining pursuits will understand the issue that is
presented, and will cast their influence in favor of that policy which
will make that development rapid and sure; and more than all, and
better than all, will maintain in her communities a well-paid class
of wage-workers. [Cheers.] Our wage-workers vote; they are American
citizens, and it is essential that they be kept free from the slavery
of want and the discontents bred of injustice. [Applause.]

I thank my Michigan friends for these handsome specimens of the
products of their mines and of their mills. I shall cherish them with
grateful recollection of this pleasant visit. [Applause.]

To my Indiana friends, always generous, I return my thanks for this
new evidence of their esteem. [Cheers.]

To my Ohio friends, who so often before have visited me with kind
expressions of their regard, I return the thanks of a native-born
Ohioan. [Prolonged cheers from the Ohio delegation.]

Three great States are grouped here to-day. I remember at Resaca,
when the field and staff of the regiments that were to make the
assault were ordered to dismount, there was a Michigan officer too
sick to go on foot and too proud to subject himself to the imputation
of cowardice by staying behind.

He rode alone, the one horseman in that desperate charge, and
died on that bloody hillside rather than subject his State to the
imputation that one of her sons had lingered when the enemy was to be
engaged. He was a noble type of the brave men these great States gave
to the country. [Cheers.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 5.

Wisconsin and Indiana were the States represented at this day's reception. The Wisconsin visitors came from Madison, Janesville, and Beloit. Prominent among them were General Atwood, editor Wisconsin _State Journal_, Surgeon-General Palmer, W. T. Van Kirk, and T. G. Maudt. R. C. Spooner spoke for the Badgers.

Fountain County, Indiana, sent 2,000 visitors, led by a club of Tippecanoe veterans. Among their representative men were H. La Tourette, W. W. Layton, John H. Spence, of Covington; A. H. Clark, and W. H. Malory, of Veedersburg; A. S. Peacock, H. C. Martin, and C. E. Holm, of Attica. Capt. Benj. Hegeler, of Attica, delivered the address on behalf of the Hoosiers.

General Harrison responded as follows:

_My Wisconsin and my Indiana Friends_--These great daily
manifestations of the interest of great masses of our people in the
principles represented by the Republican party are to me increasingly
impressive. I am glad to-day that Indiana has opportunity to welcome
a delegation from the magnificent State of Wisconsin. [Cheers.] It
offers a fitting opportunity to acknowledge my personal obligation and
the obligation of the Indiana Republicans for the early and constant
support which Wisconsin gave to the efforts of the Indiana delegation
in the Chicago convention. [Prolonged cheers.] To-day two States, not
contiguous in territory, but touching in many interests, are met to
express the fact that these great electoral contests affect all our
people. It is not alone in the choice of Presidential electors that
we have common interests. Our national Congress, though chosen in
separate districts, legislates for all our people. Wisconsin has a
direct interest that the ballot shall be free and pure in Indiana, and
Wisconsin and Indiana have a direct interest that the ballot shall be
free and pure in all the States. [Great cheering.] Therefore let no
man say that it is none of our business how elections are conducted in
other States. [Cheers.] I believe that this great question of a free
ballot, so much disturbed by race questions in the South, would be
settled this year if the men of the South who believe with us upon the
great question of the protection of American industries would throw
off old prejudices and vote their convictions upon that question.
[Cheers and cries of "Good! Good!"] I believe there are indications
that the independent manhood of the South will this year strongly
manifest itself in this direction. Those intelligent and progressive
citizens of the South who are seeking to build up within their own
States diversified industries will not much longer be kept in bondage
to the traditions of the days when the South was wholly a community of
planters.

When they assert their belief in a protective tariff, by supporting
the only party that advocates that policy, the question of a free
ballot, so far as it is a Southern question, will be settled forever,
for they will have the power to insist that those who believe with
them shall vote, and that their votes shall be counted. [Applause.]
The protective policy, by developing a home supply and limiting
importations, helps us to maintain the balance of trade upon our side
in our dealings with the world. [Cheers.] Under the tariff of 1846
from the year 1850 to 1860 the balance of trade was continuously
against us, aggregating in that period over three hundred millions
of dollars. Under the influence of a protective tariff the balance
of trade has been generally and largely with us, unless disturbed
by special conditions. Instead of sending our gold abroad to pay a
foreign balance we have usually been bringing foreign gold here to
augment our store. [Cheers.] I will not detain you further. These
daily demands upon me make it necessary that I shall speak briefly.
Let me thank most profoundly those gentlemen and ladies from Wisconsin
who have come so far to bring me this tribute of their respect. I very
highly value it. These, my Indiana friends, unite with me in thanking
you for your presence to-day. [Cheers from the Indianians.] To my
nearer friends, my Fountain County friends, let me say I am profoundly
grateful to you for this large and imposing demonstration and for the
interest you are individually taking in this campaign. [Cheers.] I
do not think of it as a personal campaign. It has always seemed to
me to be altogether greater than that, and when I thank you for your
interest and commend your zeal it is an interest in principles and a
zeal for the truth that I approve. [Cheers.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 6.

Saturday, October 6, was one of the great days of the campaign. The first delegation, numbering 2,000, came from Wells and Blackford counties, Indiana. Conspicuous in their ranks were two large uniformed clubs of ladies, one from Montpelier, and the Carrie Harrison Club of Bluffton. In the Wells County contingent were many 1840 veterans and 21 newly-converted Democrats. Their leaders were Asbury Duglay, D. H. Swaim, B. W. Bowman, Peter Ulmer, Silas Wisner, Joseph Milholland, J. C. Hatfield, and T. A. Doan. J. J. Todd was their spokesman. Prominent in the Blackford delegation were Frank Geisler, H. M. Campbell, W. L. Ritter, Eli Hamilton, R. V. Ervin, W. A. Williams, John Sipe, and John Cantwell, of Hartford City; J. C. Summerville, Wm. Pugh, J. H. Morrical, G. A. Mason, John G. Ward, and J. M. Tinsley, of Montpelier. Hon. B. G. Shinn delivered the address on behalf of the Blackford people.

General Harrison confined his speech to State questions. He said:

_My Wells and Blackford County Friends_--I am glad to meet you.
It is extremely gratifying to be assured by your presence here
this inclement day, and by the kind words which you have addressed
to me through your representatives, that I have some part in your
friendly regard as an individual. But individuals are not of the
first importance. That man who thinks that the prosperity of this
country or the right administration of its affairs is wholly dependent
upon him grossly exaggerates his value. The essential things to us
are the principles of government upon which our institutions were
builded, and by and through which we make that symmetrical and safe
growth which has characterized our Nation in the past, and which is
yet to raise it to a higher place among the nations of the earth.
[Applause.] We are Indianians--Hoosiers, if you please [cheers]--and
are proud of the State of which we are citizens. Your spokesmen have
referred with an honest pride to the counties from which you have
come, and that is well. But I would like to suggest to you that
every political community and neighborhood has a character of its
own, a moral character, as well as every man and every woman, and it
is exceedingly important, looked at even from the side of material
advantage, that our communities should maintain a good reputation
for social order, intelligence, virtue, and a faithful and willing
obedience to law. [Applause.] It cannot be doubted that such a
character possessed by any State or county attracts immigration and
capital, advances its material development, and enhances the value
of its farms. There has been much in the history of Indiana that is
exceedingly creditable. There have been some things--there are some
things to-day--that are exceedingly discreditable to us as a political
community; things that I believe retard the advancement of our State
and affect its material prosperity by degrading it in the estimation
of right-thinking men. One of those things is this patent and open
fact: that the great benevolent institutions of this State, instead
of being operated upon the high plane that public charities should
occupy, are being operated and managed upon the lowest plane of party
purposes and advantage. [Cries of "That's so!"] Another such thing is
of recent occurrence. In the campaign of 1886, after advising with
the chief law officer of the State, a Democratic Governor declared
to the people of this State that there was a vacancy in the office
of Lieutenant-Governor which the people were entitled to fill at the
ensuing general election. The Democratic party acted upon that advice,
assembled in convention in this hall, and nominated John C. Nelson
for Lieutenant-Governor. The Republican party followed with their
convention, and placed in nomination that gallant soldier, Robert S.
Robertson. [Cheers.] These two gentlemen went before the people of
Indiana and made a public canvass for the office. The election was
held, and Colonel Robertson was chosen by a majority of about 3,000.
[Applause.] Is there a man in the State, Democratic or Republican,
who doubts that if the choice had been otherwise, and Mr. Nelson
had received a majority at the polls, the House of Representatives,
which was Republican, would have met with the Democratic Senate in an
orderly joint meeting, for canvassing the votes, and that Mr. Nelson
would have been inaugurated as Lieutenant-Governor? [Cries of "No,
no!"] But the result was otherwise; and the public fame, the good
reputation of this State, was dishonored when, by force and brutal
methods, the voice of the people was stifled, and the man they had
chosen was excluded from the right to exercise the duties of the
office of Lieutenant-Governor. [Cries of "Yes, yes!"] Do the people
think that the attractiveness of Indiana as a home for Americans who
believe in social order and popular government has been increased
by this violent and disgraceful incident? Do our Democratic friends
who have an honest State pride, who would like to maintain the honor
and good reputation of the State, who would have the people of our
sister States believe that we have a people who believe in a warm
canvass but in a free ballot, and a manly and ready acquiescence in
election results, intend to support their leaders in this violent
exclusion from office of a duly chosen public officer? Do those
who are Democrats from principle, and not for personal spoils,
intend to support the men who have first prostituted our benevolent
institutions to party and now to personal advantage? These things, if
not reproved and corrected by our people, will not only disgrace us in
the estimation of all good people, but will substantially retard the
material development of the State. [Cheers.] I am not talking to-day
of questions in which I have any other interest than that you have,
my fellow-citizens. [Applause.] I believe the material prosperity of
Indiana, much more the honor, will be advanced if her people in this
State election shall rebuke the shameless election frauds that have
recently scandalized our State, the prostitution of our benevolent
institutions, and the wanton violence that overturned the result of
the popular election in 1886. [Great cheering.]

THE CHICAGO VETERANS.

The great event of the day was the reception tendered the veterans and citizens from Chicago, Hyde Park, Pullman, South Chicago, and the town of Lake. They numbered over 3,000, and arrived in the evening, after stopping _en route_ at Danville, Ill., and Crawfordsville, Ind., to participate in demonstrations. The Chicago contingent comprised 800 members of the Union Veteran Club, commanded by its President, Capt. John J. Healy; 600 members of the Veteran Union League, led by Capt. James J. Healy; the Blaine Club, Second Regiment Band, and many smaller clubs. Leaders in the delegation were Major McCarty, Col. Dan. W. Munn, Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., S. W. King, Charles H. Hann, and others. Hyde Park sent several hundred rolling-mill men; the city of Pullman 200 car-builders; the town of Lake--"the largest village in the world"--was represented by a flambeau club, the Lake View Screw Club, and numerous other organizations. Their leading representatives were Col. J. Hodgkins, Judge C. M. Hawley, Hon. John E. Cowells, Hon. B. E. Hoppin, Geo. C. Ingham, Judge Freen, Hon. L. D. Condee, Joseph Hardacre, Edward Maher, M. J. McGrath, A. G. Proctor, Frank I. Bennett, and Col. Foster.

The visitors were met by about 10,000 citizens and escorted to Tomlinson Hall. When General Harrison appeared, accompanied by Judge E. B. Martindale, Chairman of the Reception Committee, there ensued a scene never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. The 6,000 people present arose to their chairs, surrounding the visiting veterans, all frantically waving flags and banners. The demonstration continued without abatement for ten minutes. General Harrison stood as if dazed by the spectacle. Finally ex-Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, secured quiet, and on behalf of the veterans addressed the gathering, followed by Judge E. W. Keightly on behalf of the Hyde Park visitors.

General Harrison's response was by many regarded as his greatest speech of the campaign. He said:

_Comrades and Friends_--It is a rare sight, and it is one very
full of interest to us as citizens of Indiana, to see this great
hall filled with the people of another State, come to evidence their
interest in great principles of government. [Cheers.] I welcome
to-night for myself and for our people this magnificent delegation
from Chicago and Hyde Park. [Cheers.] We have not before in the
procession of these great delegations seen its equal in numbers,
enthusiasm, and cordiality. I thank you profoundly for whatever of
personal respect there is in this demonstration [cheers]; but above
all, as an American citizen, I rejoice in this convincing proof that
our people realize the gravity and urgency of the issues involved in
this campaign. [Cheers.] I am glad to know that this interest pervades
all classes of our people. [Cheers.] This delegation, composed of the
business men of Chicago and of the men who wield the hammer in the
shops, shows a common interest in the right decision of these great
questions. [Great cheers.]

Our Government is not a government by classes or for classes of
our fellow-citizens. [Cheers.] It is a government of the people and
by the people. [Renewed cheering.] Its wise legislation distills its
equal blessings upon the homes of the rich and the poor. [Cheers.] I
am especially glad that these skilled, intelligent workmen coming out
of your great workshops have manifested, by their coming, to their
fellow-workmen throughout the country their appreciation of what is
involved for them in this campaign. [Prolonged cheers.]

May that God who has so long blessed us as a Nation long defer that
evil day when penury shall be a constant guest in the homes of our
working people, and long preserve to us that intelligent, thrifty
and cheerful body of workmen that was our strength in war and is our
guaranty of social order in time of peace! [Great cheering.] Comrades
of the Civil War, it was true of the great Union army, as it is said
to be of the kingdom of heaven--not many rich. [Cheers.] It was out of
the homes of our working people the great army came. It was the strong
arm inured to labor on the farm or in the shop that bore up the flag
in the smoke of battle, carried it through storms of shell and shot,
and lifted it again in honor over our national Capital. [Prolonged
cheers.]

After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of
abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff,
we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of
protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we
not had enough of such experiments? Does not the history of our tariff
legislation tell us that every revenue tariff has been followed by
business and industrial crashes, and that a return to the policy
of protection has stimulated our industries and set our throbbing
workshops again in motion? [Cheers.] And yet, again and again, the
Democratic party comes forward with this pernicious proposition--for
it has been from that party always that the proposition to abandon our
protective policy and to substitute a revenue tariff has come. [Cries
of "That's so!"]

I had placed in my hands yesterday a copy of the London News for
September 13. The editor says in substance that, judging the purposes
of the Democratic party by the executive message of last December,
the English people were justified in believing that party meant free
trade; but if they were to accept the more recent utterances of its
leader, protesting that that was not their purpose, then the editor
thus states the issue presented by the Democratic party. I read but
a single sentence: "It is, at any rate, a contest between protection
and something that is not protection." [Prolonged and wild cheering.]
It is not of the smallest interest to you what that other thing is.
[Continued cheering.] It is enough to know that it is not protection.
[Renewed cheering.] Those who defend the present Democratic policy
declare that our people not only pay the tariff duty upon all imported
goods, but that a corresponding amount is added to the price of every
domestic competing article. That for every dollar that is paid into
the Treasury in the form of a customs duty the people pay several
dollars more in the enhanced cost of the domestic competing article.
Those who honestly hold such doctrines cannot stop short of the
absolute destruction of our protective system. [Cries of "No, no!"]
The man who preaches such doctrines and denies that he is on the road
to free trade is like the man who takes passage on a train scheduled
from here to Cincinnati without a stop, and when the train is speeding
on its way at the rate of forty miles an hour, denies that he is going
to Cincinnati. [Great laughter and cheering.] The impulse of such
logic draws toward free trade as surely and swiftly as that engine
pulls the train to its appointed destination. It inevitably brings us
to the English rule of levying duties only upon such articles as we do
not produce at home, such as tea and coffee. That is purely revenue
tariff, and is practically free trade.

Against this the Republican party proposes that our tariff duty
shall be of an intelligent purpose, be levied chiefly upon competing
articles. [Cheers.] That our American workmen shall have the benefit
of discriminating duties upon the products of their labor. [Cheers.]
The Democratic policy increases importation, and, by so much,
diminishes the work to be done in America. It transfers work from the
shops of South Chicago to Birmingham. [Cries of "Right you are!"]
For, if a certain amount of any manufactured article is necessary for
a year's supply to our people, and we increase the amount that is
brought from abroad, by just so much we diminish the amount that is
made at home, and in just that proportion we throw out of employment
the men that are working here. And not only so, but when this equal
competition is established between our shops and the foreign shops,
there is not a man here who does not know that the only condition
under which the American shop can run at all is that it shall reduce
the wages of its employees to the level of the wages paid in the
competing shops abroad. [Cheers.] This is, briefly, the whole story.
I believe we should look after and protect our American workingmen;
therefore I am a Republican. [Renewed enthusiastic cheering.]

But I will not detain you longer. [Cries of "Go on!"] You must
excuse me; I have been going on for three months. [A voice, "And
you'll go on for four years!"] I am somewhat under restraint in what I
can say, and others here are somewhat under restraint as to what they
can appropriately say in my presence. I beg you therefore to allow me,
after thanking you again for your kindness, to retire that others who
are here may address you. [Great cheering.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 11.

In point of numbers the greatest day of the Indiana campaign was Thursday, October 11, when over 50,000 visitors arrived from all points in Indiana and along the border counties of Ohio to participate in the greeting to the Hon. James G. Blaine, who was the guest of General Harrison.

From the balcony of the New-Denison Hotel General and Mrs. Harrison, accompanied by Mr. Blaine, Gen. Adam King, of Baltimore; Col. A. L. Snowden and Gen. D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania; Col. M. J. Murray, of Massachusetts; Gen. W. C. Plummer, of Dakota; Corporal James Tanner, of New York; ex-Senator Ferry, of Michigan; Hon. R. W. Thompson, ex-Governor A. G. Porter, Hon. J. N. Huston, Gen. A. P. Hovey, and Ira J. Chase, reviewed probably the greatest political parade ever witnessed in this country outside of the city of New York. Twenty-five thousand men constituted the marching column, in nine great divisions, commanded by Col. Charles S. Millard, Chief Marshal, with Gen. James S. Carnahan, Chief of Staff, and 200 aids. The division commanders and principal aids were:

First Division, Gen. N. R. Ruckle, of Indianapolis. Chief of Staff, Charles J. Many, of Indianapolis.

Second Division, Capt. H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. Chief of Staff, Major J. M. Watt, of Delphi.

Third Division, John W. Lovett, of Anderson. Chief of Staff, Col. George Parker.

Fourth Division, Gen. Tom Bennett, of Richmond. Chief of Staff, Capt. Ira B. Myers, of Peru.

Fifth Division, Col. T. C. Burnside, of Liberty. Chief of Staff, J. W. Ream, of Muncie.

Sixth Division, Col. J. M. Story, of Franklin. Chief of Staff, Capt. David Wilson, of Martinsville.

Seventh Division, Col. W. R. McClellen, of Danville. Chief of Staff, Capt. W. H. Armstrong, of Terre Haute.

Eighth Division, Capt. T. H. B. McCain, of Crawfordsville. Chief of Staff, Edward Watson, of Brazil.

Ninth Division, Capt. J. O. Pedigo, of Lebanon. Chief of Staff, C. C. Shirley, of Kokomo.

Mr. Blaine visited the Exposition grounds in the afternoon, where Major W. H. Calkins introduced him to an audience of about 30,000, to whom he addressed a few words. At night Mr. Blaine delivered one of his masterly speeches at Tomlinson Hall to an audience of 6,000. At the close of the Blaine meeting General Harrison received a delegation from Cincinnati, consisting of A. B. Horton, H. D. Emerson, Wm. Fredberger, James A. Graff, H. R. Probasco, Dr. M. T. Carey, Abram Myer, Fred Pryor, and Walter Hartpense, who called to invite him to attend the Cincinnati Exposition on "Republican Day." A St. Louis delegation, members of the Loyal Legion, also paid their respects. Among them were Col. R. C. Kerens, Col. Nelson Cole, Col. J. S. Butler, Major W. R. Hodges, Captain Gleason, G. B. Adams, H. L. Morrill, C. H. Sampson, and W. B. Gates.

On October 18 a party of distinguished railroad magnates visited General Harrison. They were Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, J. D. Layng, H. W. Webb, Sam'l Barton, Seward C. Webb, and C. F. Cox, of New York; J. De Koven, of Chicago; S. M. Beach, of Cleveland, and J. Q. Van Winkle, of St. Louis.

On October 19 General Harrison received informally 150 survivors of the Eleventh Indiana Regiment, headed by their first colonel, Gen. Lew Wallace, and General McGinnis.

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 13.

Two large and influential organizations visited General Harrison on October 13. From Milwaukee came 400 members of the Young Men's Republican Club--Paul D. Carpenter, President; George Russell, Secretary. Among other prominent members were Samuel Chandler, who organized the pilgrimage, and Walter W. Pollock. President Carpenter--son of the late Senator Matt Carpenter--and C. S. Otjen, a wage-worker, were spokesmen for the club.

The second and largest delegation was the Chicago German-American Republican Club--Franz Amberg, President; F. J. Buswick, Secretary. Accompanying them was the Excelsior Band and sixteen voices from the Orpheus Maennerchor Society of Chicago. Among the widely known members with the club were Hon. Chris. Mamer, Louis Huck, Peter Hand, Edward Bert, Peter Mahr, Henry Wulf, City Treasurer Plantz, N. F. Plotke, and Alderman Tiedemann. As General Harrison entered the hall the reception exercises were opened by the Maennerchor Society with the inspiring hymn--"This is the Lord's own day." Addresses on behalf of the visitors were made by Hon. Wm. Vocke, Henry Greenbaum, and Andrew Soehngen; also, General Fred Knefler for the German Republicans of Indiana, and Hon A. B. Ward, of Dakota.

General Harrison, responding to both visiting delegations, said:

_My Friends of the German-American Republican Club of Chicago, and
of the Club of Milwaukee, and my Home German Friends_--I am very
grateful for the kind words you have addressed to me. The long journey
most of you have taken upon this inclement day to tender your respects
to me as the candidate of the Republican party is very convincing
evidence that you believe this civil contest to be no mock tournament,
but a very real and a very decisive battle for great principles.
[Cheers]. My German-American friends, you are a home-loving people;
father, mother, wife, child are words that to you have a very full
and a very tender meaning. [Cheers.] The old father and mother never
outlive the veneration and love of the children in a German household.
[Cheers.] You have come from the fatherland in families, and have set
up again here the old hearth-stones. Out of this love of home there
is naturally born a love of country--it is only the widening of the
family circle--and so our fellow-citizens of German birth and descent
did not fail to respond with alacrity and enthusiasm to the call of
their adopted country when armies were mustered for the defence of the
Union. [Cheers.] The people of Indiana will long remember the veteran
Willich and the Thirty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers (or First
German), which he took into the field in 1861. The repulse by this
regiment alone of an attacking force under General Hindman of 1,100
infantry, a battalion of Texas Rangers, and four pieces of artillery
at Rowlett's Station, in December, 1861, filled our people with
enthusiasm and pride. Again and again the impetuous Texas horsemen
threw themselves with baffled fury upon that square of brave hearts.
No bayonet point was lowered, no skulker broke the wall of safety that
enclosed the flag. [Cheers.]

Your people are industrious, thrifty, and provident. To lay by
something is one of life's earliest lessons in a German home. These
national traits naturally drew your people to the support of the
Republican party when it declared for freedom and free homes in the
Territories. [Cheers.] They secured your adherence to the cause of the
Union in the Civil War. They gave us your help in the long struggle
for resumption and an honest currency, and I do not doubt that they
will now secure our sympathy and help in this great contest in behalf
of our American homes. Your people are largely wage-earners. They have
prospered under a protective tariff, and will not, I am sure, vote for
such a change in our tariff policy as will cut them off from their
wages that margin which they are now able to lay aside for old age and
for their children.

And now a word to my young friends from Wisconsin. You have come
into the possession of the suffrage at an important, if not critical,
time in our public affairs. The Democratic party out of power was a
party of negations. It did not secure its present lease of power upon
the platform or the policies it now supports and advocates. [Cheers.]
The campaign of 1884 was not made upon the platform of a tariff for
revenue only. Our workingmen were soothed with phrases that implied
some regard to their interests, and Democrats who believed in a
protective tariff were admitted to the party councils and gladly heard
in public debate. [Cheers.] But four years of power have changed all
this. Democrats who thought they could be protectionists and still
maintain their party standing have been silenced or their opinions
coerced. The issue is now distinctly made between "protection and
something that is not protection." [Cheers.] The Republican party
fearlessly accepts the issue and places itself upon the side of the
American home and the American workingman. [Cheers.] We invite these
young men who were too young to share the glory of the struggle for
our political unity to a part in this contest for the preservation of
our commercial independence. [Cheers.]

And now to these friends who are the bearers of gifts, one word of
thanks. I especially value this cane as a token of the confidence and
respect of the workingmen of Bay View. [Cheers.] I accept their gift
with gratitude, and would wish you, sir, to bear in return my most
friendly regards and good wishes to every one of them. I do not need
to lean on this beautiful cane, but I do feel like resting upon the
intelligent confidence of the men who sent it. [Great cheering.] I am
glad to know that they have not stumbled over the simple problem that
is presented for their consideration in this campaign. They know that
an increase of importation means diminished work in American shops.
[Cheers.] To my friend who brings this beautiful specimen of American
workmanship, this commonly accepted token of good luck, I give my
thanks. But we will not trust wholly in this symbol of good luck. The
earnest individual effort of the American people only can make the
result of this contest so decisive, so emphatic, that we shall not for
a generation hear any party contest the principle that our tariff laws
shall adequately protect our own workingmen. [Great cheering.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 17.

Ohio's chief executive, Gov. Joseph B. Foraker, escorted by the Garfield Club and the Fourteenth Regiment Band of Columbus, made a pilgrimage to the Republican Mecca on October 17. The widely known Columbus Glee Club accompanied them. Among the prominent Republicans with the delegation were Auditor of State Poe, Adjutant-General Axline, Hon. Estes G. Rathbone, C. L. Kurtz, D. W. Brown, C. E. Prior, L. D. Hogerty, J. W. Firestone, and Ira H. Crum. Escorted by the Columbia Club, the Buckeyes marched to the residence of General Harrison and were introduced by Governor Foraker.

In response to their greeting General Harrison said:

_Gentlemen_--It was very appropriate that these representative
Ohio Republicans should accompany to the State of Indiana your
distinguished Governor, whose presence among us to-day is so welcome
to our people. We know his story as the young Ohio volunteer, the
fearless champion of Republican principles in public debate, and the
resolute, courageous, and sagacious executive of the great State of
Ohio. [Applause.] We welcome him and we welcome you. The fame of
this magnificent glee club has preceded them. We are glad to have an
opportunity to hear you.

To these members of the Garfield Club I return my thanks for this
friendly call. You bear an honored name. I look back with pleasure to
the small contribution I was able to make in Indiana toward securing
the electoral vote of this State to that great son of Ohio, whose
tragic death spread gloom and disappointment over our land. I welcome
you as citizens of my native State--a State I shall always love,
because all of my early associations are with it. In this State, to
which I came in my earliest manhood, the Republicans are as staunch
and true, as valorous and resolute, as can be found in any of the
States. You have no advantage of us except in numbers. We welcome
you all as Republicans. [A voice, "That's what we are!"] We believe
that our party now advocates another great principle that needs to be
established--made fast--put where it shall be beyond assault. It is
a principle which has wrought marvellously in the development of our
country since the war. It has enabled us to handle a great national
debt, which our desponding Democratic friends said would inevitably
sink our country into bankruptcy, so that we are not troubled about
getting the money to pay our maturing bonds, but are getting it
faster than our bonds mature. We need to establish this principle of
protection, the defence of our American workers against the degrading
and unfriendly competition of pauper labor in all other countries
[cheers], so unmistakably that it shall not again be assailed. [A
voice, "Amen!"] Our Democratic friends in previous campaigns have
deceived the people upon this great question by uncertain and evasive
utterances. We are glad to know that now they have drawn the issue
clearly; we accept it. [Applause.] If we shall be able in this
campaign, as I believe we will, to arouse our people to the importance
of maintaining our defences against unfair foreign competition,
we shall administer those who believe in revenue tariffs and in
progressive free trade a wholesome lesson--one that will last them a
lifetime. [Cheers.]

I had resolutely determined when I came upon these steps not to make
a speech. [Laughter and cries of "Go on!"] I am absolutely determined
to stop now. [Laughter.] I shall be glad to meet the members of these
escort clubs personally in my house. [Three cheers.]

Later in the day about 100 survivors of the Seventy-ninth Indiana Regiment, led by their first colonel, General Fred Knefler, called on General Harrison, and were presented by their leader in a brief speech, in response to which General Harrison, speaking from his doorway, said:

_General Knefler and Comrades_--I am always deeply touched when
my comrades visit me and offer their kindly greetings. I have no
higher ambition than to stand well in the estimation of my comrades
of the old Union army. I will not speak of any political topic. These
men who stand before me gave the supreme evidence of their love and
devotion to their country. No man could give more than they offered.
The perpetuity of our institutions, the honor of what General Sherman
so felicitously called the "old glory," demand the country shall
always and in every appropriate way honor and reward the men who kept
it a Nation. Whatever may be said of our great prosperity since the
war, and it can scarcely be exaggerated, if we look for the cause
under God, is it not found in the stout hearts of these men? They
have opened this wide avenue of prosperity and honor in which we are
moving. It will be a shame if our people do not in every way properly
recognize that debt and properly honor the men who gave this supreme
evidence of their devotion to the country and its institutions.
Thanking you again for this visit, I will be glad if you will enter my
house and let me meet you personally.

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 20.

For the fifth time during the campaign the commercial travellers visited General Harrison, each time with increased numbers. On Saturday, October 20, under the supervision of the Commercial Travellers' Republican Club of Indianapolis--G. C. Webster, President; Ernest Morris, Secretary--they held one of the largest and most successful demonstrations of this remarkable campaign. Their gathering partook of a national character, as large numbers of "drummers" were present from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, and Vermont, while every important city in Indiana sent its complement.

The visitors were received by a local committee of travelling men, consisting of Fred Schmidt, Chairman; C. McPherson, Wm. Faucet, Joseph Stubbs, Jeff Cook, Ed. Allcott, J. C. Norris, M. P. Green, Geo. White, O. W. Morman, Chas. D. Pearson, Jeff Taylor, Wm. P. Bone, Henry Ramey, Albert A. Womack, John A. Wright, James W. Muir, and Frank Brough. It was estimated that 40,000 spectators witnessed their fine parade, a conspicuous feature of which was a big bull covered with a white cloth on which was printed the words--"John Bull rides the Democratic party and we ride John Bull." On his back rode "Drummer" Dan'l B. Long in an emerald suit, while L. A. Worch, dressed as Uncle Sam, led the bovine. The parade was in charge of Chief Marshal J. R. Ross and his aids. As the column passed their residence it was reviewed by General and Mrs. Harrison. Later in the day the visitors were received at Tomlinson Hall. When General Harrison appeared a great demonstration occurred. President Webster presided; the speakers were: John E. Dowell, of Boston; R. T. Dow, of Atlanta; C. L. Young and John L. Fennimore, of Columbus, Ohio; Chas. P. Banks, of Brooklyn; John L. Griffiths and John C. Wingate, of Indiana.

General Harrison said:

_My Friends_--Four times already, I believe, the commercial
travellers have honored me by calling upon me in large delegations.
You have assembled to-day, not from a single State or locality, but
from many States, upon the invitation of your associates of this
city, to show your intelligent interest in the principles that are
involved in this campaign. [Cheers.] I do not need to repeat what I
have said on former occasions, that I very highly value the respect
and confidence of the commercial travellers of the United States.
[Cheers.] I value it because I believe they give their adherence to
the party whose candidate I am upon an intelligent investigation and
upon an earnest conviction as to what is good for the country of which
they are citizens. [Cheers.] Who should be able, better than you, to
know the commercial and business needs of our country? You, whose hand
is every day upon the business pulse of the people; you, who travel
the country up and down upon all the swift highways of commerce, and
who are brought in contact with the business men of the country, not
only in our great centres of commerce, but in all the hamlets of the
land. I believe I may say for you that, as a result of this personal
knowledge of our business needs, you have concluded that the policy
for America is the policy of a protective tariff. [Great cheering.]

There are doubtless here many representatives of great American
manufacturing establishments; and who should know better than they the
prostrating effects upon the industries they represent of this policy
of a revenue tariff, or the not much differing policy of free trade?
[Cheers.] Who should know better than you that if the discriminating
duties now levied, which enable our American manufacturers to maintain
a fair competition with the manufacturers of other countries, and at
the same time to pay a scale of living wages to the men and women who
work for them, is once broken down, American competition with foreign
production becomes impossible, except by the reduction of the scale
of American wages to the level of the wages paid abroad? [Cheers.]
Certainly you do not need to be told that that shop or mill that
has the smallest pay-roll in proportion to its production will take
the market. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be told that the
wages now enjoyed by our American workmen are greatly larger and the
comforts they enjoy greatly more than those enjoyed by the working
people of any other land. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be
told that if the American Government, instead of patronizing home
industries, buys its blankets for the public service in England there
is just that much less work for American workmen to do. [Cheers.] This
is to me the beginning and the end of the tariff question. Since I
was old enough to have opinions or to utter them, I have held to the
doctrine that the true American policy was that which should maintain
not only a living rate of wages, but one with a margin for savings and
comfort for our workmen. I believe that policy is essential to the
prosperity and possibly to the perpetuity of our Government. [Cheers.]
The two propositions that now stare our working people--and our whole
country--in the face are these: competition with foreign countries,
without adequate discriminating and favoring duties, means lower wages
to our working people; a revenue-only tariff, or progressive free
trade, means larger importations of foreign goods, and that means less
work in America. [Cheers.]

Let our Democratic friends fairly meet these two indisputable
conclusions. How do they do it? [Cries, "They don't; they can't!"]
By endeavoring to prevent and poison the minds of our working people
by utterly false and scandalous campaign stories. [Enthusiastic
cheering.] Let me say in conclusion that I believe the managers of
the Democratic campaign greatly underestimate the intelligence,
the sense of decency, and the love of fair play that prevail among
out people. [Great cheering.] You will pardon further remark. The
evening is drawing on, and many of you, I am sure, have been made
uncomfortable by your muddy walk through the streets of our city. I
cannot omit, however, to thank my friends from Lafayette for this
beautiful floral tribute which they have placed at my side--an emblem
of their profession. [Floral gripsack.] I accept it gratefully, and
very highly appreciate it as a mark of the confidence and respect of
the intelligent body of my own fellow-citizens of Indiana. [Great
cheering.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 22.

Three thousand enthusiastic citizens of Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio, paid their respects to the Republican nominee on this date, under the auspices of the Republican White Hat Brigade, Gen. A. S. Bushnell, Commander; E. T. Thomes, Vice-Commander; S. J. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff; J. W. R. Cline, Sam'l Hoffman, and J. H. Arbogast, Aids. The brigade, comprising 2,300 voters, each wearing a white beaver hat, was divided into three regiments and accompanied by six excellent bands.

The First Regiment was commanded by Col. J. A. Dickus, Lieut.-Col. Geo. Lentz, Major Henry Harper. Second Regiment--Col. Wm. F. Bakhaus, Lieut.-Col. Darwin Pierce, Major Wm. Robinson. Third Regiment--Col. H. N. Taylor, Lieut.-Col. Henry Hains, Major P. M. Hawk. When General Harrison entered the hall every Buckeye stood on his chair and frantically waved his high hat in one hand and a flag in the other. General Bushnell made the presentation address, to which General Harrison responded as follows:

_General Bushnell and my Ohio Friends_--The people of Clarke
County owed me a visit. I recall, with great pleasure, two occasions
when I visited your prosperous county and the rich and busy city
of Springfield to speak in behalf of the Republican party and its
candidates. I recall with pleasure the cordiality with which I was
received by your people. [Applause.] I noted then the intelligent
interest manifested by the masses of your people in public questions,
and the enthusiasm with which you rallied to the defense of Republican
principles. [Cheers.] We are glad to welcome you to Indiana, but
regret that this inclement day and our muddy streets have thrown
about your visit so many incidents of discomfort. I hope that you
will not allow these incidents to give you an unfavorable impression
of the beautiful capital city of Indiana. [Cheers and cries of "We
won't!"] Our people are glad to have this added evidence of the
interest which the people of your State take in the question which
the issue of this campaign will settle. I say settle, because I
believe that the question of the life of protective tariff system is
now very distinctly presented. The enemies of the system have left
their ambuscades and taken to the open field, and we are to have a
decisive battle over this question. [Great cheers.] I believe that
never before, in any campaign, has this question been so fully and
ably discussed in the hearing of our people. [Cheers.] There can
be found nowhere in this country a better illustration of what a
great manufacturing centre will do for the farmer in enhancing the
value of his farm and in furnishing a home market for his products
than the city of Springfield. [Cheers.] Your city and county--your
merchants and farmers--are prosperous, because you have a great body
of well-paid wage-earners in your great shops and factories. [Cheers.]
It is the policy of the Republican party to multiply, all through our
agricultural regions, such centres of manufacturing industries as
Springfield. [Cheers.] It is conceded that to all our working people,
all those who earn their subsistence by toil, this campaign involves
most important interests. I will not pursue in its details this
question. You have heard it discussed, and most of you, perhaps all,
have made up your conclusions. It is of such importance as, wholly
without respect to the candidate who may by chance represent it, to
be worthy of the intelligent and earnest thought and vigorous effort
of every American citizen. [Cheers.] Let me now only thank you for
this most remarkable evidence of the interest of your people. We have
rarely, if it all, seen here, in this long procession of delegations,
one that equalled that which I see before me now. [Great cheering.]

At the conclusion of General Harrison's speech General Bushnell presented him with a highly polished horse-shoe, manufactured from American steel by S. B. Thomas, formerly an Englishman. Repeated calls for Mr. Thomas brought that gentleman out, and there was another prolonged demonstration as General Harrison cordially clasped his hand and said:

I accept with pleasure this product of the skill and industry of
one who, out of his own experience, can speak of the benefits of a
protective tariff. One who sought our land because it offered better
wages and better hopes [cheers], and who in his life here has been
able to contrast the condition of working people in England and in
America. [Cheers.]

INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 25.

During the campaign in Indiana several prominent labor representatives from the East canvassed the State in advocacy of a protective tariff and the Republican ticket. Chief among these speakers were Charles H. Litchman, of Massachusetts, ex-Secretary-General of the Knights of Labor; John J. Jarrett, Hon. Henry Hall, Eccles Robinson, and Robert D. Layton, of Pennsylvania, and Jeremiah Murphy, of New York. These gentlemen, assisted by John R. Rankin, Marshall C. Woods, and other prominent Indiana labor leaders, signalized the conclusion of their campaign work by a notable workingmen's demonstration on October 25. About 10,000 voters from over the State participated in the parade, led by Chief Marshal John R. Rankin, assisted by C. A. Rodney, George E. Clarke, Wm. R. Mounts, John Baker, Fred Andler, Wm. H. Baughmier, Geo. E. Perry, Lewis Rathbaust, J. N. Loop, Wm. Cook, Gustave Schneider, John W. Browning, A. Raphel, and Michael Bamberger.

General Harrison, with Hon. William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, Senator John C. Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Senator Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire, reviewed the column and later attended a great meeting at Tomlinson Hall. Many ladies occupied seats on the stage, among them Mrs. Harrison. When General Harrison appeared, escorted by Secretary Litchman, the vast audience arose and cheered frantically for full five minutes.

L. W. McDaniels, a prominent member of the Typographical Union, presided, and in his address among other things said:

We are here to repudiate the authority claimed by a few professional
men to speak for the wage-workers of Indiana, to deny the truthfulness
of their statements, and to contradict the assertion that there is
other than the kindliest feeling among the workingmen of Indiana
toward General Harrison. While General Harrison has never acted the
blatant demagogue by making loud professions, yet we have had evidence
of his earnest sympathy and sincere friendship on more than one
occasion, notably his advocacy while in the Senate of the bill making
arbitration the means of settlement of labor troubles and excluding
contract labor from our shores. Also the bill prohibiting the use of
convict labor on Government works, or the purchasing by the Government
of any of the products of convict labor.

As General Harrison arose to respond there was another prolonged outbreak; he appeared greatly moved, and delivered probably his most earnest speech of the campaign. The demonstrations of approval were very marked, especially as the General warmed up to his denials of matters suggested by Chairman McDaniels' remarks. He said: