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+<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>EM­BRACING ALL HIS +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>CAM­PAIGN SPEECHES, LET­TER +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>OF AC­CEP­TANCE, IN­AU­GU­RAL +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>AD­DRESS, AND THE +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>NUME­ROUS SPEECHES +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>DELIV­ERED DURING +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>HIS SEV­ER­AL TOURS; +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>ALSO EXTRACTS +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>FROM HIS +<span class="taper-left"> </span><span class="taper-right"> </span>MESSAGES TO +<span class="taper-left-last"> </span><span class="taper-right-last"> </span>CON­GRESS +</p> + +<p class="subtitle"> +COMPILED BY<br /> +CHARLES HEDGES +</p> + +<p class="subtitle"> +NEW YORK<br /> +UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY<br /> +<span style="font-size:smaller">SUCCESSORS TO</span><br /> +<span class="gesperrt">JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY</span><br /> +<span style="font-size:smaller">142 TO 150 WORTH STREET</span><br /> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="copyright"> +<span class="smcap">Copyright, 1892,<br /> +by<br /> +Charles Hedges</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + + + +<div> +<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE">PREFACE.</a></h2> + + +<p class="start-chap"><span class="smcap">It</span> is not the purpose of this book to present a few selections +of oratory, laboriously prepared and polished, or +occasional flashes of brilliant thought. From such efforts, +prepared, perhaps, after days of study and repeated revision, +one can form but an imperfect idea of their author. +Such a compilation might show the highest conceptions of +the man, and evidence a wide range of thought and a surpassing +grandeur of expression; but it would be but a +poor mirror of the man himself in his daily life.</p> + +<p>It is due to the people that the largest opportunity be +given them to observe the character of their public servants, +to come into closest touch with their daily thoughts, +and to know them as they are—not when prepared for +special occasions, but day after day and all the time. It +is with this view that this collection of the speeches of +President Harrison is offered to the public. It is a series +of instantaneous photographs that have caught him unawares. +The studied pose is wanting, but the pictures are +true to life.</p> + +<p>There are included the letter of acceptance, the inaugural +address, the letter to the commercial congress, extracts +from his last annual message to Congress, his patriotic +message on the Chilian affair, and a few carefully +prepared speeches, among them his notable addresses at the +banquet of the Michigan Club, February 22, 1888, and before +the Marquette Club at Chicago, March 20, the same year; +also his celebrated speech at Galveston, in April last. All +these are among the best models of statesmanlike thought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +and concise, forcible, and elegant expression. With these +exceptions, the speeches presented were delivered during +the presidential campaign of 1888, often four or five in a +day, to visiting delegations of citizens, representing every +occupation and interest, and during his tours of 1890 and +1891, when he often spoke eight or ten times a day from +the platform of his car.</p> + +<p>If these speeches contained no other merit, they would +be remarkable in the fact that, while delivered during +the excitement of a political campaign and in the hurry +of wayside pauses in a journey by railroad, they contain +not one carelessly spoken word that can detract from their +dignity, or, by any possible distortion of language, be +turned against their author by his political opponents. +With no opportunity for elaborately studied phrases, he +did not utter a word that could be sneered at as weak or +commonplace. This fact is all the more noteworthy when +we recall the dismal failures that have been made by +others under like circumstances.</p> + +<p>A spirit of exalted patriotism and broad statesmanship +is apparent in every line; and notwithstanding the malignity +of the partisan assaults that were made upon him, +no words of bitterness—only terms of generous tolerance—characterize +his allusions to his political opponents.</p> + +<p>With a single notable exception, no thought of sameness +or repetition is ever suggested. That exception was +the central thought and vital principle that was at stake +in the campaign. One marvels at his versatility in adapting +himself to every occasion, whether he was addressing +a delegation of miners, of comrades in war, or of children +from the public schools; we admire the lofty thoughts and +the delicious humor; but while he might soften in tender, +playful greeting of children, or live again with his comrades +the old life of tent and field, he never for one moment +forgot the great principle whose banner he had been +chosen to uphold. Protection of American industry was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span> +always his foremost thought—and how well he presented +it! What an example to the politician who seeks by +evasion or silence to avoid the questions at issue!</p> + +<p>The book is therefore presented with the gratifying belief +that a valuable service has been rendered in collecting +these speeches and putting them in an enduring form, +not only because they give the American people the most +lifelike mental portrait of their Chief Magistrate, but because +they are a valuable contribution to American literature.</p> + +<p>In order to the best understanding and appreciation of +an address, it is often necessary to know the circumstances +in which it was delivered. Especially is this true when +the address was made, as many of these were, to some +particular organization or class of citizens or at the celebration +of some important event. For this reason, as well +as for their important historical value, an account is given +of the occasion of each speech, including, as far as they +could be learned, the names of the more distinguished persons +who were present and took part in the exercises.</p> + +<p class="right">C. H.</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Washington, D. C.</span>, February 20, 1892. +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +</p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h2><a name="BIOGRAPHICAL" id="BIOGRAPHICAL">BIOGRAPHICAL.</a></h2> + + +<p class="start-chap"><span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison</span>, twenty-third President of the United +States, was born Tuesday, August 20, 1833, at North Bend, +Hamilton County, Ohio. He is the second son of the late John +Scott and Elizabeth Irwin Harrison.</p> + +<p>His father—the third son of President William Henry Harrison +and Anna Symmes—was born at Vincennes, Indiana, was twice +elected to Congress as a Democrat, from the Cincinnati district, +and died in 1878.</p> + +<p>General William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United +States, was the third son of a famous signer of the Declaration of +Independence—Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, and his wife Elizabeth +Bassett. This Benjamin Harrison, "the signer," was one of +the first seven delegates from Virginia to the Continental Congress. +He reported the resolution for independence, was Speaker of the +House of Burgesses, and was thrice elected Governor of Virginia, +dying in 1791; he was the eldest son of Benjamin and Anna Carter +Harrison, both of whom were descended from ancestors distinguished +for their high character and their services to the colony +of Virginia.</p> + +<p>Ben Harrison's boyhood was passed upon his father's farm in +Ohio. At the age of 14, with his elder brother Irwin, he attended +Farmer's College at Cincinnati, preparatory to entering Miami University +at Oxford, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in +1852.</p> + +<p>He studied law in the office of Judge Belamy Storer at Cincinnati, +and in March, 1854—with his bride, Miss Caroline W. Scott, +to whom he was wedded October 20, 1853—he located at Indianapolis +and began the practice of the law.</p> + +<p>In 1860 he was elected reporter of the decisions of the Supreme +Court of Indiana, as a Republican, receiving 9,688 majority.</p> + +<p>In July, 1862, he was commissioned by Gov. Oliver P. Morton +as second lieutenant, and raised Company A of the Seventieth +Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned captain, and on the +organization of the regiment was commissioned colonel. In August +his regiment entered the field and became a part of the 1st +Brigade of the 1st Division of the 20th Army Corps, Gen. W. T. +Ward, of Kentucky, brigade commander. At the battle of Resaca, +Sunday, May 15, 1864, the Seventieth Regiment led the brigade in +a gallant charge, and its colonel signally distinguished himself, +being among the first to scale the bloody parapet. He actively +participated in the engagements at Cassville, New Hope Church, +Gilgal Church, Kulps Hill, and Kenesaw. Following that great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +captain in the Atlanta campaign, initiatory to his famous march +to the sea, Colonel Harrison at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20, +1864, in the crisis of the fight, without awaiting orders, seized an +important position and successfully resisted, at great loss, the terrific +assaults of a large detachment of Hood's army. For this +brilliant achievement, upon the recommendation of Major-General +Joe Hooker, he was brevetted in March, 1865, by President Lincoln, +a brigadier-general, to date from January 23, 1865.</p> + +<p>In October, 1864, while at the front, he was re-elected, by 19,713 +majority, reporter of the Supreme Court, which office he had lost +by accepting a commission in the army. After four years as reporter +he resumed his law practice, forming a partnership with +Albert G. Porter and W. P. Fishback. About 1870 Mr. Fishback retired, +and the firm became Porter, Harrison & Hines; upon Governor +Porter's retirement W. H. H. Miller took his place, and in +1883 Mr. Hines retired, and, John B. Elam coming in, the firm became +Harrison, Miller & Elam.</p> + +<p>In 1876 Hon. Godlove S. Orth was nominated as Republican candidate +for Governor of Indiana, but pending the canvass he unexpectedly +withdrew. In this emergency, during General Harrison's +absence on a trip to Lake Superior, the Central Committee substituted +his name at the head of the ticket. Undertaking the canvass +despite adverse conditions, he was defeated by Hon. James D. +Williams—"Blue Jeans"—by a plurality of 5,084 votes.</p> + +<p>In 1878 he was chosen chairman of the Republican State Convention.</p> + +<p>In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes a member of the +Mississippi River Commission.</p> + +<p>In 1880 he was chairman of the delegation from Indiana to the +National Convention, and with his colleagues cast 34 consecutive +ballots for James G. Blaine in that historic contest.</p> + +<p>President Garfield tendered him any position but one in his +Cabinet, but the high honor was declined.</p> + +<p>In January, 1881, he was elected United States Senator—the +unanimous choice of his party—to succeed Joseph E. McDonald, +and served six years to March 3, 1887.</p> + +<p>In 1884 he again represented his State as delegate at large to the +National Convention.</p> + +<p>January, 1887, he was a second time the unanimous choice of +his party for United States Senator, but after a protracted and exciting +contest was defeated on the sixteenth joint ballot, upon +party lines, by 2 majority.</p> + +<p>June 25, 1888, he was nominated at Chicago by the Republican +National Convention for President, on the eighth ballot, receiving +544 votes against 118 for John Sherman, 100 for Russell A. Alger, +and 59 for Walter Q. Gresham. He was chosen President by 233 +electoral votes against 168 for Grover Cleveland. The popular vote +resulted: 5,536,242 (48.63 per cent.) for the Democratic ticket, +5,440,708 (47.83 per cent.) for the Republican ticket, 246,876 (2.16 +per cent.) for the Prohibition, 146,836 (1.27 per cent.) for the +Union Labor, and 7,777 (0.11 per cent.) scattering.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h2><a name="HARRISONS_SPEECHES" id="HARRISONS_SPEECHES">HARRISON'S SPEECHES.</a></h2> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<h3><a name="DETROIT_FEBRUARY_22_1888" id="DETROIT_FEBRUARY_22_1888">DETROIT, FEBRUARY 22, 1888.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Michigan Club Banquet.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Michigan Club, the largest and most influential +political organization in the State, held its third annual +banquet at the Detroit Rink on Washington's Birthday, +1888.</p> + +<p>The officers of the club were: <i>President</i>, Clarence A. +Black; <i>Vice-President</i>, William H. Elliott; <i>Secretary</i>, +Fred. E. Farnsworth; <i>Treasurer</i>, Frederick Woolfenden.</p> + +<p>Senator Thomas W. Palmer was president of the evening; +the vice-presidents were: Hons. F. B. Stockbridge, +C. G. Luce, J. H. Macdonald, Austin Blair, H. P. Baldwin, +David H. Jerome, R. A. Alger, O. D. Conger, Chas. +D. Long, E. P. Allen, James O'Donnell, J. C. Burrows, +M. S. Brewer, S. M. Cutcheon, Henry W. Seymour, Benj. +F. Graves, Isaac Marston, Edward S. Lacy, John T. Rich, +O. L. Spaulding, Geo. W. Webber, Geo. Willard, E. W. +Keightley, R. G. Horr, E. O. Grosvenor, James Birney, +C. E. Ellsworth, D. P. Markey.</p> + +<p>The distinguished guests and speakers of the evening +from other States were: General Benjamin Harrison, Ind.; +General Joseph R. Hawley, Conn.; Hon. William McKinley, +Jr., Ohio; Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Hon. John +F. Finerty, and General Green B. Raum, Ill.; Hon. L. +E. McComas, Md.; and Hon. James P. Foster, N. Y.</p> + +<p>General Harrison responded to the sentiment, "Washington, +the republican. The guarantee of the Constitu<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>tion +that the State shall have a republican form of government +is only executed when the majority in the States +are allowed to vote and have their ballots counted."</p> + +<p>His speech attracted widespread attention at the time, +and is considered one of his greatest. One expression +therein—viz.: "I am a dead statesman, but a living and +rejuvenated Republican"—went broadcast over the land +and became one of the keynotes of the campaign.</p> + +<p>Senator Harrison made the first reference of the evening +to the name of "Chandler." It was talismanic; +instantly a great wave of applause swept over the banquet-hall, +and thenceforth the speaker carried his hearers +with him.</p> + +<p>The Senator spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Michigan Club</i>—I feel that I +am at some disadvantage here to-night by reason of the fact that I +did not approach Detroit from the direction of Washington city. +I am a dead statesman ["No! No!"]; but I am a living and rejuvenated +Republican. I have the pleasure to-night, for the first time +in my life, of addressing an audience of Michigan Republicans. +Your invitations in the past have been frequent and urgent, but I +have always felt that you knew how to do your own work, that +we could trust the stalwart Republicans of this magnificent State +to hold this key of the lakes against all comers. I am not here +to-night in the expectation that I shall be able to help you by any +suggestion, or even to kindle into greater earnestness that zeal and +interest in Republican principles which your presence here to-night +so well attests. I am here rather to be helped myself, to bathe +my soul in this high atmosphere of patriotism and pure Republicanism +[applause] by spending a little season in the presence of +those who loved and honored and followed the Cromwell of the +Republican party, Zachariah Chandler. [Tremendous applause.]</p> + +<p>The sentiment which has been assigned me to-night—"Washington, +the republican; a free and equal ballot the only guarantee of +the Nation's security and perpetuity"—is one that was supported +with a boldness of utterance, with a defiance that was unexcelled +by any leader, by Zachariah Chandler always and everywhere. +[Applause.] As Republicans we are fortunate, as has been suggested, +in the fact that there is nothing in the history of our +party, nothing in the principles that we advocate, to make it im<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>possible +for us to gather and to celebrate the birthday of any +American who honored or defended his country. [Cheers.] We +could even unite with our Democratic friends in celebrating the +birthday of St. Jackson, because we enter into fellowship with him +when we read his story of how by proclamation he put down +nullification in South Carolina. [Applause.] We could meet with +them to celebrate the birthday of Thomas Jefferson; because there +is no note in the immortal Declaration or in the Constitution of +our country that is out of harmony with Republicanism. [Cheers.] +But our Democratic friends are under limitation. They have a +short calendar of sense, and they must omit from the history of +those whose names are on their calendar the best achievements of +their lives. I do not know what the party is preserved for. Its +history reminds me of the boulder in the stream of progress, impeding +and resisting its onward flow and moving only by the force +that it resists.</p> + +<p>I want to read a very brief extract from a most notable paper—one +that was to-day in the Senate at Washington read from the +desk by its presiding officer—the "Farewell Address of Washington;" +and while it is true that I cannot quote or find in the +writings of Washington anything specifically referring to ballot-box +fraud, to tissue ballots, to intimidation, to forged tally-sheets +[cheers], for the reason that these things had not come in his day +to disturb the administration of the Government, yet in the comprehensiveness +of the words he uttered, like the comprehensive +declarations of the Holy Book, we may find admonition and guidance, +and even with reference to a condition of things that his pure +mind could have never contemplated. Washington said: "Liberty +is indeed little less than a name where the Government is too +feeble to withstand the enterprises of factions, to confine each +member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to +maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of +persons and property." If I had read that to a Democratic meeting +they would have suspected that it was an extract from some Republican +speech. [Laughter.] My countrymen, this Government is +that which I love to think of as my country; for not acres, or +railroads, or farm products, or bulk meats, or Wall Street, or all +combined, are the country that I love. It is the institution, the +form of government, the frame of civil society, for which that flag +stands, and which we love to-day. [Applause.] It is what Mr. +Lincoln so tersely, yet so felicitously, described as a government +of the people, by the people, and for the people; a government of +the people, because they instituted it—the Constitution reads,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +"We, the people, have ordained;" by the people, because it is +in all its departments administered by them; for the people, because +it states as its object of supreme attainment the happiness, +security and peace of the people that dwell under it. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>The bottom principle—sometimes it is called a corner-stone, +sometimes the foundation of our structure of government—is the +principle of control by the majority. It is more than the corner-stone +or foundation. This structure is a monolith, one from foundation +to apex, and that monolith stands for and is this principle +of government by majorities, legally ascertained by constitutional +methods. Everything else about our government is appendage, it +is ornamentation. This is the monolithic column that was reared +by Washington and his associates. For this the War of the Revolution +was fought, for this and its more perfect security the Constitution +was formed; for this the War of the Rebellion was fought; +and when this principle perishes the structure which Washington +and his compatriots reared is dishonored in the dust. The equality +of the ballot demands that our apportionments in the States for +legislative and congressional purposes shall be so adjusted that +there shall be equality in the influence and the power of every +elector, so that it shall not be true anywhere that one man counts +two or one and a half and some other man counts only one half.</p> + +<p>But some one says that is fundamental. All men accept this +truth. Not quite. My countrymen, we are confronted by this +condition of things in America to-day; a government by the +majority, expressed by an equal and a free ballot, is not only +threatened, but it has been overturned. Why is it to-day that +we have legislation threatening the industries of this country? +Why is it that the paralyzing shadow of free trade falls upon the +manufactures and upon the homes of our laboring classes? It is +because the laboring vote in the Southern States is suppressed. +There would be no question about the security of these principles +so long established by law, so eloquently set forth by my friend +from Connecticut, but for the fact that the workingmen of the +South have been deprived of their influence in choosing representatives +at Washington.</p> + +<p>But some timid soul is alarmed at the suggestion. He says we +are endeavoring to rake over the coals of an extinct strife, to see if +we may not find some ember in which there is yet sufficient vitality +to rekindle the strife. Some man says you are actuated by +unfriendly feelings toward the South, you want to fight the war +over again, you are flaunting the bloody shirt. My countrymen, +those epithets and that talk never have any terrors for me.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +[Applause.] I do not want to fight the war over again, and I am +sure no Northern soldier—and there must be many here of those +gallant Michigan regiments, some of which I had the pleasure +during the war of seeing in action—not one of these that wishes to +renew that strife or fight the war over again. Not one of this +great assemblage of Republicans who listen to me to-night wishes +ill to the South. If it were left to us here to-night the streams of +her prosperity would be full. We would gladly hear of her reviving +and stimulated industry. We gladly hear of increasing wealth in +those States of the South. We wish them to share in the onward +and upward movement of a great people. It is not a question of +the war, it is not a question of the States between '61 and '65, at +all, that I am talking about to-night. It is what they have been +since '65. It is what they did in '84, when a President was to be +chosen for this country.</p> + +<p>Our controversy is not one of the past; it is of the present. It +has relation to that which will be done next November, when our +people are again called to choose a President. What is it we ask? +Simply that the South live up to the terms of the surrender at +Appomattox. When that great chieftain received the surrender of +the army of Northern Virginia, when those who had for four years +confronted us in battle stacked arms in total surrender, the terms +were simply these: "You shall go to your homes and shall be there +unmolested so long as you obey the laws in force where you reside." +That is the sum of our demand. We ask nothing more of the +South to-night than that they shall cease to use this recovered +citizenship which they had forfeited by rebellion to oppress and +disfranchise those who equally with themselves under the Constitution +are entitled to vote—that and nothing more.</p> + +<p>I do not need to enter into details. The truth to-day is that the +colored Republican vote of the South, and with it and by consequence +the white Republican vote of the South, is deprived of all +effective influence in the administration of this Government. The +additional power given by the colored population of the South in +the Electoral College and in Congress was more than enough to +turn the last election for President, and more than enough to +reverse—yes, largely more than reverse—the present Democratic +majority of the House of Representatives. Have we not the spirit +to insist that everywhere north and south in this country of ours +no man shall be deprived of his ballot by reason of his politics? +There is not in all this land a place where any rebel soldier is subject +to any restraint or is denied the fullest exercise of the elective +franchise. Shall we not insist that what is true of those who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +fought to destroy the country shall be true of every man who +fought for it, or loved it, like the black man of the South did +[applause]—that to belong to Abraham Lincoln's party shall be +respectable and reputable everywhere in America? [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>But this is not simply a Southern question. It has come to be a +national question, for not only is the Republican vote suppressed +in the South, but I ask you to turn your eyes to as fair and prosperous +a territory as ever sat at the door of the Federal Union +asking admission to the sisterhood of the States. See yonder in +the northwest Dakota, the child of all these States, with 500,000 +loyal, intelligent, law-abiding, prosperous American citizens +robbed to-day of all participation in the affairs of this Nation. +The hospitable door which has always opened to territories seeking +admission is insolently closed in her face—and why? Simply +because the predominating sentiment in the Territory of Dakota is +Republican—that and nothing more. And that is not all. This +question of a free, honest ballot has crossed the Ohio River. The +overspill of these Southern frauds has reached Ohio and Indiana +and Illinois, indicating to my mind a national conspiracy, having +its centre and most potent influence in the Southern States, but +reaching out into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in its attempt by +frauds upon the ballot-box to possess the Senate of the United +States. Go down to Cincinnati in a recent election and look at +the election returns, shamelessly, scandalously manipulated to +return members to the Senate and House of Ohio, in order that +that grand champion of Republican principles, John Sherman, +might be defeated. Go yonder with me to Chicago and look into +those frauds upon the ballot—devised, executed in furtherance of +the same iniquitous scheme, intended to defeat the re-election of +that gallant soldier, that fearless defender of Republican principles, +John A. Logan of Illinois. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>And these people have even invaded Indiana. At the last election +in my own State, first by gerrymander, they disturbed and utterly +destroyed the equality of suffrage in that State; it was so framed +as to give the Democratic party a majority of 50 on joint ballot; +and Indiana gave a Republican majority on members of the +Legislature of 10,000, and yet they claim to hold the Legislature. +And that is not all. Then, when gerrymander had failed, they +introduced the eraser to help it out [laughter]; scratched our tally-sheets, +shamelessly transferred ballots from Republican to Democratic +candidates. How are we going to deal with these fellows? +What is the remedy? As to the Southern aspect of this question, +I have first to suggest that it is in the power of the free people of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +the North, those who love the Constitution and a free and equal +ballot, those who, while claiming this high privilege for themselves, +will deny it to no other man, to welcome a President who +shall not come into office, into the enjoyment of the usufruct of +these crimes, against the ballot [applause]; that will be great gain. +And then we should aim to place in the Southern States, in every +office exercising federal authority, men whose local influence will +be against these frauds, instead of such men as the district attorney +appointed by Mr. Cleveland, who in this recent outrage upon the +ballot in Jackson, Miss., was found among the most active conspirators, +when, by public resolution of a Democratic committee, +Republicans of that city were warned away from the polls. Then +again we shall keep ourselves free from all partisanship if we +lift our voice steadily and constantly in protest against these +offences.</p> + +<p>There is vast power in a protest. Public opinion is the most +potent monarch this world knows to-day. Czars tremble in its +presence, and we may bring to bear upon this question a public +sentiment, by bold and fearless denunciation of it, that will do a +great deal towards correcting it. Why, my countrymen, we meet +now and then with these Irish-Americans and lift our voices in +denunciations of the wrongs which England is perpetrating upon +Ireland. [Applause.] We do not elect any Members of Parliament, +but the voice of free America protesting against these centuries +of wrongs has had a most potent influence in creating, stimulating +and sustaining the liberal policy of William E. Gladstone +and his associates. [Great applause.] Cannot we do as much for +oppressed Americans? Can we not make our appeal to these Irish-American +citizens who appeal to us in behalf of their oppressed +fellow-countrymen to rally with us in this crusade against election +frauds and intimidation in the country that they have made their +own? [Applause.]</p> + +<p>There may be legislative remedies in sight when we can once +again possess both branches of the national Congress and have an +executive at Washington who has not been created by these crimes +against the ballot. [Applause.] Whatever they are, we will seek +them out and put them into force—not in a spirit of enmity +against the men who fought against us—forgetting the war, but +only insisting that now, nearly a quarter of a century after it is +over, a free ballot shall not be denied to Republicans in these +States where rebels have been rehabilitated with a full citizenship. +[Applause.] Every question waits the settlement of this. The +tariff question would be settled already if the 1,000,000 of black<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +laborers in the South had their due representation in the House of +Representatives.</p> + +<p>And my soldier friends, interested that liberal provisions should +be made for the care of the disabled soldier—are they willing that +this question should be settled without the presence in the House of +Representatives of the power and influence of those faithful black +men in the South who were always their friends? [Applause.] +The dependent pension bill would pass over the President's veto +if these black friends of the Union soldier had their fair representation +in Congress. [Applause.] It is the dominant question at +the foundation of our Government, in its dominating influence +embracing all others, because it involves the question of a free and +fair tribunal to which every question shall be submitted for +arbitrament and final determination. Therefore, I would here, as +we shall in Indiana, lift up our protest against these wrongs which +are committed in the name of democracy, lift high our demand, +and utter it with resolution, that it shall no longer be true that anywhere +in this country men are disfranchised for opinion's sake.</p> + +<p>I believe there are indications that this power is taking hold of +the North. Self-respect calls upon us. Does some devotee at the +shrine of Mammon say it will disturb the public pulse? Do we +hear from New York and her markets of trade that it is a disturbing +question and we must not broach it? I beg our friends, and +those who thus speak, to recollect that there is no peace, that there +can be no security for commerce, no security for the perpetuation +of our Government, except by the establishment of justice the +country over. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHICAGO_MARCH_20_1888" id="CHICAGO_MARCH_20_1888">CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1888.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Marquette Club Banquet.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the evening of March 20, 1888, General Harrison +was the honored guest of the Marquette Club of Chicago—one +of the leading social and political organizations +of that great city—at their second annual banquet, given +at the Grand Pacific Hotel.</p> + +<p>The officers of the club for that year were: George V. +Lauman, <i>President</i>; William H. Johnson, <i>First Vice-President</i>; +Hubert D. Crocker, <i>Second Vice-President</i>;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +Charles U. Gordon, <i>Secretary</i>; Will Sheldon Gilbert, +<i>Treasurer</i>.</p> + +<p>The Banquet Committee and Committee of Reception for +the occasion comprised the following prominent members: +James S. Moore, Frederick G. Laird, LeRoy T. Steward, +Wm. H. Johnson, James E. Rogers, F. W. C. Hayes, +Henry T. Smith, Harry J. Jones, Chas. S. Norton, Irving +L. Gould, T. A. Broadbent, Jas. Rood, Jr., Wm. A. +Paulsen, T. M. Garrett, Geo. W. Keehn, Harry P. Finney, +C. B. Niblock, Wm. A. Lamson, S. E. Magill, +R. D. Wardwell, Fred. G. McNally.</p> + +<p>President Lauman was toastmaster, and opened the banquet +with an address of welcome to Senator Harrison.</p> + +<p>The other speakers of the evening were Edward J. Judd, +Theodore Brentano, Hon. Thomas C. MacMillan, Hon. +John S. Runnells, Newton Wyeth, Mayor Roche and President +Tracy of the State League of Republican Clubs.</p> + +<p>Amid hearty applause General Harrison rose to respond +to the toast, "The Republican Party." He spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Marquette Club</i>—I am under +an obligation that I shall not soon forget in having been permitted +by your courtesy to sit at your table to-night and to listen to the +eloquent words which have fallen from the lips of those speakers +who have preceded me. I count it a privilege to spend an evening +with so many young Republicans. There seems to be a fitness in +the association of young men with the Republican party. The +Republican party is a young party. I have not yet begun to call +myself an old man, and yet there is no older Republican in the +United States than I am. My first presidential vote was given for +the first presidential candidate of the Republican party, and I have +supported with enthusiasm every successor of Frémont, including +that matchless statesman who claimed our suffrages in 1884. We +cannot match ages with the Democratic party any more than that +party can match achievements with us. It has lived longer, but to +less purpose. "Moss-backed" cannot be predicated of a Republican. +Our Democratic friends have a monopoly of that distinction, and +it is one of the few distinguished monopolies that they enjoy; and +yet when I hear a Democrat boasting himself of the age of his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +party I feel like reminding him that there are other organized evils +in the world, older than the Democratic party. "The Republican +party," the toast which you have assigned to me to-night, seems +to have a past, a present and a future tense to it. It suggests +history, and yet history so recent that it is to many here to-night +a story of current events in which they have been participants. +The Republican party—the influences which called it together were +eclectic in their character. The men who formed it and organized +it were picked men. The first assembly that sounded in its +camp was a call to sacrifice, and not to spoils. It assembled about +an altar to sacrifice, and in a temple beset with enemies. It is +the only political party organized in America that has its "Book +of Martyrs." On the bloody fields of Kansas, Republicans died for +their creed, and since then we have put in that book the sacred +memory of our immortal leader who has been mentioned here to-night—Abraham +Lincoln—who died for his faith and devotion to +the principles of human liberty and constitutional union. And +there have followed it a great army of men who have died by reason +of the fact that they adhered to the political creed that we loved. +It is the only party in this land which in the past has been proscribed +and persecuted to death for its allegiance to the principles +of human liberty. After Lincoln had triumphed in that great +forum of debate in his contest with Douglas, the Republican party +carried that debate from the hustings to the battle-field and forever +established the doctrine that human liberty is of natural right +and universal. It clinched the matchless logic of Webster in his +celebrated debate against the right of secession by a demonstration +of its inability.</p> + +<p>No party ever entered upon its administration of the affairs of +this Nation under circumstances so beset with danger and difficulty +as those which surrounded the Republican party when it took +up the reins of executive control. In all other political contests +those who had resisted the victorious party yielded acquiescence +at the polls, but the Republican party in its success was confronted +by armed resistance to national authority. The first acts of Republican +administration were to assemble armies to maintain the +authority of the Nation throughout the rebellious States. It organized +armies, it fed them, and it fought them through those years +of war with an undying and persistent faith that refused to be +appalled by any dangers or discouraged by any difficulties. In the +darkest days of the rebellion the Republican party by faith saw +Appomattox through the smoke of Bull Run, and Raleigh through +the mists of Chickamauga; and not only did it conduct this great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +civil war to a victorious end, not only did it restore the national +authority and set up the flag on all those places where it had been +overthrown and that flag torn down, but it in the act and as an +incident in the restoration of national authority accomplished that +act which, if no other had been recorded in its history, would have +given it immortality. The emancipation of a race, brought about +as an incident of war under the proclamation of the first Republican +President, has forever immortalized the party that accomplished +it.</p> + +<p>But not only were these dangers and difficulties and besetments +and discouragements of this long strife at home, but there was +also a call for the highest statesmanship in dealing with the foreign +affairs of the Government during that period of war. England and +France not only gave to the Confederacy belligerent rights, but +threatened to extend recognition, and even armed intervention. +There was scarcely a higher achievement in the long history of +brilliant statesmanship which stands to the credit of our party than +the matchless management of our diplomatic relations during the +period of our war; dignified, yet reserved, masterful, yet patient. +Those enemies of republican liberty were held at bay until we had +accomplished perpetual peace at Appomattox. That grasping +avarice which has attempted to coin commercial advantages out of +the distress of other nations which has so often characterized +English diplomacy naturally made the Government of England +the ally of the Confederacy, that had prohibited protective duties +in its constitution, and yet Geneva followed Appomattox. A trinity +of effort was necessary to that consummation—war, finance and +diplomacy; Grant, Chase, Seward, and Lincoln over all, and each +a victor in his own sphere. When 500,000 veterans found themselves +without any pressing engagement, and Phil Sheridan sauntered +down towards the borders of Mexico, French evacuation was expedited, +and when Gen. Grant advised the English Government that +our claims for the depredations committed by those rebel cruisers +that were sent out from British ports to prey upon our commerce +must be paid, but that we were not in a hurry about it—we could +wait, but in the mean time interest would accumulate—the Geneva +arbitration was accepted and compensation made for these unfriendly +invasions of our rights. It became fashionable again at +the tables of the English nobility to speak of our common ancestry +and our common tongue. Then again France began to remind us +of La Fayette and De Grasse. Five hundred thousand veteran troops +and an unemployed navy did more for us than a common tongue +and ancient friendships would do in the time of our distress. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> +we must not forget that it is often easier to assemble armies than +it is to assemble army revenues. Though no financial secretary +ever had laid upon him a heavier burden than was placed upon +Salmon P. Chase to provide the enormous expenditures which the +maintenance of our army required, this ceaseless, daily, gigantic +drain upon the National Treasury called for the highest statesmanship.</p> + +<p>And it was found, and our credit was not only maintained through +the war, but the debt that was accumulated, which our Democratic +friends said could never be paid, we at once began to discharge when +the army was disbanded.</p> + +<p>And so it is that in this timely effort—consisting first in this +appeal to the courage and patriotism of the people of this country +that responded to the call of Lincoln and filled our armies with +brave men that, under the leadership of Grant and Sherman and +Thomas, suppressed the rebellion, and under the wise, magnificent +system of our revenue enabled us to defray our expenses, and under +the sagacious administration of our State Department held Europe +at bay while we were attending to the business at home. In these +departments of administration the Republican party has shown +itself conspicuously able to deal with the greatest questions that +have ever been presented to American statesmanship for solution. +We must not forget that in dealing with these questions we were +met continually by the protest and opposition of the Democratic +party. The war against the States was unconstitutional. There +was no right to coerce sovereign States. The war was a failure, +and a dishonorable peace was demanded. The legal tenders were +illegal. The constitutional amendments were void. And so through +this whole brilliant history of achievement in this administration +we were followed by the Democratic statesman protesting against +every step and throwing every impediment in the way of National +success until it seemed to be true of many of their leaders that in +their estimation nothing was lawful, nothing was lovely, that did +not conduce to the success of the rebellion.</p> + +<p>Now, what conclusion shall we draw? Is there anything in this +story, so briefly and imperfectly told, to suggest any conclusion as +to the inadequacy or incompetency of the Republican party to deal +with any question that is now presented for solution or that we +may meet in the progress of this people's history? Why, countrymen, +these problems in government were new. We took the ship +of state when there was treachery at the helm, when there was +mutiny on the deck, when the ship was among the rocks, and we +put loyalty at the helm; we brought the deck into order and sub<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>jection. +We have brought the ship into the wide and open sea of +prosperity, and is it to be suggested that the party that has accomplished +these magnificent achievements cannot sail and manage the +good ship in the frequented roadways of ordinary commerce? +What is there now before us that presents itself for solution?</p> + +<p>What questions are we to grapple with? What unfinished work +remains to be done? It seems to me that the work that is unfinished +is to make that constitutional grant of citizenship, the +franchise to the colored men of the South, a practical and living +reality. The condition of things is such in this country—a government +by constitutional majority—that whenever the people become +convinced that an administration or a law does not represent the +will of the majority of our qualified electors, then that administration +ceases to challenge the respect of our people and that law +ceases to command their willing obedience. This is a republican +government, a government by majority, the majorities to be +ascertained by a fair count and each elector expressing his will at +the ballot-box. I know of no reason why any law should bind my +conscience that does not have this sanction behind it. I know of +no reason why I should yield respect to any executive officer whose +title is not based upon a majority vote of the qualified electors of +this country. What is the condition of things in the Southern +States to-day?</p> + +<p>The Republican vote is absolutely suppressed. Elections in many +of those States have become a farce. In the last congressional +election in the State of Alabama there were several congressional +districts where the entire vote for members of Congress did not +reach 2,000; whereas in most of the districts of the North the vote +cast at our congressional elections goes from 30,000 to 50,000. I had +occasion to say a day or two ago that in a single congressional +district in the State of Nebraska there were more votes cast to +elect one Congressman than were cast in the State of Alabama at the +same election to elect their whole delegation. Out of what does +this come? The suppression of the Republican vote; the understanding +among our Democratic friends that it is not necessary that +they should vote because their opponents are not allowed to vote. +But some one will suggest: "Is there a remedy for this?" I do not +know, my fellow citizens, how far there is a legal remedy under +our Constitution, but it does not seem to me to be an adequate +answer. It does not seem to me to be conclusive against the agitation +of the question even if we should be compelled to respond to +the arrogant question that is asked us: "What are you going to +do about it?" Even if we should be compelled to answer: "We<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +can do nothing but protest," is it not worth while here, and in +relation to this American question, that we should at least lift up +our protest; that we should at least denounce the wrong; that we +should at least deprive the perpetrators of it of what we used to +call the usufructs of the crime? If you cannot prevent a burglar +from breaking into your house you will do a great deal towards +discouraging burglary if you prevent him from carrying off anything, +and so it seems to me that if we can, upon this question, +arouse the indignant protest of the North, and unite our efforts in +a determination that those who perpetrate these wrongs against +popular suffrage shall not by means of those wrongs seat a President +in Washington to secure the Federal patronage in a State, we shall +have done much to bring this wrong to an end. But at least while +we are protesting by representatives from our State Department at +Washington against wrongs perpetrated in Russia against the Jew, +and in our popular assemblies here against the wrongs which +England has inflicted upon Ireland, shall we not at least in reference +to this gigantic and intolerable wrong in our own country, as a +party, lift up a stalwart and determined protest against it?</p> + +<p>But some of these independent journalists, about which our +friend MacMillan talked, call this the "bloody shirt." They say +we are trying to revive the strife of the war, to rake over the extinct +embers, to kindle the fire again. I want it understood that +for one I have no quarrel with the South for what took place +between 1861 and 1865. I am willing to forget that they were +rebels, at least as soon as they are willing to forget it themselves, +and that time does not seem to have come yet to them. But our +complaint is against what was done in 1884, not against what was +done during the war. Our complaint is against what will be done +this year, not what was done between 1861 and 1865. No bloody +shirt—though that cry never had any terrors for me. I believe we +greatly underestimate the importance of bringing the issue to the +front, and with that oft-time Republican courage and outspoken +fidelity to truth denouncing it the land over. If we cannot do +anything else we can either make these people ashamed of this +outrage against the ballot or make the world ashamed of them.</p> + +<p>There is another question to which the Republican party has +committed itself, and on the line of which it has accomplished, +as I believe, much for the prosperity of this country. I believe +the Republican party is pledged and ought to be pledged to the doctrine +of the protection of American industries and American labor. +I believe that in so far as our native inventive genius—which seems +to have no limit—our productive forces can supply the American<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +market, we ought to keep it for ourselves. And yet this new captain +on the bridge seems to congratulate himself on the fact that +the voyage is still prosperous notwithstanding the change of commanders; +who seems to forget that the reason that the voyage is +still prosperous is because the course of the ship was marked out +before he went on the bridge and the rudder tied down. He has +attempted to take a new direction since he has been in command, +with a view of changing the sailing course of the old craft, but it +has seemed to me that he has made the mistake of mistaking the +flashlight of some British lighthouse for the light of day. I do +not intend here to-night in this presence to discuss this tariff question +in any detail. I only want to say that in the passage of what +is now so flippantly called the war tariff, to raise revenue to carry +on the war out of the protective duties which were then levied, +there has come to this country a prosperity and development which +would have been impossible without it, and that reversal of this +policy now, at the suggestion of Mr. Cleveland, according to the line +of the blind statesman from Texas, would be to stay and interrupt +this march of prosperity on which we have entered. I am one of +those uninstructed political economists that have an impression +that some things may be too cheap; that I cannot find myself in +full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seems to +me necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the +coat. I believe it is true to-day that we have many things in this +country that are too cheap, because whenever it is proved that the +man or woman who produces any article cannot get a decent living +out of it, then it is too cheap.</p> + +<p>But I have not intended to discuss in detail any of these questions +with which we have grappled, upon which we have proclaimed a +policy, or which we must meet in the near future. I am only here +to-night briefly to sketch to you the magnificent career of this party +to which we give our allegiance—a union of the States, restored, +cemented, regenerated; a Constitution cleansed of its compromises +with slavery and brought into harmony with the immortal Declaration; +a race emancipated, given citizenship and the ballot; a +national credit preserved and elevated until it stands unequalled +among the nations of the world; a currency more prized than the +coin for which it may be exchanged; a story of prosperity more +marvellous than was ever written by the historian before. This is +in brief outline the magnificent way in which the Republican +party has wrought. It stands to-day for a pure, equal, honest +ballot the country over. It stands to-day without prejudice or +malice, the well-wisher of every State in this Union; disposed to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +fill all the streams of the South with prosperity, and demanding +only that the terms of the surrender at Appomattox shall be complied +with. When that magnificent act of clemency was witnessed, +when those sublime and gracious words were uttered by +General Grant at Appomattox, the country applauded. We said +to those misguided men: "Go home"—in the language of the +parole—"and you shall be unmolested while you obey the laws in +force at the place where you reside." We ask nothing more, but +we cannot quietly submit to the fact, while it is true everywhere +in the United States that the man who fought for years against his +country is allowed the full, free, unrestricted exercise of his new +citizenship, when it shall not also be true everywhere that every +man who followed Lincoln in his political views, and every soldier +who fought to uphold the flag, shall in the same full, ample manner +be secured in his political rights.</p> + +<p>This disfranchisement question is hardly a Southern question in +all strictness. It has gone into Dakota, and the intelligent and +loyal population of that Territory is deprived, was at the last election, +and will be again, of any participation in the decision of +national questions solely because the prevailing sentiment of +Dakota is Republican. Not only that, but this disregard of purity +and honesty in our elections invaded Ohio in an attempt to seize +the United States Senate by cheating John Sherman, that gallant +statesman, out of his seat in the Senate. And it came here to +Illinois, in an attempt also to defeat that man whom I loved so +much, John A. Logan, out of his seat in the United States Senate. +And it has come into our own State (Indiana) by tally-sheet frauds, +committed by individuals, it is true, but justified and defended +by the Democratic party of the State in an attempt to cheat us all +out of our fair election majorities. It was and is a question that +lies over every other question, for every other question must be +submitted to this tribunal for decision, and if the tribunal is corrupted, +why shall we debate questions at all? Who can doubt +whether, in defeat or victorious, in the future as in the past, taking +high ground upon all these questions, the same stirring cause that +assembled our party in the beginning will yet be found drawing like +a great magnet the young and intelligent moral elements of our +country into the Republican organization? Defeated once, we are +ready for this campaign which is impending, and I believe that +the great party of 1860 is gathering together for the coming election +with a force and a zeal and a resolution that will inevitably carry +it, under that standard-bearer who may be chosen here in June, to +victory in November.</p></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_25_1888" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_25_1888">INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 25, 1888.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Nomination Day.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A few</span> hours after the receipt of the news of the nomination +of General Harrison for President, on Monday, June +25, 1888, delegations from neighboring cities and towns +began to arrive to congratulate him. From the moment +the result at Chicago was known, and for two days thereafter, +the city of Indianapolis was the scene of excitement +and enthusiasm unparalleled in its history.</p> + +<p>The first out-of-town delegation to arrive was the Republican +Club of Danville, Hendricks County, Indiana, +three hundred strong, led by the Hon. L. M. Campbell, +Rev. Ira J. Chase, Major J. B. Homan, Joel T. Baker, +Capt. Worrel, and E. Hogate.</p> + +<p>They came on the afternoon of the twenty-fifth and +marched to the Harrison residence escorted by about five +thousand excited citizens of Indianapolis, and it was to +these men of Hendricks that General Harrison made his first +public speech—after his nomination—which proved to be +the opening words of a series of impromptu addresses remarkable +for their eloquence, conciseness and variety, and +generally conceded by the press of the day to have been +the most brilliant and successful campaign speeches of his +generation.</p> + +<p>To the Danville Club General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I am very much obliged to my Hendricks County +friends for this visit. The trouble you have taken to make this +call so soon after information of the result at Chicago reached you +induces me to say a word or two, though you will not, of course, +expect any reference to politics or any extended reference to the +result at Chicago. I very highly appreciate the wise, discreet and +affectionate interest which our delegation and the people of Indiana +have displayed in the convention which has just closed at +Chicago. [Cries of "Good!" "Good!" and cheers.] I accept your +visit to-day as an expression of your confidence and respect, and +I thank you for it. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> + +<p>Scarcely had the Danville visit concluded before another +organization from Hendricks County arrived, the Republican +Club of Plainfield, led by Dr. Harlan, William G. +Ellis, Oscar Hadley, and A. T. Harrison.</p> + +<p>Responding to their call, General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I can only thank you for this evidence of your +friendliness. That so many of my Hendricks County friends should +have reached Indianapolis so soon after hearing the result at +Chicago is very gratifying. The people of your county have +always given me the most hearty support whenever I have appealed +to them for support. I have a most affectionate interest in your +county and in its people, especially because of the fact that it furnished +two companies to the regiment which I took into the field. +Some of the best and most loyal of these soldiers gave their lives +for their country in the battles in which the regiment was engaged. +These incidents have attached me to the county, and I trust I have +yet, even here among this group, some of my friends of the Seventieth +Indiana surviving, who will always be glad to extend to me, +as I to them, a comrade's hand. I thank you for this call.</p></div> + +<p>A few moments later two large delegations arrived from +Hamilton and Howard Counties: Hon. J. R. Gray of +Noblesville and Milton Garrigus of Kokomo delivered +congratulatory addresses on behalf of their townsmen, to +which General Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I thank you, my friends of Hamilton County, for this call. I +know the political steadfastness of that true and tried county. +Your people have always been kind to me. I thank you for this +evidence of your confidence and respect.</p> + +<p>Howard County. Of that county I may say what I have said of +Hamilton County. It is a neighbor in location and it is a neighbor +in good works. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>On the evening of the twenty-fifth five thousand or more +neighbors and residents of the city congregated before the +Harrison residence.</p> + +<p>The General, on appearing, was greeted by a demonstration +lasting several minutes. The standard-bearers, +carrying the great banner of the Oliver P. Morton Club, +made their way to the steps and held the flag over his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +head. Hon. W. N. Harding finally quieted the crowd and +presented General Harrison, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Neighbors and Friends</i>—I am profoundly sensible of the kindness +which you evidence to-night in gathering in such large numbers +to extend to me your congratulations over the result at Chicago. It +would be altogether inappropriate that I should say anything of a +partisan character. Many of my neighbors who differ with me +politically have kindly extended to me, as citizens of Indianapolis, +their congratulations over this event. [Cries of "Good!" "Good!"] +Such congratulations, as well as those of my neighbors who sympathize +with me in my political beliefs, are exceedingly grateful. +I have been a long time a resident of Indianapolis—over thirty +years. Many who are here before me have been with me, during +all those years, citizens of this great and growing capital of a magnificent +State. We have seen the development and growth of +this city. We are proud of its position to-day, and we look +forward in the future to a development which shall far outstrip +that which the years behind us have told. I thank you sincerely +for this evidence that those who have known me well and long +give me still their confidence and respect. [Cheers and applause.]</p> + +<p>Kings sometimes bestow decorations upon those whom they +desire to honor, but that man is most highly decorated who has +the affectionate regard of his neighbors and friends. [Great +applause, and cries of "Hurrah for Harrison!"] I will only again +thank you most cordially for this demonstration of your regard. +I shall be glad, from time to time, as opportunity offers, to meet +you all personally, and regret that to-night this crowd is so great +that it will be impossible for me to take each one of you by the +hand [cries of "We'll forgive you!"], but we will be here together +and my house will always open its doors gladly to any of you when +you may desire to see me. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_26" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_26">INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> evening of the day following his nomination General +Harrison was visited by the surviving members of his +old regiment, the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, led by +Major George W. Grubbs of Martinsville. There was +also present a delegation from Boone County headed by the +Hon. Henry L. Bynum, O. P. Mahan and S. J. Thomp<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>son; +also the returning delegates from Vermont to the +Chicago convention, headed by Gov. Redfield Proctor and +General J. G. McCullough.</p> + +<p>Responding to the address of Major Grubbs, on behalf +of the veterans, General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades</i>—Called, as I have been, by the national convention of +one of the great political parties of this country to be its candidate +for the presidency, it will probably be my fortune before the election +to receive many delegations representing various interests and +classes of our fellow-citizens, but I am sure that out of them all +there will come none whose coming will touch my heart so deeply +as this visit from my comrades of the Seventieth Indiana and these +scattered members of the other regiments that constituted the First +Brigade of the Third Division of the Twentieth Army Corps. I +recall the scene to which Major Grubbs has alluded. I remember +that summer day, when, equipped and armed, we were called to +leave our homes and cross the Ohio River and enter the territory +that was in arms against the Government which we were sworn to +support. I recall, with you, the tender parting, the wringing of +hearts with which we left those we loved. I recall the high and +buoyant determination, the resolute carriage with which you went +to do your part in the work of suppressing the great rebellion. I +remember the scenes through which we went in that hard discipline +of service and sickness, and all of those hard incidents which are +necessary to convert citizens into veterans.</p> + +<p>I remember the scenes of battle in which we stood together. I remember +especially that broad and deep grave at the foot of the Resaca +hill where we left those gallant comrades who fell in that desperate +charge. I remember, through it all, the gallantry, devotion +and steadfastness, the high set patriotism you always exhibited. +I remember how, after sweeping down with Sherman from Chattanooga +to the sea and up again through the Carolinas and Virginia, +you, with those gallant armies that had entered the gate of the +South by Louisville and Vicksburg, marched in the great review +up the grand avenue of our Nation's capital.</p> + +<p>I remember that proud scene of which we were part that day; +the glad rejoicing as our faces were turned homeward, the applause +which greeted us as the banner of our regiment was now and then +recognized by some home friends who had gathered to see us—the +whole course of these incidents of battle, of sickness, of death, of +victory, crowned thus by the triumphant reassertion of national +authority, and by the muster out and our return to those homes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +that we loved, made again secure against all the perils which had +threatened them.</p> + +<p>I feel that in this campaign upon which I am entering, and +which will undoubtedly cause careful scrutiny, perhaps unkind and +even malicious assault, all that related to my not conspicuous but +loyal services with you in the army I may confidently leave, with +my honor, in the hands of the surviving members of the Seventieth +Indiana, whatever their political faith may be. [Cries of "That is +true, General!" and "Yes!" "Yes!"]</p> + +<p>May I ask you now, for I am too deeply moved by this visit to +speak as I would desire, that each one will enter this door, that +will always open with a hearty welcome to you, and let me take +you by the hand? [Cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>The event of the night was the visit of the California +delegation, at ten o'clock, accompanied by the Indiana +delegation to Chicago and several hundred personal friends +and neighbors of General Harrison just returned from +Chicago, where they had been laboring for his nomination.</p> + +<p>The Hon. M. H. de Young and John F. Ellison of California +delivered congratulatory addresses, on conclusion of +which the Californians hastened to their train; after they +departed the great crowd refused to disperse and called +repeatedly for General Harrison, who responded as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I am very deeply impressed +and gratified with this magnificent demonstration of your +respect. No man can be so highly honored by any convention, or +by any decoration which any of the authorities of the Government +can bestow, as by the respect and confidence of those who live near +him. My heart is touched by this demonstration which my fellow-citizens +have given me of their personal respect for me. I do not, +however, accept this manifestation of interest as wholly due to +myself. The great bulk of those who are assembled here to-night +manifest rather their interest in those political principles which I +have been called by the representatives, in national convention of +the Republican party, to represent in this campaign. But I will +not discuss any of those high issues to-night, because I am glad to +know that among those who are gathered here, and among those +who have paid me the compliment of their presence in my home, +there are many citizens of Indianapolis who differ with me politi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>cally. +I would not, therefore, if it were otherwise proper, mar +this occasion by the discussion of any political topic. I am glad +to have an opportunity to return my sincere and heartfelt thanks +to the Indiana delegation, and to that band of devoted friends who +gathered about them and assisted them in their work at Chicago. +When I saw in the newspaper press of the East and of the West the +encomiums that were passed by the correspondents upon the deportment +and character of the representatives of Indiana at Chicago, +I was greatly pleased. When I heard of their affectionate devotion, +of their discreet and wise presentation of the claims of +Indiana, I was still further gratified. And if the result of that +convention had been, as it well might have been if individuals +had only been considered in the contest that was there waged, the +selection for this high place of some one other than myself, I +should have felt that the devoted interest, the wise and faithful +presentation by the Indiana delegation of the Indiana situation +was such that the failure to yield to their argument would still +have left me crowned with the highest crown that can be placed +upon mortal brow—the affection and confidence and discreet support +of my friends from Indiana. [Cries of "Good!" "Good!"] I +am glad that the despatches said of them, and truly said, that they +conducted their canvass with that gentle and respectful regard to +the interests and character of the others who were named for this +high place, and that they came home without those regrets which +must have followed if this victory had been won at the expense of +any of those noble names that were presented for the suffrage of +the convention.</p> + +<p>I do not feel at all that in selecting the candidate who was +chosen regard was had simply to the individual equipment and +qualifications for the duties of this high office. I feel sure that if +the convention had felt free to regard these things only, some other +of those distinguished men, old-time leaders of the Republican +party, Blaine, or Sherman, or Allison, or some of the others named—would +have been chosen in preference to me. I feel that it was the +situation in Indiana and its relation to the campaign that was impending +rather than the personal equipment or qualifications of the +candidate that was chosen that turned the choice of the convention +in our direction. We are here to-night to thank those members of +the convention who have done us the honor to pay our capital a visit +to-night not only for this visit, but for the support and interest which +they took in the Indiana candidacy in the convention at Chicago. I +thank you again for gathering here to-night. I am sure that in +this demonstration you give evidence that the interest in this cam<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>paign +will not flag until the election has determined the result of +the contest. And I feel sure, too, my fellow-citizens, that we have +joined now a contest of great principles, and that the armies which +are to fight out this great contest before the American people will +encamp upon the high plains of principle, and not in the low +swamps of personal defamation or detraction. [Cries of "Hear!" +"Hear!" and "Good!"] Again I thank you for the compliment of +your presence here to-night, and bid you good-night. [Great +cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_30" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JUNE_30">INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 30.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">During</span> the afternoon representatives of the Marquette +Club of Chicago—of which General Harrison is an honorary +member—called to present a set of congratulatory +resolutions adopted by the club. The committee comprised +Geo. V. Lauman, H. D. Crocker, W. S. Gilbert, E. B. +Gould, H. M. Kingman and J. S. Moore.</p> + +<p>One of the resolutions recited that</p> + +<p>"The Marquette Club of Chicago takes great pride in +the fact that within its walls and at its board was fired the +first gun in Chicago of that memorable contest which +has culminated in the nomination of its most honored +member, General Benjamin Harrison, to fill the highest +office within the gift of the American people."</p> + +<p>General Harrison in response said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen of the Marquette Club</i>—I sincerely thank you for the +congratulations of the Marquette Club of Chicago. I well recollect +the evening I spent with you last February, and I remember +how favorably your club impressed me at that time as a body of +active, energetic young Republicans: not so much an organization +for social purposes as for active advancement of Republican principles +in your vicinity, and in the country as well. I thought I +recognized in you then an efficient body for work in the State of +Illinois, one that could in the coming campaign render signal service +to the party whose principles its members maintain. I rejoice +in your coming to call on me here, and I hope you will carry my +sincere thanks to your members, and make yourselves welcome +at my home now and whenever you are in Indianapolis.</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + +<p>On the evening of June 30 several thousand citizens, +irrespective of party, paid their respects to General Harrison; +at the head of the column marched four hundred +veterans commanded by Moses G. McLain. Major James +L. Mitchell, a prominent Democrat, was spokesman for +the veterans.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrade Mitchell and Fellow-Soldiers</i>—I sincerely thank you for +this evidence of your respect and comradeship. I am very certain +that there is no class whose confidence and respect I more highly +prize or more earnestly covet than that of the soldiers who, in the +great war from 1861 to 1865, upheld the loved banner of our country +and brought it home in honor. The comradeship of the war will +never end until our lives end. The fires in which our friendship +was riveted and welded were too hot for the bond ever to be +broken. We sympathize with each other in the glory of the common +cause for which we fought. We went, not as partisans, but +as patriots, into the strife which involved the national life. I am +sure that no army was ever assembled in the world's history that +was gathered from higher impulses than the army of the Union. +[Cries of "Right!" "Right!"]</p> + +<p>It was no sordid impulse, no hope of spoils that induced these +men to sunder the tender associations of home and forsake their +business pursuits to look into the grim face of death with unblanched +cheeks and firm and resolute eyes. They are the kind of +men who draw their impulses from the high springs of truth and +duty. The army was great in its assembling. It came with an +impulse that was majestic and terrible. It was as great in its +muster-out as in the brilliant work which had been done in the +field. When the war was over the soldier was not left at the tavern. +Every man had in some humble place a chair by some fireside +where he was loved and towards which his heart went forward +with a quick step. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>And so this great army that had rallied for the defence and preservation +of the country was disbanded without tumult or riot or +any public disturbance. It had covered the country with the mantle +of its protection when it needed it, as the snows of spring cover +the early vegetation, and when the warm sun of peace shone upon +it, it disappeared as the snow sinks into the earth to refresh +and vivify the summer growth. They found their homes; they +carried their brawn and intellect into all the pursuits of peace to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +stimulate them and lift them up; they added their great impulse +to that great wave of prosperity which has swept over our country +ever since. [Applause.] But in nothing was this war greater than +in that it led a race into freedom and brought those whom we had +conquered in the struggle into the full enjoyment of a restored citizenship, +and shared again with them the responsibilities and +duties of a restored government. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I thank you to-night most sincerely for this evidence of your +comradeship. I thank, specially, those friends who differ with me +in their political views, that they have put these things aside +to-night, and have come here to give me a comrade's greeting. +[Applause.] May I have the privilege now, without detaining you +longer, of taking by the hand every soldier here? [Applause.]</p></div> + +<p>Later, the same evening, the Harrison League of +Indianapolis, numbering three hundred colored men, assembled +on the lawn and congratulated the Republican +nominee through its spokesman, Mr. Ben D. Bagby. General +Harrison's response was as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Bagby and Gentlemen of the Harrison Club</i>—I assure you +that I have a sincere respect for, and a very deep interest in, the +colored people of the United States. My memory, as a boy, goes +back to the time when slavery existed in the Southern States. I +was born upon the Ohio River, which was the boundary between +the free State of Ohio and the slave State of Kentucky. Some of +my earliest recollections relate to the stirring and dramatic interest +which was now and then excited by the pursuit of an escaping +slave for the hope of offered rewards.</p> + +<p>I remember, as a boy, wandering once through my grandfather's +orchard at North Bend, and in pressing through an alder thicket +that grew on its margin I saw sitting in its midst a colored man +with the frightened look of a fugitive in his eye, and attempting +to satisfy his hunger with some walnuts he had gathered. He +noticed my approach with a fierce, startled look, to see whether I +was likely to betray him; I was frightened myself and left him in +some trepidation, but I kept his secret. [Cries of "Good!" +"Good!"] I have seen the progress which has been made in the +legislation relating to your race, and the progress that the race +itself has made since that day. When I came to Indiana to reside +the unfriendly black code was in force. My memory goes back +to the time when colored witnesses were first allowed to appear in +court in this State to testify in cases where white men were par<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>ties. +Prior to that time, as you know, you had been excluded +from the right to tell in court, under oath, your side of the story in +any legal controversy with white men. [Cries of "I know that!"] +The laws prevented your coming here. In every way you were at +a disadvantage, even in the free States. I have lived to see this +unfriendly legislation removed from our statute-books and the +unfriendly section of our State Constitution repealed. I have lived +not only to see that, but to see the race emancipated and slavery +extinct. [Cries of "Amen to that!"]</p> + +<p>Nothing gives me more pleasure among the results of the war +than this. History will give a prominent place in the story of this +great war to the fact that it resulted in making all men free, and +gave to you equal civil rights. The imagination and art of the +poet, the tongue of the orator, the skill of the artist will be brought +under contribution to tell this story of the emancipation of the +souls of men. [Applause and cries of "Amen!"]</p> + +<p>Nothing gives me so much gratification as a Republican as to +feel that in all the steps that led to this great result the Republican +party sympathized with you, pioneered for you in legislation, and +was the architect of those great measures of relief which have so +much ameliorated your condition. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I know nowhere in this country of a monument that I behold +with so much interest, that touches my heart so deeply, as that +monument at Washington representing the Proclamation of Emancipation +by President Lincoln, the kneeling black man at the feet +of the martyred President, with the shackles falling from his +limbs.</p> + +<p>I remember your faithfulness during the time of the war. I +remember your faithful service to the army as we were advancing +through an unknown country. We could always depend upon the +faithfulness of the black man. [Cries of "Right you are!"] He +might be mistaken, but he was never false. Many a time in the +darkness of night have those faithful men crept to our lines and +given us information of the approach of the enemy. I shall never +forget a scene that I saw when Sherman's army marched through +a portion of North Carolina, between Raleigh and Richmond, +where our troops had never before been. The colored people had +not seen our flag since the banner of treason had been set up in its +stead. As we were passing through a village the colored people +flocked out to see once more the starry banner of freedom, the +emblem, promise, and security of their emancipation. I remember +an aged woman, over whom nearly a century of slavery must +have passed, pressed forward to see the welcome banner that told<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +her that her soul would go over into the presence of her God. I +remember her exultation of spirit as she danced in the dusty road +before our moving column, and, like Miriam of old, called upon +her soul to rejoice in the deliverance which God had wrought by +the coming of those who stood for and made secure the Proclamation +of Emancipation. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I rejoice in all that you have accomplished since you have been +free. I recall no scene more pathetic than that which I have often +seen about our camp-fires. An aged man, a fugitive from slavery, +had found freedom in our camp. After a day of hard work, when +taps had sounded and the lights in the tents were out, I have seen +him with the spelling-book that the chaplain had given him, lying +prone upon the ground taxing his old eyes, and pointing with his +hardened finger to the letters of the alphabet, as he endeavored to +open to his clouded brain the avenues of information and light.</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that that same desire to increase and enlarge +your information possesses the race to-day. It is the open way for +the race to that perfect emancipation which will remove remaining +prejudices and secure to you in all parts of the land an equal and +just participation in the government of this country. It cannot +much longer be withholden from you.</p> + +<p>Again I thank you for your presence here to-night and will be +glad to take by the hand any of you who desire to see me. [Great +applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_4_1888" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_4_1888">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 4, 1888.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Notification.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Indiana Republican State Committee, through its +chairman, the Hon. James N. Huston, designated as a committee +to receive and escort the committee on notification +from the National Convention the following gentlemen:</p> + +<p>Ex-Gov. Albert G. Porter, Mayor Caleb S. Denny, Col. +John C. New, J. N. Huston, Col. J. H. Bridgland, Hon. +Stanton J. Peelle, William Wallace, M. G. McLain, N. S. +Byram, Hon. W. H. Calkins, W. J. Richards, and Hon. +H. M. LaFollette.</p> + +<p>At noon on July 4 the notification committee representing +the Republican National Convention arrived under<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +escort at the residence of General Harrison, No. 674 Delaware +Street. The following delegates comprised the +committee:</p> + +<p>Judge Morris M. Estee of California, <i>Chairman</i>; Alabama, +A. H. Hendricks; Arkansas, Logan H. Roots; California, +Paris Kilburn; Colorado, Henry R. Wolcott; Connecticut, +E. S. Henry; Delaware, J. R. Whitaker; Florida, +F. M. Wicker; Georgia, W. W. Brown; Illinois, Thomas +W. Scott; Indiana, J. N. Huston; Iowa, Thomas Updegraff; +Kansas, Henry L. Alden; Kentucky, George Denny; +Louisiana, Andrew Hero; Maine, Samuel H. Allen; Maryland, +Wm. M. Marine; Massachusetts, F. L. Burden; +Michigan, Wm. McPherson; Minnesota, R. B. Langdon; +Mississippi, T. W. Stringer; Missouri, A. W. Mullins; +Nebraska, R. S. Norval; Nevada, S. E. Hamilton; New +Hampshire, P. C. Cheney; New Jersey, H. H. Potter; +New York, Obed Wheeler; North Carolina, D. C. Pearson; +Ohio, Charles Foster; Oregon, F. P. Mays; Pennsylvania, +Frank Reeder; Rhode Island, B. M. Bosworth; South +Carolina, Paris Simpkins; Tennessee, J. C. Dougherty; +Texas, E. H. Terrell; Vermont, Redfield Proctor; Virginia, +Harry Libby; West Virginia, C. B. Smith; Wisconsin, +H. C. Payne; Arizona, Geo. Christ; Dakota, G. +W. Hopp; Dist. Columbia, P. H. Carson; Idaho, G. A. +Black; Montana, G. O. Eaton; New Mexico, J. F. Chavez; +Utah, J. J. Daly; Washington, T. H. Minor; Wyoming, +C. D. Clark.</p> + +<p>Chairman Estee spoke for the committee; his address +signed by each member was also presented to General +Harrison, who in a full, clear voice replied as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee</i>—The official +notice which you have brought of the nomination conferred upon +me by the Republican National Convention recently in session at +Chicago excites emotions of a profound, though of a somewhat +conflicting, character. That after full deliberation and free consultation +the representatives of the Republican party of the United +States should have concluded that the great principles enunciated<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +in the platform adopted by the convention could be in some measure +safely confided to my care is an honor of which I am deeply +sensible and for which I am very grateful. I do not assume or +believe that this choice implies that the convention found in me +any pre-eminent fitness or exceptional fidelity to the principles of +government to which we are mutually pledged. My satisfaction +with the result would be altogether spoiled if that result had been +reached by any unworthy methods or by a disparagement of the +more eminent men who divided with me the suffrages of the convention. +I accept the nomination with so deep a sense of the dignity +of the office and of the gravity of its duties and the responsibilities +as altogether to exclude any feeling of exultation or pride. +The principles of government and the practices in administration +upon which issues are now fortunately so clearly made are so +important in their relations to the national and to individual prosperity +that we may expect an unusual popular interest in the campaign. +Relying wholly upon the considerate judgment of our +fellow-citizens and the gracious favor of God, we will confidently +submit our cause to the arbitrament of a free ballot.</p> + +<p>The day you have chosen for this visit suggests no thoughts that +are not in harmony with the occasion. The Republican party has +walked in the light of the Declaration of Independence. It has lifted +the shaft of patriotism upon the foundation laid at Bunker Hill. +It has made the more perfect union secure by making all men +free. Washington and Lincoln, Yorktown and Appomattox, the +Declaration of Independence and the Proclamation of Emancipation +are naturally and worthily associated in our thoughts to-day.</p> + +<p>As soon as may be possible I shall by letter communicate to your +chairman a more formal acceptance of the nomination, but it may +be proper for me now to say that I have already examined the +platform with some care, and that its declarations, to some of +which your chairman has alluded, are in harmony with my views. +It gives me pleasure, gentlemen, to receive you in my home and to +thank you for the cordial manner in which you have conveyed +your official message.</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion of these formalities Charles W. Clisbee, +one of the secretaries of the National Convention, +presented the nominee an engrossed official copy of the +Republican platform.</p> + +<p>July 4, 1888, was a memorable day in the life of +General Harrison and his wife; for aside from the official<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +notification of his nomination, they were the recipients of +congratulations of a unique character from the Tippecanoe +Club of Marion County, a political organization +composed exclusively of veterans who had voted for General +William Henry Harrison in the campaigns of 1836 +or 1840.</p> + +<p>Nearly all the younger and able-bodied members attended +the Chicago Convention and worked unceasingly for the +nomination of General Benjamin Harrison.</p> + +<p>Their average age was seventy-five years, while one +member, James Hubbard of Mapleton, was over one hundred +years old.</p> + +<p>On the afternoon of the fourth, ninety-one of these veterans +commanded by their marshal, Isaac Taylor, marched +to General Harrison's house through the rain. They had +adopted a congratulatory address which was presented by +a committee consisting of Dr. George W. New, Judge +J. B. Julian, and Dr. Lawson Abbett, to which General +Harrison feelingly replied as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Tippecanoe Club of Marion +County</i>—I am very deeply touched by your visit to-day. The +respect and confidence of such a body of men is a crown. Many +of you I have known since I first came to Indianapolis. I count +you my friends. [Cries of "Yes, sir, we are!"] You have not +only shown your friendliness and respect in the political contests +in which my name has been used, but very many of you in the +social and business relations of life extended to me, when I came +a young man among you, encouragement and help. I know that +at the beginning your respect and confidence was builded upon +the respect, and even affection—may I not say, which you bore to +my grandfather. [A voice, "Yes, that is true!"] May I not, without +self-laudation, now say that upon that foundation you have +since created a modest structure of respect for me? [Cries of "Yes, +sir!" "We have!" "That's the talk!"] I came among you with +the heritage I trust, of a good name [cries of "That's so!" +"Good stock!"], such as all of you enjoy. It was the only inheritance +that has been transmitted in our family. [Cries of "It has +been!"] I think you recollect, and, perhaps, it was that as much +as aught else that drew your choice in 1840 to the Whig candidate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +for the presidency, that he came out of Virginia to the West with +no fortune but the sword he bore, and unsheathed it here in the +defence of our frontier homes. He transmitted little to his descendants +but the respect he had won from his fellow-citizens. It +seems to be the settled habit in our family to leave nothing else to +our children. [Laughter and cries of "That's enough!"] My +friends, I am a thorough believer in the American test of character +[cries of "That's right!"]: the rule must be applied to a man's +own life when his stature is taken He will not build high who +does not build for himself. [Applause and cries of "That's true!"] +I believe also in the American opportunity which puts the starry +sky above every boy's head, and sets his foot upon a ladder which +he may climb until his strength gives out.</p> + +<p>I thank you cordially for your greeting, and for this tender of +your help in this campaign. It will add dignity and strength to +the campaign when it is found that the zealous, earnest, and intelligent +co-operation of men of mature years like you is given to it. +The Whig party to which you belonged had but one serious fault—there +were not enough of them after 1840. [Laughter and +applause.] We have since received to our ranks in the new and +greater party to which you now belong accessions from those who +were then our opponents, and we now unite with them in the +defence of principles which were dear to you as Whigs, which +were indeed the cherished and distinguishing principles of the +Whig party; and in the olden and better time, of the Democratic +party also. Chief among these were a reverent devotion to the +Constitution and the flag, and a firm faith in the benefits of a +protective tariff. If, in some of the States, under a sudden and +mad impulse some of the old Whigs who stood with you in the +campaign of 1840, to which you have referred, wandered from us, +may we not send to them to-day the greetings of these their old +associates, and invite them to come again into the fold?</p> + +<p>And now, gentlemen, I thank you again for your visit, and would +be glad if you would remain with us for a little personal intercourse.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_7" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_7">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Five</span> hundred commercial travellers paid a visit to +General Harrison on July 7; they came from all parts +of the country, principally from Philadelphia, Cincinnati, +St. Louis, and Louisville. Major James R. Ross was marshal +of their delegation; David E. Coffin presented the +"drummers" to General and Mrs. Harrison.</p> + +<p>When all had gathered within or about the residence, +Col. Ed. H. Wolfe of Rushville, Indiana, delivered a congratulatory +address on behalf of the visitors. General +Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Indiana +and Visiting Friends</i>—I most heartily thank you for this cordial +manifestation of your respect. It is to be expected when one has +been named for office by one of the great parties that those who are +in accord with him in his political convictions will show their +interest in the campaign which he represents, but it is particularly +gratifying to me that many of you who differ with me in political +opinion, reserving your own opinions and choice, have come here +to-night to express your gratification, personally, that I have been +named by the Republican party as its candidate for the presidency.</p> + +<p>It is a very pleasant thing in politics when this sort of testimony +is possible, and it is very gratifying to me to-night to +receive it at your hands. I do not know why we cannot hold our +political differences with respect for each other's opinions, and +with entire respect for each other personally. Our opinions upon +the great questions which divide parties ought not to be held in +such a spirit of bigotry as will prevent us from extending to a +political opponent the concession of honesty in his opinion and +that personal respect to which he may be entitled. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I very much value this visit from you, for I think I know how +to estimate the commercial travellers of America. I am not going +to open before you to-night any store of flattery. I do not think +there is any market for it here. [Laughter and cries of "That's +good!" and cheers.] You know the value of that commodity perfectly. +[Laughter and continued applause.] I do not mean to +suggest at all that you are dealers in it yourselves [laughter] in +your intercourse with your customers, but I do mean to say that +your wide acquaintance with men, that judgment of character and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +even of the moods of men which is essential to the successful prosecution +of your business makes you a very unpromising audience +upon which to pass any stale compliments.</p> + +<p>My memory goes back to the time when there were no commercial +travellers. When I first came to Indianapolis to reside your +profession was not known. The retail merchant went to the wholesale +house and made his selections there. I appreciate the fact +that those who successfully pursue your calling must, in the nature +of things, be masters of the business in which you are engaged +and possess great adaptability and a high order of intelligence.</p> + +<p>I thank you again for this visit; and give you in return my +most sincere respect and regard. [Applause.] I regret that there +is not room enough here for your comfort [a voice: "There will be +more room in the White House!" Another: "We will take your +order now and deliver the goods in November!"], but I shall be +glad if any or all of you will remain for a better acquaintance and +less formal intercourse. [Great applause and rousing cheers for +the next President.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_9" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_9">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first of many delegations from other States arrived +July 9, from the city of Benton Harbor, Mich., and included +many ladies. The leading members were F. R. +Gilson, Ambrose H. Rowe, Wm. S. Farmer, G. M. Valentines, +W. B. Shanklin, E. M. Elick, A. J. Kidd, C. C. +Sweet, O. B. Hipp, R. M. Jones, W. L. Hogan, James McDonald, +Allen Brunson, Frank Melton, P. W. Hall, Geo. +W. Platt, W. L. McClure, J. C. Purrill, E. H. Kelly, J. A. +Crawford, M. J. Vincent, Dr. Boston, M. G. Kennedy, +and Dr. J. Bell. General L. M. Ward was spokesman for +the visitors. General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This visit is exceptional in some of its features. +Already, in the brief time since my nomination, I have received +various delegations, but this is the first delegation that has visited +me from outside the borders of my own State. Your visit is also +exceptional and very gratifying in that you have brought with +you the ladies of your families to grace the occasion and to honor +me by their presence. I am glad to know that while the result of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +the convention at Chicago brought disappointment to you, it has +not left any sores that need the ointment of time for their healing. +Your own favored citizen, distinguished civilian, and brave soldier, +General Alger, was among the first and among the most cordial +to extend to me his congratulations and the assurance of his +earnest support in the campaign. I am sure it cannot be otherwise +than that the Republicans of Michigan will take a deep interest +in this campaign; an interest that altogether oversteps all +personal attachments. Your State has been proudly associated with +the past successes of the Republican party, and your interests are +now closely identified with its success in the pending campaign. +I am sure, therefore, that I may accept your presence here to-night +not only as a personal compliment, but as a pledge that +Michigan will be true again to those great principles of government +which are represented by the Republican party. We cherish +the history of our party and are proud of its high achievements; +they stir the enthusiasm of the young and crown those who were +early in its ranks with well-deserved laurels. The success of the +Republican party has always been identified with the glory of the +flag and the unity of the Government. There has been nothing in +the history or principles of our party out of line with revolutionary +memories or with the enlightened statesmanship of the framers +of our Constitution. Those principles are greater than men, lasting +as truth, and sure of final vindication and triumph. Let me thank +you again for your visit, and ask introduction to each of you.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_12" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_12">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 12.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> received four delegations this day. +The first was a committee of veterans from John A. Logan +Post, No. 99, G. A. R., of North Manchester, Wabash +County, who came to invite the General to attend a +soldiers' reunion for Northern Indiana. The committee +comprised Shelby Sexton, Senior Vice-Commander Indiana +G. A. R.; John Elwood, Geo. Lawrence, J. A. Brown, +W. E. Thomas, I. D. Springdon, J. C. Hubbard, J. M. +Jennings, E. A. Ebbinghous, L. J. Noftzger, and S. V. +Hopkins. Rev. R. J. Parrott delivered the address of +invitation. General Harrison responded:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades and Gentlemen</i>—Your request is one that appeals to +me very strongly, and if it were single I should very promptly +accede to it, but, without being told, you will readily understand +that invitations of a kindred nature are coming to me every day, +presented by individual comrades and committees, but more frequently +by written communications.</p> + +<p>I have felt that if I opened a door in this direction it would be +a very wide one, and I would either subject myself to the criticism +of having favored particular localities or particular organizations, +to the neglect of others having equal claims upon me, or +that I should be compelled to give to this pleasant duty—as it +would be if other duties did not crowd me—too much of my time. +I am, therefore, compelled to say to you that it will be impossible +for me to accept your invitation. But in doing this, I want to +thank you for the interest you have shown in my presence with +you, and I want especially to thank you for the spirit of comradeship +which brings you here. I am glad to know—and I have many +manifestations of it—that the peculiar position in which I am +placed as a candidate of a political party does not separate me +from the cordial friendship and comradeship of those who differ +with me politically. I should greatly regret it if it should be so. +We held our opinions and fought for them when the war was on, +and we will hold them now in affectionate comradeship and +mutual respect. I thank you for your visit.</p></div> + +<p>The second delegation also came from Wabash County +and was under the leadership of William Hazen, Warren +Bigler, James P. Ross, James E. Still, Robert Weesner, +John Rodgers, Job Ridgway, and Joseph Ridgway, aged +83, of Wabash City. Their spokesman was Mr. Cowgill. +General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Cowgill and my Wabash County Friends</i>—In 1860 I was +first a candidate before a convention for nomination to a public +office. Possibly some of those who are here to-day were in that +convention. Wabash County presented in the person of my friend, +and afterwards my comrade, Col. Charles Parrish, a candidate for +the office which I also sought, that of Reporter of Decisions of the +Supreme Court of the State of Indiana. We had a friendly yet +earnest contest before the convention, in which I succeeded. A +little later in the campaign, as I was attempting to render to my +party the services which my nomination seemed to imply, I visited +your good county and received at your hands a welcome so demon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>strative +and cordial that I have always had a warm place in my +heart for your people. I was then almost a boy in years, and altogether +a boy in public life. Since then, in campaigns in which I +have had a personal interest, and in very many more wherein I +had only the general interest that you all had, it has been my +pleasure to visit your county, and I can testify to the earnest, intelligent +and devoted republicanism of Wabash County. You have +never faltered in any of the great struggles in which the party +has engaged; and I believe you have followed your party from a +high conviction that the purposes it set before us involved the best +interests of the country that you love, and to which you owe the +duty of citizens. I know how generously you contributed to the +army when your sons were called to defend it; and I know how, +since the war, you have endeavored to preserve and to conserve those +results which you fought for, and which made us again one people, +acknowledging, and I hope loving, one flag and one Constitution. +[Applause.] I want to thank you personally for this visit, +and I wish now, if it is your pleasure, to meet you individually.</p></div> + +<p>Benton County, Indiana, contributed the third delegation +of the day, led by H. S. Travis, Clark Cook, B. Johnson, +Henry Taylor, Frank Knapp, and Robert L. Cox of +Fowler. They were presented by Col. A. D. Streight. +General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Colonel Streight, Fellow-citizens, and Comrades</i>—I am very grateful +to you for this visit, and for the cordial terms in which your +spokesman has extended to me the congratulations of my friends +of Benton County. We have men who boast that they are cosmopolitans, +citizens of the world. I prefer to say that I am an American +citizen [applause], and I freely confess that American interests +have the first place in my regard. [Applause.] This is not +at all inconsistent with the recognition of that comity between +nations which is necessary to the peace of the world. It is not +inconsistent with that philanthropy which sympathizes with +human distress and oppression the world around. We have been +especially favored as an apart nation, separated from the conflicts, +jealousies, and intrigues of European courts, with a territory +embracing every feature of climate and soil, and resources capable +of supplying the wants of our people, of developing a wholesome +and gigantic national growth, and of spreading abroad, by their +full establishment here, the principles of human liberty and free +government. I do not think it inconsistent with the philanthropy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +of the broadest teacher of human love that we should first have +regard for that family of which we are a part. Here in Indiana +the drill has just disclosed to us the presence of inexhaustible quantities, +in a large area of our State, of that new fuel which has the +facility of doing its own transportation, even to the furnace door, +and which leaves no residuum to be carried away when it has done +its work. This discovery has added an impulse to our growth. +It has attracted manufacturing industries from other States. Many +of our towns have received, and this city, we may hope, is yet to +receive, a great impulse in the development of their manufacturing +industries by reason of this discovery. It seems to me that +when this fuller development of our manufacturing interests, this +building up of a home market for the products of our farms, which +is sure to produce here that which has been so obvious elsewhere—a +great increase in the value of farms and farm products—is +opening to us the pleasant prospect of a rapid growth in wealth, +we should be slow to abandon that system of protective duties +which looks to the promotion and development of American industry +and to the preservation of the highest possible scale of wages +for the American workman. [Applause.] The development of +our country must be on those lines that benefit all our people. +Any development that does not reach and beneficially affect all our +people is not to be desired, and cannot be progressive or permanent.</p> + +<p>Comrades, you still love the flag for which we fought. We are +preserved in God's providence to see the wondrous results of that +struggle in which you were engaged—a reunited country, a Constitution +whose authority is no longer disputed, a flag to which all +men bow. It has won respect at home; it should be respected +by all nations of the earth as an emblem and representative of a +people desiring peace with all men, but resolute in the determination +that the rights of all our citizens the world around shall be faithfully +respected. [Applause and cries of "That's right!"] I thank +you again for this visit, and, if it be your pleasure, and your committee +will so arrange, I will be glad to take you by the hand.</p></div> + +<p>The fourth and largest delegation of the day came from +Boone County, numbering more than two thousand, led by +Captain Brown, S. S. Heath, A. L. Howard, W. H. H. +Martin, D. A. Rice, James Williamson, E. G. Darnell, +D. H. Olive, and Captain Arbigas of Lebanon, the last-named +veteran totally blind.</p> + +<p>Another contingent was commanded by David O. Mason,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +J. O. Hurst, J. N. Harmon, and Mr. Denny, an octogenarian, +all of Zionsville. Dr. D. C. Scull was orator for +the visitors. General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—The magnitude of this demonstration puts us at a +disadvantage in our purpose to entertain you hospitably, as we +had designed when notified of your coming. [Cheers.] I regret +that you must stand exposed to the heat of the sun, and that I +must be at the disadvantage of speaking from this high balcony +a few words of hearty thanks. I hope it may be arranged by the +committee so that I may yet have the opportunity of speaking to +you informally and individually. I am glad to notice your quick +interest in the campaign. I am sure that that interest is stimulated +by your devotion to the principles of government which you +conceive—rightly, as I believe—to be involved in this campaign. +[Applause.] I am glad to think that some of you, veterans of a +former political campaign to which your chairman has alluded, +and others of you, comrades in the great war for the Union, come +here to express some personal friendship for me. [Cheers.] But +I am sure that this campaign will be waged upon a plan altogether +above personal consideration. You are here as citizens of the State +of Indiana, proud of the great advancement the State has made +since those pioneer days when brave men from the East and South +entered our territory, blazing a pathway into the unbroken forest, +upon which civilization, intelligence, patriotism, and the love of +God has walked until we are conspicuous among the States as +a community desirous of social order, full of patriotic zeal, and +pledged to the promotion of that education which is to qualify the +coming generations to discharge honorably and well their duties +to the Government which we will leave in their hands. [Applause.] +You are here also as citizens of the United States, proud of that +arch of strength that binds together the States of this Union in +one great Nation. But citizenship has its duties as well as its +privileges. The first is that we give our energies and influence +to the enactment of just, equal, and beneficent laws. The second +is like unto it—that we loyally reverence and obey the will of the +majority enacted into law, whether we are of a majority or not +[applause]; the law throws the ægis of its protection over us all. +It stands sentinel about your country homes to protect you from +violence; it comes into our more thickly populated community +and speaks its mandate for individual security and public order. +There is an open avenue through the ballot-box for the modification +or repeal of laws which are unjust or oppressive. To the law<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +we bow with reverence. It is the one king that commands our +allegiance. We will change our king, when his rule is oppressive, +by these methods appointed, and crown his more liberal successor. +[Applause.] I thank you again, most cordially, for this visit, and +put myself in the hands of your committee that I may have the +privilege of meeting you individually.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_13" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_13">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> thousand employees of the various railroads centreing +at Indianapolis, organized as a Harrison and Morton +Club—J. C. Finch, President, and A. D. Shaw, Marshal +of the occasion—called on General Harrison on the night +of July 13. Yardmaster Shaw was spokesman. General +Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—Your visit is very gratifying to me, and is full of +significance and interest. If I read aright the language of your +lanterns you have signalled the Republican train to go ahead. +[Applause and cries of "And she is going, too!"] You have concluded +that it is freighted with the interests and hopes of the +workingmen of America, and must have the right of way. +[Cheers and cries, "That's true!" and "We don't have to take +water on this trip, either!"] The train has been inspected; you +have given it your skilled and intelligent approval; the track has +been cleared and the switches spiked down. Have I read your signals +aright? [Cheers and cries of "You have!" and "There's no +flat wheels under this train!"] You represent, I understand, every +department of railroad labor—the office, the train, the shop, the +yard, and the road. You are the responsible and intelligent agents +of a vast system that, from a rude and clumsy beginning, has +grown to be as fine and well adapted as the parts of the latest locomotive +engine. The necessities and responsibilities of the business +of transportation have demanded a body of picked men—inventive +and skilful, faithful and courageous, sober and educated—and the +call has been answered, as your presence here to night demonstrates. +[Cheers.] Heroism has been found at the throttle and +the brake, as well as on the battle-field, and as well worthy of song +and marble. The trainman crushed between the platforms, who +used his last breath, not for prayer or message of love, but to say +to the panic-stricken who gathered around him, "Put out the red<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +light for the other train," inscribed his name very high upon the +shaft where the names of the faithful and brave are written. [A +voice: "Give him three cheers for that!" Great and enthusiastic +cheering.]</p> + +<p>This early and very large gathering of Republican railroad men +suggests to me that you have opinions upon public questions +which are the product of your own observations and study. Some +one will say that the railroad business is a "non-protected industry," +because it has to do with transportation and not with production. +But I only suggest what has already occurred to your +own minds when I say that is a very deceptive statement. You +know there is a relation between the wages of skilled and unskilled +labor as truly as between the prices of two grades of cotton cloth; +that if the first is cut down, the other, too, must come down. +[Cries of "That's just so!"] You know, also, that if labor is thrown +out of one line or avenue, by so much the more will the others +be crowded; that any policy that transfers production from the +American to the English or German shop works an injury to all +American workmen. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>But, if it could be shown that your wages were unaffected by our +system of protective duties, I am sure that your fellowship with +your fellow toilers in other industries would lead you to desire, as +I do and always have, that our legislation may be of that sort that +will secure to them the highest possible prosperity [applause]—wages +that not only supply the necessities of life, but leave a substantial +margin for comfort and for the savings bank. No man's +wages should be so low that he cannot make provision in his days +of vigor for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness of old age. +[Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to be assured to-night that the principles of our party +and all things affecting its candidates can be safely left to the +thoughtful consideration of the American workingmen—they will +know the truth and accept it; they will reject the false and slanderous. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>And now let me say in conclusion that my door will always be +open to any of you who may desire to talk with me about anything +that interests you or that you think will interest me. I regret that +Mrs. Harrison is prevented by a temporary sickness from joining +with me in receiving you this evening. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_14" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_14">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A notable</span> visit was that of two hundred and twenty +members of the Lincoln Club, one of the most influential +political organizations of Cincinnati. They were escorted +by the First Regiment Band and led by their President, +Hon. A. C. Horton, with Col. James I. Quinton, Marshal +of the day. Among other prominent members in line were +Col. Leo Markbreit, Senator Richardson, Dr. M. M. Eaton, +Hon. Fred Pfeister, W. E. Hutton, Samuel Baily, Jr., +Albert Mitchell, H. M. Zeigler, B. O. M. De Beck, W. T. +Porter, Harry Probasco, John Ferinbatch, Geo. B. Fox, J. +E. Strubbe, Dr. S. V. Wiseman, Joseph H. Thornton, C. H. +Rockwell, Lewis Wesner and Col. Moore. Hon. Drusin +Wulsin, Vice-President of the club, was the orator. General +Harrison, who had been ill for two days, replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Wulsin and Gentlemen of the Lincoln Club of Cincinnati</i>—I +thank you very much for this visit, and I wish I found myself +in condition to talk to you with comfort to-night. I cannot, however, +let the occasion pass, in view of the kind terms in which +you have addressed me through your spokesman, without a word. +I feel as if these Hamilton County Republicans were my neighbors. +The associations of my early life were with that county, +and of my student life largely with the city of Cincinnati. You +did not need to state to me that Ohio supported John Sherman in +the convention at Chicago [laughter] simply to couple with it the +suggestion that it was a matter of State pride for you to do so. +I have known him long and intimately. It was my good fortune +for four years to sit beside him in the Senate of the United States. +I learned there to value him as a friend and to honor him as a +statesman. There were reasons altogether wider than the State of +Ohio why you should support John Sherman in the convention. +[Applause and cries of "Good!" "Good!"] His long and faithful +service to his country and to the Republican party, his distinguished +ability, his fidelity as a citizen, all entitled him to your +faithful support; and I beg to assure you, as I have assured him +both before and since the convention, that I did not and would +not, upon any consideration, have made any attempt against him +upon the Ohio delegation. [Applause.] I have known of your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +club as an organization that early set the example of perpetuating +itself—an example that I rejoice to see is being largely followed +now throughout our country. If these principles which are being +urged by our party in these contests are worthy of our campaign +enthusiasm and ardor, they are worthy to be thought of and advocated +in the period of inter-campaign. They affect the business +interests of our country, and their full adoption and perpetuation, +we believe, will bring prosperity to all our individual and social +and community interests. Therefore, I think it wise that in those +times, when men's minds are more open to conviction and are +readier of access, you should press upon the attention of your neighbors +through your club organizations these principles to which you +and I have given the allegiance of our minds and the devotion of +our hearts. I thank you again for this visit. We are glad that +you have come; therefore, I welcome you, not only as Republicans, +but as friends. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_18" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_18">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Howard County</span> sent a delegation of six hundred citizens +this day, led by Major A. N. Grant. The Lincoln +League Club of Kokomo was commanded by its President, +John E. Moore. Other prominent citizens in the +delegation were Hon. J. N. Loop, J. A. Kautz, J. E. Vaile, +John Ingalls, W. E. Blackledge, B. B. Johnson, J. B. Landen, +Dr. James Wright, H. E. McMonigal, Edward +Klum, Charles Pickett, and A. R. Ellis. Rev. Father Rayburn, +a voter in the campaign of 1840, was spokesman. +General Harrison, in reply, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Father Rayburn and my Howard County Friends</i>—I think I may +accept this demonstration as evidence that the action of the Republican +convention at Chicago has been accepted with resignation +by the Republicans of Howard County. [Loud cheers.] You +are the favored citizens of a favored county. Your county has +been conspicuous among the counties of this State for its enterprise +and intelligence. You have been favored with a kindly and +generous soil, cultivated by an intelligent and educated class of +farmers. Hitherto you have chiefly drawn your wealth from the +soil. You have had in the city of Kokomo an enterprising and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +thrifty county town. You have been conspicuous for your interest +and devotion to the cause of education—for your interest in bringing +forward the coming generations well equipped for the duties +of citizenship. I congratulate you to-day that a new era of prosperity +has opened for your county in the discovery of this new +and free fuel to which Mr. Rayburn has alluded. A source of great +wealth has been opened to your people. You have already begun +to realize what it is to your county, though your expectations +have hardly grasped what it will be when the city of Kokomo and +your other towns have reached the full development which will +follow this discovery. You will then all realize—the citizens of +that prosperous place as well as the farmers throughout the county—the +advantage of having a home market for the products of your +farms. [Cheers.] You may not notice this so much in the appreciation +of the prices of the staple products of your farms, but you +will notice it in the expansion of the market for those more perishable +products which cannot reach a distant market and must +be consumed near home. Is it not, then, time for you, as thoughtful +citizens, whatever your previous political affiliations may have +been, to consider the question, "What legislation will most promote +the development of the manufacturing interests of your +county and enlarge the home market for the products of your +farm?" I shall not enter upon a discussion of this question; it is +enough to state it, and leave it to your own intelligent consideration. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Let me thank you again for this kindly visit, and beg you to +excuse any more extended remarks, and to give me now an opportunity +of thanking each of you personally for the kind things +your chairman has said in your behalf.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_19" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_19">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 19.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Illinois</span> sent three large delegations this date from +Springfield, Jacksonville and Monticello. Conspicuous in +the column was the famous "Black Eagle" Club of Springfield, +led by its President, Sam H. Jones, and the Lincoln +Club, commanded by Capt. John C. Cook.</p> + +<p>In the Springfield delegation were twenty-one original +Whigs who voted for Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, among +them Jeriah Bonham, who wrote the first editorial—Nov.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +8, 1858—proposing the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln +for President. Others among the prominent visitors from +Springfield were: Col. James T. King, C. A. Vaughan, +Major James A. Connelly, Paul Selby, Hon. David T. +Littler, Jacob Wheeler, Gen. Charles W. Pavey, Robert +J. Oglesby, Ira Knight, C. P. Baldwin, James H. Kellogg, +Alexander Smith, Geo. Jameson, Augustus C. Ayers, +Jacob Strong, Dr. F. C. Winslow, Fred Smith, Charles T. +Hawks, Hon. Henry Dement, Col. Theo. Ewert, Jacob +Bunn, J. C. Matthews, J. R. Stewart, H. W. Beecher, +Andrew J. Lester, Dr. Gurney, and Howes Yates, brother +of the great war Governor.</p> + +<p>The Jacksonville visitors were represented by Hon. Fred +H. Rowe, ex-Mayor Tomlinson, Judge T. B. Orear, J. B. +Stevenson, Dr. Goodrich, Professor Parr of Illinois College, +J. W. Davenport, and Thomas Rapp.</p> + +<p>Attorney-General Hunt spoke on behalf of all the visitors. +General Harrison's reply was one of his happiest +speeches. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Hunt and my Illinois Friends</i>—I thank you for this cordial +expression of your interest in Republican success. I thank +you for the kindly terms in which your spokesman has conveyed +to me the assurance, not only of your political support, but of +your personal confidence and respect.</p> + +<p>The States of Indiana and Illinois are neighbors, geographically. +The river that for a portion of its length constitutes the boundary +between our States is not a river of division. Its tendency seems +to be, in these times when so many things are "going dry" +[cheers], rather to obliterate than to enlarge the obstruction +between us. [Cheers.] But I rejoice to know that we are not +only geographically neighbors, but that Indiana and Illinois have +been neighborly in the high sentiments and purposes which have +characterized their people. I rejoice to know that the same high +spirit of loyalty and devotion to the country that characterized the +State of Illinois in the time when the Nation made its appeal to +the brave men of all the States to rescue its flag and its Constitution +from the insurrection which had been raised against them +was equally characteristic of Indiana—that the same great impulse +swept over your State that swept over ours—that Richard Yates<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +of Illinois [cheers] and Oliver P. Morton of Indiana [prolonged +cheers] stood together in the fullest sympathy and co-operation in +the great plans they devised to augment and re-enforce the Union +armies in the field and to suppress and put down treasonable conspiracies +at home.</p> + +<p>As Americans and as Republicans we are glad that Illinois has +contributed so many and such conspicuous names to that galaxy +of great Americans and great Republicans whose deeds have been +written on the scroll of eternal fame. I recall that it was on the +soil of Illinois that Lovejoy died—a martyr to free speech. [Cries +of "Hear!" "Hear!"] He was the forerunner of Abraham Lincoln. +He died, but his protest against human slavery lived. +Another great epoch in the march of liberty found on the soil of +Illinois the theatre of its most influential event. I refer to that +high debate in the presence of your people, but before the world, +in which Douglas won the senatorship and Lincoln the presidency +and immortal fame. [Loud cheers.]</p> + +<p>But Lincoln's argument and Lincoln's proclamation must be +made good upon the battle-field—and again your State was conspicuous. +You gave us Grant and Logan [prolonged cheers] and +a multitude of less notable, but not less faithful, soldiers who +underwrote the proclamation with their swords. [Cheers.] I +congratulate you to-day that there has come out of this early agitation—out +of the work of Lovejoy, the disturber; out of the great +debate of 1858, and out of the war for the Union, a Nation without +a slave [cheers]—that not the shackles of slavery only have been +broken, but that the scarcely less cruel shackles of prejudice which +bound every black man in the North have also been unbound.</p> + +<p>We are glad to know that the enlightened sentiment of the +South to-day unites with us in our congratulations that slavery +has been abolished. They have come to realize, and many of their +best and greatest men to publicly express, the thought that the abolition +of slavery has opened a gateway of progress and material development +to the South that was forever closed against her people +while domestic slavery existed.</p> + +<p>We send them the assurance that we desire the streams of their +prosperity shall flow bank full. We would lay upon their people +no burdens that we do not willingly bear ourselves. They will not +think it amiss if I say that the burden which rests willingly upon +our shoulders is a faithful obedience to the Constitution and the +laws. A manly assertion by each of his individual rights, and a +manly concession of equal right to every other man, is the boast +and the law of good citizenship.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +<p>Let me thank you again and ask you to excuse me from further +public speech. I now ask an opportunity to meet my Illinois +friends personally [Loud and prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>The second speech of the day was delivered at 9 o'clock +at night to an enthusiastic delegation of fifteen hundred +Republicans from Shelbyville, Shelby County, led by Hon. +H. C. Gordon, J. Walter Elliott, C. H. Campbell, James +T. Caughey, C. X. Matthews, J. Richey, E. S. Powell, +E. E. Elliott, L. S. Limpus, Orland Young, and Norris +Winterowd. Judge J. C. Adams was their spokesman. +General Harrison touched upon civil service; he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Judge Adams and my Shelby County Friends</i>—This is only a +new evidence of your old friendliness. My association with the +Republicans of Shelby County began in 1855, when I was a very +young man and a still younger politician. In that year, if I +recollect right, I canvassed every township of your county in the +interest of Mr. Campbell, who was then a candidate for County +Clerk. Since then I have frequently visited your county, and have +always been received with the most demonstrative evidence of your +friendship. But in addition to these political associations, which +have given me an opportunity to observe and to admire the steadfastness, +the courage, the unflinching faithfulness of the Republicans +of Shelby County [cheers], I have another association with +your county, which I cherish with great tenderness and affection. +Two companies of the Seventieth Indiana were made up of your +brave boys: Company B, commanded by Captain Sleeth, and Company +F, commanded by Captain Endsley, who still lives among +you. [Cheers.] Many of the surviving members of these companies +still dwell among you. Many others are in the far West, +and they, too, from their distant homes have sent me a comrade's +greeting. I recollect a little story of Peach Tree Creek that may +interest you. When the Seventieth Indiana, then under command +of Col. Sam Merrill, swung up from the reserve into the front line +to meet the enemy's charge, the adjutant-general of the brigade, +who had been directed to order the advance, reported that the left of +the Seventieth Indiana was exposed. He said he had ordered the +bluff old captain of Company F, who was commanding the left +wing, to reserve his left in order to cover his flank, but that the +old hickory had answered him with an expletive—which I have no +doubt he has repented of—that he "could not see it," that he proposed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> +that his end of the regiment should get to the top of that hill as +quick as the other end. [Prolonged cheers.]</p> + +<p>We will venerate the memory of the dead of these companies and +their associate companies in other commands who gave up their +lives in defence of the flag.</p> + +<p>But I turn aside from these matters of personal recollection to +say a word of more general concern. We are now at the opening +of a presidential campaign, and I beg to suggest to you, as citizens +of the State of Indiana, that there is always in such campaigns +a danger to be avoided, viz. That the citizen may overlook the +important local and State interests which are also involved in the +campaign. I beg, therefore, to suggest that you turn your minds +not only to the consideration of the questions connected with the +national legislation and national administration, but that you +think deeply and well of those things that concern our local affairs. +There are some such now presented to you that have to do with the +honor and prosperity of the State.</p> + +<p>There are some questions that ought not to divide parties, but +upon which all good men ought to agree. I speak of only one. +The great benevolent institutions—the fruit of our Christian civilization—endowed +by the bounty of the State, maintained by public +taxes, and intended for the care and education of the disabled +classes of our community, ought to be lifted above all party influences, +benefit or control. [Cheers.] I believe you can do nothing +that will more greatly enhance the estimation in which the +State of Indiana is held by her sister States than to see to it that a +suitable, well-regulated, and strict civil service is provided for the +administration of the benevolent and penal institutions of the State +of Indiana. I will not talk longer; I thank you for this magnificent +evidence that I am still held in kindly regard by the Republicans +of Shelby County, and bid you good-night. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_24" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_24">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 24.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the twenty-fourth of July Champaign County, Illinois, +contributed a large delegation under the direction of +Hon. F. K. Robeson, Z. Riley, H. W. Mahan, and W. M. +Whindley. Their parade was conspicuous for the number +of log-cabins, cider-barrels, coons, eagles, and other campaign +emblems.</p> + +<p>Prominent members of the delegation were Rev. I. S.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +Mahan, H. M. Dunlap, F. M. McKay, J. J. McClain, James +Barnes, Rev. John Henry, H. S. Clark, M. S. Goodrich, A. +W. McNichols, Capt. J. H. Sands and three veterans of +1836, the Rev. S. K. Reed, Stephen Freeman, and W. B. +Downing. Hon. Frank M. Wright delivered the address +on behalf of the visitors. General Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I feel very conscious of the compliment which is +conveyed by your presence here to-day. You come as citizens of an +adjoining State to manifest, as your spokesman has said, some personal +respect for me, but much more, I think—your interest in the +pending contention of principles before the people of the United +States. It is fortunate that you are allowed, not only to express +your interest by such popular gatherings as these, but that you +will be called upon individually, after the debate is over, to settle +this contention by your ballots. An American political canvass, +when we look through the noise and tinsel that accompanies it, +presents a scene of profound interest to the student of government. +The theory upon which our Government is builded is that every +qualified elector shall have an equal influence at the ballot-box with +every other. Our Constitutions do not recognize fractional votes; +they do not recognize the right of one man to count one and a half +in the determination of public questions. It is wisely provided +that whatever differences may exist in intelligence, in wealth, or +in any other respect, at the ballot-box there shall be absolute +equality. No interest can be truly subserved, whether local or +general, by any invasion of this great principle. The wise work +of our fathers in constructing this Government will stand all tests +of internal dissension and revolution, and all tests of external assault, +if we can only preserve a pure, free ballot. [Applause.] +Every citizen who is a patriot ought to lend his influence to that +end, by promoting necessary reforms in our election laws and by +a watchful supervision of the processes of our popular elections. +We ought to elevate in thought and practice the free suffrage that +we enjoy. As long as it shall be held by our people to be the jewel +above price, as long as each for himself shall claim its free exercise +and shall generously and manfully insist upon an equally free exercise +of it by every other man, our Government will be preserved +and our development will not find its climax until the purpose of +God in establishing this Government shall have spread throughout +the world—governments "of the people, by the people, and for the +people." [Cheers.]</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +<p>You will not expect, nor would it be proper, that I should follow +the line of your spokesman's remarks, or even allude to some things +that he has alluded to; but I will not close without one word of +compliment and comradeship for the soldiers of Illinois. [Applause.] +I do not forget that many of them, like Logan—that fearless and +first of volunteer soldiers—at the beginning of the war were not +in sympathy with the Republican national administration. You +had a multitude of soldiers besides Logan, one of whom has been +immortalized in poetry—Sergeant Tillman Joy—who put their +politics by "to keep till the war was through;" and many, I may +add, like Logan, when they got home found new party associations. +But we do not limit our praise of the loyalty and faithfulness +of your soldiers to any party lines, for we realize that there +were good soldiers who did resume their ante-war politics when +they came back from the army. To such we extend a comrade's +hand always, and the free and untrammelled exercise of his political +choice shall not bar our comradeship. It happened during the +war that three Illinois regiments were for some time under my +command. I had opportunity to observe their perfection in drill, +their orderly administration of camp duties, and, above all, the +brilliant courage with which they met the enemy. And, in complimenting +them, I take them as the type of that great army that Illinois +sent out for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution. +Let me thank you again for your friendly visit to-day; and if any +of you desire a nearer acquaintance, I shall be glad to make that +acquaintance now.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_25" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_25">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Two</span> thousand visitors from Edgar and Coles counties, +Illinois, paid their respects to the Republican nominee +this day.</p> + +<p>The excursion was under the auspices of the John A. +Logan Club of Paris, Charles P. Fitch, President. There +were many farmers in the delegation, also eighty-two +veterans of the campaign of 1840, and the watchwords of +the day were "Old Tippecanoe and young Tippecanoe." +The reception took place at University Park, notable from +this time forward for many similar events. Prominent +among the visitors were Geo. F. Howard, Capt. F. M. Rude,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +J. W. Howell, E. R. Lodge, Capt. J. C. Bessier, M. Hackett, +James Stewart, and Mayor J. M. Bell of Paris; C. G. Peck +and J. H. Clark of Mattoon; and Hon. John W. Custor of +Benton. State Senator George E. Bacon delivered the +congratulatory address. General Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Senator Bacon and my Illinois Friends</i>—Some of my home +friends have been concerned lest I should be worn out by the frequent +coming of these delegations. I am satisfied from what I see +before me to-day that the rest of Illinois is here [laughter], and the +concern of my friends will no longer be excited by the coming of +Illinois delegations. [A voice, "We are all here!"] That you +should leave the pursuits of your daily life—the farm, the office, and +the shop—to make this journey gives me the most satisfactory evidence +that your hearts are enlisted in this campaign. I am glad +to welcome here to-day the John A. Logan Club of Paris. You +have chosen a name that you will not need to drop, whatever +mutations may come in politics, so long as there shall be a party +devoted to the flag and to the Constitution, and pledged to preserve +the memories of the great deeds of those who died that the Constitution +might be preserved and the flag honored. [Applause.] +General Logan was indeed, as your spokesman has said, "the typical +volunteer soldier." With him loyalty was not a sentiment; it +was a passion that possessed his whole nature.</p> + +<p>When the civil war broke out no one did more than he to solidify +the North in defence of the Government. He it was who said that +all parties and all platforms must be subordinated to the defence of +the Government against unprovoked assault. [A voice, "That's +just what he said!"] In the war with Mexico, as a member of the +First Illinois Regiment, and afterwards as the commander of the +Thirty-first Illinois in the civil war, he gave a conspicuous example +of what an untrained citizen could do in the time of public +peril. In the early fight at Donelson he, with the First Illinois +Brigade, successfully resisted the desperate assaults that were made +upon his line; twice wounded, he yet refused to leave the field. +The courage of that gallant brigade called forth from a Massachusetts +poet the familiar lines:</p> + +<div class="center"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Thy proudest mother's eyelids fill,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As dares her gallant boy,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Yearn to thee, Illinois."<br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> + +<p>[Applause.] He commanded successively brigades, divisions, corps +and armies, and fought them with unvarying success. I greet these<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +veterans of the campaign of 1840. You recall the pioneer days, the +log cabin days of the West, the days when muddy highways were +the only avenues of travel and commerce. You have seen a marvellous +development. The State of your adoption has become a +mighty commonwealth; you have seen it crossed and recrossed by +railroads, bringing all your farms into easy communication with +distant markets; you have seen the schoolhouse and church brought +into every neighborhood; you have seen this country rocked in the +cradle of war; you have seen it emerge from that dreadful trial +and enter upon an era of prosperity that seems to surpass all that +had gone before.</p> + +<p>To these young men who will, for the first time this year, take +part as citizens in determining a presidential election, I suggest +that you have become members of a party of precious memories. +There has been nothing in the history of the Republican party, +nothing in the platform of principles that it has proclaimed, that +is not calculated to stir the high impulses of your young hearts. +The Republican party has walked upon high paths. It has set before +it ever the maintenance of the Union, the honor of its flag, +and the prosperity of our people. It has been an American party +[great cheering] in that it has set American interests always to +the front.</p> + +<p>My friends of the colored organization, I greet you as Republicans +to-day. I recall the time when you were disfranchised; when +your race were slaves; when the doors of our institutions of learning +were closed against you, and even admittance to many of our +Northern States was denied you. You have read the story of your +disfranchisement, of the restoration to you of the common rights +of men. Read it again; read the story of the bitter and bigoted +opposition that every statute and constitutional amendment framed +for your benefit encountered. What party befriended you when +you needed friends? What party has stood always as an obstruction +to the development and enlargement of your rights as citizens? +When you have studied these questions well you will be able to +determine not only where your gratitude is due, but where the +hopes of your race lie. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_26" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_26">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">From</span> Clay County, Indiana, came three thousand coal-miners +and others, this day, under the auspices of the +Harrison Miners' Club of Brazil. Their parade, with +dozens of unique banners and devices, was one of the most +imposing of the campaign. Prominent in the delegation +were Dr. Joseph C. Gifford, L. A. Wolfe, Jacob Herr, P. +H. Penna, John F. Perry, C. P. Eppert, E. C. Callihan, W. +H. Lowery, Rev. John Cox, A. F. Bridges, William Sporr, +Carl Thomas, Geo. F. Fuller, John Gibbons, Sam'l Blair, +Thomas Washington, and Judge Coffey of Brazil. Major +William Carter and Edward Wilton, a miner, delivered +addresses; Rob't L. McCowan spoke for the colored members +of the delegation. General Harrison, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen and Friends from Clay County</i>—I thank you for this +enthusiastic demonstration of your interest. I am glad to be assured +by those who have spoken for you to-day that you have +brought here, and desire to evidence, some personal respect for +me; but this demonstration has relation, I am sure, rather to principles +than to men. You come as representatives of the diversified +interests of your county. You are fortunate in already possessing +diversified industries. You have not only agriculture, but the +mine and factory which provide a home market for the products +of your farms. You come here, as I understand, from all these +pursuits, to declare that in your opinion your interests, as farmers, +as miners, as mechanics, as tradesmen, are identified with the +maintenance of the doctrine of protection to American industries, +and the preservation of the American market for American products. +[Cheers.] Some resort to statistics to show that the condition +of the American workman is better than that of the workman +of any other country. I do not care now to deal with statistics. +One fact is enough for me. The tide of emigration from all European +countries has been and is towards our shores. The gates of +Castle Garden swing inward. They do not swing outward to any +American laborer seeking a better country than this. [Cries of +"Never!"]</p> + +<p>My countrymen, these men, who have toiled at wages in other +lands that barely sustained life, and opened no avenue of promise +to them or to their children, know the good land of hope as well as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +the swallow knows the land of summer. [Applause.] They testify +that here there are better conditions, wider and more hopeful prospects +for workmen than in any other land. The next suggestion +I have to make is this: that the more work there is to do in this +country the higher the wages that will be paid for the doing of it. +[Applause.] I speak to men who know that when the product of +their toil is in demand in the market, when buyers are seeking it, +wages advance; but when the market for your products is depressed, +and the manufacturer is begging for buyers, then wages go down. +Is it not clear, then, that that policy which secures the largest +amount of work to be done at home is the policy which will secure +to laboring men steady employment and the best wages? [Cheers +and cries of "That is right!"] A policy which will transfer work +from our mines and our factories to foreign mines and foreign +factories inevitably tends to the depression of wages here. [Applause +and cries of "That is true!"] These are truths that do +not require profound study.</p> + +<p>Having here a land that throws about the workingman social +and political conditions more favorable than are found elsewhere, +if we can preserve also more favorable industrial conditions we +shall secure the highest interests of our working classes. [Great +cheering.] What, after all, is the best evidence of a nation's prosperity, +and the best guarantee of social order, if it is not an +intelligent, thrifty, contented working class? Can we look for +contentment if the workman is only able to supply his daily necessities +by his daily toil, but is not able in the vigor of youth to lay +up a store against old age? A condition of things that compels +the laborer to contemplate want, as an incident of sickness or disability, +is one that tends to social disorder. [Applause and cries +of "That is so!"] You are called upon now to consider these +problems. I will not debate them in detail, others will. I can +only commend them to your thoughtful consideration. Think upon +them; conclude for yourselves what policy as to our tariff legislation +will best subserve your interests, the interests of your families, +and the greatness and glory of the Nation of which you are citizens. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>My colored friends who are here to-day, the emancipation of the +slave removed from our country that which tended to degrade labor. +All men are now free; you are thrown upon your own resources; +the avenues of intelligence and of business success are open to all. +I notice that the party to which we belong has been recently reproached +by the suggestion that we have not thoroughly protected +the colored man in the South. This has been urged as a reason<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +why the colored people should join the Democratic party. I beg +the gentlemen who urge that plea to answer this question: Against +whom is it that the Republican party has been unable, as you say, +to protect your race? [Applause and cries of "Good! Good!"] +Thanking you again for this demonstration and for your friendly +expressions, I will, if it be your pleasure, drop this formal method +of communication and take my Clay County friends by the hand. +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>The Clay County miners had not concluded their reception +before a delegation of several hundred arrived from +Bloomington, Illinois, headed by the John A. Logan Club, +under the lead of General Geo. F. Dick, William Maddox, +John A. Fullwiller, M. B. Herr, and Dr. F. C. Vandervoort. +Their orator was Dr. W. H. H. Adams, formerly President +of the Illinois Wesleyan University. General Harrison, +replying, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Bloomington Friends</i>—When I received here, yesterday, a +very large delegation from Illinois, I expressed the opinion that they +must be the "rest of the people of Illinois that had not been here before." +I suppose you are a remnant that could not get into line yesterday. +I thank you as I have thanked those who preceded you, for the +interest which the people of your State have manifested, and for your +cordial fellowship with Indiana. I will not discuss the issues of the +campaign. You have already thought upon the platforms of the +two parties. Some of you have perhaps taken your politics by inheritance. +It is now a good time to review the situation. We +have the same interests as citizens. Let us all consider the history +and declarations of the great parties and thoughtfully conclude +which is more likely to promote the general interests of our people. +That is the test. The British Parliament does not legislate with a +view to advance the interests of the people of the United States. +[Cries of "No, never!"] They—rightly—have in view the interest +of that empire over which Victoria reigns. Should we not, also, +as Americans, in our legislation, consider first the interests of our +people? We invite the thoughtful attention of those who have +hitherto differed with us as to these questions. Our interests are +bound together. That which promotes the prosperity of the community +in which you dwell in kindly association with your Democratic +friends promotes your interests and theirs alike. Thanking +you for this visit, I will ask you to excuse me from further speech. +[Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_27" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_27">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Kosciusko County</span>, Indiana, contributed two thousand +visitors on the twenty-seventh of July, under the leadership +of Capt. C. W. Chapman, James H. Cisney, Reub. Williams, +Louis Ripple, J. E. Stevenson, Wm. B. Wood, T. +Loveday, John Wynant, Charles Adams, Nelson Richhart, +Captain A. S. Miller, Clinton Lowe, P. L. Runyon, James +A. Cook, Frank McGee, and John Burbaker, all of Warsaw. +Judge H. S. Biggs made the presentation address. +General Harrison replied as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Biggs and my Kosciusko County Friends</i>—I did not need to +be assured of the friendliness of the Republicans of your county. +It has been evidenced too many times in the past. Before the +convention at Chicago the Republicans of your county gave me the +assurance that my nomination would meet the cordial approbation +of your people. I am glad to welcome you here to-day, and regret +that your journey hither has been so tedious. You are proud of +the State in which you dwell; proud of her institutions of learning; +proud of her great benevolent institutions, which I notice by +one of these banners you have pledged yourselves to protect from +party spoliation and degradation. [Applause and cries of "Good! +Good!"] But while we have much that is cause for congratulation, +we are not enjoying that full equality of civil rights in the State of +Indiana to which we are entitled.</p> + +<p>Our Government is a representative government. Delegates in +Congress and members of our State Senate and House of Representatives +are apportioned to districts, and the National and State Constitutions +contemplate that these districts shall be equal, so that, as +far as possible, each citizen shall have, in his district, the same potency +in choosing a Member of Congress or of our State Legislature +as is exercised by a voter in any other district. We do not to-day +have that condition of things. The apportionment of our State for +legislative and congressional purposes is unfair, and is known to be +unfair to all men. No candid Democrat can defend it as a fair +apportionment. It was framed to be unequal, it was designed to +give to the citizens of favored districts an undue influence. It was +intended to discriminate against Republicans. It is not right that +it should be so. I hope the time is coming, and has even now +arrived, when the great sense of justice which possesses our people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +will teach men of all parties that party success is not to be promoted +at the expense of an injustice to any of our citizens. [Applause.] +These things take hold of government. If we would +maintain that respect for the law which is necessary to social order, +our people must understand that each voter has his full and equal +influence in determining what the law shall be. I hope this question +will not be forgotten by our people until we have secured in +Indiana a fair apportionment for legislative and congressional purposes. +[Cheers.] When the Republicans shall secure the power of +making an apportionment, I hope and believe that the experiment +of seeking a party advantage by a public injustice will not be +repeated. [Great applause and cries of "Good! Good!"]</p> + +<p>There are some other questions affecting suffrage, too, to which +my attention has, from circumstances, been particularly attracted. +There are in the Northwest several Territories organized under +public law with defined boundaries. They have been filled up with +the elect of our citizens—the brave, the enterprising and intelligent +young men from all the States. Many of the veterans of the late +war have sought under our beneficent homestead law new homes +in the West. Several of these Territories have been for years possessed +of population, wealth, and all the requisites for admission +as States. When the Territory of Indiana took the census which +was the basis for its petition for admission to the Union we had +less than 64,000 people; we had only thirteen organized counties. +In the Territory of South Dakota there are nearly half a million +people. For years they have been knocking for admission to the +sisterhood of States.</p> + +<p>They are possessed of all the elements of an organized and stable +community. It has more people, more miles of railroad, more post-offices, +more churches, more banks, more wealth, than any Territory +ever possessed when it was admitted to the Union. It surpasses +some of the States in these particulars. Four years ago, when a +President was to be chosen, the Committee on Territories in the +Senate, to meet the objection of our Democratic friends that the +admission of Dakota would add a disturbing element to the Electoral +College, provided in the Dakota bill that its organization +should be postponed until after the election; now four years more +have rolled around, and our people are called again to take part +in a presidential election, and the intelligent and patriotic Dakota +people are again to be deprived of any participation. I ask you +why this is so? Is not the answer obvious? [Cries of "Yes!"] +They are disfranchised and deprived of their appropriate influence +in the Electoral College only because the prevailing sentiment in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +the Territory is Republican. [Cries of "That's right!" "That's the +reason!"] The cause of Washington Territory is more recent but +no less flagrant. If we appropriately express sympathy with the +cause of Irish home rule, shall we not also demand home rule for +Dakota and Washington, and insist that their disfranchisement +shall not be prolonged? [Applause.] There is a sense of justice, of +fairness, that will assert itself against these attempts to coin party +advantage out of public wrong. The day when men can be disfranchised +or shorn of their political power for opinion's sake must +have an end in our country. [Cheers.] I thank you again for +your call, and if you will observe the arrangement which has been +suggested I will be glad to take each of you by the hand. I know +that some of you are fasting, and therefore we will shorten these +exercises in order that you may obtain needed refreshments. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_28" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_28">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 28.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Jennings County</span>, Indiana, was represented on the +above date by a large delegation under the auspices of the +Harrison and Morton Clubs of Vernon and North Vernon. +The leaders of their delegation were Fred H. Nauer, J. +C. Cope, C. E. Wagner, W. G. Norris, Dr. T. C. Bachelder, +T. A. Pearce, P. C. McGannon, and Prof. Amos Saunders. +Hon. Frank E. Little, President of the North Vernon +Club, delivered the address. General Harrison, in response, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It is a source of regret to me that I can do so little +to compensate those who take the trouble to visit me. I need +hardly say to you that I very highly appreciate this evidence of +your friendliness and also the kind words which you have addressed +to me through your representative. Jennings County has a history +of which it may well be proud. It has contributed to the city of +Indianapolis some of our most distinguished and useful men. +Your spokesman has not exaggerated the fidelity and steadfastness +of the people of your county. Your republicanism has been as +straight as the walls of your cliffs [applause] and as solid as the +limestone with which your hills are buttressed. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>You have said to me that you are in favor of a free and equal +ballot the country over. We are so related in our Government<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +that any disturbance of the suffrage anywhere directly affects us +all. Our Members of Congress pass upon questions that are as wide +as the domain over which our flag floats. Therefore, our interest +in the choice of these representatives is not limited to our own +districts. If the debate upon public questions is to be of value +the voter must be free to register his conclusion. The tribunal +which is to pronounce upon the argument must not be coerced.</p> + +<p>You have said to me that you favor the doctrine of protection. +The Republican party stands for the principles of protection. We +believe in the preservation of the American market for our American +producers and workmen. [Applause and cries of "That's it!"] +We believe that the development of home manufactures tends +directly to promote the interest of agriculture by furnishing a +home market for the products of the farm, and thus emancipating +our farmers from the transportation charges which they must pay +when their products seek distant markets. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>We are confronted now with a Treasury surplus. Our position +is exceptional. We are not seeking, as many other nations are, +new subjects of taxation, new sources of revenue. Our quest is +now how, wisely, to reduce our national revenue. The attempt +has been made to use this surplus as a lever to overturn the protective +system. The promoters of this scheme, while professing a +desire to diminish the surplus, have acted as if their purpose was +to increase it in part by opposing necessary and legitimate appropriations. +I agree that there is danger that a surplus may promote +extravagance, but I do not find myself in sympathy with that +policy that denies the appropriation necessary for the proper defence +of our people, and for the convenient administration of our +public affairs throughout the country, in order that the threat of a +surplus may be used for a sinister purpose. I believe that in reducing +our revenues to the level of our needful and proper expenditures +we can and should continue to favor and protect our +industries. I do not like to entrust this work to those who declare +protective duties to be vicious "legalized robbery." The Republican +party has by its legislation shown its capacity wisely to reduce our +revenues and at the same time to preserve the American system. +[Applause.] It can be trusted to do the work that remains, and to +do it wisely. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_31" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JULY_31">INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 31.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> last delegation in July came from Henry County, +Indiana, two thousand strong, headed by C. S. Hernley, +W. H. Elliott, Hon. Eugene Bundy, Judge Mark E. Forkner, +A. Abernathy, A. D. Osborn, O. P. M. Hubbard, David +Luellen, O. B. Mooney, and Captain Armstrong, all of +New Castle. Gen. William H. Grose was their orator.</p> + +<p>In his response General Harrison at this early day out-lined +his views upon reciprocal trade relations with South +American nations—views which were afterwards successfully, +and with great profit to our people, put into effect +through the celebrated reciprocity treaties with Brazil, +Venezuela and other countries.</p> + +<p>Repeated outbursts of enthusiasm punctured his address. +He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrade Grose and my Henry County Friends</i>—If we have here +any discouraged statesman who takes a despondent view of the +future of the country, I think he would recover his hopefulness if +he could look, once in a while, into the face of an audience like this. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>You came from a county that has been a bulwark of republicanism +since the party was organized. You had an early element +in your population that has done much to promote your material +interests, and, much more, to lift up those principles that relate +to the purity of the home and to the freedom of men. The Friends, +who have been and are so large and so influential an element in +your population and in the counties surrounding it, are a people +notable for the purity of their home life and for their broad and +loving sympathy with all men. They were the early enemies of +slavery, and they have always naturally been the strength of the +Republican party in the community where they reside. Your +spokesman has expressed your continued interest in the party to +which some of you gave the confidence of your matured powers +and some of you the early devotion of your youth. The Republican +party has accomplished for the country a great work in the +brief period of its life. It preserved the Nation by a wise, courageous +and patriotic administration. What that means for you +and your posterity, what it means for the world, no man can tell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> +It would have been a climax of disaster for the world if this Government +of the people had perished. The one unsolved experiment +of free government was solved. We have demonstrated the capacity +of the people and a citizen soldiery to maintain inviolate +the unity of the Republic. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>There remain now, fortunately, chiefly economic questions to +be thought of and to be settled. We refer to the great war, not +in any spirit of hostility to any section or any class of men, but +only because we believe it to be good for the whole country that +loyalty and fidelity to the flag should be honored. [Great applause.] +It was one of the great triumphs of the war, a particular in +which our war was distinguished from all other wars of history, +that we brought the vanquished into the same full, equal citizenship +under the law that we maintained for ourselves.</p> + +<p>In all the addresses which have been made to me there has been +some reference to the great question of the protection of our American +industries. I see it upon the banners which you carry. Our +party stands unequivocally, without evasion or qualification, for +the doctrine that the American market shall be preserved for our +American producers. [Great applause.] We are not attracted by +the suggestion that we should surrender to foreign producers the +best market in the world. Our sixty millions of people are the best +buyers in the world, and they are such because our working classes +receive the best wages. <i>But we do not mean to be content with our +own market. We should seek to promote closer and more friendly +commercial relations with the Central and South American States.</i> +[Applause.] And what is essential to that end? Regular mails +are the first condition of commerce.</p> + +<p>The merchant must know when his order will be received, and +when his consignment will be returned, or there can be no trade +between distant communities. What we need, therefore, is the +establishment of American steamship lines between our ports and +the ports of Central and South America. [Applause.] Then it +will no longer be necessary that an American minister, commissioned +to an American State, shall take an English ship to Liverpool +to find another English ship to carry him to his destination. +We are not to be frightened by the use of that ugly word "subsidy." +[Laughter.] We should pay to American steamship lines a liberal +compensation for carrying our mails, instead of turning them over +to British tramp steamships. [Applause.] We do not desire to +dominate these neighboring governments; we do not desire to deal +with them in any spirit of aggression. <i>We desire those friendly +political, mental, and commercial relations which shall promote<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> +their interests equally with ours.</i> We should not longer forego +those commercial relations and advantages which our geographical +relations suggest and make so desirable. If you will excuse me +from further public speech I will be glad to take by the hand my +Henry County friends. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>Mr. Harrison arrived home—after the Henry County +reception in University Park—in time to welcome his +guest, Gen. R. A. Alger of Michigan, the distinguished +gentlemen meeting for the first time. In the afternoon +several hundred of the Henry County visitors, escorted +by the local clubs, marched to the Harrison residence to +pay their respects to General Alger.</p> + +<p>In introducing his guest General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have had the pleasure to-day to receive +in my own home a distinguished citizen of a neighboring State; +distinguished not only for his relation to the civil administration +of affairs in his State, but also as one of those conspicuous +soldiers contributed by Michigan to the armies of the Union when +our national life was in peril. I am sure you will be glad to make +broader the welcome I have given him, and to show him that he +has a warm place in the affections of our Indiana people. Let me +present to you General Alger of Michigan. [Prolonged applause.]</p></div> + +<p>General Alger responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I thank you very much for this cordial greeting. I +thank you very kindly, General Harrison, for the pleasant words +you have said of me personally. I wish to say—as you would +know if you lived in Michigan—that I am not a speechmaker. I +composed a few speeches some weeks ago, and General Harrison +has been delivering them ever since. [Laughter.] After reading +his speeches carefully, each one of them a gem of concentrated +thought, I have made up my mind that the Chicago Convention made +no mistake. [Applause.] We have not held any <i>post-mortem</i> in +our State. We are glad that we have such a gallant candidate, a +man in whose composition no flaw can be found, in whose life no +act or word can be adversely criticised. We are as proud in Michigan +of your candidate—who is our candidate also—as we could +possibly be were any other man in the universe named. We are +all Harrison men in Michigan now; and the place he has in our +hearts is just as warm as though he lived within our own borders. +[Applause.] You Hoosiers have no patent upon this. [Applause.]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +The people of the United States have a great crisis before them. +The question as to the life and prosperity of our industrial institutions +is at stake. We have, as we have always had, since this +country was worth caring for, the opposition of the English +Government.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_1" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_1">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 1.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> month of August opened with two thousand visitors +from Morgan and Brown counties, including thirty survivors +of General Harrison's former regiment. The +several clubs comprising the Brown County delegation were +led by Norman J. Roberts, Leander Woods, Wm. Griffin, +E. D. Turner, and C. W. Mackenzie of Nashville.</p> + +<p>Prominent in the Morgan County detachment were W. +W. Kennedy, W. C. Banta, John Hardwick, M. G. Branch, +David Wilson, H. C. Hodges, R. C. Griffitt, J. G. Bain, +John S. Newby, J. G. Kennedy, U. M. Hinson, Merwin +Rowe, Hon. J. H. Jordan, H. R. Butler, W. C. Barnett, +John C. Comer, Geo. Mitchell, and J. I. Hilton of Martinsville. +Hon. G. A. Adams spoke for the visitors.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Adams and my Morgan and Brown County Friends</i>—In previous +campaigns I have not put you to the trouble to come and see +me. My habit has been to go to you, and it has been my pleasure often +to discuss before you the issues that were involved in our campaigns. +The limitations which are upon me now prevent me from +following this old habit, and put you, who desire to see me, to the +trouble of coming here. My associations with the county of Morgan +have been very close. Among its citizens are some of my most +devoted personal and political friends. There are also in your +county a large number of my comrades, to whom I am bound by the +very close ties that must always unite those who marched under +the same regimental banner. Your county furnished two companies +for the Seventieth Indiana—brave, true men, commanded +by intelligent and capable officers, and having in the ranks of both +companies men as capable of command as any who wore shoulder-straps +in the regiment. These men, together with their comrades +of the Thirty-third and other regiments that were recruited in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +your county, went into the service from very high motives. They +heard the call of their country, saying: "He that loveth father or +mother or wife or child or houses or lands more than me is not +worthy of me," and they were found worthy by this supreme test. +Many of you were so careless of a money recompense for the service +you offered and gave that when you lifted your hands and swore +to protect and defend the Constitution and the flag you didn't even +know what your pay was to be. [Cries of "That's so!"] If there +was any carefulness or thought in that direction it was only that +the necessary provision might be made for those you left at home. +No sordid impulse, no low emotion, called you to the field. +[Applause.] In remembering all the painful ways in which you +walked, ways of toil, and suffering, and sickness, and dying, to +emerge into the glorious sunlight of that great day at Washington, we +must not forget that in the homes you left there were also sacrifices +and sufferings. Anxiety dwelt perpetually with those you +left behind. We remember gratefully the sacrifices and sufferings +of the fathers and mothers who sent you to the field, and, much +more, of the wives who bravely gave up to the country the most +cherished objects of their love. And now peace has come; no +hand is lifted against the flag; the Constitution is again supreme +and the Nation one. My countrymen, it is no time now to use an +apothecary's scale to weigh the rewards of the men who saved the +country. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>If you will pardon me I will not further follow the line of remarks +suggested by the kind words you have addressed to me +through your representative. I notice the limitation which your +spokesman has put upon you, but I beg to assure him and you that +I am not so worn that I have not the strength to greet any of you +who may desire to greet me. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_3" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_3">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 3.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the third of August, with the mercury registering +ninety-nine degrees, thirty-five hundred visitors arrived +from Montgomery and Clinton counties, Indiana. Their +parade, carrying miniature log-cabins and other emblems, +was one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations of the +campaign. Fifty voters of 1840 headed the column led by +Major D. K. Price, aged 92. The Montgomery County<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +delegation was marshalled by John H. Burford, W. W. +Thornton, T. H. B. McCain, John S. Brown, E. P. McClarkey, +John Johnson, J. R. Bonnell, D. W. Roundtree, +T. H. Ristine, H. M. Billingsley, Dumont Kennedy, and +Clerk Hulett of Crawfordsville. Their spokesman was +Hon. Peter S. Kennedy.</p> + +<p>Among the Clinton County leaders were Albert H. Coble, +Edward R. Burns, A. T. Dennis, Wm. H. Staley, R. P. +Shanklin, S. A. Coulton, J. W. Harrison, J. T. Hockman, +Nicholas Rice, Ambrose Colby, Oliver Hedgecock, and +Dr. Gard of Frankfort. Judge J. C. Suit was their orator.</p> + +<p>In reply to their addresses General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—These daily and increasing delegations coming +to witness their interest in the great issues which are presented +for their consideration and determination, and bearing as +they do to me their kind personal greetings, quite overmatch my +ability to fittingly greet and respond to them.</p> + +<p>You are here from every walk in life. Some of you have achieved +success in the mechanical arts, some in professional pursuits, and +more of you come from that first great pursuit of man—the tilling +of the soil—and you come to express the thought that you have +common interests; that these diverse pursuits are bound together +harmoniously in a common governmental policy and administration. +Your interests have had a harmonious and an amazing +growth under that protective system to which your representatives +have referred, and you wisely demand a continuation of that policy +for their further advancement and development. [Applause.] You +are in large part members of the Republican party. You have in +the past contributed your personal influence, as well as your ballots, +to the great victories which it has won. Among the great achievements +of our party I think we may worthily mention the passage +of that beneficent act of legislation known as the "homestead law." +It was impossible to the old parties. It was possible only to a +party composed of the sturdy yeomanry of the free States. [Applause.] +It has populated our Territories and newer States with +the elect of our citizenship. It opened a way to an ownership of +the soil to a vast number of our citizens, and there is no surer +bond in the direction of good citizenship than that our people +should have property in the soil upon which they live. It is one +of the best elements of our strength as a State that our farm-lands<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +are so largely possessed in small tracts, and are tilled by the men +who own them. It is one of the best evidences of the prosperity +of our cities that so large a proportion of the men who work are +covered by their own roof trees. If we would perpetuate this +condition, we must maintain the American scale of wages. +[Applause.] The policy of the subdivision of the soil is one that +tends to strengthen our national life. God grant that it may be +long before we have in this country a tenantry that is hopelessly +such from one generation to another. [Applause.] That condition +of things which makes Ireland a land of tenants, and which holds +in vast estates the lands of England, must never find footing here. +[Applause.] Small farms invite the church and the school-house +into the neighborhood. Therefore, it was in the beginning the +Republican party declared for free homes of a quarter-section each. +That policy should be perpetuated as long as our public domain +lasts, and all our legislation should tend in the direction which I +have indicated. I cannot discuss all the important questions +to which you have called my attention. I have before alluded to +some of them. My Montgomery and Clinton county friends, I +thank you for the cordial and hopeful words you have addressed to +me. My highest ambition is to be found worthy of your respect +and confidence. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>To these veterans of 1840 who kindly transfer to this the interest +they felt in that campaign, to these first voters who come to join +us with the high impulses of youth, I desire to extend my sincere +thanks. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_4" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_4">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> most remarkable night demonstration of the campaign +occurred August 4, the occasion being the visit of +the Harrison and Morton Railroad Club of Terre Haute, +a thousand strong. They were met by twelve hundred +members of the Indianapolis Railroad Club, and, escorted +by several thousand citizens, marched to the Harrison residence.</p> + +<p>At the head of the column rolled the model of a monster +locomotive, emitting fire and smoke and bearing the significant +number 544, Hundreds of stores and residences +along the line of march were illuminated.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the head of the visiting club marched its officers: +President, D. T. Downs; Secretary, Chas. E. Carter; Treasurer, +Benj. McKeen; and Vice-Presidents, R. B. Woolsey, +J. L. Pringle, J. N. Evanhart, E. G. South, L. M. Murphy, +H. M. Kearns, George Leckert, and W. H. Miller.</p> + +<p>President Downs delivered an address and presented an +engrossed copy of the club roster. General Harrison spoke +from a stand in front of his residence, and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Downs, Gentlemen of the Terre Haute Railroad Club, and +Fellow-citizens</i>—I am amazed and gratified at the character of +this demonstration to-night. I do not find words to express the +emotions which swell in my heart as I look into your faces and +listen to the kindly greetings which you have given me through +your representative. He has not spoken in too high praise of the +railroad men of the United States. The character of the duties they +are called to discharge require great intelligence, in many departments +the best skill in the highest mechanic arts, and in all, even +in the lowest grade of labor in connection with railroad management, +there is required, for the safety of the public who entrust +themselves to your care, fidelity and watchfulness, not only in the +day, but in the darkness. The man who attends the switch, the +trackman who observes the condition of the track—all these have +put into their charge and keeping the lives of men and women +and the safety of our commerce. Therefore it is that the exigencies +of the service in which you are engaged have operated to select and +call into the service of our great railroad corporations a picked +body of men. I gratefully acknowledge to-night the service you +render to the country of which I am a citizen. The great importance +of the enterprises with which you are connected have already +suggested to our legislators that they owe duties to you as well +as to the travelling and mercantile public. The Congress of the +United States has, under that provision of the Constitution which +commits to its care all foreign and interstate commerce, undertaken +to regulate the great interstate railroads in the interest of equal and +fair competition and in the equal interest of all members of our +communities. I do not doubt that certain and necessary provisions +for the safety of the men who operate these roads will yet be made +compulsory by public and general law. [Applause.] The dangers +connected with your calling are very great, and the public interest, +as well as your own, requires that they should be reduced to the +minimum. I do not doubt that we shall yet require that uniformity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +in the construction of railroad cars that will diminish the danger +of those who must pass between them in order to make up trains. +[Applause.] I do not doubt, either, that as these corporations are +not private corporations, but are recognized by the law to which I +have referred and by the uniform decisions of our courts as having +public relations, we shall yet see legislation in the direction of +providing some suitable tribunal of arbitration for the settlement of +differences between railroad men and the companies that engage +their services. [Great applause.] I believe that in these directions, +and others that I have not time to suggest, reforms will work themselves +out, with exact justice to the companies and with justice to +the men they employ. Because, my friends, I do not doubt—and I +hope you will never allow yourselves to doubt—that the great mass +of our people, of all vocations and callings, love justice and right +and hate oppression. [Applause.] The laboring men of this land +may safely trust every just reform in which they are interested to +public discussion and to the logic of reason; they may surely hope, +upon these lines, which are open to you by the ballot-box, to accomplish +under our American institutions all those right things +you have conceived as necessary to your highest success and well-being. +Do not allow yourselves to doubt, for one moment, the +friendly sentiment of the great masses of our people. Make your +appeal wisely, and calmly, and boldly, for every reform you +desire, to that sentiment of justice which pervades our American +public. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>You come to-night from one of our most beautiful Indiana cities. +It was built on the Wabash in the expectation that that stream +would furnish the channel of its communication with the outside +world. But the Wabash is a small tributary to-day to the commerce +of Terre Haute. The railroads that span it are the great +vehicles of your commerce. They have largely superseded the +water communication that was deemed so important in the first +settlement, and, perhaps, was so decisive in the location of your +city. Terre Haute is conspicuous for its industries. The smoke of +your factories goes up night and day. The farms about your city +have become gardens, and the cordial and harmonious relations +between the railroad shop and the factory and the farms that lie +about have a conspicuous illustration with you. You have found +that that policy which built up these shops, which maintains them, +which secures the largest output yearly from the factories, which +gives employment to the largest number of men, is the best thing +not only for the railroads that do the transportation, but for the +workingmen, who find steady employment at good wages, and for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span> +the farmers, who supply their needs. [Applause.] You will not +willingly be led to believe that any policy that would check the +progress and the prosperity of these enterprises is good for you or for +the community in which you live. [Applause and cries of "No, +never!"] It will be hard to convince such an intelligent body of +workingmen that a policy which would transfer from this country +to any other the work that might be done here is good for them. +[Applause.] It can easily be demonstrated that if our revenue laws +were so adjusted that the imports from Great Britain should be +doubled it would be good for the workingmen of England, but I +think it would be hard to demonstrate that it would be good for +the workingmen of America. [Applause.] There is a wise selfishness; +it begins at home, and he who has the care of his own family +first, of the community in which he lives, of the nation of which +he is a citizen, is wise in his generation.</p> + +<p>Now, my friends, I have been daily talking. I used to be +thought by my friends to be a reticent man. [Laughter.] I fear +I am making an impression that I am garrulous. [Cries of "No! +No!"] And yet, when friends such as you take the trouble you +have to-night to visit me, I feel that I owe it to you to say something.</p> + +<p>Now, thanking you for this roster, which will furnish authentic +evidence, if it is challenged, that this visit to-night has been from +genuine railroad men [applause], I venture to invite my Terre Haute +friends to enter my house. I will ask the citizens of Indianapolis, +the escort club of my own home, railroad friends who have done +so much to make your coming here to-night pleasant, to kindly +refrain themselves, and allow me to greet the visitors. In order +that that may be accomplished, I will ask some of my Terre Haute +friends to place themselves by the door, that I may meet those who +are of their company. The others I have seen, or will see some +other day.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_6" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_6">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Monday</span>, August 6, General Harrison received a visit +from one hundred members of the Kansas City Blaine +Club, accompanied by many ladies, <i>en route</i> to New York +to welcome the Maine statesman on his return from Europe. +Col. R. H. Hunt led the club, and delivered a stirring +address on behalf of the Republicans of Missouri. On con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>cluding +he introduced Miss Abbie Burgess, who presented +the General a beautiful badge inscribed "The Kansas City +Blaine Club Greet Their Next President." Miss Burgess +made the presentation in the name of the working-women +of America.</p> + +<p>General Harrison responded briefly to these addresses, +stating that he found he had been talking a great deal of +late; "but," he added, "I never begin it; some one else +always starts it." He returned his cordial thanks to the +visitors for the compliment of their call.</p> + +<p>Speaking of the trip which the visitors were making, he +commended its purpose in meeting upon his return to +America "that matchless defender of Republican principles—James +G. Blaine." He felt sure that no circumstance +would be omitted in doing him merited honor. He was +glad to know that the Republicans of Missouri are so zealous +and aggressive. He believed that they had, perhaps, too +much acquiesced in the majorities against them, and had +not offered such resistance as would prove their own +strength. In the coming canvass he thought the economic +questions at issue ought to work to the interest of Republicans +in Missouri and overcome in part the prevailing +Democratic prejudices there. He also expressed the hope +that the race question would cease to divide men by prejudices +that should long ago have become extinct.</p> + +<p>In reply to Miss Burgess' address the General expressed +his grateful appreciation of the souvenir, and said +that the women of the land could never be forgotten. To +those of them who are toilers for their daily bread the +first thought goes out in considering the question that +involves depreciation of wages, and concluded by declaring +if cheaper coats and cheaper garments were to be had +by still further reducing the wages of the sewing-women +of America, then he was not in favor of cheaper apparel.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_7" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_7">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Indianapolis</span> contained several thousand visitors at this +period, in attendance on the State convention; in addition +to these, however, on the seventh of August two large +delegations arrived. The first came from Tippecanoe +County. The city of Lafayette was represented by the Lincoln +Club, H. C. Tinney, President; the Garfield Club, +Henry Vinton, President; and the Young Men's Republican +Club Association. Among other prominent members of +the delegation were James M. Reynolds, N. I. Throckmorton, +W. H. Caulkins, Charles E. Wilson, Wm. Fraser, +John B. Sherwood, Charles Terry, John Opp, Alexander +Stidham, Matt Heffner, S. Vater, Maurice Mayerstein, +Geo. A. Harrison, W. D. Hilt, P. W. Sheehan, C. H. Henderson, +Henry Marshall, J. W. Jefferson, Wm. E. Beach, +John B. Gault, and H. M. Carter. Hon. B. Wilson Smith +delivered an address on behalf of his townsmen.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in his response, touched upon the +origin and principles of the Republican party. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Smith and my Tippecanoe County Friends</i>—I am very grateful +for the evidence which you give me this morning by your presence, +and by the kind words which your representative has addressed +to me, of your respect and good-will. You are members, in great +part, of a party that was not machine-made. It had its birth in an +impulse that stirred simultaneously the hearts of those who loved +liberty. The first convention of our party did not organize it. +Those men were great, but they were delegates—representatives of +principles which had already asserted their power over the consciences +and the hearts of the people. [Applause.] The Republican +party did not organize for spoils; it assembled about an altar of +sacrifice and in a sanctuary beset with enemies. You have not +forgotten our early battle-cry—"Free speech, a free press, free +schools and free Territories." We have widened the last word; it +is now "a free Nation." The appeals which we have made and +shall yet make are addressed to the hearts, the consciences, and to +the mind of our people. Therefore, we believe in schools and +colleges, and seminaries of learning. Education is the great con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>servative +and assimilating force. A doubter is not necessarily an +evil person. The capacity to doubt implies reason—the power of +solving doubts; and if the doubt is accompanied with a purpose to +find the truth and a supreme affection for the truth when it is +found, he will not go widely astray. Therefore, in our political +campaigns let men think for themselves, and the truth will assert +its sway over the minds of our people. Then everything that +affects the record and character of the candidate and the principles +of the parties will be brought to a safe tribunal whose judgment +will be right. [Great applause and cries of "Good!"]</p> + +<p>I am not unaware of the fact that some of you had another convention +preference, but I have always believed that convention preferences +should be free in the Republican party [applause], and that +no prejudice should follow any Republican on account of that preference. +As party men, we will judge a man by his post-convention +conduct.</p></div> + +<p>The second delegation comprised fifteen hundred citizens +from Vanderburg County. The Tippecanoe Club of Evansville, +with sixty veterans, led the column.</p> + +<p>Leaders in the delegation were ex-Congressman Heilman, +Henry S. Bennett, Chas. H. McCarer, J. E. Iglehart, +W. A. Wheeler, C. R. Howe, J. W. Compton, S. B. Sansom, +S. A. Bate, John H. Osborn, John W. Davidson, +Henry Ludwig, Wm. Koelling, A. S. Glover, J. W. Roelker, +R. C. Wilkinson, James D. Parvin, Wm. Warren, +Chas. L. Roberts, and Geo. N. Wells.</p> + +<p>Dr. W. G. Ralston delivered an address in the name of +the delegation.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in reply, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Good Friends from the Pocket</i>—I feel very much complimented +by your visit to-day. Your coming here from so great a distance +involved much inconvenience which those who live nearer have not +experienced. You are geographically remote, but it does not follow +from that that you are remote from the sources of political influence +and political power.</p> + +<p>The General then spoke of the extension of the Republican party +from the lakes to the Ohio in Indiana and all over the North, saying +that geographical lines marked its limits only in the South. +He said that the people of Vanderburg County, living as they did +on the Ohio River, a river that some men sought to make the divis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>ion +line between two governments, knew what it was to guard +their homes and what it was to send out veterans from the sturdy +yeomanry to the defence of their country. He referred in the highest +terms to General Shackelford and his service in the hour of his +country's need. "I greet you to-day," he continued, "as Republicans—men +whose judgment and conscience compel their political +opinions. It does not fall to my lot now to argue or discuss at +length any of the great political questions of the day. I have done +that in the past. It is reserved for others in this campaign. I +recall with pleasure my frequent visits to you and your cordial +reception when I came to speak to you. In this contest others will +maintain before you that great policy which, we believe, dignifies +every American, both at home and abroad."</p> + +<p>Speaking in reference to wages, General Harrison said that he +thought we often forget the women who were compelled to work +for their daily bread. He sometimes thought those persons who +demand cheaper coats would be ashamed of themselves if they +could realize that their demand cut the wages of the women who +made these coats. In concluding, he greeted and thanked the +Tippecanoe Club for coming, and the Young Men's Republican +Club also, saying that he had heard of their efficient work in the +highest terms of praise.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_8" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_8">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 8.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Republican State Convention.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Republican State Convention convened at Tomlinson +Hall, city of Indianapolis, August 8, 1888, and concluded its +work in one day.</p> + +<p>It was the largest attended and most enthusiastic convention +ever held in Indiana. Hon. Wm. H. Calkins of +Indianapolis was chosen Chairman, and Mark L. De +Motte of Valparaiso Secretary. The following ticket was +nominated, and in November triumphantly elected:</p> + +<p><i>Governor</i>—Alvin P. Hovey, Posey County.</p> + +<p><i>Lieutenant-Governor</i>—Ira J. Chase, Hendricks County.</p> + +<p><i>Secretary of State</i>—Charles F. Griffin, Lake County.</p> + +<p><i>Auditor of State</i>—Bruce Carr, Orange County.</p> + +<p><i>Treasurer</i>—J. A. Lemcke, Vanderburg County.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>Attorney-General</i>—L. T. Michner, Shelby County.</p> + +<p><i>Superintendent Public Instruction</i>—H. M. LaFollette, +Boone County.</p> + +<p><i>Reporter Supreme Court</i>—John L. Griffiths, Marion +County.</p> + + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Judges of Supreme Court.</span></p> + +<p><i>First District</i>—Silas T. Coffey, Clay County.</p> + +<p><i>Second District</i>—J. G. Berkshire, Jennings County.</p> + +<p><i>Fourth District</i>—Walter Olds, Whitely County.</p> + +<p><i>Electors-at-Large</i>—James M. Shackelford, Vanderburg +County; Thomas H. Nelson, Vigo County.</p> + +<p>Judge Gardner, a delegate from Daviess County, introduced +a resolution, which was unanimously adopted midst +great enthusiasm, inviting General Harrison to visit the +convention, and designating Hon. Richard W. Thompson, +John W. Linck and E. P. Hammond a committee to convey +the invitation.</p> + +<p>On the platform, with the presiding officer, to meet the +distinguished guest were the Hon. James N. Huston, Hon. +John M. Butler, Hon. Will Cumback, William Wallace, +Hon. W. P. Fishback, Hon. A. C. Harris, Rev. Dr. Backus, +Judge E. B. Martindale, General Thomas Bennett, Judge +J. H. Jordan, and the Republican State officials.</p> + +<p>The entrance of General Harrison, escorted by the committee, +was followed by a tumultuous scene rarely witnessed +outside of a national convention, the demonstration +lasting nearly ten minutes. Chairman Calkins finally succeeded +in introducing—"the next President"—and General +Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention</i>—When I received +your invitation to appear for a moment before you I felt that what +you asked could not involve any indelicacy, and as it offered me +the only opportunity which I shall have to look into the faces of my +Indiana Republican friends here assembled, I could not find it in +my heart to deny myself the pleasure of spending a moment in +your presence. [Applause.] This enthusiastic and kindly recep<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>tion +crowns a long series of friendly acts on the part of my Republican +friends of Indiana. To have your confidence is very grateful +to me, to be worthy of your confidence is the highest ambition I +can set before me. [Applause.] Whatever may befall me, I feel +that my fellow-citizens of Indiana have crowned me and made me +forever their debtor. [Applause.] But I must not detain you from +the business which has brought you here. [Cries of "Go on!"] +Such an assemblage as this is characteristic of America. What +you shall do to-day will influence the prosperity and welfare of the +State. Such a meeting is a notable historical event. We have +to-day transpiring in this country two other events that are attracting +wide interest. At the chief seaport of our country that great +Republican, and that great American, James G. Blaine, returns to +his home. [Applause.] We shall not be disappointed, I hope, in +hearing his powerful voice in Indiana before the campaign is old. +[Applause.] Another scene attracts our solemn and even tearful +interest, for while you are transacting your business here to-day +a draped train is bearing from the place of his sojourn by the sea +to the place of his interment at Washington the mortal part of +Philip H. Sheridan. From the convention at Chicago we sent him +our greetings and our earnest prayers for his restoration. To-day +we mourn our hero dead. You called him then a favorite child of +victory, and such he was. He was one of those great commanders +who, upon the field of battle, towered a very god of war. [Applause.] +He was one of those earnest fighters for his country who did not +at the end of his first day's fight contemplate rest and recuperation +for his own command. He rested and refreshed his command with +the wine of victory, and found recuperation in the dispersion of +the enemy that confronted him. [Great applause.] This gallant +son of Ireland and America [great applause] has written a chapter +in the art of war that will not fail to instruct and to develop, when +the exigencies may come again, others who shall repeat in defence +of our flag his glorious achievements. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>And now, Mr. President, and gentlemen, I am sure the heat of +this hall and the labors that are before you suggest to you, as they +do to me, that I shall close these remarks and bid you good-by. +[Great applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_14" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_14">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Godfrey Commandery</span>, Knights Templars, of Chicago, +colored men, <i>en route</i> to the Grand Conclave at Louisville, +paid their respects to General Harrison on the 13th, +and were individually presented by Eminent Commander +H. S. Cooper. On August 14 the visitors aggregated +6,000.</p> + +<p>The first delegation came from Hamilton County, Indiana, +headed by eighty veterans of the Tippecanoe Club, +Charles Swain, President. There were nine Lincoln +League organizations in line. Among the leaders were J. +K. Bush, J. E. Walker, F. B. Pfaff, J. R. Christian, Benj. +Goldsmith, Ike Hiatt, and C. R. Davis, of Noblesville, and +Captain Carl, of Arcadia. Hon. J. R. Gray was their +spokesman.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in reply, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Colonel Gray and my Hamilton County Friends</i>—The demonstration +which you have made this morning is worthy of Hamilton +County; it is worthy of the great party to which you have given +the consent of your minds and the love of your hearts; it is altogether +more than worthy of him whom you have come to greet. +You come from a county that, as your spokesman has said, is +greatly favored, a county rich in its agricultural capacity; but, as +I look into your faces this morning I turn from the contemplation +of material wealth to the thought of those things that are higher +and better. [Applause and cries of "Good! Good!"] Not long ago +a distinguished Englishman and jurist visited our country. On +the eve of his return, in a public address, he alluded to the fact +that wherever he went he was asked whether he was not amazed at +the great size of our country. This student of law and government +very kindly, but very decidedly, rebuked this too prevalent pride +of bulk, and called our attention to the finer and higher things +that he had observed in our American civilization.</p> + +<p>So to-day, as I look into these intelligent faces, my thoughts are +turned away from those things that are scheduled, that have their +places in our census returns, to those things which belong to the +higher man—his spiritual and moral nature. [Applause.] I con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>gratulate +you, not so much upon the rich farm lands of your county +as upon your virtuous and happy homes. [Applause.] The home +is the best, as it is the first, school of good citizenship. It is the +great conservative and assimilating force. I should despair for my +country if American citizens were to be trained only in our schools, +valuable as their instruction is. It is in the home that we first +learn obedience and respect for law. Parental authority is the +type of beneficent government. It is in the home that we learn +to love, in the mother that bore us, that which is virtuous, consecrated, +and pure. [Applause.] I take more pride in the fact that +the Republican party has always been the friend and protector of +the American home than in aught else. [Applause.] By the beneficent +homestead law it created more than half a million of homes; +by the Emancipation Proclamation it converted a million cattle-pens +into homes. [Applause] And it is still true to those principles +that will preserve contentment and prosperity in our homes. +I greet you as men who have been nurtured in such homes, and +call your thought to the fact that the Republican party has always +been, and can be trusted to be, friendly to all that will promote +virtue, intelligence and morality in the homes of our people.</p> + +<p>Now, in view of the fact that I must greet other delegations to-day +[cries of "Don't stop!"], I am sure you will be content with +these brief remarks, though they are altogether an inadequate return +for your cordial demonstration.</p></div> + +<p>The other delegations of the day came from Macon and +Douglas counties, Illinois, numbering 3,000. A notable +feature of the Douglas County display was the tattered old +battle-flag of the Twenty-first Illinois Regiment—General +Grant's original regiment—borne by seven survivors.</p> + +<p>Capt. T. D. Minturn, of Tuscola, was spokesman. At +the head of the Macon County column marched 300 uniformed +members of the Young Men's Republican Club of +Decatur, led by Captain Wm. M. Strange and Wm. Frazier; +Prof. L. A. Estes, of Westfield, headed a company +from that town. Andrew H. Mills, of Decatur, spoke for +the Macon County people.</p> + +<p>General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Republican Friends</i>—I feel myself unable to respond suitably +to this magnificent demonstration and to those kindly words which +you have addressed to me. Public duties involve grave responsi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span>bilities. +The conscientious man will not contemplate them without +seriousness. But the man who sincerely desires to know and +to do his duty may rely upon the favoring help of God and the +friendly judgment of his fellow-citizens. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>Your coming from another State and from distant homes testifies +to the observing interest which you feel in those questions which +are to be settled by the ballot in November. [Cries of "We will +settle them!"]</p> + +<p>The confessed free-traders are very few in this country. But +English statesmen and English newspapers confidently declare that +in fact we have a great many. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>We are told that it is only an average reduction of seven per cent. +that is contemplated. [Laughter.] Well, if that were true, and +not a very deceptive statement, as it really is, you might fairly ask +whether this average reduction does not sacrifice some American +industry or the wages of our workingmen and working-women. +You may also fairly ask to see the free list, which does not figure +in this "average." [Applause, and cries of "That's it!"] We would +have more confidence in the protest of these reformers that they are +not "free-traders" if we could occasionally hear one of them say that +he was a protectionist [applause], or admit that our customs duties +should adequately favor our domestic industries. But they seem to +be content with a negative statement.</p> + +<p>Those who would, if they could, eliminate the protective principle +from our tariff laws have, in former moments of candor, +described themselves as "progressive free-traders," and it is an apt +designation. The protective system is a barrier against the flood +of foreign importations and the competition of underpaid labor in +Europe. [Applause.] Those who want to lower the dike owe it +to those who live behind it to make a plain statement of their purposes. +Do they want to invite the flood, or do they believe in the +dike, but think it will afford adequate protection at a lower level? +[Great and enthusiastic applause.]</p> + +<p>What I say is only suggestive. I cannot in this brief talk go +into details, or even properly limit the illustrations I have used. +But this is an appropriate and timely inquiry: With what motive, +what ultimate design, what disposition toward the principle +of protection is it that our present tariff schedule is attacked? It +may be that reductions should be made; it may be that some duties +should be increased; but we want to know whether those who propose +the revision believe in taking thought of our American workingmen +in fixing the rates, or will leave them to the chance effects +of a purely revenue tariff. [Applause.]</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +<p>Now, having spoken once already to-day, you will accept this +inadequate acknowledgment of this magnificent demonstration.</p> + +<p>I thank you, my Illinois friends, not only on my own behalf, but +on behalf of the Republicans of Indiana, for the great interest you +have manifested. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_15" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_15">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Rush</span>, Decatur, and Delaware counties, Indiana, contributed +fully five thousand visitors on the 15th of August. +Rush County sent twenty Republican clubs, mainly township +organizations, led by one hundred veterans of 1836 +and '40. The prominent Republicans of the delegation +were Hon. John K. Gowdy, John M. Stevens, A. L. Riggs, +W. J. Henley, John F. Moses, T. M. Green, J. C. Kiplinger, +J. W. Study, and G. W. Looney, of Rushville; R. R. +Spencer and J. A. Shannon, of Richland. Judge W. A. +Cullen was their spokesman.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Judge Cullen and my Rush County Friends</i>—I am glad to see you +here—glad to be assured by him who has spoken in your behalf +that your coming here in some measure is intended as an evidence +of your personal respect for me. The respect of one's fellow-citizens, +who have opportunities to know him, is of priceless value.</p> + +<p>I cannot in these daily addresses enter much into public questions.</p> + +<p>You are Indianians, some of you by birth; some of you, like +me, by choice. You are Republicans; you have opposed always +the doctrine of State's rights; you have believed and gloried in +the great citizenship that embraces all the people of all the States. +You believe that this Government is not a confederation to be dissolved +at the will of any member of it, but a Nation having the +inherent right, by arms, if need be, to perpetuate its beneficent +existence. [Great applause.] Many of you who are here to-day +have aided in vindicating that principle upon the battle-field [cries +of "Plenty of us!"], and yet these views are not inconsistent with +a just State pride. We are proud to be Indianians, proud of the +story of her progress in material development, proud of her educational +and benevolent institutions, proud of her Christian homes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +proud of her part in the Civil War. If there has been any just +cause of reproach against our State we will all desire that it may +be removed. We may fairly appeal to all Indianians, without distinction +of party, to co-operate in promoting such public measures +as are calculated to lift up the dignity and honor and estimation +of Indiana among the States of the Union. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>I will call your attention to one such subject that seems to me +to be worthy of your thought. It is the reform of our election +laws. [Applause and cries of "That's it!"] A constitutional amendment, +to which a great majority of our people gave their sanction, +has removed the impediments which stood in the way of progressive +legislation in the protection of an honest ballot in Indiana. +Formerly we could not require a definite period of residence in the +voting precinct. Now we may and have. The same amendment +authorized our Legislature to enact a just and strict registry law, +which will enable the inspectors properly to verify the claims of +those who offer a ballot. Every safeguard of law should be thrown +around the ballot-box until fraud in voting and frauds in counting +shall receive the sure penalties of law as well as the reprobation of +all good men. [Great applause.] The Republican party has always +stood for election reforms. No measure tending to secure the +ballot-box against fraud has ever been opposed by its representatives. +I am not here to make imputations; I submit this general +suggestion: Find me the party that sets the gate of election frauds +open, or holds it open, and I will show you the party that expects to +drive cattle that way. [Applause.] Let us as citizens, irrespective +of party, unite to exalt the name of Indiana by making her election +laws models of justice and severity, and her elections free from the +taint of suspicion. [Great applause.] And now, as I must presently +speak to other delegations, I am sure my Rush County friends +will allow me to close these remarks. [Applause and cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>The visitors from Decatur and Delaware counties were +received together. The Decatur delegation numbered +fifteen hundred, led by B. F. Bennett, John F. Goddard, +V. P. Harris, J. J. Hazelrigg, Geo. Anderson, Edward +Speer, A. G. Fisher, F. M. Sherwood, and A. S. Creath, +of Greensburg. Their spokesman was the Hon. Will +Cumback. Delaware County sent twelve organizations, +conspicuous among which were the Tippecanoe Club, the +Veterans Regiment, and Lincoln Colored Club. Among +the leaders of the delegation were ex-Senator M. C. Smith,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> +A. F. Collins, Hon. James N. Templer, Major J. F. Wildman, +Rev. T. S. Guthrie, J. D. Hoyt, Geo. F. McCulloch, +W. W. Orr, Joseph G. Lefler, Lee Coffeen, C. F. W. +Neely, Ed. R. Templer, W. H. Murray, W. H. Stokes, +John S. Aldredge, J. R. Shoemaker, Jacob Stiffler, Web +S. Richey, T. H. Johnson and others, of Muncie. Rev. +N. L. Bray spoke on behalf of the Lincoln Club, but R. S. +Gregory delivered the address for the delegation as a +whole.</p> + +<p>In reply to these several addresses General Harrison +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—The man who does not believe that the issues of this +campaign have taken a very deep hold upon the minds and upon +the hearts of the American people would do well to come and +stand with me and look into the faces of the masses who gather here. +I know nothing of the human face if I do not read again in your +faces and eyes the lesson I have read here from day to day, and +it is this: That the thinking, intelligent, God-fearing and self-respecting +citizens of this country believe there are issues at stake +that demand their earnest effort. [Applause.] A campaign that +is one simply of party management, a campaign by committees and +public speakers, may fail; but a campaign to which the men and +women of the country give their unselfish and earnest efforts can +never fail. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>It is no personal interest in the candidate that stirs these emotions +in your hearts; it is the belief that questions are involved affecting +your prosperity and the prosperity of your neighbors; affecting the +dignity of the nation; affecting the generation to which you will +presently leave the government which our fathers built and you +have saved. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>One subject is never omitted by those who speak for these visiting +delegations, viz.: the protective tariff. The purpose not to permit +American wages to be brought below the level of comfortable living, +and competence, and hope, by competition with the pauper +labor of Europe, has taken a very strong hold upon our people. +[Applause.] And of kin to this suggestion and purpose is this +other: that we will not permit this country to be made the dumping-ground +of foreign pauperism and crime. [Great applause.] +There are some who profess to be eager to exclude paupers and +Chinese laborers, and at the same time advocate a policy that +brings the American workman into competition with the product<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +of cheap foreign labor. [Applause and cries of "That's it!"] The +disastrous effects upon our workingmen and working-women of +competition with cheap, underpaid labor are not obviated by +keeping the cheap worker over the sea if the product of his cheap +labor is allowed free competition in our market. We should protect +our people against competition with the products of underpaid +labor abroad as well as against the coming to our shores of paupers, +laborers under contract, and the Chinese labor. [Enthusiastic applause.] +These two thoughts are twin thoughts; the same logic +supports both; and the Republican party holds them as the dual +conclusion of one great argument.</p> + +<p>Now, gentlemen, to the first voters, who come with the high +impulse of recruits into this strife; to these old men, seasoned +veterans of many a contest, and to these colored friends, whose +fidelity has been conspicuous, I give my thanks and hearty greetings. +[Applause.] There has been a desire expressed that the +reception of these delegations should be individualized; that Delaware +should be received by itself, and Decatur separately; but that +is not possible. You are one in thought and purpose; and if I am +not able to individualize your reception by counties, I will, so far +as I can, now make it absolutely individual by greeting each one of +you.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_17" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_17">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 17.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Delegations</span> from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, aggregating +between nine and ten thousand visitors, paid their +respects to the Republican nominee on the seventeenth of +August.</p> + +<p>The Ohio delegation came from Bellefontaine, Logan +County, led by Judge William Lawrence. They carried +a beautiful old silk banner that had been presented to a +Logan County club at the hands of Gen. Wm. Henry +Harrison in 1840.</p> + +<p>Ford County, Illinois, sent a large delegation, headed by +Judge A. Sample and Col. C. Bogardus, of Paxton. The +Young Men's Club—Wm. Ramsey, President, and the +Paxton League—T. T. Thompson, President, were conspicuous +in this delegation.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Kankakee County (Illinois) delegation, headed by +the Republican club of the City of Kankakee in campaign +uniforms, was led by Judge T. S. Sawyer, D. H. Paddock, +F. S. Hatch, W. F. Kenoga, H. L. Richardson, J. F. +Leonard, R. D. Sherman, Geo. R. Letourneau, and Judge +J. N. Orr.</p> + +<p>Morgan County, Illinois, contributed the largest delegation +of the day, over two thousand, with three drum corps, +one, the Jacksonville Juvenile Drum Corps, led by Thomas +Barbour, aged 81. Prominent in the Morgan delegation +were C. G. Rutledge, President Young Men's Republican +Club, B. F. Hilligass, D. M. Simmons, Dr. P. G. Gillett, +Sam'l W. Nichols, Judge M. T. Layman, J. G. Loomis, +A. P. and J. M. Smith, veterans of '40, and Henry Yates, +son of Illinois' war Governor—all of Jacksonville.</p> + +<p>The Indiana visitors came from three counties—Bartholomew, +Johnson, and Vermilion.</p> + +<p>The Bartholomew contingent was composed largely of +veterans of the late war, who were led by a company of +their daughters in uniform. Among their representative +members were John C. Orr, W. W. Lambert, John H. +Taylor, John F. Ott, J. W. Morgan, John Sharp, T. B. +Prother, Andrew Perkinson, and H. Rost, of Columbus.</p> + +<p>The Johnson County delegation numbered two thousand, +led by W. T. Pritchard, D. W. Barnett, Jessie Overstreet, +J. H. Vannuys, I. M. Thompson, Jacob Hazlett, and John +Brown, of Franklin.</p> + +<p>Vermilion County sent fifteen hundred enthusiastic visitors, +commanded by A. J. Ralph, Marshal of the delegation. +Other leaders were Hon. R. B. Sears, W. L. Porter, +Rob't A. Parrett, S. B. Davis, R. H. Nixon, Geo. H. +Fisher, and Andrew Curtis, of Newport.</p> + +<p>The speakers on behalf of these several delegations were: +Hon. William Lawrence, of Ohio; Hon. Frank L. Cook, +Paxton, Ill.; Judge C. R. Starr, Kankakee County, Ill.; +Prof. Wm. D. Saunders, Jacksonville, Ill.; Major W. T.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +Strickland, Bartholomew County, Ind.; Col. Sam'l P. +Oyler, Johnson County, Ind.; Hon. H. H. Connelly, Vermilion +County, Ind. To these addresses General Harrison +responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—The magnitude of this gathering, I fear, quite out-reaches +the capacity of my voice. It is so great and so cordial, it +has been accompanied by so many kind expressions, that my heart +is deeply touched—too deeply to permit of extended or connected +speech. I return most cordially the greetings of these friends from +Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois [cheers], a trio of great States lying in +this great valley, endowed by nature with a productive capacity +that rivals the famous valley of the Nile, populated by a people +unsurpassed in intelligence, manly independence and courage. +[Applause and cheers.] The association of these States to-day +brings to my mind the fact that in the brigade with which I served +Indiana, Ohio and Illinois were represented [applause]—three +regiments from Illinois, the One Hundred and Second, the One Hundred +and Fifth and the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth; one from +Ohio, the Seventy-ninth, and one from Indiana, the Seventieth +Infantry. I have seen the men of these States stand together in +the evening parade. I have seen them also charge together in +battle, and die together for the flag they loved [great applause], +and when the battle was over I have seen the dead gathered from +the field they had enriched with their blood and laid side by side +in a common grave. Again you evidence by your coming that these +great States have in peace common interests and common sympathies. +The Republican party has always been hospitable to the +truth. [Applause and laughter.] It has never shunned debate. It +has boldly, and in the courage of the principles it has advocated, +opened the lists and challenged all comers. It has never found it +necessary or consistent with its great principles to suppress free +discussion of any question. There is not a Republican community +where any man may not advocate without fear his political beliefs. +[Cries of "That's so!"] There is not a Republican voting precinct +where any man, whatever may have been his relations to the flag +during the war, may not freely exercise his right to vote. [Cheers.] +There is not one such precinct where the right of a Confederate +soldier freely to cast the ballot of his choice would not be defended +by the Union veterans of the war. [Applause and cries of "That's +true!"] Our party is tolerant of political differences. It has always +yielded to others all that it demanded for itself. It has been intolerant +of but one thing: disloyalty to the flag and to the Union<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> +of States. [Great applause.] It has had the good fortune to set +in the Constitution and in the permanent laws of our country +many of the great principles for which it has contended. It has +not only persuaded a majority of our thinking people, but it has +had the unusual fortune to compel those who opposed it to give a +belated assent to every great principle it has supported.</p> + +<p>Now, gentlemen, I am sure you will excuse further speech. +What I say here must necessarily be very general. It would not +be in good taste for me to make too close or too personal an application +of Republican principles. [Laughter and applause and +cries of "You're a dandy!"]</p> + +<p>I do not know what to say further. I have up to this time +greeted personally all those who came. My courage is a little +shaken as I look upon this vast multitude, but for a time, at +least—so long as I can, and to those who especially desire it, I will +give a personal greeting. [Great and prolonged applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_18" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_18">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> commercial travelling men, and their friends, from +the cities of Peoria, Bloomington, Terre Haute, and Lafayette, +about a thousand in number, paid their respects +to General Harrison on the afternoon of the 18th of +August. The Bloomington delegation was led by J. H. +Sprague and Dan Van Elsler, the Peoria Club by J. G. +Jones. Each delegation was escorted by a splendid band.</p> + +<p>They were met and escorted to the Harrison residence +by a committee from the Indianapolis Commercial Travellers' +Association, comprising G. C. Webster, C. H. McPherson, +John V. Parker, W. H. Schmidt, D. W. Coffin, +Harry Gates, R. K. Syfers, W. F. Winchester, Wm. +Sisson, T. P. Swain, C. L. Schmidt, Ed. Finney, O. W. +Moorman, Charles Lefler, M. P. Green, J. L. Barnhardt, +Berg. Applegate, G. R. Rhoads, Hon. J. H. Rowell, of +Bloomington; and Hon. J. S. Starr of Peoria spoke on +behalf of the visitors. General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Peoria, +Bloomington, Lafayette, and Terre Haute</i>—I thank you for this most<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span> +cordial and beautiful demonstration. The respect of such a body +of men is a valuable acquisition. But I am particularly glad that +a class so large and so influential, and one that touches so many +communities, is loyally and earnestly devoted to the principles of +the Republican party. I have travelled somewhat in the wake of +the commercial men, and have observed that they have the habit of +getting the best of everything wherever they go. [Applause and +laughter. A voice: "That's the reason we are here!"] I am therefore +quite ready to credit the statement of the gentleman who has +just spoken in your behalf when he tells me that the commercial +travellers are all Republicans. [Applause and cries of "He was +right!"] I should expect they would get the best politics that were +to be found. [Laughter and applause.]</p> + +<p>Your calling is an active one—you are always on the move. +You are quick to discover the wants of local trade. You are persuasive +in speech and address; you are honest for the love of +integrity, and do not forget that you must again face your customer +after the goods are delivered. [Laughter and applause.] +The men who employed you have chosen you, picked you out, +and they subject you to the weekly test of success. You have been +proved and not found wanting. The wide intercourse you have +with your fellow-men and the wide view you get of our country +must tend to make you liberal and patriotic.</p> + +<p>The provincialism that once existed in this country has largely +disappeared, and the commercial travellers have been an important +agency in bringing this about. This going to and fro has given +you a fuller comprehension, not only of the extent of this country, +but of the greatness and unity of its people. [Cheers.] I have +thought that the prophet Daniel must have had a vision of the +commercial travellers when he said that in the last days many +should run to and fro and knowledge should be increased. [Laughter +and applause.]</p> + +<p>You will not expect me to enter upon the discussion of any of +the topics which have been suggested by those who have spoken +for you. Most of them I have already alluded to in public speech +since my nomination, and upon some of them I have spoken more +fully before. Let me suggest but this one thought: Do not allow +any one to persuade you that this great contest as to our tariff +policy is one between schedules. It is not a question of a seven per +cent. reduction. [Applause.] It is a question between wide-apart +principles. [Cries of "That's right!"]</p> + +<p>The principle of protection, the intelligent recognition in the +framing of our tariff laws of the duty to protect our American<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +industries and maintain the American scale of wages by adequate +discriminating duties [cries of "That's right!" "That's it!"] on +the one hand, and on the other a denial of the constitutional right +to make our customs duties protective, or the assertion of the doctrine +that free competition with foreign products is the ideal condition +to which all our legislation should tend. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Let me now, in behalf not only of myself, but of my family, thank +you for your visit and ask you to enter our home. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TOLEDO_OHIO_AUGUST_21" id="TOLEDO_OHIO_AUGUST_21">TOLEDO, OHIO, AUGUST 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> left Indianapolis on the morning of +August 21, '88, for a two weeks' outing and vacation at +Middle Bass Island, Lake Erie, where he was the guest—upon +invitation of ex-Gov. Charles Foster, of Ohio—of +the Middle Bass Fishing Club, Mather Shoemaker, Sr., +President.</p> + +<p>He was accompanied by Mrs. Harrison, Judge Wm. +A. Woods and wife, Miss Woods, Samuel Miller, and +representatives of the Associated Press and Cincinnati +<i>Commercial-Gazette</i>.</p> + +<p>His departure was not generally known, consequently +there was no demonstration along the line until Defiance, +Ohio, was reached, where several hundred people had +gathered. Hon. C. A. Flickinger delivered a brief address +of welcome.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, speaking from the train, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I am very much obliged to you for this reception. +You will excuse me, I am sure, for not attempting to make any +speech. This evidence of your friendly feeling is gratifying to +me. We were intending to travel to-day in quietness, and I am +confident you will conform to our wishes in that respect by allowing +me to say simply, "How do you do" and "Good-by."</p></div> + +<p>Toledo was reached early in the evening, and several +thousand citizens and militia welcomed the distinguished +travellers. A committee of reception, comprising James +M. Brown, Chairman, Mayor Hamilton, Hon. E. D. +Potter, J. C. Bonner, John Berdan, C. A. King, Calvin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +Barker, Fred Eaton, Col. S. C. Reynolds, Judge R. F. Doyle, +Judge Joseph Cummings, Hon. John F. Kumler, Hon. +Richard Waite, Wm. Baker, and Judge Austin, escorted +General Harrison and his party to the residence of Wm. +Cummings, whose guests they were. At night an open-air +mass-meeting was held in Memorial Hall Square, where +ten thousand men assembled. Gov. Foster spoke at +length, and was followed by General Harrison, who was +introduced by Hon. J. M. Brown, President of the Executive +Committee United Republican Clubs, and spoke as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—You have already been told that this reception was +not planned by me, and yet I do not regret that I have yielded to +the urgent solicitation of your representatives and have consented +to stand for a few moments in the presence of this magnificent +and instructive audience. [Applause.] I say instructive, for that +public man is dull indeed who does not gather both instruction and +inspiration from such meetings as this. [Applause.] I thank you +for any measure of personal respect and interest which your coming +here to-night may witness, but I do not see in this immense +gathering any testimony that is personal to me. I prefer to regard +it as another witness added to the long number I have seen before +of the deep-seated and earnest interest of our people in the public +questions that are to be settled in November. [Applause.] I +choose rather to regard it as a pledge that this interest you manifest +in me to-night will not stop here, but is the pledge of continued +and earnest personal work by each one of you for those principles +which have won the consent of your minds and the love of your +hearts. [Applause.] I cannot enter in any detail into the discussion +of public questions; I would not at all put myself between +you and these great, important issues. I would, in all I may say, +put them to the front. We are here citizens of a great, prosperous, +magnificent Nation. We have common interests. We are here +charged with the common duties to perpetuate, if we can, the +prosperity and to maintain the honor of this great Republic. +[Applause.] We are here to-night in the enjoyment of free government. +We are here in the individual possession of better opportunities +of development, of a larger prosperity, and of more individual +comfort than are possessed by any other people in the world. +[Applause.] The great economic question as to what shall be our +future legislative policy is stated with a distinctness in this cam<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span>paign +that it has never had before, and I believe the verdict and +decision will have an emphasis and finality that it has never had +before. [Applause.] If there is any one here present to-night that +knows of any land that spreads a more promising sky of hope +above the heads of the poor and the laboring man than this, I +would be glad if he would name it. The one fact that I do not +need to stop to demonstrate by statistics, the one fact that I could +call out of this vast audience hundreds of witnesses to support by +their personal testimony, is that the scale of American wages is +higher than that of any other country in the world. [Applause.] +If this were not true, why is it that the workingmen and the +working-women of the older lands turn their faces hitherward? If +there is a better country, one that offers better wages, fuller hopes +than this, why is it that those who are in quest of such better +things have not found it out and turned their faces thitherward? +Now, if that is true, then why is it true, and how is it to be continued—this +condition of our country? It is because, and only +because, we have for years, by our protective tariff, discriminated +in favor of American manufacturers and American workingmen. +[Applause.] Strike down this protective system, bring our workingmen +and working-women in equal competition in the products +of their toil with those who labor abroad, and nothing is clearer +than that these mills and factories must reduce wages here to +the level with wages abroad, or they must shut down. You have +the choice to make; you, the free citizens of this country, whose +ballots sway its destiny, will settle these questions in November. +[Applause.] I ask you how? Don't be deceived by the suggestion +that this is any contest over a seven per cent. reduction in the tariff +schedule. We are allowed now to say, I think, that all those who +are entitled to speak for the Democratic party have declared that +it is opposed to protection. That being so, the issue is clearly, +distinctly, strongly drawn. I beg you all—not in my interest, but +in your own; in the interest of your families and the country you +love—to ponder this question; to think upon it with that seriousness +its importance demands, and when you have thought it out, settle +it, settle it in November, so that we shall be free for years to come +from this agitation in behalf of free trade. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>I thank you again for this kindly demonstration. I beg you to +accept these brief suggestions as the only but inadequate return +that I can make you for this kindness. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PUT-IN-BAY_OHIO_AUGUST_31" id="PUT-IN-BAY_OHIO_AUGUST_31">PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO, AUGUST 31.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> residents of Put-in-Bay Island, about five hundred +in number, tendered General Harrison a reception on the +thirty-first of August. The steamboats from Cleveland, +Detroit, Toledo, and Sandusky brought several thousand +excursionists. General Harrison and his party on their +arrival from Middle Bass Island were met at the pier by +all the residents of Put-in-Bay Island, headed by their +most distinguished citizen John Brown, Jr., son of the +celebrated "Ossawatomie" Brown, of Harper's Ferry +fame.</p> + +<p>From a pavilion in the adjacent grove John Brown +introduced Hon. Charles Foster, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—General Harrison came to Middle Bass for the +purpose of rest and quiet. At the solicitation of a number of people +of this section of country—a great number, I might say—he +has kindly consented to give a reception here to-day, upon one +condition—that he was not to make a speech. Now, fellow-citizens, +I have the very great pleasure of presenting to you General Benjamin +Harrison, the Republican candidate for the presidency. +[Applause.]</p></div> + +<p>As Governor Foster concluded, General Harrison arose +midst a shout of welcome and spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I have found Governor Foster to be a very agreeable +and thoughtful host, and I find him to-day to be the most agreeable +master of ceremonies who has ever attended me at a public reception. +I like his announcement of the condition under which I +appear before you to-day.</p> + +<p>I never enjoy a banquet when my name is on the programme for +a toast. I do not, therefore, intend to speak to you about any of +those questions that are engaging your minds as citizens of this +prosperous and mighty and happy Nation. We are here to-day as +Americans, proud of the flag that symbolizes this great Union of +States; proud of the story that has been written by our fathers in +council and in war, in the formation and defence and perpetuation +of our magnificent institutions, We are here in the immediate +neighborhood of one of those great historic events that was among<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +the most potential agencies in settling our title to the great Northwest. +If we had stood where we stand to-day we could have heard +the guns of Perry's fleet. If we had stood where we stand to-day +we could have welcomed him as he came a victor into Put-in-Bay.</p> + +<p>These institutions of ours are in our own keeping now, and not +only our fundamental institutions, but the fame that has been won +by those who have gone before. I may therefore properly say to-day +that a campaign like this demands the thoughtful consideration +of every American voter. We are prosperous. [Cheers.] The +story of our prosperity, of our development in wealth, of our achievements +in finance as a Nation, since and during the war, is almost +as notable and almost as admirable as that of our achievements in +arms.</p> + +<p>The assembling of our revenue was even more difficult than the +assembling of armies, and yet we were able to maintain those +armies in the field, and have been able since not only to bear up +the great load of debt, but to pay it off, until that which was once +thought to be a burden that would crush our industries has come +to be in our hands but as the ball the boy tosses in play [cheers]; +and we are to-day confronted with the question, not how we shall +get money, but how we shall wisely stop some of those avenues by +which wealth is pouring into our public treasury.</p> + +<p>It is an easier problem than that which confronted the great war +Secretary, in whose name you so delight—how to raise revenue +to prosecute the war successfully. It will be wisely solved. And +may I note also the fact that, notwithstanding this complaint of +excessive revenue, there are some who suggest that they are not +able adequately to arouse the popular indignation against excessive +taxation because they cannot disclose to the people when or how +they are paying the taxes? [Applause.] It is taken, they say, so +indirectly and so subtly that these—our plain people—don't know +that they are paying them at all. [Applause.] But I must not +cross this line of party discussion. I have had a pleasant stay in +this most delightful neighborhood, and I cannot let this public +opportunity pass without expressing, for myself and for Mrs. Harrison, +our grateful appreciation of the kind and thoughtful hospitality +which has been shown to us by the people of these islands. [Prolonged +applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="FORT_WAYNE_IND_SEPTEMBER_4_1888" id="FORT_WAYNE_IND_SEPTEMBER_4_1888">FORT WAYNE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4, 1888.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> and party, <i>en route</i> home from +Middle Bass Island, arrived at Toledo on the evening of +Sept. 3, and were again the guests of Wm. Cummings. +At night they were tendered a reception by Mr. and Mrs. +John Berdan, at their residence.</p> + +<p>On the morning of Sept. 4 the party started homeward. +The first stop was at Fort Wayne, where several thousand +Hoosiers welcomed their leader. Supt. Wall, of the Pittsburg +and Fort Wayne Railroad, introduced the general, +who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I desire to thank you for this cordial demonstration. +I thank you not so much for myself as for the party to which most +of us have given the consent of our minds. I am glad to know +that the people are moved to a thoughtful consideration of those +questions which are this year presented for their determination. +Under a popular government like ours it is of the first importance +that every man who votes should have some reason for his vote; +that every man who attaches himself to this or that political party +should intelligently understand both the creed and the purposes of +the party to which he belongs. I think it is universally conceded +by Democrats as well as by Republicans that the questions involved +in this campaign do have a very direct bearing upon the national +prosperity, and upon the prosperity and welfare of the individual +citizen. I think it is conceded that the result of this election will +affect beneficently or injuriously our great manufacturing interests, +and will affect for weal or for woe the workingmen and working-women +who fill these busy hives of industry. [Applause.] This +much is conceded. I do not intend to-day to argue the question in +any detail. I want to call your attention to a few general facts +and principles, and the first one—the one I never tire of mentioning; +the one I deem so important that I do not shun the charge +that I am repeating myself—is this: that the condition of the wage-workers +of America is better than that of the wage-workers of any +other country in the world. [Applause.] Now, if that be true, it +is important that you should each find out why it is so; that each +one of you should determine for himself what effect a protective +tariff has had and is likely to have upon his wages and his pros<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span>perity. +Does it need to be demonstrated that if we reduce our tariff +to a revenue level, if we abolish from it every consideration of protection, +more goods will come in from abroad than come in now? +And what is the necessary effect? It is the transfer to foreign shops +of work that you need here; it is to diminish American production +and increase English production.</p> + +<p>That is to be the effect of it. It is, not worth while to stand +upon nice definitions as to free trade. Some think it enough to +say that they are not free-traders because they are not in favor of +abolishing all customs duties. Let me remind such that the free-trade +countries of Europe, recognized to be such, have not abolished +all customs duties. A better distinction is this: The free-trader +believes in levying customs duties without any regard to the effect +of those duties upon the wages of our working people, or upon the +production of our own shops. This, then, is the issue. Take it +to your homes. There are many confusing and contradictory statements +made in the public press and by public speakers. Ask any +of those who assail our protective system whether they do not +believe that if their policy is adopted a larger amount of foreign-made +goods will come into this country. It is their purpose to +increase importation in order to cheapen prices. I think I may +safely ask you to consider the question whether this cheapening +of prices, which they seem to regard as the highest attainment of +statesmanship, is consistent with the rate of wages that our working +people enjoy now, whether it will not involve—if we are to +have foreign competition without favoring duties—a reduction of +American wages to the standard of the wages paid abroad. +[Applause.] Do you believe for one moment that two factories +making the same product can be maintained in competition when +one pays thirty-three per cent. more to its workingmen than the +other? Is it not certain that wages must be equalized in those +competing establishments or the one paying the higher wages must +shut down? [Applause and cries, "That's the thing!"] Here in +this city of Fort Wayne, so important and so prosperous, we have a +fine illustration of the accruing advantages of a large factory and +shop population. It has made your city prosperous as well as populous, +and it has made these outlying Allen County farms vastly +more valuable than they otherwise would have been. These interests +harmonize. But I only want to ask you to think upon these questions; +settle them in your own minds, for it is agreed by all that, +as they shall be settled one way or the other, your interests and +those of your families and of this community, and of every other +like community in this country, are to be affected, favorably or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +unfavorably. May I not appeal to you to review these questions, +to throw off the shackles of preconceived notions and of party prejudices, +and consider them anew in the light of all the information +that is accessible to you? If you shall do that I do not doubt that +the working people of this country will this November forever +settle the question that American customs duties shall by intention, +by forethought, have regard to the wages of our working people. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>And now, if you will pardon further speech, I shall be glad to +avail myself of the arrangements which the committee have provided +to greet personally any of you who may desire to greet me. +[Prolonged applause and cheers.]</p></div> + + +<hr class="chap" /> + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HUNTINGTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_4" id="HUNTINGTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_4">HUNTINGTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> next stop was at Huntington, where two thousand +people were congregated.</p> + +<p>In response to repeated calls General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—Our stop here is altogether too brief for me to +attempt to speak; yet I cannot refrain from expressing to you, my +friends of Huntington County, my sincere and grateful appreciation +for the evidence of your kindness in welcoming me so cordially to +my home after a brief absence. I have not travelled very far this +time, but I have seen nothing either on this visit, or any more +extended visit that I have heretofore made, to win away my interests +and affection from the great State of Indiana. [Great applause.] +It is great in the capabilities, both of its soil and its citizenship +[applause]; great in its achievements during the war. When our +country was imperilled no State more nobly or magnificently responded +to the demands which were made by the general Government +for men to fight and to die for the flag. [Applause.] I am +glad to greet in this audience to-day my comrades of the war, and +all who have gathered here. I beg to thank you again for your +kindness.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PERU_IND_SEPTEMBER_4" id="PERU_IND_SEPTEMBER_4">PERU, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Peru a committee, headed by Hon. A. C. Bearss and +Giles W. Smith, waited upon General Harrison, who +addressed an audience of over two thousand as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for that kindness +of feeling which your gathering here to-day evinces. I have had +a brief visit for rest, and I am come back to my home with very +kind feelings toward my friends in Indiana, who have, not only +during this important campaign, but always, when I have appealed +to them, treated me with the utmost consideration. I have not +time to-day to discuss the issues of this campaign. They are extremely +important, and they will have a direct bearing upon the +prosperity of our country. I can only ask you to think of them, +and not to mistake the issue. It is very plain. It is the question of +whether our tariff laws shall be a protection to American workingmen +and a protection to American manufacturing establishments. +Those who advocate tariff for revenue only do not take any thought +of our wage-workers, but let their interests take care of themselves. +On the other hand the Republican party believes that high regard +should be paid to the question what the effect will be upon wages +and upon the protection of our American shops. Those who believe +the doctrine agree with us; and those who assail it, and say it is +unconstitutional, as has recently been said by a distinguished citizen, +would destroy our protective system if they could. We must +believe so, because we must impute to them sincerity in what they +say. I believe this campaign will settle for many years to come +the question of whether legislation shall be intelligently directed +in favor of the doctrine that we will, so far as may be, see that our +farmers may find home consumers for their home product, and that +these populous manufacturing centres may give a larger value to +the farms that lie about them. You have these questions to settle. +They affect your interests as citizens. I am sure that everything +that regards them, as well as everything that regards the candidate, +may be safely left in the kind hands of these intelligent citizens of +Indiana and of the United States. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KOKOMO_IND_SEPTEMBER_4" id="KOKOMO_IND_SEPTEMBER_4">KOKOMO, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> city of Kokomo welcomed the party in the evening +with a brilliant illumination by natural gas. Three thousand +people were present. General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I very much appreciate this spontaneous evidence +of your friendliness. That so many of you should have gathered +here this evening to greet us on our return home after a brief +absence from the State is very gratifying to me. Kokomo has +been for many years a very prosperous place. It has been the happy +home of a very intelligent and very thrifty people. You are now, +however, realizing a development more rapid and much greater +than the most sanguine among you could have anticipated three +years ago. The large increase in the number and business of your +manufacturing establishments, the coming here from other parts of +the country of enterprising men with their capital to set up manufacturing +plants, has excited your interest and has promoted +your development. There is not a resident of Kokomo, there is not +a resident of Howard County, who does not rejoice in this great +prosperity. I am sure there is not a man or woman in this city +who does not realize that this new condition of things gives to +your boys, who are growing up, new avenues of useful thrift. It +opens to those who might otherwise have pursued common labor +access to skilled trades and higher compensation. There is not a +merchant in Kokomo who does not appreciate the added trade +which comes to his store. There is not a farmer in Howard County +who has not realized the benefits of a home market for his crops +[applause and cries of "Good!"], and especially for those perishable +products of the farm which do not bear distant transportation. +Now I submit to your consideration, in the light of these new +facts, whether you have not a very deep interest in the protection +of our domestic industries and the maintenance of the American +standard of wages. There can be no mistaking the issue this year. +In previous campaigns it has been observed by evasive platform +declarations. It is now so clear that all men can understand it. +I would leave this thought with you: Will the prosperity that is +now realized by you, and that greater prosperity which you anticipate, +be better advanced by the continuance of the protective +policy or by its destruction?</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TIPTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_4" id="TIPTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_4">TIPTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Tipton Junction, where several hundred people had +congregated, General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—There is no time this evening for me to say more +than that I thank you very sincerely for this cordial evidence of +your kindly feeling. I will not have time to discuss any public +questions. You will consider them for yourselves, and can have +ready access to all necessary information.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="NOBLESVILLE_IND_SEPTEMBER_4" id="NOBLESVILLE_IND_SEPTEMBER_4">NOBLESVILLE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Noblesville the train was met by a special from +Indianapolis, bearing the Columbia Club, a uniformed +organization of three hundred prominent young men, who +had come to escort General Harrison to his home.</p> + +<p>To the assembled citizens of Noblesville the general +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—You are very kind, and I am grateful for this manifestation +of your kindness. I cannot speak to you at any length to-night. +You are in the "gas belt" of Indiana. The result of the +discovery of this new fuel has been the rapid development of your +towns. You have shown your enterprise by hospitably opening +the way for the coming of new industrial enterprises. You have +felt it worth while not only to invite them, but to offer pecuniary +inducements for them to come. If it has been worth while to do +so much in the hope of developing your town and to add value to +your farms by making a home market for your farm product, is it +not also worth your while so to vote this fall as to save and enlarge +these new industrial enterprises? [Applause.] Let me acknowledge +a new debt of gratitude to my friends of Hamilton County, +who have often before made me their debtor, and bid you good-night.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_4" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_4">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> home-coming of General Harrison was a veritable +ovation. Fifteen thousand people greeted and accompanied +him to his residence, led by the Columbia Club, the +Veterans' Regiment, and the Railroad Men's Club. Escorted +by Gen. Foster, Daniel M. Ransdell, and W. N. +Harding, General Harrison—standing in his own door—facing +the great assembly, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—Two weeks ago to-day I left Indianapolis quietly +for a brief season of rest. We met in Ohio very considerate and +hospitable friends, who allowed nothing to be lacking to the enjoyment +and comfort of our brief vacation. But, notwithstanding all +the attractions of that island home in Lake Erie, we are to-night +very happy to be again at home. The enthusiastic welcome you +have extended to us has added grace and joy. I think I may +conclude that nothing has happened since I have been gone that +has disturbed your confidence or diminished your respect. [Great +applause and cries of "No! no!"] At the outset of this campaign +I said I would confidently commit all that was personal to myself +to the keeping of the intelligent and fair-minded citizens of Indiana. +[Applause.] We will go on our way in this campaign upon that +high and dignified plane upon which it has been pitched, so far as +it lay in our power, commending the principles of our party to +the intelligent interest of our fellow-citizens, and trusting to truth +and right for the victory. [Applause.] Most gratefully I acknowledge +the affectionate interest which has been shown to-night by my +old comrades of the war. [Applause.] I am glad to know that in +this veteran organization there are many who have heretofore +differed with me in political opinion, but who are drawn in this +campaign, by a sense of our common interests, to cast in their +influence with us. I desire also to thank the Railroad Club for +their kind greetings. There has been a special significance in +their friendly organization, and I am grateful, also, to the members +of the Columbia Club for their part in this demonstration. +Now, with an overwhelming sense of inability to respond fittingly +to your cordiality and kindness, I can only thank you once more +and bid you good-night. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_6" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_6">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the night of Sept. 6 General Harrison, in company +with General A. P. Hovey, Ex-Gov. A. G. Porter, Hon. +James N. Huston, Hon. R. B. F. Pierce, Judge Walker, +and other friends, reviewed from the balcony of the New-Denison +Hotel ten thousand marching Republicans.</p> + +<p>It was one of the most brilliant and successful demonstrations +of the campaign. The great line was composed of +eighty-two Republican clubs and associations of the city +of Indianapolis, commanded by Chief Marshal Hon. Geo. +W. Spahr, assisted by the following mounted aids: +Major Geo. Herriott, Moses G. McLain, Dan'l M. Ransdell, +Thomas F. Ryan, W. H. H. Miller, John B. Elam, +Dr. Austin Morris, Col. I. N. Walker, Wm. L. Taylor, +W. A. Pattison, Capt. O. H. Hibben, Charles Murray, +Ed. Thompson, Charles Wright, S. D. Pray, J. E. Haskell, +Wm. Thomas, W. H. Tucker, Joseph Forbes, Ed. +Harmon, Lou Wade, John W. Bowlus, M. L. Johnson, +Miles Reynolds, W. E. Tousey, R. H. Rees, and W. D. +Wiles.</p> + +<p>The column was divided into four divisions, commanded +by Col. N. R. Ruckle, Col. James B. Black, Horace +McKay, and Hon. Stanton J. Peelle. A great mass-meeting +followed the parade, and the issues of the campaign +were presented by General Hovey, Gov. Porter and Hon. +John M. Butler.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_8" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_8">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 8.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> on this date received perhaps the +most unique delegation of the campaign: a band of one +hundred girls and misses, aged from seven to fifteen years, +organized by Mrs. Mattie McCorkle. At their head rode +Master Charles Pettijohn, six years old, mounted upon a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> +pony, followed by a drum corps of eight young boys. The +girls marched four abreast, dressed in uniforms of red, +white and blue, carrying mounted Japanese lanterns. +They were commanded by Miss Florence Schilling. After +singing "Marching through Georgia," Master Pettijohn, +on behalf of the young ladies, presented the general a +handsome bouquet and made an address. General Harrison +honored the young orator and the club with a speech, +and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>When some one asked this afternoon, over the telephone, if I +would receive some children who wanted to pay me a visit, I gave +a very cheerful consent, because I thought I saw a chance to have +a good time. That you little ones would demand a speech from +me never entered my mind, nor did I expect to see a company so +prettily uniformed and so well drilled, both in marching and in +song.</p> + +<p>Children have always been attractive to me. I have found not +only entertainment but instruction in their companionship. Little +ones often say wise things. In the presence of such a company as +this, one who has any aspirations for the things that are good and +pure cannot fail to have them strengthened. The kind words you +have addressed to me in song come, I am sure, from sincere and +loving hearts, and I am very grateful for them and for your visit. +Some of the best friends I have are under ten years of age, and after +to-night I am sure I shall have many more, for all your names will +be added.</p> + +<p>And now I hope you will all come in where we can see you and +show you whatever there is in our home to interest you. I would +like you all to feel that we will be glad if you will come to see us +often.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_10" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_10">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison's</span> visitors to-day comprised six +hundred G. A. R. veterans and their wives from Northwestern +Kansas—<i>en route</i> to the Grand Encampment—under +the lead of General W. H. Caldwell, Frank McGrath, +C. E. Monell, W. S. Search, Dr. A. Patten, J. W. Garner, +and Dr. J. R. King, of Beloit, Kan. Colonel W. C.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span> +Whitney, Commander of the First Division, was orator, +and assured General Harrison that "Kansas grew more +corn and more babies than any other State in the Union." +In response the General said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Comrades</i>—I have a choice to make and you have one. I +can occupy the few moments I have to spare either in public address +or in private, personal greeting. I think you would prefer, as I +shall prefer, to omit the public speech that I may be presented to +each of you. [Cries of "Good! Good!"] I beg you, therefore, to +permit me only to say that I very heartily appreciate this greeting +from my comrades of Kansas.</p> + +<p>The bond that binds us together as soldiers of the late war is one +that is enduring and close. No party considerations can break it; +it is stronger than political ties, and we are able thus in our Grand +Army associations to come together upon that broad and high plane +of fraternity, loyalty, and charity. [Applause and cries of "Good! +Good!"] Let me now, if it be your pleasure, extend a comrade's +hand to each of you. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GENERAL_HARRISONS_LETTER_OF_ACCEPTANCE" id="GENERAL_HARRISONS_LETTER_OF_ACCEPTANCE">GENERAL HARRISON'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.</a></h3> + + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Indianapolis, Ind.</span>, September 11, 1888. +</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Hon. M. M. Estee and others, Committee, etc.</span>: +</p> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—When your committee visited me, on the Fourth of +July last, and presented the official announcement of my nomination +for the presidency of the United States by the Republican convention, +I promised as soon as practicable to communicate to you a +more formal acceptance of the nomination. Since that time the +work of receiving and addressing, almost daily, large delegations +of my fellow-citizens has not only occupied all of my time, but has +in some measure rendered it unnecessary for me to use this letter +as a medium of communicating to the public my views upon the +questions involved in the campaign. I appreciate very highly the +confidence and respect manifested by the convention, and accept +the nomination with a feeling of gratitude and a full sense of the +responsibilities which accompany it.</p> + +<p>It is a matter of congratulation that the declarations of the Chicago +convention upon the questions that now attract the interest of +our people are so clear and emphatic. There is further cause of +congratulation in the fact that the convention utterances of the +Democratic party, if in any degree uncertain or contradictory, can<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span> +now be judged and interpreted by executive acts and messages, +and by definite propositions in legislation. This is especially true +of what is popularly known as the Tariff question. The issue cannot +now be obscured. It is not a contest between schedules, but +between wide-apart principles. The foreign competitors for our +market have, with quick instinct, seen how one issue of this contest +may bring them advantage, and our own people are not so dull +as to miss or neglect the grave interests that are involved for them. +The assault upon our protective system is open and defiant. Protection +is assailed as unconstitutional in law, or as vicious in principle, +and those who hold such views sincerely cannot stop short +of an absolute elimination from our tariff laws of the principle of +protection. The Mills bill is only a step, but it is toward an object +that the leaders of Democratic thought and legislation have clearly +in mind. The important question is not so much the length of +the step as the direction of it. Judged by the executive message +of December last, by the Mills bill, by the debates in Congress, and +by the St. Louis platform, the Democratic party will, if supported +by the country, place the tariff laws upon a purely revenue basis. +This is practical free trade—free trade in the English sense. The +legend upon the banner may not be "Free Trade"—it may be the +more obscure motto, "Tariff Reform;" but neither the banner nor +the inscription is conclusive, or, indeed, very important. The assault +itself is the important fact.</p> + +<p>Those who teach that the import duty upon foreign goods sold +in our market is paid by the consumer, and that the price of the +domestic competing article is enhanced to the amount of the duty +on the imported article—that every million of dollars collected for +customs duties represents many millions more which do not reach +the treasury, but are paid by our citizens as the increased cost of +domestic productions resulting from the tariff laws—may not intend +to discredit in the minds of others our system of levying duties on +competing foreign products, but it is clearly already discredited in +their own. We cannot doubt, without impugning their integrity, +that if free to act upon their convictions they would so revise our +laws as to lay the burden of the customs revenue upon articles that +are not produced in this country, and to place upon the free list +all competing foreign products. I do not stop to refute this theory +as to the effect of our tariff duties. Those who advance it are +students of maxims and not of the markets. They may be safely +allowed to call their project "Tariff Reform," if the people understand +that in the end the argument compels free trade in all competing +products. This end may not be reached abruptly, and its<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span> +approach may be accompanied with some expressions of sympathy +for our protected industries and our working people, but it will +certainly come if these early steps do not arouse the people to effective +resistance.</p> + +<p>The Republican party holds that a protective tariff is constitutional, +wholesome, and necessary. We do not offer a fixed schedule, +but a principle. We will revise the schedule, modify rates, but +always with an intelligent provision as to the effect upon domestic +productions and the wages of our working people. We believe it +to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to preserve +the American market for American producers, and to maintain the +American scale of wages by adequate discriminative duties upon +foreign competing products. The effect of lower rates and larger +importations upon the public revenue is contingent and doubtful, +but not so the effect upon American production and American +wages. Less work and lower wages must be accepted as the inevitable +result of the increased offering of foreign goods in our market. +By way of recompense for this reduction in his wages, and +the loss of the American market, it is suggested that the diminished +wages of the workingman will have an undiminished purchasing +power, and that he will be able to make up for the loss of the home +market by an enlarged foreign market. Our workingmen have +the settlement of the question in their own hands. They now +obtain higher wages and live more comfortably than those of any +other country. They will make choice of the substantial advantages +they have in hand and the deceptive promises and forecasts +of these theorizing reformers. They will decide for themselves and +for their country whether the protective system shall be continued +or destroyed.</p> + +<p>The fact of a treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously +stated, has directed public attention to a consideration of the +methods by which the national income may best be reduced to the +level of a wise and necessary expenditure. This condition has +been seized upon by those who are hostile to protective customs +duties as an advantageous base of attack upon our tariff laws. +They have magnified and nursed the surplus, which they affect to +deprecate, seemingly for the purpose of exaggerating the evil, in +order to reconcile the people to the extreme remedy they propose. +A proper reduction of the revenues does not necessitate, and should +not suggest, the abandonment or impairment of the protective system. +The methods suggested by our convention will not need to +be exhausted in order to effect the necessary reduction. We are +not likely to be called upon, I think, to make a present choice<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span> +between the surrender of the protective system and the entire repeal +of the internal taxes. Such a contingency, in view of the present +relation of expenditures to revenues, is remote. The inspection +and regulation of the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine is +important, and the revenue derived from it is not so great that the +repeal of the law need enter into any plan of revenue reduction. +The surplus now in the treasury should be used in the purchase of +bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and if it is not needed +for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the +banks in which it has been deposited, should have the advantage +of its use by stopping interest upon the public debt. At least those +who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear of +a monetary stringency, thus produced, to coerce public sentiment +upon other questions.</p> + +<p>Closely connected with the subject of the tariff is that of the +importation of foreign laborers under contracts of service to be performed +here. The law now in force prohibiting such contracts +received my cordial support in the Senate, and such amendments +as may be found necessary effectively to deliver our working men +and women from this most inequitable form of competition will +have my sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting the importation +of laborers under contract to serve here will, however, afford +very inadequate relief to our working people if the system of protective +duties is broken down. If the products of American shops +must compete in the American market, without favoring duties, +with the products of cheap foreign labor the effect will be different, +if at all, only in degree, whether the cheap laborer is across +the street or over the sea. Such competition will soon reduce wages +here to the level of those abroad, and when that condition is +reached we will not need any laws forbidding the importation of +laborers under contract—they will have no inducement to come, +and the employer no inducement to send for them.</p> + +<p>In the earlier years of our history public agencies to promote +immigration were common. The pioneer wanted a neighbor with +more friendly instincts than the Indian. Labor was scarce and +fully employed. But the day of the immigration bureau has gone +by. While our doors will continue open to proper immigration, +we do not need to issue special invitations to the inhabitants of +other countries to come to our shores or to share our citizenship. +Indeed, the necessity of some inspection and limitation is obvious. +We should resolutely refuse to permit foreign governments +to send their paupers and criminals to our ports. We are also +clearly under a duty to defend our civilization by excluding alien<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span> +races whose ultimate assimilation with our people is neither possible +nor desirable. The family has been the nucleus of our best +immigration, and the home the most potent assimilating force in +our civilization.</p> + +<p>The objections to Chinese immigration are distinctive and conclusive, +and are now so generally accepted as such that the question +has passed entirely beyond the stage of argument. The laws relating +to this subject would, if I should be charged with their enforcement, +be faithfully executed. Such amendments or further legislation +as may be necessary and proper to prevent evasions of the laws +and to stop further Chinese immigration would also meet my approval. +The expression of the convention upon this subject is in +entire harmony with my views.</p> + +<p>Our civil compact is a government by majorities, and the law loses +its sanction and the magistrate our respect when this compact is +broken. The evil results of election frauds do not expend themselves +upon the voters who are robbed of their rightful influence in +public affairs. The individual or community or party that practises +or connives at election frauds has suffered irreparable injury, +and will sooner or later realize that to exchange the American +system of majority rule for minority control is not only unlawful +and unpatriotic, but very unsafe for those who promote it. The +disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation +is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly. The right of every +qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly +counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should +be used to make this right secure and to punish frauds upon the +ballot.</p> + +<p>Our colored people do not ask special legislation in their interest, +but only to be made secure in the common rights of American citizenship. +They will, however, naturally mistrust the sincerity of +those party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in +those localities where the suffrage is free and election results +doubtful, and compass their disfranchisement where their votes +would be controlling and their choice cannot be coerced.</p> + +<p>The Nation, not less than the States, is dependent for prosperity +and security upon the intelligence and morality of the people. +This common interest very early suggested national aid in the +establishment and endowment of schools and colleges in the new +States. There is, I believe, a present exigency that calls for still +more liberal and direct appropriations in aid of common-school +education in the States.</p> + +<p>The territorial form of government is a temporary expedient,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span> +not a permanent civil condition. It is adapted to the exigency +that suggested it, but becomes inadequate, and even oppressive, +when applied to fixed and populous communities. Several Territories +are well able to bear the burdens and discharge the duties of +free commonwealths in the American Union. To exclude them +is to deny the just rights of their people, and may well excite their +indignant protest. No question of the political preference of the +people of a Territory should close against them the hospitable door +which has opened to two-thirds of the existing States. But admissions +should be resolutely refused to any Territory a majority +of whose people cherish institutions that are repugnant to our +civilization or inconsistent with a republican form of government.</p> + +<p>The declaration of the convention against "all combinations of +capital, organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the +condition of trade among our citizens," is in harmony with the +views entertained and publicly expressed by me long before the +assembling of the convention. Ordinarily, capital shares the losses +of idleness with labor; but under the operation of the trust, in +some of its forms, the wageworker alone suffers loss, while idle +capital receives its dividends from a trust fund. Producers who +refuse to join the combination are destroyed, and competition as +an element of prices is eliminated. It cannot be doubted that the +legislative authority should and will find a method of dealing fairly +and effectively with those and other abuses connected with this +subject.</p> + +<p>It can hardly be necessary for me to say that I am heartily in +sympathy with the declaration of the convention upon the subject +of pensions to our soldiers and sailors. What they gave and what +they suffered I had some opportunity to observe, and, in a small +measure, to experience. They gave ungrudgingly; it was not a +trade, but an offering. The measure was heaped up, running over. +What they achieved only a distant generation can adequately tell. +Without attempting to discuss particular propositions, I may add +that measures in behalf of the surviving veterans of the war and of +the families of their dead comrades should be conceived and executed +in a spirit of justice and of the most grateful liberality, and +that, in the competition for civil appointments, honorable military +service should have appropriate recognition.</p> + +<p>The law regulating appointments to the classified civil service +received my support in the Senate in the belief that it opened the +way to a much-needed reform. I still think so, and, therefore, +cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of the convention +upon this subject. The law should have the aid of a friendly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span> +interpretation and be faithfully and vigorously enforced. All appointments +under it should be absolutely free from partisan considerations +and influence. Some extensions of the classified list +are practicable and desirable, and further legislation extending the +reform to other branches of the service to which it is applicable +would receive my approval. In appointment to every grade and +department, fitness, and not party service, should be the essential +and discriminating test, and fidelity and efficiency the only sure +tenure of office. Only the interests of the public service should suggest +removals from office. I know the practical difficulties attending +the attempt to apply the spirit of the civil service rules to all +appointments and removals. It will, however, be my sincere purpose, +if elected, to advance the reform.</p> + +<p>I notice with pleasure that the convention did not omit to +express its solicitude for the promotion of virtue and temperance +among our people. The Republican party has always been friendly +to everything that tended to make the home life of our people free, +pure, and prosperous, and will in the future be true to its history +in this respect.</p> + +<p>Our relations with foreign powers should be characterized by +friendliness and respect. The right of our people and of our ships +to hospitable treatment should be insisted upon with dignity and +firmness. Our Nation is too great, both in material strength and +in moral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of timorousness. +Vacillation and inconsistency are as incompatible with +successful diplomacy as they are with the national dignity. We +should especially cultivate and extend our diplomatic and commercial +relations with the Central and South American States. Our +fisheries should be fostered and protected. The hardships and +risks that are the necessary incidents of the business should not +be increased by an inhospitable exclusion from the near-lying ports. +The resources of a firm, dignified, and consistent diplomacy are undoubtedly +equal to the prompt and peaceful solution of the difficulties +that now exist. Our neighbors will surely not expect in our +ports a commercial hospitality they deny to us in theirs.</p> + +<p>I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects +upon which the convention gave an expression.</p> + +<p>In respect to them, as well as to those I have noticed, I am in +entire agreement with the declarations of the convention. The +resolutions relating to the coinage, to the rebuilding of the navy, +to coast defences, and to public lands, express conclusions to all of +which I gave my support in the Senate.</p> + +<p>Inviting a calm and thoughtful consideration of these public<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span> +questions, we submit them to the people. Their intelligent patriotism +and the good Providence that made and has kept us a Nation +will lead them to wise and safe conclusions.</p> + +<p class="center"> +Very respectfully, your obedient servant, +</p> +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison.</span> +</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CLAYTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_13" id="CLAYTON_IND_SEPTEMBER_13">CLAYTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 13.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span>, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison +and Mrs. McKee, on September 13 attended the fourteenth +reunion of the Seventieth Indiana Regimental Association +at Clayton village, Hendricks County.</p> + +<p>The Seventieth Regiment was recruited from the counties +of Hendricks, Johnson and Marion. Of the one hundred +and fifty-nine regiments sent to the front by Indiana, +but few, if any, achieved a more honorable and distinguished +record. It was the first regiment to report for +duty under President Lincoln's call of July, '62, and was +recruited in less than a month by Second Lieutenant +Benjamin Harrison.</p> + +<p>After the regiment had been recruited Lieutenant Harrison +was elected Captain of Company A, and when the +regiment was organized, August 7, 1862, Captain Harrison +was commissioned its colonel. It left Indianapolis for +the front August 13, 1862, and returned thirty-four months +later, with a loss of 189 men. It participated in eleven +engagements, including Resaca, Kenesaw, Marietta, Peach +Tree Creek, Atlanta, Savannah and Bentonville. The regiment +was a part of Sherman's army, and was attached +to the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Corps. +For several years past General Harrison has been successively +chosen President of the Regimental Association.</p> + +<p>Several hundred veterans, with their families, accompanied +the General from Indianapolis, and were greeted at +Clayton by five thousand people. Three hundred veterans +of the Seventieth saluted their Colonel as he walked<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span> +to the front and, assuming command, led the column +to a neighboring grove, where the exercises of the day +were held. It was the largest reunion in the history +of the Association. Among the prominent non-resident +members in attendance were Lieutenant-Colonel James +Burghs, of Topeka; Capt. Wm. M. Meredith, Chicago (he +was captain of Company E, the color company of the regiment); +Captain Tansey, now Judge, of Winfield, Kansas; +Captain Willis Record, of Nebraska; Lieutenant Hardenbrook +and Private Snow, of Kansas, and Cyrus Butterfield, +of Minneapolis. The orator of the day was Comrade +J. M. Brown.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, as President of the Association, presided. +The proceedings were opened with prayer by Comrade +J. H. Meteer, followed by an address of welcome by +Miss Mary L. Mitchell, daughter of Captain W. C. +Mitchell, who directed her closing remarks to General Harrison.</p> + +<p>With great earnestness the General replied as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Miss Mitchell</i>—I feel quite incompetent to discharge the duty that +now devolves upon me—that of making suitable response to the +touching, cordial and sympathetic words which you have addressed +to us. We thank you and the good citizens of Clayton, for whom +you have spoken, that you have opened your hearts so fully to us +to-day. I am sure we have never assembled under circumstances +more attractive than those that now surround us. The mellow sunshine +of this autumn-time that falls upon us, the balmy air which +moves the leaves of those shadowing trees, the sweet calm and spell +of nature that is over everything, makes the day one of those that +may be described in the language of the old poet as</p> + +<p class="center"> "A bridal of the earth and sky." +</p> + +<p>Your hospitable welcome makes us feel at home, and in behalf +of this large representation of our regiment, possibly the largest +that has assembled since the close of the war, gathered not only +from these adjacent counties, but from distant homes beyond the +Mississippi and the Missouri, I give you to-day in return our +most hearty thanks for your great kindness.</p> + +<p>The autumn-time is a fit time for our gathering, for our spring-time +is gone. It was in the spring-time of our lives that we heard<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span> +our country's call. Full of vigor and youth and patriotism, we +responded to it. The exhaustion of march and camp and battle, and +the civil strife of the years that have passed since the close of the +war, have left their marks upon us, and, as we gather from year +to year, we notice the signs of advancing age, and the roster of +our dead is lengthened. We are reminded by the minutes of our +last meeting, that have been read, of the presence at our last reunion +of that faithful and beloved officer who went out from this county, +Major Reagan. With a prophetic instinct of what was before him, +he told us then that it was probably the last time that he should +gather with us. God has verified the thought that was in his mind, +and that simple, true-hearted, brave comrade has been enrolled +with the larger company. We are glad to-day to be together, yet +our gladness is sobered. As I look into those familiar faces I notice +a deep sense of satisfaction, but I have not failed to observe that +there are tears in many eyes. We are not moved to tears by any +sense of regret that we gave some service to our country and to its +flag, but only by the sense that we are not all here to-day, and +that all who are here will never gather again in a meeting like +this. We rejoice that we were permitted to make some contribution +to the glory and credit and perpetuity of the Nation we love. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>Comrades who served under other regimental flags and who have +gathered here with us to-day, we do not boast of higher motives or +greater service than yours. We welcome you to a participation in +our reunion. We fully acknowledge that you had a full—possibly +a fuller—share than we in the great achievements of the war. We +claim only this for the Seventieth Indiana—that we went into the +service with the full purpose to respond to every order [cries of +"That's so!"], and that we never evaded a fight or turned our backs +to the enemy. [Applause.] We are not here to exalt ourselves, +but I cannot omit to say that a purer, truer self-consecration to +the flag and country was never offered than by you and your dead +comrades who, in 1862, mustered for the defence of the Union. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>It was not in the heyday of success, it was not under the impression +that sixty days would end the war, that you were mustered. +It was when the clouds hung low and disasters were thick. Buell +was returning from the Tennessee, Kirby Smith coming through +Cumberland Gap, and McClellan had been defeated on the Peninsula. +It seemed as if the frown of God was on our cause. It was +then, in that hour of stress, that you pledged your hearts and lives +to the country [applause], in the sober realization that the war was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span> +a desperate one, in which thousands were to die. We are glad that +God has spared us to see the magnificent development and increase +in strength and honor which has come to us as a Nation, and in +the glory that has been woven into the flag we love. [Great +applause.] We are glad that with most of us the struggle in life +has not left us defeat, if it has not crowned us with the highest +successes. We are veterans and yet citizens, pledged, each according +to his own conscience and thought, to do that which will best +promote the glory of our country and best conserve and set in our +public measures those patriotic thoughts and purposes that took us +into the war. [Applause.] It is my wish to-day that every relation +I occupy to the public or to a political party might be absolutely +forgotten [cries of "Good! good!"], and that I might for +this day, among these comrades, be thought of only as a comrade—your +old Colonel. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>Nothing has given me more pleasure on this occasion than to +notice, as I passed through your streets, so beautifully and so tastefully +decorated, that the poles that have been reared by the great +parties were intertwined [applause]—and now I remind myself +that I am not the orator of this occasion [cries of "Go on!"], but its +presiding officer. The right discharge of that duty forbids much +talking.</p> + +<p>Comrades of the Seventieth Indiana, comrades of all these associated +regiments, I am glad to meet you. Nothing shall sever that +bond, I hope. Nothing that I shall ever say, nothing that I shall +ever do, will weaken it. And now, if you will permit me again +to acknowledge the generous hospitality of this community, and +in your behalf to return them our most sincere thanks, I will close +these remarks and proceed with the programme which has been +provided.</p></div> + +<p>General Harrison was unanimously re-elected President +of the Association, Colonel Samuel Merrill Vice-President, +M. G. McLean Secretary, Major James L. Mitchell +Treasurer.</p> + +<p>When the motion was put by one of the veterans on the +adoption of the report re-electing General Harrison to the +presidency of the Association, the veterans answered with +a "Yea" that brought cheer upon cheer from the crowd.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, visibly affected, simply said: "I +feel myself crowned again to-day by this evidence of com<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>radeship +of the old soldiers of the Seventieth Indiana." +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>On his return from Clayton, General Harrison was +visited at his residence by fifty veterans of Potter Post, +G. A. R., Sycamore, Ill., <i>en route</i> home from the Columbus +encampment. They were introduced by General E. F. +Dutton, colonel of the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Infantry, +and commander of the Second Brigade, Third Division +of the Twentieth Army Corps.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_14" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_14">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">All</span> trains arriving from the East this day brought large +delegations of homeward-bound veterans from the Columbus, +Ohio, encampment. The first to arrive was one +hundred veterans of Ransom Post, St. Louis—General Sherman's +Post—who were introduced by Col. Murphy. General +Harrison, responding to their greeting, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades</i>—I esteem it a pleasure to be able to associate with you +by the use of that form of address. I know of no human organization +that can give a better reason for its existence than the Grand +Army of the Republic. [Cries of "Good!"] It needs no argument +to justify it; it stands unassailable, and admits of no criticism +from any quarter. Its members have rendered that service to +their country in war, and they maintain now, in peace, that honorable, +courageous citizenship that entitles them to every patriot's +respect. I thank you for this visit, and will be glad if you will +now allow me to welcome you to my home.</p></div> + +<p>In the afternoon the streets of Indianapolis were overflowing +with marching veterans from Illinois, Minnesota, +Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas, headed by the National +Drum Corps of Minneapolis, and commanded by Department +Commander Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago, and a +brilliant staff. The great column passed through the city +out to the Harrison residence. Conspicuous at the head of +the line marched the distinguished Governor of Wiscon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span>sin, +General Jere M. Rusk, surrounded by his staff of +seventeen crippled veterans, among whom were Capt. E. +G. Fimme, Secretary of State of Wisconsin; Col. H. B. +Harshaw, State Treasurer; C. E. Estabrook, Attorney-General; +Philip Cheek, Insurance Commissioner; Col. H. +P. Fischer, Maj. J. R. Curran, Maj. F. L. Phillips, Maj. +F. H. Conse; Captains W. W. Jones, H. W. Lovejoy, and +W. H. McFarland. Eighty members of the Woman's +Relief Corps accompanied the veterans, and were given +positions of honor at the reception. When General Harrison +appeared he was tendered an ovation. Governor Rusk +said: "Comrades—I consider it both an honor and a pleasure +in introducing to you the President of the United +States for the next eight years—General Benjamin Harrison." +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>General Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Rusk, Comrades of the Grand Army, and Ladies</i>—I did +not suppose that the Constitution of our country would be subjected +to so serious a fracture by the executive of one of our great +States. [Laughter.] Four years is the constitutional term of the +President. [Laughter.] I am glad to see you; I return your friendly +greetings most heartily. Your association is a most worthy one. +As I said to some comrades who visited me this morning, it has +the best reason for its existence of any human organization that I +know of. [Applause.] I am glad to know that your recent encampment +at Columbus was so largely attended, and was in all its +circumstances so magnificent a success. The National Encampment +of the G. A. R. is an honor to any city. The proudest may +well array itself in its best attire to welcome the Union veterans +of the late war. In these magnificent gatherings, so impressive in +numbers and so much more impressive in the associations they +revive, there is a great teaching force. If it is worth while to build +monuments to heroism and patriotic sacrifice that may stand as +dumb yet eloquent instructors of the generation that is to come, so +it is worth while that these survivors of the war assemble in their +national encampments and march once more, unarmed, through +the streets of our cities, whose peace and prosperity they have +secured. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Every man and every woman should do them honor. We have a +body of citizen soldiers instructed in tactics and strategy and ac<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span>customed +to the points of war that make this Nation very strong +and formidable. I well remember that even in the second year of +the war instructors in tactics were rare in our own camps. They +are very numerous now. [Laughter.] Yet, while this Nation was +never so strong in a great instructed, trained body of veteran +soldiers, I think it was never more strongly smitten with the love +of peace. The man that would rather fight than eat has not survived +the last war. [Laughter.] He was laid away in an early +grave or enrolled on the list of deserters. But he would be mistaken +who supposes that all the hardships of the war—its cruel, hard +memories—would begin to frighten those veterans from the front +if the flag was again assailed or the national security or dignity +imperilled. [Applause and cries of "You are right!"] The war +was also an educator in political economy.</p> + +<p>These veterans, who saw how the poverty of the South in the +development of her manufacturing interests paralyzed the skill of +her soldiers and the generalship of her captains, have learned to +esteem and value our diversified manufacturing interests. [Applause.] +You know that woollen mills and flocks would have been +more valuable to the Confederacy than battalions; that foundries +and arsenals and skilled mechanical labor was the great lack of the +Confederacy. You have learned that lesson so well that you will +not wish our rescued country, by any fatal free-trade policy, to be +brought to a like condition. [Applause and cries of "Good! +good!"] And now, gentlemen, I had a stipulation that I was not +to speak at all. [Laughter.] You will surely allow me now to +stop this formal address, and to welcome my comrades to our home. +[Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_15" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_15">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> held three receptions this date. +The first was tendered the Scott Rifles of Kansas City, all +members of the G. A. R., <i>en route</i> home from the Columbus +encampment. They wore the regulation blue uniform +and carried muskets. Captain Brant introduced his company, +stating that in bringing their arms with them "they +did not intend to do General Harrison any violence." The +General responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Captain and Comrades</i>—I did not need to be assured that comrades +of the Grand Army, whether bearing arms or not, brought me no<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span> +peril. No loyal and orderly citizen will mistrust their friendliness. +The people of Indiana will not ask that you procure any permit or +give bond to keep the peace before passing through this loyal State +with arms in your hands.</p> + +<p>I am especially complimented by the visit of this organized company +of the Missouri militia, composed wholly of Union veterans. +It gives evidence that those who served in the Civil War are still +watchful of the honor and safety of our country and its flag; that +our Government may rest with security upon the defence which +our citizen-soldiers offer.</p> + +<p>And now, without alluding at all to any topic of partisan interest, +I bid you welcome, and will be pleased to have a personal +introduction to each of you, if that is your pleasure.</p></div> + +<p>The second reception was extended to a delegation of +twelve hundred workingmen from New Albany, Floyd +County, organized into political clubs, among whose leaders +were Walter B. Godfrey, M. Y. Mallory, Geo. B. Cardwell, +M. M. Hurley, W. A. Maynor, Andrew Fite, Chas. R. +Clarke, J. W. Edmonson, L. L. Pierce, Horace Brown, N. +D. Morris, T. W. Armstrong, D. C. Anthony, John Hahn, +R. E. Burke, Albert Hopkins, F. D. Connor, Frank Norton, +M. McDonald, M. H. Sparks, W. H. Russell, J. N. Peyton, +Daniel Prosser, Geo. Roberts, and G. H. Pennington. A +band of G. A. R. veterans from far-off Texas happened +to be present at the reception, among them Col. J. C. De +Gress, Wm. Long, John Herman, S. C. Slade, W. H. Nye, +W. H. Tuttle, Geo. A. Knight, and Dr. S. McKay. James +A. Atkinson, a glassblower of the De Pauw works at New +Albany, delivered an able address on behalf of the visitors. +General Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—There is something very distinctive, very +interesting, and very instructive in this large delegation of workingmen +from the city of New Albany. Your fellow-workman +and spokesman has so eloquently presented that particular issue +upon which you have the greatest interest that I can add nothing +to the force or conclusiveness of his argument. He has said that +the interests of the workingmen were especially involved in the +pending political contest. I think that is conceded even by our +political opponents. I do not think there is a man so dull or so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span> +unfair as to deny that the reduction of our tariff rates so as to +destroy the principle of protection now embodied in our laws will +have an influence on your wages and on the production of your +mills and factories. If this be true, then your interest in the question +is apparent. You will want to know whether the influence +of the proposed reduction of rates is to be beneficial or hurtful; +whether the effect will be to stimulate or diminish production; +whether it will be to maintain or increase the rate of wages you +are now receiving, or to reduce them. As you shall settle these +questions, so will you vote in November. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>No man can doubt that a reduction of duties will stimulate the +importation of foreign merchandise. None of these plate-glass +workers can doubt that a reduction of the duty upon plate-glass +will increase the importation of French plate-glass.</p> + +<p>None of these workers in your woollen mills can doubt that the +reduction of the duty upon the product of their mills will increase +the importation of foreign woollen goods.</p> + +<p>And, if that is true, is it not also clear that this increased importation +of foreign-made goods means some idle workingmen in +your mills? The party that favors such discriminating duties as +will develop American production and secure the largest amount +of work for our American shops is the party whose policy will promote +your interests. [Applause and cries of "Hit him again!"] +I have heard it said by some leaders of Democratic thought that +the reduction proposed by the Mills bill, and the further reduction +which some of them are candid enough to admit they contemplate, +will stimulate American production by opening foreign markets +and that the interests of our Indiana manufacturing establishments +would thus be promoted. But those who advance this argument +also say that it will not do to progress too rapidly in the direction +of free trade—that we must go slowly, because our protected industries +cannot stand too rapid an advance; it would not be safe. +[Laughter.] Now, my countrymen, if this plan of revenue reform +is to be promotive of our manufacturing interests, why go slowly? +Why not open the gates wide and let us have the promised good +all at once? [Laughter and applause.]</p> + +<p>Is it that these philosophers think the cup of prosperity will be +so sweet and full that our laboring people cannot be allowed to +drink it at one draught? [Applause and cries of "Good! good!"] +No, my countrymen, this statement implies what these gentlemen +know to be true—that the effect of the proposed legislation is +diminished production and diminished wages, and they desire that +you shall have an opportunity to get used to it. [Applause.] But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span> +I cannot press this discussion further. I want to thank you for +the cordial things you have said to me by him who has spoken for +you. I trust, and have always trusted, the intelligence and conscience +of our working people. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>They will inevitably find out the truth, and when they find it +they will justify it. Therefore, there are many things that have +been said to which I have not and shall not allude while this contest +is on. They are with you: the truth is accessible to you, and +you will find it. Now, thanking you most heartily for the personal +respect you have evidenced, and congratulating you upon your +intelligent devotion to that great American system which has +spread a sky of hope above you and your children, I bid you good-by. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>The crowning event of the day was the reception of +several hundred members of the Irish-American Republican +Club of Cook County and Chicago. The visitors were +met by the Home Irish-American Protection Club, Patrick +A. Ward, President, assisted by the Columbia Club and +several thousand citizens. Their demonstration was one +of the most notable of the campaign. This club was the +first political organization in the country to congratulate +General Harrison on his nomination. The evening of +June 25 the club met and adopted the following, which +was telegraphed the General:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The Irish-American Republican Club of Cook County, Illinois, +congratulate you and the country upon your nomination. We +greet the gallant soldier and true American, and rejoice with our +fellow-citizens of every nationality in the glad assurance your +nomination gives that the industries of our country will be protected +and the honor of the Nation maintained with the same +courage and devotion that distinguished you on the bloody field of +Resaca. We salute the next President of the Republic.</p> + +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Nathan P. Brady</span>, <i>President</i>. +</p> +</div> + +<p>Leaders of the delegation were Hon. John F. Finerty, +F. J. Gleason, Dennis Ward, Richard Powers, and Messrs. +Russell and O'Morey. Thomas F. Byron, of Lowell, +Mass., founder of the Land League in America, accompanied +the club. In the absence of President Brady their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> +spokesman was Mr. John F. Beggs. General Harrison +delivered one of his happiest responses. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Beggs and my Friends of the Irish-American Republican Club +of Cook County, Ill.</i>—You were Irishmen, you are Americans +[cheers]—Irish-Americans [continued cheering], and though you +have given the consecrated loyalty of your honest hearts to the +starry flag and your adopted country, you have not and you ought +not to forget to love and venerate the land of your nativity. +[Great applause.] If you could forget Ireland, if you could be unmoved +by her minstrelsy, untouched by the appeals of her splendid +oratory, unsympathetic with her heroes and martyrs, I should fear +that the bonds of your new citizenship would have no power over +hearts so cold and consciences so dead. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>What if a sprig of green were found upon the bloody jacket of a +Union soldier who lay dead on Missionary Ridge? The flag he +died for was his flag and the green was only a memory and an +inspiration.</p> + +<p>We, native or Irish born, join with the Republican convention +in the hope that the cause of Irish home rule, progressing under +the leadership of Gladstone and Parnell [cheers] upon peaceful +and lawful lines, may yet secure for Ireland that which as Americans +we so much value—local home rule. [Cheering.] I am sure +that you who have, in your own persons or in your worthy representatives, +given such convincing evidence of your devotion to the +American Constitution and flag and to American institutions will +not falter in this great civil contest which your spokesman has so +fittingly described. Who, if not Irish-Americans versed in the +sad story of the commercial ruin of the island they love, should be +instructed in the beneficent influence of a protective tariff? [Continuous +cheering.] Who, if not Irish-Americans should be able +to appreciate the friendly influences of the protective system upon +their individual and upon their home life? Which of you has not +realized that not the lot of man only, but the lot of woman, has +been made softer and easier under its influence? [Applause and +"Hear! hear!"] Contrast the American mother and wife, burdened +only with the cares of motherhood and of the household, with the +condition of women in many of the countries of the Old World, +where she is loaded also with the drudgery of toil in the field. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>I know that none more than Irishmen, who are so characterized +by their deference for women, and whose women have so fitly +illustrated that which is pure in female character, will value this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span> +illustration of the good effects of our American system upon the +home life. [Continued applause.]</p> + +<p>There are nations across the sea who are hungry for the American +market. They are waiting with eager expectation for the +adoption of a free-trade policy by the United States. [Cries of +"That will never happen!"] The English manufacturer is persuaded +that an increased market for English goods in America is +good for him, but I think it will be impossible to persuade the +American producer and the American workman that it is good for +them. [Applause and cries of "That's right!"] I believe that social +order, that national prosperity, are bound up in the preservation +of our existing policy. [Loud cheering and cries of "You are +right!"] I do not believe that a republic can live and prosper +whose wage-earners do not receive enough to make life comfortable, +who do not have some upward avenues of hope open before +them. When the wage-earners of the land lose hope, when the star +goes out, social order is impossible, and after that anarchy or the +Czar. [Cheering.]</p> + +<p>I gratefully acknowledge the compliment of your call, and exceedingly +regret that the storm without made it impossible for me to +receive you at my house. [Applause and cries of "Thanks! +thanks!"] I will now be glad to take each member of your club +by the hand. [Continued cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_18" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_18">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison's</span> callers to-day numbered about +five thousand, over half of whom came from Vermilion +County, Illinois, led by a company of young ladies, in +uniform, from the town of Sidell. Hon. Samuel Stansbury +of Danville was Marshal of the delegation, aided by E. C. +Boudinot, D. G. Moore, Chas. A. Allen, J. G. Thompson, +and W. C. Cowan. Col. W. R. Jewell, editor Danville +<i>Daily News</i>, was spokesman. General Harrison, in response, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Illinois Friends</i>—The people of your State were very early in +giving evidence to our people and to me that they are deeply and +generally interested in this campaign. I welcome you and accept +your coming as evidence that the early interest you manifested has +suffered no abatement. It was not an impulse that stirred you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span>, +but a deep conviction that matters of great and lasting consequence +to your country are involved in this campaign. Your representative +in Congress, Hon. Joseph Cannon, is well known in Indiana. +[Applause.] I have known him for many years; have observed +his conduct in the National Congress, and always with admiration. +He is a fearless, aggressive, honest Republican leader. [Applause +and cries of "Good! good!"] He is worthy of the favor and confidence +you have shown him.</p> + +<p>If some one were to ask to-day, "What is the matter with the +United States?" [laughter and cries of "She's all right!"] I am +sure we would hear some Democratic friend respond, "Its people +are oppressed and impoverished by tariff taxation." [Laughter.] +Ordinarily our people can be trusted to know when they are taxed; +but this Democratic friend will tell us that the tariff tax is so insidious +that our people pay it without knowing it. That is a very +unhappy condition, indeed. But his difficulties are not all surmounted +when he has convinced his hearers that a customs duty is +a tax, for history does not run well with his statement that our +people have been impoverished by our tariff system. Another +answer to your question will be perhaps that there is now a great +surplus in the Treasury—he will probably not state the figures, +for there seems to be a painful uncertainty about that. I have +sometimes thought that this surplus was held chiefly to be talked +about. The laws provide a use for it that would speedily place it +in circulation. If a business man finds an accumulated surplus +that he does not need in his business, that stands as a bank balance +and draws no interest, and if he has notes outside to mature in the +future he will make a ready choice between leaving his balance in +the bank and using it to take up his obligations. [Applause.] +But in our national finances the other choice has been made, and +this surplus remains in the national bank without interest, while +our bonds, which, under the law, might be retired by the use of +it, continue to draw interest.</p> + +<p>You have a great agricultural State. Its prairies offer the most +tempting invitation to the settler. I have heard it suggested that +one reason why you have outstripped Indiana in population was +because the men who were afraid of the "deadening" passed over us +to seek your treeless plains. [Applause.] But you have not been +contented to be only an agricultural community. You have developed +your manufactures and mechanical industries until now, +if my recollection is not at fault, for every two persons engaged in +agricultural labor you have one engaged in manufacturing, in the +mechanical arts and mining. It is this subdivision of labor, these<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> +diversified industries, that make Illinois take rank so near the head +among the States. By this home interchange of the products of the +farm and shop, made possible by our protective system, Illinois has +been able to attain her proud position in the union of the States. +Shall we continue a policy that has wrought so marvellously since +the war in the development of all those States that have given +hospitable access to manufacturing capital and to the brawn and +skill of the workingman? [Cries of "Good! good!" and cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>From Louisville, Ky., came 1,000 enthusiastic visitors, +led by the Hon. Wm. E. Riley, Hon. R. R. Glover, +Hon. Albert Scott, W. W. Huffman, W. M. Collins, M. +E. Malone, and J. J. Jonson. A. E. Willson, of Louisville, +delivered a stirring address on behalf of the Republicans +of Kentucky, to which General Harrison responded as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Kentucky Friends</i>—There have been larger delegations assembled +about this platform, but there has been none that has in a +higher degree attracted my interest or touched my heart. [Applause.] +It has been quite one thing to be a Republican in +Illinois and quite another to be a Republican in Kentucky. +[Applause.] Not the victors only in a good fight deserve a crown; +those who fight well and are beaten and fight again, as you +have done, deserve a crown, though victory never yet has perched +on your banner. [A voice, "It will perch there, though, don't you +forget it!"] Yes, it will come, for the bud of victory is always in +the truth. I will not treat you to-day to any statistics from the +census reports [laughter], nor enter the attractive field of the history +of your great State. I have believed that these visiting delegations +were always well advised as to the history and statistics of their +respective States. [Laughter.] If this trust has been misplaced in +other cases, certainly Kentuckians can be trusted to remember and +perhaps to tell all that is noble in the thrilling history of their great +State. [Great applause.] Your history is very full of romantic +and thrilling adventure and of instances of individual heroism. +Your people have always been proud, chivalric, and brave. In the +late war for the Union, spite of all distraction and defection, +Kentucky stood by the old flag. [Applause.] And now that the +war is over and its bitter memory is forgotten, there is not one, +I hope, in all your borders, who does not bless the outcome of that +great struggle. [Applause.] Surely there are none in Kentucky +who do not rejoice that the beautiful river is not a river of di<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span>vision. +[Great applause.] And now what hinders that Kentucky +shall step forward in the great industrial rivalry between the +States? Is there not, as your spokesman has suggested, in the +early and thorough instruction which the people of Kentucky +received from the mouth of your matchless orator, Henry Clay +[applause], a power that shall yet and speedily bring back Kentucky +to the support of our protective system? [Applause.] Can +the old Whigs, who so reverently received from the lips of Clay +the gospel of protection, much longer support a revenue policy that +they know to be inimical to our national interests? If when Kentucky +was a slave State she found a protective tariff promoted the +prosperity of her people, what greater things will the same policy +not do for her as a free State? She has now opened her hospitable +doors to skilled labor; her coal and metals and hemp invite its +transforming touch. Why should she not speedily find great manufacturing +cities spring up in her beautiful valleys? Shall any old +prejudice spoil this hopeful vision? [Great applause.] I remember +that Kentucky agitated for seven years and held nine conventions +before she secured a separate statehood. May I not appeal to the +children of those brave settlers who, when but few in number, +composed of distant and feeble settlements, were received into the +Union of States, to show their chivalry and love of justice by uniting +with us in the demand that Dakota and Washington shall be +admitted? [Applause.] Does not your own story shame those who +represent you in the halls of Congress and who bar the door against +communities whose numbers and resources so vastly outreach what +you possessed when you were admitted to statehood? We look +hopefully to Kentucky. The State of Henry Clay and Abraham +Lincoln [enthusiastic cheering] cannot be much longer forgetful +[cries of "No! no!"] of the teachings of those great leaders of +thought.</p> + +<p>I believe that Kentucky will place herself soon upon the side of +the truth upon these great questions. [A voice, "We believe it!" +Another voice, "We will keep them out of Indiana, anyhow!" +Great cheering.] Thank you. There is no better way that I +know of to keep one detachment of an army from re-enforcing +another than by giving that detachment all it can do in its own +field. [Applause and laughter.]</p></div> + +<p>The last visitors of the day were 200 delegates, in attendance +upon the sessions of the National Association of Union +Ex-Prisoners of War. They were led by Gen. W. H. +Powell, of Belleville, Iowa, President of the Association;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> +E. H. Williams, of Indianapolis, Vice-President; Chaplain +C. C. McCabe, New York City; Historian Frank E. +Moran, Philadelphia; President-elect Thomas H. McKee +and Secretary L. P. Williams, Washington, D. C.; S. N. +Long, of New Jersey, and J. W. Green, of Ohio. Every one +of the visiting veterans had undergone imprisonment at +Andersonville, Libby, or some less noted Southern prison. +Conspicuous among them was Gen. B. F. Kelly, of Virginia, +the first Union officer wounded in the rebellion, and +J. A. January, of Illinois, who amputated both his own +feet while in Libby Prison, to prevent gangrene spreading. +General Powell, in a brief address, touchingly referred to +the perils and hardships they had survived. General +Harrison was greatly affected by the scene—the veterans +grouped closely about him in his own house. He paused +a moment in silence, then in a low, sympathetic voice, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Powell and Comrades</i>—I am always touched when I meet +either with those who stood near about me in the service, or those +who shared the general comradeship of the war. It seems to me +that the wild exhilaration which in the earlier reunions we often +saw is very much sobered as we come together now. I have +realized in meeting with my own regiment this fall that it was +a time when one felt the touches of the pathetic. And yet there +was a glow of satisfaction in being together again and in thinking +of what was and what is. The annals of the war fail to furnish +a sadder story than that of the host of Union veterans who suffered +war's greatest hardship—captivity. The story of the rebel prison +pens was one of grim horror. In the field our armies, always +brave, were generally always chivalric and humane. But the treatment +of the captured Union soldiers surpassed in fiendish cruelty +the best achievements of the savage. It is the black spot without +any lining of silver or any touch of human nature. But you have +cause for congratulation that you have been spared to the glory and +prosperity that your services and sufferings have brought to the +Nation. The most vivid imagination has drawn no picture of the +full meaning to our people and to the world of these simple +words—we saved the Union, perpetuated free government, and +abolished slavery. [Prolonged applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_19" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_19">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 19.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Five</span> delegations paid their respects to the Republican +nominee this day. The first was sixty veterans of the +Seventh Indiana Cavalry—General J. P. Shanks' old +regiment. Colonel Lewis Reeves, of Mentone, Ind., made +the address on behalf of the veterans, to which General +Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades</i>—I recall the services of your gallant regiment. I +welcome you as men who had as honorable a part in the great +achievements of the Union army as any in the Civil War. I congratulate +you that you have been spared to see the fruits of your +labors and sacrifices. In these meetings the thought of those who +did not live to see the end of the bloody struggle is always present. +Their honor also is in our keeping. I am glad to know that at +last in our State a shaft is being lifted to the honor of the Indiana +soldier. It will not only keep alive a worthy memory, but it will +instil patriotism into our children. I thank you for this friendly +visit. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>From Illinois came two large delegations—that from +Iroquois County numbering 1,000, commanded by Chief +Marshal Slattery, of Onargo. A Tippecanoe club of veterans +headed their column, led by Chairman Owen, +followed by the John A. Logan Club, commanded by Capt. +A. L. Whitehall. Prominent in the delegation were State +Senator Secrist, Judge S. G. Bovie, B. F. Price, J. F. Ireland, +A. Powell, James Woodworth, G. B. Joiner, W. M. +Coney, Dr. J. H. Gillam, Dr. Scull, editors E. A. Nye and +M. S. Taliaferro, of Watseka; also W. H. Howe, of Braidwood, +father of the "Drummer Boy of Vicksburg." Robert +Meredith, of Onargo, spoke on behalf of the colored members +of the delegation, and Capt. R. W. Hilscher, of Watseka, +for the veterans. La Porte County, Ind., was represented +by a large delegation, the Michigan City detachment +commanded by Major Biddle, Uriah Culbert, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> +Major Wood. The Laporte City clubs were led by Wm. C. +Weir, Marshal of the delegation. Other prominent members +were S. M. Closser, W. C. Miller, Frank E. Osborn, +J. N. Whitehead, M. L. Bramhall, Nelson Larzen, Samuel +Bagley, Brook Travis, Wm. Hastings, S. A. Rose, +Swan Peterson, and editor Sonneborn. The presentation +address was made by Col. J. W. Crumpacker, of +Laporte.</p> + +<p>To these several addresses General Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Illinois and my Indiana Friends</i>—If I needed any stimulus +to duty, or to have my impression of the dignity and responsibility +of representative office increased, I should find it in such assemblies +as these and in the kind and thoughtful words which have been +addressed to me in your behalf. The American people under our +system of government have their public interests in their own keeping. +All laws and proclamations may be revoked or repealed by +them. They will be called on in November to mark out the revenue +policy for our Government by choosing public officers pledged to the +principles which a majority of our people approve. Fortunately you +have now an issue very clearly drawn and very easy to be understood. +In previous campaigns we have not quite known where our +adversaries stood. Now we do know. Our Democratic friends +say a protective tariff is robbery. You see this written at the +head of campaign tracts circulated by their committees. You +hear it said in the public speeches of their leaders. You have +not once, I think, in the campaign heard any Democratic speaker +admit that even a low protective tariff was desirable. Those +who, like Mr. Randall, have in former campaigns been used to +allay the apprehension of our working people by talking protection +have been silenced. On the other hand, the Republican +party declares by its platform and by its speakers that a protective +tariff is wise and necessary. There is the issue. Make +your own choice. If you approve by your votes the doctrine that +a protective tariff is public robbery, you will expect your representatives +to stop this public robbery, and if they are faithful +they will do it; not seven per cent. of it, but all of it. [Applause +and cries of "That's it!"] So that I beg you all to recollect that +you will vote this fall for or against the principle of protection. +You are invited to a feast of cheapness. You are promised foreign-made +goods at very low prices, and domestic competing goods, if +any are made, at the same low rates. But do not forget that the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span> +spectre of low wages will also attend the feast. [Applause and +cries of "That's so!"] Inevitably, as certain as the night follows +the day, the adoption of this policy means lower wages. Choose, +then, and do not forget that this cheapening process may be pushed +so far as to involve the cheapening of human life and the loss of +human happiness. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>And now a word about the surplus in the Treasury. Our Democratic +friends did not know what else to do with it, and so they +have deposited it in certain national banks. The Government gets +no interest upon it, but it is loaned out by the banks to our citizens +at interest. Our income is more than our current expenses. +There is no authority for the Secretary of the Treasury to lend the +money, and so only three methods of dealing with it presented +themselves, under the law—first, to lock it up in the Treasury +vaults; second, to deposit it in the banks without interest; or, third, +to use it in the purchase of bonds not yet due. The objection to +the first method was that the withdrawal of so large a sum might +result in a monetary stringency; the second obviated this objection +by allowing the banks to put the money in circulation; but +neither method resulted in any advantage to the Government.</p> + +<p>As to it the money was dead; only the banks received interest +for its use. By the third method the money would be returned to +the channels of trade and the Government would make the difference +between the premium paid for the bond and the interest that +the bonds would draw if left outstanding until they matured. If +a Government bond at the market premium is a good investment +for a capitalist who is free to use his money as he pleases, can it +be bad finance for the Government, having money that it cannot +use in any other way, to use it in buying up its bonds? [Great +applause.] It is not whether we will purposely raise money to +buy our bonds at a premium—no one would advise that—but will +we so use a surplus that we have on hand and cannot lawfully pay +out in any other way? Do our Democratic friends propose to give +the banks the free use of it until our bonds mature, or do they propose +to reduce our annual income below our expenditure by a revision +of the tariff until this surplus is used, and then revise the tariff +again to restore the equilibriums? [Great applause.] I welcome +the presence to-day of these ladies of your households. We should +not forget that we have working-women in America. [Applause +and cries of "Good! good!"] None more than they are interested +in this policy of protection which we advocate. If want and hard +conditions come into the home, the women bear a full share. +[Applause.] And now I have been tempted to speak more at length<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span> +than I had intended. I thank you for this cordial manifestation +of your confidence and respect. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>The fourth delegation of the day came from Grundy +County, Illinois, headed by the Logan Club of Morris. +An enthusiastic member of this delegation was the venerable +Geo. P. Augustine, of Braceville, Ill., aged 77, who in +the summer of 1840 employed the boy "Jimmie" Garfield—afterward +President of the United States—to ride his +horses on the tow-path of the Ohio canal between Portsmouth +and Cleveland. Hon. P. C. Hayes, of Morris, was +spokesman for the delegation. General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Hayes and my Illinois Friends</i>—I regret that your arrival +was postponed so long as to make it impossible for you to meet +with the other friends from your State who, a little while ago, +assembled about the platform. I thank you for the kind feelings +that prompted you to come, and for the generous things General +Hayes has said in your behalf. There is little that I can say and +little that I can appropriately do to promote the success of the Republican +principles. A campaign that enlists the earnest and active +co-operation of the individual voters will have a safe issue. I am +glad to see in your presence an evidence that in your locality this +individual interest is felt. [Applause.] But popular assemblies, +public debate, and conventions are all an empty mockery unless, +when the debate is closed, the election is so conducted that every +elector shall have an equal and full influence in determining the +result. That is our compact of government. [Cheers.] I thank +you again for your great kindness, and it will now give me pleasure +to accede to the suggestion of General Hayes and take each of you +by the hand.</p></div> + +<p>The fifth and last delegation of the day reached the +Harrison residence in the evening, and comprised 200 +survivors of the Second and Ninth Indiana Cavalry +and the Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry. Col. John A. +Bridgland, the old commander of the Second Cavalry, +spoke on behalf of the veterans. General Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Colonel Bridgland and Comrades</i>—I am fast losing my faith in +men. [Laughter.] This morning a representative or two of this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> +regiment called upon me and made an arrangement that I should +receive you at this hour. It was expressly stipulated—though I +took no security [laughter]—that there should be no speech-making +at all. Now I find myself formally introduced to you and under +the necessity of talking to you. [Laughter.] I am under so much +stress in this way, from day to day, that I am really getting to be +a little timid when I see a corporal's guard together anywhere, for +fear they will want a speech. [Laughter.] And even at home, +when I sit down at the table with my family, I have some apprehensions +lest some one may propose a toast and insist that I shall +respond. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>I remember that the Second Indiana Cavalry was the first full +cavalry regiment I ever saw. I saw it marching through Washington +Street from the windows of my law office; and as I watched +the long line drawing itself through the street, it seemed to me +the call for troops might stop; that there were certainly enough +men and horses there to put down the rebellion. [Laughter.] +It is clear I did not rightly measure the capacities of a cavalry +regiment, or the dimensions of the rebellion. [Laughter.] I am +glad to see you here to-day. You come as soldiers, and I greet +you as comrades. I will not allude to political topics, on which +any of us might differ. [A voice, "There ain't any differences!"] +Of course, the members of the Ninth Cavalry and the +Twenty-sixth Infantry must understand I am speaking to all my +comrades. [A voice, "The Twenty-sixth were waiting for the +cavalry to get out of the way!" Laughter.] Well, during the +war you were willing to wait, weren't you? [Hearty laughter.] +I was going to say that I had an express promise from Mr. Adams, +of the Twenty-sixth Indiana, there should be no speaking on the +occasion of your visit. [Laughter.] Perhaps his comrades of the +Twenty-sixth will say I had not sufficient reason for so thinking, +as we all know that he is given to joking. [Laughter.] I will be +pleased now to meet each of you personally.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_20" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_20">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> September 20 a distinguished delegation arrived from +Cincinnati, for the purpose of inviting General and Mrs. +Harrison to attend the Cincinnati Exposition. The committee, +representing the Board of Commissioners of the +Exposition, was headed by Chairman Goodale and President +Allison and wife, accompanied by Mayor Amor Smith +and wife, Comptroller E. P. Eshelby and wife, Hon. John +B. Peaslee, Mrs. and Miss Devereaux, C. H. Rockwell and +wife, and others.</p> + +<p>In the evening 300 gentlemen, exhibiting implements +and agricultural machinery at the State Fair—then in +progress—called on General Harrison. John C. Wingate, +of Montgomery County, was their spokesman.</p> + +<p>Responding to their greeting the General said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—When I was asked yesterday whether it would be +agreeable to me to see about one hundred gentlemen who were here +in attendance upon the Indiana State Fair and connected with the +exhibit of machinery, I was assured their call would be of the most +informal character—that they would simply visit me at my home +and spend a few moments socially. [Laughter.] Until I heard +the music of your band and saw the torchlights, that was my understanding +of what was in store for me this evening. I am again +the victim of a misunderstanding. [Laughter and applause.] +Still, though my one hundred guests have been multiplied several +times, and though I find myself compelled to speak to you en masse +rather than individually, I am glad to see you. I thank you for +your visit, and for the cordial terms in which you have addressed +me. What your speaker has said as to the favorable condition of +our working people is true; and we are fortunate in the fact that +we do not need to depend for our evidence on statistics or the reports +of those who casually visit the countries of the Old World. +There is probably not a shop represented here that has not among +its workingmen those who have tried the conditions of life in the +old country, and are able to speak from personal experience. It +cannot be doubted that our American system of levying discriminating +duties upon competing foreign products has much to do +with the better condition of our working people. I welcome you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span> +as representatives of one of the great industries of our country. +The demands of the farm have been met by the ingenuity of your +shops. The improvement in farm machinery within my own recollection +has been marvellous. The scythe and the cradle still held +control in the harvest field when I first went out to carry the noon +meal to the workmen. Afterward it sometimes fell to my lot +in the hay-field to drive one of the old-fashioned combination reapers +and mowers. It was a great advance over the scythe and +cradle, and yet it was heavy and clumsy—a very horse-killer. +[Laughter and applause.] When the drivers struck a stump +the horse had no power over the machine in either direction. Now +these machines have been so lightened and improved that they are +the perfection of mechanism. Your inventive genius has responded +to the necessities of the farm until that which was drudgery has +become light and easy. I thank you again for your call, and will +be glad to meet personally those strangers who are here. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_21" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_21">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Randolph</span> and Jay counties, Indiana, contributed 3,000 +visitors on September 21. At the head of the Randolph +column marched 200 members of the "Old Men's Tippecanoe +Club," of Winchester, led by Marshals J. B. Ross, +A. J. Stakebake, and Auditor Cranor. Other leaders in +the delegation were Mayor F. H. Bowen, Hon. Theo. Shockley, +Geo. Patchell, W. S. Ensign, Frank Parker, Samuel +Bell, Dr. G. Rynard, and Washington Smith, of Union +City; J. W. Macy, J. S. Engle, Reverdy Puckett, A. C. +Beeson, and John E. Markle, of Winchester.</p> + +<p>The Jay County contingent was led by James A. Russell, +B. D. Halfhill, Isaac McKinney, J. W. Williams, Eli +Clark, J. C. Andrews, T. J. Cartwright, and Albert Martin. +L. C. Hauseman was spokesman for the Hoosiers. +Gen. Stone, of Randolph, spoke on behalf of the veterans.</p> + +<p>From Dayton, Ohio, came 500 visitors, including 60 +veterans of the campaign of '40, led by Secretary Edgar. +Marshal James Applegate, Mr. Eckley, Dr. J. A. Ronspert, +and W. R. Knaub were other leaders of the Ohio contin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>gent. +Col. John G. Lowe was their speaker, and referred +to the fact that Gen. Harrison "had won his education +and Miss Caroline M. Scott, now his estimable wife, when +a resident of Ohio."</p> + +<p>To these addresses the General, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Ohio and Indiana Friends</i>—The magnitude and the cordiality +of this demonstration are very gratifying. That these representatives +of the State of my nativity, and these, my neighbors in this +State of my early adoption, should unite this morning in giving +this evidence of their respect and confidence is especially pleasing. +I do remember Ohio, the State of my birth and of my boyhood, +with affection and veneration. I take pride in her great history, +the illustrious men she furnished to lead our armies, and the army +of her brave boys who bore the knapsack and the gun for the Union. +I take pride in her pure and illustrious statesmen. Ohio was the +first of the Northwestern States to receive the western emigration +after the Revolutionary War. When that tide of patriotism which +had borne our country to freedom and had established our Constitution +threw upon the West many of the patriots whose fortunes had +been maimed or broken by their sacrifices in the Revolutionary +War, this pure stream, pouring over the Alleghanies, found its +first basin in the State of Ohio. [Cries of "Good! Good!"]</p> + +<p>The waters of patriotism that had been distilled in the fires of the +Revolution fertilized her virgin fields. [Applause.] I do not forget, +however, that my manhood has all been spent in Indiana—that +all the struggle which is behind me in life has this for its field. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I brought to this hospitable State only that to which Col. Lowe +has alluded—an education and a good wife. [Great cheering.] +Whatever else I have, whatever else I have accomplished, for myself +and for my family or the public, has been under the favoring and +friendly auspices of these, my fellow-citizens of Indiana. [Applause.] +To them I owe more than I can repay. My Indiana +friends, you come from a county largely devoted to agriculture. +The invitation of Nature was so generous that your people have +generally accepted it. Guarded as your early settlers were, and as +those of Ohio were, by that sword of liberty which was placed at +your gates by the ordinance of 1787, stimulated, as you have been, +by the suggestions of that great ordinance in favor of morality and +education, you have, in your rural homes, one of the best communities +in the world. [Applause.] You do not forget, farmers though +you are, that 95 per cent. of the product of your farms is consumed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span> +at home, and you are too wise to put that in peril in a greedy +search after foreign trade. [Great applause.] You will not sacrifice +these great industries that have created in our country a consuming +class for your products. [Cheers.] I do not think that +there is any doubt what tariff policy England would wish us to +adopt, and yet some say that England is trembling lest we should +adopt free trade here [laughter], and so rob her of other markets +that she now enjoys. [Laughter.] The story of our colonial days, +when England, with selfish and insatiate avarice, laid her repressive +hand upon our infant manufactories and attempted to suppress +them all, furnishes the first object-lesson she gave us. Another +was given when the life of this Nation—the child of England, as +she has been wont to call us, speaking the mother tongue, having +many institutions inherited from her—was imperilled. The offer +of free trade by the Confederacy so touched the commercial greed +of England that she forgot the ties of blood and went to the verge +of war with us to advance the cause of the rebel Government. +[Cheers.] But what England wants, or what any other country +wants, is not very important—certainly not conclusive. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>What is best for us and our people should be the decisive question. +[Cheers.] My Randolph County friends, there are State +questions that must take a strong hold upon the minds of people +like yours. The proposition to lift entirely out of the range and +control of partisan politics the great benevolent institutions of the +State is one that must commend itself to all your people. [Cheers.] +If all those friends who sympathize with us upon this question had +acted with us in 1886 we should then have accomplished this great +reform. [Applause.] And now, to these old gentlemen whose +judgment and large experience in life gives added value to their +kind words; to these young friends who, for the first time, take a +freeman's place in the line of battle to do duty for the right, I give +my kindly greetings and best wishes in return for theirs. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the afternoon of September 22 General Harrison was +visited by 600 Chicago "drummers," organized as the Republican +Commercial Travellers' Association of Chicago +and accompanied by the celebrated Second Regiment Band. +They were escorted to the Harrison residence by the Columbia +Club and 200 members of the Republican Commer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span>cial +Travellers' Escort Club of Indianapolis, George C. +Webster, President; Ernest Morris, Secretary.</p> + +<p>The entire business community turned out to greet the +visitors as they marched through the city, performing +difficult evolutions, under the command of Chief Marshal +Vandever and his aids—C. S. Felton, P. H. Brockway, B. +F. Horton, Joseph Pomroy, W. H. Haskell, Geo. W. Bristol, +A. C. Boyd, Geo. H. Green, and Secretary H. A. +Morgan.</p> + +<p>General Harrison's appearance was signalized by a remarkable +demonstration. Col. H. H. Rude delivered the +address on behalf of his associates.</p> + +<p>In response General Harrison made one of his best +speeches. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Sir, and Gentlemen of the Republican Commercial Travellers' Association +of Chicago</i>—I bid you welcome to my home. I give you +my most ardent thanks for this cordial evidence of your interest in +those great principles of government which are advocated by the +Republican party, whose candidate I am. I am not unfamiliar +with the value, efficiency, and intelligence of the commercial travellers +of our country. [Cheers.] The contribution you make to +the success of the business communities with which you are identified +is large and indispensable. I do not doubt that one of the +strongest props of Chicago's commercial greatness would be destroyed +if you were withdrawn from the commercial forces of that +great city. [Cheers.] The growth and development of Chicago +has been one of the most marvellous incidents in the story of American +progress. It is gratifying to know that your interest is enlisted +in this political campaign. It is very creditable to you that +in the rush of the busy industries and pushing trade of your city +you have not forgotten that you are American citizens and that you +owe service, not to commerce only, but to your country. [Great +cheering.] It is gratifying to be assured that you propose to bring +your influence into the great civil contest which is now engaging +the interest of our people. The intelligence and energy which you +give to your commercial pursuits will be a most valuable contribution +to our cause. [Cheers.] The power of such a body of men is +very great.</p> + +<p>I want now to introduce to you for a moment another speaker—an +Englishman. Within the last year I have been reading, wholly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span> +without any view to politics, the story of our diplomatic relations +with England during the Civil War. The motive that most strongly +influenced the English mind in its sympathy with the South was the +expectancy of free trade with the Confederacy [cries of "That's +right!"], and among the most influential publications intended to +urge English recognition and aid to the Confederates was a book +entitled "The American Union," by James Spence. It was published +in 1862, and ran through several editions. Speaking of the +South he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>"No part of the world can be found more admirably placed for +exchanging with this country the products of industry to mutual +advantage than the Southern States of the Union. Producing in +abundance the material we chiefly require, their climate and the +habits of the people indispose them to manufactures, and leave to +be purchased precisely the commodities we have to sell. They +have neither the means nor the desire to enter into rivalry with us. +Commercially they offer more than the capabilities of another India +within a fortnight's distance from our shores. The capacity of a +Southern trade when free from restrictions may be estimated most +correctly by comparison. The condition of those States resembles +that of Australia, both non-manufacturing countries, with the command +of ample productions to offer in exchange for the imports +they require."</p></div> + +<p>The author proceeds to show that at the time England's exports to +our country were only thirteen shillings per capita of our population, +while the exports to Australia were ten pounds sterling per +capita. Let me now read you what is said of the Northern States:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>"The people of the North, whether manufacturers or ship-owners, +regard us as rivals and competitors, to be held back and +cramped by all possible means. [Applause and cries of "That's it!"] +They possess the same elements as ourselves—coal, metals, ships, +an aptitude for machinery, energy and industry—while the early +obstacles of deficient capital and scanty labor are rapidly disappearing. +[Applause and a voice, "Exactly!"]</p> + +<p>"For many years they have competed with us in some manufactures +in foreign markets, and their peculiar skill in the contrivance +of labor-saving machinery daily increases the number of articles +they produce cheaper than ourselves. [Loud cheering and a +voice, "We'll knock them out again!"]</p> + +<p>"Thus, to one part of the world our exports are at the rate of ten +pounds sterling per head, while those to the Union amount to but +thirteen shillings per head."</p></div> + +<p>I have read these extracts because they seemed to me very suggestive +and very instructive. The South offered free trade to Europe +in exchange for an expected recognition of their independence by +England and France. [Cries of "You are right!"] The offer was +very attractive and persuasive to the ruling classes of England. +They took Confederate bonds and sent out armed cruisers to prey<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span> +upon our commerce. They dallied with Southern agents, fed them +with delusive hopes, and thus encouraged the South to protract a +hopeless struggle. They walked to the very edge of open war with +the United States, forgetful of all the friendly ties that had bound +us as nations, and all this to satisfy a commercial greed. We may +learn from this how high a price England then set upon free trade +with a part only of the States. [A voice, "We remember it!"]</p> + +<p>But now the Union has been saved and restored. Men of both +armies and of all the States rejoice that England's hope of a commercial +dependency on our Southern coast was disappointed. The +South is under no stress to purchase foreign help by trade concessions. +She will now open her hospitable doors to manufacturing, +capital, and skilled labor.</p> + +<p>It is not now true that either climate or the habits of her people +indispose them to manufactures. Of the Virginias, North Carolina, +Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Missouri, it may be now +said, as Mr. Spence said of the more northern States, "They possess +the same elements as ourselves [England]—coal, metals, ships, an +aptitude for machinery, energy, and industry—while the early obstacles +of deficient capital and scanty labor are rapidly disappearing." +And I am sure there is a "New South"—shackled as it is by traditions +and prejudices—that is girding itself to take part in great industrial +rivalry with England, which Mr. Spence so much deprecates. +These great States will no longer allow either Old England +or New England to spin and weave their cotton, but will build +mills in the very fields where the great staple is gathered. [Applause.] +They will no longer leave Pennsylvania without an active +rival in the production of iron. They surely will not, if they +are at all mindful of their great need and their great opportunity, +unite in this crusade against our protected industries.</p> + +<p>Our interests no longer run upon sectional lines, and it cannot +be good for any part of our country that Mr. Spence's vision of +English trade with us should be realized. [Cries of "Never! Never!"] +Commerce between the States is working mightily, if +silently, to efface all lingering estrangements between our people, +and the appeal for the perpetuation of the American system of protection +will, I am sure, soon find an answering response among the +people of all the States. [Loud cheering.]</p> + +<p>I thank you again for this beautiful and cordial demonstration, +and will now be glad to meet you personally.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_25" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_25">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> third delegation from Wabash County during the +campaign arrived on September 25, a thousand strong, +headed by Hon. Jesse Arnold, Col. Homan Depew, Thomas +Black, W. D. Caldwell, Obed Way, Thomas McNamee, +Rob't Thompson, Wm. Alexander, Robert Wilson, Andrew +Egnew, C. S. Haas, W. W. Stewart, W. H. Bent, Robert +Stewart, and W. D. Gachenour. Their spokesman was +Capt. B. F. Williams. Parke County, Indiana, contributed +a large delegation the same day, under the lead of John +W. Stryker, Jacob Church, John R. Johnson, A. O. Benson, +W. W. McCune, Joseph H. Jordan, and A. A. Hargrave, +of Rockville, and 300 school children, in charge of +A. R. McMurty. Dr. T. F. Leech was orator for the Parke +visitors.</p> + +<p>General Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Wabash County Friends and my Little Friends from Parke</i>—I +am very glad to meet you here to-day. My friend who has spoken +for Wabash County has very truly said that the relations between +me and the Republicans of that county have always been exceedingly +cordial. I remember well when I first visited your county +in 1860, almost a boy in years, altogether a boy in political experience. +I was then a candidate for Reporter of the Decisions of the +Supreme Court of this State. You had in one of your own citizens, +afterward a distinguished soldier, a candidate for that office +in the convention that nominated me, but that did not interfere +at all with the cordial welcome from your people when, as the +nominee of the party, I came into your county. I think from +that day to this my name has never been mentioned in any convention +for any office that I have not had almost the unanimous support +of the Republicans of Wabash County. [Applause.] This is +no new interest which you now manifest to-day. The expressions +of your confidence have been very numerous and have been continued +through nearly thirty years.</p> + +<p>There is one word on one subject that I want to say. Our Democratic +friends tell us that there are about a hundred millions—their +arithmeticians do not agree on the exact figures—in the public +Treasury for which the Government has no need. They have found<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span> +only this method of using it, viz.: depositing it in the national +banks of the country, to be loaned out by them to our citizens at +interest, the Government getting no interest whatever from the +banks. I suggested, and it was not an original suggestion with +me—Senator Sherman has advocated the same policy with great +ability in the Senate—that this money had better be used in buying +Government bonds, because the Government would make some +money in applying it that way, and there was no other way in +which they could get any interest on it at all. But it is said if +we use it in this manner we pay a premium to the bondholders. +But it is only the same premium that the bonds are bringing in the +market. In other words, as I said the other day, capitalists who +can use their money as they please—put it out on mortgages, at interest, +or in any other way—think the Government bond at the current +rate of premium is a good investment for them. Now, the +Government can buy those bonds at that premium and save a great +deal of interest. I will not undertake to give you figures. One +issue of these bonds matures in 1907, and bears four per cent. annual +interest. Now, suppose this surplus money were to remain all +that time in the banks without bringing any interest to the Government; +is there a man here so dull that he cannot see the great loss +that would result to the people? I have another objection to this +policy: the favoritism that is involved in it. We have heard—and +from such high authority that I think that we must accept it as +true—that the great patronage appertaining to the office of President +of the United States involves a public peril. Now, suppose we +add to that danger a hundred millions of dollars that the Secretary +of the Treasury can put in this community or that, in this bank or +that, at his pleasure; is not the power of the executive perilously +increased? Is it right that the use of this vast sum should be a +matter of mere favoritism, that the Secretary should be allowed to +put $10,000,000 of this surplus in Indianapolis and none of it in +Kansas City, or $75,000,000 in New York and none in Indianapolis? +If the money is used in buying bonds it finds its natural place—goes +where it belongs. This is a most serious objection to the present +method of dealing with the surplus. But if you still object to +paying the market premium when we buy these bonds, see how it +works the other way. The banks deposit their bonds in the Treasury +to secure these deposits, get the Government money without +interest, and still draw interest on their bonds. If any of you had +a note for a thousand dollars due in five years, bearing interest, +and your credit was so good that the note was worth a premium, +and you had twelve hundred dollars that you could not put out at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span> +interest so as to offset the interest on your note, would you not +make money by using this surplus to take up the note at a fair +premium? Would you think it wise finance to give the thousand +dollars that you had on hand to your creditor without interest and +allow him to deposit your note with you as security, you paying +interest on the note until it was due and getting no interest on +your deposit? [Laughter and applause.].</p> + +<p>I welcome my young friends from Parke County. There is nothing +fuller of interest than childhood. There is so much promise and +hope in it. Expectancy makes life very rosy to them and them +very interesting to us who have passed beyond the turn of life. +[Applause.] You are fortunate in these kind instructors, who from +week to week instil into your minds the principles of religion and +of morality; but do not forget that there is another vine of beauty +that may be appropriately twined with those—the love of your +country and her institutions. [Applause.] I thank you again for +this cordial evidence of your regard. The skies are threatening, +and as there is danger that our meeting may be interrupted by rain +I will stop here in order that I may meet each of you personally. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_26" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_26">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Ohio</span> and Indiana united to-day again, through their +delegations, aggregating 4,000 citizens, in paying their +respects to General Harrison. The Tippecanoe Veteran +Association of Columbus, Ohio, J. E. St. Clair, President, +comprising 200 veterans, whose ages averaged 76 years, +was escorted by the Foraker Club of Columbus, led by +President Reeves. The veterans were accompanied by the +venerable Judge John A. Bingham, of Cadiz, and Gen. Geo. +B. Wright, of Columbus, both of whom made addresses. +No other club or organization, during the entire campaign, +was the recipient of such marked attentions as the Ohio +veterans; the youngest among them was 68 years of age. +Among the oldest were Wm. Armstrong, aged 91; Ansel +Bristol, 80; H. H. Chariton, 84; Francis A. Crum, 82; +Joseph Davis, 84; Henry Edwards, 80; John Fields, 82; +John A. Gill, 82; J. L. Grover, 81; J. A. S. Harlow, 87;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span> +Harris Loomis, 84; Dan'l Melhousen, 80; Sam'l McCleland, +80; Judge John Otstot, 86; James Park, 80; Daniel +Short, 83; John Saul, 86; George Snoffer, 85; David Taylor, +87; Jacob Taylor, 88; J. D. Fuller, 82, and Luther +Hillery, aged 90, who knew William Henry Harrison before +his first nomination. Prominent in the Foraker Club +were Dr. A. W. Harden and D. K. Reif.</p> + +<p>The Tipton County, Indiana, visitation was under the +auspices of the First Voters' Club of the town of Tipton. +A large club of Tippecanoe campaign veterans headed +their column, led by Chief Marshal J. A. Swoveland, assisted +by M. W. Pershing, James Johns, John F. Pyke, +R. J. McCalion, Isaac Booth, J. Q. Seright, and J. Wolverton. +Judge Daniel Waugh, of Tipton, was the mouthpiece +of the delegation.</p> + +<p>From Elkhart County, Indiana, came a notable delegation +of a thousand business men, prominent among whom +were State Senator Davis, Hon. Geo. W. Burt, Daniel Zook, +H. J. Beyerle, E. G. Herr, D. W. Neidig, T. H. Dailey, D. +W. Granger, and I. W. Nash, of Goshen; and James H. +State, A. C. Manning, J. W. Fieldhouse, J. G. Schreiner, +A. P. Kent, J. H. Cainon, Frank Baker, and Jacob Berkley, +of Elkhart City. Hon. O. Z. Hubbell was spokesman for +the delegation. Judge Bingham's eloquent address was +listened to with marked attention.</p> + +<p>General Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen, my Ohio and Indiana Friends</i>—Again about this platform +there are gathered representatives from these two great States. +Your coming is an expression of a common interest, a recognition +of the fact that there is a citizenship that is wider than the lines +of any State. [Cheers.] That over and above that just pride in +your own communities, which you cherish so jealously, there is a +fuller pride in the one flag, to which we all give our allegiance, and +in the one Constitution, which binds the people of these States together +indissolubly in a Government strong enough to protect its +humblest citizen wherever he may sojourn. [Prolonged cheers.] +Your State institutions are based, like those of the Nation, upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span> +the great principles of human liberty and equality, and are consecrated +to the promotion of social order and popular education. +But, above all this, resting on like foundations, is the strong +arch of the Union that binds us together as a Nation. You are +citizens of the United States, and as such have common interests +that suggest this meeting. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I cannot speak separately to the various organizations represented +here. There is a broad sense in which you are one. But I cannot +omit to pay a hearty tribute of thanks to these venerable men who +are gathered about me to-day. I value this tribute from them +more than words can tell. I cannot, without indelicacy, speak +much of that campaign to which they brought the enthusiasm of +their earlier life and to which their memories now turn with so +much interest. If, out of it, they have brought on with them in +life to this moment and have transferred to me some part of the +respect which another won from them, then I will find in their +kindness a new stimulus to duty. [Applause and cries, "We +have; we have!"] In looking over, the other day, a publication of +the campaign of 1840, I fell upon a card signed by fifteen Democrats +of Orange, N. J., giving their reasons for leaving the Democratic +party. It has occurred to me that it might be interesting to +some of these old gentlemen. [Cries of "We want to hear it!" +and "Read it!"]</p> + +<p>It was as follows: "We might give many reasons for this change +in our political opinions. The following, however, we deem sufficient: +We do not believe the price of labor in this free country +should be reduced to the standard prescribed by despots in foreign +countries. [Applause.] We do not believe in fighting for the country +and being unrepresented in the councils of the country. We +do not believe in an exclusive, hard, metallic currency any more +than we believe in hard bread or no bread! We do not believe it +was the design of the framers of the Constitution that the President +should occupy his time during the first term in electioneering +for his re-election to a second term!" [Loud laughter and applause.] +I have read this simply as an historical curiosity and to +refresh your recollections as to some of the issues of that campaign. +If it has any application to our modern politics I will leave you to +make it. [Laughter and applause.] I have recently been talking, +and have one thing further to say, about the surplus.</p> + +<p>There is a very proper use I think that can be made of more than +twenty millions of it. During the Civil War our customs receipts +and our receipts from internal taxes, which last had brought under +tribute almost every pursuit in life, were inadequate to the great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span> +drain upon our Treasury caused by the Civil War. Our Congress, +exercising one of the powers of the Constitution, levied a direct tax +upon the States. Ohio paid her part of it, Indiana paid hers, and +so did the other loyal States. The Southern States were in rebellion +and did not pay theirs. Now we have come to a time when +the Government has surplus money, and the proposition was made +in Congress to return this tax to the States that had paid it. [Applause.] +The State of Indiana would have received one million +dollars, which my fellow-citizens of this State know would have +been a great relief to our taxpayers in the present depleted condition +of our treasury. [Cheers.] I do not recall the exact amount +Ohio would have received, but it was much larger. If any one +asks, Why repay this tax? this illustration will be a sufficient answer: +Suppose five men are associated in a business corporation. +The corporation suffers losses and its capital is impaired. An assessment +becomes necessary, and three members pay their assessments +while two do not. The corporation is again prosperous and +there is a surplus of money in the treasury. What shall be done +with it? Manifestly, justice requires that the two delinquents +should pay up or that there should be returned to the other three +the assessment levied upon them. [Great cheering.] A bill providing +for the repayment of the tax was killed in the House of +Representatives, not by voting it down, but by filibustering, a majority +of the House being in favor of its passage. And those who +defeated the bill by those revolutionary tactics were largely from +the States that had not paid the tax. [Cheers.] I mention these +facts to show that twenty millions of the surplus now lying in the +banks, where it draws no interest, might very righteously be used so +as to greatly lighten the real burdens of taxation now resting on +the people—burdens that the people know to be taxes without any +argument from our statesmen. [Applause and laughter.] I am a +lover of silence [laughter], and yet when such assemblies as these +greet me with their kind, earnest faces and their kinder words, I +do not know how I can do less than to say a few words upon some +of these great public questions. I have spoken frankly and fearlessly +my convictions upon these questions. [Cheers and cries of +"Good! Good!"] And now, unappalled by the immensity of this +audience, I will complete the accustomed programme and take by the +hand such of you as desire to meet me personally. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_27" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_27">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison's</span> visitors this day came from Ohio +and Pennsylvania. Hancock and Allen counties, Ohio, +sent over a thousand, including the Harrison and Morton +Battalion of Lima, commanded by Capt. Martin Atmer, +and the Republican Veteran Club of Findlay, Rev. R. H. +Holliday, President. The Chief Marshal of the combined +delegations was Major S. F. Ellis, of Lima, hero of the +forlorn hope storming column which carried the intrenchments +at Port Hudson, La., June 15, 1863. Prominent +members of the Allen County delegation were Hon. Geo. +Hall, Geo. P. Waldorf, S. S. Wheeler, J. F. Price, W. A. +Campbell, J. J. Marks, and Burt Hagedorn. Major S. M. +Jones was spokesman for the visitors.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, with his usual vigor, replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen and my Ohio Friends</i>—The State of my nativity has +again placed me under obligations by this new evidence of the respect +of her people. I am glad to meet you and to notice in the +kind and interested faces into which I look a confirmation of the +cordial remarks which have been addressed to me on your behalf. +You each feel a personal interest and, I trust, a personal responsibility +in this campaign. The interest which expresses itself only +in public demonstrations is not of the highest value. The citizen +who really believes that this election will either give a fresh impulse +to the career of prosperity and honor in which our Nation +has walked since the war, or will clog and retard that progress, +comes far short of his duty if he does not in his own place as a citizen +make his influence felt for the truth upon those who are near +him. [Applause.] You come from a community that has recently +awakened to the fact that beneath the soil which has long yielded +bounteous harvests to your farmers there was stored by nature a +great and new source of wealth. You, in common with neighboring +communities in Ohio and with other communities in our State, +have only partially realized as yet the increase in wealth that oil +and natural gas will bring to them, if it is not checked by destructive +changes in our tariff policy. This fact should quicken and +intensify the interest of these communities in this contest for the +preservation of the American system of protection. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It is said by some of our opponents that a protective tariff has no<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span> +influence upon wages; that labor in the United States has nothing +to fear from the competition from pauper labor; that in the contest +between pauper labor and high priced labor pauper labor was +always driven out. Do such statements as these fall in line with +experiences of these workingmen who are before me? [Cries of +"No, no!"] If that is true, then why the legislative precautions +we have wisely taken against the coming of pauper labor to our +shores? It is because you know, every one of you, that in a contest +between two rival establishments here, or between two rival +countries, that that shop or that country that pays the lowest wages—and +so produces most cheaply—can command the market. If the +products of foreign mills that pay low wages are admitted here +without discriminating duties, you know there is only one way to +meet such competition, and that is by reducing wages in our mills. +[Applause.] They seek to entice you by the suggestion that you +can wear cheaper clothing when free access is given to the products +of foreign woollen mills; and yet they mention also that now, in +some of our own cities, the men, and especially the women, who +are manufacturing the garments we wear are not getting adequate +wages, and that among some of them there is suffering. Do they +hope that when the coat is made cheaper the wages of the man or +woman who makes it will be increased? The power of your labor +organizations to secure increased wages is greatest when there is a +large demand for the product you are making at fair prices. You +do not strike for better wages on a falling market. When the mills +are running full time, when there is a full demand at good prices +for the product of your toil, and when warehouses are empty, then +your organization may effectively insist upon increased wages. +Did any of you ever see one of the organized efforts for better +wages succeed when the mill was running on half time, and there +was a small demand at falling prices in the market for the product? +[Applause.] The protective system works with your labor organization +to secure and maintain a just compensation for labor. +Whenever it becomes true—as it is in some other countries—that +the workingman spends to-day what he will earn to-morrow, then +your labor organizations will lose their power. Then the workman +becomes in very fact a part of the machine he operates. He cannot +leave it, for he has eaten to-day bread that he is to earn to-morrow. +But when he eats to-day bread that he earned last week +or last year, then he may successfully resist any unfair exactions. +[Applause.] I do not say that we have here an ideal condition. I +do not deny that in connection with some of our employments the +conditions of life are hard. But the practical question is this: Is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span> +not the condition of our working people on the average comparatively +a great deal better than that of any other country? [Applause +and cries of "Good! Good!"]</p> + +<p>If it is, then you will carefully scan all these suggestions before +you consent that the work of foreign workmen shall supply our +market, now supplied by the products of the hands of American +workmen. I thank you again. The day is threatening and cool, +and I beg you to excuse further public speech. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<p>At night 200 Pennsylvanians, who came to Indiana to +aid in developing the natural gas industry, called upon +General Harrison at his residence, under the direction of +a committee composed of Capt. J. C. Gibney, J. B. Wheeler, +and Geo. A. Richards. Their spokesman was Wm. McElwaine, +a fellow-workman.</p> + +<p>General Harrison addressed them and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—It is very pleasant for me to meet you to-night in +my own home. The more informal my intercourse can be made +with my fellow-citizens the more agreeable it is to me. To you, +and all others who will come informally to my home, I will give a +hearty greeting. I am glad to see these representatives from the +State of Pennsylvania whose business pursuits have called them to +make their home with us in Indiana. The State of Pennsylvania +has a special interest for me in the fact that it was the native State +of a mother who, though nearly forty years dead, still lives affectionately +in my memory. I welcome you here to this State as those +who come to settle among us under new conditions of industrial +and domestic life, to bring into our factories and our homes this +new fuel from which we hope so much, not only in the promotion +of domestic comfort and economy, but in the advancement of our +manufacturing institutions. Your calling is one requiring high +skill and intelligence and great fidelity. The agent with which +you deal is an admirable servant but a dangerous master, and +through carelessness may bring a peril instead of a blessing into our +households and into our communities. I am glad that Indiana, so +long drained upon by the States west of the Mississippi, has at last +felt in your coming from that stanch, magnificent Republican commonwealth +some restoration of this drain, which has made the +struggle for Republican success in Indiana doubtful in our previous +elections. It is time some of the States east of us, having such +majorities as Pennsylvania, were contributing not only to our business +enterprise and prosperity, but to the strengthening of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span> +Republican ranks, which have been depleted by the invitations +which the agricultural States of the West have extended to our enterprising +young men. I welcome your here to-night, and will be +glad to have a personal introduction to each of you. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_29" id="INDIANAPOLIS_SEPTEMBER_29">INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 29.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Ohio</span> and Illinois did honor this day again to the Republican +nominee. From Cleveland came 800 voters; their +organizations were the Harrison Boys in Blue—200 veterans +of the Civil War—commanded by Gen. James Barnett; +the Garfield Club, led by Thomas R. Whitehead and +Albert M. Long; the Logan Club, headed by Capt. W. R. +Isham, and the German Central Club. Prominent in the +delegation were Hon. Amos Townsend, John Gibson, and +Major Palmer, the blind orator. Gen. E. Myers spoke for +the Buckeyes. The city of Normal, McLean County, +Illinois, sent a delegation of 200 teachers and students of +the State Normal School, including 70 ladies. Student +William Galbraith spoke for his associates.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen and Friends</i>—The organizations represented here this +morning have for me each an individual interest. Each is suggestive +of a line of thought which <i>I</i> should be glad to follow, but I +cannot, in the few moments that I can speak to you in this chilly +atmosphere, say all that the names and character of your respective +clubs suggest as appropriate. I welcome those comrades in the +Union army in the Civil War. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Death wrought its work in ghastly form in those years when, +patiently, fearlessly, and hopefully, you carried the flag to the +front and brought it at last in triumph to the Nation's capital. +[Cheers.] Death, since, in its gentler forms, has been coming +into the households where the veterans that were spared from shot +and shell abide. The muster-roll of the living is growing shorter. +The larger company is being rapidly recruited. You live not +alone in the memories of the war. Your presence here attests that, +as citizens, you feel the importance of these civil strifes. You +recall the incidents of the great war, not in malice, not to stir or +revive sectional divisions, or to re-mark sectional lines, but because<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span> +you believe that it is good for the Nation that loyalty to the flag +and heroism in its defence should be remembered and honored. +[Cheers.] There is not a veteran here, in this Republican Club of +veterans, who does not desire that the streams of prosperity in the +Southern States should run bank-full. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>There is not one who does not sympathize with her plague-stricken +communities, and rejoice in every new evidence of her +industrial development. The Union veterans have never sought to +impose hard conditions upon the brave men they vanquished. The +generous terms of surrender given by General Grant were not alone +expressions of his own brave, magnanimous nature. The hearts of +soldiers who carried the gun and the knapsack in his victorious +army were as generous as his. You were glad to accept the renewal +of the Confederate soldier's allegiance to the flag as the happy end +of all strife; willing that he should possess the equal protection and +power of a citizenship that you had preserved for yourselves and +secured to him. [Cheers.] You have only asked—and you may +confidently submit to the judgment of every brave Confederate +soldier whether the terms are not fair—that the veteran of the +Union army shall have, as a voter, an equal influence in the affairs +of the country that was saved by him for both with the man who +fought against the flag, and that soldiers of neither army shall +abridge the rights of others under the law. [Great cheering.] +Less than that you cannot accept with honor; less than that a generous +foe would not consent to offer.</p> + +<p>To the gentlemen of the John A. Logan Club let me say: You +have chosen a worthy name for your organization. Patriot, soldier, +and statesman, Logan's memory will live in the affectionate admiration +of his comrades and in the respect of all his opponents. His +home State was Illinois, but his achievements were national.</p> + +<p>To these German-American Republicans I give a most cordial +welcome. You have been known in our politics as a people well +informed upon all the great economic questions that have arisen +for settlement. You have always been faithful to an honest currency. +[Cheers.] The enticements of depreciated money did not +win you from sound principle. You bravely stood for a paper currency +that should be the true equivalent of coin. [Cries of "Good! +Good!"] Those who, like your people, have learned the lessons of +thrift and economy in your old-country homes, and have brought +them here with you, realized that above all things the laborer +needed honest money that would not shrink in his hands when it +had paid him for an honest day's toil. And now, when another +great economic question is pressing for determination, I do not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span> +doubt that you will as wisely and as resolutely help to settle that +also.</p> + +<p>As the great German chancellor, that student of human government +and affairs, turning his thoughtful study toward the history +of our country since the war, has declared that in his judgment our +protective tariff system was the source of our strength, that by +reason of it we were able to deal with a war debt that seemed to be +appalling and insurmountable, I do not doubt that you, too, men +who believe in work and in thrift, and so many of whom are +everywhere sheltered under a roof of their own, will unite with +us in this struggle to preserve our American market for our own +workingmen, and to maintain here a living standard of wages. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>To these students who come fresh from the class-room to give me +a greeting this morning I also return my sincere thanks. I suggest +to them that they be not only students of books and maxims, but +also of men and markets; that in the study of the tariff question +they do not forget, as so many do, that they are Americans.</p> + +<p>I thank you all again for your visit. I regret that I am not +able to give you, in my own home, a personal and more cordial +greeting. My house is not large enough to receive you. [A +voice, "Your heart is!"] Yes, I have room enough in my heart +for all. [Great cheering.] I am very sincerely grateful for these +evidences of your personal regard. Out of them all; out of the +coming of these frequent and enthusiastic crowds of my fellow-citizens; +out of all these kind words; out of these kind faces of +men and women; out of the hearty "God-speeds" you give me, I +hope to bring an inspiration and an endowment for whatever may +be before me in life, whether I shall walk in private or public +paths. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>The largest delegation of the day, numbering over a +thousand business men, arrived from Chicago, after stopping +<i>en route</i> at several important points, where their +orators, Gen. H. H. Thomas, George Drigg, and Judge +John W. Green, made speeches. Their notable political +organizations were the First Tippecanoe Club of Chicago, +100 veterans of 1840, led by Dr. D. S. Smith; the Logan +Club, and the Twelfth Ward Republican Club, led by +Charles Catlin, E. S. Taylor, Wm. Wilkes, and Joseph +Dixon. Judge Green and Dr. Smith delivered addresses.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Illinois Friends</i>—It is a source of great regret to me that we +are not able to make your reception more comfortable. The chill +of this September evening and of this open grove is not suggestive +of the hospitable and cordial welcome that our people would +have been glad to extend to you. Our excuse for this time may be +found in the vastness of this assemblage. I am pleased to have +this fresh and imposing evidence of the enthusiasm and interest of +the Illinois Republicans. [Cheers.] There is nothing in the great +history of the Republican party that need make any man blush to +own himself a Republican. [Cheers.] There is much to kindle +the enthusiasm of all lovers of their country. We do not rest in +the past, but we rejoice in it. [Cheers.] The Republican party +has so consistently followed the teachings of those great Americans +whose names the world reveres that we may appropriately hold a +Republican convention on the birthday of any one of them. +[Cheers.] The calendar of our political saints does not omit one +name that was conspicuous in peace or war. [Cheers.] We can +celebrate Jackson's birthday or the anniversary of the battle of New +Orleans because he stood for the unity of the Nation, and his victory +confirmed it in the respect of the world. [Great cheering.] +There is no song of patriotism that we do not sing in our meetings. +There is no marble that has been builded to perpetuate the glory of +our soldiers about which we may not appropriately assemble and +proclaim the principles that we advocate. [Cheers.] We believe in +our country, and give it our love and first care. We have always +advocated that policy in legislation which was promotive of the +interests and honor of our country. [Cheers.] I will not discuss +any particular public topic to-day, as the conditions are so unfavorable +for out-door speaking. Let me thank you again for this +cordial evidence of your interest and for the personal respect which +you have shown to me. I hope you will believe that my heart is +deeply touched in these manifestations of the friendliness of my +fellow-citizens. If in anything I shall come short of the high expectations +and hopes they have formed, it will not be because I do +not feel myself put under the highest obligations by these evidences +of their friendly regard to do my utmost to continue in their +respect and confidence. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_2" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_2">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 2.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> fourteenth week of General Harrison's public receptions +opened this date with the arrival of an enthusiastic +Republican club from the distant city of Tower, Minn., +most of whose members were engaged in the iron industry. +They left a huge specimen of Vermilion range iron ore—weighing +over 500 pounds—in the front yard of the Harrison +residence. Prominent in the delegation were Dr. Fred +Barnett, Capt. Elisha Marcom, S. F. White, Chas. R. +Haines, John Owens, W. N. Shepard, N. H. Bassett, S. J. +Noble, J. E. Bacon, J. B. Noble, Frank Burke, W. H. +Wickes, Chas. L. White, A. Nichaud, D. McKinley, and +Page Norris; also Geo. M. Smith and W. H. Cruikshank, +of Duluth.</p> + +<p>Immediately following the reception of the Minnesota +visitors came two large delegations from Fulton and Marshall +counties, Indiana. The Fulton leaders were J. H. +Bibler, Dr. W. S. Shafer, Dr. E. Z. Capell, Arthur Howard, +Samuel Heftly, Henry Mow, C. D. Sisson, Arch Stinson, +J. F. Collins, A. F. Bowers, W. J. Howard, and T. M. +Bitters, of Rochester. M. L. Essick was their spokesman. +Among the prominent members of the Marshall +County delegation were M. W. Simons, John W. Parks, +J. W. Siders, Edward McCoy, M. S. Smith, John V. Astley, +Enoch Baker, I. H. Watson, and Abram Shafer, of +Plymouth. H. G. Thayer delivered the address.</p> + +<p>General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Indiana Friends</i>—This is a home company to-day. Usually +our Indiana visitors have met here delegations from other States. +I am sure you will understand that I place a special value upon +these evidences of the interest Indiana Republicans are taking in +the campaign. Whatever the fate of the battle may be elsewhere, it +is always a source of pride to the soldier and to his leader that the +part of the line confided to their care held fast. [Applause.] I +feel that I ought also to acknowledge the friendliness and co-operation +which has been already extended to us in this campaign by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span> +many who have differed with us heretofore. [Applause.] It is +encouraging to hear that the prosperous and intelligent farmers of +Marshall and Fulton counties have not been misled by the attempt +to separate the agricultural vote from the vote of the shop. It has +seemed to me that the Mills bill was framed for the purpose of +driving from the protection column the agricultural voters, not +by showing them favor, but the reverse—by placing agricultural +products on the free list, thus withdrawing from the farmer the +direct benefits he is receiving from our tariff laws as affecting +the products of his labor, hoping that the farmers might then be +relied upon to pull down the rest of the structure. I am glad to +believe that we have in Indiana a class of farmers too intelligent +to be caught by these unfriendly and fallacious propositions. +[Applause.] I had to-day a visit from twenty or more gentlemen +who came from the town of Tower, in the most northern +part of Minnesota, where, within the last four years, there has +been discovered and developed a great deposit of iron ore especially +adapted to the manufacture of steel. Within the four +years since these mines were opened they tell me that about a million +tons of ore have been mined and sent to the furnaces. They +also mentioned the fact that arrangements are already being +made to bring block coal of Indiana to the mouth of these iron +mines, that the work of smelting may be done there. This is a +good illustration of the interlocking of interests between widely +separated States of the Union [applause]—a new market and a +larger demand for Indiana coal.</p> + +<p>The attempt is often made to create the impression that only particular +classes of workingmen are benefited by a protective tariff. +There can be nothing more untrue. The wages of all labor—labor +upon the farm, labor upon our streets—has a direct and essential +relation to the scale of wages that is paid to skilled labor. [Applause.] +One might as well say that you could bring down the +price of a higher grade of cotton cloth without affecting the price +of lower grades as to say that you can degrade the price of skilled +labor without dragging down the wages of unskilled labor. [Applause.] +This attempt to classify and schedule the men who are +benefited by a protective tariff is utterly deceptive. [Applause.] +The benefits are felt by all classes of our people—by the farmer as +well as by the workmen in our mills; by the man who works on +the street as well as the skilled laborer who works in the mill; by +the women in the household, and by the children who are now in +the schools and might otherwise be in the mills. [Applause.] It +is a policy broad enough to embrace within the scope of its benefi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span>cent +influence all our population. [Applause.] I thank you for +your visit, and will be glad to meet any of you personally who desire +to speak to me. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_3" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_3">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 3.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Porter-Columbian Club, a local organization named +in honor of Governor Porter, with a membership of 700 +workingmen, paid their respects to General Harrison on +this night, commanded by their President and founder, +Marshall C. Woods, who delivered an address.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in reply, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Woods and my Friends</i>—My voice is not in condition to +speak at much length in this cool night air. I am very deeply +grateful for this evidence of the respect of this large body of +Indianapolis workingmen. I am glad to be assured by what has +been said to me that you realize that this campaign has a special +interest for the wage-earners of America. [Cries of "Good! +Good!"]</p> + +<p>That is the first question in life with you, because it involves the +subsistence and comfort of your families. I do not wonder then +that, out of so many different associations in life, you have come +together into this organization to express your determination to +vote for the maintenance of the American system of protection. +[Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>I think you can all understand that it is not good for American +workingmen that the amount of work to be done in this country +should be diminished by transferring some of it to foreign shops. +[Applause.] Nor ought the wages paid for the work that is done +here to be diminished by bringing you into competition with the +underpaid labor of the old country. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I am not speaking any new sentiment to-night. Many times before +the Chicago convention I have, in public addresses, expressed +the opinion that every workingman ought to have such wages as +would not only yield him a decent and comfortable support for his +family, and enable him to keep his children in school and out of +the mill in their tender age, but would allow him to lay up against +incapacity by sickness or accident, or for old age, some fund on +which he could rely. These views I entertain to-night. I beg you +to excuse further public speech and to allow me to receive personally +such of you as care to speak to me. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_4" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_4">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Three</span> States did homage to the Republican nominee +this date. From Grand Rapids and Muskegon, Mich., +came 500 visitors, under the auspices of the Belknap Club +of Grand Rapids. The wife of Governor Luce was a +member of the delegation, accompanied by R. C. Luce and +W. A. Davitt. Other prominent members were: Judge +F. J. Russell, Hon. A. B. Turner, Col. C. T. Foote, J. B. +Pantlind, Don J. Leathers, Col. E. S. Pierce, Wm. A. +Gavett, H. J. Felker, D. G. Crotty, H. J. Stevens, Aldrich +Tateum, Louis Kanitz, A. E. Yerex, and N. McGraft, of +Grand Rapids; Thomas A. Parish and Geo. Turner, of +Grand Haven; and John J. Cappon, of Holland. John +Patton, Jr., of Grand Rapids, was orator.</p> + +<p>The Ohio visitors came from Tiffin, Seneca County, +led by the venerable A. C. Baldwin, Capt. John McCormick, +Albert Corthell, Capt. Edward Jones, Edward +Naylor, and J. B. Rosenburger. The wife of Gen. Wm. +H. Gibson was an honored guest of the delegation, accompanied +by Mrs. Robert Lysle and Mrs. Root. J. K. Rohn +was spokesman for the Ohio visitors.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>To these several addresses General Harrison, in response, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana Friends</i>—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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span> +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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span> +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.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p> + +<p>To my Indiana friends, always generous, I return my thanks for +this new evidence of their esteem. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_5" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_5">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Wisconsin</span> 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 <i>State Journal</i>, +Surgeon-General Palmer, W. T. Van Kirk, and T. G. +Maudt. R. C. Spooner spoke for the Badgers.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>General Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Wisconsin and my Indiana Friends</i>—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.</p> + +<p>When they assert their belief in a protective tariff, by supporting +the only party that advocates that policy, the question of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span> +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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_6" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_6">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Saturday</span>, 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>General Harrison confined his speech to State questions. +He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Wells and Blackford County Friends</i>—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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span> +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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span> +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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_CHICAGO_VETERANS" id="THE_CHICAGO_VETERANS">THE CHICAGO VETERANS.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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 +<i>en route</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>General Harrison's response was by many regarded as +his greatest speech of the campaign. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades and Friends</i>—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.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span> +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.]</p> + +<p>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!"]</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_11" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_11">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<p>First Division, Gen. N. R. Ruckle, of Indianapolis. +Chief of Staff, Charles J. Many, of Indianapolis.</p> + +<p>Second Division, Capt. H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. +Chief of Staff, Major J. M. Watt, of Delphi.</p> + +<p>Third Division, John W. Lovett, of Anderson. Chief +of Staff, Col. George Parker.</p> + +<p>Fourth Division, Gen. Tom Bennett, of Richmond. +Chief of Staff, Capt. Ira B. Myers, of Peru.</p> + +<p>Fifth Division, Col. T. C. Burnside, of Liberty. Chief +of Staff, J. W. Ream, of Muncie.</p> + +<p>Sixth Division, Col. J. M. Story, of Franklin. Chief of +Staff, Capt. David Wilson, of Martinsville.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span></p> + +<p>Seventh Division, Col. W. R. McClellen, of Danville. +Chief of Staff, Capt. W. H. Armstrong, of Terre Haute.</p> + +<p>Eighth Division, Capt. T. H. B. McCain, of Crawfordsville. +Chief of Staff, Edward Watson, of Brazil.</p> + +<p>Ninth Division, Capt. J. O. Pedigo, of Lebanon. Chief +of Staff, C. C. Shirley, of Kokomo.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_13" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_13">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Two</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding to both visiting delegations, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends of the German-American Republican Club of Chicago, +and of the Club of Milwaukee, and my Home German Friends</i>—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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span> +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.]</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span> +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.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_17" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_17">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 17.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Ohio's</span> 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span> +Club, the Buckeyes marched to the residence of General +Harrison and were introduced by Governor Foraker.</p> + +<p>In response to their greeting General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—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.</p> + +<p>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 tar<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>iffs +and in progressive free trade a wholesome lesson—one that will +last them a lifetime. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Knefler and Comrades</i>—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.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_20" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_20">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">For</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span> +P. Banks, of Brooklyn; John L. Griffiths and John C. Wingate, +of Indiana.</p> + +<p>General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—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.]</p> + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span> +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.]</p> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_22" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_22">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Three</span> 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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Bushnell and my Ohio Friends</i>—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.]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span> +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.]</p></div> + +<p>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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>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.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_25" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_25">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">During</span> 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 Robin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>son, +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>L. W. McDaniels, a prominent member of the Typographical +Union, presided, and in his address among +other things said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>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.</p></div> + +<p>As General Harrison arose to respond there was another +prolonged outbreak; he appeared greatly moved, and de<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span>livered +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:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. McDaniels and my Friends</i>—I have seen, during this busy +summer, many earnest and demonstrative assemblages of my fellow-citizens. +I have listened to many addresses full of the kindest +expressions toward me personally; but, among them all, none have +been more grateful to me, none have more deeply touched me than +this great assemblage of the workingmen of Indiana and these kind +words which have been addressed to me in your behalf. [Great +cheering.] There are reasons why this should be so that will readily +occur to your minds, and to some of which Mr. McDaniels has +alluded. Early in this campaign certain people, claiming to speak +for the laboring men, but really in the employ of the Democratic +campaign managers, promulgated through the newspaper press and +by campaign publications that were not given the open endorsement +of the Democratic campaign managers, but were paid for by +their funds and circulated under their auspices, a number of false +and scandalous stories relating to my attitude toward organized +labor. [Great and prolonged cheering.] The purpose of all these +stories was to poison the minds of the workingmen against the +candidate of the party that stands in this campaign for the principle +of protection to American labor. [Great cheering.] I have +only once, in all the addresses I have made to my fellow-citizens, +alluded to these malicious and scandalous stories, but, now and in +the presence of this great gathering of workingmen, I do pronounce +them to be utterly false. [Tumultuous cheering, waving of flags +and banners, continued for several minutes.] The story that I ever +said that one dollar a day was enough for a workingman, with all +its accompaniments and appendages, is not a perversion of anything +I ever said—it is a false creation. [Enthusiastic cheering.] +I will not follow in detail this long catalogue of campaign slanders, +but will only add that it is equally false that anywhere or at any +time I ever spoke disparagingly of my fellow-citizens of Irish nativity +or descent. Many of them are now enrolling themselves +on the side of protection for American labor—this created the necessity +for the story. [Cheers.] I want to say again that those +who pitch a campaign upon so low a level greatly underestimate +the intelligence, the sense of decency, and the love of fair play +of the American people. [Prolonged cheering.] I said to one +of the first delegations that visited me that this was a contest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span> +of great principles; that it would be fought out upon the high +plains of truth, and not in the swamps of slander and defamation. +[Great cheering.] Those who will encamp their army in +the swamp will abandon the victory to the army that is on the +heights. [Cheers.] The Republican party stands to-day as the +bulwark and defense of the wage-earners of this country against a +competition which may reduce American wages even below the +standard they falsely impute to my suggestion. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>There are two very plain facts that I have often stated—and +others more forcibly than I—that it seems to me should be conclusive +with the wage-earners of America. The policy of the Democratic +party—the revision of our tariff laws as indicated by the +Democratic party, a revenue-only tariff, or progressive free trade—means +a vast and sudden increase of importations. Is there a +man here so dull as not to know that this means diminished work +in our American shops? [Cheers and cries of "No, no!"] If some +one says that labor is not fully employed now, do you hope it will +be more fully employed when you have transferred one-third of the +work done in our shops to foreign workshops? [Cries of "No, +no!"] If some one tells me that labor is not sufficiently rewarded +here, does he hope to have its rewards increased by striking down +our protective duties and compelling our workmen to compete with +the underpaid labor of Europe? [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I conclude by saying that less work and lower wages are the inevitable +result of the triumph of the principles advocated by the +Democratic party. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now you will excuse further speech from me. [Cries of +"Go on!"] There are here several distinguished advocates of Republican +principles. You will be permitted to hear now, I understand, +from the Hon. Henry W. Blair, a Senator from the State of +New Hampshire, who has been so long at the head of the Committee +on Education and Labor in the United States Senate; and to-night +in this hall you will be permitted to listen to the Hon. William +McKinley, Jr., of Ohio. Now will you allow me again to +thank you out of a full heart for this cordial tender of your confidence +and respect. I felt that in return I could not omit to say +what I have said, not because you needed to be assured of my +friendliness, but in recognition of a confidence that falsehood and +slander could not shake. I have not thought it in good taste to +make many personal references in my public addresses. If any one +thinks it necessary that a comparison should be instituted between +the candidates of the two great parties as to their friendliness to +the reforms demanded by organized labor, I must leave others to +make it. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_27" id="INDIANAPOLIS_OCTOBER_27">INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> railroad men of Indiana held their last gathering +of the great campaign on Saturday night, October 27. +Its estimated 7,000 voters participated in their parade +under Chief Marshal A. D. Shaw and Chief of Staff Geo. +Butler. The Porter Flambeau Club, the Harrison Zouaves, +and 1,000 members of the Indianapolis Railroad +Club—each man carrying a colored lantern—escorted the +visiting organizations. General Harrison and the Hon. +W. R. McKeen, of Terre Haute, reviewed the brilliant procession +from the balcony of the New-Denison and then +repaired to Tomlinson Hall, where the General's arrival +was signalized by an extraordinary demonstration. Chairman +Finch introduced Hon. Mathew O'Doherty, of Louisville, +and A. F. Potts, of Indianapolis, who addressed the +meeting later in the evening.</p> + +<p>General Harrison was the first speaker. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends of the Railroad Republican Clubs</i>—Before your committee +waited upon me to request my presence here to-night I had +resolutely determined that I would not make another address in +this campaign. But when they presented their suggestion that I +should meet my railroad friends, I said to them—the kindness +which has been shown to me from an early period in this campaign +by the railroad men of Indiana has been so conspicuous and +so cordial that I could not deny any request that is presented in +their name. [Cheers.] And so I am here to-night, not to speak +upon any political topic, but only to express, if I can find words +to express, the deep and earnest thankfulness I feel toward you who +have shown so much kindness and confidence in me. [Cheers.] +Very early in this campaign there were those who sought to make +a breach between you and me. You did not wait for my answer, +but you made answer yourselves. [Cheers.] And time and again +you have witnessed your faith that my disposition toward you and +toward the men who toil for their living was one of friendliness, +and the principles which I represented and have always advocated +were those that promoted the true interests of the workingmen of +America. [Cheers.] I have always believed and held that the +prosperity of our country, that the supremacy of its institutions<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span> +and its social order all depended upon our pursuing such a policy +in our legislation that we should have in America a class of workingmen +earning adequate wages that would bring comfort into +their homes and maintain hope in their hearts. [Cheers.] A despairing +man, a man out of whose horizon the star of hope has +gone, is not a safe citizen in a republic. [Cheers.] Therefore I +would preserve against unfriendly competition the highest possible +scale of wages to our working people. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>I know the stout hearts, I know the intelligence, I know the enterprise +of those men who man our railway trains and push them +at lightning speed through darkness and storm. I know the skill +and faithfulness of those who sit at the telegraph instrument, +holding in their watchfulness the safety of those who journey. I +know the fidelity of the men who conduct this business, which has +grown to be a system as fine and perfect as the finest product of +mechanical art. [Cheers.] And so I value to-night this evidence +of your cordial respect; and let me say that whatever may happen +to me in the future, whether I shall remain a citizen of Indianapolis +to bear with you the duties and responsibilities of private citizenship, +or shall be honored with office, I shall never forget this +great demonstration of your friendliness. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>General Harrison's unequalled campaign of speech-making +closed on the afternoon of this day with a visit from +80 young lady students of Oxford, Ohio, College. They +were organized as the "Carrie Harrison Club of Oxford," +and their visit was in honor of that distinguished lady, +who, 36 years before, as Miss Carrie Scott, graduated from +this same institution, of which her venerable father, the +Rev. Dr. John W. Scott, was the first President. The +students were accompanied by President and Mrs. Faye +Walker and Professors Wilson, Fisher, and Dean.</p> + +<p>Miss Nellie F. Deem, of Union City, Indiana, the youngest +teacher in the college, addressed Mrs. Harrison on behalf +of the school. General Harrison responded briefly in +a happy little speech, in which he expressed the pleasure +felt by both over the visit of the Oxford young ladies. He +spoke of their mutual memories of the school and the happy +days spent in its charming surroundings, and said they +both rejoiced in the prosperity of the college, noted as it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span> +was for its scholarship and the Christian training of its +pupils. In conclusion he thanked them for their visit, and +assured them that the kind words spoken of Mrs. Harrison +and himself were fully appreciated and would be long remembered.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_NOVEMBER_5" id="INDIANAPOLIS_NOVEMBER_5">INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> last day of the great campaign brought a delegation +of nearly 100 ladies and gentlemen from Terre Haute, +Indiana, who came to deliver a handsome present of a +miniature silver-mounted plush chair, designated the +"Presidential Chair." They also brought Mrs. Harrison +a valuable flower-stand, voted to her at Germania Fair as +the most popular lady. In returning thanks for these +gifts and their visit General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Captain Ebel and Gentlemen</i>—I am very much obliged to you for +this friendly visit. It comes in the nature of a surprise, for it was +only a little while ago that I was advised of your intention. I +thank you for this gift. It is intended, I suppose, as a type, and a +type of a very useful article, one that does not come amiss in any +station of life. Only those who for months found their only convenient +seat upon a log or a cracker-box know what infinite luxury +there was in even a common Windsor chair. We are glad to welcome +you to our home, and will be glad to greet personally the +members of this club and those ladies who accompany you.</p></div> + +<p>The General then, in behalf of Mrs. Harrison, thanked +the ladies for their present to her.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_ELECTION_NOVEMBER_1888" id="THE_ELECTION_NOVEMBER_1888">THE ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1888.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> is not the purpose of this work to more than chronicle +the result of the great presidential campaign of 1888. The +election fell on November 6. Twenty States gave the Republican +candidate 233 votes in the Electoral College, and +18 States cast 168 votes for Mr. Cleveland, the Democratic +candidate. The total vote cast in the 38 States, for the 7 +electoral tickets, was 11,386,632, of which General Harrison +received 5,440,551. The Republican electoral ticket +was chosen in Indiana by a plurality of 2,392 votes.</p> + +<p>When it became evident that General Harrison had won +the election a demonstration without parallel was inaugurated +at Indianapolis and continued three days. The exciting +street parades and gatherings witnessed at the time of +his nomination were re-enacted with tenfold energy and +enthusiasm. Delegations came from all points in the State +to offer their congratulations, and 10,000 telegrams and +letters from distinguished countrymen poured in upon the +successful candidate. From an early hour on the morning +of the 7th, for days thereafter, the streets of Indianapolis +were thronged with enthusiastic visitors.</p> + +<p>The first delegation to call upon General Harrison after +his election came from Hendricks County, numbering 400 +veterans and others, headed by Ira J. Chase, the newly +elected Lieutenant-Governor, Rev. J. H. Hull, and John C. +Ochiltree. General Harrison made no formal response to +their congratulatory address. On November 9 a delegation +from the Commercial Club of Cincinnati arrived, and +at night the saw-makers of Indianapolis—about 100 in +number—bedecked in red from head to foot, marched with +glaring torches to the residence of General Harrison, and +after a serenade called upon him for a speech.</p> + +<p>Coming out on the steps the General said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The time for speech-making is over. The debate is closed, and I +believe the polls are closed. ["Right you are!"] I will only thank<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span> +you for your call to-night and for that friendly spirit which you +have shown to me during the campaign.</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">A Famous Telegram.</p> + +<p>The State of New York gave Harrison (Rep.) over +Cleveland (Dem.) a plurality of 13,074 votes; but for Governor—at +the same election—the State gave David B. Hill +(Dem.) a plurality of 19,171 over Warner Miller (Rep.). +These opposite results called forth the following famous +telegram from the President-elect:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Indianapolis, Ind.</span>, Nov. 9, 1888. +</p> +<p> +<i>To</i> <span class="smcap">Hon. Warner Miller</span>, <i>Herkimer, N. Y.</i>: +</p> + +<p>I am greatly grieved at your defeat. If the intrepid leader fell +outside the breastworks, the column, inspired by his courage, went +on to victory. +</p> +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison.</span> +</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_JANUARY_1_1889" id="INDIANAPOLIS_JANUARY_1_1889">INDIANAPOLIS, JANUARY 1, 1889.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> installation of officers by George H. Thomas Post, +G. A. R., on the night of New Year's Day, '89, was attended +by General Harrison, who for many years had been +an active member of this post. Many comrades from other +posts in the city were present. The President-elect was +escorted by Col. Irvin Robbins, who was commander of the +Democratic regiment during the recent campaign, and Col. +George W. Spahr, who commanded a Republican regiment. +He was received with full honors by the retiring +commander, James B. Black, who presented him to the +post.</p> + +<p>In response to their enthusiastic greeting, General Harrison—speaking +in public for the first time since his election—in +substance said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Commander and Comrades</i>—It affords me pleasure to meet with +you again on this occasion. When I left the army so many years +ago I little expected to enter it again, as I soon will. Among the +many honors which may be placed on me in the future there will +be none, I can assure you, that I will esteem more highly than my +membership in this order, instituted by those who sustained the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span> +flag of Washington, the flag of Perry, the flag that was baptized in +the blood of the Revolution and again in the second conflict with +the mother country; that floated over the halls of the Montezumas, +and was sustained in other wars, and which you made possible to +wave over every foot of our beloved country. I esteem it my greatest +honor that I bore even an humble part with you and all the +comrades of the Grand Army in bringing about this most desirable +result. I wish to say before parting with you, if I may never look +upon your faces collectively again, that the parting request I would +make of you would be that each of you, without regard to party +(and I believe I can say this without offence to any comrade of the +Grand Army), stand shoulder to shoulder, as we did during the +war, to preserve a free and honest ballot. There is nothing, I can +assure you, that will do more to preserve and maintain our institutions +than this. Our country, separated as it is by the great +watery waste, need have no fear of interference by foreign countries +with its institutions; nor do we desire in any way to interfere +with them. Nor, indeed, is there any fear of another civil +war. The only fear we should now have is a corruption or suppression +of the free ballot, and your utmost exertions should be to +prevent it.</p></div> + +<p>In concluding, he called for the choicest blessings upon +his comrades, saying: "To each one, God bless you and +your families; God keep you and protect you in your +homes!"</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_FEBRUARY_25_1889" id="INDIANAPOLIS_FEBRUARY_25_1889">INDIANAPOLIS, FEBRUARY 25, 1889.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Departure for Washington.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President-elect</span> and Mrs. Harrison bade their friends +and neighbors good-by and left Indiana on February 25 +for Washington. Governor Hovey, Mayor Denny, and +several thousand citizens escorted them from their residence +to the railroad station. In the escort column were 1,000 +G. A. R. veterans from Geo. H. Thomas and other posts, +commanded by H. C. Allen. Conspicuous in their ranks +was that distinguished soldier-diplomat, General Lew +Wallace. The members of the Indiana Legislature saluted<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span> +and joined the <i>cortége</i> as it passed through Pennsylvania +Street.</p> + +<p>General Harrison's carriage was completely enclosed +within a hollow square composed of 32 prominent citizens—a +body-guard of honor. The entire population of the city +turned out to witness the eventful departure, while numerous +delegations were present from Danville, Richmond, +Crawfordsville, Terre Haute, and other cities. A great +throng greeted the distinguished travellers at the Union +Station. From the rear platform of the special inaugural +train Governor Hovey presented the President-elect amid +tumultuous cheering.</p> + +<p>General Harrison was greatly affected by the scene and +the occasion. Speaking with emotion he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Good Friends and Neighbors</i>—I cannot trust myself to put in +words what I feel at this time. Every kind thought that is in +your minds and every good wish that is in your hearts for me finds +its responsive wish and thought in my mind and heart for each +of you. I love this city. It has been my own cherished home. +Twice before I have left it to discharge public duties and returned +to it with gladness, as I hope to do again. It is a city on whose +streets the pompous displays of wealth are not seen. It is full of +pleasant homes, and in these homes there is an unusual store of +contentment. The memory of your favor and kindness will abide +with me, and my strong desire to hold your respect and confidence +will strengthen me in the discharge of my new and responsible +duties. Let me say farewell to all my Indiana friends. For the +public honors that have come to me I am their grateful debtor. +They have made the debt so large that I can never discharge it. +There is a great sense of loneliness in the discharge of high public +duties. The moment of decision is one of isolation. But there is +One whose help comes even into the quiet chamber of judgment, +and to His wise and unfailing guidance will I look for direction +and safety. My family unite with me in grateful thanks for this +cordial good-by, and with me wish that these years of separation +may be full of peace and happiness for each of you. [Great +cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KNIGHTSTOWN_INDIANA_FEBRUARY_25" id="KNIGHTSTOWN_INDIANA_FEBRUARY_25">KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">As</span> the inaugural train sped along it was greeted at +every station by thousands of cheering spectators. The +first stop was at Knightstown, where the Soldiers' Orphans' +Home is located. In response to their calls General Harrison +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I thank you for this cordial gathering and demonstration. +I can detain the train but a moment, and I only stopped +at the request of the Superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, +so that the children might have an opportunity to see me and that +I might wish them the bright and prosperous future which the sacrifices +of their fathers won for them. I bid you farewell.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RICHMOND_INDIANA_FEBRUARY_25" id="RICHMOND_INDIANA_FEBRUARY_25">RICHMOND, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> city of Richmond was reached at 5 o'clock in the +afternoon, where several thousand people greeted the travellers. +General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I have so long had my home among you that I cannot +but feel a sense of regret in leaving the soil of Indiana. I go +with a deep sense of inadequacy, but I am sure you will be patient +with my mistakes, and that you will all give me your help as citizens +[cheers and cries of "We will!"] in my efforts to promote the +best interests of our people and the honor of the Nation we love. +I thank you for this cordial greeting. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="COLUMBUS_OHIO_FEBRUARY_25" id="COLUMBUS_OHIO_FEBRUARY_25">COLUMBUS, OHIO, FEBRUARY 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Piqua the President-elect and his party were welcomed +by Ohio's chief executive, Gov. J. B. Foraker, and +his wife; and, notwithstanding the hour, some 20,000 people +greeted their arrival at Columbus. The roar of cannon +rendered speaking difficult. Governor Foraker presented +General Harrison, who here made his last public speech +before being inaugurated as President. He said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I thank you for the wonderful demonstration +of this evening. In these evidences of the good will of my friends +I receive a new stimulus as I enter upon the duties of the great +office to which I have been chosen. I beg to thank you again for +your interest. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WASHINGTON_D_C_MARCH_4_1889" id="WASHINGTON_D_C_MARCH_4_1889">WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 4, 1889.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">General Harrison</span> and his family, accompanied by +Hon. James N. Huston, Hon. W. H. H. Miller, Mr. E. W. +Halford, Mr. E. F. Tibbott and family, Miss Sanger, and +the representatives of the press, arrived in Washington +on the evening of February 26. The President-elect was +met by Col. A. T. Britton, Geo. B. Williams, Gen. H. V. +Boynton, J. K. McCammon, Gen. Daniel Macauley, and +other members of the Inaugural Committee, and escorted +to the Arlington Hotel.</p> + +<p>The inaugural celebration was conducted by several +hundred residents of Washington, acting through committees. +The Executive Committee, having supervising +charge of all matters pertaining to the celebration, comprised +the following prominent Washingtonians: Alex. +T. Britton, Chairman; Myron M. Parker, Vice-Chairman; +Brainerd H. Warner, Treasurer; Henry L. Swords, Secretary; +Elmon A. Adams, Joseph K. McCammon, James E. +Bell, James G. Berret, Robert Boyd, Henry V. Boynton, +Almon M. Clapp, A. H. S. Davis, Frederick Douglass, +John Joy Edson, Lawrence Gardner, George Gibson, +Charles C. Glover, Stilson Hutchins, E. Kurtz Johnson, +George E. Lemon, John McElroy, Geo. A. McIlhenny, +Crosby S. Noyes, Albert Ordway, Charles B. Purvis, +Melancthon L. Ruth, Thomas Somerville, Orren G. Staples, +John W. Thompson, Henry A. Willard, George B. Williams, +Louis D. Wine, Simon Wolf, Levi P. Wright, and +Hallett Kilbourn. General James Beaver, Governor of +Pennsylvania, was Chief Marshal of the day, and with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span> +brilliant staff led the great column in its march to and from +the Capitol. The veterans of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment +were accorded the post of honor on the route to the +Capitol, and on conclusion of the ceremonies escorted their +old commander to the White House. Chief-Justice Fuller +administered the oath of office.</p> + +<p>President Harrison delivered his inaugural address from +the terrace of the Capitol in the presence of a vast concourse +and during a rainfall.</p> + + +<p class="center space-above"> +THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President +shall take the oath of office in the presence of the people. But +there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to +office of the chief executive officer of the Nation that from the beginning +of the Government the people, to whose service the official +oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn +ceremonial. The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes +a mutual covenant; the officer covenants to serve the whole body +of the people by a faithful execution of the laws, so that they may +be the unfailing defence and security of those who respect and observe +them, and that neither wealth and station nor the power of +combinations shall be able to evade their just penalties or to wrest +them from a beneficent public purpose to serve the ends of cruelty +or selfishness. My promise is spoken; yours unspoken, but not the +less real and solemn. The people of every State have here their +representatives. Surely I do not misinterpret the spirit of the occasion +when I assume that the whole body of the people covenant +with me and with each other to-day to support and defend the Constitution +and the Union of the States, to yield willing obedience +to all the laws and each to every other citizen his equal civil and +political rights. Entering thus solemnly in covenant with each +other, we may reverently invoke and confidently expect the favor +and help of Almighty God, that He will give to me wisdom, +strength, and fidelity, and to our people a spirit of fraternity and +a love of righteousness and peace.</p> + +<p>This occasion derives peculiar interest from the fact that the +presidential term which begins this day is the twenty-sixth under +our Constitution. The first inauguration of President Washington +took place in New York, where Congress was then sitting, on April +30, 1789, having been deferred by reason of delays attending the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span> +organization of the Congress and the canvass of the electoral vote. +Our people have already worthily observed the centennials of the +Declaration of Independence, of the battle of Yorktown, and of the +adoption of the Constitution, and will shortly celebrate in New +York the institution of the second great department of our constitutional +scheme of government. When the centennial of the institution +of the judicial department by the organization of the Supreme +Court shall have been suitably observed, as I trust it will +be, our Nation will have fully entered its second century.</p> + +<p>I will not attempt to note the marvellous and, in great part, +happy contrasts between our country as it steps over the threshold +into its second century of organized existence under the Constitution, +and that weak but wisely ordered young Nation that looked +undauntedly down the first century, when all its years stretched +out before it.</p> + +<p>Our people will not fail at this time to recall the incidents which +accompanied the institution of government under the Constitution, +or to find inspiration and guidance in the teachings and example +of Washington and his great associates, and hope and courage in +the contrast which thirty-eight populous and prosperous States +offer to the thirteen States, weak in everything except courage and +the love of liberty, that then fringed our Atlantic seaboard.</p> + +<p>The Territory of Dakota has now a population greater than any +of the original States—except Virginia—and greater than the aggregate +of five of the smaller States in 1790. The centre of population +when our national capital was located was east of Baltimore, +and it was argued by many well-informed persons that it +would move eastward rather than westward. Yet in 1880 it was +found to be near Cincinnati, and the new census, about to be taken, +will show another stride to the westward. That which was the +body has come to be only the rich fringe of the nation's robe. But +our growth has not been limited to territory, population, and aggregate +wealth, marvellous as it has been in each of those directions. +The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed +than their fathers were. The facilities for popular education have +been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. The virtues of +courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued +presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of +our people. The influences of religion have been multiplied and +strengthened. The sweet offices of charity have greatly increased. +The virtue of temperance is held in higher estimation. We have +not attained an ideal condition. Not all of our people are happy +and prosperous; not all of them are virtuous and law-abiding.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span> +But, on the whole, the opportunities offered to the individual to +secure the comforts of life are better than are found elsewhere, and +largely better than they were here 100 years ago.</p> + +<p>The surrender of a large measure of sovereignty to the general +Government, effected by the adoption of the Constitution, was not +accomplished until the suggestions of reason were strongly re-enforced +by the more imperative voice of experience. The divergent +interests of peace speedily demanded a "more perfect union." The +merchant, the ship-master, and the manufacturer discovered and +disclosed to our statesmen and to the people that commercial emancipation +must be added to the political freedom which had been so +bravely won. The commercial policy of the mother country had +not relaxed any of its hard and oppressive features. To hold in +check the development of our commercial marine, to prevent or +retard the establishment and growth of manufactures in the States, +and so to secure the American market for their shops and the carrying +trade for their ships, was the policy of European statesmen, +and was pursued with the most selfish vigor. Petitions poured in +upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that +should encourage the production of needed things at home. The +patriotism of the people, which no longer found a field of exercise +in war, was energetically directed to the duty of equipping the +young republic for the defence of its independence by making its +people self-dependent. Societies for the promotion of home manufactures +and for encouraging the use of domestics in the dress of +the people were organized in many of the States. The revival at +the end of the century of the same patriotic interest in the preservation +and development of domestic industries and the defence of +our working people against injurious foreign competition is an +incident worthy of attention.</p> + +<p>It is not a departure, but a return, that we have witnessed. The +protective policy had then its opponents. The argument was made, +as now, that its benefits inured to particular classes or sections. +If the question became in any sense, or at any time, sectional, it +was only because slavery existed in some of the States. But for +this there was no reason why the cotton-producing States should +not have led or walked abreast with the New England States in the +production of cotton fabrics. There was this reason only why the +States that divide with Pennsylvania the mineral treasures of the +great southeastern and central mountain ranges should have been +so tardy in bringing to the smelting furnace and the mill the coal +and iron from their near opposing hillsides. Mill-fires were lighted +at the funeral pile of slavery. The emancipation proclamation was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span> +heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky—men were +made free and material things became our better servants.</p> + +<p>The sectional element has happily been eliminated from the tariff +discussion. We have no longer States that are necessarily only +planting States. None are excluded from achieving that diversification +of pursuit among the people which brings wealth and contentment. +The cotton plantation will not be less valuable when +the product is spun in the country town by operatives whose necessities +call for diversified crops and create a home demand for +garden and agricultural products. Every new mine, furnace, and +factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State +more real and valuable than added territory.</p> + +<p>Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery continue to hang +upon the skirts of progress? How long will those who rejoice that +slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it puts +upon their communities? I look hopefully to the continuance of +our protective system and to the consequent development of manufacturing +and mining enterprises in the States hitherto wholly +given to agriculture as a potent influence in the perfect unification +of our people. The men who have invested their capital in these +enterprises, the farmers who have felt the benefit of their neighborhood, +and the men who work in shop or field will not fail to find +and to defend a community of interest. Is it not quite possible +that the farmers and the promoters of the great mining and manufacturing +enterprises which have recently been established in the +South may yet find that the free ballot of the workingman, without +distinction of race, is needed for their defence as well as for +his own? I do not doubt that if these men in the South who now +accept the tariff views of Clay and the constitutional expositions +of Webster would courageously avow and defend their real convictions +they would not find it difficult, by friendly instruction and +co-operation, to make the black man their efficient and safe ally, +not only in establishing correct principles in our national Administration, +but in preserving for their local communities the benefits +of social order and economical and honest government. At least +until the good offices of kindness and education have been fairly +tried the contrary conclusion cannot be plausibly urged.</p> + +<p>I have altogether rejected the suggestion of a special executive +policy for any section of our country. It is the duty of the Executive +to administer and enforce in the methods and by the instrumentalities +pointed out and provided by the Constitution all the +laws enacted by Congress. These laws are general, and their administration +should be uniform and equal. As a citizen may not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span> +elect what laws he will obey, neither may the Executive elect +which he will enforce. The duty to obey and execute embraces the +Constitution in its entirety and the whole code of laws enacted +under it. The evil example of permitting individuals, corporations, +or communities to nullify the laws because they cross some selfish +or local interests or prejudices is full of danger, not only to the +Nation at large, but much more to those who use this pernicious +expedient to escape their just obligations or to obtain an unjust advantage +over others. They will presently themselves be compelled +to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the +law as a defence must not deny that use of it to others.</p> + +<p>If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their +legal obligations and duties they would have less cause to complain +of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference +with their operations. The community that by concert, open or +secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their +plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social +order and prosperity. The evil works, from a bad centre, both +ways. It demoralizes those who practise it, and destroys the faith +of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector. +The man in whose breast that faith has been darkened is +naturally the subject of dangerous and uncanny suggestions. Those +who use unlawful methods, if moved by no higher motive than the +selfishness that prompts them, may well stop and inquire what is +to be the end of this. An unlawful expedient cannot become a +permanent condition of government. If the educated and influential +classes in a community either practise or connive at the systematic +violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, +what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a +supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been +well learned by the ignorant classes? A community where law is +the rule of conduct, and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties, +is the only attractive field for business investments and +honest labor.</p> + +<p>Our naturalization laws should be so amended as to make the inquiry +into the character and good disposition of persons applying +for citizenship more careful and searching. Our existing laws +have been in their administration an unimpressive and often an +unintelligible form. We accept the man as a citizen without any +knowledge of his fitness, and he assumes the duties of citizenship +without any knowledge as to what they are. The privileges of +American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we +may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span> +citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We +should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should +cease to be careless as to the character of it. There are men of all +races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon +our public revenues or a threat to social order. These should be +identified and excluded.</p> + +<p>We have happily maintained a policy of avoiding all interference +with European affairs. We have been only interested spectators +of their contentions in diplomacy and in war, ready to use our +friendly offices to promote peace, but never obtruding our advice +and never attempting unfairly to coin the distresses of other powers +into commercial advantage to ourselves. We have a just right to +expect that our European policy will be the American policy of +European courts.</p> + +<p>It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our +peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe and +enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water-way between +our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by +any European Government, that we may confidently expect that +such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power. We +shall in the future, as in the past, use every endeavor to maintain +and enlarge our friendly relations with all the great powers, but +they will not expect us to look kindly upon any project that would +leave us subject to the dangers of a hostile observation or environment.</p> + +<p>We have not sought to dominate or to absorb any of our weaker +neighbors, but rather to aid and encourage them to establish free +and stable governments, resting upon the consent of their own people. +We have a clear right to expect, therefore, that no European +Government will seek to establish colonial dependencies upon the +territory of these independent American States. That which a +sense of justice restrains us from seeking they may be reasonably +expected willingly to forego.</p> + +<p>It must not be assumed, however, that our interests are so exclusively +American that our entire inattention to any events that may +transpire elsewhere can be taken for granted. Our citizens domiciled +for purposes of trade in all countries and in many of the +islands of the sea demand and will have our adequate care in their +personal and commercial rights. The necessities of our navy require +convenient coaling stations and dock and harbor privileges. +These and other trading privileges we will feel free to obtain only +by means that do not in any degree partake of coercion, however +feeble the Government from which we ask such concessions. But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span> +having fairly obtained them by methods and for purposes entirely +consistent with the most friendly disposition toward all other powers, +our consent will be necessary to any modification or impairment +of the concession.</p> + +<p>We shall neither fail to respect the flag of any friendly nation or +the just rights of its citizens, nor to exact the like treatment for +our own. Calmness, justice, and consideration should characterize +our diplomacy. The offices of an intelligent diplomacy or of +friendly arbitration, in proper cases, should be adequate to the +peaceful adjustment of all international difficulties. By such +methods we will make our contribution to the world's peace, which +no nation values more highly, and avoid the opprobrium which +must fall upon the nation that ruthlessly breaks it.</p> + +<p>The duty devolved by law upon the President to nominate and, +by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint all +public officers whose appointment is not otherwise provided for in +the Constitution or by act of Congress has become very burdensome, +and its wise and efficient discharge full of difficulty. The civil +list is so large that a personal knowledge of any large number of +the applicants is impossible. The President must rely upon the +representations of others, and these are often made inconsiderately +and without any just sense of responsibility.</p> + +<p>I have a right, I think, to insist that those who volunteer or are +invited to give advice as to appointments shall exercise consideration +and fidelity. A high sense of duty and an ambition to improve +the service should characterize all public officers. There are +many ways in which the convenience and comfort of those who +have business with our public officers may be promoted by a +thoughtful and obliging officer, and I shall expect those whom I +may appoint to justify their selection by a conspicuous efficiency +in the discharge of their duties. Honorable party service will certainly +not be esteemed by me a disqualification for public office; +but it will in no case be allowed to serve as a shield for official +negligence, incompetency, or delinquency. It is entirely creditable +to seek public office by proper methods and with proper motives, +and all applications will be treated with consideration; but +I shall need, and the heads of departments will need, time for inquiry +and deliberation. Persistent importunity will not, therefore, +be the best support of an application for office.</p> + +<p>Heads of departments, bureaus, and all other public officers having +any duty connected therewith, will be expected to enforce the +Civil Service law fully and without evasion. Beyond this obvious +duty I hope to do something more to advance the reform of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</a></span> +civil service. The ideal, or even my own ideal, I shall probably +not attain. Retrospect will be a safer basis of judgment than promises. +We shall not, however, I am sure, be able to put our civil +service upon a non-partisan basis until we have secured an incumbency +that fair minded men of the opposition will approve for impartiality +and integrity. As the number of such in the civil list +is increased removals from office will diminish.</p> + +<p>While a treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious +evil. Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual +demands upon our treasury, with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary +but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now +and then. Expenditure should always be made with economy, and +only upon public necessity. Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism +in public expenditures is criminal; but there is nothing in the +condition of our country or of our people to suggest that anything +presently necessary to the public prosperity, security, or honor +should be unduly postponed. It will be the duty of Congress wisely +to forecast and estimate these extraordinary demands, and, having +added them to our ordinary expenditures, to so adjust our revenue +laws that no considerable annual surplus will remain. We will +fortunately be able to apply to the redemption of the public debt +any small and unforeseen excess of revenue. This is better than to +reduce our income below our necessary expenditures with the resulting +choice between another change of our revenue laws and an +increase of the public debt. It is quite possible, I am sure, to +effect the necessary reduction in our revenues without breaking +down our protective tariff or seriously injuring any domestic industry.</p> + +<p>The construction of a sufficient number of modern war ships and +of their necessary armament should progress as rapidly as is consistent +with care and perfection in plans and workmanship. The +spirit, courage, and skill of our naval officers and seamen have +many times in our history given to weak ships and inefficient guns +a rating greatly beyond that of the naval list. That they will again +do so upon occasion I do not doubt; but they ought not, by premeditation +or neglect, to be left to the risks and exigencies of an +unequal combat.</p> + +<p>We should encourage the establishment of American steamship +lines. The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and +rapid means of communication, and until these are provided the +development of our trade with the States lying south of us is impossible.</p> + +<p>Our pension law should give more adequate and discriminating<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</a></span> +relief to the Union soldiers and sailors and to their widows and +orphans. Such occasions as this should remind us that we owe +everything to their valor and sacrifice.</p> + +<p>It is a subject of congratulation that there is a near prospect of +the admission into the Union of the Dakotas and Montana and +Washington Territories. This act of justice has been unreasonably +delayed in the case of some of them. The people who have settled +those Territories are intelligent, enterprising, and patriotic, and +the accession of these new States will add strength to the Nation. +It is due to the settlers in the Territories who have availed themselves +of the invitations of our land laws to make homes upon the +public domain that their titles should be speedily adjusted and +their honest entries confirmed by patent.</p> + +<p>It is very gratifying to observe the general interest now being +manifested in the reform of our election laws. Those who have +been for years calling attention to the pressing necessity of throwing +about the ballot-box and about the elector further safeguards, +in order that our elections might not only be free and pure, but +might clearly appear to be so, will welcome the accession of any +who did not so soon discover the need of reform. The national +Congress has not as yet taken control of elections in that case over +which the Constitution gives it jurisdiction, but has accepted and +adopted the election laws of the several States, provided penalties +for their violation and a method of supervision. Only the inefficiency +of the State laws or an unfair partisan administration of +them could suggest a departure from this policy. It was clearly, +however, in the contemplation of the framers of the Constitution +that such an exigency might arise, and provision was wisely made +for it. No power vested in Congress or in the Executive to secure +or perpetuate it should remain unused upon occasion.</p> + +<p>The people of all the Congressional districts have an equal interest +that the election in each shall truly express the views and wishes +of a majority of the qualified electors residing within it. The results +of such elections are not local, and the insistence of electors +residing in other districts that they shall be pure and free does not +savor at all of impertinence. If in any of the States the public +security is thought to be threatened by ignorance among the electors, +the obvious remedy is education. The sympathy and help of +our people will not be withheld from any community struggling +with special embarrassments or difficulties connected with the suffrage, +if the remedies proposed proceed upon lawful lines and are +promoted by just and honorable methods. How shall those who +practise election frauds recover that respect for the sanctity of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span> +ballot which is the first condition and obligation of good citizenship? +The man who has come to regard the ballot-box as a juggler's +hat has renounced his allegiance.</p> + +<p>Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions. Let +those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better +proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by +promoting fraternity and justice. A party success that is achieved +by unfair methods or by practices that partake of revolution is +hurtful and evanescent, even from a party standpoint. We should +hold our differing opinions in mutual respect, and, having submitted +them to the arbitrament of the ballot, should accept an adverse +judgment with the same respect that we would have demanded of +our opponents if the decision had been in our favor.</p> + +<p>No other people have a government more worthy of their respect +and love, or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look +upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. +God has placed upon our head a diadem, and has laid at our feet +power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must +not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice +and mercy shall hold the reins of power, and that the upward avenues +of hope shall be free to all the people.</p> + +<p>I do not mistrust the future. Dangers have been in frequent ambush +along our path, but we have uncovered and vanquished them +all. Passion has swept some of our communities, but only to give +us a new demonstration that the great body of our people are stable, +patriotic, and law-abiding. No political party can long pursue advantage +at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent +methods, without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body. +The peaceful agencies of commerce are more fully revealing the +necessary unity of all our communities, and the increasing intercourse +of our people is promoting mutual respect. We shall find +unalloyed pleasure in the revelation which our next census will +make of the swift development of the great resources of some of the +States. Each State will bring its generous contribution to the great +aggregate of the Nation's increase. And when the harvest from +the fields, the cattle from the hills, and the ores of the earth shall +have been weighed, counted, and valued, we will turn from them +all to crown with the highest honor the State that has most promoted +education, virtue, justice, and patriotism among the people.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="NEW_YORK_CITY_APRIL_30_1889" id="NEW_YORK_CITY_APRIL_30_1889">NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 30, 1889.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Nation's Centenary.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> celebration, at the city of New York, of the one +hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of George +Washington as first President of the United States was +more than national in its scope and influence. The people +of the entire continent manifested a gratifying interest in +it, and no event in our history has been commemorated +with greater success. The occasion called together more +than two million people within the gateways of the great +metropolis, many of them our most distinguished and representative +citizens. The celebration was conducted under +the auspices of one hundred prominent citizens, organized +as a general committee, of which the Hon. Hamilton +Fish was President; Mayor Hugh J. Grant, Chairman; +Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry, Chairman Executive Committee; +and Clarence W. Bowen, Secretary.</p> + +<p>Early on the morning of April 29 the President, accompanied +by Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. J. R. McKee, Mr. and Mrs. +Russell B. Harrison, the members of the Cabinet, Chief +Justice and Mrs. Fuller, Justice and Mrs. Field, Justice +Blatchford, Justice Strong, Major-General Schofield, Mr. +Walker Blaine and Miss Blaine, Col. Thos. F. Barr, Lieut. +T. B. M. Mason and Mrs. Mason, left Washington by special +train tendered by President Geo. R. Roberts and Vice-President +Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Company. +The distinguished guests were escorted by the following +members of the Centennial Committee designated for this +honorable duty: John A. King, Chairman; John Jay, +Edward Cooper, Wm. H. Wickham, Wm. R. Grace, Frederick +J. DePeyster, Wm. H. Robertson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, +Wm. M. Evarts, Frank Hiscock, Seth Low, Orlando +B. Potter, Clifford S. Sims, Jas. Duane Livingston, and +Frank S. Witherbee.</p> + +<p>At Trenton the party was met by the New Jersey Cen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[205]</a></span>tennial +Committee, consisting of Governor Green, General +Sewell, Rev. Dr. Hamill, Colonel Stockton, General Grubb, +Colonel Donnelly, Captain Skirm, Senator Cramner, Senator +Cattell, Colonel Chambers, and others.</p> + +<p>Arrived at Elizabeth the President breakfasted with +Governor Green and then held a reception, conducted by +Col. Rob't S. Green, assisted by Col. Suydam, Chas. G. +Parkhurst, and John L. Boggs. Following the route taken +by Washington, President Harrison and his party embarked +at Elizabethport on board the U. S. S. <i>Despatch</i>, +and, escorted by a magnificent fleet of war ships, merchant +marine, and craft of all kinds, proceeded up the Kills to +the bay amid the roar of cannon from the several forts and +the men-of-war.</p> + +<p>At the gangway of the <i>Despatch</i> the President was received +by Jackson S. Schultz and the following gentlemen, +comprising the Committee on Navy: John S. Barnes, +George G. Haven, D. Willis James, Frederick R. Coudert, +Capt. Henry Erben, Ogden Goelet, John Jay Pierrepont, +Loyall Farragut, Alfred C. Cheney, Buchanan Winthrop, +and S. Nicholson Kane. Other distinguished guests on +the <i>Despatch</i> were Gov. David B. Hill, Gen. William T. +Sherman, Admiral David D. Porter, Commodore Ramsey, +and Jas. M. Varnum. Several hundred thousand patriotic +people greeted the <i>Despatch</i> as she proudly entered the +harbor. The scene was a most memorable one.</p> + +<p>Following the example of Washington, President Harrison +was rowed ashore in a barge, landing at Pier 16, where +he was met by the venerable Hamilton Fish, who welcomed +him to New York. Proceeding to the Equitable Building, +the President was tendered a reception in the rooms of the +Lawyers' Club, followed by a banquet under the auspices +of the Committee on States, consisting of the following distinguished +citizens: William G. Hamilton, Chairman; +James C. Carter, John Schuyler, J. T. Van Rensselaer, James +W. Husted, Theo. Roosevelt, Jacob A. Cantor, E. Ellery<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[206]</a></span> +Anderson, Floyd Clarkson, Henry W. LeRoy, John B. +Pine, Samuel Borrowe, and Jas. M. Montgomery. Among +the guests—other than the members of the Cabinet and the +other prominent gentlemen who accompanied the President +on the <i>Despatch</i>—were ex-President R. B. Hayes and the +Governors of thirty-five States.</p> + +<p>At night the President and his Cabinet attended the +grand centennial ball at the Metropolitan Opera House, at +which 6,000 guests were present. This brilliant entertainment, +rendered memorable by the presence of so many distinguished +people, was given under the auspices of a +committee composed of the following society leaders: +Stuyvesant Fish, Chairman; William Waldorf Astor, +William K. Vanderbilt, William Jay, Egerton L. Winthrop, +Robert Goelet, Wm. B. Beekman, Stephen H. Olin, +Wm. E. D. Stokes, and Gouverneur Morris.</p> + +<p>The morning of the 30th—Centennial Day—the +President, members of his Cabinet, with ex-Presidents +Cleveland and Hayes, Governor Hill, and many other +noted guests, attended thanksgiving services at St. Paul's +Church. The President and his family occupied the +Washington pew. The exercises were conducted by the +Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. The +literary exercises were held on the steps of the sub-Treasury, +where General Washington took his oath of office a +hundred years before. Countless thousands surrounded the +speaker's stand and congregated in the vicinity. Elbridge +T. Gerry presided and introduced Rev. Richard S. Storrs, +who delivered the invocation. Secretary Bowen read a +poem entitled "The Vow of Washington," composed for +the occasion by the venerable John Greenleaf Whittier. +Hon. Chauncey M. Depew then delivered the Centennial +oration. On conclusion, Chairman Gerry introduced +President Harrison, who was greeted with a grand outburst +as he advanced to the front. Amid repeated interruptions +with cheers he spoke as follows:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman, my Countrymen</i>—Official duty of a very exacting +character has made it quite impossible that I should deliver an address +on this occasion. Foreseeing this, I early notified your committee +that the programme must not contain any address by me. The +selection of Mr. Depew as the orator of this occasion makes further +speech not only difficult, but superfluous. He has met the demand +of this great occasion on its own high level. He has brought before +us the incidents and the lessons of the first inauguration of +Washington. We seem to have been a part of that admiring and +almost adoring throng that filled these streets one hundred years ago.</p> + +<p>We have come into the serious, but always inspiring, presence +of Washington. He was the incarnation of duty, and he teaches +us to-day this great lesson: That those who would associate their +names with events that shall outlive a century can only do so by +high consecration to duty. Self-seeking has no public observance +or anniversary. The captain who gives to the sea his cargo of goods, +that he may give safety and deliverance to his imperilled fellow-men, +has fame; he who lands the cargo has only wages. Washington +seemed to come to the discharge of the duties of his high office +impressed with a great sense of his unfamiliarity with these new +calls thrust upon him, modestly doubtful of his own ability, but +trusting implicitly in the sustaining helpfulness and grace of that +God who rules the world, presides in the councils of nations, and +is able to supply every human defect. We have made marvellous +progress in material things since then, but the stately and enduring +shaft that we have erected at the national capital at Washington +symbolizes the fact that he is still the First American Citizen. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">The Great Military Parade and Banquet.</p> + +<p>On conclusion of the ceremonies at the sub-Treasury the +President and other honored guests of the day reviewed +the grand military parade from a stand in Madison Square. +Along the line of march, especially on Broadway and +Fifth Avenue, for several miles the gorgeous pageant +moved between two living walls. Never were so many +people congregated on this continent. The glittering +column, commanded by General Schofield, moved with +continuous precision, and was five hours and twenty-five +minutes in passing the reviewing stand. The President<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span> +remained at his post, saluting the last company. The +troops of the various States were led by their Governors.</p> + +<p>This monster military demonstration and the great industrial +parade of the day following were conducted under +the management of a committee comprising the following +well-known gentlemen: S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, Chairman; +John Cochrane, Locke W. Winchester, J. Hampden +Robb, Frederick Gallatin, Frederick D. Tappen, and John +C. Tomlinson.</p> + +<p>The President's visit concluded with his participation +in the greatest banquet known to modern times, held at +the Metropolitan Opera House. The lavish decorations, +the magnitude and occasion of the entertainment have +rendered it historical. Eight hundred guests were seated +at the tables, while the surrounding boxes and stalls were +overflowing with distinguished ladies eagerly partaking of +the feast of reason. Mayor Grant presided, and introduced +Governor Hill, who welcomed the guests. Ex-President +Cleveland responded to the toast "Our People;" +Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, spoke to "The States;" +Chief-Justice Fuller responded to "The Federal Constitution;" +Hon. John W. Daniel spoke to "The Senate;" ex-President +Hayes to "The Presidency." Among other +prominent guests were Vice-President Morton, General +Sherman, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, of New York, Judge +Charles Andrews, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Mayor Chapin, +of Brooklyn, Governor Foraker, of Ohio, Abram S. Hewitt, +Cornelius N. Bliss, Fred'k S. Tallmadge, Samuel D. Babcock, +Chauncey M. Depew, Erastus Wiman, Charles W. +Dayton, Josiah M. Fisk, William Henry Smith, Thomas +S. Moore, Henry Clews, Austin Corbin, Philip L. Livingston, +Brayton Ives, Darius O. Mills, Richard T. Wilson, +William L. Strong, Henry B. Hyde, James M. Brown, +Louis Fitzgerald, Allan Campbell, John Sloane, James D. +Smith, Edward V. Loew, Eugene Kelly, Walter Stanton, +John F. Plummer, J. Edward Simmons, John Jay Knox,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span> +De Lancey Nicoll, Henry G. Marquand, Gordon L. Ford, +Daniel Huntington, F. Hopkinson Smith, William E. +Dodge, Chas. Parsons, A. W. Drake, Oliver H. Perry, +Frank D. Millet, H. H. Boyesen, Charles Henry Hart, +Rutherford Stuyvesant, John L. Cadwalader, Lispenard +Stewart, Chas. H. Russell, Jr., and Richard W. Gilder.</p> + +<p>After the Chief-Justice's address President Harrison +was introduced and received with a storm of applause. +He spoke to the toast "The United States of America" as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Fellow-citizens</i>—I should be unjust to myself, +and, what is more serious, I should be unjust to you, if I did not at +this first and last opportunity express to you the deep sense of obligation +and thankfulness which I feel for these many personal and +official courtesies which have been extended to me since I came to +take part in this celebration. The official representatives of the +State of New York and of this great city have attended me with +the most courteous kindness, omitting no attention that could make +my stay among you pleasant and gratifying. From you and at the +hands of those who have thronged the streets of the city to-day I +have received the most cordial expressions of good will. I would +not, however, have you understand that these loud acclaims have +been in any sense appropriated as a personal tribute to myself. I +have realized that there was that in this occasion and all these interesting +incidents which have made it so profoundly impressive +to my mind which was above and greater than any living man. I +have realized that the tribute of cordial interest which you have +manifested was rendered to that great office which, by the favor of +a greater people, I now exercise, rather than to me.</p> + +<p>The occasion and all of its incidents will be memorable not only +in the history of your own city, but in the history of our country. +New York did not succeed in retaining the seat of national government +here, although she made liberal provision for the assembling +of the first Congress in the expectation that the Congress might +find its permanent home here. But though you lost that which you +coveted, I think the representatives here of all the States will agree +that it was fortunate that the first inauguration of Washington +took place in the State and the city of New York.</p> + +<p>For where in our country could the centennial of the event be so +worthily celebrated as here? What seaboard offered so magnificent +a bay on which to display our merchant and naval marine? What<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span> +city offered thoroughfares so magnificent, or a people so great, so +generous, as New York has poured out to-day to celebrate that +event?</p> + +<p>I have received at the hands of the committee who have been +charged with the details—onerous, exacting, and too often unthankful—of +this demonstration evidence of their confidence in my physical +endurance. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>I must also acknowledge still one other obligation. The committee +having in charge the exercises of this event have also given me +another evidence of their confidence, which has been accompanied +with some embarrassment. As I have noticed the progress of this +banquet, it seemed to me that each of the speakers had been made +acquainted with his theme before he took his seat at the banquet, +and that I alone was left to make acquaintance with my theme +when I sat down to the table. I prefer to substitute for the official +title which is upon the programme the familiar and fireside expression, +"Our Country."</p> + +<p>I congratulate you to-day, as one of the instructive and interesting +features of this occasion, that these great thoroughfares dedicated +to trade have closed their doors and covered up the insignias +of commerce; that your great exchanges have closed and your citizens +given themselves up to the observance of the celebration in +which we are participating.</p> + +<p>I believe that patriotism has been intensified in many hearts by +what we have witnessed to-day. I believe that patriotism has been +placed in a higher and holier fane in many hearts. The bunting +with which you have covered your walls, these patriotic inscriptions, +must go down and the wage and trade be resumed again. +Here may I not ask you to carry those inscriptions that now hang +on the walls into your homes, into the schools of your city, into +all of your great institutions where children are gathered, and +teach them that the eye of the young and the old should look upon +that flag as one of the familiar glories of every American? Have +we not learned that no stocks and bonds, nor land, is our country? +It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds—it is the flag and +what it stands for; it is the fireside and the home; it is the +thoughts that are in our hearts, born of the inspiration which +comes with the story of the flag, of martyrs to liberty. It is the +graveyard into which a common country has gathered the unconscious +deeds of those who died that the thing might live which we +love and call our country, rather than anything that can be touched +or seen.</p> + +<p>Let me add a thought due to our country's future. Perhaps<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[211]</a></span> +never have we been so well equipped for war upon land as now, +and we have never seen the time when our people were more smitten +with the love of peace. To elevate the morals of our people; +to hold up the law as that sacred thing which, like the ark of God +of old, may not be touched by irreverent hands, but frowns upon +any attempt to dethrone its supremacy; to unite our people in all +that makes home comfortable, as well as to give our energies +in the direction of material advancement, this service may we +render. And out of this great demonstration let us draw lessons to +inspire us to consecrate ourselves anew to this love and service of +our country.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_22_1889" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_22_1889">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 22, 1889.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A memorable</span> event in the history of Indiana was the +laying of the corner-stone of the Soldiers' and Sailors' +Monument at Indianapolis on August 22, 1889. The +Board of Commissioners for the erection of the monument—under +whose supervision the attendant exercises were conducted—comprised: +George J. Langsdale, of Greencastle, +President; Geo. W. Johnston, of Indianapolis, Secretary; +T. W. Bennett, of Richmond; S. B. Voyles, of Salem; and +D. C. McCollum, of La Porte.</p> + +<p>President Harrison and his party were honored guests +on the occasion; he was accompanied by Secretary Jeremiah +M. Rusk, Attorney-General W. H. H. Miller, Private +Secretary E. W. Halford, Capt. William M. Meredith, +Marshal Daniel M. Ransdell, and General Thomas J. +Morgan.</p> + +<p>At College Corner, on the Indiana border, the President +was met by Gov. Alvin P. Hovey, Mayor Caleb S. Denny, +Hon. William H. English, William Scott, John P. Frenzel, +Robert S. McKee, J. A. Wildman, Albert Gall, Dr. +Henry Jameson, and others, comprising an honorary escort +committee. Governor Hovey welcomed the President to +Indiana in a brief, cordial address, to which President +Harrison responded:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I thank the Governor for this larger welcome extended as Governor +on the part of the people of the whole State. You have well +said that the people of Indiana have been kind to me, and if, +when my public career is ended, I can return to you the happy +possessor of your respect and good-will, I shall not leave public +office with regret.</p></div> + +<p>Arriving at Indianapolis on the evening of the 21st, +the President was formally waited upon by the Monument +Commissioners and Board of Trade Reception +Committee. General James R. Carnahan, on behalf of +the Commissioners, and George G. Tanner, President of +the Board of Trade, warmly welcomed him.</p> + +<p>To their addresses President Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen of the Committees and Friends</i>—I scarcely know how +to convey to you my deep impressions at this cordial welcome back +to Indianapolis. I cannot hope to do it. I have been deeply +touched by this generous and courteous reception. It was not my +expectation when I left Indianapolis a few months ago, under so +serious a sense of my responsibilities, that I would return again so +soon to my home. But this occasion was one which I could not +well be absent from. It is one that should enlist to a degree that +nothing else can do our patriotic interests and State pride. It is +true, as General Carnahan has said, that I took an early interest +in this movement. I felt that until this monument was built, +until its top-stone was laid, and its voice had been heard by the people +of this State in expressive speech, we had not done that for our +soldier dead which we should, and that we had neglected those +who died for us. I am glad, therefore, to be present and see this +monument started. I reverently rejoice with you on this occasion, +and hail the work which these commissioners have so wisely and +magnificently begun.</p></div> + +<p>Among other distinguished guests participating in the +ceremonies were Mrs. Jennie Meyerhoff, of Evansville, +President of the Woman's Relief Corps, Department of +Indiana; Col. George C. Harvey, of Danville, commanding +the Sons of Veterans, Division of Indiana; Mrs. Zelda +Seguin-Wallace and Miss Laura McManis, Indianapolis; +Miss Kate Hammond, Greencastle, and Rev. H. J. Talbott.</p> + +<p>The march to the monument was one of the most impos<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[213]</a></span>ing +demonstrations ever witnessed in Indiana. Fifteen +thousand veterans and others formed the great column, +commanded by Chief Marshal Charles A. Zollinger, of Fort +Wayne; Chief of Staff, Major Irvin Robbins; Adjutant-General, +Major Wilbur F. Hitt, assisted by a brilliant +staff of 60 prominent citizens. In addition to these officers +of the day was a mounted honorary staff, representing +the thirteen Congressional districts. They were: First +District, Gil R. Stormont, Princeton; Second, Col. Elijah +Cavens, Bloomfield; Third, Capt. James B. Patton, Jeffersonville; +Fourth, Marine D. Tackett, Greensburg; +Fifth, Maj. J. G. Dunbar, Greencastle; Sixth, Maj. J. F. +Wildman, Muncie; Seventh, Capt. D. W. Hamilton, +Indianapolis; Eighth, Capt. A. C. Ford, Terre Haute; +Ninth, Col. R. P. DeHart, Lafayette; Tenth, Capt. M. +L. DeMotte, Valparaiso; Eleventh, Col. C. E. Briant, +Huntington; Twelfth, Capt. J. C. Peltier, Fort Wayne; +Thirteenth, Gen. Reub. Williams, Warsaw. More than +100,000 people witnessed the pageant.</p> + +<p>The monument is a majestic square embellished shaft of +Indiana limestone, some 250 feet high, surmounted by a +heroic figure of Victory, the pedestal resting upon a great +circular stone terrace. The architects were Bruno Schmitz, +of Berlin, and Frederick Baumann, of Chicago. The +ceremony of laying the corner-stone was conducted by the +following officials of the Grand Army of the Republic: +Commander of the Department of Indiana Charles M. +Travis, of Crawfordsville; Senior Vice Department Commander +P. D. Harris, of Shelbyville; Junior Vice-Commander +B. B. Campbell, of Anderson; Assistant Adjutant-General +I. N. Walker, of Indianapolis; Officers of the Day +Wm. H. Armstrong, of Indianapolis, and Lieut.-Gov. +Ira J. Chase, of Danville.</p> + +<p>Gov. Alvin P. Hovey, as presiding officer, delivered an +eloquent opening address, which was followed by the singing +of the hymn "Dedication," written for the occasion by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span> +Charles M. Walker, of Indianapolis. The speakers of the +day were Gen. Mahlon D. Manson, of Crawfordsville, and +Gen. John Coburn, of Indianapolis. Their masterly orations +were followed by the reading of a poem, "What Shall +It Teach?" written by Capt. Lee O. Harris, of Greenfield.</p> + +<p>When Governor Hovey introduced the Chief Executive +of the Nation the vast audience swayed with enthusiasm. +In a voice low, and with a slight tremble in it, President +Harrison began his fine tribute to the men who responded +to the country's call. As he proceeded his voice rose +higher until it rang out clear as a bugle and drew from +the multitude repeated and vociferous cheers. He spoke +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Fellow-citizens</i>—I did not expect to make any +address on this occasion. It would have been pleasant, if I could +have found leisure to make suitable preparation, to have accepted +the invitation of the committee having these exercises in charge +to deliver an oration. I would have felt it an honor to associate +my name with an occasion so great as this. Public duties, however, +prevented the acceptance of the invitation, and I could only +promise to be present with you to-day. It seemed to me most appropriate +that I should take part with my fellow-citizens of Indiana +in this great ceremony. There have been few occasions in the +history of our State so full of interest, so magnificent, so inspiring, +as that which we now witness. The suggestion that a monument +should be builded to commemorate the valor and heroism of those +soldiers of Indiana who gave their lives for the flag attracted my +interest from the beginning. Five years ago last January, when +the people assembled in the opera-house yonder to unveil the statue +which had been worthily set up to our great war Governor, I ventured +to express the hope that near by it, as a twin expression of +one great sentiment, there might be builded a noble shaft, not to +any man, not to bear on any of its majestic faces the name of a +man, but a monument about which the sons of veterans, the mothers +of our dead, the widows that are yet with us, might gather, +and, pointing to the stately shaft, say: "There is his monument." +The hope expressed that day is realized now. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I congratulate the people of Indiana that our Legislature has +generously met the expectations of our patriotic people. I congratulate +the commission having this great work in charge that they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span> +have secured a design which will not suffer under the criticism of +the best artists of the world. I congratulate you that a monument +so costly as to show that we value that which it commemorates, so +artistic as to express the sentiment which evoked it, is to stand in +the capital of Indiana. Does any one say there is wastefulness +here? [Cries of "No, no!"] My countrymen, $200,000 has never +passed, and never will pass, from the treasury of Indiana that will +give a better return than the expenditure for the erection of this +monument. As I have witnessed these ceremonies and listened to +these patriotic hymns I have read in the faces of the men who +stand about me that lifting up of the soul, that kindling of patriotic +fire, that has made me realize that on such occasions the Nation +is laying deep and strong its future security.</p> + +<p>This is a monument by Indiana to Indiana soldiers. But I beg +you to remember that they were only soldiers of Indiana until the +enlistment oath was taken; that from that hour until they came +back to the generous State that had sent them forth they were soldiers +of the Union. So that it seemed to me not inappropriate that +I should bring to you to-day the sympathy and cheer of the loyal people +of all the States. No American citizen need avoid it or pass +it with unsympathetic eyes, for, my countrymen, it does not commemorate +a war of subjugation. There is not in the United States +to-day a man who, if he realizes what has occurred since the war +and has opened his soul to the sight of that which is to come, who +will not feel that it is good for all our people that victory crowned +the cause which this monument commemorates. I do seriously believe +that if we can measure among the States the benefits resulting +from the preservation of the Union, the rebellious States have +the larger share. It destroyed an institution that was their destruction. +It opened the way for a commercial life that, if they +will only embrace it and face the light, means to them a development +that shall rival the best attainments of the greatest of our +States.</p> + +<p>And now let me thank you for your pleasant greeting. I have +felt lifted up by this occasion. It seems to me that our spirits +have been borne up to meet those of the dead and glorified, and +that from this place we shall go to our homes more resolutely set +in our purpose as citizens to conserve the peace and welfare of our +neighborhoods, to hold up the dignity and honor of our free institutions, +and to see that no harm shall come to our country, whether +from internal dissensions or from the aggressions of a foreign foe. +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span></p> + +<p>A camp-fire was held at night at Tomlinson Hall, presided +over by Charles M. Travis, Commander of Indiana +G. A. R., where an audience of over 5,000 assembled. +The orators of the occasion were Hon. Samuel B. +Voyles, of Salem; Judge Daniel Waugh, of Tipton; General +Jasper Packard, of New Albany; Col. I. N. Walker +and Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis; Hon. Benj. S. +Parker, New Castle, and Hon. Wm. R. Myers, Anderson.</p> + +<p>President Harrison's appearance was greeted by a prolonged +demonstration, the audience rising with one impulse. +Commander Travis said: "I told you I would treat you to +a surprise. Here is your President. He needs no introduction."</p> + +<p>President Harrison's reply was:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman, Comrades</i>—I think I will treat you to another surprise. +My Indiana friends have been so much accustomed to have +me talk on all occasions that I am sure nothing would gratify them +more—nothing would be a greater surprise than for me to decline to +talk to-night. I am very grateful for this expression of your interest +and respect. That comradeship and good feeling which your +cordial salutation has expressed to me I beg every comrade of the +Grand Army here to-night to believe I feel for him.</p> + +<p>Now, I am sure, in view of the labors of yesterday and to-day, +that you will allow me to wish you prosperous, happy, useful lives, +honorable and peaceful deaths, and that those who survive you may +point to this shaft, which is being reared yonder, as a worthy tribute +of your services in defence of your country. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_23_1889" id="INDIANAPOLIS_AUGUST_23_1889">INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 23, 1889.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> day following the ceremonies at the Soldiers' Monument +President Harrison attended the fifteenth annual +reunion of his old regiment, the Seventieth Indiana, at +Tomlinson Hall. Many survivors of the One Hundred and +Second and One Hundred and Fifth Indiana, the One Hundred +and Twenty-ninth Illinois, and the Seventy-ninth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span> +Ohio regiments were present. These regiments, with the +Seventieth, constituted the First Brigade—General Harrison's +command. The gathering, therefore, was alternately +a regimental and brigade reunion.</p> + +<p>Col. Samuel Merrill, who delivered the annual address, +escorted the President, and amid enthusiastic +cheering installed him as presiding officer of the assembly. +Other prominent members of the Seventieth present were +Gen. Thomas J. Morgan, Capt. Wm. M. Meredith, Daniel +M. Ransdell, Moses G. McLain, Capt. H. M. Endsley, Capt. +Wm. Mitchell, and Capt. Chas. H. Cox. General Harrison +was unanimously re-elected President of the regimental +association; he was also chosen first President of the +brigade association. The other brigade officers were +Vice-President, Gen. Daniel Dustin; Second Vice-President, +Gen. A. W. Doane; Secretary, J. M. Ayers; Treasurer, +E. H. Conger.</p> + +<p>In the absence of Mayor Denny, City Attorney W. L. +Taylor cordially welcomed the veterans to Indianapolis. +To this greeting the presiding officer, President Harrison, +responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Taylor</i>—The survivors of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer +Infantry, now assembled in annual reunion, have heard, with great +gratification, the cordial words of welcome which you have addressed +to us. We have never doubted the hospitality of the citizens +of this great city, and have several times held our reunions +here; and if we have more frequently sought some of the quieter +towns in this Congressional district—where the regiment was organized—it +has only been because we could be a little more to ourselves +than was possible in this city. You will not think this a +selfish instinct when I tell you that, as the years go on, these reunions +of our regiment become more and more a family affair; +and as in the gathering of the scattered members of a family in +the family reunion, so we have loved, when we get together as +comrades, to be somewhat apart, that we might enjoy each other. +It has been pleasant, I am sure, however, to link this annual reunion +with the great event of yesterday. It did us good to meet +with our comrades of the whole State—those who had other numbers +on their uniforms, but carried the same flag under which we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span> +marched—in these exercises connected with the dedication of a +monument that knows no regimental distinction. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>If those having charge now will announce some proper arrangement +by which I can take by the hand the members, not only of +the Seventieth Indiana, but any comrades of the First Brigade, +who have done us honor by meeting with us to-day, I would be +glad to conform to their wishes. It is perhaps possible that, without +leaving the hall, simply by an exchange of seats, this may be +accomplished, and when that is done there may yet be time before +dinner to proceed with some other of the exercises upon the programme.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHICAGO_DECEMBER_9_1889" id="CHICAGO_DECEMBER_9_1889">CHICAGO, DECEMBER 9, 1889.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Monday</span> morning, December 9, 1889, President Harrison, +accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, +Mrs. McKee, and First Ass't Postmaster-General J. S. +Clarkson and wife, arrived in Chicago for the purpose of +participating in the dedication of the great Auditorium +building, in which—while in an unfinished state—was held +the convention of June, 1888, that nominated General +Harrison for the presidency. The distinguished party +was met by a committee comprising Mayor D. C. Cregier, +Ferd. W. Peck, Gen. Geo. W. Crook, Hon. A. L. Seeberger, +Col. James A. Sexton, Alexander H. Revell, Franklin S. +Head, C. L. Hutchinson, Charles Counselman, J. J. P. +Odell, Col. O. A. Schaffner, F. S. Bissell, and R. W. +Dunham.</p> + +<p>During the morning the President and Vice-President +Morton, under the guidance of Mr. Ferd. Peck, visited the +Board of Trade and were tendered an enthusiastic reception +by the members of that famous exchange. Then +followed a reception and lunch at the Union League Club, +as the guests of Mr. Peck and President Bissell of the Club. +Other prominent citizens present were Governor Fifer, +Geo. M. Pullman, Marshall Field, Joseph Medill, S. M. +Nickerson, J. R. Rumsey, N. K. Fairbank, Sam. W. Allerton, +A. A. Sprague, H. H. Kohlsaat, Wm. Penn Nixon, A.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[219]</a></span> +L. Patterson, Adolph Caron, C. I. Peck, A. L. Coe, John +R. Walsh, J. W. Scott, John B. Carson, M. A. Ryerson, +V. F. Lawson, and O. W. Meysenberg. Later in the afternoon +the President and Mr. Morton, accompanied by +Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, General Alger, and Judge +Thurston, visited the Marquette Club—of which the President +is an honorary member—and were received by President +Revell, Secretary Gould, H. M. Kingman, C. W. +Gordon, and C. E. Nixon, comprising the Reception Committee.</p> + +<p>The dedication of the auditorium hall in the evening +was an event of rare interest in the history of Chicago. +President Harrison and his party and Vice-President and +Mrs. Morton were the honored guests of the occasion. +Other distinguished out-of-town guests were Sir Adolph +Caron, Hon. G. A. Kirkpatrick, C. H. McIntosh, and Mr. +Wells, of Canada; Governor and Mrs. Fifer; Governor +and Mrs. Merriam, of Minnesota; Governor Hoard, of +Wisconsin; Governor and Mrs. Larrabee, of Iowa; Mrs. +Governor Gordon; ex-Governor Morton, of Nebraska; +General Alger, Judge and Mrs. Walter Q. Gresham; Mr. +and Mrs. House, of St. Louis, and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. +Mackey, of Kansas City.</p> + +<p>The Auditorium—the modern Parthenon—typifying the +spirit of the age, is largely the conception of Mr. Ferd. W. +Peck, and its realization is the fruit of his zeal, supported +and encouraged by the wealthy men of Chicago. The +great structure, costing three and a half million dollars, +was built by the Chicago Auditorium Association, whose +officers at the time of completion were: Ferd. W. Peck, +President; N. K. Fairbank, First Vice-President; John +R. Walsh, Second Vice-President; Charles L. Hutchinson, +Treasurer; Charles H. Lunt, Secretary. The building was +begun June 1, 1887; the laying of the corner-stone occurred +in September that year, and was witnessed by President +Cleveland and other distinguished visitors. It has a front<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a></span>age +of 710 feet on Congress Street, Michigan and Wabash +avenues. The exterior material is granite and Bedford +stone. The height of the main structure is 145 feet, or +ten stories; height of tower above main building 95 feet, +or eight floors; height of lantern above main tower 30 feet, +or two floors; total height 270 feet—one of the tallest buildings +in the world. The permanent seating capacity of the +auditorium is over 4,000, but for conventions—by utilizing +stage—this capacity is increased to 8,000. A feature +of the great hall is the grand organ. In addition to this +unrivalled convention hall the colossal structure contains a +recital hall, 136 stores and offices, a hotel with 400 guest +rooms, and a magnificent banquet hall 175 feet long.</p> + +<p>The gathering at the dedicatory exercises nationalized +the Auditorium; 15,000 people were within its walls. The +President and Mrs. McKee were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. +Ferd. W. Peck. Among the several thousand prominent +residents present were the following gentlemen and their +families—stockholders in the Auditorium Association: G. +E. Adams, A. C. Bartlett, G. M. Bogue, C. W. Brega, J. +W. Doane, J. B. Drake, J. K. Fisher, Carter H. Harrison, +Charles Henrotin, O. R. Keith, G. F. Kimball, S. D. Kimbark, +J. T. Lester, W. L. Peck, R. W. Roloson, W. C. +Seipp, Lazarus Silverman, Robert Warren, John Wilkinson, +Jr., C. S. Willoughby, C. T. Yerkes, J. McGregor +Adams, W. T. Baker, Gen. J. C. Black, H. Botsford, R. +R. Cable, C. R. Cummings, J. C. Dore, G. L. Dunlap, C. +B. Farwell, J. J. Glessner, E. G. Kieth, W. D. Kerfoot, W. +W. Kimball, L. Z. Leiter, J. M. Loomis, A. A. Munger, N. +B. Ream, Conrad Seipp, J. G. Shortall, W. Sooy Smith, P. +B. Weare, Norman Williams, F. H. Winston, and J. Otto +Young.</p> + +<p>The exercises opened with an address of welcome by +Mayor Cregier, followed by a speech from Mr. Peck, President +of the Association, who received an ovation. President +Harrison's address was followed by the rendition of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span> +the hymn "America" by the Apollo Club of 500 trained +voices. Hon. John S. Runnells delivered the dedicatory +oration. Then came the real event of the day—"Home, +Sweet Home" and the "Swiss Echo Song" by the incomparable +songstress Adelina Patti, who shared the honors +of the occasion with the President. The programme +concluded with an address by Governor Fifer and the +grand "Hallelujah" chorus from "The Messiah."</p> + +<p>As Mr. Peck introduced President Harrison the great +assembly enthusiastically testified its welcome. The President +spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—Some of my newspaper friends have been +puzzling themselves in order to discover the reason why I left +Washington to be present here to-night. I do not think I need, in +view of the magnificent spectacle presented to us here to-night, +to state the motives which have impelled my presence. Surely +no loyal citizen of Chicago who sits here to-night under this witching +and magnificent scene will ask for any other reason than that +which is here presented. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I do most heartily congratulate you upon the completion and inauguration +of this magnificent building—without an equal in this +country, and, so far as I know, without an equal in the world. +[Applause.] We have here about us to-night in this grand architecture, +in this tasteful decoration, that which is an education +and an inspiration. [Applause.] It might well tempt one whose +surroundings were much farther removed from this scene than is +the capital city to make a longer journey than I have done to stand +for an hour in the view of such a spectacle of magnificence and +grandeur and architectural triumph as this. [Applause.] And if +that be true, surely there is reason enough why the President may +turn aside for a little while from public duty to mingle with his +fellow-citizens in celebrating an event so high and so worthy of +commemoration as this triumph to-night. [Prolonged applause.]</p> + +<p>Not speech, certainly, not the careless words of an extemporaneous +speech, can adequately express all the sentiments I feel in contemplating +the fitting culmination of this deed. [Applause.] Only +the voice of the immortal singer can bring from these arches those +echoes which will tell us the true purpose of their construction. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>You will permit me, then, to thank you, to thank the Mayor of +Chicago, to thank the President of this Association, and to thank<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span> +all those good citizens with whom I have to-day been brought in +personal contact, for the kindness and respect with which you and +they have received me; and you will permit me to thank you, my +fellow-citizens, for the cordiality which you have kindly displayed +here to-night.</p> + +<p>It is my wish, and may it be the wish of all, that this great +building may continue to be to all your population that which it +should be—an edifice opening its doors from night to night, calling +your people here away from the care of business to those enjoyments, +and pursuits, and entertainments which develop the souls +of men [applause], which will have power to inspire those whose +lives are heavy with daily toil, and in its magnificent and enchanting +presence lift them for a time out of these dull things into those +higher things where men should live. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CLEVELAND_OHIO_MAY_30_1890" id="CLEVELAND_OHIO_MAY_30_1890">CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 30, 1890.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Garfield Memorial Dedication.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> Decoration Day, 1890, President Harrison and Vice-President +Morton, accompanied by Secretary Windom, +Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Attorney-General Miller, +Secretary of Agriculture Rusk, and Marshal Daniel M. +Ransdell, visited the city of Cleveland for the purpose of +participating in the dedication of the grand mausoleum +erected to the memory of the lamented President James +Abram Garfield. Fifty thousand people greeted the President +and his party on arrival.</p> + +<p>The mausoleum is situated in Lake View Cemetery, overlooking +a region closely associated with Garfield's memory; +it is built of Ohio sandstone—a large and imposing circular +tower 50 feet in diameter, rising 180 feet. At the base +projects a square porch, decorated externally with an +historical frieze, divided into panels containing life-size +bas-reliefs picturing the career of Garfield as teacher, +statesman, soldier, and President. This imposing monument +was erected under the auspices of the Garfield +National Memorial Association, whose officers were: +Rutherford B. Hayes, President; J. H. Wade and T. P.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span> +Handy, Vice-Presidents; Amos Townsend, Secretary. +The Trustees of the Association were: Charles Foster, +R. B. Hayes, James G. Blaine, H. B. Payne, J. H. Wade, +Dan'l P. Eells, J. H. Rhodes, James Barnett, John Hay, +T. P. Handy, J. B. Parsons, William Bingham, W. S. +Streator, and H. C. White. The memorial cost $150,000, +of which $75,000 was contributed by citizens of Cleveland; +the architect was George Keller, of Hartford, Connecticut.</p> + +<p>More than 100,000 people witnessed the parade and the +dedicatory ceremonies, which were conducted under the +auspices of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templars +of Ohio—Right Eminent Henry Perkins, of Akron, Grand +Commander; Very Eminent William B. Melish, of Cincinnati, +Grand Marshal; Eminent Sir Huntington Brown, +of Mansfield, Generalissimo; Eminent Sir L. F. Van Cleve, +of Cincinnati, Grand Prelate; Eminent Sir H. P. McIntosh, +of Cleveland, Grand Senior Warden; and Eminent +Sir J. Burton Parsons, of Cleveland, Grand Treasurer. +The committee to receive and entertain the guests from +other cities comprised the following prominent residents of +Cleveland: Hon. J. H. Wade, Dan'l P. Eells, M. A. Hanna, +Col. William Edwards, Hon. R. C. Parsons, Henry D. +Coffinberry, Gen. M. D. Leggett, Hon. George H. Ely, +Hon. Joseph Turney, Samuel Andrews, Hon. S. Buhrer, +Hon. H. B. Payne, Charles F. Brush, Hon. Charles A. Otis, +R. K. Hawley, William Chisholm, H. R. Hatch, W. J. +McKinnie, John Tod, Hon. N. B. Sherwin, L. E. Holden, +George W. Howe, Samuel L. Mather, Judge S. Burke, Col. +John Hay, Hon. T. E. Burton, Hon. R. R. Herrick, Selah +Chamberlain, A. Wiener, Charles Wesley, Hon. Lee McBride, +Hon. O. J. Hodge, H. C. Ranney, G. E. Herrick, +Hon. W. W. Armstrong, S. T. Everett, Judge J. M. Jones, +Hon. J. H. Farley, Hon. G. W. Gardner, R. R. Rhodes, +J. B. Zerbe, Samuel W. Sessions, Louis H. Severance, +Hon. M. A. Foran, Hon. C. B. Lockwood, Hon. William<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span> +Bingham, John F. Whitelaw, Fayette Brown, Capt. P. G. +Watmough, E. R. Perkins, Bolivar Butts, George T. Chapman, +Hon. D. A. Dangler, Charles Hickox, and George +W. Pack. Committee on Finance: John H. McBride, +Myron T. Herrick, S. C. Ford, Joseph Turney, Charles +L. Pack, H. S. Whittlesey, H. R. Groff, Percy W. Rice, +Charles H. Bulkley, Douglas Perkins, Kaufman Hays, M. +A. Hanna, T. S. Knight, James Parmelee, I. P. Lampson, +Samuel Mather, O. M. Stafford, C. J. Sheffield, Harvey H. +Brown, J. K. Bole, Dan'l P. Eells, H. R. Hatch, John F. +Pankhurst, John Tod, and George P. Welch.</p> + +<p>The event called together one of the most distinguished +assemblies of the decade. Among the guests not previously +mentioned—who occupied places of honor—were +Gen. William T. Sherman, Chief-Justice Melville W. +Fuller, Maj.-Gen. John M. Schofield, ex-Postmaster-General +Thomas L. James, Gov. James E. Campbell, Lieutenant-Governor +Marquis, Hon. William McKinley, Jr., +Bishop William A. Leonard, Bishop Gilmour, Col. Wm. +Perry Fogg, and many others. Mrs. Garfield was accompanied +by her four sons, her daughter, and General and +Mrs. John Newell.</p> + +<p>The spectacular event of the day was the grand military +and civic parade, participated in by President Harrison +and the other guests. Six thousand men were in line, commanded +by Chief Marshal Gen. James Barnett and a brilliant +staff. At the head of the great column marched 115 +survivors of Garfield's old regiment—the Forty-second +Ohio—led by Capt. C. E. Henry, of Dallas, Texas, the Colonel, +Judge Don A. Pardee, being absent. The procession +comprised twelve divisions, commanded by the following +marshals: Capt. J. B. Molyneaux, Gen. M. D. Leggett, +Col. W. H. Hayward, Em. Sir M. J. Houck, Col. Louis +Black, Col. John Dunn, Capt. E. H. Bohm, Captain +McNiel, Capt. Louis Perczel, Col. Allen T. Brinsmade, +Col. C. L. Alderson, and Capt. M. G. Browne.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span></p> + +<p>Ex-President Hayes officiated as Chairman of the dedicatory +meeting at the mausoleum, and introduced Hon. +Jacob D. Cox, of Cincinnati, who delivered the oration of +the occasion. Many other distinguished men spoke briefly. +When the Chairman introduced President Harrison an +ovation was tendered him, and almost every sentence of +his address was enthusiastically cheered.</p> + +<p>The President spoke with great earnestness. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens</i>—I thank you most sincerely +for this cordial greeting, but I shall not be betrayed by it into a +lengthy speech. The selection of this day for these exercises—a +day consecrated to the memory of those who died that there might +be one flag of honor and authority in this republic—is most fitting. +That one flag encircles us with its folds to-day, the unrivalled object +of our loyal love.</p> + +<p>This monument, so imposing and tasteful, fittingly typifies the +grand and symmetrical character of him in whose honor it has +been builded. His was "the arduous greatness of things done." +No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder +upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and +nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public +usefulness and fame. He never ceased to be student and instructor. +Turning from peaceful pursuits to army service, he quickly mastered +tactics and strategy, and in a brief army career taught some +valuable lessons in military science. Turning again from the field +to the councils of state, he stood among the great debaters that +have made our National Congress illustrious. What he might have +been or done as President of the United States is chiefly left to +friendly augury, based upon a career that had no incident of failure +or inadequacy. The cruel circumstances attending his death +had but one amelioration—that space of life was given him to teach +from his dying bed a great lesson of patience and forbearance. +His mortal part will find honorable rest here, but the lessons of his +life and death will continue to be instructive and inspiring incidents +in American history. [Great applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[226]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BOSTON_AUGUST_11_1890" id="BOSTON_AUGUST_11_1890">BOSTON, AUGUST 11, 1890.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Guest of Massachusetts.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Monday</span> afternoon, August 11, the cruiser <i>Baltimore</i>, +bearing President Harrison, Secretary Rusk, Secretary +Noble, and a number of friends, entered Boston harbor, +saluted by the <i>Atlanta</i>, the <i>Kearsage</i>, the <i>Petrel</i>, the +<i>Yorktown</i>, the <i>Dolphin</i>, the dynamite cruiser <i>Vesuvius</i>, +and the torpedo-boat <i>Cushing</i>. The distinguished guests +were met by the Hon. John Q. A. Brackett, Governor of +Massachusetts; Hon. Alanson W. Beard, Collector of the +Port; Adj.-Gen. Samuel Dalton, Surg.-Gen. Alfred F. +Holt, Judge Adv. Gen. Edward O. Shepard, Col. Sidney +M. Hedges, Col. Wm. P. Stoddard, Col. Samuel E. Winslow, +and Col. Edward V. Mitchell, of the Governor's military +staff; Hon. Thomas N. Hart, Mayor of Boston; Hon. +Geo. L. Goodale, Chairman Executive Committee National +Encampment, G. A. R.; Hon. John D. Long, President +National Encampment Committee; Hon. E. S. Converse, +Treasurer; and Secretary Silas A. Barton.</p> + +<p>Many thousand visiting veterans greeted the head of +the Nation as he passed through the historic streets escorted +by the First Battalion of Cavalry. Arrived at the +Hotel Vendome, the President and his party, as guests of +the Commonwealth, attended a State banquet, presided +over by Governor Brackett. There was no speech-making. +Other distinguished guests were Vice-President Morton, +Secretaries Proctor and Tracy, General Sherman, Admiral +Gherardi, Gov. Leon Abbett, of New Jersey, and Lieutenant-Governor +Hale, of Massachusetts. Later in the evening +Governor Brackett and staff escorted the President to the +Parker House, where they participated in a reception given +by E. W. Kinsley Post of Boston to Lafayette Post 149 of +New York. Many veterans of national fame were present, +among them Gen. Lucius Fairchild, Gen. Dan'l E. Sickles,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span> +Corporal James Tanner, ex-Gov. Austin Blair, of Michigan, +Commander Viele, of Lafayette Post, and the following +prominent citizens of Massachusetts, comprising the +Reception Committee of the National Encampment: Hon. +Henry H. Sprague, President Massachusetts Senate; Hon. +Wm. E. Barrett, Speaker Massachusetts House; Hon. +Wm. Power Wilson, Chairman Boston Aldermen; Horace +G. Allen, President Common Council; Hon. John F. Andrew, +Geo. H. Innis, Charles E. Osgood, Arthur A. Fowle, +Fred C. King, Paul H. Kendricken, J. H. O'Neil, Joel +Goldthwaite, Hon. Charles J. Noyes, Hon. E. A. Stevens, +Horace G. Allen, Capt. Nathan Appleton, Col. Albert +Clarke, Chas. D. Rohan, F. C. Brownell, and A. S. Fowle, +of Boston; Gen. A. B. R. Sprague and Col. H. E. Smith, of +Worcester; John W. Hersey, of Springfield; John M. +Deane, Fall River; Gen. J. W. Kimball, Fitchburg; Maj. +Geo. S. Merrill, Lawrence; Wm. H. Lee, Greenwood; S. +W. Benson, Charlestown; Joseph O. Burdett, Hingham; +Col. Myron P. Walker, Belchertown; and Arthur A. +Smith, of Griswoldsville. The reception concluded with +a banquet. Col. Charles L. Taylor acted as toastmaster +and presented General Harrison, who received an ovation.</p> + +<p>In response to these cordial greetings the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades</i>—I do not count it the least of those fortunate circumstances +which have occasionally appeared in my life that I am able +to be here to-night to address you as comrades of the Grand Army +of the United States. [Great applause.] It is an association great +in its achievement and altogether worthy of perpetuation until the +last of its members have fallen into an honorable grave. It is +not my purpose to-night to address you in an extended speech, but +only to say that, whether walking with you in the private pursuits +of life, or holding a place of official responsibility, I can never, in +either, forget those who upheld the flag of this Nation in those days +when it was in peril. Everything that was worthy of preservation +in our history past, everything that is glowing and glorious in the +future, which we confront, turned upon the issue of that strife in +which you were engaged. Will you permit me to wish for each of +you a life full of all sweetness, and that each of you may preserve,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span> +undimmed, the love for the flag which called you from your homes +to stand under its folds amid the shock of battle and amid dying +men. I believe there are indications to-day in this country of a +revived love for the flag. [Applause.] I could wish that no American +citizen would look upon it without saluting it. [Loud applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BOSTON_AUGUST_12" id="BOSTON_AUGUST_12">BOSTON, AUGUST 12.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">G. A. R. National Encampment.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> morning of August 12 the President and the several +members of his Cabinet, with Vice-President Morton, +Governor Brackett, Mayor Hart, General Sherman, +Governor Dillingham and staff, of Vermont; Governor +Davis, of Rhode Island; Hon. William McKinley, Hon. +Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. R. A. +Alger, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. A. L. Coolidge, and Lillian +Nordica, the <i>prima donna</i>, reviewed the grand parade of +the veterans from a stand in Copley Square. As the head +of the great column appeared, led by Commander-in-Chief +R. A. Alger, with mounted staff and escort numbering +600 officers, the President and his Cabinet arose and saluted +the veterans. General Alger and Gen. B. F. Butler +reviewed the column from a stand in Adams Square. The +parade was five hours and thirty-five minutes in passing.</p> + +<p>In the evening the Mayor's Club of Boston tendered a banquet +to President Harrison and other distinguished visitors. +Mayor Fisher, of Waltham, introduced the Chief +Executive, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman</i>—I wish only to thank you for this cordial welcome. +Being upon my feet, I cannot refrain from expressing here +my deep sense of gratitude for all the evidences of friendliness +which have been shown me during my brief stay in Boston. The +President of the United States, whosoever he may have been, from +the first to the last, has always found in the citizenship of Massachusetts +stanch supporters of the Union's Constitution. [Applause.] +It has never occurred that he has called upon this great common<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span>wealth +for support that it has not been cordially and bravely rendered. +In this magnificent parade which we have seen to-day of +the survivors of the Massachusetts regiments in the war for the +Union, and in this magnificent parade of the Sons of Veterans, +coming on now to take the fathers' place in civil life and to stand +as they were in their day as bulwarks of the Nation's defence, we +have seen a magnificent evidence of what Massachusetts has done +in defence of the Union and of the flag, and in these young +men sure promise of what she would do again if the exigencies +should call upon her to give her blood in a similar cause. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Let me again cordially thank you for your interest and friendliness +and to bid you good-night, and, as I must leave you to-night for +Washington, to hope that the closing exercises of this grand and +instructive week may be pleasant, and as the outcome of it all that +there may be kindled in the hearts of you all, and of these comrades +of the Grand Army of the Republic, a newer love for the +flag and for the Constitution, and that this may all inure to us in +social, family, and public life. [Applause and cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>Quitting the Mayor's banquet, the President and members +of the Cabinet, with Admiral Gherardi and staff, proceeded +to Mechanics' Hall, where a joint reception of the +Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps was in progress. +At least 15,000 people greeted the arrival of the distinguished +visitors. On the platform with the President's +party were Miss Florence Barker, first President Woman's +Relief Corps; Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, National President; +Miss Clara Barton, President Red Cross Association; +Mrs. Mary E. Knowles, Massachusetts Department +President; Mrs. Cheney, National Secretary; Mrs. Lynch, +National Treasurer; Mrs. Nichols, National Inspector of +the Relief Corps; Department Commander T. S. Clarkson, +Nebraska; Department Commander P. H. Darling, Ohio; +Governor Brackett and Congressman McKinley. George +H. Innis, Commander Massachusetts Department, welcomed +the visiting comrades. Other speakers were General +Sherman, Commander-in-Chief Alger, and Vice-President +Morton.</p> + +<p>General Harrison was introduced as Comrade Harrison,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[230]</a></span> +President of the United States, and was greeted with +tremendous applause. He spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic</i>—I +had impressions both pleasurable and painful as I looked upon +the great procession of veterans which swept through the streets of +this historic capital to-day; pleasurable in the contemplation of +so many faces of those who shared together the perils and glories of +the great struggle for the Union; sensations of a mournful sort as +I thought how seldom we should meet again. Not many times more +here. As I have stood in the great national cemetery at Arlington +and have seen those silent battalions of the dead, I have thought +how swiftly the reaper is doing his work and how soon in the +scattered cemeteries of the land the ashes of all the soldiers of +the great war shall be gathered to honored graves. And yet I could +not help but feel that in the sturdy tread of those battalions there +was yet strength of heart and limb that would not be withheld +if a present peril should confront the Nation that you love. +[Applause.] And if Arlington is the death, we see to-day in the +springing step of those magnificent battalions of the Sons of +Veterans the resurrection. [Applause.] They are coming on to +take our places, the Nation will not be defenceless when we are +gone, but those who have read about the firesides of the veterans' +homes, in which they have been born and reared, the lessons +of patriotism and the stories of heroism will come fresh armed to +any conflict that may confront us in the future. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>And so to-night we may gather from this magnificent spectacle +a fresh and strong sense of security for the permanency of our +country and our free institutions. I thought it altogether proper +that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington +to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade [applause], because +every President of the United States must realize that the +strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is +to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be +found here in the masses of our people. [Applause and cries of +"Good!"] And so, as my furlough is almost done, and the train +is already waiting that must bear me back to Washington, I can +only express again the cordial, sincere, and fraternal interest which +I feel this day in meeting you all. I can only hope that God will +so order the years that are left to you that for you and those who +are dear to you they may be ordered in all gentleness and sweetness, +in all prosperity and success, and that, when at last the comrades +who survive you shall wrap the flag of the Union about your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span> +body and bear it to the grave, you may die in peace and in the +hope of a glorious resurrection! [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CRESSON_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_13" id="CRESSON_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_13">CRESSON, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Nearly</span> 1,000 veterans from the several G. A. R. posts +of Altoona, Tyronne, and Holidaysburg visited Cresson on +September 13, 1890, for the purpose of paying their respects +to President Harrison. General Ekin and Col. Theo. +Burchfield headed the delegation. Other prominent veterans +were Post Commanders Painter, Beighel, Lewis, and +Calvin; J. C. Walters, W. H. Fentiman, Rob't Howe, +Maj. John R. Garden, George Kuhn, William Aiken, +Oliver Sponsler, Wm. Guyer, Hon. J. W. Curry, Capt. +Joseph W. Gardner, and ex-Mayor Breth, of Altoona. +The President received the veterans at the Mountain +House. After the reception J. D. Hicks delivered a congratulatory +address on behalf of the veterans.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, speaking from the balcony of the +hotel, warmly thanked his comrades for their good wishes, +and in mentioning the events of the war referred feelingly +to the tragic death of the great Lincoln and the memorable +words of Garfield on that occasion. His reference to the +Constitution and the flag, and the love of the people for +them, elicited a hearty response. He concluded as follows: +"Now, my comrades, who have suffered and still suffer +for your country, I wish in this world all good to you and +your dear ones, and in the world to come joy everlasting."</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="OSCEOLA_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20" id="OSCEOLA_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20">OSCEOLA, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">During</span> the stay of the President and his family at Cresson +Springs in September, 1890, they made an excursion +through the celebrated Clearfield coal regions, under the +guidance of Frank L. Sheppard, General Superintendent of +the Pennsylvania Railroad, Geo. W. Boyd, Ass't Gen'l Pas<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span>senger +Agent, Gen. D. H. Hastings, and S. S. Blair. The +party comprised the President and Mrs. Harrison, Mr. and +Mrs. J. R. McKee, Mrs. Dimmick, and Miss Alice Sanger, +accompanied by Hon. John Patton, of Curwensville, Mr. +and Mrs. W. H. Dill, of Clearfield, and F. N. Barksdale.</p> + +<p>The first point visited was Osceola, where 5,000 people +tendered the President a rousing reception. The Committee +of Reception were Geo. M. Brisbin, D. R. Good, R. J. +Walker, T. C. Heims, and J. R. Paisley. The veterans +of McLarren Post, G. A. R., acted as an escort through +the town from one depot to the other. The President +briefly thanked the veterans and citizens for extending +him such a cordial reception.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HOUTZDALE_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20" id="HOUTZDALE_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20">HOUTZDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Arrived</span> at Houtzdale, about noon Saturday, the President +and his party were welcomed by an assemblage numbering +fully 10,000. They were met at Osceola by an escort +committee consisting of G. W. Dickey, Abe Feldman, +Julius Viebahn, Thos. Rolands, B. W. Hess, W. E. Meek, +W. C. Davis, W. B. Hamilton, J. V. Henderson, J. B. +McGrath, James White, D. W. Smith, John Charlton, +W. H. Patterson, and Thomas Byers.</p> + +<p>All work in the mines and stores was suspended for the +day, and the visit of the Chief Magistrate was celebrated +with a grand parade and demonstration directed by Chief +Burgess John Argyle, aided by the G. A. R. veterans. +The President was received by the following committee of +prominent citizens: W. Irvin Shaw, Esq., of the Clearfield +County Bar; W. C. Langsford, Alex. Monteith, John +F. Farrell, Geo. P. Jones, Joseph Delehunt, Harry Roach, +Ad. Hanson, S. T. Henderson, R. R. Fleming, and E. J. +Duffy. The veterans of Wm. H. Kinkead Post acted as +a guard of honor to the President during the parade.</p> + +<p>A notable incident of the demonstration was the recep<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[233]</a></span>tion +by the children of the parochial school. After the +parade the formal reception of the distinguished visitors +took place in the presence of the great assemblage. John +F. Farrell presided, and introduced Chairman W. I. Shaw, +who delivered an eloquent address of welcome on behalf of +the citizens.</p> + +<p>President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I beg to assure you that I very highly appreciate +your cordial welcome. I did not need the assurance of him +who has spoken in your name that we are welcome in this home +of profit and industry. As I have passed along the streets, and as +I now look into your eyes, I have read welcome in every face. I +do not regard this greeting as personal. How can it be, since you +look into my face as I into yours for the first time? I assume that +in this demonstration you are evidencing your loyalty and fidelity +to the Government of which we are all citizens.</p> + +<p>You welcome me as one who, for the time being by your choice, +is charged with the execution of the law. It is a great thing to be +a citizen of this country, and the privilege has its corresponding +obligations. This Government can never be wrecked by the treason +or fault of those who for the time are placed in public position so +long as the people are true to the principles of the Government and +to the flag. [Applause.] Set your love upon the flag and that +which it represents. Be ready, if occasion should call, to defend +it, as my brave comrades did in the time of its greatest peril. +Honor it in peace, cherish your loyal institutions, civil and educational; +maintain social order in your community, let every one +have respect for the rights and privileges of others while asserting +his own.</p> + +<p>These are the springs of our national and social life. If these +springs are kept pure and strong the great river they form will +ever flow on in purity and majesty. If local interests are carefully +preserved the general good is secured, and all our people, each in +his own place—the place where he labors, the place where he lives, +the roof under which his family is sheltered—will continue to +enjoy the benison of liberty in the fear of God.</p> + +<p>To every one of you, those who come from the village shops, +those who come from the mines and every vocation of life to join +in this welcome, let me declare that I have no other purpose as +President of the United States than to so administer my office as to +promote the general good of all our people. [Great applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PHILIPSBURG_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20" id="PHILIPSBURG_PENNSYLVANIA_SEPTEMBER_20">PHILIPSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Other</span> points visited were Clearfield, where the veterans +of Lamar Post and Colonel Barrett at the head of a committee +received the distinguished excursionists. At Curwensville +the party became the guests of A. E. Patton, +and the President shook hands with 1,500 residents.</p> + +<p>Philipsburg was reached at 3 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> The entire population +of the town welcomed the President. The Reception +Committee comprised Major H. C. Warfel, Hon. Chester +Munson, J. B. Childs, O. P. Jones, S. S. Crissman, W. +E. Irwin, Dr. T. B. Potter, Capt. J. H. Boring, M. G. +Lewis, Henry Lehman, H. K. Grant, Al. Jones, W. T. +Bair, Geo. W. Wythes, A. B. Herd, John Nuttall, and +A. J. Graham. The President and Mrs. Harrison were +driven through the city, which was elaborately decorated.</p> + +<p>Returning to the station Mayor Warfel introduced the +President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Citizens of Philipsburg</i>—I thank you for this very cordial expression +of your esteem. You must excuse my not addressing you at +any length because of the very limited time at our disposal. I +again thank you.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WESTERN_TOUR_OCTOBER_1890" id="WESTERN_TOUR_OCTOBER_1890">WESTERN TOUR, OCTOBER, 1890.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the morning of October 6, 1890, President Harrison +left Washington to attend the reunion of the First Brigade, +Twentieth Army Corps, at Galesburg, Ill., and to visit +points in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana. He was +accompanied by Secretary Tracy, Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor, +Private Secretary Halford, Marshal Daniel M. +Ransdell, Capt. Wm. M. Meredith, Gen. T. J. Morgan, +and E. F. Tibbott, stenographer.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[235]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CLIFTON_FORGE_VIRGINIA_OCTOBER_6" id="CLIFTON_FORGE_VIRGINIA_OCTOBER_6">CLIFTON FORGE, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> trip through Virginia was uneventful. At Staunton +the President was serenaded, and among those who met +him were ex-Congressman Desendorf, of Virginia, and +David Stewart, of Indianapolis. Clifton Forge was reached +at twilight, and nearly 1,000 residents heartily cheered the +President and called for a speech. In response he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I hope you will excuse me from making a speech. +I have travelled for the first time over the Chesapeake and Ohio +Railroad, and I have noticed with great interest and pleasure the +development which is being made along the road of the mineral +resources of the State of Virginia. What I have seen moves me to +offer my sincere congratulations on what you have already accomplished, +and what is surely in store for you if you but make use +of your resources and opportunities. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LAWRENCEBURG_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="LAWRENCEBURG_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Cincinnati, Tuesday morning, the party was joined +by Archibald Eaton, the President's nephew; Col. W. B. +Shattuc, Col. John C. New, and a committee of escort +from Lawrenceburg, comprising Gen. Thomas J. Lucas, +Archibald Shaw, John O. Cravens, John K. Thompson, +and Valentine J. Koehler. Near North Bend, Ohio, the +old Harrison homestead was reached, and the train came +to a stop just abreast the house in which Benjamin Harrison +was born, and but a few yards from the white shaft +that marks the tomb of his illustrious ancestor, President +William Henry Harrison. The occasion was not for +words, and as the President passed to the rear platform he +was unaccompanied by the rest of the party, who left him +to the memories that the scenes of his childhood and +youth called forth.</p> + +<p>Arrived at Lawrenceburg the President was visibly +affected at meeting many old friends and neighbors of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[236]</a></span> +years ago. Among the leading citizens who welcomed +him were: John Isherwood, Z. Heustes, Peter Braun, +Dr. J. D. Gatch, Frank R. Dorman, D. W. C. Fitch, J. +H. Burkham, W. H. Rucker, Wm. Probasco, Louis Adler, +H. G. Kidd, John S. Dorman, John B. Garnier, A. D. +Cook, Chas. Decker, John F. Cook, Dr. T. C. Craig, +C. J. B. Ragin, J. E. Larimer, D. E. Sparks, and Capt. +John Shaw; also, M. C. Garber, of Madison, Robert +Cain, of Brookville, and Alfred Shaw, of Vevay, Ind.</p> + +<p>The President addressed the large assembly in a voice +heavy with emotion. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I want to thank you very cordially for this greeting. +All the scenes about here are very familiar to me. This town +of Lawrenceburg is the first village of my childish recollections, +and as I approached it this morning, past the earliest home of my +recollections, the home in which my childhood and early manhood +were spent, memories crowded in upon me that were very full of interest, +very full of pleasure, and yet full of sadness. They bring back +to me those who once made the old home very dear, the most precious +spot on earth. I have passed with bowed head the place where they +rest. We are here in our generation, with the work of those who have +gone before upon us. Let us see, each of us, that in the family, in +the neighborhood, and in the State, we do at least with equal courage, +and grace, and kindness, the work which was so bravely, +kindly, and graciously done by those who filled our places fifty years +ago. Now, for I must hurry on, to these old friends, and to these +new friends who have come in since Lawrenceburg was familiar +to me, I extend again my hearty thanks for this welcome, and beg, +in parting, to introduce the only member of my Cabinet who accompanies +me, General Tracy, Secretary of the Navy.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="NORTH_VERNON_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="NORTH_VERNON_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">NORTH VERNON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> North Vernon, Jennings County, many old acquaintances +greeted the President, among them J. C. Cope, John +Fable, P. C. McGannon, and others. Acknowledging the +repeated cheers of the assembly, the President said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[237]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very glad to see you, and very much obliged +to you for your pleasurable greeting. It is always a pleasure to +see my old Indiana friends. We have had this morning a delightful +ride across the southern part of the State, one that has given +me a great deal of refreshment and pleasure. [Cheers.] Let me +again assure you that I am very much obliged to you for this evidence +of your friendship. I hope you will excuse me from further +speech on this occasion. It gives me pleasure now, my fellow-citizens, +to introduce to you General Tracy, of New York, the Secretary +of the Navy, who accompanies me on this trip. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SEYMOUR_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="SEYMOUR_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">SEYMOUR, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Seymour, Jackson County, 2,000 citizens gave evidence +of General Harrison's popularity in that town. +Among the prominent residents who welcomed him were +Hon. W. K. Marshall, Louis Schneck, Travis Carter, Ph. +Wilhelm, W. F. Peters, J. B. Morrison, R. F. White, S. +E. Carter, John A. Ross, John A. Weaver, L. M. Mains, +John A. Goodale, Theo. B. Ridlen, and V. H. Monroe.</p> + +<p>After he had introduced Secretary Tracy, the President +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I feel that I ought to thank you for your friendly +greeting this beautiful morning. It is a pleasure indeed to me to +greet so many of you. Again I thank you for this welcome. A +request has just been handed me that I speak a few minutes to the +school children here assembled. I scarcely know what to say to +them, except that I have a great interest in them, and the country +has a great interest in them. Those who, like myself, have passed +the meridian of life realize more than younger men that the places +we now hold and the responsibilities we now carry in society and +in all social and business relations must devolve upon those who +are now in the school. Our State has magnificently provided for +their education, so that none of them need be ignorant, and I am +sure that in these happy homes the fathers and mothers are not +neglecting their duties, but are instilling into these young minds +morality and respect for the law which must crown intelligence in +order to make them.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[238]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SHOALS_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="SHOALS_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">SHOALS, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> citizens of Shoals, the county seat of Martin County, +gave the President a most cordial reception. Prominent +among those friends who welcomed him were R. E. Hunt, +J. A. Chenoweth, J. P. Albaugh, J. B. Freeman, J. T. +Rogers, M. Shirey, S. P. Yeune, H. Q. Houghton, James +Mahany, C. H. Mohr, S. N. Gwin, F. J. Masten, C. S. +Dobbins, and N. H. Matsinger.</p> + +<p>Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I am very glad to see you. My trip this +morning is more like a holiday than I have had for a long time. I +am glad to see the cordiality of your welcome. It makes me feel +that I am still held somewhat in the esteem of the people whose +friendship I so very much covet and desire to retain. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SULLIVAN_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="SULLIVAN_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">SULLIVAN, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was an agreeable surprise to the President to find +several thousand people awaiting an opportunity to greet +him at the town of Sullivan. Of prominent townsmen +there were present J. H. Clugage, G. W. Buff, Rob't H. +Crowder, John T. Hays, C. P. Lacey, C. F. Briggs, O. +H. Crowder, S. Goodman, R. B. Mason, W. A. Bell, Joseph +Hayden, John H. Dickerson, and R. F. Knotts.</p> + +<p>In answer to repeated calls for a speech the President +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—Some of you have requested that I would give you +a little talk. The range of things that I can say on an occasion like +this is very limited, but one thing, though it seems to involve +repetition, I can say to you very heartily and very sincerely: I am +very glad to again look into the faces of my Indiana friends. I +trust I have friends that are not in Indiana, but my earliest and +my best are here. Again I thank you. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TERRE_HAUTE_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7" id="TERRE_HAUTE_INDIANA_OCTOBER_7">TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> principal demonstration of the day was at Terre +Haute, where fully 10,000 people greeted the President. +The following Reception Committee escorted the party from +Vincennes: Hon. W. R. McKeen, H. Hulman, Sr., Judge +C. F. McNutt, George W. Faris, Samuel Huston, A. Herz, +W. C. Isbell, R. A. Campbell, Dr. Rob't Van Valzah, Jacob +D. Early, George E. Pugh, A. G. Austin, F. E. Benjamin, +and B. G. Hudnut. <i>En route</i> to the speaker's stand +every bell and steam whistle in the city added its tribute +to the enthusiasm of the occasion. This unique Hoosier +welcome was arranged by D. C. Greiner. Other leading +citizens participating prominently in the reception were: +D. W. Minshall, N. Filbeck, Judge B. E. Rhoades, S. C. +Beach, J. S. Tally, Senator Bischawsky, G. W. Bement, +Jay Cummings, Geo. M. Allen, and P. S. Westfall.</p> + +<p>Mayor Frank C. Danaldson made the welcoming address, +and concluded by introducing President Harrison, +who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens of Indiana, Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I +very heartily appreciate this large gathering assembled to greet me. +I very heartily appreciate the welcome which your kind and animated +faces, as well as the spoken words of the chief officer of your +city, have extended to me. I have known this pretty city for more +than thirty years, and have watched its progress and growth. It +has always been the home of some of my most cherished personal +friends, and I am glad to know that your city is in an increasing +degree prosperous, and your people contented and happy. I am +glad to know that the local industries which have been established +in your midst are to-day busy in producing their varied products, +and that these find a ready market at remunerative prices. I was +told as we approached your city that there was not an idle wheel +in Terre Haute. It is very pleasant to know that this prosperity is +so generally shared by all our people. Hopefulness, and cheer, and +courage tend to bring and maintain good times.</p> + +<p>We differ widely in our views of public politics, but I trust +every one of us is devoted to the flag which represents the unity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[240]</a></span> +and power of our country and to the best interests of the people, +as we are given to see and understand those interests. [Applause.] +We are in the enjoyment of the most perfect system of government +that has ever been devised for the use of men. We are under fewer +restraints; the individual faculties and liberties have wider range +here than in any other land. Here a sky of hope is arched over +the head of every ambitious, industrious, and aspiring young man. +There are no social conditions; there are no unneeded legal restrictions. +Let us continue to cherish these institutions and to maintain +them in their best development. Let us see that as far as our +influence can bring it to pass they are conducted for the general +good. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It gives me pleasure to bring into your city to-day one who is the +successor as the head of the Navy Department of that distinguished +citizen of Indiana who is especially revered and loved by all the +people of Terre Haute, but is also embraced in the wider love of +all the citizens of Indiana—Col. Richard W. Thompson. Let me +present to you Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, of New York, the Secretary +of the Navy. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DANVILLE_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_7" id="DANVILLE_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_7">DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Danville</span> was reached at 6 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> The roar of cannon +sounded a hearty welcome to the Prairie State. Fully +10,000 people were assembled around the pavilion erected +near the station. Among the prominent residents who +received the President on the part of the citizens were: +Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Mayor W. R. Lawrence, Justice +J. W. Wilkin, of the Supreme Court of Illinois, Col. +Samuel Stansbury, H. P. Blackburn, W. R. Jewell, M. +J. Barger, W. C. Tuttle, Henry Brand, and Capt. J. G. +Hull.</p> + +<p>Congressman Cannon introduced the President, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I regret that the time of our arrival and +the brief time we can give you should make it so inconvenient for +you who have assembled here to greet us. Yet, though the darkness +shuts out your faces, I cannot omit to acknowledge with the +most heartfelt gratitude the enthusiastic greeting of this large as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[241]</a></span>sembly +of my fellow-citizens. It is quite worth while, I think, for +those who are charged with great public affairs now and then to +turn aside from the routine of official duties to look into the faces +of the people. [Applause.] It is well enough that all public officers +should be reminded that under our republican institutions the +repository of all power, the originator of all policy, is the people +of the United States. [Great applause.] I have had the pleasure +of visiting this rich and prosperous section of your great State +before, and am glad to notice that, if the last year has not yielded +an average return to your farms, already the promise of the coming +year is seen in your well-tilled fields. Let me thank you again +and bid you good-night. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHAMPAIGN_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_7" id="CHAMPAIGN_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_7">CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Urbana, Ill., Secretary Tracy addressed several thousand +residents. At Champaign the citizens were attended +by the students of the University of Illinois, who received +the President with their college cheer. Among the leading +citizens who participated in welcoming the Chief +Executive were Dr. L. S. Wilcox, John W. Spalding, +F. K. Robinson, P. W. Woody, H. H. Harris, J. L. Ray, +T. J. Smith, H. Swannell, Ozias Riley, A. P. Cunningham, +J. B. Harris, Edward Bailey, Solon Philbrick, C. +J. Sabin, W. S. Maxwell, L. W. Faulkner, J. W. Mulliken, +Judge C. B. Smith, W. P. Lockwood, W. A. Heath, +Geo. F. Beardsley, Hon. Abel Harwood, W. H. Munhall, +A. W. Spalding, and C. M. Sherfey.</p> + +<p>President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Good Friends</i>—It is very evident that there is a large representation +here of the Greek societies. [Cheers.] I thank you for +this greeting. We are on our way to Galesburg to unite with my +old comrades in arms of the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth +Army Corps, in a reunion. I had not expected here, or at +any other intermediate point on the journey, to make addresses, +but I cannot fail to thank these young gentlemen from the University +of Illinois for the interest their presence gives to this meeting. +Your professors, no doubt, give you all needed admonition +and advice, and you will, I am sure, thank me for not adding to +your burdens. Good-night. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PEORIA_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_8" id="PEORIA_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_8">PEORIA, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> third day of the President's journey found him in +Peoria, where he was warmly welcomed by Mayor Charles +C. Clarke at the head of the following committee of prominent +citizens: Alexander G. Tyng, Jr., President Board of +Trade; John D. Soules, President Travelling Men's Association; +editor Eugene Baldwin, and Hon. Julius S. Starr. +Miss Elsie Leslie Lyde, the child actress, on behalf of the +citizens and the Grand Army, presented the President with +a beautiful bouquet, which the Chief Magistrate acknowledged +by kissing the little orator in the presence of the +great assemblage.</p> + +<p>Mayor Clarke introduced the President, who spoke as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is not possible that I should introduce this +morning any serious theme. I have greatly enjoyed this trip +through my own State and yours, sisters in loyalty and sacrifice for +the Union, sisters also in prosperity and honor. I find myself +simply saying thank you, but with an increasing sense of the kindness +of the people. If anything could add to the solemn sense of +responsibility which my official oath places upon me, it would be +these evidences of friendliness and confidence. The great mass of +the people of this country are loyal, loving, dutiful citizens, ready +to support every faithful officer in the discharge of his duties and +to applaud every honest effort for their good. It is a source of +great strength to know this, and this morning, not less from this +bright sunshine and this crisp Illinois air than from these kindly +faces, I draw an inspiration to do what I can, the very best I can, +to promote the good of the people of the United States. I go to-day +to meet with some comrades of your State who stood with me +in the army of the great Union for the defence of the flag. I beg +now to thank these comrades of Peoria and this company of National +Guards and all these friends, and you, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen +of the Reception Committee, for this kindly greeting, and to +say that I have great satisfaction in knowing the people of this +community are very prosperous. May that prosperity increase +until every citizen, even the humblest, shares it. May peace, social +order, and the blessing of God abide in every house is my parting +wish for you. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[243]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GALESBURG_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_8" id="GALESBURG_ILLINOIS_OCTOBER_8">GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Public Reception.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">During</span> the trip from Peoria the President and Secretary +Tracy rode a goodly portion of the distance on the locomotive +with Engineer Frank Hilton, a veteran who served +in the President's old command. Galesburg, the principal +objective point of the journey, was reached at noon on +October 8, where 10,000 patriotic citizens greeted their arrival. +Mayor Loren Stevens, at the head of the following +committee, received and welcomed the President: Forrest +F. Cooke, President of the Day, Judge A. A. Smith, Hon. +H. M. Sisson, Hon. O. F. Price, Maj. H. H. Clay, Z. Beatty, +Henry Emerich, James M. Ayres, Francis A. Free, Gersh +Martin, F. C. Rice, C. D. Hendryx, Gen. F. C. Smith, John +Bassett, R. W. Sweeney, Sam'l D. Harsh, Colonel Phelps, +Hon. Philip S. Post, Rev. John Hood, Rev. G. J. Luckey, +H. A. Drake, Matthias O'Brien, K. Johnson, C. P. Curtis, +H. C. Miles, Capt. E. O. Atchinson, and Mr. Weeks. Fully +2,000 veterans participated in the parade; also the local +militia, commanded by Captain Elder and Lieutenants +Ridgley and Tompkins; Company D, Fifth Regiment, from +Quincy, Capt. F. B. Nichols, Lieutenants Treet and Whipple; +Company H, Sixth Regiment, Monmouth, Capt. D. +E. Clarke, Lieutenants Shields and Turnbull; Company +I, Sixth Regiment, Morrison, Capt. W. F. Colebaugh, +Lieutenants Griffin and Baker.</p> + +<p>Arriving at the Court-House Park, Mayor Stevens delivered +the address of welcome. President Harrison responded +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—The magnitude of this vast assemblage +to-day fills me with surprise and with consternation as +I am called to make this speech to you. I came here to meet with +the survivors of my old brigade. I came here with the expectation +that the day would chiefly be spent in their companionship and +in the exchange of those cordial greetings which express the fondness +and love which we bear to each other; but to my surprise I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span> +have found that here to-day the First Brigade, for the first time +in its history, has been captured. One or two of them I have been +able to take by the hand, a few more of them I have seen as they +marched by the reviewing stand, but they seemed to have been +swallowed up in this vast concourse of their associate comrades +and their fellow-citizens of Illinois. I hope there may yet be a +time during the day when I shall be able to take each by the hand, +and to assure them that in the years of separation since muster-out +day I have borne them all sacredly in my affectionate remembrance. +They were a body of representative soldiers, coming from +these great central States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and as +the borders of those States touch in friendly exchange, so the +elbows of these great heroes and patriots touched in the great +struggle for the Union. Who shall say who was chiefest? Who +shall assign honors where all were brave? The distinction that +Illinois may claim in connection with this organization is that, +given equal courage, fidelity, and loyalty to every man, Illinois +furnished three-fifths of the brigade. But possibly I should withhold +here those suggestions which come to me, and which will be +more appropriate when I meet them in a separate organization.</p> + +<p>I have been greatly impressed with this assemblage to-day in this +beautiful city, in this rich and prosperous State. The thought had +occurred to me, and the more I thought of it the more sure I was +of the conclusion, that nowhere on the face of the earth except in +the United States of America, under no flag that kisses any breeze, +could such an assemblage as this have been gathered. Who are +these? Look into these faces; see the evidences of contentment, +thrift, prosperity, and intelligence that we read in all these faces. +They have come by general summons from all these homes, of +village, city, and farm, and here they are to-day the strength and +rock of our security as a Nation; the people who furnished an +invincible army when its flag was in danger; the people upon +whose enlightened consciences and God-fearing hearts this country +may rest with unguarded hope. Where is the ultimate distribution +of governmental powers? How can all the efforts of President, +cabinet and judges, and armies, even, serve to maintain this +country, to continue it in its great career of prosperity, if there +were lacking this great law-abiding, liberty-loving people by whom +they are chosen to these important offices? It is the great thought +of our country that men shall be governed as little as possible, but +full liberty shall be given to individual effort, and that the restraints +of law shall be reserved for the turbulent and disorderly. +What is it that makes our communities peaceful? What is it that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span> +makes these farm-houses safe? It is not the policemen. It is not +the soldiers. It is this great and all-pervading American sentiment +that exalts the law, that stands with threatening warning to +the law-breaker, and, above all, that pervading thought that gives +to every man what is his and claims only what is our own. The +war was only fought that the law might not lose its sanction and +its sanctity. If we had suffered that loss, dismemberment would +have been a lesser one. But we taught those who resisted law and +taught the world that the great sentiment of loyalty to our written +laws was so strong in this country that no associations, combinations, +or conspiracies could overturn it. Our Government will +not fail to go on in this increased career of development, in population, +in wealth, in intelligence, in morality, so long as we hold +up everywhere in the local communities and in the Nation this +great thought that every man shall keep the law which secures +him in his own rights, and shall not trample upon the rights of +another. Let us divide upon tariff and finance, but let there never +be a division among the American people upon this question, that +nowhere shall the law be overturned in the interests of anybody. +If it fails of beneficent purpose, which should be the object of all +law, then let us modify it, but while it is a law let us insist that +it shall be obeyed. When we turn from that and allow any other +standard of living to be set up, where is your security, where is +mine, when some one else makes convenience more sacred, more +powerful than the law of the land?</p> + +<p>I believe to-day that the great rock of our security is this deeply +imbedded thought in the American heart that does not, as in many +of our Spanish-American countries, give its devotion to the man, +but to the law, the Constitution, and to the flag. So that in that +hour of gloom, when that richest contribution of all gems that +Illinois has ever set in our Nation's diadem, Abraham Lincoln, +and in that hour of the consummation of his work, dies by the +hand of the assassin, Garfield, who was to meet a like fate, might +say to the trembling and dismayed people: "Lincoln is dead, but +the Government at Washington still lives."</p> + +<p>My fellow-citizens, to all those who, through your Mayor, have +extended me their greeting, to all who are here assembled, I return +my most sincere thanks. I do not look upon such assemblages +without profound emotion. They touch me, and I believe they +teach me, and I am sure that the lessons are wholesome lessons. +We have had here to-day this procession of veterans, aged and +feeble many of them. That is retrospective. That is part of the +great story of the past, written in glorious letters on the firmament<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[246]</a></span> +that is spread above the world. And in these sweet children who +have followed we read the future. How sweet it was to see them +bearing in their infant hands these same banners that those veterans +carried amid the shot and battle and dying of men! I had +occasion at the centennial celebration of the inauguration of Washington +in New York, being impressed by the great display of +national colors, to make a suggestion that the flag should be taken +into the schoolhouses, and I am glad to know that in that State +there is daily a little drill of the children that pays honor to the +flag. But, my friends, the Constitution provides that I shall +annually give information to Congress of the state of the Union +and make such recommendations as I may think wise, and it has +generally been understood, I think, that this affirmative provision +contains a negative and implies that the President is to give no +one except Congress any information as to the state of the Union, +and that he shall especially make no suggestions that can be in +any shape misconstrued.</p> + +<p>I confess that it would give me great pleasure, if the occasion +were proper, to give you some information as to the state of the +Union as I see it, and to make some suggestions as to what I think +would be wise as affecting the state of the Union. But I would +not on an occasion like this, when I am greeted here by friends, +fellow-citizens of all shades of thought in politics and in the +Church, say a word that could mar the harmony of this great occasion. +I trust we are all met here together to-day as loyal-loving +American citizens, and that over all our divisions and differences +there is this great arch of love and loyalty binding us together.</p> + +<p>And now you will excuse me from further speech when I have +said again that I am profoundly grateful to the people of Galesburg +and this vicinity, and to these, my comrades in arms, who have +so warmly opened their arms to welcome me to-day. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Reunion First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon General Harrison attended the reunion +of the First Brigade Association, of which he is President. +This brigade was the General's command in the late war, +and comprised the Seventieth Indiana Regiment, Seventy-ninth +Ohio, One Hundred and Second, One Hundred +and Fifth, and One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois. +Many veterans were present from these regiments. Among +the prominent participants were: Generals Daniel Dustin<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[247]</a></span> +and E. F. Dutton, Sycamore, Ill.; Gen. F. C. Smith, Galesburg; +Gen. A. W. Doane, Wilmington, Ohio; General +Miles, Col. H. C. Corbin, H. H. Carr, N. E. Gray, Dr. P. +L. McKinnie, and Colonel Sexton, Chicago; H. H. McDowell, +Pontiac; Capt. Edward L. Patterson, Cleveland; +Capt. F. E. Scott, Brokenbow, Neb.; Capt. J. T. Merritt, +Aledo; Major M. G. McLain, Indianapolis; Capt. J. E. +Huston, Clearfield, Iowa; James M. Ayers, R. M. Smock, +Colonel Mannon, Major Jack Burst, Wm. Eddleman, C. D. +Braidemeyer, Capt. T. U. Scott, Capt. T. S. Rogers, C. P. +Curtis, Captain Bodkins, and others. Congressman Thos. +J. Henderson and many of the above-mentioned officers +made brief speeches during the reunion. General Dustin +occupied the chair pending the election of officers for the +ensuing year. General Harrison's re-election as President +of the Association was carried amid cheers, and as he +appeared to assume the presiding chair the veterans gave +him a rousing reception.</p> + +<p>The President then addressed the brigade as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades</i>—The object of my visit to Galesburg was this meeting +which we are to have now. I should not, I think, have been persuaded +to make this trip except for the pleasure which I expected +to find in meeting the men of the old brigade, from most of whom +I have been separated since the muster-out day. We have had a +great demonstration, one very full of interest, on the streets and +in the park, but I think we are drawn a little closer in this meeting +and understand each other a little better than in the larger +assemblages of which we have made a part. It is very pleasant +for me to see so many here. I cannot recall the names of all of +you. Time has wrought its changes upon the faces of us all. +You recognize me because there were not so many colonels as there +were soldiers—fortunately, perhaps, for the country. [Laughter.] +I saw you as individuals in the brigade line when it was drawn +up either for parade or battle. It is quite natural, therefore, and +I trust it will not be held against me, that you should have a better +recollection of my features than I can possibly have of yours. +And yet some of you I recall and all of you I love. [Applause.] +When you were associated in a brigade in 1862 we were all somewhat +new to military duties and life. The officers as well as the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a></span> +men had come together animated by a common purpose from every +pursuit in life. We were not so early in the field as some of our +comrades. We yield them the honor of longer service, but I think +we may claim for ourselves that when our hands were lifted to +take the enlistment oath there was no inducement for any man to +go into the army under any expectation that he was entering on a +holiday. In the early days of the war men thought or hoped it +would be brief. They did not measure its extent or duration. +They did not at all rightly estimate the awful sacrifices that were +to be made before peace with honor was assured.</p> + +<p>I well remember an incident of the early days of volunteering at +Indianapolis, when the first companies in response to the first call +of President Lincoln came hurrying to the capital. Among the +first to arrive was one from Lafayette, under the command of +Capt. Chris. Miller. They came in tumultuously and enthusiastic +for the fight. These companies were organized into regiments, +which one by one were sent into West Virginia or other fields of service. +It happened that the regiment to which my friend Miller was +assigned was the last to leave the State. I met him one day on +the street, and a more mad and despondent soldier I never saw. +He was not absolutely choice in the use of his language—all soldiers +were not. I think the First Brigade was an exception. [Laughter.] +He was swearing like a pirate over the disgrace that had befallen +him and his associates, growing out of the fact that he was absolutely +certain that the war would be over before they got into the +field, and left in camp a stranded regiment, having no part in +putting down the rebellion.</p> + +<p>Well, his day came presently, and he was ordered to West Virginia, +and among the first of those who, under the fire of the enemy +at Rich Mountain, received a bullet through his body was Capt. +Chris. Miller. When these regiments of ours were enlisted we +were not apprehensive that the war would be over before we had +an adequate share of it. We were pretty certain we would all +have enough before we were through. The clouds were dark in +those days of '62. McClellan was shut up in the Peninsula; Buell +was coming back from Alabama; Kirby Smith was entering +through Cumberland Gap, and everything seemed to be discouraging. +I think I may claim for these men of Illinois, and these men +of Indiana and of Ohio—if some of them are here to meet with us +to-day—that when they enlisted there was no other motive than +pure, downright patriotism, and there was no misunderstanding of +the serious import of the work on which they entered. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Those early days in which we were being transformed from ci<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span>vilians +into soldiers were full of trial and hardship. The officers +were sometimes bumptious and unduly severe—I am entering a +plea in my own behalf now. [Laughter.] The soldiers had not +yet got to understand why a camp guard should be established, +why they should not be at perfect liberty to go to town as they +were when on the farm and the day's work was over. It was supposed +that an army was composed of so many men, but we had +not learned at that time that it was absolutely necessary that all +those men should be at the same place at the same time, and that +they could not be scattered over the neighborhood. There were a +good many trials of that sort while the men were being made soldiers +and the officers were learning their duties, and to know the proper +margin between the due liberty of the individual and the necessary +restraint of discipline. But those days were passed soon, and they +passed the sooner when the men went into active duties. Camp +duties were always irksome and troublesome, but when they were +changed for the active duties of the march and field there was less +need of restraint.</p> + +<p>I always noticed there was no great need of a camp guard after +the boys had marched twenty-five miles. They did not need so +much watching at night. Then the serious time came when sickness +devastated us and disease swept its dread swath, and that +dreadful progress of making soldiers was passed through when diseases +which should have characterized childhood prostrated and +destroyed men. Then there came out of all this, after the sifting +out of those who were weak and incapable, of those who could not +stand this acclimating process, that body of tough, strong men, +ready for the march and fight, that made up the great armies +which under Grant and Sherman and Sheridan carried the flag to +triumph.</p> + +<p>The survivors of some of them are here to-day, and whatever else +has come to us in life, whether honor or disappointment, I do not +think there are any of us—not me, I am sure—who would to-day +exchange the satisfaction, the heart comfort we have in having +been a part of the great army that subdued the rebellion, that +saved the country, the Constitution, and the flag. [Applause.] If +I were asked to exchange it for any honor that has come to me, I +would lay down any civil office rather than surrender the satisfaction +I have in having been an humble partaker with you in that +great war. [Applause.] Who shall measure it? Well, generations +hence, when this country, which had 30,000,000, now 64,000,000, +has become 100,000,000, when these institutions of ours grow and +develop and spread, and homes in which happiness and comfort<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span> +have their abiding place, then we may begin to realize, North +and South, what this work was. We but imperfectly see it now, +yet we have seen enough of the glory of the Lord to fill our souls +full of a quiet enthusiasm. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Here we are pursuing our different works in life to-day just as +when we stood on picket or on guard, just as in the front rank of +battle facing the foe—trying to do our part for the country. I +hope there is not a soldier here in whom the love of the flag has +died out. I believe there is not one in whose heart it is not a +growing passion. I think a great deal of the interest of the flag +we see among the children is because you have taught them what +the flag means. No one knows how beautiful it is when we see it +displayed here on this quiet October day, amid these quiet autumnal +scenes, who has not seen it when there was no other beautiful +thing to look upon. [Applause.] And in those long, tiresome +marches, in those hours of smoke and battle and darkness, what +was there that was beautiful except the starry banner that floated +over us? [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Our country has grown and developed and increased in riches +until it is to-day marvellous among the nations of the earth, +sweeping from sea to sea, embracing almost every climate, touching +the tropics and the arctic, covering every form of product of +the soil, developing in skill in the mechanical arts, developing, I +trust and believe, not only in these material things which are +great, but not the greatest, but developing also in those qualities +of mind and heart, in morality, in the love of order, in sobriety, +in respect for the law, in a God-fearing disposition among the +people, in love for our country, in all these high and spiritual +things. I believe the soldiers in their places have made a large +contribution to all these things.</p> + +<p>The assembling of our great army was hardly so marvellous as +its disbanding. In the olden time it was expected that a soldier +would be a brawler when the campaign was over. He was too +often a disturber. Those habits of violence which he had learned +in the field followed him to his home. But how different it was +in this war of ours. The army sprang into life as if by magic, on +the call of the martyred President—Illinois' greatest gift, as I have +said, to the Nation. They fought through the war, and they came +out of it without demoralization. They returned to the very pursuits +from which they had come. It seemed to one that it was like +the wrapping of snow which nature sometimes puts over the earth +in the winter season to protect and keep warm the vegetation +which is hidden under it, and which under the warm days of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[251]</a></span> +spring melts and disappears, and settles into the earth to clothe it +with verdure and beauty and harvest. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Alumni Hall, Knox College.</p> + +<p>After the public reception was concluded the President +and party participated in the laying of the corner-stone of +the Alumni Hall on the campus of Knox College. Dr. +Newton Bateman, president of the college, conducted the +exercises. Prof. Milton L. Comstock read a brief history +of Knox College, at the conclusion of which Dr. Adams +introduced President Harrison, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Speaking this morning in the open air, +which since my official isolation from campaigning has made my +voice unaccustomed to it, will make it impossible for me to speak +further at this time. I do not deem this ceremony at all out of +accord with the patriotic impulses which have stirred our hearts +to-day. Education was early in the thought of the framers of our +Constitution as one of the best, if not the only guarantee of their perpetuation. +Washington, as well as the founders of the venerable +and useful institution, appreciated and expressed his interest in +the establishment of institutions of learning. How shall one be a +safe citizen when citizens are rulers who are not intelligent? How +shall he understand those great questions which his suffrage must +adjudge without thorough intellectual culture in his youth? We are +here, then, to-day engaged in a patriotic work as we lay this +corner-stone of an institution that has had a great career of usefulness +in the past and is now entering upon a field of enlarged +usefulness. We lay this corner-stone and rededicate this institution +to truth, purity, loyalty, and a love of God.</p></div> + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Phi Delta Theta Banquet.</p> + +<p>In the evening the President attended a banquet tendered +him by Lombard and Knox chapters of Phi Delta Theta, +of which college fraternity General Harrison was a member +in his student days. At the President's table sat +Toastmaster Lester L. Silliman, of Lombard Chapter, with +General Miles, Generals Grosvenor, Morgan, and Post, +Mayor Stevens, Dr. Ayres, and Rev. Dr. Hood. Brother +Geo. W. Prince delivered the welcoming address on behalf<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[252]</a></span> +of the local chapters, to which the distinguished Phi brother, +President Harrison, arising amid great applause, responded. +After a few pleasant remarks regarding his +recollections of college life and his pleasure at meeting +again with the members of the Phi Delta Theta, he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>My college associations were broken early in life, partly by necessity +and partly by choice; by necessity so far as the compulsion +to work for a living was upon me, and by choice in that I added to +my responsibility at an early date, so that it has not been my +pleasure often to meet with or sit about the banquet board with +members of this society. It gives me pleasure to meet with you +to-night. I feel the greatest sympathy with these young men who +are now disciplining their minds for the work of life. I would not +have them make these days too serious, and yet they are very full +of portent and promise. It is not inconsistent, I think, with the +joyfulness and gladness which pertains to youth that they shall have +some sense of the value of these golden days. They are days that +are to affect the whole future. If I were to select a watchword +that I would have every young man write above his door and on +his heart, it would be that good word "Fidelity." I know of no +better. The man who meets every obligation to the family, to +society, to the State, to his country, and his God, to the very best +measure of his strength and ability, cannot fail of that assurance +and quietness that comes of a good conscience, and will seldom fail +of the approval of his fellow-men, and will never fail of the reward +which is promised to faithfulness. Unfaithfulness and lack of +fidelity to duty, to work, and to obligation is the open door to all +that is disgraceful and degrading.</p> + +<p>I want to thank you again, gentlemen, for this pleasant greeting, +and to ask you, after the rather exhaustive duties of this day, to +excuse me from further address and accept the best wishes of a +brother in the Phi Delta Theta organization. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p class="sub-header space-above">The Brigade Banquet.</p> + +<p>Later in the evening the President and party attended a +banquet given by the citizens in honor of the First Brigade. +It was a brilliant affair, conducted by the ladies of the +city, active among whom were Mrs. Geo. Lescher, Miss +Tillie Weeks, Miss Maude Stewart, Miss Winnie Hoover, +and Mrs. Whiffen. Mrs. George Gale had charge of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[253]</a></span> +table of honor, assisted by Mrs. Otto M. Smith and Miss +Louise Tryon. Gen. Philip S. Post was Master of Ceremonies +and presented General Harrison.</p> + +<p>The President prologued his parting words with an incident +of a visit he made to a small town down the Potomac. +Although he was introduced as President all over +the town, no special attention was paid to him, and when +the local paper came out with a column and a half report +of the visit of the Chief Executive, the good people of the +town were astonished, but explained their lack of attention +by saying they thought Mr. Harrison was president of some +fishing club. Aside from jokes, said the President:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>One serious word in leaving. This day in Galesburg I shall long +remember. The enthusiasm and the cordiality of the citizens, the +delicacy and kindness of their attention, have impressed me deeply. +I shall ever gratefully recollect Galesburg as a spot of especial +interest, as the place of the meeting of the old brigade. Comrades, +I hope to meet you again when my time is more my own, and on +several occasions like this to speak to you more familiarly, and to +recall this time. I have tried not to be stinted in my intercourse +with you, for I have wanted you to feel me warm and sincere. I +have expressed myself, but not as freely as I would if by ourselves, +or if I were but a private citizen or member of the brigade. But +I would say to you and all your families, to the wives that sit +here, to the wives and children that are at home, to those who +have gone out from your roof-tree to prepare homes, to your grand-children—and +I hope all of you have them—to one and all, I +extend the hearty sympathy and best wishes of the "old-timer" +you served so faithfully.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="OTTUMWA_IOWA_OCTOBER_9" id="OTTUMWA_IOWA_OCTOBER_9">OTTUMWA, IOWA, OCTOBER 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President's party left Galesburg the night of the +8th, arriving at Burlington at 10 o'clock, where about +8,000 people greeted them. The President was escorted to +the Commercial Club rooms, where Mayor Duncan, on +behalf of the city of Burlington, and P. M. Crapo, president +of the club, made addresses of welcome. A reception of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[254]</a></span> +one hour's duration followed, during which President +Harrison shook hands with 3,000 callers. Ottumwa was +reached at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. A committee of +citizens, headed by Hon. J. G. Hutchison, met the President +at Galesburg. On arrival the President and his +brother, John Scott Harrison, were immediately driven to +the residence of their sister, Mrs. T. J. Devin, where they +passed the morning.</p> + +<p>At the Coal Palace the President and Secretary Tracy +were met by Gov. Horace Boies and his staff, headed by +Adjt.-Gen Greene; also Senator Wm. B. Allison, Senator +James F. Wilson, ex-Senator Harlan, Hon. John F. +Lacey, and the following Committee of Reception, representing +the city of Ottumwa: T. J. Devin, W. T. Harper, J. +E. Hawkins, W. B. Smith, Henry Phillips, Sam'l A. Flager, +J. C. Manchester, A. W. Johnson, W. T. Fenton, J. G. +Meek, Calvin Manning, Geo. Withall, J. W. Garner, J. J. +Smith, W. W. Epps, H. B. Hendershott, J. H. Merrill, W. +B. Bonnifield, A. H. Hamilton, C. F. Blake, John C. +Fisher, Hon. John N. Irwin, J. T. Hackworth, W. C. +Wyman, John C. Jordan, A. G. Harrow, Allen Johnston, +T. D. Foster, J. W. Edgerly, A. W. Lee, William Daggett, +G. H. Sheffer, W. D. Elliott, Charles Bachman, H. A. +Zangs, R. H. Moore, Capt. S. B. Evans, Capt. S. H. Harper, +H. W. Merrill, J. R. Burgess, J. B. Mowrey, A. C. Leighton, +W. S. Cripps, R. L. Tilton, Dr. L. J. Baker, D. A. +Emery, Samuel Mahon, W. S. Coen, O. C. Graves, Thomas +Swords, and John F. Henry. Other cities in Iowa were +represented on the Reception Committee by the following +prominent citizens: Hon. John Craig, of Keokuk; Judge +Traverse and Senator Taylor, of Bloomfield; Gen. W. W. +Wright and Gen. F. M. Drake, Centerville; Gen. B. M. McFall, +Oskaloosa; T. B. Perry and J. H. Drake, Albia; Geo. +D. Woodin and Hon. F. E. White, Sigourney; Hon. Chas. +D. Leggett and Chas. D. Fullen, Fairfield; Hon. Edwin +Manning and Capt. W. A. Duckworth, Keosauqua; F. R.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[255]</a></span> +Crocker and E. A. Temple, Chariton; O. P. Wright, Knoxville; +E. B. Woodruff, Marion Co.; Col. Al. Swalm, Oskaloosa; +Hon. W. P. Smith, Hon. Josiah Given, Hon. Fred +Lehman, G. W. Wright, Des Moines; Hon. John H. Gear, +Hon. John J. Seely, Burlington; Hon. F. C. Hormel, Capt. +M. P. Mills, Cedar Rapids; Hon. Geo. H. Spahr, Hon. W. +I. Babb, Mt. Pleasant; Hon. J. B. Grinnell, of Grinnell; Dr. +Engle, Newton; Frank Letts and J. S. McFarland, Marshalltown; +Hon. J. B. Harsh and M. A. Robb, Creston; +ex-Governor Kirkwood and Ezekiel Clark, Iowa City.</p> + +<p>The President and Governor Boies reviewed the parade +from a stand in the park. The column was led by the +veterans of the famous Third Iowa Cavalry. Three thousand +school children participated in the demonstration, +which was witnessed by fully 40,000 spectators. The public +reception took place in the afternoon at the Coal Palace; +the great building was overflowing. Hon. P. G. Ballingall, +President of the Coal Palace Exposition, introduced +Governor Boies, who welcomed the President in behalf of +the people of Iowa.</p> + +<p>President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Boies and Fellow-citizens</i>—I accept in the same cordial +and friendly spirit in which they have been offered these words of +welcome spoken on behalf of the good people of the great State of +Iowa. It gives me pleasure in this hasty journey to pause for a +little time in the city of Ottumwa. I have had especial pleasure +in looking upon this structure and the exhibits which it contains. +It is itself a proof of the enterprise, skill, and artistic taste of the +people of this city of which they may justly be very proud. I look +about it and see that its adornment has been wrought with materials +that are familiar and common, and that these have assumed, +under the deft fingers and artistic thoughts of your people, +shapes of beauty that are marvellously attractive. If I should +attempt to interpret the lesson of this structure, I should say it +was an illustration of how much that is artistic and graceful is +to be found in the common things of life; and if I should make +an application of the lesson, it would be to suggest that we might +profitably carry into all our homes and into all neighborly intercourse +the same transforming spirit. The common things of this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[256]</a></span> +life, touched by a loving spirit, may be made to glow and glisten. +The common intercourse of life, touched by friendliness and love, +may be made to fill every home and neighborhood with a brightness +that jewels cannot shed. And it is pleasant to think that in +our American home-life we have reached this ideal in a degree +unexcelled elsewhere.</p> + +<p>I believe that in the American home, whether in the city or on +the farm, the American father and the American mother, in their +relations to the children, are kinder, more helpful, and benignant +than any others. [Cries of "Good! Good!" and cheers.] In these +homes is the strength of our institutions. Let these be corrupted +and the Government itself has lost the stone of strength upon which +it securely rests.</p></div> + +<p>(Here, by some accident of arrangement, the water of +an artificial waterfall immediately behind the President +was turned on, and the rush and roar of the water drowned +his voice almost completely.)</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I have contended with a brass band while attempting to address +a popular audience, but I have never before been asked to speak in +the rush and roar of Niagara. [Laughter and cheers.] I think if +I were to leave it to this audience whether they would rather see +that beautiful display and hear the rippling of these waters [pointing] +than to hear me, they would vote for the waterfall. [Cries +of "No, no!" and "Shut off the water!"]</p></div> + +<p>(At this point the management succeeded in finally turning +off the water so that the deafening noise ceased.)</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I had supposed that there were limitations upon the freedom of +this meeting this afternoon, both as to the Governor and myself, +and that no political suggestion of any sort was to be introduced +into this friendly concourse of American citizens; and I think both +of us have good cause for grievances against the prohibitionists for +interrupting us with this argument for cold water. [Great laughter +and applause.]</p> + +<p>It is quite difficult, called upon as I am every day, and sometimes +three or four times a day, to make short addresses with the limitations +that are upon me as to the subjects upon which I may speak, +to know what to say when I meet my fellow-citizens. I was glad +to hear the Governor say that Iowa is prosperous. We have here a +witness that it is so. It offers also, I think, a solution of the origin +of that prosperity, and suggests how it may be increased and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[257]</a></span> +developed. We have in this structure a display of all the products +of the farm, and side by side with it a display of the mechanic +arts. I think in this combination, in this diversity of interest +and pursuit, in this mutual and helpful relation between the toilers +of the soil and the workers in our shops, each contributing to the +commonwealth and each giving to the other that which he needs, +we have that which has brought about the prosperity you now +enjoy, and which is to increase under the labors of your children +to a degree that we have not realized. The progress in the mechanical +arts that men not older than I have witnessed, the application +of new agencies to the use of men within the years of my +own notice and recollection, read like a fairy tale. Let us not +think that we have reached the limits of this development. There +are yet uses of the agencies already known to be developed and +applied. There are yet agencies perhaps in the great storehouse of +nature that have not been harnessed for the use of man. The telegraph, +the telephone, and the phonograph have all come within +the memory of many who stand about me to-day. The application +of steam to ocean travel is within the memory of many here. The +development of our railroad system has all come within your +memory and mine. The railroad was but a feeble agency in commerce +when my early recollection begins; and now this great State +is covered with railroads like a network. Every farm is within +easy reach of a shipping station, and every man can speak to his +neighbor any day of the week, though that neighbor live on the +opposite side of the globe. Out of all this what is yet to come? +Who can tell? You are favored here in having not only a surface +soil that yields richly to the labor of the farmer, but in also having +hidden beneath that surface rich mines of coal which are to be +converted into power to propel the mills that will supply the wants +of your people.</p> + +<p>Now, my friends, thanking you for the kindness with which you +have listened to me, expressing again my appreciation of the taste +and beauty of this great structure in which we stand, and wishing +for Iowa and all its citizens the largest increase of prosperity in +material wealth, the most secure social order in all their communities, +and the crowning blessing of home happiness, I bid you +good-by. [Prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[258]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ST_JOSEPH_MISSOURI_OCTOBER_10" id="ST_JOSEPH_MISSOURI_OCTOBER_10">ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first reception in the State of Missouri took place at +St. Joseph at 6:30 the morning of October 10. Many thousands +greeted the President at the Union Depot. Conspicuous +in the assemblage were the veterans of Custer Post, +G. A. R., who escorted the party to the neighboring hotel. +The Committee of Reception consisted of Col. A. C. Dawes, +Chairman; Mayor Wm. Shepard, Hon. John L. Bittinger, +Capt Chas. F. Ernst, Capt. F. M. Posegate, Col. N. P. Ogden, +August Nunning, Wm. M. Wyeth, Major T. J. Chew, +Hon. Geo. J. Englehart, Hon. O. M. Spencer, Dr. J. D. +Smith, James McCord, ex-Gov. Silas Woodson, John M. +Frazier, Frank M. Atkinson, Rev. H. L. Foote, and Major +Joseph Hansen.</p> + +<p>Colonel Dawes made a brief welcoming address and +presented the President, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—If you are glad to see me at this hour in the +morning, if you are so kind and demonstrative before breakfast, +how great would have been your welcome if I had come a little +later in the day? [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I beg to thank you, who at an inconvenient and early hour, +have turned out to speak these words of welcome to us as we pass +through your beautiful city. Many years ago I read of St. Joseph. +I know something of its history, when, instead of being a large +city, it was a place for outfitting those slow and toilsome trains +that bore the early pioneers toward California and the far West. +Those days are not to be forgotten. Those means of communication +were slow, but they bore men and women, full of courage and +patriotism, to do for us on the Pacific and in the great West the +work of peaceful conquest that has added greatly to the glory and +prosperity of our country. And yet we congratulate ourselves that +the swifter means of communication have taken the place of the +old; we congratulate ourselves that these conveniences, both of +business and social life, have come to crown our day. And yet +in the midst of them, enjoying the luxuries which modern civilization +brings to our doors, let us not lose from our households +those plain and sturdy virtues which are essential to true +American citizenship; let us remember always that above all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[259]</a></span> +surroundings, above all that is external, there is to be prized +those solid and essential virtues that make home happy and that +make our country great, and that enable us in every time of trial +and necessity to call out from among the people some who are +fit to lead our armies or to meet every emergency in the history +of the State. We are here as American citizens, not as partisans; +we are here as comrades of the late war, or, if there are here those +who under the other banner fought for what seemed to them to be +right, we are here to say one and all that God knew what was best +for this country when he cast the issue in favor of the Union and +the Constitution. [Applause and cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, again united under its ample guarantee of personal liberty +and public security, united again under one flag, we have started +forward, if we are true to our obligations, upon a career of prosperity +that would not otherwise have been possible. Let us therefore, +in all kindliness and faithfulness, in devotion to the right, +as God shall give us light to see it, go forward in the discharge of +our duties, setting above everything else the flag and the Constitution +on which all our rights and securities are based. Now, my +comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and fellow-citizens +of Missouri, again I thank you and bid you good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ATCHISON_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10" id="ATCHISON_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10">ATCHISON, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Entering</span> Kansas the President was the recipient of a +unique welcome at Atchison, where 1,000 school children +and several thousand citizens greeted him. Little Edna +Elizabeth Downs was the orator on behalf of the children, +and delivered a beautiful address, at the conclusion of +which the children showered the President with flowers.</p> + +<p>The Mayor of Atchison, Hon. B. P. Waggener, and the +following prominent citizens welcomed the Chief Executive: +Hon. John J. Ingalls, Hon. Edward K. Blair, Hon. +Clem Rohr, Hon. S. C. King, Hon. S. H. Kelsey, Hon. +John C. Tomlinson, Hon. A. J. Harwi, Hon. Henry Elleston, +Hon. S. R. Stevenson, Hon. C. W. Benning, Judge +Rob't M. Eaton, ex-Gov. Geo. W. Glick, Hon. H. C. Solomon, +Judge A. G. Otis, Judge David Martin, L. C. +Challiss, E. W. Howe, David Auld, B. T. Davis, Chas.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[260]</a></span> +E. Faulkner, Major W. H. Haskell, Major S. R. Washer, +Capt. J. K. Fisher, Capt. David Baker, Capt. John Seaton, +Stanton Park, T. B. Gerow, and H. Claypark. Chief-Justice +Albert H. Horton made the welcoming address +and introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I stand to-day for the first time upon the +soil of Kansas. I am glad to have been permitted to enter it by +the vestibule of this attractive city, the home of one of your +most brilliant statesmen. I cannot refrain from saying, God be +thanked that freedom won its early battle in Kansas. [Applause.] +All this would have been otherwise impossible. You have a soil +christened with the blood of men who died for liberty, and you +have well maintained the lessons they taught, living and dying. +It was appropriate that the survivors of the late war, men who +came home crowned with the consummating victory of liberty, +should make the State of Kansas pre-eminently the soldier State of +the Union. Now, after telling you that I am very grateful for +your friendly greeting this morning, you will, I am sure, excuse +me, in this tumult, from attempting further speech. May every +good attend you in your homes; may the career of this great State +be one of unceasing prosperity in things material, and may your +citizenship never forget that the spiritual things that take hold of +liberty and human rights are higher and better than all material +things. [Prolonged cheering.] Allow me now to present to you +the only member of my Cabinet who accompanied me, General +Tracy, of New York, the Secretary of the Navy.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TOPEKA_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10" id="TOPEKA_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10">TOPEKA, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President's reception at Topeka on Friday, October +10, was a remarkable ovation; over 50,000 people from +every county in the State greeted him. The famous +Seventh U. S. Cavalry, Gen. J. W. Forsythe commanding, +acted as the guard of honor. The President was welcomed +by Gov. Lyman U. Humphrey, Senator John J. Ingalls, +Chief-Justice Albert H. Horton, Mayor Robert L. Cofran, +and the following distinguished committee: Ex-Gov. +Thomas A. Osborn, ex-Gov. Geo. T. Anthony, Capt. Geo. +R. Peck, Col. James Burgess, Hon. S. B. Bradford, Judge<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[261]</a></span> +N. C. McFarland, Judge John Martin, A. J. Arnold, John +Guthrie, Wm. P. Douthitt, John Mileham, William Sims, +Cyrus K. Holliday, Perry G. Noel, S. T. Howe, Bernard +Kelly, J. Lee Knight, N. D. McGinley, Wm. H. Rossington, +Rev. Dr. F. S. McCabe, Geo. W. Reed, Elihu Holcomb, +Lark Odin, L. J. Webb, Milo B. Ward, J. K. Hudson, F. +P. McLennan, H. O. Garvey, Frank Root, John M. Bloss, +John F. Gwinn, A. M. Fuller, J. W. F. Hughes, John R. +Peckham, James L. King, Henry Bennett, Geo. H. Evans, +M. C. Holman, John C. Gordon, H. P. Throop, Joseph R. +Hankland, T. W. Durham, Judge C. G. Foster, A. K. +Rodgers, A. B. Jetmore, and Thomas F. Oenes.</p> + +<p>The parade was an imposing affair. Thirty thousand +veterans were in line. The Indiana contingent numbered +over 1,000, and as they passed the reviewing carriage, led +by Major George Noble, cheer after cheer was given in +honor of the distinguished Hoosier. Nearly 6,000 school +children participated in the parade. In the afternoon the +President visited the reunion grounds with Commander +Ira F. Collins and other officers of the Kansas Department, +G. A. R. Governor Humphrey delivered the welcoming +address.</p> + +<p>The President responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I am strongly tempted to omit even an attempt +to speak to you to-day; I think it would be better that I +should go home and write you an open letter. [Great laughter +and cheering.] I have been most profoundly impressed with the +incidents which have attended this tremendous and, I am told, +unprecedented gathering of the soldiers and citizens of the great +State of Kansas. No one can interpret in speech the lessons of this +occasion. No power of description is adequate to convey to those +who have not looked upon it or into the spirit and power of this +meeting. This assembly is altogether too large to be greeted individually—one +cannot get his arms around it. [Laughter and +cheers.] And yet so kindly have you received me that I would be +glad if to each of you I could convey the sense of gratitude and +appreciation which is in my heart. There is nothing for any of +us to do but to open wide our hearts and let these elevating sug<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[262]</a></span>gestions +take possession of them. I am sure there has been nothing +here to-day that does not point in the direction of a higher individual, +social, State and national life. Who can look upon this +vast array of soldiers who fought to a victorious consummation +the war for the Union without bowing his head and his heart in +grateful reverence? [Great applause.] Who can look upon these +sons of veterans, springing from a patriotic ancestry, full of the +spirit of '61, and coming into the vigor and strength of manhood +to take up the burdens that we must soon lay down, and who, +turning from these to the sweet-faced children whose hands are +filled with flowers and flags, can fail to feel those institutions of +liberty are secure for two generations at least? [Great cheering.] +I never knew until to-day the extent of the injury which the State +of Kansas had inflicted upon the State of Indiana [laughter and +cheers]—never until I had looked upon that long line of Indiana +soldiers that you plucked from us when the war was over by the +superior inducement which your fields and cities offered to their +ambitious toil. Indiana grieves for their loss, but rejoices in the +homes and prosperity they have found here. [Cheers.] They are +our proud contribution to the great development which this State +has made. They are our proud contribution to that great national +reputation which your State has established as the friend as well +as one of the bulwarks of liberty and law. [Cheers.] It was not +unnatural that they, coming back from scenes where comrades had +shed their blood for liberty, should choose to find homes in a State +that had the baptism of martyrs' blood upon its infant brow. +[Prolonged cheering.] The future is safe if we are but true to +ourselves, true to these children whose instruction is committed to +us. There is no other foe that can at all obstruct or hinder our +onward progress except treason in our own midst—treachery to the +great fundamental principle of our Government, which is obedience +to the law. The law, the will of the majority expressed in orderly, +constitutional methods, is the only king to which we bow. But +to him all must bow. Let it be understood in all your communities +that no selfish interest of the individual, no class interests, +however entrenched, shall be permitted to assert their convenience +against the law. This is good American doctrine, and if it can be +made to prevail in all the States of the Union until every man, +secure under the law in his own right, is compelled by the law to +yield to every other man his rights, nothing can shake our repose. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, fellow-citizens, you will excuse me from the attempt at +further speech. I beg you again to believe that I am grateful, so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[263]</a></span> +far as your presence here has any personal reference to myself—grateful +as a public officer for this evidence of your love and affection +for the Constitution and the country which we all love. +[Great applause.]</p> + +<p>There is some grumbling in Kansas, and I think it is because +your advantages are too great. [Laughter.] A single year of disappointment +in agricultural returns should not make you despair +of the future or tempt you to unsafe expedients. Life is made up +of averages, and I think yours will show a good average. Let us +look forward with hope, with courage, fidelity, thrift, patience, +good neighborly hearts, and a patriotic love for the flag. Kansas +and her people have an assured and happy future. [Prolonged +cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="NORTONVILLE_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10" id="NORTONVILLE_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10">NORTONVILLE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Nortonville the citizens, and especially the school +children, turned out <i>en masse</i> and gave the President the +heartiest of welcomes. Among the prominent residents +who participated in the greeting were Hon. A. J. Perry, S. +P. Griffin, Thomas Eckles, C. C. McCarthy, Dr. D. T. +Brown, L. P. King, D. A. Ellsworth, O. U. Babcock, Dr. +R. D. Webb, J. G. Roberts, W. T. Eckles, Harry Ellison, +Rev. T. Hood, and M. Crowberger. On behalf of the school +children a little girl climbed the steps and presented the +Chief Magistrate with an armful of beautiful bouquets, for +which she received a hearty kiss.</p> + +<p>Governor Humphrey introduced the President, who +spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—This brief stop forbids that I should say anything +more than thank you and to extend to you all my most friendly +greeting. The sky is overcast, but in this assemblage of your +school children, with flags and flowers, and in this gathering of +the sturdy men who have made Kansas great among States, there +are suggestions that spread a sky of beauty and hope above our +country and its destiny. It gives me great pleasure to make this +first visit to Kansas. It gives me great pleasure to see both at +Atchison and here the interest which the presence of these children +shows you take in public education. There are many here who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[264]</a></span> +in their early days experienced the hardships and privations of +pioneer life. The avenues of learning were shut against them, but +it is much to their credit that what they lacked in early life, the +impediments which have burdened their careers, they have bravely +resolved shall not burden their children. I thank you again for +this pleasant reception, and I bid you good-by, as we proceed on +our journey.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="VALLEY_FALLS_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10" id="VALLEY_FALLS_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10">VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Valley Falls, Kan., another large crowd was assembled. +The President was welcomed by Mayor A. D. Kendall, +Dr. A. M. Cowan, R. H. Crosby, M. M. Maxwell, Dr. +Frank Swallow, Mrs. J. H. Murry, Miss L. M. Ring, and +other prominent residents. Mrs. Dr. Cowan, on behalf of +the ladies, presented General Harrison with a basket of +flowers.</p> + +<p>In response to the enthusiastic greetings the President +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I thank you sincerely for this cordial reception. I +will not attempt any speech further than to say that this greeting +puts me, if possible, under still stronger obligations in every official +duty that devolves upon me to consult the interests of the people +and do that which seems to be most promotive of public good. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LAWRENCE_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10" id="LAWRENCE_KANSAS_OCTOBER_10">LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> historic city of Lawrence was reached at 4:40 +o'clock, where the cheers of an immense multitude, including +a battalion from Haskell Institute, welcomed the President. +The Reception Committee consisted of Mayor A. +Henley, George Innis, W. H. Whitney, Gov. Chas. Robinson, +Gen. J. N. Roberts, and E. F. Goodrich. The veterans +of Washington Post, G. A. R., Gen. H. S. Hall, Commander, +were present in a body.</p> + +<p>Mayor Henley, in the name of the city, welcomed the +President, who, responding, said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[265]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am sure you are kind, and the greatest kindness +you can do me is not to ask me to attempt to speak again so recently +after attempting at Topeka to talk to all the rest of the people +in Kansas [laughter] who are not here. I supposed until the +train pulled into this city that the entire citizenship of the State +was in the immense crowd congregated at Topeka to-day. My +voice was so strained in attempting to speak there that I will only +say to you that it gives me great pleasure to see you and to speak +to you, even for a moment, at this hospitable town. All the inspiration +connected with the story of the early history of Kansas +clusters around the city of Lawrence. I am sure you will find in that +story inspiration and suggestion that will keep the cause of liberty +ever near to your hearts. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KANSAS_CITY_OCTOBER_10" id="KANSAS_CITY_OCTOBER_10">KANSAS CITY, OCTOBER 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party reached Kansas City at 5:30 +<span class="smcap">P.M.</span> Friday, where a grand reception was tendered the +Chief Executive. The Committee of Reception, representing +the municipality and business interests, comprised the +following prominent citizens, who escorted the President +from Topeka: Mayor Benjamin Holmes, Witten McDonald, +J. C. James, Joseph Speyer, Judge C. L. Dobson, +Col. M. J. Payne, W. S. Woods, Hon. E. H. Allen, F. L. +Kaufman, M. E. Lawrence, Joseph Cahn, Col. T. B. Bullene, +Col. E. H. Phelps, Col. J. F. Richards, George R. +Barse, Major William Warner, William Taylor, Col. Louis +Hammerslough, E. C. Sattley, J. H. Fink, Col. W. A. Wilson, +Marshal Tracy, F. B. Nofsinger, Collector Devol, Surveyor +Guffin, Dr. F. W. Schulte, W. T. Urie, G. S. Hampton, +J. H. Smith, M. D. Henderson, H. J. Rosecrans, R. M. +Easley, H. C. Fike, B. S. Flersheim, Wm. Barton, H. J. +Long, E. M. Clendening, T. James, James M. Coburn, L. +E. Irwin, C. L. Valandingham, G. W. Hollinger, E. E. +Richardson, E. M. Wilcox, J. M. Cooper, W. H. Bundage, +M. H. Dickerson, C. A. Brockett, S. A. Pierce, J. H. Neff, +S. R. Hudson, A. H. Moffitt, S. B. Stokely, P. L. Whipple,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[266]</a></span> +J. W. Merrill, D. G. Saunders, F. W. Hatch, G. Bernheimer, +B. C. Burgess, S. T. Smith, and J. L. Walker.</p> + +<p>An enormous crowd greeted the President as he was +driven to the Coates House, where the distinguished party +were entertained at dinner by Mayor Holmes, ex-Governor +Crittenden, Mayor W. A. Coy, of Kansas City, Kan.; Gov. +A. J. Smith, of the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth; Hon. +John Scott Harrison—the President's brother—and other +leading citizens.</p> + +<p>In response to a toast to the President's health, General +Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I am sorry to cause even this temporary interruption +by leaving the banquet, but I am sure you will all appreciate the +desire I have to spend a few minutes under my brother's roof in +your city, and will therefore excuse me. Let me say that I very +much appreciate the friendly and hospitable spirit of the business +men of Kansas City, to whom I am indebted for this banquet and +reception. It has never been my pleasure before to visit your city, +but it has been well advertised, and I have heard of it frequently. +[Laughter and applause.] So far as I could tell by the dim light +of the evening in riding through the city, it realizes fully my +expectations in growth and prosperity. [Applause.] Let me say, +in conclusion, that I hope all your dreams for Kansas City may be +realized. [Great applause.]</p></div> + +<p>After passing the evening at his brother's residence, at +8 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> the President was escorted by 300 members of the +Third Regiment and a cavalry guard, commanded by Col. +Milton Moore, to the Chamber of Commerce, where an +informal reception was held.</p> + +<p>Major William Warner introduced the President, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow citizens</i>—I will not attempt to say more than that I +am very grateful to you for your kindness, for this cordial, genuine +Kansas City welcome. [Cheers.] The arrangements which have +been made, and which are intended to give me an opportunity to +meet some of you personally, and the early hour at which we are +to take the train for St. Louis, make it inappropriate that I should +attempt to speak at any length. I thank you again for your kind<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[267]</a></span>ness, +and will now submit myself to such arrangements as the +committee have made to spend the little time I have to spend with +you. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ST_LOUIS_OCTOBER_11" id="ST_LOUIS_OCTOBER_11">ST. LOUIS, OCTOBER 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President arrived in St. Louis at 9:30 in the morning +and received a royal welcome. As he drove through +the city amid the roar of cannon, it is estimated that fully +200,000 people greeted him, and his journey partook of a +triumph. The committee of escort that met the President +at Kansas City consisted of ex-Gov. E. O. Stanard, Col. S. +W. Fordyce, Hon. R. C. Kerens, and Marcus Bernheimer. +The guard of honor was a detail from the Grand Army, +commanded by Major Leo Rassieur.</p> + +<p>The President was met on arrival by the following distinguished +Committee of Reception: His Honor, Mayor +Noonan, D. M. Houser, Geo. D. Reynolds, R. M. Scruggs, +Nelson Cole, Col. James G. Butler, Col. J. O. Churchill, +Daniel Catlin, Wm. M. Senter, John Orrick, John S. +Moffett, S. Newman, D. P. Rowland, John J. Daly, A. B. +Ewing, Miles Sells, John Dillon, Professor Waterhouse, +Frank Buchanan, John B. Harlow, Marquand Foster, +Philip Brockman, Wm. Grassmuck, Chas. Scudder, John +J. O'Brien, T. J. Cummings, John H. Terry, J. S. Finkenbauer, +C. J. Hanabrinck, L. Bohle, O. M. Dean, John M. +Sellers, James Green, Dr. Thomas O'Reilly, Samuel Kennard, +O. M. Haye, John A. Scudder, H. L. Morrill, S. H. +H. Clark, John Scullen, C. C. Maffitt, Joseph Franklin, +Hon. F. G. Niedringhaus, Hon. Nathan Frank, W. M. +Kinsey, E. S. Rowse, Geo. D. Barnard, J. L. Boland, D. +H. King, C. P. Walbridge, B. F. Harnett, Geo. Taylor, R. +P. Tansey, A. S. White, F. A. Wann, M. M. Bodenheimer, +W. A. Hargadine, George A. Baker, John N. Booth, Geo. +W. Parker, J. D. Thompson, George A. Medill, E. C. Simmons, +Edwin C. Kehr, G. A. Finkelnburg, Marcus Bernheimer, +L. Beavis, Charles F. Joy, Henry Hitchcock,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[268]</a></span> +Wm. H. Thompson, W. F. Niedringhaus, Charles Espenschied, +A. B. Goodbaugh, Jonathan Rice, Jacob Meyer, +Goodman King, D. C. Nugent, John Davis, J. D. Bascom, +R. W. Shapleigh, Edgar D. Tilton, John C. Wilkinson, D. +D. Walker, Frederick Vaughn, E. F. Williams, J. H. +Wear, C. D. Comfort, C. C. Rainwater, F. W. Humphrey, +Michael McGinnis, John Wahl, W. L. Hughes, and +Thomas H. West.</p> + +<p>After reviewing the parade from the balcony of the +Southern Hotel the President and Secretary Tracy visited +the Merchants' Exchange and were tendered a reception +by the business men of the city. Mr. Marcus Bernheimer, +President of the Exchange, occupied the presiding chair +and introduced Gov. D. R. Francis, who, in an eloquent +address, welcomed the President in the name of the people +of Missouri. The Governor was followed by Hon. Edward +A. Noonan, Mayor of St. Louis, who extended a "sincere +and hearty greeting," on behalf of the residents of the +city.</p> + +<p>Hon. Charles Parsons then introduced the President, +who addressed the assemblage as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Francis, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very +grateful and very healthful to be so cordially received by you this +morning. The office which I have been called upon to administer +is very great in dignity, but it is very full of care and heavy +responsibility. The man who with conscientious regard and a +proper appreciation of the great trust seeks to administer it for the +public good will find himself daily beset with perplexities and +doubts, and daily besieged by those who differ with him as to the +public administration. But it is a great comfort to know that we +have an intelligent, thoughtful, and, at the same time, a very kind +people, who judge benevolently and kindly the acts of those public +servants of whose good disposition to do right they are not left in +doubt. And it is very pleasant to know—and I do not need these +eloquent words of assurance to have already impressed upon me—the +great lesson that there are more things in which we agree and +have common interests than in which we differ. But our differences +of opinion as to public administration are all brought to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span>gether +in a genuine patriotism and love of country. [Applause]. +It gives me pleasure to witness since my last visit to St. Louis +evidence of that steady and uninterrupted growth which this great +commercial centre has made since its birth as an Indian trading-post +on the Mississippi. No year has been without its added evidences +of progress, development, accumulation of wealth, and +increase in population. You have now passed any period of doubt +or uncertainty, and the career of St. Louis is assured. You have +grown like the oak, annually adding a ring to the prosperity and +wealth and commercial importance of your great city. You have +struck the roots of your influence broad and deep into the nourishing +earth of this great fertile land in which you have lived; and +the branches—the high branches of your enterprise—are reaching +toward the sunlight that shines upon them. You are situated upon +the Mississippi River, giving you water communication with the +sea, a communication which this Government has undertaken to +improve and secure, and which I believe will be made secure by +appropriate legislation. [Applause.] Nor do I know any reason +why these great lines of railway stretching from St. Louis to +the Southwest may not yet touch great ports of commerce, deep +harbors, until they shall become trunk lines. We have come to +regard only these lines of railway communication to eastern seaboards +as trunk lines. I do not know why. Indeed, I believe that +in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if +we are true to ourselves, our own fair part of commerce upon the +sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South +American trade [cheers], that these railroads from St. Louis, +touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with +lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and +bring their tribute to you. You shall in all these things find +a special interest, but an interest that will be shared, as all great +interests are, by the Nation and people, of which you are a loyal +and enterprising part. And now, my friends, again let me thank +you, and all those who have spoken in your behalf, for these +friendly words. These great industries of commerce and manufactures +here are entwined in friendly helpfulness. As they are +diversified your prosperity is increased; but under them all, as the +only secure rock upon which they can rest, is social order and +obedience to the law. Let it never be forgotten anywhere that +commerce builds only upon social order. Be watchful and careful +of every instrumentality or suggestion which puts itself against +the law. Where the law is wrong make it right. [Cries of +"Good!" and cheering.] Let that be the one rule of conduct in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span> +the public relations of every American citizen. And now, my +friends, again let me say thank you and good-by.</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion of the reception on 'Change the President, +escorted by the Committee of Reception, visited the +Fair Grounds and attended a banquet in his honor at the +Jockey Club House. In the evening the distinguished +guests visited the Exposition, where a tremendous crowd +gathered. As the President entered Music Hall, Gilmore's +famous band struck up "Hail to the Chief." The great +audience stood and called repeatedly for a speech. The +President arose in his box and bowed several times; but +there was no denying their demands, and Governor Francis +finally introduced his excellency, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I have sometimes thought that the life +of the President of the United States is like that of the policeman +in the opera—not a happy one. So many cares strew his path, so +many people's welfare is to be considered, that wiser heads than +mine may well be puzzled. The attention of this mighty audience +to-night has been distracted from the concert by my entrance, not +withstanding the fact that it has a leader more a master of his art +than any other on the continent. I did not, nor do I desire to +make a speech to-night. But as I have always declared myself in +favor of the rule of the majority, I feel compelled to do so.</p> + +<p>From early morn till late this evening the day has been one of +unalloyed pleasure to me. Every possible courtesy has been shown +our party, and we have gathered, I assure you, a most high opinion +of your people and your city. This building is in every way a +credit to St. Louis, the metropolis of the Southwest, and its exhibits +do credit to the merchants and manufacturers represented. I am +glad to see that the higher arts go hand-in-hand with mechanics. +Art, music, poetry, and song should not be separated from the +homes of the poor, and such an institution as this cannot fail to +instil all that is good into the hearts of every one. Before I close +let me tell you all how grateful and how complimented I feel at +my hearty reception in your midst. I shall always recall this day +with happy remembrance. Now, won't you crown the great courtesies +of the day by allowing me to end my speech? [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ANDERSON_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13" id="ANDERSON_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13">ANDERSON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> passed the Sabbath quietly at his +Indianapolis residence, and early Monday morning, accompanied +by Secretary Tracy and Marshal Ransdell, +started for Washington.</p> + +<p>The first stop was at Pendleton, where the President +shook hands with quite a crowd. Anderson, the county +seat of Madison County, was reached at 7:10, and a large +concourse of people greeted the travellers. The President +was received by Hon. Winfield T. Durbin, Chas. T. Doxey, +W. A. Kittinger, John F. McClure, Caleb Brown, Jacob +Koehler, Francis Watkins, A. A. Small, and other leading +citizens. Mayor Terhune, in a patriotic address, presented +the Chief Executive.</p> + +<p>After acknowledging the cordial greeting, the President +spoke of the rapid industrial development of that section +consequent upon the discovery and development of natural +gas, and predicted a fine future for the county. Concluding, +he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I am here to-day, returning to my duties at Washington from a +trip taken to meet some of my old comrades during the war. +There are some here this morning. I bid them God-speed; I give +them a comrade's greeting; and to you, my old-time friends, not +in politics, but in that pride and association which makes us all +Indianians—we are all proud of our State and proud of our communities—I +desire to say that while I have friends elsewhere, these +were my earliest friends—friends of my boyhood almost, for I was +scarcely more than a boy when I became a citizen of this State, +and I always turn to it with affectionate interest. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MUNCIE_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13" id="MUNCIE_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13">MUNCIE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Muncie the assemblage was very large, numbering +over 10,000, and the President received the most vociferous +greeting of the day. Here, as at other points in the State, +hundreds of General Harrison's old friends crowded forth +to welcome him and bid him God-speed. Prominent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[272]</a></span> +among these were: Hon. Frank Ellis, Mayor of the city; +Hon. M. C. Smith, Hon. John C. Eiler, Hon. Fred W. +Heath, Hon. W. W. Orr, Hon. O. N. Cranor, Hon. Geo. W. +Cromer, Judge O. J. Lotz, Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, Dr. +Thos. J. Bowles, Dr. A. B. Bradbury, A. L. Kerwood, Geo. +L. Lenon, F. E. Putnam, Thos. H. Kirby, Charles H. Anthony, +D. H. H. Shewmaker, Theodore F. Rose, N. N. +Spence, Chas. M. Kimbrough, Webster S. Richey, Thos. +L. Zook, John T. Watterhouse, J. W. Ream, C. E. Jones, +and R. I. Patterson. Mayor Ellis delivered a brief welcoming +address and introduced the President, who spoke +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have known this beautiful city of yours +and many of the people of this prosperous county for more than +thirty years. I have known in a general way the development of +your interests by almost yearly visits to the city of Muncie, but it +seems to me that in these two years I have been out of the State +you have made more progress than in any ten years when I was +in the State. [Cheers.] I think it was in the year 1886, when I +spent a night in Muncie, that my attention was drawn by some of +your citizens, as darkness settled down, to a remarkable and what +was then thought to be chiefly a curious red glow in your horizon. +It was, if I recollect aright, about the earliest development of natural +gas in Indiana, and the extent of this great field was wholly +unknown. How rapidly events have crowded each other since! +You have delved into the earth and have found the supply of this +most adaptable and extraordinary fuel inexhaustible; and what has +it done for you? No longer are you transporting coal from the +distant mines to feed your furnaces. No longer are you sending +the choppers into the woods to cut your trees and haul them in, +that they may bring you winter heat and fuel. The factories have +been coming to you. This convenient heat and serviceable fuel is +found in the humblest home in Muncie. How it has added to +your comfort only those who have used it know. How much it +has added to your prosperity and development of manufactures here +you have only begun to know. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>The sunlight will not more surely shed its beams on us this +morning than this great tide of prosperity which has set in through +this gas belt in Indiana shall go on increasing until all these cities +and towns within its radius are full of busy men and humming<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[273]</a></span> +machinery. What does all this mean? It means employment for +men. It means happy and comfortable homes for an increasing +population. It means an increased home market for the products +of your farm. It means that the farmer will have a choice of +crops, and will have consumers for perishable products of his farm +at his very door. It means, if you preserve the order of your community, +if this good county of Delaware continues to maintain its +reputation as a law-abiding, liberty-loving, free-school-loving population +[cheers], that you shall have a prosperity—an increase of +riches and of human comfort that we have scarcely conceived.</p> + +<p>And now, my friends, all over this, and above all this, and better +than it all, let us keep in mind those higher things that make our +country great. I do not forget that your good county sent to the +war of the Union, in the gallant regiments that went from this +State, a multitude of brave men to stand by the flag. [Cheers.] +Some of them are with you to-day. [Applause.] Now let that +love of the flag be still uppermost in your hearts. Nothing has +pleased me more as I passed through some of our Western States +than to see that the school children everywhere had the starry flag +in their hands. [Cheers.] Let it be so here and everywhere. Let +them learn to love it, to know its beauty, in order that when the +time of peril comes they may be ready to defend it. [Applause.] +Now to these friends, I am most grateful for your appreciative +kindness, and if I shall be able, in the discharge of high and difficult +duties, to maintain the respect and confidence of my fellow-citizens +of Indiana, other things will take care of themselves.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WINCHESTER_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13" id="WINCHESTER_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13">WINCHESTER, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Winchester's</span> greeting was of the most cordial character; +a large share of the population of Randolph County +seemed to have turned out to do the President honor. +Among the prominent citizens participating were: Leander +J. Monks, Albert O. Marsh, Martin B. Miller, C. W. +Moore, Dennis Kelley, W. R. Way, W. E. Miller, T. F. +Moorman, Albert Canfield, John R. Engle, A. C. Beeson, +E. L. Watson, Thos. S. Gordon, H. P. Kizer, J. E. Watson, +John T. Chenoweth, W. H. Reinheimer, B. Hawthorne, +and B. W. Simmons.</p> + +<p>Gen. Thomas M. Browne, on behalf of the citizens, de<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[274]</a></span>livered +an eloquent address of welcome, and closed by introducing +President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It gives me great pleasure to hear from the lips of +your honored fellow-citizen, my old-time army comrade, these +words of welcome, spoken in your behalf. I thank you and him +for his assurance that your assembling here together is without +regard to difference in belief, and as American citizens having +common interests and a common love for the flag and the Constitution. +Now, to these good people of Randolph County I render +this morning my sincere thanks for their hearty and cordial welcome. +No public servant, in whatever station, can ever be indifferent +to the good esteem of men and women and children like +these. You do not know how much these kindly faces, these +friendly Indiana greetings, help me in the discharge of duties that +are not always easy.</p> + +<p>I bid you good-by and God-speed. I do wish for Indiana and all +her people the greatest happiness that God can give. [Prolonged +cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="UNION_CITY_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13" id="UNION_CITY_INDIANA_OCTOBER_13">UNION CITY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President found another great crowd awaiting him +at Union City, including several hundred school children, +each waving a flag. Between rows of children he was escorted +to the park near the station by a committee consisting +of Hon. Theo. Shockney, B. F. Coddington, J. S. +Reeves, and Geo. W. Patchell. Arrived at the park he +was met by James B. Ross, S. R. Bell, L. C. Huesman, J. +F. Rubey, W. S. Ensign, L. D. Lambert, J. B. Montani, +C. S. Hardy, J. C. Platt, Judge J. W. Williams, R. G. +Clark, H. H. Le Fever, H. D. Grahs, Chas. Hook, and other +prominent citizens. Senator Shockney made the welcoming +address. The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Senator Shockney and Fellow-citizens</i>—The conditions are not +such here that I can hope to make many of you hear the few words +that it is possible for me to speak to you. I have found myself in +this tour through these Western States, undertaken for the purpose +of meeting some of my comrades of the late war, who had invited<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[275]</a></span> +me to be with them at their annual gatherings, repeating the words +"Thank you" everywhere. I have felt how inadequate this word +or any other word was to express the sense of gratitude I should +feel to these friendly fellow-citizens who everywhere greeted me +with kind words and kinder faces. I feel very grateful to see you, +and to realize that if there are any fault-finders, sometimes with +reason, and sometimes without, that the great body of our people +are interested only in good government, in good administration, and +that the offices shall be filled by men who understand that they are +the servants of the people, and who serve them faithfully and well. +If it were not so a President would despair. Great as the Government +is, vast as is our civil list, it is wholly inadequate to satisfy +the reasonable demands of men, and so, from disappointment, reasonable +or unreasonable, we turn with confidence and receive with +encouragement these kindly greetings from the toilers of the country—the +men and women who only ask from the Government that +it shall protect them in their lives, their property, and their homes; +that it shall encourage education, provide for these sweet young +children, so that they shall have an easier road in life than their +fathers had, and that there shall be an absence of corrupt intent or +act in the administration of public business.</p> + +<p>And now, standing on the line which divides these two States, +the one for which I have the regard every man should feel for his +birthplace, and the other to which I owe everything I have received +in civil life or public honor, I beg to call your attention to the fact +how little State lines have to do with American life. Some of you +pay your taxes on that side of the line, some on this, but in your +intercourse, business, and social ties you cross this line unknowingly. +Above both and greater than both—above the just pride +which Ohioans have in that noble State, and above the just pride +which we have in Indiana—there floats this banner that is the common +banner of us all. We are one in citizenship; we are one in +devotion to the Government, which makes the existence of States +possible and their destruction impossible. [Cheers.] And now, +to these children, to my Grand Army friends, and to these old citizens, +many of whom I have met under other conditions, I beg to +say God bless you every one, and good-by.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DE_GRAFF_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="DE_GRAFF_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">DE GRAFF, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Crossing</span> the Ohio line a short stop was made at Sidney, +where the President shook hands and received a delegation +from Bellefontaine headed by Judge Wm. Lawrence. +At De Graff the President met with a cordial reception, +especially from the school children. He was welcomed by +ex-Mayor H. P. Runyon, Dr. W. W. Hamer, Dr. W. H. +Hinkle, W. E. Haris, G. W. Harnish, John F. Rexer, Dr. +F. M. Galer, Dr. Wm. Hance, R. O. Bigley, D. S. Spellman, +D. W. Koch, Benjamin Bunker, W. H. Valentine, J. W. +Strayer, and S. E. Loffer.</p> + +<p>Superintendent of Schools Joseph Swisher introduced +the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very glad to see you all, and especially these +dear young children. I have been passing through a country glorious +in the autumnal tints which make a landscape that can be +seen nowhere else in the world, and yet I turn always from these +decaying glories of nature with great delight to look into the +bright faces of these happy children, where I see a greater, because +immortal, glory. I thank them for their presence here this morning. +I wish their lives may be as sunny and bright through manhood +and through womanhood, finding happiness in usefulness. I +wish I had time to shake hands with you all. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BELLEFONTAINE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="BELLEFONTAINE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Bellefontaine</span> accorded the President an enthusiastic +welcome. The Committee of Reception consisted of Dr. +A. L. Wright, Mayor of the city; Judge William Lawrence, +Judge West, Judge Price, J. C. Brand, D. Hennesy, +Geo. W. Emerson, Aaron Gross, A. C. Elliott, A. E. +Griffen, H. J. King, J. E. West, I. N. Zearing, and J. Q. +A. Campbell.</p> + +<p>Mayor Wright delivered a brief welcoming address and +introduced the President, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[277]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I wish all of you could have seen what I +have seen in this extended but hasty visit through some of the +great States of the central West, the broader view which we get +as we journey through this country of the capabilities of its soil, +of the beauties of its landscape, of the happiness of its homes, but, +above all, of the sturdy manhood of its people, can but be useful +to every public man and every patriot. [Applause.] No one can +make such a journey as we have and look into the faces of hundreds +of thousands of his fellow-citizens and see how here in Ohio, +Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri they are everywhere +characterized by a sturdy independence and intelligent thoughtfulness +and manhood, and doubt the future of this country of which +they are citizens. Nothing can shake its repose as long as this +great mass of people in these homes, on these farms, in these shops +and city dwelling-places are true to themselves and to their children. +Not every one can hope to reach the maximum of human +wealth or enjoyment, but nowhere else is there so general a diffusion +of human comfort and the conveniences of life as in this land +of ours. You must not, then, show unthankfulness to the framers +of our great Constitution or to God by indulging in gloomy forebodings +or in unreasonable complaint. He has not promised that +everywhere and every season the fields should give full returns. +He has promised that the food of man should not fail, and where +else is famine unknown? Other countries have now and then +appealed for philanthropic help from abroad to feed their population, +greater or less. The United States has always a surplus after +its people are fed, and for this we should be thankful. I have +been told everywhere that though crops in some respects and in +some places have been short, the general prosperity is very great. +Everywhere I have been told that no wheel is idle, and that no +hand is idle that seeks employment that honest bread may come +to his household. I believe that we are on an upward grade of +prosperity, if we will be brave and hopeful and true, that shall +lead us perhaps to a development and an increase of wealth we +have never before attained. And now, my fellow-citizens, thanking +you for this friendly morning greeting, I bid you good-by. +[Applause.] Let me have the pleasure, however, of introducing +to you my valued associate at Washington—Secretary Tracy. +[Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CRESTLINE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="CRESTLINE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">CRESTLINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> people of Crestline honored the President with a +large assembly, prominent among whom were: Mayor +P. W. Pool, Hon. Daniel Babst, John G. Barney, Alexander +Hall, B. F. Miller, John Whittle, John F. Castle, C. F. +Frank, Dr. W. P. Bennett, L. G. Russell, A. Howorth, G. +B. Thrailkill, E. S. Bagley, D. L. Zink, J. P. Davis, T. P. +Kerr, W. R. Boyd, E. W. Hadley, Samuel Gee, C. C. Hall, +D. S. Patterson, and Richard Youngblood.</p> + +<p>Mayor Pool welcomed and introduced the President in a +brief address. General Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Already some seven or eight times this +morning, beginning before breakfast, I have been called upon to +talk briefly to my fellow-citizens who have gathered at the various +points where we made brief stops at their request. The story I +must tell you is the same old story I have been telling them—that +I am very grateful for your friendly expressions and presence; +very grateful for the kindliness which speaks through those who +address me, and for the kindness which appears in all your faces. +It is pleasant to know that as against all enemies of our country +we are one, that we have great pride, just pride in our birthright +as American citizens, just pride in the country of our adoption as +to those who have found a home here with us. It is the people's +land more than any other country in the world. Mr. Lincoln +felicitously expressed it to be a "government of the people, by the +people, for the people." [Applause.] They originate it; they +perpetuate it. If it does not miss its purpose it is administered +for their good. [Applause.] And so to you upon whom the burden +of citizenship now rests, you who have the care of these homes +and the responsibilities of womanhood; to these lads who will soon +be citizens, and to these girls who are coming on to womanhood, +to all I express my thanks for your friendly greeting. [Applause.] +To every one of you I wish the most abundant success; that every +home represented here may be a typical American home, in which +morality and purity and love sit as the crowning virtues and are +household gods. Our country is prosperous, though not all have +attained this year the measure of success which they had hoped +for. If there was any shortness of crops anywhere, already the +fields are green with the promise of another year. Let our hearts<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[279]</a></span> +be hopeful, let us be faithful and true, and the future of our country +and our own comfort are assured. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MANSFIELD_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="MANSFIELD_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">MANSFIELD, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Mansfield, the home of Senator Sherman, a large +assemblage greeted the President, prominent among whom +was the distinguished Senator, and Hon. Henry C. Hedges, +Frank W. Pierson, J. M. Waugh, Frank K. Tracy, Maj. +Joseph S. Hedges, Hon. W. S. Kerr, J. R. Brown, Nelson +Ozier, Capt. W. S. Bradford, Hon. W. S. Cappeller, Hon. +W. M. Hahn, Capt. Joseph Brown, G. U. Harn, Maj. W. +W. Smith, Geo. C. Wise, Judge Jas. E. Lowry, James McCoy, +John Crum, Ried Carpenter, and Wm. C. Hedges, Jr.</p> + +<p>Senator Sherman introduced the President, who spoke +briefly, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We stop so frequently upon this journey +and our time at each station is so brief, that I cannot hope to say +anything that would be interesting or instructive. I thank you +most sincerely for these friendly manifestations. I am glad to be +permitted to stop at the home of your distinguished Senator and +my friend. [Cheers.] I am sure, however you may differ from him +in political opinion, the people of Mansfield and of Ohio are proud +of the eminence which he has attained in the counsels of the +Nation and of the distinguished service he has been able to render +to his country not only in Congress but in the Treasury Department. +[Cheers.] He is twin in greatness with that military brother who +led some of you, as he did me, in some of the great campaigns of +the war, and they have together rendered conspicuous services to +this country, which we, as they, love with devoted affection. We +have so many common interests and so much genuine friendliness +among the American people that except in the very heat and ardor +of a political campaign the people are kind to each other, and we +soon forget the rancor of these political debates. We ought never +to forget that we are American citizens; we ought never to forget +that we are put in charge of American interests, and that it is our +duty to defend them. [Applause.] Thanking you again for your +presence and kindliness, I bid you good-by. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[280]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WOOSTER_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="WOOSTER_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">WOOSTER, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Wooster, the seat of the well-known university, the +presidential party received a rousing greeting, especially +from the students with their college cry. At the head of +the Committee of Reception was the venerable Professor +Stoddard, formerly professor of chemistry at Miami University +when Benjamin Harrison attended that institute. +Among other prominent townsmen who received the President +were: Hon. M. L. Smyser, Hon. A. S. McClure, +Jacob Frick, Col. C. V. Hard, Capt. Harry McClarran, Dr. +John A. Gann, Dr. R. N. Warren, Capt. R. E. Eddy, Lieut. +W. H. Woodland, W. O. Beebe, Dr. J. D. Robison, Wm. +Annat, John C. Hall, Enos Pierson, R. J. Smith, Samuel +Metzler, Geo. W. Reed, C. W. McClure, A. G. Coover, A. +M. Parish, Anthony Wright, Abram Plank, J. S. R. Overholt, +Jesse McClellan, David Nice, Andrew Branstetter, +Charles Landam, Wm. F. Kane, Capt. Lemuel Jeffries, +Sylvester F. Scovel, D.D., O. A. Hills, D.D., Jas. M. +Quinby, R. W. Funck, and Harry Heuffstot.</p> + +<p>Congressman Smyser introduced the President, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—If anything could relieve the sense of weariness +which is ordinarily incident to extended railroad travel, it +would be the exceeding kindness with which we have been everywhere +received by our fellow-citizens, and to look upon an audience +like that assembled here, composed in part of venerable men who +experienced the hardships of early life in Ohio, of some of those +venerable women who shared those labors and self-denials of early +life in the West, and in part of their sons, that gallant second +generation, who, in the time of the Nation's peril in 1861, sprang +to its defence and brought the flag home in honor [applause], and +in part of these young men here undergoing that discipline of +mind which is to fit them for useful American citizenship, full of +the ambitions of early manhood, and, I trust, rooted in the principles +of morality and loyalty [applause], and in part of these sweet-faced +children, coming from your schools and homes to brighten +with their presence this graver assembly. Where else in the +world could such a gathering be assembled? Where else so much<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[281]</a></span> +social order as here? The individual free to aspire and work, the +community its own police officer and guardian.</p> + +<p>We are here as American citizens, having, first, duties to our +families, then to our neighborhood—to the institutions and business +with which we are connected—but above all, and through and +by all these duties, to our country and to God, by whose beneficial +guidance our Government was founded, by whose favor and protection +it has been preserved. [Applause.] Friendly to all peoples +of the world, we will not thwart their course or provoke quarrels +by unfriendly acts, neither will we be forgetful of the fact that we +are charged here first with the conservation and promotion of +American interests, and that our Government was founded for its +own citizenship. [Applause and cheers.] But I cannot speak at +further length. I must hurry on to other places, where kind people +are impatiently awaiting our coming, and to duties which will be +assumed and undertaken with more courage since I have so often +looked into the kind faces of the people whom I endeavor to serve. +[Applause.] Let me present to you now, and I do so with great +pleasure, one of the gentlemen called by me under the Constitution +to assist in the administration of the Government—one whom I +know you have learned to love and honor as you are now privileged +to know—Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy, the Secretary of the +Navy. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ORRVILLE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="ORRVILLE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">ORRVILLE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Orrville, Wayne County, it was not contemplated to +stop; but so large and enthusiastic was the crowd the President +held a brief reception. Among the prominent townsmen +who welcomed him were: A. H. Walkey, S. N. Coe, +A. E. Clark, J. W. Hostetter, A. Dennison, N. S. Brice, D. +J. Luikheim, and John Trout.</p> + +<p>In response to repeated cries of "speech," the President +said: "Fellow-citizens—The American people are very +kind"—at this point the train started, and the President +closed abruptly by saying-"and I feel sure that they +will here excuse my failure to make a speech." There +were loud shouts of laughter at the President's readiness +as the train pulled out.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MASSILLON_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="MASSILLON_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">MASSILLON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Massillon several thousand people assembled and +great enthusiasm prevailed. The Committee of Reception +consisted of Hon. William M. Reed, Mayor of the city; +Prof. E. A. Jones, Hon. J. Walter McClymonds, Hon. S. +A. Conrad, William F. Ricks, Clement Russell, and Joseph +Grapevine, Esq. The Grand Army veterans and school +children were present in force. Mayor Reed made the +welcoming address.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—The burden of obligation connected +with this visit is put upon me by the enthusiasm and +magnitude of this welcome which you have extended to me. It +gives me pleasure to stop for a brief moment in a city widely celebrated +for its industries, and among a people widely celebrated for +their virtues and intelligence. [Cheers.] It was especially gratifying +as we passed in your suburbs, one of these busy hives of +industry, to see upon the bank, waving with hearty cheers, the +operatives in their work-day clothes. It is of great interest to +know that you have these diversified industries among you. Your +lot would be unhappy and not prosperous if you were all pursuing +the same calling, even if it were the calling to which I belong, the +profession of the law. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>It is well that your interchanging industries and pursuits lean +upon and help each other, increasing and making possible indeed +the great prosperity which you enjoy. I hope it is true here that +everybody is getting a fair return for his labor. We cannot afford +in America to have any discontented classes, and if fair wages are +paid for fair work we will have none. [Cheers.] I am not one of +those who believe that cheapness is the highest good. I am not +one of those who believe that it can be to my interest, or to yours, +to purchase in the market anything below the price that pays to +the men who make it fair living wages. [Great cheering.] We +should all "live and let live" in this country. [Cheers.] Our +strength, our promise for the future, our security for social happiness +are in the contentment of the great masses who toil. It is in +kindly intercourse and relationship between capital and labor, each +having its appropriate increase, that we shall find the highest good, +the capitalist and employer everywhere extending to those who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</a></span> +work for human rights a kindly consideration with compensatory +wages. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, to these children and Grand Army friends who greet me +here, I say, thank you and God speed you and good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CANTON_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="CANTON_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">CANTON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Canton</span>, the home of Hon. William McKinley, Jr., +gave the President a most cordial and clamorous greeting. +The G. A. R. and other organizations were out in full +force. Among the leading citizens who welcomed the +Chief Executive were: W. K. Miller, W. L. Alexander, +Judge J. P. Fawcett, J. M. Campbell, Judge J. W. Underhill, +Andrew D. Braden, Col. J. E. Dougherty, Col. J. J. +Clark, N. Holloway, and Capt. C. T. Oldfield.</p> + +<p>Major McKinley introduced the President, who addressed +the large assemblage, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The inconvenience which you suffer to-day, +and under which I labor in attempting to speak to you, comes from +the fact that there are more of you here than can come within the +range of my voice, but not more, I assure you, my fellow-citizens, +than I can take and do take most hospitably in my regard. +[Cheers.] It gives me great pleasure to stand here in the prosperous +and growing city of Canton. I am glad to be at the home of +one with whom I have been associated in Congressional duties for +a number of years, and who in all personal relations with me, as I +believe in all personal relations with you, his neighbors, has won +my regard, as I am sure he has won yours [cheers]; and without +any regard to what may be thought of the McKinley bill, I am sure +here to-day you are all the good neighbors and friends of William +McKinley. [Cheers.] Kind-hearted and generous as he seems to +me, I am sure he has not failed in these social relations, whatever +judgment you may have of his political opinions, in making the +masses of the people proud of him as their distinguished friend. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>You have here to-day the representatives of men from the shops, +from the railroads, from the stores, from the offices of your city. +You are living together in those helpful and interchanging relations +which make American life pleasant and which make American +cities prosperous. The foundation of our society is in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[284]</a></span> +motto that every man shall have such wages as will enable him +to live decently and comfortably, and rear his children as helpful +and safe and useful American citizens. [Cheers.] We all desire, +I am sure—every kindly heart—that all the relations between +employers and workmen shall be friendly and kind. I wish everywhere +the associations were closer and employers more thoughtful +of those who work for them. I am sure there is one thing in +which we all agree, whatever our views may be on the tariff or +finance, and that is, there is no prosperity that in the wide, liberal +sense does not embrace within it every deserving and industrious +man and woman in the community. [Cheers.] We are here all +responsible citizens, and we should all be free from anything that +detracts from our liberties and independence, or that retards the +development of our intelligence, morality, and patriotism.</p> + +<p>I am glad here to speak to some, too, who were comrades in the +great struggle of the Civil War [cheers]; glad that there are here +soldiers who had part in that great success by which our institutions +were preserved and the control and sovereignty of the Constitution +and law were forever established. [Cheers.] To them, +and to all such friends, I extend to-day a hearty greeting, and +would if I could extend a comrade's hand. [Cheers.] And now, +my friends, the heat of this day, the exhaustion of a dozen speeches, +made at intervals as we have come along, renders it impossible +that I should speak to you longer. I beg to thank you all for your +presence. I beg to hope that, as American citizens, however we +differ about particular matters of legislation or administration, +we are all pledged, heart and soul, life and property, to the preservation +of the Union and to the honor of our glorious flag. [Great +cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ALLIANCE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13" id="ALLIANCE_OHIO_OCTOBER_13">ALLIANCE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Alliance the assembly was very large. A Reception +Committee, headed by Mayor J. M. Stillwell and comprising +the following leading citizens, met the President: +Hon. David Fording, H. W. Harris, T. R. Morgan, Wm. +Brinker, Madison Trail, Dr. J. H. Tressel, H. W. Brush, +W. H. Morgan, Thos. Brocklebank, Chas. Ott, Dr. W. P. +Preston, E. N. Johnston, J. H. Focht, W. H. Ramsey, W. +W. Webb, E. E. Scranton, Henry Heer, Jr., and Harper +Brosius.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[285]</a></span></p> + +<p>Chairman Fording delivered a welcoming address and +introduced President Harrison, who in response said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—There is nothing in which the American +people are harder upon their public servants than in the insatiable +demand they make for public speech. I began talking before +breakfast this morning, and have been kept almost continuously at +it through the day, with scarcely time for lunch; and yet, as long +as the smallest residuum of strength or voice is left I cannot fail +to recognize these hearty greetings and to say some appreciative +word in return. I do very much thank you, and I do very deeply +feel the cordial enthusiasm with which you have received me. It +is very pleasant to know that as American citizens we love our +Government and its institutions, and are all ready to pay appropriate +respect to any public officer who endeavors in such light as +he has to do his public duty. This homage is not withheld by +one's political opponents, and it is pleasant to know that in all +things that affect the integrity and honor and perpetuity of our +Government we rise above party ties and considerations. The +interests of this Government are lodged with you. There is not +much that a President can do to shape its policy. He is charged +under the Constitution with the duty of making suggestions to +Congress, but, after all, legislation originates with the Congress of +the United States, and the policy of our laws is directed by it. +The President may veto, but he cannot frame a bill. Therefore it +is of great interest to you, and to all our people, that you should +choose such men to represent you in the Congress of the United +States as will faithfully promote those policies to which you have +given your intelligent adhesion. This country of ours is secure, +and social order is maintained, because the great masses of our +people live in contentment and some good measure of comfort. +God forbid that we should ever reach the condition which has been +reached by some other countries, where all that is before many of +their population is the question of bare subsistence, where it is +simply "how shall I find bread for to-day?" No hopes of accumulation; +no hope of comfort; no hope of education, or higher things +for the children that are to come after them. God be blessed that +that is not our condition in America! Here is a chance to every +man; here fair wages for fair work, with education for the masses, +with no classes or distinctions to keep down the ambitious young. +We have a happy lot. Let us not grumble if now and then things +are not prosperous as they might be. Let us think of the average, +and if this year's crop is not as full as we could wish, we have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[286]</a></span> +already in these green fields the promise of a better one to come. +Let us not doubt that we are now—as I have seen the evidence of +it in a very extended trip through the West—entering upon an up +grade in all departments of business. [Cheers.] Everywhere I +went, in the great city of St. Louis and the smaller manufacturing +towns through which we passed, there was one story to tell—and +I have no doubt it is true in your midst—every wheel is running +and every hand is busy. [Cheers.] I believe the future is bright +before us for increasingly better times for all, and as it comes I +hope it may be so generally diffused that its kindly touch may be +felt by every one who hears me, and that its beneficent help may +come into every home. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KANSAS_CITY_MISSOURI_APRIL_14_1891" id="KANSAS_CITY_MISSOURI_APRIL_14_1891">KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, APRIL 14, 1891.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Letter to Western States Commercial Congress.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first Western States Commercial Congress met at +Kansas City, Mo., April 14, 1891. Delegations composed +mainly of business men, appointed by the Governors of the +various States and Territories, were present from the following +Western and Southern States and Territories: +Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, +Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, +Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, +Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, +New Mexico, and Oklahoma. On motion of Governor +Francis, of Missouri, State Senator H. B. Kelly, of Kansas, +was chosen Chairman of the Congress and Hon. +John W. Springer, of Illinois, Secretary. Letters of +regret were read from those who had been specially invited +to attend the Congress. Among the letters was +the following from President Harrison:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Washington</span>, April 7. +</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Hon. H. B. Kelly</span>, <i>Chairman, Kansas City, Mo.</i>: +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your +letter of March 24, inviting me to attend the meeting of the commercial +congress of the Western agricultural and mining States, to +assemble in Kansas City, April 14 to 19, for the purpose of consid<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[287]</a></span>ering +measures affecting the general agricultural and business +prosperity of the Mississippi Valley States. I regret that it will +not be possible for me to accept this invitation. If I am not +detained here by public business I shall probably start about that +time for the Pacific coast by the Southern route; and if that purpose +should be thwarted it will be by considerations that will also +prevent the acceptance of your invitation.</p> + +<p>A public discussion of the conditions affecting agricultural and +business prosperity cannot but be helpful, if it is conducted on +broad lines and is hospitable to differences of opinion. The extraordinary +development of the productions of agriculture which +has taken place in a recent period in this country by reason of the +rapid enlargement of the area of tillage under the favoring land +laws of the United States, very naturally has called attention to +the value, and, indeed, the necessity of larger markets. I am one +of those who believe that a home market is necessarily the best +market for the producer, as it measurably emancipates him in proportion +to its nearness from the exactions of the transportation +companies. If the farmer could deliver his surplus produce to the +consumer out of his farm-wagon his independence and his profits +would be larger and surer. It seems to me quite possible to attain +a largely increased market for our staple farm products without +impairing our home market by opening the manufacturing trades +to a competition in which foreign producers, paying a lower scale +of wages, would have the advantage. A policy that would reduce +the number of our people engaged in mechanical pursuits or +diminish their ability to purchase food products by reducing wages +cannot be helpful to those now engaged in agriculture. The farmers +insist that the prices of farm products have been too low—below +the point of fair living and fair profits. I think so too, but I venture +to remind them that the plea they make involves the concession +that things may be too cheap. A coat may be too cheap as +well as corn. The farmer who claims a good living and profits for +his work should concede the same to every other man and woman +who toils.</p> + +<p>I look with great confidence to the completion of further reciprocal +trade arrangements, especially with the Central and South +American states, as furnishing new and large markets for meats, +breadstuffs, and an important line of manufactured products. +Persistent and earnest efforts are also being made, and a considerable +measure of success has already been attained, to secure the +removal of restrictions which we have regarded as unjust upon the +admission and use of our meats and live cattle in some of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[288]</a></span> +European countries. I look with confidence to a successful termination +of the pending negotiations, because I cannot but assume +that when the absolutely satisfactory character of the sanitary +inspections now provided by our law is made known to those foreign +states they will promptly relax their discriminating regulations. +No effort and none of the powers vested in the Executive +will be left unused to secure an end which is so desirable.</p> + +<p>Your deliberations will probably also embrace consideration of +the question of the volume and character of our currency. It will +not be possible and would not be appropriate for me in this letter +to enter upon any elaborate discussion of these questions. One or +two things I will say, and first, I believe that every person who +thoughtfully considers the question will agree with me upon a +proposition which is at the base of all my consideration of the +currency question, namely, that any dollar, paper or coin, that is +issued by the United States must be made and kept in its commercial +uses as good as any other dollar. So long as any paper money +issued or authorized by the United States Government is accepted +in commercial use as the equivalent of the best coined dollar that +we issue, and so long as every coined dollar, whether of silver or +gold, is assured of an equivalent value in commercial use, there +need be no fear as to an excess of money. The more such money +the better. But, on the other hand, when any issue of paper or +coined dollars is, in buying and selling, rated at a less value than +other paper or coined dollars, we have passed the limit of safe +experiment in finance. If we have dollars of differing values, only +the poorest will circulate. The farmer and the laborer, who are +not in hourly touch with the ticker of the telegraph, will require, +above all other classes of our community, a dollar of full value. +Fluctuations and depreciations are always at the first cost of these +classes of our community. The banker and the speculator anticipate, +discount, and often profit by such fluctuations. It is very +easy, under the impulse of excitement of the stress of money stringency, +to fall into the slough of a depreciated or irredeemable +currency. It is a very painful and slow business to get out when +once in.</p> + +<p>I have always believed, and do now more than ever believe, in +bimetallism, and favor the fullest use of silver in connection with +our currency that is compatible with the maintenance of the parity +of the gold and silver dollars in their commercial uses. Nothing, +in my judgment, would so much retard the restoration of the free +use of silver by the commercial nations of the world as legislation +adopted by us that would result in placing this country upon a basis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[289]</a></span> +of silver monometallism. The legislation adopted by the first session +of the Fifty-first Congress I was assured by leading advocates of +free coinage—representatives of the silver States—would promptly +and permanently bring silver to $1.29 per ounce and keep it there. +That anticipation has not been realized. Our larger use of silver +has apparently, and for reasons not yet agreed upon, diminished +the demand for silver in China and India.</p> + +<p>In view of the fact that it is impossible in this letter to elaborate, +and that propositions only can be stated, I am aware that what I +have said may be assailed in points where it is easily defensible, +but where I have not attempted to present the argument.</p> + +<p>I have not before, excepting in an official way, expressed myself +on these subjects; but feeling the interest, dignity, and importance +of the assemblage in whose behalf you speak, I have ventured, +without bigotry of opinion, without any assumption of infallibility, +but as an American citizen, having a most earnest desire +that every individual and every public act of my life shall conduce +to the glory of our country and the prosperity of all our people, to +submit these views for your consideration.</p> + +<p class="mid-left"> +Very respectfully, +</p> +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison</span>. +</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ACROSS_THE_CONTINENT_1891" id="ACROSS_THE_CONTINENT_1891">ACROSS THE CONTINENT, 1891.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> started on his memorable journey +to Texas and the Pacific Coast States at 12:15 o'clock +Tuesday morning, April 14, 1891. The party consisted +of the President and Mrs. Harrison, Postmaster-General +John Wanamaker, Secretary of Agriculture J. M. Rusk, +Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, Mrs. J. R. McKee, Mrs. +Dimmick, Maj. J. P. Sanger, Military Aid to the President, +Marshal Daniel M. Ransdell, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. +Boyd, Mr. E. F. Tibbott, stenographer to the President, and +Alfred J. Clark, O. P. Austin, and R. Y. Oulahan, press +representatives. At Chattanooga the party was joined +by the President's younger brother, Mr. Carter B. Harrison, +and wife, and at Los Angeles by Mr. C. L. Saunders.</p> + +<p>The train that safely carried the head of the Nation on this +great tour was a marvel of mechanical perfection unrivalled<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span> +in equipment. Mr. Geo. W. Boyd, General Assistant Passenger +Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, prepared the +schedule and had charge of the train throughout.</p> + +<p>No predecessor of President Harrison ever attempted +the great task of travelling 10,000 miles, or delivering 140 +impromptu addresses within the limit of 30 days—an +achievement remarkable in many respects. His long-extended +itinerary was an almost continuous series of receptions +and responses, and there is no instance where any +man in public life, subjected to the requirements of a +similar hospitable ordeal, has acquitted himself with +greater dignity, tact, and good sense both as to the matter +and manner of his utterances. This series of speeches is +in marked contrast with his incisive utterances during the +campaign of 1888, and disclose General Harrison's ability +to seize the vital topic of the moment and present it to a +mixed audience in such a way that while consistent with +his own record he yet raises no antagonisms.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ROANOKE_VIRGINIA_APRIL_14" id="ROANOKE_VIRGINIA_APRIL_14">ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Leaving</span> Washington shortly after midnight, the train +passed through Lynchburg at an early hour and arrived at +Roanoke, its first stopping-point, at 8:50 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> Seemingly +the entire population of the enterprising city was out to +welcome the President to Old Virginia. Prominent among +those who greeted the party were Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. +Eddy, W. B. Bevill, John A. Pack, Allen Hull, A. S. Asberry, +and John D. Smith.</p> + +<p>After shaking hands with several hundred, President +Harrison, in response to repeated calls, spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I desire to thank you very sincerely for this +friendly greeting. The State of Virginia is entitled, I think, to +high estimation among the States for its great history—for the +contribution it has made to the great story of our common country. +This fact you discovered, I think, long ago. For personal reasons<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a></span> +I have great affection for Virginia. It is the State of my fathers. +I am glad this morning to congratulate you upon the marvellous +development which has come, and the greater which is coming, to +your commonwealth.</p> + +<p>You not only have an illustrious story behind you, but before +you prospects of development in wealth and prosperity, in all that +makes a great State, such as never entered into the imagination of +those who laid the foundation of the commonwealth. [Cheers.] +You are arousing now to a realization of the benefits of diversity +of industries.</p> + +<p>In the olden time Virginia was a plantation State. I hope she +may never cease to have large agricultural interests. It is the +foundation of stable society, but I rejoice with you that she has +added to agriculture the mining of coal and iron, and, bringing +these from their beds, is producing all the products that enter into +the uses of life.</p> + +<p>In this is the secret of that great growth illustrating what I see +about me here, and the promise of a future which none of us can +fully realize. In all of these things we have a common interest, +and I beg to assure you that in everything that tends to the social +order of your people and the development and increased prosperity +of the State of Virginia I am in most hearty sympathy with you +all. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BRISTOL_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14" id="BRISTOL_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14">BRISTOL, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> town of Radford, Va., acknowledged the honor of +the President's visit in a cordial way. General Harrison +shook hands with many of the inhabitants. At Bristol, +Tenn., a crowd of several thousand greeted the party at +the station. The President was met and escorted to a high +bluff overlooking the city by Hon. Harvey C. Wood, at the +head of the following committee of prominent citizens: +Col. E. C. Manning, Hon. I. C. Fowler, Judge M. B. Wood, +A. S. McNeil, W. A. Sparger, A. C. Smith, C. H. Slack, +Rockingham Paul, Esq., Capt. J. H. Wood, Judge C. J. +St. John, Col. Nat M. Taylor, and John H. Caldwell.</p> + +<p>Judge Wood made the welcoming address and introduced +the President, who, in response, said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have found not only pleasure but instruction +in riding to-day through a portion of the State of Virginia +that is feeling in a very striking way the impulse of a new development. +It is extremely gratifying to notice that those hidden +sources of wealth which were so long unobserved and so long +unused are now being found, and that these regions, once so retired, +occupied by a pastoral people, having difficult access to the centres +of population, are now being rapidly transformed into busy manufacturing +and commercial centres.</p> + +<p>In the early settlement of this city the emigrants poured over the +Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge like waters over an obstructing +ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive farm regions of the great +West. They passed unobserved these marvellous hidden stores of +wealth which are now being brought into use. Having filled those +great basins of the West, they are now turning back to Virginia +and West Virginia and Tennessee to bring about a development +and production for which the time is ripe, and which will surprise +the world. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It has not been long since every implement of iron, domestic, agricultural, +and mechanical, was made in other States. The iron point +of the wooden mould-board plough with which the early farmers +here turned the soil came from distant States. But now Virginia +and Tennessee are stirring their energies to participate in a large +degree in mechanical productions and in the great awakening of +American influence which will lift the Nation to a place among +the nations of the world never before attained. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>What hinders us, secure in the market of our own great population, +from successful competition in the markets of the world? +What hinders our people, possessing every element of material +wealth and endowed with inventive genius and energy unsurpassed, +from having again upon the seas a merchant marine flying the flag +of our country and carrying its commerce into every sea and every +port?</p> + +<p>I am glad to stand for this moment among you, glad to express +my sympathy with you in every enterprise that tends to develop +your State and local communities; glad to stand with you upon +the one common platform of respect to the Constitution and the law, +differing in our policies as to what the law should be, but pledged +with a common devotion and obedience to law as the majority +shall by their expressions make it.</p> + +<p>I shall carry away from here a new impulse to public duty, a +new inspiration as a citizen with you of a country whose greatness +is only dawning. And may I now express the pleasure I shall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[293]</a></span> +have in every good that comes to you as a community and to each +of you as individuals? May peace, prosperity, and social order +dwell in your communities, and the fear and love of God in every +home! [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="JOHNSON_CITY_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14_1891" id="JOHNSON_CITY_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14_1891">JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14. 1891</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President was welcomed at Johnson City by 3,000 +people. S. K. N. Patton Post, G. A. R, with Maj. A. +Cantwell, J. M. Erwin, and W. Hodges, acted as a guard of +honor to the Chief Magistrate. The committee to receive +and entertain the President comprised: Mayor Ike T. +Jobe, Hon. W. G. Mathes, President Board of Trade; Hon. +T. F. Singiser, Hon. A. B. Bowman, Hon. B. F. Childress, +Thos. E. Matson, Jas. M. Martin, J. C. Campbell, H. C. +Chandler, J. W. Cox, C. W. Marsh, L. W. Wood, J. A. +Mathes, H. W. Hargraves, J. F. Crumley, M. N. Johnson, +and W. W. Kirkpatrick.</p> + +<p>Congressman Alfred A. Taylor presented the President, +who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The office of President of the United States +is one of very high honor and is also one of very high responsibility. +No man having conscientiously at heart the good of the +whole people, whose interests are, under the law, in some degree +committed to his care, can fail to feel a most oppressive sense of +inadequacy when he comes to the discharge of these high functions.</p> + +<p>Elected under a system of government which gives to the majority +of our people who have expressed their wishes through constitutional +methods the right to choose their public servants, when +he has taken the oath that inducts him into office he becomes the +servant of all the people, and while he may pursue the advocacy of +those measures to which the people have given their approval by +his choice, he should always act and speak with a reserve and a +respect for the opinion of others that shall not alienate from him +the good-will of his fellow-citizens, without regard to political +belief.</p> + +<p>I shall not speak of what has been done, but I have a supreme +regard for the honor of the Nation, a profound respect for the Constitution, +and a most sincere desire to meet the just expectations<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[294]</a></span> +of my fellow-citizens. I am not one of those who believe that the +good of any class can be permanently and largely attained except +upon lines which promote the good of all our people.</p> + +<p>I rejoice in the Union of the States. I rejoice to stand here in +East Tennessee among a people who so conspicuously and at such +sacrifice during the hour of the Nation's peril stood by the flag and +adhered to their convictions of public duty [cheers]; and I am +especially glad to be able to say that those who, following other +views of duty, took sides against us in that struggle, without division +in voice or heart to-day praise Almighty God that He preserved +us one Nation. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>There is no man, whatever his views upon the questions that +then divided us, but, in view of the marvellous benefits which are +disseminating themselves over these States, must also bless God +to-day that slavery no longer exists and that the Union of free +States is indissoluble. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>What is it that has stirred the public of this great region, that +has kindled these furnace fires, that has converted these retired +and isolated farms upon which you and your ancestors dwelt into +centres of trade and mechanical pursuits, bringing a market close +to the door of the farmer and bringing prosperity into every home? +It is that we have no line of division between the States; it is +that these impulses of freedom and enterprise, once limited in +their operations, are now common in all the States. We have a +common heritage. The Confederate soldier has a full, honorable, +and ungrudged participation in all the benefits of a great and just +Government. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I do not doubt to-day that these would be among the readiest of +our population to follow the old flag if it should be assailed from +any quarter. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, my fellow-countrymen, I can pause but a moment with +you. It does me good to look into your faces, to receive these +evidences of your good-will. I hope I may have guidance and +courage in such time as remains to me in public life conscientiously +to serve the public good and the common glory of our +beloved country. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="JONESBORO_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14" id="JONESBORO_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14">JONESBORO, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Jonesboro, the oldest city in Tennessee and the ancient +capital of the State of Franklin, the President was +the recipient of a most cordial welcome. All the residents +of the town seemed to be present. Among the prominent +citizens who participated in the greeting were: Mayor I. +E. Reeves, Judge Newton Hacker, R. M. May, Col. T. +H. Reeves, A. J. Patterson, S. H. Anderson, Capt. A. S. +Deaderick, James H. Epps, Jacob Leab, S. H. L. Cooper, +Judge A. J. Brown, John D. Cox, E. H. West, J. A. Febuary, +T. B. Hacker, R. N. Dosser, Capt. Geo. McPherson, +and Chancellor J. P. Smith.</p> + +<p>General Harrison's allusion to John Sevier and his struggle +to establish the State of Franklin elicited hearty applause. +He spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We tarry but a moment at this ancient and +interesting city, whose story goes back, I think, to the establishment +of the State of Franklin, of which perhaps not all of you, +certainly not these little ones, ever heard, which John Sevier +attempted to set up as an independent commonwealth.</p> + +<p>But yet it is not of antiquity that I desire to speak, for ancient +history is not of the greatest interest to you now. The Scripture +speaks, I think—my Postmaster-General is near, and if I fall into +error will correct me [laughter]—of a time when the old things +shall pass away and all things shall become new. Tennessee is +realizing that beatitude; the old things, the old way of doing +things, the stiff clay and steep mountain roads have passed away +and the steam-car has come.</p> + +<p>The old times of isolation in these valleys, when these pioneers, +some of whom I see, made their frontier homes, have passed away, +and influences from the outside have come; life has been made +easier to men and easier to the toiling women who used to carry +the water from the spring at the bottom of the hill in a piggin, +but who now by modern appliances have it brought into the +kitchen.</p> + +<p>You have come to know now that not only the surface of the soil +has wealth in it, but that under the surface there are vast sources +of wealth to gladden the homes of your people and to bring with +new industries a thrifty population. But of all these old things<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[296]</a></span> +that have passed away and the new ones that have come, I am +sure you are exultantly glad in this region, where there was so +much martyrdom for the flag, so much exile, so much suffering, +that the one Union, the one Constitution, and the one flag might +be preserved, to know that those old strifes have passed away, and +that a period of fraternity has come when all men are for the flag +and all for the Constitution, when it has been forever put out of +the minds of all people that this Union can be dissolved or this +Constitution overthrown. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>On all these new things I congratulate the citizens of Tennessee. +Turn your faces to the morning, for the sun is lightening the hilltops; +there is coming to our country a great growth, an extraordinary +development, and you are to be full participants in it all. +While other nations of the world have reached a climax in their +home development, and are struggling to parcel out remote regions +of the earth that their commerce may be extended, we have here +prodigious resources that are yet to be touched by the finger of +development, and we have the power, if we will, to put our flag +again on the sea and to share in the world's commerce. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GREENVILLE_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14" id="GREENVILLE_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14">GREENVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> home of President Andrew Johnson—Greenville, +Tenn.—gave the President a cordial greeting through its +welcoming committee, consisting of Mayor John M. Brabson, +Aldermen A. N. Shown, J. D. Britton, E. C. Miller, +and W. H. Williams; also Burnside Post, G. A. R., W. +T. Mitchell Commander; A. J. Frazier, and the children +of the public schools, in charge of Principal L. McWhisler.</p> + +<p>President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The arrangements for our journey will not +permit me to tarry with you long. I thank you most sincerely for +this cordial demonstration. I rejoice to see in the hands of the +children here that banner of glory which is the symbol of our +greatness and the promise of our security.</p> + +<p>I am glad that by the common consent of all our people, without +any regard to past differences, we have once and forever struck +hands upon the proposition that from the lakes to the gulf, from +the St. Lawrence to the Bay of California, there shall be one flag +and one Constitution. [Great cheering.] The story that it brings<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[297]</a></span> +to us from the time of its adoption as our national emblem is one +in which we may all find instruction and inspiration. It is the +flag of the free.</p> + +<p>It symbolizes a government most aptly expressed by the greatest +statesman of the people, Abraham Lincoln, to be "a government +of the people, by the people, and for the people"—a government +that spreads a sky of hope above the head of every child, that has +abolished all class distinctions, and has opened all places of eminence +and usefulness in the state and in commerce to the ambitious +and energetic young man.</p> + +<p>This city has given to the country a conspicuous illustration in +your distinguished former fellow-citizen, Andrew Johnson, of what +free institutions may do, and what an aspiring young man may +do against all adverse conditions in life. To every one perfect +freedom is guaranteed within the limits of due respect to the rights +of others. Thanking you again for this presence and friendly +greeting, I bid you good-by.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MORRISTOWN_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14" id="MORRISTOWN_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14">MORRISTOWN, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Morristown several thousand citizens and residents +of Hamblen, Cocke, Grainger, and Jefferson counties assembled +to greet the President. The Reception Committee +was Mayor W. S. Dickson, R. L. Gaut, H. Williams, +W. H. Maze, A. S. Jenkins, and James A. Goddard. At +the conclusion of the President's speech an old grizzled +veteran stepped upon the platform, and reaching out his +hand said: "Mr. President, I was in that Atlanta campaign, +on the other side, and helped to keep you back, but now +the war is over I'm proud to take your hand." The President +showed great pleasure at this greeting, and held the +old soldier's hand several minutes, the spectators meanwhile +cheering lustily. A large number of ex-Confederates +witnessed this incident.</p> + +<p>President Harrison's speech on the occasion was as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow citizens</i>—It will not be possible for me to speak to you +for more than a moment, and yet I cannot refuse, in justice to my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[298]</a></span> +own feelings, to express my deep appreciation of your cordial +reception. I visit to-day for the first time East Tennessee, but it +is a region in which I have always felt a profound interest and for +whose people I have always entertained a most sincere respect.</p> + +<p>It seems to be true in the history of man that those who are +called to dwell among mountain peaks, in regions where the convulsions +of nature have lifted the rocks toward the sky, have +always been characterized by a personal independence of character, +by a devotion to liberty, and by courage in defence of their rights +and their homes. The legends that cluster about the mountain +peaks of Scotland and the patriotic devotion that makes memorable +the passes of Switzerland have been repeated in the mountains of +East Tennessee.</p> + +<p>In those periods of great struggles, when communications were +difficult and often interrupted, the hearts of the people of Indiana +went out to the beleaguered friends of the Union beyond the Cumberland +Gap. I am glad to know that it is no longer difficult to +reach you for succor or for friendly social intercourse, for travel +has been quickened and made easy. Some one mentioned just now +that it was only four hours and a half from Chattanooga to Atlanta. +That is not my recollection [laughter]; I think we spent as many +months making that trip. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that now, by the consent of all your people, +without regard to the differences that separated you then, your +highways are open to all of us, without prejudice; that your hearts +are true to the Union and the Constitution, and that the high sense +of public duty which then characterized you still abides among +your people. May your valleys be always full of prosperity, your +homes the abode of affection and love, and of all that makes the +American home the best of all homes and the sure nursery of good +citizens. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KNOXVILLE_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14" id="KNOXVILLE_TENNESSEE_APRIL_14">KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the evening of the first day of the journey Knoxville +was reached. The distinguished travellers were welcomed +by a citizens' committee, composed of William Rule, Chairman; +Col. E. J. Sanford, Hon. J. C. J. Williams, Hon. L. +C. Houk, Col. J. Vandeventer, M. L. Ross, John T. Hearn, +Alex. Summers, Wm. M. Baxter, F. A. Moses, John W. +Conner, B. R. Strong, Hon. Peter Kern, Capt. W. P. Cham<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[299]</a></span>berlain, +Col. J. B. Minnis, W. H. Simmonds, John L. +Hudiburg, Capt. A. J. Albers, Hon. J. W. Caldwell, and +W. P. Smith. After visiting Fort Sanders and viewing +the battle-field by twilight the party returned to the city, +where a vast audience was assembled.</p> + +<p>Col. William A. Henderson introduced the President, +who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me pleasure to visit this historical +city—a city that has given to the country many men who have +been eminent in its councils and brought to the Nation they served +and to the people who called them into the public service great +honor. I am glad to visit East Tennessee, the scene of that early +immigration and of those early struggles of men who, for vigor of +intellect, strength of heart, and devotion to republican principles, +were among the most conspicuous of the early pioneers of the +West and Southwest.</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that that deep devotion to the cause of the +Union which manifested itself in the early contributions of Tennessee +to the armies that went to the defence of the homes of the +Northwest abides still in these valleys and crowns with its glory +and lustre every hill-top of the Alleghanies. You are feeling now +a material development that is interesting and pleasing to all your +fellow-citizens of the States.</p> + +<p>I beg to say to you that whoever supposes that there is anywhere +in the Northern States any jealousy of this great material progress +which the South is making wholly misconceives the friendly heart +of the people of the North. It is my wish, as I am sure it is the +wish of all with whom I associate in political life, that the streams +of prosperity in the South may run bank-full; that in everything +that promotes the prosperity of the State, the security and comfort +of the community, and the happiness of the individual home, your +blessings may be full and unstinted.</p> + +<p>We live in a Government of law. The compact of our organization +is that a majority of our people, taking those methods which +are prescribed by the Constitution and law, shall determine our +public policies and choose our rulers. It is our solemn compact; +it cannot safely be broken. We may safely differ about policies; +we may safely divide upon the question as to what shall be the +law; but when the law is once enacted no community can safely +divide on the question of implicit obedience to the law.</p> + +<p>It is the one rule of conduct for us all. I may not choose as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></span> +President what laws I will enforce, and the citizen may not +choose what laws he will obey. Upon this broad principle our +institutions rest. If we save it, all the agitations and tumults of +our campaigns, exciting though they may be, will be harmless to +move our Government from its safe and abiding foundation.</p> + +<p>If we abandon it, all is gone. Therefore, my appeal everywhere +is to hold the law in veneration and reverence. We have no other +king; public officers are your servants; but in the august and +majestic presence of the law we all uncover and bow the knee.</p> + +<p>May every prosperity attend you. May this ground, made memorable +by one of the most gallant assaults and by one of the most +successful defences in the story of the war, never again be stained +by blood; but may our people, in one common love of one flag and +one Constitution, in a common and pervading fealty to the great +principles of our Government, go on to achieve material wealth, +and in social development, in intelligence, in piety, in everything +that makes a nation great and a people happy, secure all the Lord +has in His mind for a Nation that He has so conspicuously blessed. +[Great and prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHATTANOOGA_TENNESSEE_APRIL_15" id="CHATTANOOGA_TENNESSEE_APRIL_15">CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, APRIL 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Chattanooga</span> was reached Wednesday morning at 8:30 +o'clock. The President was received with marked cordiality +and enthusiasm by the several thousand citizens assembled +at the station. At this point the party was joined +by the President's younger brother, Mr. Carter B. Harrison, +and his wife, of Murfreesboro, Tenn. The following +prominent citizens comprised the committee that received +the President: Hon. J. B. Merriam, Mayor of Chattanooga; +Hon. H. Clay Evans, Judge David M. Key, H. S. +Chamberlain, D. J. O'Connell, Henophen Wheeler, John +Crimmins, Maj. J. F. Shipp, Col. Tomlinson Fort, John +T. Wilder, Adolph S. Ochs, John B. Nicklin, L. G. +Walker, A. J. Gahagan, C. E. James, F. G. Montague, H. +M. Wiltse, John W. Stone, J. B. Pound, E. W. Mattson, +and Judge Whiteside.</p> + +<p>The committee escorted the distinguished guests to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span> +summit of Lookout Mountain. At the Lookout Inn President +Harrison pointed out to his immediate companions +the spot where he was encamped for a time during the war. +From the mountain the party was driven about the city, +which was profusely decorated. All the school children in +the city stood in front of their respective schools and waved +flags and shouted as the President and Mrs. Harrison +drove by. Assembled around the platform where the general +reception was held were many thousand people.</p> + +<p>Ex-Congressman Evans, amid deafening cheers, introduced +the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have greatly enjoyed the opportunity of +seeing Chattanooga again. I saw it last as the camp of a great +army. Its only industries were military, its stores were munitions +of war, its pleasant hill-tops were torn with rifle-pits, its civic +population the attendants of an army campaign. I see it to-day a +great city, a prosperous commercial centre. I see these hill-tops, +then bristling with guns, crowned with happy homes; I see these +streets, through which the worn veterans of many campaigns then +marched, made glad with the presence of happy children. Everything +is changed.</p> + +<p>The wand of an enchanter has touched these hills, and old Lookout, +that frowned over the valleys from which the plough had been +withdrawn, now looks upon the peaceful industries of country life. +All things are changed, except that the flag that then floated over +Chattanooga floats here still. [Cheers.] It has passed from the +hand of the veterans, who bore it to victory in battle, into the +hands of the children, who lift it as an emblem of peace. [Cheers.] +Then Chattanooga was war's gateway to the South; now it is the +gateway of peace, commerce, and prosperity. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>There have been two conquests—one with arms, the other with +the gentle influences of peace—and the last is greater than the first. +[Cheers.] The first is only great as it made way for that which +followed; and now, one again in our devotion to the Constitution +and the laws, one again in the determination that the question of +the severance of the federal relations of these States shall never +again be raised, we have started together upon a career of prosperity +and development that has as yet given only the signs of +what is to come.</p> + +<p>I congratulate Tennessee, I congratulate this prosperous city, I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></span> +congratulate all those who through this gateway give and receive +the interchanges of friendly commerce, that there is being wrought +throughout our country a unification by commerce, a unification +by similarity of institutions and habits, that shall in time erase +every vestige of difference, and shall make us, not only in contemplation +of the law, but in heart and sympathy, one people. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I thank you for your cordial greeting to-day, and hope for the +development of the industries of our country and for the settling +of our institutions upon the firm base of a respect for the law. In +this glad springtime, while the gardens are full of blossoms and +the fields give promise of another harvest, and your homes are full +of happy children, let us thank God for what He has wrought for +us as a people, and, each in our place, resolutely maintain the +great idea upon which everything is builded—the rule of the +majority, constitutionally expressed, and the absolute equality of +all men before the law. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CARTERSVILLE_GEORGIA_APRIL_15" id="CARTERSVILLE_GEORGIA_APRIL_15">CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop after crossing the Georgia State line was +Cartersville, where a citizens' committee, headed by M. +G. Dobbins, W. H. Howard, and Walter Akerman, received +the President, who in response to repeated calls +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for coming here in +this shower to show your good-will. I can only assure you that I +entirely reciprocate your good feelings. I have had great pleasure +to-day in passing over some parts of the old route that I took once +before under very different and distressing circumstances, to find +how easy it is, when we are all agreed, to travel between Chattanooga +and Atlanta. I am glad to see the evidences of prosperity +that abound through your country, and I wish you in all your +relations every human good. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[303]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ATLANTA_GEORGIA_APRIL_15" id="ATLANTA_GEORGIA_APRIL_15">ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.</a></h3> +<div class="center"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"What War has ravaged Commerce can bestow,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And he returns a Friend who came a Foe."<br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party travelled over the Western and +Atlantic route from Chattanooga to Atlanta, passing +through historic battle-grounds with which the President +and other members of his party were once familiar. General +Harrison actively participated in the Atlanta campaign +and held the chief command at the battle of Resaca. +It was with keen interest, therefore, that he viewed this +memorable field in company with Marshal Ransdell, who +lost an arm there. Short stops were made at the battle-fields +of Chickamauga, Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Dug Gap, and Kennesaw. +At Marietta the President was met by a committee +from the city government of Atlanta, consisting of Mayor +W. A. Hemphill, Aldermen Hutchison, Woodward, Rice, +Shropshire, and Middlebrooks; Councilmen Murphy, Hendrix, +Lambert, Holbrook, Sawtell, King, Turner, McBride, +and City Clerk Woodward. These officials were accompanied +by a special committee of citizens representing +the Chamber of Commerce and the veteran associations, +comprising ex-Gov. R. B. Bullock, Gen. J. R. Lewis, Capt. +John Milledge, Julius L. Brown, S. M. Inman, Hon. J. T. +Glenn, and Hon. W. L. Calhoun.</p> + +<p>A vast throng greeted the President's arrival. Gov. +William J. Northen and the other members of the Reception +Committee received the party. Governor Northen +said: "I am glad to welcome your excellency to the +State of Georgia. You will find among us a loyal and +hospitable people, and in their name I welcome you to the +State."</p> + +<p>Replying, the President said it gave him great pleasure +to visit the Empire State of the South, the wonderful evidences +of the prosperity of which were manifest in the stirring +city of Atlanta.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[304]</a></span></p> + +<p>In the evening the President and his party were tendered +a reception at the Capitol by Governor Northen and Mayor +Hemphill, assisted by Chief-Justice Bleckley, Judge Simmons, +Judge Lumpkin, Gen. Phil. Cook, Comptroller-General +Wright, Judge Van Epps, and the following +prominent citizens: E. P. Chamberlin, J. W. Rankin, G. +T. Dodd, Judge Hook, R. J. Lowry, J. W. English, Hoke +Smith, Phil. Breitenbucher, J. G. Oglesby, John Silvey, +Capt. Harry Jackson, Jacob Haas, W. L. Peel, B. F. Abbott, +John Fitten, Joe Hirsch, George Hillyer, A. A. Murphy, +P. Romare, J. B. Goodwin, David Wyly, G. H. Tanner, +Dr. Henry S. Wilson, J. F. Edwards, M. A. Hardin, +A. J. McBride, John J. Doonan, Hugh Inman, J. H. Mountain, +M. C. Kiser, E. P. Howell, A. E. Buck, Edgar +Angier, Col. L. M. Terrell, S. A. Darnell, John C. Manly, +T. B. Neal, Walter Johnson, Major Mims, W. R. Brown, +Col. T. P. Westmoreland, Albert Cox, Clarence Knowles, +H. M. Atkinson, J. C. Kimball, C. A. Collier, Rhode Hill, +Howard Van Epps, W. H. Venable, G. W. Adair, F. T. +Ryan, L. P. Thomas, H. F. Starke, W. A. Wright, Amos +Fox, R. L. Rodgers, H. C. Divine, W. M. Scott, A. B. Carrier, +W. B. Miles, T. C. Watson, and L. B. Nelson.</p> + +<p>At the conclusion of the reception the President, accompanied +by Mayor Hemphill, Hon. A. L. Kontz, and Superintendent +Slaton, visited the night school, where the boys +gave him an enthusiastic welcome and called for a speech.</p> + +<p>The President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I am glad to be with you to-night. Having but a few minutes +to spare I would offer a few words of encouragement to you. Most, +if not all, of you are here at night because your circumstances are +such that the day must be given to toil. The day is your earning +period. The night must, therefore, be set apart for study. I am +glad to see that so many find it in your hearts to be here in this +school; it is a very hopeful sign. I think it has in it the promise +that you will each become a useful citizen in this country. Pluck +and energy are two essential elements. A boy wants to be something. +With pluck and energy success is assured. There is a +day of hope above every one of you.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a></span> +<p>I bid you good cheer and would offer encouragement to every +one of you, and I know every one of you may be useful and honorable +citizens in this community, whose officers have taken the +interest to organize this school for your benefit. I very sincerely +and earnestly wish you God-speed. Stick to your studies and +don't neglect to acquire a needful education, and you may one day +occupy the positions of honor which are held by those to-day in +charge of the affairs of your city.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ATLANTA_APRIL_16" id="ATLANTA_APRIL_16">ATLANTA, APRIL 16.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the morning of the 16th the President's party +bade adieu to Atlanta. More than 10,000 people were +present. Mayor Hemphill invited the President to the +rear platform of the train and presented him to the assemblage. +In response to their cheers he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I desire, in parting from you, to give public +expression of my satisfaction and enjoyment in my brief visit to +Atlanta. I saw this city once under circumstances of a very unfavorable +character. I did not think I would like it, although we +were making great efforts to get it. [Laughter.] I am glad after +all these years to see the great prosperity and development that has +come to you. I think I am able to understand some of the influences +that are at the bottom of it, and I am sure that I look into +the faces of a community that, whatever their differences may +have been, however they viewed the question of the war when it +was upon us, can have but one thought as to what was best. We +can all say with the Confederate soldier who carried a gun for +what seemed to him to be right, that God knew better than any of +us what was best for the country and for the world.</p> + +<p>You are thankful for what He has wrought and chiefly for emancipation. +It has opened up to diversified industries these States +that were otherwise exclusively agricultural, and made it possible +for you not only to raise cotton, but to spin and weave it, and has +made Georgia such a State as it could not have been under the old +conditions. I am sure we have many common purposes, and as +God shall give us power to see truth and right, let us do our duty, +and, while exacting all our own rights, let us bravely and generously +give every other man his equal rights before the law. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Thanking you for your reception, which has been warm and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[306]</a></span> +hospitable, I go from you very grateful for your kindness and very +full of hope for your future.</p> + +<p>I cannot wish more than that those enterprising land-owners +whose work in grading and laying new additions I saw yesterday +will realize all their hopes. I am very sure if that is done Atlanta +will not long be rated the second city of the South. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion of the President's address there were +many calls for Mr. Wanamaker. These finally brought +the Postmaster-General to the platform, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>That man is unfortunate who is called on to speak after a President. +But at such a moment as this, parting from people who in +a single night have shown so much kindness and good-fellowship, +it is not difficult to return at least our grateful thanks for your +most generous welcome. Of all objects in your city I have looked +with most interest upon the house where a great light had gone +out, and felt again the common sorrow in the absence of Henry +Grady, a man whose life and influences were larger than Atlanta. +The words he spoke and the principles he stood for cannot be forgotten. +If we can but learn to know each other and understand +each other there will be fewer differences than might be supposed. +By more frequent intercourse and a fairer consideration of each +other we should rise to a higher level of happiness. I wish we had +come sooner and could stay longer. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TALLAPOOSA_GEORGIA_APRIL_16" id="TALLAPOOSA_GEORGIA_APRIL_16">TALLAPOOSA, GEORGIA, APRIL 16.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> city of Tallapoosa was bedecked with flags and +bunting in honor of the distinguished visitors, and gave +the President a cordial reception. Mayor A. J. Head and +the following representative citizens were among those +who greeted the Chief Executive: James H. Rineard, +Walker Brock, U. G. Brock, J. A. Head, R. M. Strickland, +J. C. Parker, W. T. King, R. G. Bently, T. J. Barrett, J. +T. Tuggle, R. J. McBride, G. W. Bullard, C. Tallafario, J. +A. Burns, J. R. Knapp, C. W. Fox, M. C. Reeve, M. Munson, +W. W. Summerlin, S. J. Cason, J. H. Davis, S. White, +A. Hass, T. L. Dougherty, G. A. Stickney, N. L. Hutchens,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[307]</a></span> +O. F. Sampson, H. Martin, M. C. Haiston, G. W. Tumlin, +and J. C. Murrey.</p> + +<p>Responding to the welcoming cheers the President addressed +the assembly as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—This large assemblage of people from this +new and energetic city is very pleasant, and I thank you for the +welcome that it implies. All of these evidences of extending +industry are extremely pleasing to me as I observe them. They +furnish employment to men; they imply comfortable homes, contented +families, a safe social organization, and are the strength of +the Nation.</p> + +<p>I am glad to see that these enterprises that are taking the ores +from the earth and adapting them to the uses of civilization have +not been started here unaccompanied by that more important work—the +work of gathering the children into the schools and instructing +them, that they in their turn may be useful men and women. +[Applause.] I am glad to greet these little ones this morning; it +is a cheerful sight. We are soon to lay down the work of life and +the responsibilities of citizenship, these mothers are soon to quit +the ever-recurring and never-ending work of the home and give it +into new hands.</p> + +<p>It is of the utmost consequence that these little ones be trained +in mind and taught the fear of God and a benevolent regard for +their fellow-men, in order that their lives and social relations may +be peaceful and happy. We are citizens of one country, having +one flag and one destiny. We are starting upon a new era of +development, and I hope this development is to keep pace and to +be the promoting cause of a very perfect unification of our people. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We have a Government whose principles are very simple and +very popular. The whole theory of our institutions is that, pursuing +those election methods which we have prescribed under the +Constitution, every man shall exercise freely the right that the +suffrage law confides to him, and that the majority, if it has +expressed its will, shall conclude the issue for us all. There is no +other foundation. This was the enduring base upon which the +fathers of our country placed our institutions. Let us always keep +them there. Let us press the debate in our campaigns as to what +the law should be; but let us keep faith and submit with the reverence +and respect which are due to the law when once lawfully +enacted. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>The development which is coming to you in these regions of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[308]</a></span> +South is marvellous. In ten years you increased your production +of iron about 300 per cent.—nearly a million and a quarter of tons—and +you have only begun to open these mines and to put these +ores to the process of reduction. Now, I want to leave this thought +with you: In the old plantations of the South you got everything +from somewhere else; why not make it all yourselves? [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ANNISTON_ALABAMA_APRIL_16" id="ANNISTON_ALABAMA_APRIL_16">ANNISTON, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Many</span> thousands greeted the President on his arrival at +Anniston. The Reception Committee consisted of Mayor +James Noble, J. W. Lapsley, H. W. Bailey, T. G. Garrett, +B. F. Cassady, John J. Mickle, C. H. Camfield, J. J. Willett, +J. C. Sproull, R. H. Cobb, I. Finch, and Alex. S. +Thweatt. The committee appointed by the Alabama State +Sunday-School Association, then in session, was: Joseph +Hardie, Geo. B. Eager, P. P. Winn, M. J. Greene, and C. +W. O'Hare. On the part of the colored citizens the Committee +of Reception was: Rev. W. H. McAlpine, Wm. J. +Stevens, S. E. Moses, Rev. J. F. Fitspatrick, and Rev. +Jas. W. Brown. Daniel Tyler Post, G. A. R., H. Rosenbaum, +Commander, G. B. Randolph acting Adjutant, also +participated. The Hon. John M. McKleroy delivered the +address of welcome, followed by Wm. J. Stevens in behalf +of the colored people.</p> + +<p>President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—I very much regret that I am able to make so +little return to you for this cordial manifestation of your respect +and friendship; and yet, even in these few moments which I am +able to spend with you, I hope I shall gather and possibly be able +to impart some impulse that may be mutually beneficial. I am +glad to see with the eye that of which I have kept informed—the +great development which is taking place in the mineral regions +of the Southern States.</p> + +<p>I remember, as a boy, resident upon one of the great tributaries +of the Mississippi, how the agricultural products of those States, +the corn and provisions raised upon the fertile acres of the Ohio +and Mississippi valleys, were marketed in the South. The old<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[309]</a></span> +broad-horn took its way down the Mississippi, stopping at the +plantations to sell the provisions upon which the people of the +South were largely sustained. The South was then essentially a +plantation region, producing one or two great staples that found a +ready market in the world, but dependent for its implements of +industry and domestic utensils upon the States of the North +Mississippi Valley.</p> + +<p>I am glad all this is changed, that you are realizing the benefits +of diversified agriculture, and that the production upon your farms +of the staples which you once bought elsewhere is largely increasing; +and I am glad that to diversified agriculture you have also +added these great mechanical pursuits which have brought into +your communities artisans and laborers who take from the adjacent +farms the surplus of your fertile lands. [Cheers.] There has been +received in the South since the war not less than $8,000,000,000 for +cotton, and while I rejoice in that, I am glad to know that in this +generous region there are near 100,000 acres devoted to raising +watermelons. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>No farmer, certainly no planter in the old time, would have consented +to sell watermelons. You are learning that things which +were small and despised have come to be great elements in your +commerce. Now your railroads make special provision for the +transportation of a crop which brings large wealth to your people.</p> + +<p>I mention this as a good illustration of the changing conditions +into which you are entering. You are realizing the benefits of +home markets for what you produce, and I am sure you will unite +with me in those efforts which we ought to make, not only to fill +our own markets with all that this great Nation of 65,000,000 needs, +but to reach out to other markets and enter into competition with +the world for them. [Cheers.] This we shall do, and with all +this mechanical and commercial development we shall realize +largely that condition of unification of heart and interest to which +those who have spoken for you have so eloquently alluded. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now, wishing that the expectations of all who are interested +in this stirring young city may be realized, that all your industries +may be active and profitable, I add the wish that those gentler and +kindlier agencies of the school and church, of a friendly social life, +may always pervade and abide with you as a community. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[310]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BIRMINGHAM_ALABAMA_APRIL_16" id="BIRMINGHAM_ALABAMA_APRIL_16">BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Large</span> delegations came from Mobile, Selma, Montgomery, +Sheffield, and other points in Alabama, to participate +in the grand ovation tendered President Harrison and his +party at Birmingham on April 16. Gov. Thomas G. Jones +and the following members of his staff welcomed the presidential +party at Henryellen: Adjt.-Gen. Charles B. Jones, +Col. F. L. Pettus, Col. Eugene Stollenwerck, Col. M. P. Le +Grand, Col. W. W. Quarles, Col. B. L. Holt, Lieut. James +B. Erwin, and J. K. Jackson, Secretary to the Governor. +The Governor's party was accompanied by five members +from the Citizens' Committee: Col. E. T. Taliaferro, Rufus +N. Rhodes, J. W. Hughes, R. L. Houston, and C. A. Johnston.</p> + +<p>On arrival at Birmingham, in the afternoon, the President +was greeted by an enormous gathering and formally +welcomed by Mayor A. O. Lane at the head of the following +distinguished committee: H. M. Caldwell, Joseph F. +Johnston, B. L. Hibbard, William Youngblood, W. J. +Cameron, J. A. Van Hoose, R. H. Pearson, E. H. Barron, +M. M. Williams, J. O. Wright, James Weatherly, Chappell +Cory, Louis Saks, D. D. Smith, J. P. Mudd, Charles M. +Shelley, Paul Giacopazzi, James A. Going, Joe Frank, T. +H. Spencer, P. G. Bowman, J. M. Martin, G. W. Hewitt, +T. T. Hillman, E. Soloman, F. P. O'Brien, Lewis M. Parsons, +Robert Jemison, John McQueen, Geo. L. Morris, B. +Steiner, Mack Sloss, J. A. Yeates, J. M. Handley, Fergus +W. McCarthy, E. V. Gregory, F. H. Armstrong, Geo. M. +Morrow, Thomas Seddon, E. W. Rucker, W. H. Graves, +Gus Shillinger, M. T. Porter, Edwin C. Campbell, Eugene +F. Enslen, R. L. Thornton, Charles Whelan, W. S. Brown, +John M. Cartin, Wm. M. Bethea, I. R. Hochstadter, John +W. Johnston, Wm. Vaughn, Jas. E. Webb, and Robert +Warnock. George A. Custer Post, G. A. R., commanded +by Ass't Adjt.-Gen. W. J. Pender, escorted the President<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[311]</a></span> +on the march through the city. The following officers participated: +W. H. Hunter, Department Commander; F. G. +Sheppard, Past Department Commander; William Snyder, +Commander; A. A. Tyler, Senior Vice-Commander; +Henry Asa N. Ballard, Surgeon; Edward Birchenough, +Assistant Quartermaster-General; A. W. Fulghum, Past +Commander; and John Mackenzie, Officer of the Day.</p> + +<p>Both the Governor and the Mayor delivered eloquent +addresses of welcome, to which President Harrison responded +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Jones, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens</i>—The noise of +your industries will not stay itself, I fear, sufficiently to enable me +to make myself heard by many in this immense throng that has +gathered to welcome us. I judge from what we have seen as we +neared your station that we have here at Birmingham the largest +and most enthusiastic concourse of people that has met us since we +left the national capital. [Great and prolonged cheering.] For +all this I am deeply grateful. The rapidity with which we must +pursue this journey will not allow us to look with any detail into +the great enterprises which cluster about your city; but if we shall +only have opportunity to see for a moment these friendly faces +and listen to these friendly words, we shall carry away that which +will be invaluable, and, I trust, by the friendly exchange of greetings, +may leave something to you that is worth cherishing. [Great +cheering.] I have read of the marvellous development which, in +the last few years, has been stirring the solitude of these southern +mountains, and I remember that not many years after the war, +when I had resumed my law practice at Indianapolis, I was visited +by a gentleman, known, I expect, to all of you, upon some professional +business. He came to pursue a collection claim against a +citizen of Indiana; but he seemed to be more interested in talking +about Birmingham than anything else. [Laughter and cheers.] +That man was Colonel Powell, one of the early promoters of your +city. [Cheers.] I listened to his story of the marvellous wealth +of iron and coal that was stored in this region; of their nearness +to each other, and to the limestone necessary for smelting; to his +calculations as to the cheapness with which iron could be produced +here, and his glowing story of the great city that was to be reared, +with a good deal of incredulity. I thought he was a visionary; but +I have regretted ever since that I did not ask him to pay me my +fee in town lots in Birmingham. [Laughter and cheers.]</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a></span> +<p>My countrymen, we thought the war a great calamity, and so it +was. The destruction of life and of property was sad beyond +expression; and yet we can see now that God led us through that +Red Sea to a development in material prosperity and to a fraternity +that was not otherwise possible. [Cheers.] The industries that +have called to your midst so many toiling men are always and +everywhere the concomitants of freedom. Out of all this freedom +from the incubus of slavery the South has found a new industrial +birth. Once almost wholly agricultural, you are now not the less +fruitful in crops, but you have added all this. [Cheers.] You +have increased your production of cotton, and have added an increase +in ten years of nearly 300 per cent. in the production of +iron. You have produced three-fourths of the cotton crop of the +world, and it has brought you since the war about $8,000,000,000 +of money to enrich your people. But as yet you are spinning in +the South only 8 per cent, of it. Why not, with the help we will +give you in New England and the North, spin it all? [Cheers.] +Why not establish here cotton mills that shall send, not the crude +agricultural product to other markets, but the manufactured product? +[Cheers.] Why not, while supplying 65,000,000 of people, +reach out and take a part we have not had in the commerce of the +world? [Cheers.] I believe we are to see now a renaissance in +American prosperity and in the up-building again of our American +merchant marine. [Cheers.] I believe that these Southern +ports that so favorably look out with invitations to the States of +Central and South America shall yet see our fleets carrying the +American flag and the products of Alabama to the markets of South +America. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>In all this we are united; we may differ as to method, but if +you will permit me I will give an illustration to show how we +have been dealing with this shipping question. I can remember +when no wholesale merchant ever sent a drummer into the field. +He said to his customers, "Come to my store and buy;" but competition +increased and the enterprising merchant started out men +to seek customers; and so his fellow-merchant was put to the +choice to put travelling men into the field or to go out of business. +It seems to me, whatever we may think of the policy of aiding +our steamship lines, that since every other great nation does it, we +must do it or stay out of business, for we have pretty much gone +out. [Cheers.] I am glad to reciprocate with the very fulness of +my heart every fraternal expression that has fallen from the lips of +these gentlemen who have addressed me in your behalf. [Cheers.] +I have not been saved from mistakes; probably I shall not be. I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[313]</a></span> +am sure of but one thing—I can declare that I have simply at +heart the glory of the American Nation and the good of all its +people. [Great and prolonged cheering.] I thank these companies +of the State militia, one of whom I recognize as having done me +the honor to attend the inaugural ceremony, for their presence. +They are deserving, sir [to the Governor], of your encouragement +and that of the State of Alabama. They are the reserve army of +the United States. It is our policy not to have a large regular +army, but to have a trained militia that, in any exigency, will +step to the defence of the country; and if that exigency shall ever +arise—which God forbid—I know that you would respond as +quickly and readily as any other State. [Cheers.] [The Governor: +"You will find all Alabama at your back, sir!"] [Continued +cheering.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that in addition to all this business you are +doing you are also attending to education and to those things that +conduce to social order. The American home is the one thing we +cannot afford to lose out of the American life. [Cheers.] As long +as we have pure homes and God-fearing, order-loving fathers and +mothers to rear the children that are given to them, and to make +these homes the abodes of order, cleanliness, piety, and intelligence, +the American society and the American Union are safe +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>After the parade the President's party, the Governor +and staff, and the citizens' Reception Committee sat down +to luncheon. On the right of the President was Mrs. Jones, +wife of the Governor; on his left, Mrs. Lane, wife of the +Mayor. Mr. Rufus N. Rhodes proposed the health of the +President of the United States, to which General Harrison +responded briefly, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>We have seen something of the marvellous material growth of Birmingham, +and seen evidence of the great richness of your "black +diamonds" and your iron, and now we see something of your home +life. The many beautiful women whom we have had the happiness +to meet, and some of whom are now with us, are the angels of +your homes, and right glad we are to be favored by their presence. +After all, it is their homes which make a people great. We are +glad to be here; for, really, you overwhelm us with kindness. +[Long-continued applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[314]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MEMPHIS_TENNESSEE_APRIL_17" id="MEMPHIS_TENNESSEE_APRIL_17">MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, APRIL 17.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party arrived at Memphis early on +the morning of the 17th and were greeted by 10,000 +people. The committee for the reception and entertainment +of President Harrison and his guests comprised the +following prominent citizens: Lucas W. Clapp, president +of the taxing district of Memphis, Chairman; H. M. Neely, +M. Cooper, J. P. Jordan, B. M. Stratton, R. C. Graves, D. +P. Hadden, R. P. Patterson, Wm. M. Randolph, John K. +Speed, John R. Godwin, Sam Tate, Jr., N. W. Speers, +Jr., Josiah Patterson, W. J. Crawford, Martin Kelly, John +Loague, J. M. Keating, J. Harvey Mathes, A. B. Pickett, +W. J. Smith, Emerson Etheridge, T. J. Lathan, A. D. +Gwynne, R. D. Frayser, J. T. Fargason, Samuel W. +Hawkins, T. J. Graham, B. M. Estes, S. R. Montgomery, +W. A. Collier, A. C. Treadwell, F. M. Norfleet, Alfred G. +Tuther, W. D. Beard, S. H. Haines, R. J. Morgan, Louis +Erb, Dr. J. P. Alban, W. A. Gage, J. N. Snowden, John T. +Moss, Thomas F. Tobin, J. S. Robinson, James Ralston, +L. B. Eaton, John W. Dillard, J. M. Semmes, M. T. Williamson, +Andrew J. Harris, R. S. Capers, L. H. Estes, J. J. +DuBose, J. B. Clough, J. E. Bigelow, George Arnold, T. +B. Edgington, Luke E. Wright, D. T. Porter, J. T. Pettit, +Napoleon Hill, E. S. Hammond, Wm. R. Moore, G. C. +Matthews, Colton Greene, Isham G. Harris, J. A. Taylor, +P. M. Winters, Holmes Cummins, E. Lowenstein, J. S. +Menken, A. Vaccaro, N. M. Jones, R. B. Snowden, W. M. +Farrington, Barney Hughes, J. H. Smith, Noland Fontaine, +J. H. Martin, J. C. Neely, Robert Gates, James W. +Brown, G. E. Dunbar, J. W. Falls, S. C. Toof, W. H. Carroll, +S. P. Read, H. G. Harrington, H. F. Dix, J. S. Galloway, +T. W. Brown, H. J. Lynn, J. W. Person, H. B. Cullen, +S. W. Green, P. J. Quigley, T. J. Brogan, M. C. +Gallaway, W. E. McGuire, Ralph Davis, J. J. Williams, +T. A. Hamilton, E. B. McHenry, George B. Peters, John<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[315]</a></span> +L. Norton, W. H. Bates, M. T. Garvin, S. H. Dunscomb, +F. H. White, and R. D. Jordan.</p> + +<p>The following military committee also assisted: Gen. +S. F. Carnes, Chairman; Col. Kellar Anderson, Col. Hugh +Pettit, Maj. J. F. Peters, Col. W. F. Taylor, Col. L. W. +Finley, Gen. A. J. Vaughn, Gen. G. W. Gordon, and Gen. +R. F. Patterson.</p> + +<p>Chairman Clapp made the address of welcome. President +Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The name of the city of Memphis was familiar +to me in my early boyhood. Born and reared upon one of the +tributaries of the great river upon which your city is located, +these river marts of commerce were the familiar trading-posts of +the farmers of the Ohio Valley. I well remember when, on the +shores of father's farm, the old "broad-horn" was loaded from the +hay-press and the corn-crib to market with the plantations along +the Lower Mississippi. I remember to have heard from him and +the neighbors who constituted the crew of those pioneer craft of +river navigation of the perils of these great waters; of the snags +and caving banks of the Lower Mississippi. In those times these +States were largely supplied with grain and forage from the Northwestern +States. Here you were giving your attention to one or +two great staple products, for which you found a large foreign +market. I congratulate you that the progress of events has made +you not less agricultural, but has diversified your agriculture so +that you are not now wholly dependent upon these great staples for +the income of your farms.</p> + +<p>The benefits of this diversification are very great and the change +symbolizes more than we at first realize. This change means that +we are now coming to understand that meanness cannot be predicated +of any honest industry. I rejoice that you are adding to +diversified agriculture diversified manufacturing pursuits; that +you are turning your thought to compressing and spinning cotton +as well as raising it. I know no reason why these cotton States, +that produce 75 per cent. of the cotton of the world, should not spin +the greater portion of it. I know no reason why they should +export it as raw material, rather than as a manufactured product, +holding in their midst the profits of this transformation of the raw +material to the finished product. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I hope it may be so. I see evidence that the people are turning +their attention to new industries, and are bringing into the midst<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[316]</a></span> +of these farming communities a large population of artisans and +laborers to consume at your own doors the product of your farms. +I am glad that a liberal Government is making this great waterway +to the sea safe and capable of an uninterrupted use. I am glad +that it is here making the shores of your own city convenient and +safe, and that it is opening, north and south, an uninterrupted +and cheap transportation for the products of these lands that lie +along this great system of rivers. I am glad that it is bringing +you in contact with ports of the Gulf that look out with near and +inviting aspect toward a great trade in South America that we +shall soon possess. I am glad to believe that these great river +towns will speedily exchange their burdens with American ships +at the mouth of the Mississippi to be transported to foreign ports +under the flag of our country. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>This Government of ours is a compact of the people to be governed +by a majority, expressing itself by lawful methods. [Cheers.] +Everything in this country is to be brought to the measure of the +law. I propose no other rule, either as an individual or as a public +officer. I cannot in any degree let down this rule [cries of +"No!" and cheers] without violating my official duty. There must +be no other supremacy than that of lawful majorities. We must +all come at last to this conclusion—that the supremacy of the law +is the one supremacy in this country of ours. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, my fellow citizens, I thank you for this warm and magnificent +demonstration of your respect, accepting cordially the +expression of the chief of your city Government that you are a +sincere, earnest, patriotic, devoted people. I beg to leave with +you the suggestion that each in his place shall do what he can to +maintain social order and public peace; that the lines here and +everywhere shall be between the well-disposed and the ill-disposed.</p> + +<p>The effort of speech to this immense throng is too great for me. +I beg to assure you that I carry from the great war no sentiment +of ill-will to any. [Cheers.] I am glad that the Confederate +soldier, confessing that defeat which has brought him blessings +that would have been impossible otherwise, has been taken again +into full participation in the administration of the Government; +that no penalties, limitations, or other inflictions rest upon him. +I have taken and can always take the hand of a brave Confederate +soldier with confidence and respect. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>I would put him under one yoke only, and that is the yoke that +the victors in that struggle bore when they went home and laid off +their uniforms—the yoke of the law and the obligation always to +obey it. [Cheers.] Upon that platform, without distinction be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[317]</a></span>tween +the victors and the vanquished, we enter together upon +possibilities as a people that we cannot overestimate. I believe +the Nation is lifting itself to a new life; that this flag shall float +on unfamiliar seas, and that this coming prosperity will be equally +shared by all our people. [Prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LITTLE_ROCK_ARKANSAS_APRIL_17" id="LITTLE_ROCK_ARKANSAS_APRIL_17">LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">As</span> the presidential party crossed the Mississippi they +were met on the Arkansas shore by Gov. James P. Eagle +and wife, Judge John A. Williams, Mayor H. L. Fletcher, +James Mitchell, Col. Logan H. Roots, Mrs. Judge Caldwell, +Mrs. C. C. Waters, Mrs. Wm. G. Whipple, Mrs. W. +C. Ratcliffe, Miss Jean Loughborough, and Miss Fannie +Mitchell. Arriving at Little Rock, late in the afternoon, +the President was welcomed by Hon. Josiah H. Shinn, R. +A. Edgerton, Chas. C. Waters, B. D. Caldwell, W. A. +Clark, H. F. Roberts, T. H. Jones, and the other members +of the Committee of Reception. McPherson and Ord +posts, G. A. R., in charge of Marshal O. M. Spellman, Lee +Clough, and C. Altenberg, acted as escort to the President, +accompanied by the McCarthy Light Guards. The parade +was in charge of Grand Marshal Zeb Ward, Jr., assisted +by Col. W. T. Kelley, Horace G. Allis, and Oscar Davis. +The Lincoln Club, commanded by P. Raleigh and P. C. +Dooley, participated in the reception. At the State House +Governor Eagle formally welcomed the distinguished +travellers.</p> + +<p>President Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Eagle and Fellow-citizens</i>—No voice is large enough to +compass this immense throng. But my heart is large enough to +receive all the gladness and joy of your great welcome here to-day. +[Applause.] I thank you one and all for your presence, for the +kind words of greeting which have been spoken by your Governor, +and for these kind faces turned to me. In all this I see a great +fraternity; in all this I feel new impulses to a better discharge of +every public and every private duty. I cannot but feel that in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[318]</a></span> +consequence of this brief contact with you to-day I shall carry +away a better knowledge of your State, its resources, its capabilities, +and of the generous warm-heartedness of its people. We +have a country whose greatness this meeting evidences, for there +are here assembled masses of independent men. The commonwealth +rests upon the free suffrage of its citizens and their devotion to the +Constitution, and the flag is the bulwark of its life. [Cheers.] +We have agreed, I am sure, that we will do no more fighting +among ourselves. [Cries of "Good! good!" and cheers.] I may +say to you confidentially that Senator Jones and I agreed several +years ago, after observing together the rifle practice at Fort Snelling, +that shooting had been reduced to such accuracy that war +was too dangerous for either of us to engage in it. [Laughter and +cheers.] But, my friends, I cannot prolong this talk. Once already +to-day in the dampness of this atmosphere I have attempted to +speak, and therefore you will allow me to conclude by wishing for +your State, for its Governor and all its public officers, for all its +citizens without exception, high or humble, the blessing of social +order, peace, and prosperity—the fruits of intelligence and piety. +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TEXARKANA_ARKANSAS_APRIL_17" id="TEXARKANA_ARKANSAS_APRIL_17">TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Notwithstanding</span> it was nearly midnight when the +presidential train reached Texarkana, about 2,000 citizens +were present. Foremost in the movement to give a fitting +reception to the President were: George H. Langsdale, +Robert Langsdale, Richard Brunazzi, and Edward Donnelly. +Among other well-known citizens present were +Lyman S. Roach, Commander of Dick Yates Post, G. A. +R.; Ira A. Church, J. A. Mifflin, Wm. Rhinders, W. F. +Loren, W. W. Shaw, Fred A. Church, J. P. Ashcraft, +Wm. H. Bush, A. B. Matson, W. W. De Prato, T. P. McCalla, +J. W. Hatcher, John McKenna, Peter Gable, John +Mayher, Martin Foster, J. K. Langsdale, and F. L. +Schuster.</p> + +<p>The President spoke briefly and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>Having had notice of your request that we stop here for a few +moments, I have remained up in order to thank you for your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[319]</a></span> +expressed interest and for this very large and cordial demonstration. +I have spoken several times during the day, and am sure +you will excuse me from attempting now, at midnight, to make a +speech. I hope that prosperity is here and that it may abide with +you. Thanking you again, I bid you good-night.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PALESTINE_TEXAS_APRIL_18" id="PALESTINE_TEXAS_APRIL_18">PALESTINE, TEXAS, APRIL 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop in the Lone Star State was at Palestine, +where the President received a royal welcome, the population +of the city turning out to do him honor. His excellency +Gov. James S. Hogg cordially greeted the President +at this point. Hon. John H. Reagan, Hon. Geo. A. +Wright, Mayor of Palestine, and the City Council in a +body, constituted the Committee of Reception, together +with the following prominent residents: Capt. T. T. Gammage, +A. H. Bailey, Geo. E. Dilley, N. R. Royall, W. C. +Kendall, A. Teah, J. R. Hearne, J. W. Ozment, P. W. +Ezell, O. B. Sawyers, G. W. Burkitt, W. M. Lacy, Henry +Ash, A. C. Green, A. R. Howard, A. L. Bowers, D. W. +Heath, Wm. Broyles, John J. Word, E. R. Kersh, R. J. +Wallace, J. M. Fullinwider, Rev. E. F. Fales and Mrs. +Fales, who welcomed her distinguished brother Postmaster-General +Wanamaker.</p> + +<p>Governor Hogg made the formal address of welcome, to +which the President responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Hogg and Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me pleasure to come +this fresh morning into this great State—a kingdom without a +king, an empire without an emperor, a State gigantic in proportions +and matchless in resources, with diversified industries and +infinite capacities to sustain a tremendous population and to bring +to every home where industry abides prosperity and comfort. Such +homes, I am sure, are represented here this morning—the American +home, where the father abides in the respect and the mother +in the deep love of the children that sit about the fireside; where +all that makes us good is taught and the first rudiments of obedience +to law, of orderly relations one to another, are put into the +young minds. Out of this comes social order; on this rests the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[320]</a></span> +security of our country. The home is the training-school for +American citizenship. There we learn to defer to others; selfishness +is suppressed by the needs of those about us. There self-sacrifice, +love, and willingness to give ourselves for others are born.</p> + +<p>I thank you that so many of you have come here this morning +from such homes, and all of us are thankful together that peace +rests upon our whole country. All of us have pledged ourselves +that no sectional strife shall ever divide us, and that while abiding +in peace with all the world we are, against all aggression, one +mighty, united people. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I desire to assure you, my countrymen, that in my heart I make +no distinction between our people anywhere. [Cheers.] I have a +deep desire that everywhere in all our States there shall be that +profound respect for the will of the majority, expressed by our +voters, that shall bring constant peace into all our communities. +It is very kind of you to come here this morning before breakfast. +Perhaps you are initiating me into the Texas habit—is it so?—of +taking something before breakfast. [Laughter and cheers.] This +exhilarating draught of good-will you have given me this morning +will not, I am sure, disturb either my digestion or comfort +during this day. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HOUSTON_TEXAS_APRIL_18" id="HOUSTON_TEXAS_APRIL_18">HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party reached Houston at noon on +April 18 and were greeted by an enthusiastic assemblage +estimated at 20,000. The welcoming committee, headed +by Mayor Scherffius, comprised the following-named prominent +citizens: Hon. Charles Stewart, Geo. A. Race, J. +W. Temby, Maj. R. B. Baer, A. K. Taylor, Col. John T. +Brady, W. D. Cleveland, D. C. Smith, C. Lombardi, Dr. +E. F. Schmidt, Capt. J. C. Hutcheson, T. W. House, S. K. +Dick, W. B. Chew, James F. Dumble, R. B. Morris, James +A. Patton, Jr., A. P. Root, W. V. R. Watson, G. W. Kidd, +G. C. Felton, H. W. Garrow, Geo. E. Dickey, F. Halff, +John F. Dickson, E. W. Cave, Charles Dillingham, A. C. +Herndon, J. W. Jones, D. M. Angle, Geo. L. Porter, Rufus +Cage, F. A. Rice, Dr. D. F. Stuart, and President Mitchell, +of the Commercial Club. Many prominent ladies of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[321]</a></span> +city participated in receiving and entertaining the ladies +in the presidential party.</p> + +<p>Congressman Stewart introduced the President, who +spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Your faces all respond to the words of welcome +which have been spoken in your behalf. We have been not +only pleased but touched by the delicate and kindly expressions of +regard which we have received since entering the State of Texas. +I remained up last night until after midnight that I might not +unconsciously pass into this great State, and I was called very early +from my bed this morning to receive a draught of welcome, before +I had breakfasted, from another Texas audience. You have a +State whose greatness I think you have discovered.</p> + +<p>A stranger can hardly hope to point out to you that which you +have not already known. Perhaps Virginia and Kentucky have +been heard to say more about their respective States than Texas; +but I think their voices are likely soon to be drowned by the enthusiastic +and affectionate claims which you will present to the +country for your great commonwealth. [Cheers.] You have the +resources in some measure—in a great measure—of all the States +gathered within your borders; a soil adapted to the production of +all the cereals and grasses; and to this you add cotton, sugar, and +tobacco. You are very rightly diversifying your crops, because +the history of intelligent farming shows that as the crops are +diversified the people prosper.</p> + +<p>All is not staked upon the success of a single crop. You do well, +therefore, to raise cotton, sugar, and tobacco, and I am glad you +are not neglecting cattle, sheep, hogs, corn, and all the cereals. +We have been trying to do what we could from Washington to +make for you a larger and better market for your enormous meat +products. [Cheers.] We have felt that the restrictions imposed +by some of the European governments could not be fairly justified +upon the ground stated by them. Already the Secretary of Agriculture—himself +a farmer, who has with his own hands wrought +in all the work of the farm—has succeeded in procuring the removal +of some of these injurious restrictions, and has announced +to the country that exportation of cattle has increased 100 per cent. +in the last year. [Cheers.] I beg to assure you that these interests +will have the most careful attention from the Government at +Washington and from our representatives at foreign courts. It is +believed that we have now by legislation a system of sanitary +inspection of our meat products that, when once put in operation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[322]</a></span> +and examined by the European governments, will remove the last +excuse for the exclusion of our meats from those foreign states.</p> + +<p>Our time is so limited that I can scarcely say more than "thank +you." We cannot at all repay you for this demonstration of welcome, +but let me say that in all your prosperity I shall rejoice. I do +desire that all our legislation and all our institutions and the combined +energies of all our people shall work together for the common +good of all our States and all our population. [Great cheering.] +You have great resources of a material sort, and yet above all this +I rejoice that the timely forethought of your public men has provided +an unexampled school fund for the education of the children.</p> + +<p>These things that partake of the life that is spiritual are better +after all than the material. Indeed, there can be no true prosperity +in any State or community where they are not thoughtfully fostered. +Good social order, respect for the law, regard for other +men's rights, orderly, peaceful administration are the essential +things in any community. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GALVESTON_TEXAS_APRIL_18" id="GALVESTON_TEXAS_APRIL_18">GALVESTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President and his party, accompanied by Governor +Hogg, arrived at Galveston on the afternoon of Saturday, +April 18, and were tendered an ovation by the hospitable +residents of the Island City. The distinguished travellers +were met at Houston by a committee of escort consisting of +Chairman Leo N. Levi, George Sealy, Julius Runge, R. +B. Hawley, W. F. Ladd, Col. R. G. Lowe, Maj. C. J. Allen, +Aldermen C. M. Mason and T. W. Jackson, D. D. Bryan, +J. W. Burson, Mrs. R. L. Fulton, Mrs. R. B. Hawley, Mrs. +Aaron Blum, Mrs. W. F. Ladd, and Mrs. C. J. Allen.</p> + +<p>On arriving in the city the President was welcomed by +the other members of the Reception Committee, headed by +Mayor Roger L. Fulton, the Board of Aldermen, and the +following prominent citizens: Leon Blum, R. S. Willis, +J. C. League, H. A. Landes, J. E. Wallis, Col. J. S. Rogers, +P. J. Willis, Robert Bornefeld, C. C. Sweeney, M. F. Mott, +Albert Weis, M. Lasker, J. Z. Miller, Fen Cannon, Col. +John D. Rogers, J. N. Sawyer, W. H. Sinclair, Joseph +Cuney, Geo. Seeligson, Julius Weber, J. D. Skinner, Thos.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[323]</a></span> +H. Sweeney, James Montgomery, F. L. Dana, James +Moore, W. F. Beers, J. H. Hutchings, Wm. H. Masters, M. +W. Shaw, W. B. Denson, H. B. Cullum, C. H. Rickert, W. +B. Lockhart, U. Muller, F. Lammers, H. F. Sproule, Judge +C. L. Cleveland, Judge Wm. H. Stewart, R. T. Wheeler, +N. W. Cuney, Thomas W. Cain, Samuel Penland, R. G. +Street, J. Lobit, D. M. Erlich, C. M. Trueheart, L. Fellman, +C. R. Reifel, Charles Vidor, George Butler, W. Vowrinckle, +Joe Owens, C. E. Angel, Rev. S. M. Bird, Dr. A. W. +Fly, Dr. J. T. Y. Paine, Dr. H. P. Cooke, J. R. Gibson, +Howard Carnes, Charles Maddox, Bishop Gallagher, Rev. +A. T. Spaulding, A. B. Tuller, Dr. J. D. Daviss, Rev. J. E. +Edwards, A. B. Homer, Rev. Joseph B. Sears, J. Singer, R. +C. Johnson, J. W. Riddell, B. Tiernan, T. A. Gary, John +Focke, Joseph Scott, W. E. McDonald, Geo. Schneider, F. +O. Becker, Thomas Goggan, J. D. Sherwood, O. H. Cooper, +E. O'C. MacInerney, Thos. S. King, Robert Day, Daniel +Buckley, J. J. Hanna, F. W. Fickett, Wm. Selkirk, and J. +A. Robertson.</p> + +<p>Immediately following their arrival the presidential +party, escorted by Hon. Wm. H. Crain, Mr. Leon Blum, +and other members of the Reception Committee, enjoyed +a trip about the harbor aboard one of the Mallory line +steamships, enabling them to view the extensive Government +works for deepening the channel at the entrance to +the harbor. This excursion was followed by a ride across +the island amid a shower of flowers.</p> + +<p>The parade was participated in by all the military and +industrial organizations of the city; also by the Odd Fellows, +Knights of Pythias, and other orders, and was a most +imposing demonstration. The G. A. R. veterans acted as +a guard of honor to the President on the march, and the +day was just closing when the column arrived at the +Beach Hotel, on the very shore of the Gulf of Mexico, +where the formal address of welcome was ably delivered +by Gen. T. N. Waul.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[324]</a></span></p> + +<p>President Harrison's response was the longest speech of +his trip, and attracted wide-spread and favorable comment. +He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We close to-night a whole week of travel, +a whole week of hand-shaking, a whole week of talking. I have +before me 10,000 miles of hand-shaking and speaking, and I am +not, by reason of what this week has brought me, in voice to contend +with the fine but rather strong Gulf breeze which pours in +upon us to-night; and yet it comes to me laden with the fragrance +of your welcome. [Cheers.] It comes with the softness, refreshment, +and grace which have accompanied all my intercourse with +the people of Texas. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>The magnificent and cordial demonstration which you have made +in our honor to-day will always remain a bright and pleasant +picture in my memory. [Great cheers.] I am glad to have been +able to rest my eyes upon the city of Galveston. I am glad to +have been able to traverse this harbor and to look upon that work +which a liberal and united Government has inaugurated for your +benefit and for the benefit of the Northwest. [Great and prolonged +cheers.] I have always believed that it was one of the undisputed +functions of the general Government to make these great waterways +which penetrate our country and these harbors into which +our shipping must come to receive the tribute of rail and river +safe and easy of access.</p> + +<p>This ministering care should extend to our whole country, and I +am glad that, adopting a policy with reference to the harbor work, +here at least, which I insisted upon in a public message [great +and prolonged cheering], the appropriation has been made adequate +to a diligent and prompt completion of the work. [Great cheering.] +In the past the Government has undertaken too many things +at once, and its annual appropriations have been so inadequate +that the work of the engineers was much retarded and often seriously +damaged in the interval of waiting for fresh appropriations.</p> + +<p>It is a better policy, when a work has once been determined to +be of national significance, that the appropriation should be +sufficient to bring it speedily and without loss to a conclusion. +[Great cheering.] I am glad that the scheme of the engineer for +giving deep water to Galveston is thus to be prosecuted.</p> + +<p>I have said some of our South Atlantic and Gulf ports occupy +a most favorable position for the new commerce toward which we +are reaching out our hands, and which is reaching out its hands +to us. [Great cheering.] I am an economist in the sense that I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[325]</a></span> +would not waste one dollar of public money, but I am not an +economist in the sense that I would leave incomplete or suffer to +lag any great work highly promotive of the true interests of our +people. [Great cheering.]</p> + +<p>We are great enough and rich enough to reach forward to grander +conceptions than have entered the minds of some of our statesmen +in the past. If you are content, I am not, that the nations of +Europe shall absorb nearly the entire commerce of these near sister +republics that lie south of us. It is naturally in large measure +ours—ours by neighborhood, ours by nearness of access, ours by +that sympathy that binds a hemisphere without a king. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>The inauguration of the Three Americas Congress, or more properly +the American Conference, the happy conduct of that meeting, +the wise and comprehensive measures which were suggested by it, +with the fraternal and kindly spirit that was manifested by our +southern neighbors, has stimulated a desire in them and in our +people for a larger intercourse of commerce and of friendship. The +provisions of the bill passed at the last session looking to a reciprocity +of trade not only met with my official approval when I +signed the bill, but with my zealous promotion before the bill was +reported. [Great and prolonged cheering.]</p> + +<p>Its provision concerning reciprocity is that we have placed upon +our free list sugar, tea, coffee and hides, and have said to those nations +from whom we receive these great staples: Give us free access to +your ports for an equivalent amount of our produce in exchange, +or we will reimpose duties upon the articles named. The law +leaves it wholly to the Executive to negotiate these arrangements. +It does not need that they shall take the form of a treaty.</p> + +<p>They need not be submitted for the concurrence of the Senate. +It only needs that we, having made our offer, shall receive their +offer in return; and when they shall have made up an acceptable +schedule of articles produced by us that shall have free access to +their ports, a proclamation by the President closes the whole business. +[Cheers.] Already one treaty with that youngest of the +South American republics, the great republic of Brazil, has been +negotiated and proclaimed. I think, without disclosing an Executive +secret, I may tell you that the arrangement with Brazil is +not likely to abide in lonesomeness much longer [great and prolonged +cheering]; that others are to follow, and that as a result of +these trade arrangements the products of the United States—our +meats, our breadstuffs, and certain lines of manufactured goods—are +to find free or favored access to the ports of many of these +South and Central American States. All the States will share in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[326]</a></span> +these benefits. We have had some analysis of the manifests of +some of our steamers now sailing to South American ports, and in +a single steamer it was found that twenty-five States contributed to +the cargo.</p> + +<p>But we shall need something more. We shall need American +steamships to carry American goods to these ports. [Great cheering.] +The last Congress passed a bill appropriating about $1,500,000, +and authorized the Postmaster-General to contract with steamship +companies for a period not exceeding ten years for the carrying of +the United States mail. The foreign mail service is the only mail +service out of which the Government has been making a net profit. +We do not make a profit out of our land service.</p> + +<p>There is an annual deficiency which my good friend the Postmaster-General +has been trying very hard to reduce or wipe out. +The theory of our mail service is that it is for the people, that we +are not to make a profit out of it, that we are to give them as +cheap postage as is possible. We are, many of us, looking forward +to a time when we shall have one-cent postage in this country. +[Cheers.] We have been so close and penurious in dealing with +our ships in the carrying of foreign mails that we have actually +made revenues out of that business, not having spent for it what +we have received from it. Now we propose to change that policy +and to make more liberal contracts with American lines carrying +American mail. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Some one may say we ought not to go into this business, that it +is subsidy. But, my friend, every other great nation of the world +has been doing it and is doing it to-day. Great Britain and France +have built up their great steamship lines by Government aid, and +it seems to me our attitude with reference to that is aptly portrayed +by an illustration I mentioned the other day. In olden times no +wholesale merchant sent out travelling men to solicit custom, +but he stood in his own store and waited for his customers. +But presently some enterprising merchant began to send out men +with their samples to seek the trade, to save the country buyer the +cost of the trip to New York or Philadelphia, until finally that +practice has become universal, and these active, intelligent travelling +men are scurrying this country over, pushing and soliciting +in their several lines of business. Now imagine some conservative +merchant in New York saying to himself: "All this is wrong; the +trade ought to come to me." If he should refuse to adopt these +modern methods what would be the result? He must adopt the +new methods or go out of business. We have been refusing to +adopt the universal method of our competitors in commerce to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[327]</a></span> +stimulate their shipping interest and have gone out of the business. +[Laughter and cheers.] Encouraged by what your spokesman has +said to-night, I venture to declare that I am in favor of going into +business again, and when it is re-established I hope Galveston will +be in the partnership. [Great cheers.]</p> + +<p>It has been the careful study of the Postmaster-General in preparing +to execute the law to which I have referred to see how +much increase in routes and ships we could secure by it. We have +said to the few existing American lines: You must not treat this +appropriation as a plate of soup, to be divided and consumed. +You must give us new lines, new ships, increased trips, and new +ports of call. Already the steamship lines are looking over the +routes to see what they can do, with a view of increasing their +tonnage and establishing new lines.</p> + +<p>The Postmaster-General has invited the attention and suggestion +of all the boards of trade of all our seaboard cities. Undoubtedly +you have received such a letter. This appropriation is for one +year; what the future is to be must depend upon the deliberate +judgment of the people. If during my term of office they shall +strike down a law that I believe to be beneficial or destroy its +energy by withholding appropriations, I shall bow to their will, +but I shall feel great disappointment if we do not make an era for +the revival of American commerce. I do much want that the time +shall come when our citizens living in temporary exile in foreign +ports shall now and then see steaming into these distant ports a +fine modern man-of-war, flying the United States flag [cheers], +with the best modern guns on her deck, and a brave American +crew in her forecastle. [Cheers.] I want, also, that in these ports, +so long unfamiliar with the American flag, there shall again be +found our steamships and our sailing vessels flying the flag that we +all love, and carrying from our shores the products that these men +of toil have brought to them to exchange for the products of other +climes.</p> + +<p>I think we should add to all this, and happily it is likely to be +accomplished by individual efforts, the early completion of the +Nicaragua Canal. [Cheers.] The Pacific coast should no longer +be found by sea only by the passage of the Horn. The short route +should be opened, and it will be, and then with this wondrous +stirring among the people of all our States, this awakening to new +business plans and more careful and economical work, there will +come great prosperity to all our people. Texas will spin more of +the cotton that she raises.</p> + +<p>The great States of the South will be in discontent with the old<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[328]</a></span> +condition that made them simply agricultural States, and will +rouse themselves to compete with the older manufacturing States +of the North and East. [Cheers.] The vision I have, all the +thoughts I have of this matter embrace all the States and all my +countrymen. I do not think of it as a question of party; I think +of it as a great American question. [Cheers.] By the invitation +of the address which was made to me I have freely spoken my +mind to you on these topics. I hope I have done so with no offence +or impropriety. [Cries of "No, no!" and cheers.]</p> + +<p>I would not on an occasion so full of general good feeling as this +obtrude anything that should induce division or dissent. For all +who do dissent I have the most respectful tolerance. The views I +hold are the result of some thought and investigation, and as they +are questions of public concern I confidently submit them to the +arbitrament of brave and enlightened American suffrage. [Applause +and cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_ANTONIO_TEXAS_APRIL_20" id="SAN_ANTONIO_TEXAS_APRIL_20">SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, APRIL 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President and his party passed their first Sunday +at Galveston, leaving the Island City at midnight and arriving +at San Antonio at 11:15 Monday morning. A +special committee, consisting of Hon. C. W. Ogden, Chairman; +Col. C. M. Terrell, S. M. Johnson, J. S. McNamara, +Mrs. Ogden, Mrs. Johnson, and Miss Eleanor Sullivan, +escorted the party from Galveston. The <i>Alamo City</i> was +profusely decorated in honor of the visit, and a great throng +greeted the President's arrival. He was received by the +Hon. Bryan Callaghan, Mayor of the city, at the head of +the following committee of leading citizens: Gen. David +S. Stanley, U. S. A.; Col. J. P. Martin, Col. W. B. Wright, +Col. H. B. Andrews, Maj. C. C. Cresson, Hon. W. W. +King, L. M. Gregory, B. F. Yoakum, C. W. Ogden, H. D. +Kampmann, J. S. Alexander, W. J. B. Patterson, A. W. +Houston, Reagan Houston, Richard Wooley, Jr., R. H. +Russell, N. Mackey, George Dullnig, J. V. Dignowity, J. +S. Thornton, F. Groos, H. P. Drought, D. Sullivan, Charles +Hugo, Rev. Dr. Giddings, C. K. Breneman, W. H. Weiss,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[329]</a></span> +Frank Grice, Alex. Joske, Henry Elmendorf, Robert Driscoll, +Paul Wagner, J. Ronse, J. E. Pancoast, Adolph +Wagner, George H. Kalteyer, Charles J. Langholz, C. B. +Mullaly, R. H. McCracken, A. G. Cooper, Dr. G. Graham +Watts, Dr. J. P. Ornealus, Dr. Amos Graves, and A. T. +Wilson. Mayor McDonald, of Austin, and Hon. L. L. +Foster also participated in the reception.</p> + +<p>A rainstorm interfered with the parade, and the public +reception was held at the Opera House, thousands being +unable to enter. Mayor Callaghan made the welcoming +address and introduced President Harrison, who spoke as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I very much regret that frequent +speaking in the open air during the past week and the very heavy +atmosphere which we have this morning have somewhat impaired +my voice. I am sure you will crown your hospitality and kindness +by allowing me to speak to you very briefly. I sympathize with +you in the distress which you feel that the day is so unpropitious +for any street demonstration, but I have been told by one wise in +such matters that this rain is worth $5,000,000 to Western Texas. +That being the case, it greatly moderates our regret. It has come +to be a popular habit of attributing to the President whatever +weather may happen on any demonstration in which he takes a +part. I suppose I may claim credit this morning for this beneficial +rain. [Applause.] I generously assure you that if it is worth as +much money as my friend has estimated I shall not take more than +half that sum. [Laughter.] In visiting for a little while this +historic city, I had anticipated great pleasure in looking upon the +remains of an earlier occupancy of this territory in which you +now dwell. Our glance this morning must be brief and imperfect, +but the history has been written and the traditions of these martyrdoms +which occurred here for liberty are fresh in your minds +and are still an inspiring story to be repeated to your children.</p> + +<p>I remember in my early boyhood to have heard in our family +thrilling descriptions of the experiences of an uncle, whose name +I bear, in some of those campaigns for freedom in Texas in which +he took a part, so that the story to me goes back to those dim early +recollections of childhood. I am glad to stand where those recollections +are revived and freshened, for they were events of momentous +importance to this country, to this State, and to the whole<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[330]</a></span> +Union. I rejoice that you have here so great a commonwealth. +The stipulations under which Texas came into the Union of the +States, and which provided that that great Territory might be +subdivided into five States, seem not to attract much attention in +Texas now.</p> + +<p>Indeed, as far as I can judge, no man would be able successfully +to appeal to the suffrages of any hamlet in Texas upon the issue +that the State should be divided at all. [Cheers.] The great +industrial capacities which you have, the beneficent climate that +spreads over much of your vast territory, the great variety of productions +which your soil and climate render possible, give a +promise for the future of a prominence among the great States of +the Union that seems to me can scarcely fail to bring Texas to the +front rank. [Cheers.] You are only now beginning to plough this +vast stretch of land. You are only now beginning to diversify +those interests, to emancipate yourselves by producing at home in +your fields all of those products which are necessary to comfortable +existence.</p> + +<p>I hope you will soon add, indeed, you are now largely adding, +to this diversity of agricultural pursuits a diversity of mechanical +pursuits. The advantages which you have to transmute the great +production of the field into the manufactured product are very +great. There can be certainly no reason why a very large part of +the million bales of cotton which you produce should not be spun +in Texas. [Cheers.] I hope your people will more and more turn +their thoughts to this matter, for just in proportion as a community +or State suitably divides its energies among various industries, so +does it retain the wealth it produces and increase its population. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>A great Englishman, visiting this country some time ago, in +speaking of the impressions which were made upon his mind, said +he was constantly asked as he travelled through the country whether +he was not amazed at its territorial extent. He said while this, +of course, was a notable incident of travel, he wondered that we +did not forget all our bigness of territory in a contemplation of the +great spectacle we presented as a free people in organized and +peaceful community. He regarded this side of our country and +her institutions as much more important than its material development +or its territorial extent, and he was right in that judgment.</p> + +<p>My fellow-citizens, the pride of America, that which should +attract the admiration and has attracted the imagination of many +people upon the face of the earth, is our system of government. +[Applause.] I am glad to know, and to have expressed my satis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span>faction +before, that here in this State of Texas you are giving +attention to education; that you have been able to erect a school +fund, the interest upon which promises a most magnificent endowment +for your common schools. These schools are the pride and +safety of your State. They gather into them upon a common level +with us, and I hope with you, the children of the rich and poor. +In the State in which I dwell everybody's children attend the +common schools.</p> + +<p>This lesson of equality, the perfect system which has been developed +by this method of instruction, is training a valued class of +citizens to take up the responsibilities of government when we +shall lay them down. [Applause.] I hope every one of your communities, +even your scattered rural communities, will pursue this +good work. I am sure this hope is shared by my honored host, +Governor Hogg, who sits beside me [applause], and who, in the +discharge of his public duties, can influence the progress of this +great measure. No material greatness, no wealth, no accumulation +of splendor, is to be compared with those humble and homely +virtues which have generally characterized our American homes.</p> + +<p>The safety of the State, the good order of the community—all +that is good—the capacity, indeed, to produce material wealth, is +dependent upon intelligence and social order. [Applause.] Wealth +and commerce are timid creatures; they must be assured that the +nest will be safe before they build. So it is always in those communities +where the most perfect order is maintained, where intelligence +is protected, where the Church of God and the institutions +of religion are revered and respected, that we find the largest +development in material wealth. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Thanking you for your cordial greeting, thanking all your people, +and especially the Governor of your State, for courtesies which +have been unfailing, for a cordiality and friendliness that has not +found any stint or repression in the fact that we are of different +political opinions [great cheering], I beg to thank you for this +special manifestation of respect, and to ask you to excuse me from +further speech. I shall follow such arrangements as your committee +have made, and shall be glad if in those arrangements there is +some provision by which I may meet as many of you as possible +individually. [Prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[332]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DEL_RIO_TEXAS_APRIL_21" id="DEL_RIO_TEXAS_APRIL_21">DEL RIO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> chief incident of the long run from San Antonio to +El Paso was the enthusiastic reception tendered the President +by the residents of the thriving frontier town of Del +Rio, county seat of Val Verde County. The town was +handsomely decorated, and the following Reception Committee +welcomed the President and party: Judge W. K. +Jones, C. S. Brodbent, Zeno Fielder, J. A. Price, H. D. +Bonnett, E. L. Dignowity, Paul Flato, Clyde Woods, +Thomas Cunningham, W. C. Easterling, J. C. Clarkson, +E. G. Nicholson, C. G. Leighton, and R. J. Felder.</p> + +<p>Rev. Dr. H. S. Thrall, the veteran historian of Texas, +delivered the address of welcome. The President, responding, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I had supposed when we left San Antonio that we +were not to be stopped very often between that point and El Paso +with such assemblages of our fellow-citizens. We had settled down +to an easy way of living on the train, and I had supposed that +speech-making would not be taken up until to-morrow. I thank +you most cordially for this friendly evidence of your interest, and +I assure you that all of these matters to which your spokesman has +alluded are having the most careful consideration of the authorities +at Washington. The Secretary of Agriculture, who is with me on +the train, has been diligent in an effort to open European markets +for American meats, and he has succeeded so far that our exportation +has very largely increased in the last year. It is our hope +that these restrictions may still further be removed, and that +American meat products may have a still larger market in Europe +than they have had for very many years past. The inspections +now provided by law certainly must remove every reasonable objection +to the use of American meats; for we shall demonstrate to +them that they are perfectly wholesome and pure. I want to say, +from the time of my induction into office until this hour I have +had before me constantly the need of the American farmer of a +larger market for his products. [Cries of "Good! good!" and +cheers.] Whatever we can do to accomplish that will be done. +I want to thank the public-school children for this address which +they have placed in my hands. What a blessed thing it is that +the public school system is found with the pioneer! It follows the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[333]</a></span> +buffalo very closely. I am glad to find that your children are being +trained in intelligence and in those moral restraints which shall +make them good citizens. I thank you for your kindly presence.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="EL_PASO_TEXAS_APRIL_21" id="EL_PASO_TEXAS_APRIL_21">EL PASO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> enterprising city of El Paso was reached at 10 +o'clock Tuesday morning, and the President was tendered +a veritable ovation. The reception at this point partook of +an international aspect. President Diaz of Mexico was +represented in the person of Governor Carrillo, Chief Executive +of the State of Chihuahua, accompanied by a brilliant +staff of 20 officers. The War Department of the +Mexican Government was represented by Gen. José Maria +Ranjel, Chief of the Second Military Zone, accompanied +by his staff, a company of artillery, and the Eleventh Battalion +Band of 45 instruments. From the City of Mexico +came Col. Ricardo Villanueva and Col. Ygnacio J. Monroy, +representing the Federal Government, while the neighboring +city of Juarez was represented by Colonel Ross, commander +of the garrison, Señor Mejia, Señor Urtetiga, and +many other prominent citizens. The city of El Paso was +represented by Mayor Richard Caples and the members of +the City Council. The Citizens' Committee of Reception +comprised W. S. Hills, Chairman; E. B. Bronson, M. B. +Davis, S. W. Russell, W. F. Payne, Frank P. Clark, C. F. +Slack, Geo. L. Stewart, H. S. Beattie, Judge Allen Blacker, +A. Solomon, W. B. Merrick, A. Berla, Louis Papin, Geo. +E. Bovee, James A. Smith, Hon. S. W. T. Lanham, A. J. +Eaton, Z. T. White, W. S. McCutcheon, A. M. Loomis, H. +C. Myles, Ben Schuster, A. J. Sampson, D. W. Reckhart, +and J. F. Satterthwaite.</p> + +<p>Governor Carrillo stood beside President Harrison during +the reception. After the distinguished Mexicans had +paid their respects and greeted our Chief Magistrate, Gen. +A. G. Malloy, on behalf of the citizens of El Paso, in an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[334]</a></span> +eloquent address welcomed him to the Gate City of the +two republics.</p> + +<p>President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have been journeying for several days +throughout the great State of Texas. We are now about to leave +her territory and receive from you this parting salutation. Our +entrance into the State was with every demonstration of respect +and enthusiasm. This is a fitting close to the magnificent expression +which the people of this State have given to us. I am glad +to stand at this gateway of trade with the great republic of Mexico. +[Cries of "Hear! hear!" and cheers.] I am glad to know +that it is not only a gateway of commerce, but a gateway of +friendship [cheers]; that not only do these hurrying vehicles of +commerce bear the products of the fields and mines in mutual +exchange, but that they have facilitated those personal relations +which have promoted and must yet more promote the friendliness +of two independent liberty-loving peoples. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I receive with great satisfaction these tributes of respect which +have been brought to me by the Governor of Chihuahua and the +representatives of the army of Mexico. [Cheers.] I desire to +return to them and through them to the people of Mexico and to +that illustrious and progressive statesman who presides over her +destinies [cheers] not only my sincere personal regard, but an +assurance of the friendliness and respect of the American Government +and the American people. I look forward with interest to a +larger development of our trade; to the opening of new lines of +commerce and new avenues of friendship. We have passed that +era in our history, I hope, when we were aggressive and unpleasant +neighbors. We do not covet the territory of any other people +[cheers], but do covet their friendship and those trade exchanges +which are mutually profitable. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now to you, my fellow-citizens, I bring congratulations for +the rapid development which you are making here, and extend the +most cordial good wishes for the realization of every hope you +have for El Paso and its neighborhood. [Cheers.] All republics +are builded on the respect and confidence of the people. They are +enduring and stable as their institutions and their rulers continue +to preserve their respect. I rejoice that those influences that tend +to soften the asperities of human life—the home, the school, and +the church—have kept pace with the enterprises of commerce and +are established here among you. All commerce and trade rest +upon the foundation of social order. You cannot attract an in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[335]</a></span>creased +citizenship except as you give to the world a reputation +for social order [cheers], in which crime is suppressed, in which +the rights of the humble are respected [cheers], and where the +courts stand as the safe bulwark of the personal and public rights +of every citizen, however poor. [Cheers.] I trust that as your +city grows you will see that these foundations are carefully and +broadly laid, and then you may hope that the superstructure, magnificent +in its dimensions, perfect in its security and grace, shall +rise in your midst. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to meet my comrades of the Grand Army of the +Republic [cheers], the survivors of the grand struggle for the +Union. It was one of the few wars in history that brought blessings +to the "victors and vanquished," and was followed by no +proscriptions, no block, no executions, but by the reception of +those who had striven for the destruction of the country into +friendly citizenship, laying upon them no yoke that was not borne +by the veterans—that of obedience to the law and a due respect for +the rights of others. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Again, sir [to the Mexican representative], I thank you for the +friendly greeting you have brought from across this narrow river +that separates us, and to you my fellow-countrymen, I extend my +thanks and bid you good-by. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DEMING_NEW_MEXICO_APRIL_21" id="DEMING_NEW_MEXICO_APRIL_21">DEMING, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">As</span> the train crossed the Rio Grande and entered New +Mexico Hon. L. Bradford Prince, Governor of that Territory, +gave the Chief Magistrate a cordial welcome. Deming +was reached at 2 o'clock. The city was in holiday attire; +a battery of artillery thundered the presidential salute, +two companies of the Tenth Cavalry, under Captain Keyes, +came to a present as the President appeared, and the +Twenty-fourth Infantry Band burst forth in patriotic +strains. The Committee of Reception comprised the following +prominent citizens: Judge Boone, C. H. Dane, B. A. +Knowles, J. R. Meyers, A. J. Clark, J. P. Bryon, W. H. +Hudson, S. M. Ashenfelter, Gustav Wormser, Ed. Pennington, +W. Burg, James Martin, Colonel Fitzerell, James +A. Lockhart, Seaman Field, John Corbett, E. G. Ross, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[336]</a></span> +Robert Campbell. Professor Hayes delivered the welcoming +address.</p> + +<p>In reply President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me great pleasure to tarry for a +moment here and to receive out on these broad and sandy plains +the same evidence of friendliness that has greeted me in the States. +I feel great interest in your people, and thinking that you have +labored under a disadvantage by reason of the unsettled state of +your land titles—because no country can settle up and become +populous while the titles to its land remain insecure—it was my +pleasure to urge upon Congress, both in a general and special message, +the establishment of a special land court to settle this question +once for all. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad that the statute is now a law, and immediately upon +my return from this trip I expect to announce the judges of +that court, and to set them immediately to work upon these cases, +so that you shall certainly, within two years, have all these questions +settled. I hope you will then see an increase of population +that has not as yet been possible, and which will tend to develop +your great mineral resources and open up your lands to settlement. +Thanking you, on behalf of our party, for this pleasant greeting, I +bid you good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LORDSBURG_NEW_MEXICO_APRIL_21" id="LORDSBURG_NEW_MEXICO_APRIL_21">LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Lordsburg, New Mexico, the train made a brief stop. +A number of citizens, headed by Don. H. Kedzee, welcomed +the President and presented him a handsome silver +box, manufactured from metal mined in the vicinity. On +the case was inscribed, "Protect the chief industry of our +Territories. Give us free coinage of silver." In accepting +the memento the President said: "Mr. Kedzee and gentlemen, +I thank you for this cordial welcome and for this elegant +souvenir, and assure you due care will be taken of +your interests." [Cheers.]</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[337]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TUCSON_ARIZONA_APRIL_21" id="TUCSON_ARIZONA_APRIL_21">TUCSON, ARIZONA, APRIL 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Tucson</span>, the metropolis of Arizona, was brilliantly +illuminated in honor of the visitors, who were welcomed +by 5,000 citizens and a band of Papago Indians. Negley +Post, G. A. R., J. J. Hill, Commander, represented the veterans. +The city government was present in the persons of +Mayor Frederick Maish and Councilmen M. G. Sameniego, +M. Lamont, Geo. Lesure, Wm. Reid, Frank Miltenberg, +and Julius Goldbaum. The Committee of Reception on +the part of the citizens comprised many of the most distinguished +men of the Territory as well as of the city, +among whom were: Federal Judges R. E. Sloan and H. +C. Gooding, Gen. R. A. Johnson, Gen. R. H. Paul, Charles +R. Drake, Herbert Brown, Brewster Cameron, J. Knox +Corbett, George Christ, J. S. McGee, S. Ainsa, Samuel +Hughes, Juan Elias, Rev. Howard Billman, Albert Steinfeld, +H. S. Stevens, M. P. Freeman, S. M. Franklin, W. C. +Davis, W. M. Lovell, J. S. Noble, H. B. Tenny, F. H. Hereford, +D. C. Driscoll, J. C. Handy, J. A. Black, Thomas +Hughes, A. J. Keen, J. M. Ormsby, H. E. Lacy, G. B. +Henry, Frank Allison, George Pusch, H. W. Fenner, R. D. +Furguson, F. J. Henry, and C. C. Eyster.</p> + +<p>Hon. Thos. F. Wilson made the address of welcome. +The President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is surprising as well as gratifying to see +so many friends assembled to greet us on our arrival at Tucson to-night. +I beg to assure you that the interests of the Territories are +very close to my heart. By reason of my service as Chairman of +the Territory Committee in the United States Senate I was brought +to study very closely the needs of the Territories. I have had +great pleasure issuing the proclamations admitting five Territories +to the sisterhood of States since I became President. I realize the +condition of the people of the Territory without having representation +in Congress as one of disadvantage, and I am friendly to the +suggestion that these Territories, as they have sufficient population +to sustain a State Government and to secure suitable administration +of the own affairs, shall be received into the Union.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[338]</a></span> +[Cheers.] It will be gratifying to me if you shall come into that +condition during the time that I occupy the presidential chair. +[Cheers.] I thank you again for your cordial demonstration, and +beg to present to you that gentleman of the Cabinet who has charge +of the postal affairs, Mr. Wanamaker. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="INDIO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">INDIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> morning of the 22d brought the President and his +party out of the great desert to the borders of California, +where at Indio, the first station, they were enthusiastically +greeted by the Governor of the State, Hon. Henry +H. Markham, at the head of the following distinguished +committee: Senator Charles N. Felton, ex-Gov. Geo. C. +Perkins, Col. Charles F. Crocker, Hon. R. F. Del Valle, +Hon. Stephen M. White, Gen. E. P. Johnson, Hon. +Hervey Lindley, Hon. Freeman G. Teed, Hon. Irwin C. +Stump, Hon. Frank McCoppin, and Adjutant-General +Allen. From the districts adjacent to Indio were gathered +several hundred people to greet the Chief Magistrate, +mostly Indians. Postmaster A. G. Tingman introduced +the venerable Chief Cabazon, head of the Cohuilla tribe +and over 100 years old, who presented a petition to the +President asking that the lands guaranteed his people by +the treaty with Mexico be restored to them. Governor +Markham delivered a cordial welcoming address, wherein +he reviewed the wonderful growth of California.</p> + +<p>The President, in reply, said he would not undertake, +while almost choked with the dust of the plains he had just +left, to say all that he hoped to say in the way of pleasant +greetings to the citizens of California. Some time, when +he had been refreshed by their olive oil and their vineyards, +he would endeavor to express his gratification at +being able to visit California. He had long desired to +visit California, and it was the objective point of this trip. +He had seen the northern coast and Puget Sound, but had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[339]</a></span> +never before been able to see California. He remembered +from boyhood the excitement of the discovery of gold, and +had always distantly followed California's growth and +progress. The acquisition of California was second only +to that of Louisiana and the control of the Mississippi +River. It secured us this great coast, and made impossible +the ownership of a foreign power on any of our coast line. +It has helped to perfect our magnificent isolation, which +is our great protection against foreign aggression. He +thanked the Governor and committee for their kindly reception, +and assured them that if he should have any complaints +to make of his treatment in California it would be +because its people had been too hospitable.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="COLTON_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="COLTON_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">COLTON, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Colton the presidential party were enthusiastically +greeted by several thousand people. The Citizens' Committee +comprised A. B. Miner, Chairman; Dr. Fox, J. B. +Shepardson, Wilson Hays, W. H. Wright, F. M. Hubbard, +Dr. Hutchinson, H. B. Smith, J. W. Davis, S. M. Goddard, +J. B. Hanna, Captain Topp, W. W. Wilcox, M. A. Murphy, +Prof. Mathews, R. A. Kuhn, C. B. Hamilton, J. M. +White, Dr. Sprecher, Geo. E. Slaughter, R. F. Franklin, +E. A. Pettijohn, E. E. Thompson, Dan Swartz, R. M. McKie, +Wm. McCully and Proctor McCann. The committee +appointed to wait on Mrs. Harrison were: Mesdames +Hubbard, Button, Shepardson, Fuller, Gilbert, Shibley, +Hebbard, and Wright. Twelve school-girls presented as +many baskets of oranges to the lady of the White House.</p> + +<p>The President addressed the assemblage and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We have travelled now something more than +3,500 miles. They have been 3,500 miles of cordial greeting from +my fellow-citizens; they have been 3,500 miles of perpetual talk. +It would require a brain more fertile in resources, more diversified +in its operations than the State of California in its richness<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[340]</a></span> +and productions, to say something original or interesting at each +one of these stopping places; but I can say always with a warm +heart to my fellow-citizens who greet me so cordially, who look to +me out of such kindly faces, I thank you; I am your servant in all +things that will conduce to the general prosperity and happiness of +the American people.</p> + +<p>Remote from us of the far East in distance, we are united to you +not only by the ties of a common citizenship, by the reverence and +honor we joyfully give to the one flag, but by those interchanges +of emigration which have brought so many of the people of the +older States to you. At every station where I have stopped since +entering California some Hoosier has reached up his hand to greet +me [laughter and cheers], and the omnipresent Ohio man, of +course, I have found everywhere. I was assured by these gentlemen +that they were making their full contributions to the development +of your country, and that they have possessed themselves of +their fair share of it.</p> + +<p>I have been greatly pleased this morning to come out of the land +of the desert and the drifting sand into this land of homes and +smiling women and bright children. I have been glad to see these +beautiful gardens and these fertile fields, and to know that you are +now, by the economical collection and distribution of the waters +of the hills, making all these valleys to blossom like the garden of +Eden. We do not come to spy the land with any view of dispossessing +you, as the original spies went into Palestine. We come +simply to exchange friendly greetings, and we shall hope to carry +away nothing that does not belong to us. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>If we shall leave your happy and prosperous State freighted with +your good-will and love, as we shall leave ours with you, it will +be a happy exchange. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ONTARIO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="ONTARIO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Ontario the President received a most patriotic +greeting; throngs of school children brought him flowers. +The Reception Committee was G. T. Stamm, I. S. Miller, +E. P. Clarke, S. G. Blood, R. E. Blackburn, G. W. A. +Luckey, Dr. O. S. Ensign, Dr. R. H. Tremper, and O. S. +Picher.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[341]</a></span></p> + +<p>H. Z. Osborne, of the Los Angeles committee, introduced +the President, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I thank you for this cordial greeting. I am sure +you will excuse me from extended remarks. I have been subjected +to such a strain in that direction that my brain needs irrigation +to make it blossom with new thoughts. It to me is a pleasure to +look into the intelligent faces of American citizens. No such people +gather in any other country as meet me at every station. They +come from good homes, which are the safety of our commonwealth. +I am pleased to see these children here. Good schools have everywhere +followed the pioneer. You have brought to this new country +the old New England ideas of thrift, of living on a little and +having a good deal left over. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BANNING_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="BANNING_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">BANNING, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Banning</span>, the gateway to Southern California, gave the +presidential party an enthusiastic welcome and loaded +them down with fruits and flowers. Mr. Louis Munson, +editor of the Banning <i>Herald</i>, at the head of the Reception +Committee, delivered the welcoming address. The next +day at Arlington, where he had gone to again assist in +receiving the President, Mr. Munson was suddenly taken +with hemorrhage and died as the train passed. Other +members of the committee were M. G. Kelley, W. S. Hathaway, +C. H. Ingelow, W. H. Ingelow, Dr. J. C. King, F. J. +Clancy, W. Morris, and M. L. Bridge. Two hundred Indian +school children, in charge of Miss Morris and Father +Hahn, were objects of interest to the party.</p> + +<p>Replying to Mr. Munson's address, the President said +that although the good people of Banning were far in +point of distance from the seat of government, yet he was +sure they were bound nearly and close to it by ties of loyalty +and of patriotism. He expressed his pleasure at meeting +the citizens of Banning and his appreciation of their +cordial welcome.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[342]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="POMONA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="POMONA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">POMONA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Pomona the President's car was profusely decorated +with floral designs by the ladies of the town. The members +of the Reception Committee were Senator J. E. McComas, +Rev. Chas. F. Loop, W. E. Ward, W. M. Woody, +A. H. Wilbur, F. P. Firey, C. I. Lorbeer, Capt. T. C. +Thomas, Geo. Osgoodby, C. D. Ambrose, Con Howe, John +E. Packard, and E. B. Smith. Vicksburg Post, G. A. R., +H. H. Williams, Commander, was in attendance.</p> + +<p>Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>This cordial demonstration of respect, these friendly greetings, +make me your debtor. I beg to thank you for it all, and out of +such gatherings as these, out of the friendly manifestations you +have given me on my entrance to California, I hope to get new impulses +to a more faithful and diligent discharge of the public duties +which my fellow-citizens have devolved upon me. No man can feel +himself adequate to these responsible functions, but I am sure if you +shall judge your public servants to be conscientiously devoted to your +interests, to the bringing to the discharge of their public duties a +conscientious fidelity and the best intelligence with which they are +endowed, you will pardon any shortcoming. Again I thank you +for your friendliness and beg you to excuse me from further speech.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LOS_ANGELES_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22" id="LOS_ANGELES_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_22">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> famous city of Los Angeles was reached at 3 +o'clock on the afternoon of the 22d. An ovation awaited +the President and his party here the like of which they +had not witnessed. They were met at Colton by a committee +of escort consisting of Mayor Henry T. Hazard +and Mrs. Hazard, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Spence, H. W. Hellman, +Gen. and Miss Mathews, W. C. Furrey and wife, +Judge and Mrs. S. O. Houghton, A. W. Francisco and +wife, Col. H. G. Otis and wife, J. A. Kelly and wife, H. +Z. Osborne and wife, Capt. George J. Ainsworth, Mrs. Hervey +Lindley, E. H. Lamme, and L. N. Breed. Fully 20,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343">[343]</a></span>000 +voices greeted the President's arrival at the station, +where the members of the Citizens' Reception Committee, +of which Mayor Hazard was Chairman, received him. +This committee comprised the leading men of the city, +among whom were Hon. R. F. Del Valle, Gen. John Mansfield, +Gen. E. P. Johnson, Gen. A. McD. McCook, Gen. E. +E. Hewitt, Maj. Geo. E. Gard, Hon. John R. Mathews, +Maj. E. W. Jones, Col. H. C. Corbin, Maj. A. W. Barrett, +Col. T. A. Lewis, Eugene Germain, C. F. A. Last, J. +Frankenfeld, W. H. Workman, Joseph Mesmer, L. I. +Garnsey, G. J. Griffith, John W. Green, J. F. Humphreys, +H. L. Macneil, A. E. Pomeroy, Frank W. Sabichi, I. H. +Polk, J. W. Haverstick, S. B. Hynes, R. S. Baker, Harris +Newmark, J. C. Kays, Maj. J. R. Toberman, I. R. Dunkleberger, +Maj. A. W. Elderkin, ex-Gov. Geo. Stoneman, K. +H. Wade, A. E. Fletcher, Col. Joseph R. Smith, W. W. +Howard, Maj. W. H. Toler, Capt. W. H. Seamans, George +W. Bryant, Poindexter Dunn, Judge Lewis H. Groff, Hon. +R. B. Carpenter, Maj. E. F. C. Klokke, Hon. S. M. White, +W. H. Perry, S. C. Hubbell, S. H. Mott, I. N. Van Nuys, +A. Haas, J. de Barth Shorb, Maj. George S. Patton, Maj. +E. L. Stern, Dr. H. Nadeau, K. Cohn, O. W. Childs, Jr., +L. Lichtenberger, A. H. Denker, Col. George H. Smith, +A. Glassell, Herman Silver, Louis Mesmer, J. M. Elliott, +S. B. Caswell, Dr. Eyraud, William R. Rowland, D, Amestoy, +J. M. Glass, M. L. Wicks, J. A. Booty, Maj. A. F. +Kimball, Capt. H. K. Bailey, Judge W. P. Wade, Judge +Walter Van Dyke, Judge W. H. Clarke, Judge J. W. McKinley, +Judge B. N. Smith, Judge Lucien Shaw, W. W. +Robinson, A. Lowe, K. Loeb, Hancock Banning, Capt. +Will Banning, T. W. Brotherton, W. J. Brodrick, M. S. +Severance, J. Illich, Gen. D. Remick, R. Cohen, Fred +Eaton, H. Siegel, V. Dol, M. Polaski, Dr. John S. Griffin, +J. F. Humphreys, J. M. Davies, Washington Hadley, +George C. Cook, Sanford Johnson, C. O. Collins, Col. F. A. +Eastman, D. Desmond, C. Ducommun, James McLachlan,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[344]</a></span> +J. E. Plater, J. F. Towell, John S. Chapman, G. Wiley +Wells, Judge Enoch Knight, J. W. Hendricks, George +A. Vignolo, George R. Valiant, Philip Garnier, Judge W. +P. Gardiner, T. J. Weldon, R. M. Widney, A. C. Shafer, +Freeman G. Teed, Chas. H. White, John Keneally, Joseph +Shoder, Judge J. D. Bicknell, Thomas A. Lewis, Dr. W. +G. Cochran, Louis Phillips, Richard Gird, D. M. McGarry, +J. T. Sheward, J. M. Hale, B. F. Coulter, Andrew +Mullen, H. Jevne, W. S. Moore, L. L. Bradbury, H. J. +Fleishman, Dr. J. P. Widney, George L. Arnold, L. A. +Sheldon, Will D. Gould, R. R. Haines, John McRae, C. J. +Ellis, J. K. Tufts, Dan McFarland, L. Harris, L. Ebinger, +A. E. Pomeroy, ex-Gov. J. G. Downey, ex-Gov. Pico, +T. E. Rowan, O. T. Johnson, Col. W. G. Schreiber, Dr. +W. Lindley, O. H. Churchill, W. G. Kerckhoff, J. A. +Muir, Silas Hoolman, Hon. J. F. Crank, I. B. Newton, +James Castruccio, J. A. Kelly, L. E. Mosher, A. F. Coronel, +J. C. Daly, Dr. W. L. Graves, H. W. O'Melveny, J. H. +Shanklin, Charles Froman, Albert M. Stephens, A. W. +Hutton, Rev. W. J. Chichester, H. T. Gage, Anson Brunson, +Charles Silent, Dr. Joseph Kurtz, Judge T. K. Wilson, +Rev. A. G. Meyer, Simon Maier, Jacob Kuhrts, Judge J. +D. Bethune, Judge M. T. Allen, Albert McFarland, W. E. +Hughes, Herman Silver, Williamson Dunn, R. J. Northam, +Capt. F. N. Marion, Capt. A. M. Thornton, L. Roeder, +H. T. Newell, E. A. Forrester, John W. Wolfskill, +Joseph Wolfskill, H. J. Shoulter, Niles Pease, F. E. +Brown, M. G. Jones, John J. Schallert, Walter Patrick, +Charles F. Harper, F. W. King, J. M. Griffith, C. H. +Hance, J. A. Henderson, Newell Mathews, John Wigmore, +W. C. Howell, H. Baruch, L. W. Blum, Andrew W. +Ryan, J. Schumacher, E. T. Wright, A. B. Whitney, H. +C. Austin, A. E. Davis, M. Dodsworth, R. Rees, William +Lacy, Jotham Bixby, J. W. Potts, L. A. Grant, T. H. +Ward, George P. McLain, J. J. Warner, Henry Owens, +F. M. Nickell, J. H. Dockweiler, Dan Innes, M. D. John<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[345]</a></span>son, +Ed. D. Gibson, Charles Stern, H. D. Barrows, M. V. +Biscailuz, H. Hiller, J. E. Yoakum, J. P. Moran, J. W. +Hinton, George Hansen, Len J. Thompson, W. S. Maxwell, +L. Polaski, Theo. Summerland, Joseph Mullaly, P. +Beaudry, James Hanley, L. Bixby, William M. Friesner, C. +Ganahl, Tom Strohm, B. T. Tolbert, Sherman Smith, John +A. Hughes, H. V. Van Dusen, John Bernard, O. J. Muchmore, +C. F. Heinzman, J. C. Quinn, William Pridham, L. +C. Goodwin, C. H. Alford, E. H. Hutchinson, W. H. +Rhodes, A. McNally, E. E. Crandall, J. W. Hendrick, H. +W. Mills, John Goldsworthy, Thomas Pierson, Robert E. +Wirshing, Cyrus Vena, S. W. Luitweiler, R. H. Slater, H. +Bartning, A. H. Denker, E. B. Millar, A. L. Bath, T. S. C. +Lowe, Frank H. Howard, Joseph Maier, J. Frank Burns, +Conrad Jacoby, Charles A. Homer, Judge A. Brunson, +Mark G. Jones, D. McFarland, J. J. Gosper, J. M. Frew, +R. Dillon, Dr. K. D. Wise, T. D. Mott, J. C. Dotter, W. T. +Lambie, Frank Gibson, John Bryson, C. H. Bradley, V. +Ponet, M. C. Marsh, F. J. Capitan, William Ferguson, +M. Meyberg, L. Jacoby, H. Mosgrove, A. Hamburger, Al +Workman, W. T. Dalton, S. Hutton, Dr. J. H. Bryant, +Fred Gilmore, J. H. Book, C. E. Day, C. B. Woodhead, +Gen. E. Bouton, Robert Steere, F. N. Meyers, L. M. +Wagner, and F. E. Lopez.</p> + +<p>As the President passed through the crowded streets of +the city, escorted by several hundred G. A. R. veterans, +he encountered a veritable rain of flowers at the hands of +several thousand school children. Arriving at the grand +stand Mayor Hazard, for the Reception Committee, formally +welcomed the President, who responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—My stay among you will not be +long enough to form an individual judgment of the quality of your +people, but it has been long enough already to get a large idea of +the number of them. [Cheers.] I beg of you to accept my sincere +thanks for this magnificent demonstration of your respect. I do +not at all assume that these huzzas and streamers and banners with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[346]</a></span> +which you have greeted me to-day are a tribute to me individually. +I receive them as a most assuring demonstration of the love of the +people of California for American institutions. [Great and prolonged +cheering.] And well are these institutions worthy of all +honor. The flag that you have displayed here to-day, the one flag, +the banner of the free and the symbol of the indissoluble union of +the States, is worthy of the affections of our people. Men have +died for it on the field of battle; women have consecrated it with +their tears and prayers as they placed the standard in the hands of +brave men on the morning of battle. It is historically full of tender +interest and pride. It has a glorious story on the sea in those +times when the American navy maintained our prestige and successfully +beat the navies of our great antagonist. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It has a proud record from the time of our great struggle for independence +down to the last sad conflict between our own citizens. +We bless God to-day that these brave men who, working out His +purpose on the field of battle, made it again the symbol of a united +people. [Cheers.] Our institutions, of which this flag is an emblem, +are free institutions. These men and women into whose +faces I look are free men and women. I do not honor you by my +presence here to-day. I hold my trust from you and you honor me +in this reception. [Great cheers.] This magnificent domain on +the Pacific coast, seized for the Union by the energy and courage +and wise forethought of Frémont and his associates, is essential to +our perfection. Nothing more important in territorial extension, +unless it be the purchase of the territory of Louisiana and the control +of the Mississippi River, has ever occurred in our national history. +[Great cheering.] We touch two oceans, and on both we +have built commonwealths and great cities, thus securing in that +territory individuality and association which give us an assurance +of perpetual peace. [Cheers.] No great conflict of arms can ever +take place on American soil if we are true to ourselves and have +forever determined that no civil conflict shall again rend our country. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We are a peace-loving Nation, and yet we cannot be sure that +everybody else will be peaceful, and therefore I am glad that by the +general consent of our people and by the liberal appropriations +from Congress we are putting on the sea some of the best vessels +of their class afloat [cheers], and that we are now prepared to put +upon their decks as good guns as are made in the world; and when +we have completed our programme, ship by ship, we will put in +their forecastles as brave Jack Tars as serve under any flag. [Great +cheering.] The provident care of our Government should be given<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[347]</a></span> +to your sea-coast defences until all these great ports of the Atlantic +and Pacific are made safe. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>But, my countrymen, this audience overmatches a voice that has +been in exercise from Roanoke, Va., to Los Angeles. I beg you, +therefore, again to receive my most hearty thanks and excuse me +from further speech. [Great and prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>In the evening the President was escorted to the pavilion, +with a view to receiving personally the citizens, but when +he viewed the great assemblage he desisted from the herculean +task of taking each one by the hand, and instead +thereof made the following address:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I thank you for the warm greeting that +you have given me and the royal welcome you have extended to +my party and myself to your lovely city. I am thoroughly aware +of the non-partisan character of this gathering, and appreciate the +good-will with which you have gathered here in this vast building +to receive me. I had a touching evidence of the non-partisan character +of this gathering—and the good-will as well—just now when +a man said to me: "I want to shake hands with you, even if I did +lose a thousand dollars on your election." There will be no trouble +to keep the flame of patriotism and love of country glowing so long +as the American people thus manifest their loyalty to the officers +whom the will of the people has placed in power. I thank you +again for your good-will and hearty welcome. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_DIEGO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="SAN_DIEGO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party reached San Diego Wednesday +evening and was escorted at once to Coronado Beach +Hotel. The Indiana residents of the city called upon the +President shortly after his arrival, and Mr. Wright delivered +an address in their behalf.</p> + +<p>The President, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I regret that I can only say thank you. Our time is +now due to the citizens of San Diego, and I have promised not to +detain that committee. It is particularly pleasurable to me to see, +as I have done at almost every station where our train stopped, +some Indianian, who stretched up the hand of old neighborship to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[348]</a></span> +greet me as I passed along. It is this intermingling of our people +which sustains the merit of the home. The Yankee intermingles +with the Illinoisian, the Hoosier with the Sucker, and the people +of the South with them all; and it is this commingling which gives +that unity which marks the American Nation. I am glad to know +that there are so many of you here, and as I said to some Hoosiers +as I came along, I hope you have secured your share of these +blessings.</p></div> + +<p>The formal reception of the President took place Thursday +morning, when he was welcomed by Mayor Douglas +Gunn, at the head of the following Committee of Reception: +Hon. John D. Works, Hon. Eli H. Murray, Hon. +W. W. Bowers, Howard M. Kutchin, Hon. Olin Wellborn, +E. S. Babcock, Col. W. G. Dickinson, Col. Chalmers Scott, +Hon. G. W. Hardacre, W. J. Hunsaker, Hon. George Puterbaugh, +E. S. Torrance, W. L. Pierce, Watson Parrish, +M. A. Luce, N. H. Conklin, Maj. Levi Chase, Col. E. J. +Ensign, James P. Goodwin, M. L. Ward, Col. A. G. Gassen, +James McCoy, Dr. R. M. Powers, W. N. King, A. E. +Horton, L. S. McLure, T. S. Van Dyke, Col. John Kastle, +Carl Schutze, Geo. D. Copeland, M. Sherman, H. L. Story, +D. C. Reed, S. W. Switzer, Col. G. G. Bradt, Thos. Gardner, +E. N. Buck, Dr. D. Gochenauer, Henry Timken, Col. +W. L. Vestal, C. W. Pauly, Col. G. M. Brayton, U. S. A.; +Capt. Leonard Hay, Capt. W. R. Maize, Lieut. E. +B. Robertson, John R. Berry, H. T. Christian, D. H. +Hewitt, Col. A. G. Watson, Daniel Stone, W. E. Howard, +J. S. Buck, R. C. Allen, A. V. Lomeli, Mexican Consul; +J. B. Neilson, Danish Consul; J. W. Girvin, Hawaiian +Consul; M. Blochman, French Vice-Consul; Bryant +Howard, Jacob Gruendike, J. W. Collins, John Long, +Frank A. Kimball, S. Levi, Gen. T. T. Crittenden, J. F. +Sinks, Dr. P. C. Remondino, O. J. Stough, J. S. Mannasse, +Frank M. Simpson, J. E. Fishburne, Warren Wilson, +T. A. Nerney, H. C. Treat, F. S. Jennings, T. M. +Loup, Dr. J. G. Beck, Capt. C. T. Hinde, G. S. Havermale, +H. A. Howard, Philip Morse, George W. Marston,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[349]</a></span> +Fred N. Hamilton, E. W. Morse, J. S. Gordon, E. J. +Louis, R. M. Dooley, E. W. Bushyhead, O. S. Witherby, +W. J. Prout, William Collier, J. H. Gay, G. H. Ballou, +F. S. Plympton, J. P. Winship, Tomas Alvarado, Col. +E. B. Spileman, Ariosto McCrimmon, Paul H. Blades, +and Walter G. Smith.</p> + +<p>Heintzelman Post, G. A. R., Gen. Datus E. Coon, Commander, +participated in the reception, which was held on +the Plaza. Mayor Gunn delivered the address of welcome.</p> + +<p>The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am in slavery to a railroad +schedule, and have but a few moments longer to tarry in your beautiful +city. If there were no other reward for our journey across +the continent, we have seen to-day about your magnificent harbor +that which would have repaid us for all the toil of travel. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I do not come to tell you anything about California, for I have +perceived in my intercourse with Californians in the East and during +this brief stay among you that already you know all about California. +[Laughter.]</p> + +<p>You are, indeed, most happily situated. Every element that +makes life comfortable is here; every possibility that makes life +successful and prosperous is here; and I am sure, as I look into +those kindly, upturned faces, that your homes have as healthful a +moral atmosphere as the natural one that God has spread over your +smiling land.</p> + +<p>It is with regret that we now part from you. The welcome you +have extended to us is magnificent, kindly, and tasteful. We shall +carry away the most pleasant impression, and shall wish for you +all that you anticipate in your largest dreams for your beautiful +city [cheers]—that your harbor may be full of foreign and coast-wise +traffic, that it may not be long until the passage of our naval +and merchant marine shall not be by the Horn, but by Nicaragua. +[Cheers.] I believe that great enterprise, which is to bring your +commerce into nearer and cheaper contact with the Atlantic seaboard +cities, both of this continent and of South America, will not +be long delayed.</p> + +<p>And now, again with most grateful thanks for your friendly +attention, in my own behalf and in behalf of all who journey with +me I bid you a most kindly farewell. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[350]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the conclusion of the President's address Governor +Torres, of Lower California, in the uniform of a Major-General +of the Mexican army, approached the President +and read the following telegram from Gen. Porfirio Diaz, +President of Mexico:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>It has come to my knowledge that the President of the United +States, Hon. Benjamin Harrison, shall visit San Diego on the 23d +instant, and I let you know it so that you may call to congratulate +him in my name and present him with my compliments.</p> + +<p class="right"> +[Signed] <span style="padding-left:20%" class="smcap">Porfirio Diaz</span>. +</p> +</div> + +<p>Responding to this friendly international salute, President +Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Torres</i>—This message from that progressive and intelligent +gentleman who presides over the destinies of our sister republic +is most grateful to me. I assure you that all our people, that +the Government, through all its instituted authorities, entertain +for President Diaz and for the chivalrous people over which he presides +the most friendly sentiments of respect. [Cheers and applause.] +We covet, sir, your good-will and those mutual exchanges which +are mutually profitable, and we hope that the two republics may +forever dwell in fraternal peace.</p></div> + +<p>As the President sat down Governor Torres remarked: +"The Mexican people respond heartily to your kind +wishes."</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SANTA_ANA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="SANTA_ANA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the return route from San Diego the presidential +train stopped at Santa Ana, a thriving town in Orange +County, where 5,000 people had assembled to greet the +Chief Magistrate. The Committee of Reception was John +T. Nourse, C. S. McKelvey, W. S. Taylor, J. A. Crane, +John Beatty, Geo. E. Edgar, Geo. T. Insley, Capt. H. T. +Matthews, W. H. Drips, and Robert Cummings. Sedgwick +Post, G. A. R., H. F. Stone, Commander, was present. +Prof. M. Manley delivered the address of welcome,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[351]</a></span> +and the Hon. W. H. Spurgeon, founder of the city, introduced +the President, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have already proved your hospitality. It is +very, very generous, and it is very graceful. I have but one doubt +in regard to it, and that is whether I can stand so much of it. +[Laughter and applause.] It has given me great gladness of heart +to look into your faces. I have been discharging some public business +far remote from you, and I hope with some concern for your +interest, for I have tried to take a wide view of public questions +and to have in my mind a thought of the people of this great land.</p> + +<p>Our politics should be as broad as the territory over which our +people have spread. It is a part of the history of the country which +has always kept in memory the safety and interests of those who +pushed civilization to the Rocky Mountains and over its rugged +peaks into these fruitful valleys. I am glad to see here this afternoon +these little children. The order in which they have assembled +gives me assurance that they have come from the school-houses, +those nurseries of knowledge and common interests in our American +States.</p> + +<p>I am glad that you grow not only the olive-tree in your garden, +but that to the olive-trees that are planted in the household and +bloom about your table you give your greatest attention. Now, +thanking you very kindly and confessing very humbly that I am +not able to repay you for your generous welcome, and leaving to +all these little ones my best hopes for useful, prosperous, and honorable +lives, I bid you all good-by.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ORANGE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="ORANGE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">ORANGE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Through</span> the zealous efforts of Mrs. T. I. Halsted, President +of the Woman's Relief Corps of Orange, Mrs. Emilie +N. Tener, and others, the presidential train stopped at that +town. The Committee of Reception was: Rev. A. Parker, +Robert E. Tener, E. E. Risley, Wm. H. Arne, Mrs. E. B. +Strong, H. W. Wilson, and D. C. Pixley. Gordon Granger +Post, G. A. R., A. Meacham, Commander, was present in +full force.</p> + +<p>Responding to enthusiastic cheers the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am glad to look into your smiling faces, and I +thank you for this welcome. California is a State that is favorably<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[352]</a></span> +situated, and, so far as I can judge, this section is among the most +favored in the State. There is no time for a speech, but we can +shake hands with a few of those who are nearest.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RIVERSIDE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="RIVERSIDE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> of the most enjoyable visits of the President and +his party was to Riverside, San Bernardino County, where, +on driving from Arlington station, they were welcomed +by several thousand residents of the district. The Committee +of Reception comprised Hon. H. M. Streeter, Judge +W. W. Noland, Judge Harvey Potter, C. O. Perrine, Capt. +C. H. Vosburg, C. M. Loring, A. P. Johnson, F. M. Dunbar, +A. Keith, C. T. Rice, Capt. J. T. Lawler, A. H. +Naftzger, E. W. Holmes, F. McChoppin, Frank A. Miller, +G. W. Dickson, J. A. Wilbur, F. M. Heath, C. N. +Andrews, J. R. Newberry, F. E. Abbott, W. C. Fitzsimmons, +D. W. McLeod, B. R. Williams, C. P. Hayt, and +Mrs. S. A. Ames, representing the city of Riverside; Mrs. +C. W. Sylvester, representing the Woman's Relief Corps; +Mrs. C. Button, representing the W. C. T. U., and Mrs. +Davis.</p> + +<p>The President and Mrs. Harrison and all the other members +of the party were treated to a delightful drive through +the celebrated orange groves. The President was accompanied +by Hon. S. C. Evans. Returning from the groves the +President's carriage was halted in front of the High School +building, where 1,400 scholars and several thousand others +had assembled.</p> + +<p>On being presented by Mr. Evans the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—We can tarry only for a moment, as we are already +behind the regular time for leaving. I cannot, however, drive by +this large assemblage of friends, gathered to greet us on the way, +without expressing the delight with which I have looked upon +these beautiful surroundings. My trip from Washington has been +full of pleasures and surprises, but nothing has given me greater +surprise and more pleasure than the drive of this afternoon through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[353]</a></span> +this magnificent valley of Riverside. I am glad you are interested +in cultivating the children as well as the orange, and I trust that +their young minds may be kept as free from all that is injurious as +these fine orange orchards are of weeds and everything that is noxious. +May their lives be as fruitful as your trees, and their homes +as happy and full of joy as this land seems to be of the bright sunshine +of God.</p></div> + +<p>The distinguished visitors then proceeded through the +city and reviewed the parade, at the conclusion of which +the President, speaking without introduction, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am sorry that we can tarry with you only for a +moment. We are now twenty minutes behind our schedule time +for leaving. If we should stay with you longer we should disappoint +others who are waiting for us at an appointed time.</p> + +<p>We are grateful to you for your presence. I have enjoyed very +much the ride through the valley. You are a favored people, and +ought to be, as I have no doubt you are, a law-abiding, liberty-loving, +and patriotic people.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_BERNARDINO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="SAN_BERNARDINO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Another</span> typical gathering, full of California enthusiasm, +greeted the party at San Bernardino. The Reception +Committee comprised C. C. Haskell, Chairman; J. C. +Lynch, Hon. Samuel Merrill, W. A. Harris, Joseph Brown, +J. N. Victor, L. C. Waite, Richard Gird, W. E. W. +Lightfoot, W. B. Beamer, R. J. Waters, Truman Reeves, +Dr. A. Thompson, Col. T. J. Wilson, D. A. Scott, A. S. +Hawley, J. J. Hewitt, E. B. Stanton, A. G. Kendall, +Dr. J. P. Booth, W. H. Timmons, Wilson Hays, Geo. +Cooley, R. B. Taylor, H. A. Keller, E. E. Katz, Lewis +Jacobs, H. L. Drew, N. G. Gill, and I. W. Lord. Mr. +W. J. Curtis delivered the address of welcome. In response +the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow citizens</i>—I can only repeat to you what I +have already had occasion to say to many similar audiences assembled +in California, that I am delighted with my visit to the Pacific +coast; that much as I had heard of the richness and high cultiva<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[354]</a></span>tion, +what I have seen to-day in this great valley has far surpassed +my expectations. You have subdued an unpromising soil and +made it blossom as the rose; but better than all the fruits and harvests, +and better than all the products of the field, is this intelligent +population which out of their kindly faces extend to us a greeting +wherever we go.</p> + +<p>I am glad, coming from the far East, to observe how greatly our +people are alike. But that is not surprising, because I find all +through this valley many Hoosiers and Buckeyes I knew at home. +It is not singular that you should be alike when you are really and +truly the same people, not only in lineage and general characteristics, +but the same men and women we have known in the older States. +And now I thank you again, and beg you will excuse me from +further speech, with the assurance that if it were in my power I +would double the rich blessings which you already enjoy. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PASADENA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23" id="PASADENA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_23">PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was 8 o'clock in the evening when the presidential +train rolled into Pasadena, the home of Governor Markham. +The President's reception was notable for its marked +enthusiasm. The committee of escort that met the party +at Riverside was: Hon. J. A. Buchanan, Mayor T. P. +Lukens, ex-Gov. L. A. Sheldon, Col. G. G. Green, Geo. +F. Foster, and P. M. Green. A great assemblage greeted +the President's arrival, which was celebrated by booming +cannon, ringing bells, and bonfires. The Committee of +Reception, comprising the following leading citizens, welcomed +the President and escorted him to the hotel: Gov. +H. H. Markham, Chairman; J. H. Holmes, W. U. Masters, +C. M. Simpson, Geo. F. Kernaghan, Col. J. R. +Bowler, Delos Arnold, M. M. Parker, W. H. Wiley, W. +E. Arthur, J. W. Wood, Dr. W. L. McAllister, C. D. Daggett, +Judge H. W. Magee, James Clarke, A. B. Manahan, +J. W. Scoville, J. E. Farnum, M. D. Painter, T. Banbury, +W. W. Webster, Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, Rev. E. L. Conger, +Rev. D. D. Hill, Rev. J. W. Phelps, Hon. A. G. Throop, +F. J. Woodbury, G. B. Ocheltree, G. A. Greely, W. L.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[355]</a></span> +Wotkyns, C. S. Martin, A. R. Metcalfe, F. C. Bolt, E. +R. Hull, Dr. Mohr, John McDonald, Judge A. McCoy, +B. M. Wotkyns, A. K. McQuilling, S. Washburn, T. +J. Rigg, T. Earley, C. S. Cristy, A. C. Armstrong, A. +McNally, J. Brockway, J. E. Howard, J. S. Hodge, +C. W. Buchanan, O. S. Picher, Dr. Thomas R. Hayes, +M. Fish, J. R. Greer, Jr., A. K. Nash, C. H. Richardson, +J. G. Rossiter, W. T. Vore, Rev. C. E. Harris, H. +H. Rose, J. Banbury, A. Dodworth, Dr. Frary, Judge +M. C. Hester, James H. Campbell, C. C. Brown, A. H. +Conger, W. S. Wright, George Bremner, James McLachlan, +J. S. Cox, C. T. Hopkins, O. E. Weed, J. H. +Baker, L. Blankenhorn, W. S. Monroe, George F. Granger, +W. S. Gilmore, Rev. L. P. Crawford, W. E. Channing, +A. J. Painter, S. H. Doolittle, Dr. George Rodgers, E. E. +Jones, W. D. McGilvray, Webster Wotkyns, Theodore +Coleman, R. M. Furlong, J. W. Vandevoort, B. E. Ball, +E. T. Howe, H. R. Hertel, Charles Foster, G. R. Thomas, +A. F. Mills, Dr. W. B. Rowland, Dr. F. F. Rowland, Dr. +Van Slyck, Rev. J. B. Stewart, D. R. McLean, C. M. +Phillips, C. E. Tebbetts, William Heiss, H. W. Hines, H. +E. Pratt, S. R. Lippincott, J. W. Hugus, W. P. Forsyth, +O. Freeman, S. E. Locke, C. F. Holder, Capt. A. C. +Drake, Prof. J. D. Yocum, J. H. Woodworth, General +McBride, W. T. Clapp, E. H. Royce, Charles Legge, Calvin +Hartwell, J. O. Lowe, T. C. Foster, T. L. Hoag, Dr. Ezra +F. Carr, E. H. May, Dr. Mansfield, G. D. Patton, Prof. S. +C. Clark, H. H. Visscher, F. R. Harris, Capt. A. L. Hamilton, +J. S. Mills, H. B. Sherman, R. C. Slaughter, James +Smith, S. C. Arnold, I. N. Sears, Chas. A. Smith, Wm. +Menner, S. H. Yocum, D. W. Permar, John Permar, I. N. +Wood, Emil Kayser, N. W. Bell, Rev. E. E. Scannell, +Rev. H. T. Staats, W. R. Staats, F. L. Bushnell, H. C. +Allen, Rev. A. W. Bunker, Rev. James Kelso, Judge J. P. +Nelson, C. J. Morrison, M. Rosenbaum, E. S. Frost, F. B. +Wetherby, W. J. McCaldin, A. J. Brown, Dr. Philbrook,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[356]</a></span> +Captain Rogers, Dr. S. P. Swearingen, Fred McNally, J. E. +Doty, F. D. Stevens, O. Stewart Taylor, A. F. M. Strong, +C. M. Parker, C. E. Langford, G. E. Meharry, Maj. C. M. +Skillen, Judge B. F. Hoffman, Henry Washburn, Capt. +A. Wakeley, W. S. Nosworthy, J. G. Shoup, Mrs. I. B. +Winslow, Geo. W. Sheaff, Mrs. T. H. Kuhns, P. G. Wooster, +A. McLean, F. L. Jones, Dr. A. H. Palmer, J. J. Allen, +E. C. Webster, Arturo Bandini, Will Forbes, W. W. +Mills, Mrs. Dr. Elliott, L. C. Winston, S. S. Vaught, I. +N. Stevenson, John Habbick, Thomas Croft, Wm. J. Craig, +M. A. De Forest, R. K. Janes, C. W. Mann, John Sedwick, +Homer Morris, Perry Bonham, Prof. Kyle, R. W. +Lacey, Dr. J. C. Michener, A. A. Choteau, A. O. Bristol, +Dr. J. M. Radebaugh, J. F. Mullen, T. M. Livingston, G. +W. Stimson, W. E. Cooley, W. S. Arnold, W. H. Housh, +E. W. Longley, C. W. Hodson, J. D. Graham, M. E. +Wood, F. S. Wallace, Prof. W. P. Hammond, C. S. +Howard, Joseph Wallace, Robert Vandevoort, H. K. W. +Bent, John Allen, George Goings, Jeans James Coleman, +Aug. Mayer, Geo. Taylor, J. D. Requa, Rev. A. M. Merwin, +W. B. Mosher, P. F. McGowan, G. A. Gibbs, F. +K. Burnham, and C. E. Brooks.</p> + +<p>The women's Reception Committee to receive Mrs. Harrison +and the other ladies in the party consisted of: Mrs. +L. A. Sheldon, Mrs. J. A. Buchanan, Mrs. J. W. Wood, +Mrs. C. D. Daggett, Mrs. J. R. Bowler, Mrs. James Clarke, +Miss Greenleaf, Mrs. W. E. Arthur, and Mrs. W. U. Masters.</p> + +<p>It was 11 o'clock at night when the President and the +gentlemen of his party attended an elegant banquet at the +Hotel Green, over which the Hon. W. U. Masters presided. +Mr. Buchanan proposed the President's health in words of +welcome.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I beg you to accept my thanks for this banquet spread +in honor of this community of strangers who have dropped in upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[357]</a></span> +you to-night. We come to you after dark. I am not, therefore, +prepared to speak of Pasadena. When the sun shall have lightened +your landscape again and our expectant eyes shall have rested upon +its glories, I shall be able to give you my impressions of your city, +which I am already prepared to believe is one of the gems in the +crown of California. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Perhaps no other place in California has by name been more +familiar to me than Pasadena, if you except your great commercial +city of San Francisco. That comes from the fact that many of +your early settlers were Indiana friends. I am glad to meet some +of these friends here to-night. It is pleasant to renew these old +acquaintances, to find that they have been received with esteem in +this new community. I have found a line of Hoosiers all along +these railroads we have been traversing.</p> + +<p>Everywhere our train has stopped some Hoosier has lifted his +hand to me, and often by dozens. As I said the other day, +Ohio men identify themselves to me by reason of that State being +my birthplace, but it is not a surprise to me to find an Ohio man +anywhere. [Laughter.] Ohio people are especially apt to be found +in the vicinity of a public office. [Laughter.] I suppose whatever +good fortune has come to me in the way of political preferment +must be traced to the fact that I am a Buckeye by birth. [Laughter.] +And now I thank you most cordially again for your attention +and kindness. California has been full of the most affectionate +interest to us. I have never looked into the faces of a more happy +and intelligent people than those I have seen on the Pacific coast. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>You occupy the most important position in the sisterhood of +States, stretching for these several hundred miles along the Pacific +shore. You have fortunate birth, and your history has been a succession +of fortunate surprises. You have wrought out here great +achievements in converting these plains that seemed to be so unpromising +to the eye into such gardens as cannot be seen anywhere +else upon the continent. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>And now, when I remind you that bedtime was 1 o'clock last +night and the reveille sounded at 6 o'clock this morning on our +car, I am sure you will permit me to say good-night. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[358]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FERNANDO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24" id="SAN_FERNANDO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24">SAN FERNANDO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop on Friday was at San Fernando, the home +of Dr. J. K. Hawks, who for twenty years was General +Harrison's near neighbor. The Committee of Reception +was: R. P. Waite, S. Maclay, J. Burr, J. S. Kerns, C. +Smith, Colonel Hubbard, Mesdames Bodkin, Hubbard, +Smith, and Misses Platt, Gower, and Jennie Hawks.</p> + +<p>Dr. Hawks made a brief address of welcome and introduced +the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I am pleased to be introduced to you by +my old and honored friend, and I do sincerely hope that he has +won your respect to the same extent which I learned to respect him +when he was my neighbor. I hope you will excuse me from speaking +further. I thank you all for your friendly greeting.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SANTA_PAULA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24" id="SANTA_PAULA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24">SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> thriving town of Santa Paula, Ventura County, +gave the President and his party a hearty reception, distinguished +above others by a truly mammoth floral piece +24 feet long by 6 feet in width, covered with calla-lilies, +and bearing the word "Welcome" in red geranium letters +40 inches in height. The Committee of Reception was: +W. L. Hardison, Chairman; Casper Taylor, Rev. F. D. +Mather, C. J. McDevitt, F. A. Morgan, F. E. Davis, J. B. +Titus, C. H. McKevett, N. W. Blanchard, Dr. D. W. Mott, +C. N. Baker, A. Wooleven, Harry Youngken, and S. C. +Graham. The Major Eddy Post, G. A. R., Henry Proctor, +Commander, was present.</p> + +<p>Maj. Joseph R. Haugh, an old Indianapolis acquaintance, +welcomed the President on behalf of the committee. +President Harrison, replying, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I cannot feel myself a stranger in this State, so distant +from home, when I am greeted by some familiar faces from +my Indiana home at almost every station. Your fellow-citizen who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[359]</a></span> +has spoken in your behalf was an old-time Indianapolis friend. I +hope he is held in the same esteem in which he was held by the +people among whom he spent his early years as a boy and man. +[Cries of "He is!"] That you should have gone to the pains to +make such magnificent decorations and to come out in such large +numbers for this momentary greeting very deeply touches my heart.</p> + +<p>I have never seen in any State of the Union what seems to me to +be a more happy and contented people than I have seen this morning. +Your soil and sun are genial, healthful, and productive, and +I have no doubt that these genial and kindly influences are manifested +in the homes that are represented here, and that there is +sunshine in the household as well as in the fields; that there is contentment +and love and sweetness in these homes as well as in these +gardens that are so adorned with flowers. Our pathway has been +strewn with flowers; we have literally driven for miles over flowers +that in the East would have been priceless, and these favors have +all been accompanied with manifestations of friendliness for which +I am very grateful, and everywhere there has been set up as having +greater glory than sunshine, greater glory than flowers, this flag +of our country. [Applause.] Everywhere I have been greeted by +some of these comrades, veterans of the late war, whose presence +among you should be the inspiration to increased patriotism and +loyalty. I bid them affectionate greeting, and am sorry that I +cannot tarry with them longer. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_BUENAVENTURA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24" id="SAN_BUENAVENTURA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24">SAN BUENAVENTURA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Three</span> thousand people welcomed the party at San +Buenaventura, including nearly 1,000 school-children, who +bounteously provided the President and Mrs. Harrison +with flowers. The Reception Committee consisted of: +Mayor J. S. Collins, J. R. Willoughby, E. M. Jones, P. +Bennett, C. D. Bonestel, N. H. Shaw, and Cushing Post, +G. A. R., D. M. Rodibaugh, Commander.</p> + +<p>Gen. William Vandever welcomed the party, and the +President spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very glad to meet my old friend and your former +representative, General Vandever. I have had some surprise +at almost every station at which we have stopped. I did not know +until he came upon the platform that this was his home. I have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></span> +not time to make a speech, and I have not the voice to make one. +I can only say of these hearty and friendly Californians that my +heart is deeply touched with this evidence of friendly regard. You +have strewn my way with flowers; you have graced every occasion, +even the briefest stop, with a most friendly greeting, and I +assure you that we are most grateful for it all. You are fortunate +in your location among the States; and I am sure that in all this +great republic nowhere is there a more loyal and patriotic people +than we have here on the Pacific coast. I thank you again for this +greeting. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SANTA_BARBARA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24" id="SANTA_BARBARA_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_24">SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> reception at Santa Barbara was the most unique +that the presidential party experienced on their trip, and +also one of the most enjoyable; it was a veritable flower +carnival.</p> + +<p>Leading the procession was a Spanish cavalcade commanded +by Carlos de la Guerra. The President's escort +was a cavalcade of children marshalled by Mrs. Schermerhorn, +with flower-decked saddles and bridles; then followed +over 100 flower-trimmed equipages, each displaying +a different design and flower and bespeaking the marvellous +flora of Santa Barbara in the month of April. The +stand from whence the President reviewed the procession +and witnessed the Battle of Flowers was a floral triumph; +20,000 calla-lilies were used in its decoration and as many +bright-colored flowers. The battle scene occurred on the +grand stand, immediately opposite the reviewing stand, +between several hundred ladies and gentlemen. The +whole was a spectacle to be witnessed but once in a lifetime. +The parade was under the direction of Grand Marshal +D. W. Thompson, assisted by special aids George +Culbertson, Dr. H. L. Stambach, T. R. Moore, Samuel +Stanwood, Paschal Hocker, and C. A. Fernald. The Committee +of Reception comprised Mayor P. J. Barber, C. F. +Eaton, W. W. Burton, W. C. Clerk, I. G. Waterman, D. +Baxter, E. P. Roe, Jr., C. E. Bigelow, Alston Hayne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[361]</a></span> +Frank Stoddard, L. P. Lincoln, W. N. Hawley, J. W. +Calkins, Geo. A. Edwards, C. C. Hunt, Edward M. Hoit, +Hon. E. H. Heacock, Dr. J. M. McNulta, W. B. Cope, C. F. +Swan, W. M. Eddy, J. C. Wilson, R. B. Canfield; also, +Joseph Sexton, of Goleta; E. J. Knapp, of Carpinteria; T. +R. Bard, of Hueneme; R. E. Jack and E. W. Steele, of San +Luis Obispo; H. H. Poland, of Lompoc, and Dr. W. T. +Lucas and Thomas Boyd, of Santa Maria. Starr King +Post, G. A. R., C. A. Storke, Commander, participated in +the reception.</p> + +<p>After witnessing the parade the entire party, including +the ladies, visited the ancient Mission of Santa Barbara +and were taken within its sacred precincts, it being the +second occasion on which any woman was admitted. At +night they witnessed a Spanish dance, conducted by many +ladies and gentlemen, under the direction of F. M. Whitney, +Mrs. Bell, and Mrs. Dibblee. The eventful day closed +with a public reception, participated in by 15,000 people.</p> + +<p>Gen. Wm. Vandever delivered an address of welcome, +to which the President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>General Vandever, Gentlemen of the Committee and Friends</i>—If +I have been in any doubt as to the fact of the perfect identity +of your people with the American Nation, that doubt has been displaced +by one incident which has been prominent in all this trip, +and that is that the great and predominant and all-pervading American +habit of demanding a speech on every occasion has been characteristically +prominent in California. [Laughter.] I am more +than delighted by this visit to your city. It has been made brilliant +with the display of banners and flowers—one the emblem of +our national greatness and prowess, the other the adornment which +God has given to beautify nature. With all this I am sure I have +read in the faces of the men, women and children who have greeted +me that these things—these flowers of the field and this flag, representing +organized government—typify what is to be found in the +homes of California. The expression of your welcome to-day has +been unique and tasteful beyond description. I have not the words +to express the high sense of appreciation and the amazement that +filled the minds of all our party as we looked upon this display +which you have improvised for our reception. No element of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[362]</a></span> +beauty, no element of taste, no element of gracious kindness has +been lacking in it, and for that we tender you all our most hearty +thanks. We shall keep this visit a bright spot in our memories. +[Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BAKERSFIELD_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="BAKERSFIELD_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop of the presidential train on Friday, April +25, was at Bakersfield, the gateway of the famous San +Joaquin Valley, which was reached at 8:30 in the morning. +Fifteen hundred residents greeted the President, who +was met by W. E. Houghton, W. H. Scribner, W. Canfield, +and C. E. Sherman, constituting a special Committee +of Reception. The general committee for the occasion +comprised the following prominent citizens: N. R. Packard, +E. M. Roberts, John J. Morrison, Emil Dinkelspiel, +H. L. Borgwardt, Jr., J. Neideraur, P. Galtes, O. D. Fish, +H. A. Jastro, Geo. K. Ober, Dr. Helm, J. J. Mack, E. A. +Pueschel, S. N. Reed, H. A. Blodget, C. A. Maul, Chas. E. +Jewett, A. Harrell, G. W. Wear, Wm. Montgomery, John +Barker, H. P. Olds, E. Willow, B. Brundage, B. A. Hayden, +F. H. Colton, W. H. Cook, B. Ardizzi, C. C. Cowgill, +L. S. Rogers, John O. Miller, Geo. G. Carr, N. R. +Wilkinson, A. Weill, H. C. Lechner, S. W. Wible, Dr. +John Snook, L. McKelvy, A. Morgan, E. C. Palmes, +John S. Drury, W. A. Howell, A. C. Maude, Chas. Vandever, +Alonzo Coons, T. A. Metcalf, R. M. Walker, Richard +Hudnut, Sol. Jewett, J. C. Smith, S. A. Burnap, H. +H. Fish, S. W. Fergusson, J. W. Mahon, A. Fay, Chas. +Bickirdike, H. F. Condict, H. C. Park, and I. L. Miller.</p> + +<p>A large number of beautiful bouquets were showered +upon the party here. Judge A. R. Conklin made the welcoming +address. President Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for your friendly +greeting and for these bouquets. You must excuse me if I seem a +little shy of the bouquets. I received one in my eye the other +day which gave me a good deal of trouble. You are very kind to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[363]</a></span> +meet us here so early in the morning with this cordial demonstration. +It has been a very long journey, and has been accompanied +with some fatigue of travel, but we feel this morning, in this +exhilarating air and this sweet sunshine, and refreshed with your +kind greeting, as bright and more happy than when we left the +national capital.</p> + +<p>I am glad to feel that here, on the western edge of the continent, +in this Pacific State, there is that same enthusiastic love for the +flag, that same veneration and respect for American institutions, +for the one Union and the one Constitution, that is found in the +heart of the country. We are one people absolutely. We follow +not men, but institutions. We are happy in the fact that though +men may live or die, come or go, we still have that toward which +the American citizen turns with confidence and veneration—this +great Union of the States devised so happily by our fathers. General +Garfield, when Mr. Lincoln was stricken down by the foul +hand of an assassin, and when that great wave of dismay and grief +swept over the land, standing in a busy thoroughfare of New York, +could say: "The Government at Washington still lives." It is +dependent upon no man. It is lodged safely in the affections of +the people, and having its impregnable defence and its assured +perpetuity in their love and veneration for law. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TULARE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="TULARE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">TULARE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Tulare</span> was reached at 10 o'clock. Nearly 6,000 people +awaited the President's arrival. Capt. Thomas H. +Thompson, E. W. Holland, and Hon. O. B. Taylor met +the distinguished travellers. The other members of the +committee were: Hon. John. G. Eckles, Hon. J. O. Lovejoy, +I. N. Wright, J. Wolfrom, E. T. Cosper, Hon. J. W. +Davis, Sam Richardson, Dr. C. F. Taggart, M. W. Cooley, +H. H. Francisco, C. C. Brock, James Scoon, D. O. Hamman, +J. L. Bachelder, R. B. Bohannan, James Morton, +A. O. Erwin, J. B. Zumwalt, Hon. E. De Witt, Alfred +Fay, J. H. Whited, J. A. Goble, W. L. Blythe, M. M. +Burnett, Scott Bowles, R. L. Reid, F. M. Shultz, B. F. +Moore, F. Rosenthal, Henry Peard, Sam Blythe, J. A. +Allen, E. Lathrop, E. J. Cox, J. F. Boller, Hon. G. S.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[364]</a></span> +Berry, R. Linder, Miles Ellsworth, R. N. Hough, C. F. +Hall, Dr. E. W. Dutcher, M. Premo, Hon. John Roth, A. +Borders, T. W. Maples, E. D. Lake, S. S. Ingham, D. W. +Madden, Sam Newell, M. C. Hamlin, W. C. Ambrose, H. +C. Faber, C. Talbot, L. E. Schoenemann, M. C. Hunt, +G. W. Zartman, A. P. Hall, J. H. Woody, Isaac Roberts, +Capt. E. Oakford, J. C. Gist, H. F. Tandy, C. F. Stone, +and Dr. B. M. Alford.</p> + +<p>The committee escorted the presidential party to a +unique platform constructed inside the stump of a gigantic +redwood tree, and there was ample seating capacity +upon the platform for the entire party; about the base of +the great stump were arranged boxes of elegant flowers. +Mrs. Harrison and the other ladies in the party were escorted +to the stand by Mrs. E. B. Oakford, Mrs. T. H. +Thompson, Mrs. G. J. Reading, and Mrs. Patrick, of +Visalia. Gettysburg Post, G. A. R., and Company E, +from Visalia, were a guard of honor to the Chief Magistrate.</p> + +<p>Governor Markham introduced the President, who spoke +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This seems to be a very happy and smiling audience, +and I am sure that the gladness which is in your hearts and in +your faces does not depend at all upon the presence of this little +company of strangers who tarry with you for a moment. It is +born of influences and conditions that are permanent. It comes of +the happy sunshine and sweet air that are over your fields, and still +more from the contentment, prosperity, and love and peace that +are in your households. California has been spoken of as a wonderland, +and everywhere we have gone something new, interesting, +and surprising has been presented to our observation. There has +been but one monotone in our journey, and that is the monotone of +universal welcome from all your people. [Cheers.] Everything +else has been new and exceptional at every stop.</p> + +<p>My own heart kindles with gladness, my own confidence in +American interests is firmer and more settled as I mingle with the +great masses of our people. You are here in a great agricultural +region, reclaimed from desert waste by the skill and energy of +man—a region populated by a substantial, industrious, thrifty,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[365]</a></span> +God-fearing people, a people devoted to the institutions under +which they live, proud to be Americans, feeling that the American +birthright is the best heritage they can hand down to their children; +proud of the great story of our country from the time of independence +to this day; devoted to institutions that give the largest +liberty to the individual and at the same time secure social order. +Here is the firm foundation upon which our hopes for future +security rest. What but our own neglect, what but our own +unfaithfulness, can put in peril either our national institutions or +our local organizations of government? True to ourselves, true to +those principles which we have embodied in our Government, there +is to the human eye no danger that can threaten the firm base of +our institutions.</p> + +<p>I am glad to see and meet these happy children. I feel like +kneeling to them as the future sovereigns of this country, and feel +as if it were a profanation to tread upon these sweet flowers that +they have spread in my pathway. God bless them, every one; +keep them in the lives they are to live from all that is evil, fill +their little hearts with sunshine and their mature lives with grace +and usefulness. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="FRESNO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="FRESNO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A crowd</span> of 10,000 greeted the party at Fresno; upward +of 1,000 school children were present, led by Professors +Heaton, Sturges, and Sheldon. The Committee of +Reception consisted of Mayor S. H. Cole, Dr. Chester A. +Rowell, F. G. Berry, Dr. A. J. Pedlar, Dr. St. George +Hopkins, W. W. Phillips, I. N. Pattison, Louis Einstein, +Nathan W. Moodey, C. W. De Long, and J. C. Herrington. +Altanta Post, G. A. R., Capt. Fred Banta, Commander, +also Company C, National Guard, Capt. M. W. +Muller, and Company F, Capt. C. Chisholm, participated +in the reception. A number of handsome floral designs +and other mementoes were presented to the several members +of the party.</p> + +<p>Dr. Rowell delivered the welcoming address. President +Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[366]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is altogether impossible for me to reach +with my voice this vast concourse of friends. I can only say I am +profoundly grateful for this enthusiastic greeting. I receive with +great satisfaction the memento you have given me of the varied +products of this most fertile and happy valley. I shall carry it +with me to Washington as a reminder of a scene that will never +fade from my memory. It is very pleasant to know that all these +pursuits that so much engage your thoughts and so industriously +employ your time have not turned your minds away from the love +of the flag and of those institutions which spread their secure +power over all your homes. What is it that makes the scattered +homes of our people secure? There is no policeman at the door; +there is no guard to accompany us as we move across this great +continent. You and I are in the safe keeping of the law and of +the affection and regard of all our people. Each respects the rights +of the other. I am glad to receive this manifestation of your +respect. I am glad to drink in this morning with this sunshine +and this sweet balmy air a new impulse to public duty, a new love +for the Union and flag. It is a matter of great regret that I can +return in such a small measure your affectionate greeting. I wish +it were possible I could greet each one of you personally, that it +were possible in some way other than in words to testify to you +my grateful sense of your good-will. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MERCED_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="MERCED_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">MERCED, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party arrived at Merced shortly after +noon and was welcomed by several thousand enthusiastic +residents. The Committee of Reception was composed +of the following representative citizens: E. T. Dixon, +Maj. G. B. Cook, L. R. Fancher, C. H. Marks, E. M. +Stoddard, S. A. D. Jones, Frank Howell, W. J. Quigley, +M. Goldman, C. E. Fleming, J. H. Rogers, J. A. Norvell, +Thomas Harris, Maj. C. Ralston, F. H. Farrar, +R. N. Hughes, Judge J. K. Law, Thomas H. Leggett, +and H. J. Ostrander. Hancock Post, G. A. R., J. Q. +Blackburn, Commander, participated in the reception. +Three little girls, Dottie Norvell, Mattie Hall, and Baby +Ingalsbe, representing the citizens of Merced, presented<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[367]</a></span> +Mrs. Harrison with a beautiful souvenir in the shape of a +large American flag woven from roses and violets.</p> + +<p>Chairman Dixon made the welcoming address, and +President Harrison replied in the following words:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have scarcely been able to finish a meal +since I have been in California. [Laughter.] I find myself hardly +seated at the table till some one reminds me that in about five +minutes I am to meet another throng of cordial and friendly people. +But I think I could have subsisted on this trip through California +without anything to eat, and have dined the while upon the +stimulus and inspiration which your good-will and kindly greetings +have given me. I do not think, however, from what I have +seen of these valleys, that it will be necessary for anyone to live +without eating. [Laughter.] I have been greatly delighted with +the agricultural richness, with the surprises in natural scenery, and +in the production which have met us on this journey. Everywhere +something has been lying in ambush for us, and when I was thinking +of prunes and English walnuts and oranges we suddenly pulled +up to a station where they had a pyramid of pig tin to excite our +wonder and interest at the variety of the production in this marvellous +State. But let me say, above all those fruits and flowers, +above all these productions of mine and field, I have been most +pleased with the men and women of California. [Applause.] It +gives me great pleasure, too, to meet everywhere these little ones. +I am fond of children. They attract my interest always, and the +little ones of my own household furnish about the only relaxation +and pleasure I have at Washington. [Applause.] I wish for your +children and for you, out of whose homes they come, and where +they are treasured with priceless affection and tender supervision, +all the blessings that a benign Providence and a good Government +can bestow. I shall be glad if in any way I have the opportunity +to conserve and promote your interests. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MODESTO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="MODESTO_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Modesto</span> was reached at 2:40 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> The veterans of +Grant Post, G. A. R., with Company D, N. G. C., and +several hundred citizens, gave the President a rousing +greeting. The Committee of Reception was Hon. John S. +Alexander, Charles A. Post, and Rev. Dr. Webb.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[368]</a></span></p> + +<p>George Perley introduced President Harrison, who +spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very pleasant for me to meet here, as at all +the stations I have passed, a kindly assembly of my fellow-countrymen. +We do not need any one to watch us, nor do we need to keep +watch against anybody else. Peace and good-will characterize our +communities. I was quite amused at a station not far from here +to hear a wondering Chinaman remark as he came up to the train, +"Why, they have no guns on board!" [Laughter.] How different +it is with us!—no retinue, no guards. We travel across this broad +country safe in the confidence and fellowship and kindness of its +citizenship. What other land is there like it? Where else are +there homes like ours? Where else institutions so free and yet so +adequate to all the needs of government, to make the home and +community safe, to restrain the ill-disposed, and everywhere to +promote peace and individual happiness?</p> + +<p>We congratulate each other that we are American citizens. +Without distinction of party, without taking note of the many +existing differences of opinion, we are all glad to do all in our +power to promote the dignity and prosperity of the country we +love. We cannot love it too much; we cannot be too careful that +all our influence is on the side of good government and of American +interests. We do not wish ill to any other nation or people in +the world, but they must excuse us if we regard our own fellow-citizens +as having the highest claim on our regard. We will +promote such measures as look to our own interests. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LATHROP_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25" id="LATHROP_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_25">LATHROP, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President's arrival at Lathrop was celebrated by +several thousand residents, re-enforced by large delegations +from the neighboring city of Stockton. The Committee +of Reception consisted of James J. Sloan, A. Henry +Stevens, Z. T. White, O. H. P. Bailey, E. Jesurun, T. +B. Walker, W. S. Reyner, D. Sanguinite, Geo. H. Seay, +O. D. Wilson, C. F. Sherburne, F. D. Simpson, and F. J. +Walker. The Committee of Reception appointed by the +Mayor of Stockton, and participating in behalf of that +city, was J. K. Doak, F. J. Ryan, I. S. Haines, Willis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[369]</a></span> +Lynch, H. R. McNoble, J. M. Dormer, and F. T. Baldwin. +A feature of the reception was 100 school children, each +carrying a bouquet, which they presented to the President +and Mrs. Harrison, both of whom kissed several of the +little donors. Postmaster Sloan delivered the welcoming +address. The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I should be less than human if I were not +touched by the rapid succession of hearty greetings received by us +in our journey through California. I should be more than human +if I were able to say something new or interesting at each of these +assemblies.</p> + +<p>My heart has but one language: it is, "I thank you."</p> + +<p>Most tenderly do I feel as an individual so much of this kindness +as is personal to me, and as a public official I am most profoundly +grateful that the American people so unitedly show their love and +devotion to the Constitution and the flag.</p> + +<p>We have a Government of the majority; it is the original compact +that when the majority has been fairly counted at the polls, +the expressed will of that majority, taking the form of public law +enacted by State Legislatures or the national Congress, shall be the +sole rule of conduct of every loyal man. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We have no other king than law, and he is entitled to the allegiance +of every heart and bowed knee of every citizen. [Cries of +"Good! good!" and cheers.]</p> + +<p>I cannot look forward with any human apprehension to any +danger to our country, unless it approaches us through a corrupt +ballot-box. [Applause.] Let us keep that spring pure, and these +happy valleys shall teem with an increasing population of happy +citizens, and our country shall find in an increasing population +only increased unity and strength. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_25" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_25">SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Keyes Station, near Merced, the presidential train +was joined by a special car containing the San Francisco +escort committee. The following gentlemen composed +the party and represented the organizations named: Mexican +Veterans—Maj. R. P. Hammond. California Pioneers—L. +L. Baker, W. B. Farwell, Nathaniel Holland,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[370]</a></span> +and Col. A. W. von Schmidt. Citizens' Committee—E. +S. Pillsbury, J. B. Crockett, M. M. Estee, Irving M. Scott, +W. D. English, and Rev. Dr. Samuel V. Leech. Loyal +Legion and Grand Army of the Republic—Chief Engineer +J. W. Moore, U. S. N., Commander Loyal Legion; Past +Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief S. W. Backus; Past +Department Commanders W. H. Aiken, E. Carlson, C. +Mason Kinne, W. A. Robinson, R. H. Marfield, W. R. +Smedburg, E. S. Salomon, T. H. Goodman, G. E. Gard, +and A. J. Buckles; Past Junior Vice-Commander Jesse B. +Fuller, Adjt.-Gen. T. C. Mastellar, Past Commander J. M. +Litchfield, Congressmen E. F. Loud and John T. Cutting, +comrades J. P. Meehan, S. S. Flint, and A. J. Hawes.</p> + +<p>Seven o'clock Saturday evening the boom of cannon and +clang of bells signalized the President's arrival at Oakland, +where he immediately embarked on the ferry steamer +<i>Piedmont</i> for passage across the bay. On board the <i>Piedmont</i>, +in addition to the veteran guard of the G. A. R., +commanded by Capt. Geo. F. Knowlton, Jr., and Lieutenants +Wiegand, Franks and Stateler, were the following +prominent residents: Senator and Mrs. Leland Stanford, +A. N. Towne, R. H. Platt, A. J. Bolfing, H. C. Bunker, +C. F. Bassett, Maj. J. N. E. Wilson, Capt. G. D. Boyd, J. +C. Quinn, Geo. L. Seybolt, George Sanderson, J. Steppacher, +Ass't Postmaster Richardson, G. W. Fletcher, Mrs. +Peter Donohue, Mrs. Geo. R. Sanderson, Mrs. James Denman, +Mrs. W. W. Morrow, Mrs. Joseph McKenna, Mrs. +M. Ehrman, Mrs. E. Martin, and Mrs. J. D. Spreckels. +The scene of the <i>Piedmont</i> crossing the bay, illuminated +with thousands of lights, covered with flying flags, and +greeted by all the craft in the harbor with myriads of +rockets and lights, was a bewildering spectacle. At a +signal great tongues of flame shot up from the summits of +Telegraph and Nob hills, and the monstrous bonfires from +the deck of the <i>Piedmont</i> resembled volcanoes. The entire +population of the city came out to do honor to the head<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[371]</a></span> +of the Nation, and the principal streets were beautifully +illuminated.</p> + +<p>As the President descended on the arm of Hon. W. W. +Morrow he was met on the wharf by Mayor George H. +Sanderson, Col. Basil Norris, Lieut.-Col. Geo. H. Burton, +Lieut.-Col. John P. Hawkins, Maj. Frank M. Coxe, Maj. +Edward Hunter, Maj. James H. Lord, Capt. Chas. N. +Booth, and First Lieutenants L. A. Lovering and James +E. Runcie, of the regular army; General Dickinson and +staff and city officials. Mayor Sanderson formally welcomed +the President and presented him a beautiful gold +tablet bearing a resolution of the Board of Supervisors tendering +the freedom of the city and county of San Francisco.</p> + +<p>In response the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor</i>—I have received with great gratification these words +of welcome which you have extended to me on behalf of the city +of San Francisco. They are but new expressions of the welcome +which has been extended to me since I entered the State of California. +Its greatness and glory I knew something of by story and +tradition, but what I have seen of its resources has quite surpassed +my imagination. But what has deeply impressed me is the loyal +and intelligent and warm-hearted people I have everywhere met. +I thank you for this reception.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_27" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_27">SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Monday</span>, April 27, the President and his party reviewed +many thousand school children assembled on Van Ness +Avenue. Escorted by Mayor Sanderson, General Ruger, +and other distinguished citizens, the party were driven +through the famous Golden Gate Park. At the entrance +the President was met and welcomed by Park Commissioner +Hammond, while awaiting the guests inside was a +reception committee consisting of E. S. Pilsbury, W. D. +English, General Sheehan, Chief Crowley, C. F. Crocker, +Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilshire, Judge Hawley, of Nevada,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[372]</a></span> +ex-Mayor Pond, Colonel Taylor, Marshal Long, Park Commissioner +Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Newlands, +Samuel Shortridge, C. M. Leavy, Surveyor-General Pratt, +Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Le Count, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Danforth, +Colonel and Mrs. J. B. Wright, of Sacramento, Mr. and +Mrs. Wendell Easton, Mr. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Paris +Kilbourn, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Phelps, Senator Carpenter, +of Los Angeles, Miss Harriet Bolinger, Mr. and +Mrs. Bolinger, District Attorney Garter, Mrs. Judge W. +T. Wallace, F. W. Sharon, T. B. Shannon, Mrs. B. L. +Haseltine, and others.</p> + +<p>The reception concluded, the drive was continued to +the Cliff House, overlooking Seal Rocks; from thence the +party visited Sutro Heights and became the guests of +Mr. Adolph Sutro. At the close of luncheon Mr. Sutro, +addressing President Harrison, said in part:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President</i>—I rise to present you a photo-lithographic letter +written by Sebastian Viscano, the great Spanish navigator. This +is probably the first letter in existence written by any human being +from California. It is dated at the port of Monterey, December +28, 1602, named in honor of the Conde de Monterey, then Viceroy +of Mexico. It is addressed to the Court of Spain, and states that +he (Viscano) had taken possession of this country for his majesty.</p> + +<p>The original of this letter I found in hunting through the Archives +de las Indias at Seville, Spain. At the date of this letter +Queen Elizabeth was still on the throne of England, Louis XIV. of +France was not born yet, and the Pilgrim Fathers had not yet +landed on Plymouth Rock.</p> + +<p>Mr. President, we all thank you for having come to see our +beautiful land, and permit me especially to thank you for the +honor of your visit to Sutro Heights.</p></div> + +<p>With the closing words Mr. Sutro extended to the President +a red plush album inclosing the letter. President +Harrison, in accepting it, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I beg to thank you both for this letter and your generous welcome +to a spot the natural beauty of which has been so much +enhanced by your efforts. My visit to Sutro Heights, the cliff, and +park will be a red-letter day in my journey.</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[373]</a></span></p> + +<p>The next visit was to the Presidio, where the President +and General Ruger witnessed the brilliant manœuvres of +the troops. Lieutenant-Colonel Graham was in command; +Captain Zalinski was the officer of the day. Captain Morris +led the heavy artillery; Captains Brinkle and Kinzie +commanded the mounted batteries; Colonel Mills headed +the cavalry aided by Captains Wood and Dorst.</p> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Phi Delta Theta.</p> + +<p>In the evening the President attended a banquet in his +honor by California Alpha Chapter of the State University +of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, of which Mr. Harrison +is a member. George E. de Golbia presided. When the +President arrived he was greeted with the fraternity +cheer. J. N. E. Wilson introduced the honored guest +and proposed the health of "the President."</p> + +<p>General Harrison, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends and Brothers in this Old Society</i>—I enjoy this moment +very much in being able to associate with you. I was a member +of the first chapter of this fraternity, which you all know was +founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I have not lost the impression +of solemnity and reverence which I experienced hunting +in the dark in those early times to find my chapter room, and I +am very glad to know that those meetings were not meetings in +the dark. I belonged to the order when it was young, and now I +find its members scattered in all States, where they all hold positions +of trust and influence. I find that in its history it has produced +nothing discreditable to itself, but always something of +which we may all well be proud. I thank you for these few +moments of association with you. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>At night President and Mrs. Harrison, Secretary Rusk, +and Postmaster-General Wanamaker attended an official +card reception at the Palace Hotel, tendered by the citizens +of San Francisco. The visitors were introduced by Col. +J. P. Jackson and George R. Sanderson. The occasion +was one of unusual brilliancy, rendered especially so by +the presence of Admiral A. E. K. Benham and the officers +of the fleet, Gen. Thomas H. Ruger, Gen. G. D. Green, Gen.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[374]</a></span> +John P. Hawkins, Gen. John G. Chandler, Col. Geo. N. +Burton, and a hundred or more other officers of the regular +army; Governor Markham and staff in full uniform, Maj. +Gen. W. H. Dimond and staff, Gen. J. H. Dickinson, and +scores of officers of the National Guard, and a thousand or +more private citizens of prominence accompanied by their +wives.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_28" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_APRIL_28">SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 28.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Launch of the Monterey.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, April 28, the President enjoyed an excursion +on the bay on board the steamer <i>Puebla</i>. Following the +<i>Puebla</i> came the cruiser <i>Charleston</i>, literally covered with +bunting, and with booming guns, leading a long line of +vessels. The presidential party was accompanied by +Mayor Sanderson, Colonel Andrews, Supervisor Jackson, +Colonel Marceau, Colonel Chadbourne, General Gibbon, +Collector Phelps, Capt. C. M. Goodall, General Cutting, +W. T. Coleman, Wm. Dargie, W. G. Harrison, W. D. +English, Stewart Menzies, Judge Murphy, Judge Troutt, +Barry Baldwin, A. E. Castle, A. Chesebrough, Martin Corcoran, +W. D. Clarke, W. R. Hearst, J. G. Fair, W. J. Dutton, +W. F. Goad, Wm. Harney, John P. Irish, J. D. +Spreckels, Leon Sloss, Levi Strauss, A. W. Scott, W. S. +Tevis, C. L. Taylor, J. H. Wise, C. E. Whitney, R. J. Wilson, +James. D. Phelan, R. H. Pease, Arthur Rodgers, F. W. +Sumner, F. J. Symmes, N. T. James, G. L. Bradner, C. F. +Mullins, Geo. A. Moore, T. C. Grant, and other gentlemen +of prominence.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon, at the Union Iron Works, the President +and Mrs. Harrison participated in the launch of the +armored coast-defence vessel <i>Monterey</i>. Mrs. Harrison +pressed the button which signalized the launching of the +great ship, and Miss Gunn, daughter of J. O'B. Gunn, +christened the ship with a bottle of California champagne.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[375]</a></span> +On the platform with the President's party were Henry +T. Scott and Irving M. Scott, builders of the <i>Monterey</i>; +master shipwright Geo. W. Dickie, Governor Markham, +and other prominent people.</p> + +<p>In the evening the distinguished visitors attended a +banquet and reception at the mansion of Senator and +Mrs. Leland Stanford. Nineteen couples sat down at the +sumptuous table. They comprised the President and +Mrs. Stanford, Senator Stanford and Mrs. Harrison, Governor +Markham and Mrs. Lowe, General Wanamaker +and Mrs. Benham, Secretary Rusk and Mrs. Markham, +General Ruger and Mrs. Russell Harrison, Admiral Benham +and Mrs. Morrow, Col. Lloyd Tevis and Mrs. Dimmick, +Mayor Sanderson and Mrs. Boyd, Hon. M. M. Estee +and Mrs. Moses Hopkins, Col. C. F. Crocker and Miss +Houghton, Senator Felton and Mrs. McKee, Mr. Russell +B. Harrison and Mrs. T. Hopkins, Col. J. P. Jackson and +Mrs. Dodge, Mr. Geo. W. Boyd and Mrs. Hewes, Hon. +W. W. Morrow and Mrs. Estee, Mr. Irving M. Scott and +Mrs. Jackson, Major Sanger and Mrs. Gwin, Mr. H. L. +Dodge and Mrs. Easton. In the Pompeiian parlor of the +mansion the President, with Mrs. Harrison and Senator +and Mrs. Stanford, received the thousand or more guests, +who comprised the prominent society people of San +Francisco and many other cities on the coast.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="REDWOOD_CITY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29" id="REDWOOD_CITY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29">REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Leaving</span> San Francisco on Wednesday, April 29, the +President spent the morning at Senator Stanford's famous +Palo Alto ranch. The first stop <i>en route</i> to Monterey was +at Redwood City, where a large and enthusiastic crowd, +including 200 school children, welcomed the President. +Geo. S. Evans Post, G. A. R., C. D. Harkins, Commander, +was present. Among the prominent citizens participating +were: H. R. Judah, of San Mateo; Geo. C. Ross, W. R.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[376]</a></span> +Welch, Geo. W. Lovie, John Poole, Henry Buger, Sheriff +Kinne, Marshal Jamieson, and Judge Geo. H. Buck, who +delivered the speech of welcome and presented the President, +on behalf of the citizens, with a polished redwood +tablet two feet in width.</p> + +<p>As the train moved off President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am sorry that I can say nothing more to you in +the limited time we have than that I am sincerely thankful for +your friendly demonstration.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_JOSE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29" id="SAN_JOSE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29">SAN JOSÉ, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Arriving</span> at San José the President remained an hour +and reviewed a parade in his honor. He was received at +the depot by Mayor S. N. Rucker at the head of the following +Committee of Reception: Judge John Reynolds, +Judge F. E. Spencer, D. B. Moody, R. O. Shively, S. F. +Lieb, V. A. Schellar, C. M. Shortridge, T. E. Beans, L. G. +Nesmith, C. T. Ryland, O. A. Hale, H. W. Wright, J. W. +Rea, C. T. Park, A. McDonald, C. T. Settle, H. M. Leonard, +B. D. Murphy, J. H. Henry, A. E. Mintie, S. F. Ayer, +Judge W. G. Lorigan, and H. V. Morehouse. Mayor +Rucker delivered the address of welcome at the court +house.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, responding, said.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am again surprised by this large +outpouring of my friends and by the respectful interest which +they evince. I cannot find words to express the delight which I have +felt and which those who journey with me have felt as we have +observed the beauty and, more than all, the comfort and prosperity +which characterize the great State of California. I am glad to +observe here, as I have elsewhere, that my old comrades of the +great war for the Union have turned out to witness afresh by this +demonstration their love for the flag and their veneration for +American institutions.</p> + +<p>My comrades, I greet you, every one, affectionately. I doubt +not that every loyal State has representatives here of that great +army that subdued the rebellion and brought home the flag in tri<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[377]</a></span>umph. +I hope that you have found in this flowery and prosperous +land, in the happy homes which you have builded up here, in the +wives and children that grace your firesides, a sweet contrast to +those times of peril and hardship which you experienced in the +army, and I trust above all that under these genial and kindly +influences you still maintain your devotion to our institutions and +are teaching it to the children that shall take your places.</p> + +<p>We often speak of the children following in the footsteps of their +fathers. A year ago nearly, in Boston, at the great review of the +Grand Army of the Republic, after those thousands of veterans, +stricken with years and labor, had passed along, a great army, +nearly as large, came on with the swinging step that characterized +you when you carried the flag from your home to the field. They +were the sons of veterans, literally marching in their fathers' +steps; and so I love to think that in the hands of this generation +that is coming on to take our places our institutions are safe and +the honor and glory of the flag will be maintained. We may +quietly go to our rest when God shall call us, in the full assurance +that His favoring providence will follow us, and that in your +children valor and sacrifice for the flag will always manifest themselves +on every occasion.</p> + +<p>Again thanking you for your presence and friendly interest, I +must beg you to excuse further speech, as we must journey on to +other scenes like this. Good-by and God bless you, comrades.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GILROY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29" id="GILROY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29">GILROY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Two</span> thousand people welcomed the President on his +arrival at Gilroy at 6 o'clock in the evening. The floral +decorations were particularly fine; the piece attracting the +greatest attention was a life-size white bear made of tea-roses. +The Committee of Reception was Mayor Loupe, +Thomas Rea, Geo. E. Hersey, Victor Bassignsno, F. W. +Blake, Professor Hall, and Messrs. Eckhart, Casey, and +Cleveland.</p> + +<p>Mayor Loupe introduced the President, who made one +of his briefest speeches. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It gives me great pleasure to see you for a moment, +and thank you for your kindness in coming out on this occasion.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[378]</a></span> +In all my travels I have never seen a more intelligent and happy +people than I have met in California. Let me introduce you to +Mr. Wanamaker.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WATSONVILLE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29" id="WATSONVILLE_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_29">WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Pajaro Station the presidential party was welcomed +by the Board of Trustees and 2,000 residents of the thriving +city of Watsonville, in the beautiful Pajaro Valley. Six +hundred school children and a young ladies' zouave company +participated in the greeting. The Committee of Reception +comprised the Board of Trustees, E. H. Madden, +T. J. Horgan, James A. Linscott, H. P. Brassell, and the +following prominent citizens of Watsonville: W. A. Sanborn, +A. B. Hawkins, Geo. A. Shearer, Geo. W. Peckham, +W. R. Radcliff, J. A. Hetherington, James Waters, +Mark Hudson, Geo. A. Trafton, John T. Porter, John F. +Kane, and F. E. Mauk; also, Wm. Wilson and C. E. Bowman, +representing the town of Corralitos, and C. R. Whitcher, +Jr., representing Castroville. Chairman Madden +made the welcoming address.</p> + +<p>The President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very glad to see you this evening. I am sorry +that the fatigues of the past few days have left us all in a state not +quite so fresh and blooming as your fields and gardens. We are a +little dusty and a little worn, but you quite rekindle our spirits by +this demonstration. We have ridden with great delight through +this beautiful valley to-day. It seems to me, as we pass each ridge +or backbone and come into a new valley, that we see something +that still more resembles the Garden of Eden. It is a constant +succession of surprises, but most of all I delight to see such convincing +evidence of the contentment and happiness of your people. +I am sure that those I see here to-day must come from happy and +prosperous homes. I wish you all good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[379]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MONTEREY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_30" id="MONTEREY_CALIFORNIA_APRIL_30">MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 30.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party arrived at Del Monte depot at 8 +o'clock Wednesday evening and were the guests of Manager +Schonewald, of the famous Hotel Del Monte. The next +morning the distinguished travellers were driven over to +Monterey, the historic old capital of California; they were +met at the outskirts by the City Trustees and a committee +of prominent citizens, among whom were: C. I. Burks, +Capt. Thomas Bralee, Francis Doud, David Rodrick, F. R. +Day, Edward Ingram, Job Wood, Thomas Doud, J. T. +Stockdale, Jacob R. Leese, Wm. Kay, A. A. Osio, and +H. Whitcomb. The reception was held on the grounds +fronting the old Capitol—now used as a school-house. +After the reception the visitors were taken on an 18-mile +drive through the parks and groves along the Pacific +Ocean. Mayor W. J. Hill, of Salinas, delivered the address +of welcome on behalf of the citizens of Monterey and Salinas, +and presented the President with a silver plate engraved +with a fac-simile of the old Custom House and the +words "The Custom House where the American flag was +first raised in California, July 7, 1846. Monterey, April +30, 1891. Greeting to our President."</p> + +<p>In response the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—Our whole pathway through the +State of California has been paved with good-will. We have been +made to walk upon flowers. Our hearts have been touched and +refreshed at every point by the voluntary offerings of your hospitable +people. Our trip has been one continued ovation of friendliness. +I have had occasion to say before that no man is entitled to +appropriate to himself these tributes. They witness a peculiar +characteristic of the American people. Unlike many other people +less happy, we give our devotion to a Government, to its Constitution, +to its flag, and not to men. We reverence and obey those +who have been placed by our own suffrages and choice in public +stations, but our allegiance, our affection, is given to our beneficent +institutions, and upon this rock our security is based. We are not +subject to those turbulent uprisings that prevail where the people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[380]</a></span> +follow leaders rather than institutions; where they are caught by +the glamour and dash of brilliant men rather than by the steady +law of free institutions.</p> + +<p>I rejoice to be for a moment among you this morning. The history +of this city starts a train of reflections in my mind that I cannot +follow out in speech, but the impression of them will remain +with me as long as I live. [Applause.] California and its coast +were essential to the integrity and completeness of the American +Union. But who can tell what may be the result of the establishment +here of free institutions, the setting up by the wisdom and +foresight and courage of the early pioneers in California of a commonwealth +that was very early received into the American Union? +We see to-day what has been wrought. But who can tell what +another century will disclose, when these valleys have become +thick with a prosperous and thriving and happy people? I thank +you again for your cordial greeting and bid you good-morning. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SANTA_CRUZ_CALIFORNIA_MAY_1" id="SANTA_CRUZ_CALIFORNIA_MAY_1">SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> 8 o'clock Friday morning the presidential train halted +at Santa Cruz, the City of the Holy Cross, where another +floral greeting awaited the distinguished guests. They +were met by Mayor G. Bowman at the head of a committee +of prominent citizens, among whom were: Col. Thomas +P. Robb, W. P. Young, Dr. T. W. Drullard, W. Finkeldey, +O. J. Lincoln, W. J. McCollum, A. L. Weeks, P. R. Hinds, +W. H. Galbraith, E. C. Williams, Duncan McPherson, +Wm. T. Jeter, A. A. Taylor, W. D. Storey, F. A. Hihn, Z. +N. Goldsby, Richard Thompson, R. C. Kirby, J. H. Logan, +A. J. Jennings, Judge McCann, J. F. Cunningham, Benj. +Knight, Z. Barnet, E. C. Williams, and J. T. Sullivan. +Grand Marshal J. O. Wanzer, with his aids, U. S. Nichols, +M. S. Patterson, H. Fay, W. D. Haslam, R. H. Pringle, +W. C. Hoffman, and George Chittenden, acted as an escort +of honor to the President during the parade. When the +Pacific Ocean House was reached Mayor Bowman made +a welcoming address. After the reception the party visited +the grove of big trees near the city.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[381]</a></span></p> + +<p>As the President arose to respond the great audience +cheered enthusiastically. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—It seems to me like improvidence +that all this tasteful and magnificent display should be but for a +moment. In all my journeying in California, where every city +has presented some surprise and where each has been characterized +by lavish and generous display, I have not seen anything so suddenly +created and yet so beautiful. I am sure we have not ridden +through any street more attractive than this. I thank you most +sincerely for this cordial welcome. I am sure you are a loyal, and +I know you are a loving and kindly people. [Cheers.] We have +been received, strangers as we were, with affection, and everywhere +as I look into the faces of this people I feel my heart swell +with pride that I am an American and that California is one of +the American States. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LOS_GATOS_CALIFORNIA_MAY_1" id="LOS_GATOS_CALIFORNIA_MAY_1">LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop after leaving Santa Cruz was at Los +Gatos, overlooking the Santa Clara Valley, where a large +assemblage welcomed the party. The Committee of Reception +comprised the Board of Town Trustees and W. +H. B. Trantham, James H. Lyndon, G. A. Dodge, and C. +F. Wilcox. E. O. C. Ord Post, G. A. R., James G. Arthur, +Commander, was out in full force.</p> + +<p>Chairman J. W. Lyndon made the address of welcome +and introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow citizens</i>—If California had lodged a complaint against +the last census I should have been inclined to entertain it and to +order your people to be counted again. [Laughter.] From what +I have seen in these days of pleasant travel through your State I +am sure the census enumerators have not taken you all. We have +had another surprise in coming over these mountains to find that +not the valleys alone of California, but its hill-tops are capable of +productive cultivation. We have been greatly surprised to see +vineyards and orchards at these altitudes, and to know that your +fields rival in productiveness the famous valleys of your State.</p> + +<p>I thank you for your cordial greeting. It overpowers me I feel +that these brief stops are but poor recompense for the trouble and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[382]</a></span> +care you have taken. I wish we could tarry longer with you. I +wish I could know more of you individually, but I can only thank +you and say that we will carry away most happy impressions of +California, and that in public and in private life it will give me +pleasure always to show my appreciation of your great State. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_MAY_1" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_MAY_1">SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 1.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Chamber of Commerce Reception.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President returned to San Francisco from his trip to +Monterey and Santa Cruz at noon Friday, May 1. He was +met across the bay by W. W. Montague, Geo. C. Perkins, +and Oliver Eldridge, constituting a committee of escort +from the Chamber of Commerce. Arrived at the Chamber +of Commerce the President was met by the following +Reception Committee, trustees of the Chamber, composed +of: William L. Merry, A. J. Ralston, W. T. Y. Schenck, +Robert Watt, A. R. Briggs, James Carolan, N. W. Spaulding, +General Dimond, John Rosenfeld, Charles R. Allen, +J. J. McKinnon, C. B. Stone, and Louis Parrott. On the +floor of the Merchants' Exchange the President was greeted +by a great and enthusiastic assembly, composed of members +of the following bodies invited to participate in the +reception: Mexican War Veterans, Society of Pioneers, +Territorial Pioneers, Geographical Society, Art Association, +Geological Society, State Board of Trade, Board of +Trade of the city, Bar Association, Bankers' Association, +Produce Exchange, San Francisco Stock Exchange, Merchants' +Exchange, Boards of Brokers, Boards of Marine +Institute, Chamber of Commerce, Manufacturers' Association, +and California Academy of Sciences. Colonel Taylor, +President of the Chamber of Commerce, delivered an able +address upon the trade of the Pacific coast, and closed by +cordially welcoming President Harrison, Postmaster-General +Wanamaker, and Secretary Rusk.</p> + +<p>When the President arose to respond he was greeted<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[383]</a></span> +with a storm of applause. His address was punctured +throughout with cheers. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of these Assembled Societies</i>—I have +been subjected during my stay in California in some respects to +the same treatment the policeman accords to the tramp—I have +been kept moving on. You have substituted flowers and kindness +for the policeman's baton. And yet, notwithstanding all this, we +come to you this morning not exhausted or used up, but a little +fatigued. Your cordial greetings are more exhilarating than your +wine, and perhaps safer for the constitution. [Laughter and applause.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to stand in the presence of this assemblage of business +men. I have tried to make this a business Administration. +[Applause.] Of course we cannot wholly separate politics from a +national Administration, but I have felt that every public officer +owed his best service to the people, without distinction of party +[cries of "Good! good!" and applause]; that in administering official +trusts we were in a very strict sense, not merely in a figurative +sense, your servants. It has been my desire that in every +branch of the public service there should be improvement. I have +stimulated all the Secretaries and have received stimulus from +them in the endeavor, in all the departments of the Government +that touch your business life, to give you as perfect a service as +possible. This we owe to you; but if I were pursuing party ends +I should feel that I was by such methods establishing my party in +the confidence of the people. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I feel that we have come to a point where American industries, +American commerce, and American influence are to be revived +and extended. The American sentiment and feeling was never +more controlling than now; and I do not use that term in the narrow +sense of native American, but to embrace all loyal citizens, +whether native-born or adopted, who have the love of our flag +in their hearts. [Great cheering.] I shall speak to-night, probably, +at the banquet of business men, and will not enter into any +lengthy discussion here. Indeed, I am so careful not to trespass +upon any forbidden topic, that I may not in the smallest degree +offend those who have forgotten party politics in extending this +greeting to us, that I do not know how far I should talk upon +these public questions. But since your Chairman has alluded to +them, I can say I am in hearty sympathy with the suggestions he +has made. I believe there are methods by which we shall put the +American flag upon the sea again. [Applause.] In speaking the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[384]</a></span> +other day I used an illustration which will perhaps be apt in this +company of merchants. You recall, all of you, certainly those of +my age, the time when no merchant sent out travelling men. He +expected the buyer to come to his store. Perhaps that was well +enough; but certain enterprising men sought custom by putting +travelling men with samples on the road. However the conservative +merchant regarded that innovation, he had but one choice—to +put travelling men on the road or go out of business. In this +question of shipping we are in a similar condition. The great +commercial governments of the world have stimulated their shipping +interests by direct or indirect subsidies, while we have been +saying: "No, we prefer the old way." We must advance or—I +will not say go out of business, for we have already gone out. +[Applause.] I thank you most cordially for your greeting, and +bid you good-by. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ADDRESS_TO_THE_VETERANS_MAY_1" id="ADDRESS_TO_THE_VETERANS_MAY_1">ADDRESS TO THE VETERANS, MAY 1.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">From</span> the Chamber of Commerce the President and his +party were escorted to the Mechanics' Pavilion by the +Veteran Guard under Captain Knowlton, preceded and +followed by Lincoln, Garfield, Cass, Meade, Liberty, and +Geo. Sykes posts, G. A. R. Fully 10,000 children and citizens +were assembled to witness the May Day festivities +under the auspices of the G. A. R. posts. Escorted by +Grand Marshal Saloman, the President advanced to the +stage and was received by Hon. Henry C. Dibble, who presented +him to the throng of veterans and children.</p> + +<p>He spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic</i>—It will not be possible +in so large a hall for me to make myself heard, and yet I cannot +refuse when appealed to to say a word of kindly greeting to +those comrades who have found their homes on the Pacific coast. +I have no doubt that all the loyal States of the Union are represented +in this assembly, and it is pleasant to know that, after the +strife and hardships of those years of battle, you have found among +the flowers and fruits of the earth homes that are full of pleasantness +and peace.</p> + +<p>It was that these things might continue to be that you went to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[385]</a></span> +battle; it was that these homes might be preserved; it was that +the flag and all that it symbolizes might be perpetuated, that you +fought and many of our comrades died. All this land calls you +blessed. The fruits of division and strife that would have been +ours if secession had succeeded would have been full of bitterness. +The end that was attained by your valor under the providence of +God has brought peace and prosperity to all the States. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It gave me great pleasure in passing through the Southern States +to see how your work had contributed to their prosperity. No man +can look upon any of these States through which we campaigned +and fought without realizing that what seemed to their people a +disaster was, under God, the opening of a great gate of prosperity +and happiness.</p> + +<p>All those fires of industry which I saw through the South were +lighted at the funeral pyre of slavery. [Cries of "Good! good!" +and applause.] They were impossible under the conditions that +existed previously in those States. We are now a homogeneous +people. You in California, full of pride and satisfaction with the +greatness of your State, will always set above it the greater glory +and the greater citizenship which our flag symbolizes. [Cheers.] +You went into the war for the defence of the Union; you have +come out to make your contribution to the industries and progress +of this age of peace. As in our States of the Northwest the +winter covering of snow hides and warms the vegetation, and +with the coming of the spring sun melts and sinks into the earth +to refresh the root, so this great army was a covering and defence, +and when the war was ended, turned into rivulets of refreshment +to all the pursuits of peace. There was nothing greater in all the +world's story than the assembling of this army except its disbandment. +It was an army of citizens; and when the war was over +the soldier was not left at the tavern—he had a fireside toward +which his steps hastened. He ceased to be a soldier and became a +citizen. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I observe, as I look into your faces, that the youth of the army +must have settled on the Pacific coast. [Laughter and applause.] +You are younger men here than we are in the habit of meeting at +our Grand Army posts in the East. May all prosperity attend you; +may you be able to show yourselves in civil life, as in the war, +the steadfast, unfaltering, devoted friends of this flag you are +willing to die for. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[386]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PALACE_HOTEL_BANQUET_MAY_1" id="PALACE_HOTEL_BANQUET_MAY_1">PALACE HOTEL BANQUET, MAY 1.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> the evening President Harrison attended a grand +banquet given in his honor by the prominent citizens at +the Palace Hotel. Of all the entertainments extended to +the distinguished visitors on their journey this banquet was +beyond question the most notable. Representatives of the +business, professional, political, educational, and society +circles of the city were present in numbers. The brilliant +affair was largely directed by Colonel Andrews, Alfred +Bovier, Geo. R. Sanderson, and Messrs. Le Count, Jackson, +and Menzies of the Citizens' Committee.</p> + +<p>The President was escorted to the banquet hall by General +Barnes and introduced to the distinguished assembly +quite early in the evening. After the vociferous cheering +subsided General Harrison rewarded the magnificent assemblage +with an address that called forth from the press of +the country general commendation, and is only second to +his great speech at Galveston. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen</i>—When the Queen of Sheba visited +the court of Solomon and saw its splendors she was compelled to +testify that the half had not been told her. Undoubtedly the emissaries +of Solomon's court, who had penetrated to her distant territory, +found themselves in a like situation to that which attends +Californians when they travel East—they are afraid to put too +much to test the credulity of their hearers [laughter and applause], +and as a gentleman of your State said to me, it has resulted in a +prevailing indisposition among Californians to tell the truth out of +California. [Laughter and applause.] Not at all because Californians +are unfriendly to the truth, but solely out of compassion for +their hearers they address themselves to the capacity of those who +hear them. [Laughter.] And taking warning by the fate of the +man who told a sovereign of the Indies that he had seen water so +solid that it could be walked upon, they do not carry their best +stories away from home. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>It has been, much as I have heard of California, a brilliant disillusion +to me and to those who have journeyed with me. The +half had not been told of the productiveness of your valleys, of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[387]</a></span> +blossoming orchards, of the gardens laden with flowers. We have +seen and been entranced. Our pathway has been strewn with +flowers. We have been surprised, when we were in a region of +orchards and roses, to be suddenly pulled up at a station and asked +to address some remarks to a pyramid of pig tin. [Laughter and +applause.]</p> + +<p>Products of the mine, rare and exceptional, have been added to +the products of the field, until now the impression has been made +upon my mind that if any want should be developed in the arts, +possibly if any wants should be developed in statesmanship, or +any vacancies in office [great laughter], we have here a safe reservoir +that can be drawn upon <i>ad libitum</i>. [Laughter]. But, my +friends, sweeter than all the incense of flowers, richer than all the +products of mines, has been the gracious, unaffected, hearty kindness +with which the people of California have everywhere received +us. Without division, without dissent, a simple yet magnificent +and enthusiastic American welcome. [Great applause.]</p> + +<p>It is gratifying that it should be so. We may carry into our +campaigns, to our conventions and congresses, discussions and +divisions, but how grand it is that we are a people who bow reverently +to the decision when it is rendered, and who will follow +the flag always, everywhere, with absolute devotion of heart without +asking what party may have given the leader in whose hands +it is placed. [Enthusiastic cheering.]</p> + +<p>I believe that we have come to a new epoch as a Nation. There +are opening portals before us inviting us to enter—opening portals +to trade and influence and prestige such as we have never seen +before. [Great applause.] We will pursue the paths of peace; we +are not a warlike Nation; all our instincts, all our history is in the +lines of peace. Only intolerable aggression, only the peril of our +institutions—of the flag—can thoroughly arouse us. [Great applause.] +With capability for war on land and on sea unexcelled +by any nation in the world, we are smitten with the love of peace. +[Applause.] We would promote the peace of this hemisphere by +placing judiciously some large guns about the Golden Gate [great +and enthusiastic cheering]—simply for saluting purposes [laughter +and cheers], and yet they should be of the best modern type. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We should have on the sea some good vessels. We don't need +as great a navy as some other people, but we do need a sufficient +navy of first-class ships, simply to make sure that the peace of the +hemisphere is preserved [cheers]; simply that we may not leave +the great distant marts and harbors of commerce and our few citi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[388]</a></span>zens +who may be domiciled there to feel lonesome for the sight of +the American flag. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We are making fine progress in the construction of the navy. +The best English constructors have testified to the completeness and +perfection of some of our latest ships. It is a source of great gratification +to me that here in San Francisco the energy, enterprise, +and courage of some of your citizens have constructed a plant +capable of building the best modern ships. [Cries of "Good! +good!" and cheers.]</p> + +<p>I saw with delight the magnificent launch of one of these new +vessels. I hope that you may so enlarge your capacities for construction +that it will not be necessary to send any naval vessel +around the Horn. We want merchant ships. [Cheers.] I believe +we have come to a time when we should choose whether we will +continue to be non-participants in the commerce of the world or +will now vigorously, with the push and energy which our people +have shown in other lines of enterprise, claim our share of the +world's commerce. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I will not enter into the discussion of methods of the Postal bill +of the last session of Congress, which marks the beginning. Here +in California, where for so long a time a postal service that did +not pay its own way was maintained by the Government, where +for other years the Government has maintained mail lines into +your valleys, reaching out to every remote community, and paying +out yearly a hundred times the revenue that was derived, it ought +not to be difficult to persuade you that our ocean mail should not +longer be the only service for which we refuse to expend even the +revenues derived from it.</p> + +<p>It is my belief that, under the operation of the law to which +I have referred, we shall be able to stimulate ship-building, to +secure some new lines of American steamships, and to increase the +ports of call of all those now established. [Enthusiastic cheering.]</p> + +<p>It will be my effort to do what may be done under the powers +lodged in me by the law to open and increase trade with the countries +of Central and South America. I hope it may not be long—I +know it will not be long if we but unitedly pursue this great scheme—until +one can take a sail in the bay of San Francisco and see +some deep-water ships come in bearing our own flag. [Enthusiastic +and continued cheering.]</p> + +<p>During our excursion the other day I saw three great vessels +come in; one carried the Hawaiian and two the English flag. I +am a thorough believer in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. +You have pleased me so much that I would like a shorter water<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[389]</a></span> +communication between my State and yours. [Cheers.] Influences +and operations are now started that will complete, I am sure, +this stately enterprise; but, my fellow-citizens and Mr. President, +this is the fifth time this day that I have talked to gatherings of +California friends, and we have so much taxed the hospitality of +San Francisco in making our arrangements to make this city the +centre of a whole week's sight-seeing that I do not want to add to +your other burdens the infliction of longer speech. [Cries of "Go +on!"] Right royally have you welcomed us with all that is rich +and prodigal in provision and display. With all graciousness and +friendliness I leave my heart with you when I go. [Great and +prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SACRAMENTO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2" id="SACRAMENTO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2">SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Early</span> Saturday morning, May 2, the President left +San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. +Dimmick, Secretary Rusk, Marshal Ransdell, and Major +Sanger, to visit the capital city, Sacramento. They were +met at Davisville by a special committee consisting of: +Hon. Newton Booth, Hon. A. P. Catlin, Hon. W. C. Van +Fleet, Col. J. B. Wright, Hon. J. O. Coleman, Maj. Wm. +McLaughlin, Col. C. H. Hubbard, Hon. N. Curtis, Hon. +Theo. Reichert, R. B. Harmon, and Hon. W. C. Hendricks.</p> + +<p>A presidential salute at 8 o'clock announced the arrival +of the Chief Magistrate, who was welcomed by Hon. W. +D. Comstock, Mayor of the city, at the head of the following +distinguished Committee of Reception: Hon. J. W. +Armstrong, Prof. E. C. Atkinson, Hon. Frederick Cox, +Edwin F. Smith, H. M. Larue, P. S. Lawson, W. A. Anderson, +Wells Drury, C. K. McClatchy, Maj. H. Weinstock, +A. A. Van Voorhies, A. S. Hopkins, T. W. Humphrey, +Hon. F. R. Dray, Wm. Beckman, R. D. Stephens, +W. P. Coleman, Dr. Wm. H. Baldwin, Allen Towle, Dr. G. +L. Simmons, C. T. Wheeler, J. C. Pierson, W. H. H. Hart, +A. Abbott, Chas. McCreary, Rev. Stephenson, T. M. Lindley, +E. W. Roberts, Grove L. Johnson, Frank Miller, +Dr. W. R. Cluness, H. W. Byington, Chris. Green, Clinton<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[390]</a></span> +L. White, Alonzo R. Conklin, Wm. Geary, Gen. A. L. +Hart, Dr. S. Bishop, L. Tozer, D. H. McDonald, L. W. +Grothan, W. H. Ambrose, J. S. McMahon, Geo. W. Chesley, +W. R. Strong, Rev. A. C. Herrick, T. M. Lindley, H. +J. Small, Felix Tracy, C. A. Luhrs, Philip Scheld, Wm. +Land, H. G. May, C. A. Jenkins, Geo. C. McMulle, Jabez +Turner, M. A. Baxter, O. W. Erlewine, Albert Hart, L. +Elkus, B. B. Brown, T. C. Adams, B. U. Steinman, G. W. +Safford, W. D. Perkins, Ed. F. Taylor, A. J. Johnston, E. +Greer, L. Mebus, W. E. Gerber, S. E. Carrington, E. C. +Hart, Dr. M. Gardner, Dr. T. W. Huntington, Chris. +Weisel, Joseph E. Werry, W. F. Knox, E. W. Hale, Dr. +G. M. Dixon, W. O. Bowers, Geo. W. Hancock, E. G. +Blessing, A. J. Rhoads, R. S. Carey, E. B. Willis, Jud +C. Brusie, T. L. Enright, V. S. McClatchy, Wm. J. +Davis, Dr. J. R. Laine, Geo. M. Mott, Harrison Bennett, +R. M. Clarken, Jerry Paine, J. W. Wilson, John Weil, +Gen. J. G. Martine, H. B. Neilson, Chas. M. Campbell, +M. S. Hammer, J. M. Avery, Dr. H. L. Nichols, W. W. +Cuthbert, James I. Felter, R. H. Singleton, E. M. Luckett, +L. L. Lewis, C. S. Houghton, C. A. Yoerk, T. H. Berkey, +P. Herzog, M. J. Dillman, Robert T. Devlin, A. Poppert, +J. L. Huntoon, Capt. Wm. Siddons, Maj. W. A. +Gett, C. J. Ellia, F. W. Fratt, Judge H. O. Beatty, W. +A. Curtis, H. A. Guthrie, Thomas Scott, Benj. Wilson, +Chas. Wieger, H. Fisher, C. H. Gilman, W. L. Duden, S. S. +Holl, J. Frank Clark, H. G. Smith, L. Williams, John +Gruhler, F. A. Jones, R. J. Van Voorhies, James Woodburn, +Samuel Gerson, M. A. Burke, C. C. Bonte, Lee Stanley, +Perrin Stanton, A. Mazzini, John F. Slater, J. E. +Burke, Capt. J. H. Roberts, Thos. Geddes, S. L. Richards, +M. M. Drew, Gen. Geo. B. Cosbey, J. F. Linthicum, J. +N. Larkin, Richard Burr, and Samuel Lavenson.</p> + +<p>The march from the depot to the Capitol grounds was +one continuous ovation. The veterans of Warren, Sumner, +and Fair Oaks posts, G. A. R., acted as an escort of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a></span> +honor. The militia was commanded by Gen. T. W. Sheehan. +More than 30,000 people witnessed or participated +in the demonstration. As the President passed Pioneer +Hall he halted the column to receive the greetings of the +venerable members of the Sacramento Society. Governor +Markham delivered an eloquent address, reciting the discovery +of gold in California, reviewing the President's +tour through the State, and bidding him "good-by and +God-speed." Ex-Governor Booth and Secretary Rusk also +made short speeches. Postmaster-General Wanamaker +was detained at San Francisco, inspecting sites for a new +post-office. His absence was a disappointment to the +postal employees, who sent him a silver tablet, the size of +a money-order, engraved with their compliments, as a +memento.</p> + +<p>The President's address was as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Markham and Fellow-citizens</i>—Our eyes have rested +upon no more beautiful or impressive sight since we entered California. +This fresh, delightful morning, this vast assemblage of +contented and happy people, this building, dedicated to the uses +of civil government—all things about us tend to inspire our hearts +with pride and with gratitude.</p> + +<p>Gratitude to that overruling Providence that turned hither after +the discovery of this continent the steps of those who had the +capacity to organize a free representative government.</p> + +<p>Gratitude to that Providence that has increased the feeble colonies +on an inhospitable coast to these millions of prosperous people, +who have found another sea and populated its sunny shores with a +happy and growing people. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Gratitude to that Providence that led us through civil strife to a +glory and a perfection of unity as a people that was otherwise +impossible.</p> + +<p>Gratitude that we have to-day a Union of free States without a +slave to stand as a reproach to that immortal declaration upon +which our Government rests. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Pride that our people have achieved so much; that, triumphing +over all the hardships of those early pioneers, who struggled in the +face of discouragement and difficulties more appalling than those +that met Columbus when he turned the prows of his little vessels<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[392]</a></span> +toward an unknown shore; that, triumphing over perils of starvation, +perils of savages, perils of sickness, here on the sunny slope +of the Pacific they have established civil institutions and set up +the banner of the imperishable Union. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Every Californian who has followed in their footsteps, every man +and woman who is to-day enjoying the harvest of their endeavors, +should always lift his hat to the pioneer of '49. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We stand here at the political centre of a great State, in this building +where your lawmakers assemble, chosen by your suffrages to +execute your will in framing those rules of conduct which shall +control the life of the citizen. May you always find here patriotic, +consecrated men to do your work. May they always assemble here +with a high sense of duty to those brave, intelligent, and honorable +people. May they catch the great lesson of our Government, that +our people need only such regulation as shall restrain the ill-disposed +and shall give the largest liberty to individual enterprise +and effort. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>No man is gifted with speech to describe the beauty and the +impressiveness of this great occasion. I am awed in this presence. +I bow reverently to this great assembly of free, intelligent, enterprising +American sovereigns. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to have this hasty glimpse of this early centre of +immigration. I am glad to stand at the place where that momentous +event, the discovery of gold, transpired, and yet, after you +have washed your sand of gold, after the eager rush for sudden +wealth, after all this you have come into a heritage in the possession +of these fields, in those enduring and inexhaustible treasures +of your soil, which will perpetually sustain a great population.</p> + +<p>In parting, sir [to the Governor], to you as the representative of +this people I give the most hearty thanks of all who journey with +me and my own for the early, continuous, kindly, yea, even affectionate +attention which has followed us in all our footsteps through +California. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BENICIA_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2" id="BENICIA_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2">BENICIA, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> leaving Sacramento the President made a brief stop +at Benicia, where a large crowd greeted him, including the +school children, who bombarded him with flowers. The +welcoming committee was D. M. Hart, President of the +Board of Trustees; A. Dalton, Jr., S. C. Gray, and W. H. +Foreman.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[393]</a></span></p> + +<p>In response to calls for a speech the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I thank you most sincerely for this pleasant tribute +which I have received from these children. It is a curious thing, +perhaps, that among the earliest towns that became familiar to me +in my younger days was Benicia. In 1857, when the United States +sent an armed expedition to Utah, and thence across the continent, +I happened to have an elder and much-beloved brother who was a +lieutenant in that campaign. He was stationed at Benicia Barracks, +and his letters from this place have fixed it in my memory, +and recalls to me, as I stand here this morning, very tender memories +of one who has long since gone to his rest. I thank you again +for this demonstration.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BERKELEY_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2" id="BERKELEY_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2">BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">State University.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President arrived at West Berkeley station at 1 +o'clock and was met by the Berkeley Reception Committee, +consisting of C. R. Lord, J. L. Scotchler, R. Rickard, E. F. +Neihauser, Samuel Heywood, C. Gaines, J. S. Eastman, +John Squires, F. B. Cone, Chris. Johnson, John Finn, +George Schmidt, L. Gottshall, A. F. Fonzo, H. W. Taylor, +and C. E. Wulferdingen. A procession was formed, and +amid thousands of enthusiastic onlookers the party was +driven to the State University. At the main entrance the +President found the Faculty, the University Battalion, +and about 1,000 other people awaiting his coming. Acting +President Kellogg briefly welcomed the distinguished +guest.</p> + +<p>The President, standing with uncovered head in the +carriage, spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>It gives me great pleasure even to inspect these grounds and the +exterior of these buildings devoted to education. Our educational +institutions, beginning with the primary common schools and culminating +in the great universities of the land, are the instrumentalities +by which the future citizens of this country are to be trained +in the principles of morality and in the intellectual culture which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[394]</a></span> +will fit them to maintain, develop, and perpetuate what their +fathers have begun.</p> + +<p>I am glad to receive your welcome, and only regret that it is +impossible for me to make a closer observation of your work. I +unite with you in mourning the loss which has come to you in the +death of Professor Le Conte. I wish for the institution and for +those who are called here to train the young the guidance and +blessing of God in all their endeavors.</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Institute of the Dumb and Blind.</p> + +<p>Leaving the University the President was rapidly driven +through a beautiful residence district and entered the +grounds of the California Institute of the Deaf, Dumb and +Blind. Before the great edifice stood the teachers: G. +B. Goodall, T. D'Estrella, T. Grady, F. O'Donnell, +Henry Frank, Douglas Kieth, C. T. Wilkinson, N. F. +Whipple, Mary Dutch, Laura Nourse, Elizabeth Moffitt, +Rose Sedgwick, Otto Fleissner, and Charles S. Perry. Assembled +on the green were more than 200 afflicted little +ones. The blind welcomed the President with their sympathetic +voices, the dumb looked upon him and smiled, +while the deaf waved their little hands with joy. Superintendent +Wilkinson in an address warmly thanked the +party for their visit.</p> + +<p>The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>It gives me great pleasure to stop for a moment at one of these +institutions so characteristic of our Christian civilization. In the +barbarous ages of the world the afflicted were regarded by superstition +unhelpful, or treated with cruel neglect; but in this better +day the States are everywhere making magnificent provision for +the comfort and education of the blind and deaf and dumb.</p> + +<p>Where one avenue to the mind has been closed science is opening +another. The eye does the work of the ear, the finger the work of +the tongue for the dumb, and touch becomes sight to the blind. I +am sure that gladness has come to all these young hearts through +the benevolent, careful, and affectionate instruction they are receiving +here. I thank you, and wish all of you the utmost happiness +through life.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[395]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="OAKLAND_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2" id="OAKLAND_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2">OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Leaving</span> the Asylum for the Blind the presidential party +was driven rapidly to Oakland, passing through the suburban +town of Temescal, where a large crowd, including +several hundred school children, greeted the distinguished +visitors. The President was accompanied by Mayor Melvin +Chapman and the following members of the Oakland +Reception Committee: Ex-Mayor John R. Glascock, +Hon. Geo. E. Whitney, Senator W. E. Dargie, J. G. McCall, +A. C. Donnell, T. C. Coogan, John P. Irish, Hon. E. +S. Denison, C. D. Pierce, J. W. McClymonds, W. D. +English, H. M. Sanborn, M. J. Keller, J. F. Evans, A. +W. Bishop, W. W. Foote, Robert McKillican, Charles +G. Yale, G. W. McNear, W. R. Thomas, C. B. Evans, +and Maj. F. R. O'Brien.</p> + +<p>As the presidential carriage turned into Jackson Street +at half-past 1 o'clock nearly 10,000 school children welcomed +the Chief Magistrate with a fusillade of bouquets. +The crowd was so great the President was unable to reach +the reviewing stand, where Mr. Wanamaker awaited him. +Making the best of the situation, Mayor Chapman arose +in the carriage and formally welcomed the President on +behalf of the citizens.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, speaking from the same carriage, +responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am glad to meet you all, and I +assure you I appreciate this magnificent demonstration. I must +congratulate you upon your fine institutions, and particularly your +streets, which, I believe, are the best in the country. I thank you +for this reception most heartily. I regret that your enthusiasm +and the vast size of this assembly has somewhat disconcerted the +programme marked out, but I can speak as well from here as from +the stand, which seems to be inaccessible. I return my sincere +thanks for your welcome and express the interest and gratification +I have felt this morning in riding through some of the streets of +your beautiful city. I thank you most sincerely for your friendliness +and bid you good-by. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[396]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_2">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Union League Reception.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Immediately</span> on returning from his arduous trip to Sacramento +and Oakland the President attended a reception +in his honor tendered by members of the Union League at +their club-house. The affair was one of the most notable +of any in which the presidential guests participated during +their visit to the golden West, and was conducted +under the direction of the following committee: A. E. +Castle, Joseph S. Spear, Jr., F. S. Chadbourne, W. H. +Chamberlain, T. H. Minor, J. H. Hegler, Frank J. French, +J. T. Giesting, William Macdonald, J. S. Mumaugh, R. D. +Laidlaw, S. K. Thornton, W. D. Sanborn, Joseph Simonson, +J. M. Litchfield, and L. H. Clement.</p> + +<p>The President entered upon the arm of Wendell Easton, +President of the Union League Club, followed by the first +lady of the land, escorted by Governor Markham. The +Reception Committee comprised: Senator Stanford, General +Dimond, M. H. de Young, Judge Estee, I. C. Stump, +W. C. Van Fleet, C. J. Bandmann, W. E. Dargie, N. P. +Chipman, Lewis Gerstle, F. A. Vail, Col. W. R. Shafter, +Mrs. Leland Stanford, Mrs. R. D. Laidlaw, Mrs. W. H. +Chamberlain, Mrs. Joseph S. Spear, Jr., Mrs. W. W. Morrow, +Mrs. F. L. Castle, Mrs. M. H. de Young, Mrs. N. P. +Chipman, Mrs. C. J. Bandmann, Miss Emma Spreckels, +Miss Thornton, Mrs. Wendell Easton, Mrs. S. W. Backus, +Mrs. G. H. Sanderson, Mrs. W. E. Dargie, Miss Stump, +Miss Reed, and others prominent in society.</p> + +<p>After the long and brilliant column had passed before +the presidential line Samuel M. Shortridge stepped before +the President and in an eloquent address in behalf of the +Union League Club presented him with a fac-simile, in +gold, of the invitation issued to the reception.</p> + +<p>General Harrison, in accepting the beautiful souvenir, +said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[397]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>California is full of ambuscades, not of a hostile sort, but with +all embarrassments that attend surprise. In a hasty drive this +afternoon, when I thought I was to visit Oakland, I was suddenly +drawn up in front of a college and asked to make an address, and +in a moment afterward before an asylum for the deaf, dumb, and +blind, the character of which I did not know until the carriage +stopped in front of it. All this taxes the ingenuity as your kindness +moves the heart of one who is making a hurried journey +through California. I do not need such souvenirs as this to keep +fresh in my heart this visit to your State. It will be pleasant, +however, to show to others who have not participated in this +enjoyment the record of a trip that has been very eventful and one +of perpetual sunshine and happiness. I do not think I could have +endured the labor and toil of travel unless I had been borne up by +the inspiriting and hearty good-will of your people. I do not know +what collapse is in store for me when it is withdrawn. I fear I +shall need a vigorous tonic to keep up to the high level of enjoyment +and inspiration which your kind treatment has given me. +I thank you for this pleasant social enjoyment and this souvenir +of it. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SAN_FRANCISCO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_3" id="SAN_FRANCISCO_CALIFORNIA_MAY_3">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 3.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Farewell.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Sunday</span> evening the President and his party, after +passing a restful day at the Palace Hotel, quietly took their +leave of San Francisco and repaired to their palatial train. +Mayor Sanderson and his secretary, Mr. Steppacher, Col. +Charles F. Crocker and Colonel Andrews, of the Reception +Committee, escorted the party to their train. The +President personally thanked these gentlemen for their +kind and unremitting attentions during their visit. +Shortly before the train resumed its long journey, at a +quarter past midnight, the President gave out the following +card of thanks to the people of California:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I desire, for myself and for the ladies of our party, to give an +expression of our thanks for many individual acts of courtesy, +which, but for the pressure upon our time, would have been +specially acknowledged. Friends who have been so kind will not, +I am sure, impute to us any lack of appreciation or intended<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[398]</a></span> +neglect. The very excess of their kindness has made any adequate, +and much more, any particular, return impossible. You will all +believe that there has been no purposed neglect of any locality or +individual. We leave you with all good wishes for the State of +California and all her people.</p> + +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benj. Harrison.</span> +</p> +</div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RED_BLUFF_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4" id="RED_BLUFF_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4">RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Monday</span> morning, May 4, found the presidential train +rolling through Northern California. A short stop was +made at Tehama, where the President shook hands with +the crowd in the rain. Red Bluff, the county seat of Tehama +County, was reached at 8:30 o'clock, and several thousand +people greeted the President, among them D. D. Dodson +and Capt. J. T. Matlock, the latter an old army friend +who served in General Harrison's regiment.</p> + +<p>On being presented to the assemblage by his former comrade +the President spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It is very pleasant to meet here an old comrade of +the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. Your fellow citizen, Captain +Matlock, who has spoken for you, commanded one of the companies +of my regiment, and is, therefore, a very old and very dear friend. +Once before in California I had a like surprise. The other day a +glee club began to sing a song that was familiar to me, and I said +to those standing about me. "Why, that song was written by a +lieutenant in my old regiment, and I have not heard it since the +war." Presently the leader of the glee club turned his face toward +me and I found he was the identical lieutenant and the composer +of the song, singing it for my benefit. All along I have met old +Indiana acquaintances, and I am glad to see them, whether they +were of my old command or from other regiments of the great war. +They all seem to be prosperous and happy. Captain Matlock was +about the same size during the war that he is now. I very well +remember, according to his own account, that at Resaca he undertook +to make a breastwork of some "down timber," but he found, +after looking about, that it was insufficient cover, and took a +standing tree. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>Seriously, my friends, you have a most beautiful State, capable +of promoting the comfort of your citizens in a very high degree,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[399]</a></span> +and although already occupying a high place in the galaxy of +States, it will, I am sure, take a much higher one. It is pleasant +to see how the American spirit prevails among all your people, the +love for the flag and the Constitution, those settled and permanent +things that live whether men go or come. They came to us from +our fathers and will pass down to our children. You are blessed +with a genial climate and a most productive soil. I see you have +in this northern part of California what I have seen elsewhere—a +well-ordered community, with churches and school-houses, which +indicates that you are not giving all your thoughts to material +things, but thinking of those things that qualify the soul for the +hereafter. We have been treated to another surprise this morning +in the first shower we have seen in California. I congratulate you +that it rains here. May all blessings fall upon you, like the gentle +rain. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="REDDING_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4" id="REDDING_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4">REDDING, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Redding, Shasta County, the distinguished travellers +were welcomed by several hundred school children, marshalled +by William Jackson. Mayor Brigman and the +members of the City Council, with W. P. England, L. H. +Alexander, B. F. Roberts, Mrs. E. A. Reid, and other prominent +residents, participated in the reception. Judge C. +C. Bush, through whose exertions the visit was secured, +delivered an address of welcome and introduced the President, +who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very pleasant, as we near the northern +line of California, after having traversed the valleys of the south, +and are soon to leave the State in which we have had so much +pleasurable intercourse with its people, to see here, as I have seen +elsewhere, multitudes of contented, prosperous, and happy people. +I am assured you are here a homogeneous people, all Americans, +all by birth or by free choice lovers of one flag and one Constitution. +It seems to me as I look into the faces of these California audiences +that life must be easier here than it is in the old States. I see +absolutely no evidences of want. Every one seems to be well +nourished. Your appearance gives evidence that the family board +is well supplied, and from the gladness on your faces it is evident +that in your social relations everything is quiet, orderly, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[400]</a></span> +hopeful. I thank you for your friendly demonstrations. I wish +it were possible for me to do more in exchange for all your great +kindness than simply to say thank you; but I do profoundly thank +you, and shall carry away from your State the very happiest +impressions and very pleasant memories. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SISSON_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4" id="SISSON_CALIFORNIA_MAY_4">SISSON, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A brief</span> stop was made at Dunsmuir, where the President +shook hands with and thanked the people for their +greeting, remarking that he was glad to find that even on +the hilltops of California they found something profitable +to do.</p> + +<p>Sisson, at the foot of Mount Shasta, was reached at 3 +o'clock; it was the last stopping-point in California, and +the entire population turned out in honor of the visitors. +The Committee of Reception was Asa Persons, Hugh B. +Andrews, Oliver E. Moors, T. J. Sullivan, Frank B. Moors, +and the veterans of Mount Shasta Post, G. A. R.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, addressing the assemblage, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I have been talking now over a trip of 6,000 miles +and feel pretty well talked out; but I can always say, as I say to +you now, that it is ever a very great pleasure to me to see these +kindly faces turned toward me. We have received in South California, +in their orange groves, a very hearty welcome, and it is +very pleasant to come now to this fine scenery among these snow-capped +mountains. I have no doubt that you find here in this +high altitude an inspiration for all good things. I thank you +again for your cordial greeting.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ASHLAND_OREGON_MAY_4" id="ASHLAND_OREGON_MAY_4">ASHLAND, OREGON, MAY 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop in Oregon was at Ashland, at 8 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span>, in +a drizzling rain. An escort committee from the Oregon +Legislature and the Portland Board of Trade, headed by +Hon. Joseph Simon, President of the Senate, met the Chief +Executive at this point. The local Reception Committee +comprised Mayor G. M. Grainger, Hon. J. M. McCall, D.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[401]</a></span> +R. Mills, Dr. J. Hall, and Col. J. T. Bowditch, Judge +Advocate General O. N. G.</p> + +<p>Responding to the greeting of the Legislative Committee +the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Simon and Gentlemen of the Committee</i>—I esteem it an honor +that the Legislature of the State of Oregon has taken this notice of +my visit, and I receive with pleasure this welcome you have +extended to me. I am very glad to greet you, and it will give me +pleasure to see you further before leaving the State.</p></div> + +<p>The President then appeared on the platform, and was +presented to the citizens by the Mayor, and spoke briefly, +saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This cordial welcome, under the infelicitous circumstances, +is very gratifying to us as we enter the great State of +Oregon. In the State of California we had sunshine, and it was +perhaps to be expected that the favorable weather conditions should +draw about our platform a large concourse of people, but you have +evidenced your interest in the Government and the flag and your +friendly interest in us by turning out on this inclement night to +bid us welcome to your State. I thank you most sincerely, and +wish for you and yours all good, and for your State a continued +career of development and prosperity.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MEDFORD_OREGON_MAY_4" id="MEDFORD_OREGON_MAY_4">MEDFORD, OREGON, MAY 4.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President's visit to Medford at 10 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> was acknowledged +by a general illumination. The veterans of +Chester A. Arthur Post, G. A. R., J. R. Erford, Commander, +and J. H. Faris, Adjutant, were out <i>en masse</i>. +Mayor G. W. Howard made a brief address and introduced +the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades and Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me great pleasure to see +you to-night, especially these old comrades, to whom I am glad to +give a comrade's greeting. I would have you think of me as a +comrade. I recall those army scenes which are fresh in your minds +as well as mine, the scenes of privation, suffering, and battle, and +I am glad to see that the old flag you took to the field and brought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[402]</a></span> +home in honor is still held in honor among you. It is a beautiful +emblem of a great Government. We ought to teach our children +to love it and to regard it as a sacred thing, a thing for which +men have died and for which men will die. It symbolizes the +government of the States under one Constitution, for while you are +all Oregonians as I am an Indianian, and each has his pride in +State institutions and all that properly pertains to our State Government, +we have a larger and greater pride in the fact that we +are citizens of a Nation, of a Union of States, having a common +Constitution. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It is this flag that represents us on the sea and in foreign countries, +it is under this flag that our navies sail and our armies +march. I thank you for this cordial greeting. I hope you have +found in this State comfortable homes, and that in the years that +remain to you God will follow you with those blessings which +your courage and patriotism and sacrifices have so well merited. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ALBANY_OREGON_MAY_5" id="ALBANY_OREGON_MAY_5">ALBANY, OREGON, MAY 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party arrived at the thriving city of +Albany, in the Willamette Valley, at 8 o'clock on the +morning of the 5th, and were received by 5,000 people. +Mayor J. L. Cowan headed the Committee of Reception, +consisting of J. W. Cusick, Judge L. Flinn, W. C. Tweedale, +J. R. Whitney, L. E. Blain, M. Sternberg, G. F. +Simpson, Dr. D. M. Jones, A. Hackleman, and Thomas +Monteith. McPherson Post, G. A. R., J. F. Whiting, +Commander, and Company F, O. N. G., Capt. Geo. E. +Chamberlain, together with 200 students from the State +Agricultural College at Corvallis, under Prof. J. D. +Letcher, participated in the reception. Mayor Cowan +delivered the address of welcome.</p> + +<p>President Harrison, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me great pleasure to see you, and to +have the testimony of your presence here this wet morning to the +interest you take in this little party of strangers who are pausing +only for a moment with you. We do not need any assurance, as +we look over an American audience like this, that upon some<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_403" id="Page_403">[403]</a></span> +things, at least, we are of one mind. One of these things is that +we have a Union indissoluble; that we have a flag we all honor, +and that shall suffer no dishonor from any quarter. While I regret +the inclemency of the morning, I have been thinking that after all +there was a sort of instructive moral force in the uncertainty of +the weather, which our friends in Southern California do not +enjoy. How can a boy or young woman be well trained in self-denial +and resignation who does not know what it is to have a +picnic or picnic dress spoiled by a shower, or some fishing excursion +by a storm? I thank you for this welcome. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SALEM_OREGON_MAY_5" id="SALEM_OREGON_MAY_5">SALEM, OREGON, MAY 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Salem</span>, the capital of Oregon, was reached at 9 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> +The local militia and several thousand citizens assembled +to greet the President, including Governor Pennoyer, +Mayor P. H. D'Arcy, Charles Morris, E. M. Waite, A. +N. Gilbert, William Brown, and other prominent citizens; +also, the Legislative Reception Committee, headed by +Hon. Joseph Simon, President of the Senate, and Hon. +T. T. Geer, Speaker of the House. <i>En route</i> from the +depot to the State House thousands of people lined the +sidewalks and several hundred school children, bearing +flags, waved a cordial greeting. Arriving at the Assembly +Chamber, Mayor D'Arcy presided and welcomed the +President in the name of the city; he was followed by +Governor Pennoyer, who extended "a generous, heartfelt +welcome on behalf of the people of Oregon."</p> + +<p>With marked earnestness President Harrison responded +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Pennoyer, Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very +pleasant to be assured by these kindly words which have been +spoken by the Governor of this State and by the chief officer of +this municipality that we are welcome to the State of Oregon and +to the city of Salem. I find here, as I found elsewhere, that these +cordial words of welcome are repeated with increased emphasis by +the kindly faces of those who assemble to greet us. I am glad that +here as elsewhere we look into the faces of happy, prosperous, con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[404]</a></span>tented, +liberty-loving, patriotic American citizens. Our birthright, +the wise anticipation of those who framed our Government, our +national and constitutional organization, which has repeated itself +in all the States of the Union, this wholesome and just division +of power between the three great independent, co-ordinate branches +of the Government—the executive, the legislative, and the judicial—has +already demonstrated that what seems to the nations of +Europe to be a complicated and jangling system produces in fact +the most perfect harmony, and the most complete and satisfactory +organization for social order and for national strength.</p> + +<p>We stand here to-day in one of these halls set apart to the law-making +body of your State. Those who assemble here are chosen +by your suffrages. They come here as representatives to enact into +laws those views of public questions which have met the sanction +of the majority of your people, expressed in an orderly and honest +way at the ballot-box. I hope it may be always found to be true +of Oregon that your legislative body is a representative body; that +coming from the people, its service is consecrated to the people, +and the purpose of its creation is attained by giving to the well-ordered +and well-disposed the largest liberty, by curbing, by +wholesome laws, the ill-disposed and the lawless, and providing +by economical methods for the public needs. The judiciary, that +comes next in our system, to interpret and apply the public statutes, +has been in our country a safe refuge for all who are +oppressed. It is greatly to our credit as a Nation that with rare +exceptions those who have worn the judicial ermine in the highest +tribunals of the country, and notably in the Supreme Court of the +United States, have continued to retain the confidence of the people +of the whole country. The duty of the Executive is to administer +the law; the military power is lodged with him under +constitutional limitations. He does not frame statutes, though in +most States, and under our national Government, a veto power is +lodged in him with a view to secure reconsideration of any particular +measure.</p> + +<p>But a public executive officer has one plain duty: it is to enforce +the law with kindness and forbearance, but with promptness and +inexorable decision. He may not choose what laws he will enforce +any more than the citizen may choose what laws he will obey. +We have here but one king: it is the law, passed by those constitutional +methods which are necessary to make it binding upon the +people, and to that king all men must bow. It is my great pleasure +to find so generally everywhere a disposition to obey the law. +I have but one message for the North and for the South, for the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[405]</a></span> +East and the West, as I journey through this land. It is to hold +up the law, and to say everywhere that every man owes allegiance +to it, and that all law-breakers must be left to the deliberate and +safe judgment of an established tribunal. You are justly proud of +your great State. Its capabilities are enormous; its adaptation to +comfortable life is peculiar and fine. The years will bring you +increased population and increased wealth. I hope they will bring +with it, marching in this stately progress of material things, those +finer things—piety, pure homes, and orderly communities. But +above all this State pride, over all our rejoicings in the advantages +which are about us in our respective States, we look with greater +pride to that great arch of government that unites these States and +makes of them all one great Union. But, my fellow-citizens, the +difficulties that I see interposed between us and the train which is +scheduled to depart very soon warn me to bring these remarks to a +speedy close. I beg again, most profoundly, to thank you for this +evidence of your respect, this evidence of your love for the institutions +of our common country. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHEMAWA_OREGON_MAY_5" id="CHEMAWA_OREGON_MAY_5">CHEMAWA, OREGON, MAY 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Chemawa, the seat of an Indian training-school, the +President reviewed the pupils and, in response to calls for +a speech, addressed them as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Young Friends</i>—It gives me great pleasure to stop for a +moment to see these evidences of the good work the Government is +doing for you and the good work you are doing for yourselves. +All the purposes of the Government toward you and your people +are benevolent and friendly. It is our wish that you may become +such people as your neighbors are—industrious, kindly, peaceful, +and self-respecting. Everything that I can do to promote this end +will be gladly done. I hope your instructors and all those who +are brought close to you will in every way express and carry out +the benevolent and kindly intentions of the Government.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[406]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="OREGON_CITY_OREGON_MAY_5" id="OREGON_CITY_OREGON_MAY_5">OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A cordial</span> greeting was accorded the President at Oregon +City by the pioneers and army veterans. The Committee +of Reception was Hon. J. T. Apperson, Hon. H. +E. Cross, Hon. T. W. Sullivan, and T. Rands. From +beneath a triumphal floral arch near the station the Mayor +delivered a welcoming address, closing with three cheers.</p> + +<p>The President, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—This is a very pleasant morning reception. The +heartiness and genuineness of your greeting is unmistakable, and +I beg to assure you that we most heartily appreciate and return +your kindly thoughts. You have here a most important State, one +of those bordering on the Pacific, completing the autonomy of our +great country, and giving us a seaboard on the Pacific as well as +upon the Atlantic which was essential to our completeness and +separateness as a people. The interesting story of the early settlement +of Oregon, of the international contest which for some time +threatened international war, is fresh in the minds of these pioneers, +and I am sure is taught to these children of your public +schools. The work of those who set up the American flag here, +and who secured to us this fertile region, is worthy of mention +and of honorable commemoration by this generation, which is +entering into their labors. Your State has added another to that +succession of kindly greetings which began when we left the national +capital. We have come out of the land of irrigation and +roses into this land where the Lord takes care of the crops; and +this dependence upon the seasons is not without its instructive and +moral influences. Nature seems to have made a fresh, white toilet +for us as we have come down the banks of this beautiful river. To +the pioneers, to those who have entered in with less labor to the +inheritance left to them, to these children and to these comrades +of the Grand Army, I give my most hearty greeting.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[407]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PORTLAND_OREGON_MAY_5" id="PORTLAND_OREGON_MAY_5">PORTLAND, OREGON, MAY 5.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Tuesday</span>, at noon, found the President and his party at +Portland, where they received an enthusiastic greeting. +Ten thousand people were present, notwithstanding the +rainy weather. The President was welcomed at the station +by Mayor Van B. De Lashmutt and wife, Chief-Justice +R. S. Strahan, Supreme Judges W. P. Lord and +R. S. Bean, Federal Judge M. P. Deady, Hon. Joseph +Simon, President of the Senate; Hon. T. T. Geer, Speaker +of the House; ex-Atty.-Gen. Geo. H. Williams, Hon. T. +F. Osborn, President Chamber of Commerce; Hon. E. +B. McElroy, Gen. O. Summers, Gen. Wm. Kapus, Hon. +M. C. George, Hon. Henry Failing, Hon. C. A. Dolph, +Hon. P. L. Willis, Hon. F. V. Drake, Hon. G. L. Story, +Hon. J. C. Moreland, Hon. J. C. Fullerton, Hon. H. B. +Miller, Philip Metschan, and Mrs. Rosa F. Burrell; also +W. F. Matlock, J. H. McClung, and S. B. Eakin, Jr., of +Eugene City.</p> + +<p>The parade was a brilliant affair. The veterans of the +several G. A. R. posts acted as the guard of honor. The +great column was directed by Col. T. M. Anderson, U. S. +A., aided by O. F. Paxton, Chief of Staff; C. M. Idleman, +D. S. Tuthill, Dr. Henry E. Jones, J. G. Woodworth, +R. W. Mitchell, F. K. Arnold, L. A. Lewis, E. +C. Michenor, C. R. Holcomb, Charles E. Dodd, J. C. +Courtney, J. A. Sladden, John Gwilt, G. A. Harding, +Gen. C. S. Wright, Gen. C. P. Holloway, Col. R. S. +Greenleaf, Col. D. H. Turner, N. S. Pierce, G. E. Caukin, +A. E. Borthwick, Col. H. H. Northup, Col. R. T. Chamberlain, +G. H. Durham, H. C. Allen, E. A. Weed, M. J. +Morse, Geo. C. Sears, F. R. Neal, Dr. W. H. Saylor, Capt. +J. E. Lombard, C. E. Dubois, H. P. Wilson, and M. G. +Steffen.</p> + +<p>Conspicuous in the procession were the following staff<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408" id="Page_408">[408]</a></span> +officers of the Department of the Columbia: Maj. C. A. +Wikoff, Maj. W. H. Nash, Maj. J. C. Muhlenberg, Maj. +J. G. C. Lee, and Captains C. McClure and C. H. Ingalls; +also Hon. R. P. Earhart, Geo. A. Steel, F. P. Mays, E. +T. Hatch, J. T. Stewart, Mayor of East Portland; D. M. +McLauchlin, Mayor of Albina; A. M. Crawford, of Roseburg, +and the French, Russian, and Danish vice-consuls.</p> + +<p>In the evening five companies of the First Regiment, O. +N. G., commanded by Col. Charles F. Beebe, escorted the +President, Secretary Rusk, and Postmaster-General Wanamaker +to the Exposition Building, where an audience of +15,000 greeted them. Mayor De Lashmutt delivered an +eloquent address of welcome.</p> + +<p>President Harrison was tendered an ovation as he arose +to respond. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—No more brilliant or inspiring +scene than this has been presented to our eyes in this wonderful +series of receptions which have been extended to us on our journey. +You have been filled with regret to-day that your weeping skies +did not present to us the fair spectacle which you had hoped; and +yet this very discouragement has but added to the glory of this +magnificent reception. [Cheers.] To stand in the bright sunshine +of a genial day and to wave a welcome is not so strong a proof +of the affectionate interest of a people as you have given to-day +standing in this down-pouring rain [Cheers.] In the presence +of a multitude like this, in a scene made brilliant by these decorations, +I stand inadequate to any suitable expression of the gratitude +that fills my heart. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I was quite inclined to stand by the Superintendent of the Census +in the count which he made of the States; but I am afraid if I +had witnessed this scene, pending your application for a recount, +that it would have been granted. [Laughter and great cheering.] +I am sorry that it could not have been made as the people turned +out to give us this welcome; I am sure no one would have been +missed. [Laughter and cheers.]</p> + +<p>This State is interesting in its history. The establishment of the +authority of the United States over this region was an important +event in our national history. The possession of the Columbia and +of Puget Sound was essential to the completeness and the roundness +of our empire. We have here in this belt of States, reaching from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_409" id="Page_409">[409]</a></span> +the Gulf of California to the Straits of Fuca, a magnificent possession +which we could not have dispensed with at all. [Cheers.] +The remoteness of Oregon from the older settled States, the peril +and privation which attended the steps of the pioneer as he came +hither, delayed the development of this great country. You are +now but beginning to realize the advantage of closer and easier +communications. You are but now beginning to receive from an +impartial and beneficent Government that attention which you +well deserve. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>That this river of yours should be made safe and deep, so that +waiting commerce may come without obstruction to your wharf, +is to be desired. [Cheers.] It should receive those appropriations +which are necessary to make the work accomplish the purpose in +view. [Cheers.] I believe that you may anticipate a largely +increased commerce. Looking out as you do toward the regions +across the Pacific, it would be but natural that this important +centre should draw from them and exchange with them a great +and increasing commerce. [Cheers.] I am in entire sympathy +with the suggestion of the Mayor that it is important that this +commerce should be carried in American ships. [Cheers.] A few +days ago, when I sailed in the harbor of San Francisco, I saw three +great deep water ships come into that port. One carried the flag +of Hawaii and two the English flag. None bore at the masthead +the Stars and Stripes. I believe it is the duty of the national Government +to take such steps as will restore the American merchant +marine. [Cheers.] Why shall we not have our share in the great +commerce of the world? I cannot but believe—and such inspiring +presences as this but kindle and confirm my belief—that we are +come to a time when this Nation should look to the future and +step forward bravely and courageously in new lines of enterprise. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>The Nicaragua Canal should be completed. [Cheers.] Our harbors +should have adequate defence. [Cheers.] We should have +upon the sea a navy of first-class ships. [Cheers.] We are here in +the most kindly relations to these South American and Central +American countries. We have been content that Europe should do +the commerce of these nations. We have not availed ourselves of +the advantages of neighborhood and of friendly kindred republican +institutions to develop our commerce with those people. We have, +fortunately, as a result of the great conference of American nations, +set on foot measures that I confidently hope will bring to us +speedily our just share of this great commerce. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that we are here to-night as American citi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_410" id="Page_410">[410]</a></span>zens, +lovers of the one flag and the one Constitution. [Enthusiastic +cheering.] Proud of Oregon! Yes, you may well be proud of Oregon. +But, my countrymen, above all, crowning all, greater than +all, is our American citizenship. [Great cheering.] What would +one of these States be without the other? What is it that gives us +prestige abroad and power at home? It is that we have formed a +government of the people, that we have one flag and speak with +one voice to all the nations of the earth. [Enthusiastic cheering.] +I hope that narrow sentiment that regards the authority of the +United States or its officers as alien or strange has once and forever +been extinguished in this land of ours. [Great cheering.] My +countrymen, I am profoundly grateful for this magnificent demonstration. +I accept it as a tribute to your institutions and to your +country. No man is worthy of it; he can only return for it a fresh +consecration of himself to the duties of public office and private +citizenship. [Great cheering.] Again I assure you that you have +given us to-day what is to my mind, under the conditions, taking +into account the population of your city, the most splendid demonstration +we have seen on the whole journey. [Prolonged and +enthusiastic cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion of the President's address the great +assemblage began calling for Postmaster-General Wanamaker. +After a few moments' hesitation the distinguished +Philadelphian came forward and was the recipient of an +ovation. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-countrymen</i>—I am proud to be present at this magnificent +demonstration. I am especially pleased at the address the President +has delivered. Instead of having it printed for Congress he +has reserved it for the people of Oregon, and personally brought +you his message. [Cheers.] What you have done to-day has certainly +touched his heart; and no man would be human who did +not feel moved at this wonderful welcome that you have prepared +for your President. I think you had him in mind all the time, +and wanted to show that your loyalty and affection would wash. +[Laughter and cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am proud to be an American citizen, and to see how the people +rally round the flag and the chief standard-bearer, the President +of the United States. [Cheers.] From the day he started from +home his pathway has been strewn with garlands, and many times +our way has lain through a path knee-deep with flowers. They +have been scattered all the way from Virginia to Oregon; but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></span> +above all is the hearty, loving, loyal welcome that has been extended +to us at every stop we have made. On the boundary of +your State, at the little town of Salem [laughter], I think, a welcome +was spoken most beautifully and heartily by your Governor. +[Tremendous cheering.] But you have about 60,000 majority over +Salem. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>How can any one thank you for it except to go back to Washington +and do the very best in his power for your good and the +good of the whole people? Some of us Eastern people are doing +now what Columbus did 400 years ago—we are discovering America. +[Cheers.] If what you have done for us here to-night and +what you have done to-day is a true index to your energy and +determination, what is there you will not grasp and do when you +get at it? [Cheers.] I am sure you will find one opportunity in +aiding in the postal telegraph. We are going to have penny postage +all the country over. [Cheers.] But before that time comes let us +go out into the new States as the villages and hamlets build up +and let us give them the mail with the freest intercourse and the +fullest facility. I will now make way for the next man, for the +largest Secretary of all is still to come. [Cheers and laughter.]</p></div> + +<p>Secretary Rusk also received a hearty welcome. His +remarks about the Weather Bureau had a peculiar zest because +of the presence of Gen. A. W. Greely, chief signal +officer. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—It is with great pleasure that I meet you +here to-night. I would not have a heart if I did not say that I +have been touched by this demonstration and the demonstration +on your streets to-day. [Cheers.] I account for this in a different +way from those who have preceded me. I saw on your +streets to-day more ladies than I saw in any city which we have +visited since we left Washington. And the beautiful children! +While we have had more flowers in other States, we have not +met more beautiful women and lovely children. I tell you, in +order to raise anything sweetly and beautifully you must have +rain. [Cheers.] Congress has passed a law providing that the +Weather Bureau be turned over to me July 1, and if I can control +the weather and another President comes here I will see that +you have a flood. [Cheers and laughter.] I will endeavor, however, +after July 1 to give you thirteen months' rain every year. +I have been touched to the heart in many ways since I came to +your beautiful city. I have met friends who were my boyhood's +friends away back in Wisconsin, and comrades who served with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_412" id="Page_412">[412]</a></span> +me in battle and in camp. [Cheers.] I would fail to do my duty +if I did not say that I am glad to see you all. God bless them and +may the future deal kindly with you all. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CENTRALIA_WASHINGTON_MAY_6" id="CENTRALIA_WASHINGTON_MAY_6">CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Early</span> on the morning of the 6th the presidential train +crossed the State line and entered the new State of Washington, +stopping a moment at Chehalis, and reaching Centralia +at 7 o'clock. Here the President was received with +a national salute, and notwithstanding the rain several +thousand people were present. Mayor D. B. Rees and the +following prominent residents welcomed the Chief Magistrate: +J. H. Corwin, H. J. Miller, W. H. Bachtall, H. L. +Meade, Geo. Miller, E. R. Butherworth, Charles Johnson, +Henry Shield, N. B. Kelsey, A. J. Wright, and Geo. H. +Ellsbury.</p> + +<p>The President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very kind of you to turn out so early in +the morning. I can count among my pleasantest experiences in +the Northwest this very early rising. I am a good deal of a Daniel +Webster as to early risings. [Laughter.] It gives me great pleasure +to notice the evidence of increased population as contrasted +with what I saw six years ago as I passed through this country. I +was so unfortunate then as to find it enveloped in smoke, so that +the mountain tops were invisible. I am afraid we are to have this +experience repeated on this visit on account of the fog. I suppose +this is because the beauties of your country are so great that they +have to be shaded to the eyes of a stranger. Seriously, however, +you have a great commonwealth. I do not doubt that your future +is to be one of great development and great increase in population, +and that you are to found here a very contented, prosperous, and +happy people. Fortunately you have a capacity for great agricultural +development after you have cleared away the forests; and that, +after all, is the permanent foundation of every American city. It +is well enough to have trees on the land and mines in the earth; +but trees will be cut down and mines be dug out, and the only +thing that lasts is good soil in the hands of good husbandmen. I +thank you most sincerely. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_413" id="Page_413">[413]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TACOMA_WASHINGTON_MAY_6" id="TACOMA_WASHINGTON_MAY_6">TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Ten</span> thousand cheers greeted the arrival of the President +at Tacoma Wednesday morning. Gov. Elisha P. +Ferry, Mayor Geo. B. Kandle, and Judge Wm. H. Calkins, +at the head of the following Committee of Reception, met +the party: Gen. John W. Sprague, Samuel Collyer, Colonel +Garretson, Judge Allyn, Hon. M. Hill, Mrs. Frank +Allyn, W. D. Tyler, Mrs. Derrickson, Thomas Carroll, +Dr. Munson, Judge John Beverly, Judge Applegate, H. C. +Wallace, Senator John B. Allen and wife, Mrs. Galusha +Parsons, Charles Hale, George Reed, Charles Catlin, S. +C. Slaughter, Thomas Sloane, L. E. Post, Nelson Bennett, +F. F. Jacobs, I. W. Anderson, A. C. Mason, C. W. Griggs, +G. W. Holmes, E. M. Hunt, John D. Hills, L. R. Manning, +Hon. Thomas Carroll, Col. Charles Reichenbach, +Atty.-Gen. Jones, State Treasurer Lindsley, J. D. Hogue, +C. B. Zabriskie, and Fred T. Taylor.</p> + +<p>The decorations were upon an elaborate scale. Chief +among the attractions of this order were five mammoth +arches spanning Pacific Avenue, constructed from products +typifying the principal industries of the State, to wit: the +timber arch, coal arch, iron arch, grain arch, and shingle +arch. Notwithstanding the rain the parade, under Chief +Marshal C. W. Griggs, was a brilliant success.</p> + +<p>A noteworthy incident was the special reception tendered +to Mrs. Harrison and the other ladies of the presidential +party by the ladies of Tacoma at the Opera House. Fully +5,000 paid their respects. Mrs. S. C. Slaughter, on behalf +of the ladies of Tacoma, presented to Mrs. Harrison a +beautiful painting of Mt. Tacoma by the artist Rollins. +Accompanying the picture was an illustrated copy of Mrs. +Bernice E. Wewell's poem on "Mt. Tacoma," also a gold +engraved spoon, the latter for the President's grandson. +In acknowledging the receipt of these souvenirs Mrs. Har<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_414" id="Page_414">[414]</a></span>rison +made perhaps her first public speech on the trip. +She said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies</i>—I cannot thank you enough for all your kindness. I +shall take your gifts home and treasure them all my life as mementos +of a most enjoyable visit to your beautiful city. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<p>After the review of the procession Governor Ferry, in +the presence of many thousands, formally welcomed President +Harrison to the State of Washington. The distinguished +veteran General Sprague made the address on +behalf of the citizens of Tacoma.</p> + +<p>The President responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I feel that it would be cruel to prolong this +exposure which you are enduring in the inclement weather of the +day. I visited your city and the region of Puget Sound six years +ago. I found this country then enveloped in smoke, so that these +grand mountain-tops, of which mention has been made in the +address of welcome, were hidden from our view. I come again +and the smoke is replaced by fog, and we are still, I suppose, to +take the existence of these snow-clad peaks on faith. [Laughter +and applause.] I don't know but there is a benevolent provision +for your comfort in the fact that this magnificent scenery, this +unmatched body of water are frequently hidden from the eye of +the traveller. If every one who journeys hither could see it all +everybody would want to live here, and there wouldn't be room. +[Laughter and cheers.] I congratulate you, citizens of Tacoma, +upon the magnificent, almost magical, transformation which has +been wrought here in these six years since I first saw your city. +It has been amazing: it is a tribute to the energy and the enterprise +and courage of your people that will endure and increase and +attract in a yet higher degree the attention of the whole country.</p> + +<p>A harbor like this, so safe and commodious and deep, upon +Puget Sound, should be made to bear a commerce that is but yet +in its infancy. I would like to see the prows of some of these +great steamship lines entering your ports and carrying the American +flag at the masthead. [Cheers.] I believe we have come to +the time in our development as a people when we must step forward +with bold progress, or we will lose the advantage we have +already attained. We have within ourselves the resources, and a +market of which the world is envious. We have been content, in +the years gone by, to allow other nations to do the carrying trade<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_415" id="Page_415">[415]</a></span> +of the world. We have been content to see the markets of these +American republics lying south of us mastered and controlled by +European nations. I think the period of discontent with these +things has now come to our people, and I believe the time is auspicious +for the enlargement of our commerce with these friendly +republics lying to the south of us. I believe the time is propitious +for re-establishing upon the sea the American merchant marine, +that shall do its share of the carrying trade of the world. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>My friends, I desire to again express to you my regret that to +give us this magnificent welcome, under circumstances so inauspicious, +you have been exposed to so much wet. I especially +regretted, as I passed those long lines of dear school children, that +they should have been exposed in order to do us honor. I will not +detain you longer. For your city, for this magnificent young State +that we have received into the great sisterhood of the Union, of +which you are a glorious part, we give our aspirations, our prayers, +and our best endeavors. [Applause.]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">On Steamer "City of Seattle," Puget Sound.</p> + +<p>At 11:30 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> the President and his party left Tacoma, +embarking on the steamer <i>City of Seattle</i> for the Queen +City of the Northwest. There was a great outpouring at +Tacoma to witness the departure, and the presidential convoy +was escorted down the sound by all the steamers in +the bay. As the President came aboard he was met by +Mayor and Mrs. Harry White at the head of the following +committee of prominent citizens of Seattle: Jacob +Furth, John H. McGraw, A. W. Bash, Postmaster Griffith +Davies, A. M. Brookes, A. A. Denny, L. S. J. Hunt, W. +E. Bailey, F. J. Grant, President and Mrs. G. W. Hall, +President and Mrs. R. W. Jones, Maj. J. R. Hayden, Mr. +and Mrs. E. Brainerd, Mrs. George H. Heilbron, Mrs. J. +C. Haines, Mrs. R. C. Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Holman, +Mrs. E. L. Terry, Mrs. J. F. McNaught, Mrs. A. B. +Stewart, Mrs. James A. Panting, Mrs. H. F. Jackson and +daughter, Mrs. Charles F. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. +Bentley, Miss Ina Jameson, Miss Annie Longfellow, Miss +Millie Longfellow, Walter F. Cushing, Col. G. G. Lyon,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_416" id="Page_416">[416]</a></span> +Dr. Young, D. B. Ward, Colonel Langley, J. T. Ronald, +John Wiley, C. M. Ogden, Colonel Street, Judge Roger S. +Greene, Mr. John Collins, Capt. W. A. Snyder, ex-Atty.-Gen. +J. B. Metcalfe, Lieut. A. B. Wyckoff, and Dr. Whyte +Fredrick.</p> + +<p>When the convoy and her noisy consorts had passed out +of Commencement Bay and entered Puget Sound the Reception +Committee assembled on deck, and Mayor White +in an address cordially welcomed the President, who, in +response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor</i>—I accept with great gratification these words of +welcome on behalf of the citizens of Seattle. It will give me great +pleasure to contrast my observations of your State in 1885 with +what I shall see to-day. I have not lost track of the progress of +Seattle, but have, through friends, been advised of the marvellous +development which you have made, and how you have repeated in +the substantial character of your edifices the story of the Chicago +fire, coming as you have out of what seemed a disaster with +increased magnificence, and finding in it really an advantage. I +will defer until I am in the presence of your people any further +acknowledgment of your courtesies, and will now only thank you, +as you are repeating here what we have observed on our whole +trip, namely, the unification of all our people and the absolute +oneness of sentiment in devotion to our institutions and the flag.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SEATTLE_WASHINGTON_MAY_6" id="SEATTLE_WASHINGTON_MAY_6">SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> steamer bearing the presidential party, followed by +a great flotilla that had come out to greet them, arrived +at Seattle at 1:30 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span>, and fully 40,000 people witnessed +the disembarking. The city was profusely decorated. +On Pioneer Place stood a triumphal arch bearing the ensigns +of all nations. Ranged at its entrance were the Sons +of Veterans in uniform and 75 school-girls. As the President's +carriage entered the great arch the choir-girls greeted +him with a song of welcome, composed for the occasion +by Prof. L. A. Darling. Near the arch, on a platform,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417" id="Page_417">[417]</a></span> +sat the shrivelled form of Angeline, daughter of Chief +Seattle, the last of the race of royal barbarians who once +ruled in the bays and forests of the sound. She was an +object of great interest to the President and his party. +After visiting Lake Washington on the cable cars the +President was escorted to the University campus by +Stevens, Miller, and Cushing posts, G. A. R., M. M. +Holmes and J. St. Clair, commanders. Thirty thousand +people were assembled on the campus; officials were present +from every part of the State, also from British Columbia. +Opposite the speakers' stand were 2,000 school +children, each waving a flag. Governor Ferry, Senator +John B. Allen, Hon. John H. McGraw, Jacob Furth, and +numerous other prominent men were on the platform with +the President, Secretary Rusk, and Mr. Wanamaker. +Rev. G. A. Tewksbury pronounced the invocation. Judge +Thomas Burke then delivered the welcoming address on +behalf of the citizens.</p> + +<p>President Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Judge Burke and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am sure you have too much +kindness in your heart to ask me to make an address to you this +afternoon. This chilly air, this drizzling rain, the long exposure +during the day which you and these precious children have +suffered, warn me, on your account as well as my own, that I +should say but a few words in recognition of this magnificent welcome. +Six years ago I visited your beautiful city, and the distinguished +gentleman who has been your spokesman to-day was one +of a hospitable committee that pointed out to me the beauties of +this location. You were then largely a prospective city. Some +substantial and promising improvements had been begun, but it +was a period of expectancy rather than of realization. I am glad +to come to-day and to see how fully and perfectly the large expectations +then entertained by your enterprising people have been +realized. It is a matter of amazement to look upon these towering +substantial granite and iron structures in which the great business +of your city is transacted. That disaster, as it seemed to you, +which swept away a large portion of the business part of your +city was like the afflictions that come to the saints, a blessing in +disguise. [Cheers.] You have done what Chicago did. You have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418" id="Page_418">[418]</a></span> +improved the disaster by rearing structures and completing edifices +that were unthought of before. Those who were not enterprising +or liberal have been compelled to be liberal and enterprising in +order that they might realize rents for their property made vacant +by fire. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I fully appreciate the importance of this great body of water +upon which your city is situated. This sound, this inland sea, +must be in the future the highway, the <i>entrepot</i>, of a great commerce. +I do most sincerely believe that we are entering now upon +a new development that will put the American flag upon the seas +and bring to our ports in American bottoms a largely increased +share of the commerce of the world. [Cheers.] As I have said in +other places, for one I am thoroughly discontented with the present +condition of things. We may differ as to methods, but I believe +the great patriotic heart of our people is stirred, and that they are +bent upon recovering that share of the world's commerce which +we once happily enjoyed. Your demonstration to day under these +unfavorable environments has been most creditable to your city. +We have certainly seen nothing in a journey characterized by +great demonstrations to surpass this magnificent scene. [Cheers.] +I realize what your spokesman has said, that in all this there is a +patriotic expression of the love of our people for the flag and for +the Constitution. [Cheers.] And now, my friends, thanking you +for all you have done for me, humbly confessing my inability to +repay you, pledging to you my best efforts to promote the good of +all our people, and that I will have a watchful observation of the +needs of your State, of your harbors, for defence, improvement, +and security, I bid you good by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>After the President's address an effort was made to present +the veterans individually, but the inclement weather +forbade it. Turning to those about him President Harrison +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I leave you very reluctantly, and I shall always be sorry that my +time was so limited here that I could not do justice to your hospitality. +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>At 5 o'clock the party boarded their train, but a great +crowd had assembled and called repeatedly for the President, +who responded and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I can only thank you once more; you have given me a royal +welcome, and I carry away with me the most grateful memory of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_419" id="Page_419">[419]</a></span> +your kindness. I was up until past midnight last night, making +a speech, and had to be up at 6 o'clock this morning to speak to +some friends in Oregon. I leave you with the best wishes for your +city and the State. [Enthusiastic cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>As the President concluded there were loud calls for +Postmaster-General Wanamaker, who waved his hand +toward the children and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The reasons given by the President for not making a speech certainly +apply to those who are in your programme to follow him. +I cannot, however, leave the platform without thanking you for +that share of the welcome that falls to us who attended. There is +a chill in the air, but there is no lack of warmth in the cordial +greeting that you have given to us who, though we felt ourselves +to be strangers among you, have found ourselves to be among +friends. I have been trying to find out since the census report +was announced what the reason was that Philadelphia had fallen +behind. [Laughter and applause.] It is all very plain to me now. +This city set on a hill I shall put down in my book as Philadelphia +Junior. [Applause.] You have the family likeness. I recognize +some of you by name, and I do not wonder that you have settled +in this beautiful spot, so rich in its resources, where you discovered +everything that we have in Pennsylvania except one thing, +and I expect you will find that before long, and I am sure that I +hope that you will find the anthracite coal stored away somewhere +in your hills. I know if you undertake to find it you will do it. +[Applause.] You need no better illustration than the choir over +yonder, that could not be stopped even to allow the President to +speak. [Applause and laughter.] I shall carry away from here a +story that I am afraid they will call a California story, but I will +get your Mayor to give me a certificate that I was perfectly sober—that +there was nothing but water. [Applause and laughter.] And +I shall try to recommend what I have seen in this wild West, +where people have their splendid schools, their many churches, +their refined homes, and where there is such a hearty welcome for +all that come in their midst. For my part of the work at Washington +I have already given you evidence that the Post-office +Department was thinking of the Pacific coast. I shall do the best +that I can as a business man for this splendid business people that +you have in your city and for the many more that are to come; +that all the facilities of the mail—quickening it, increasing it—shall +be given to you; that you shall not say that your Government +does not give you all the assistance in building up your great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_420" id="Page_420">[420]</a></span> +enterprises and swelling the prosperity of all this coast. I say +good-by to you and give you a heart full of good wishes. [Continued +applause.]</p></div> + + +<hr class="chap" /> + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PUYALLUP_WASHINGTON_MAY_6" id="PUYALLUP_WASHINGTON_MAY_6">PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was 10 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> when the train stopped at Puyallup, +where a goodly crowd awaited the visitors. The President +shook hands with several score, and in response to +calls for a speech said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I am very glad to see you to-night, but I +am sure you will excuse me from speaking when you remember +that I have been out in the rain all day at Tacoma and Seattle, +and have had to talk several times. I am glad to see you, and +appreciate the friendly interest you manifest in coming out here +to-night in such great numbers to greet us with such kindliness. +I have known for a long time of the great hop industry of this +region, and I am glad to know that it has proven profitable. The +question of the Puyallup reservation was one of the last which was +brought officially to my attention before leaving, and I expect it +will be one of the first I shall take up on my return. Good-night +and good-by.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHEHALIS_WASHINGTON_MAY_6" id="CHEHALIS_WASHINGTON_MAY_6">CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A great</span> crowd greeted the President with cannon and +bonfires on his arrival at Chehalis at 10:30 at night. The +Committee of Reception consisted of Mayor Milet, who +delivered an address of welcome; Judge Ashman, an old +comrade of the President's at Resaca; and J. F. Sachs, an +early pioneer, who presented the President a native hawthorn +cane.</p> + +<p>Responding to greetings the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for this midnight +reception. We passed you this morning without stopping, and +regretted it when we saw the number who had collected here. We +gladly yielded to your request to stop to-night in order to show +our appreciation of your kindness. It is very pleasant for me to +see those people who have no interest in politics except for good +government. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_421" id="Page_421">[421]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CASCADE_LOCKS_OREGON_MAY_7" id="CASCADE_LOCKS_OREGON_MAY_7">CASCADE LOCKS, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop on the morning of the 7th was at Cascade +Locks, where several hundred people gave an early +morning greeting to the President, who responded briefly, +saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for your kindly +greeting, and, as we stop only a few moments, I can only express +my sincere thanks for your presence.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HOOD_RIVER_STATION_OREGON_MAY_7" id="HOOD_RIVER_STATION_OREGON_MAY_7">HOOD RIVER STATION, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Hood River Station the President shook hands with +a number and addressed the gathering as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It is very pleasant to see you this morning, and to +come out into the sunshine after two or three days of chilly rain. +I have been talking so much, and so much in the dampness, that +my voice is not very good; but my heart is always fresh and open +to these receptions. I thank you very sincerely for your friendliness +and wish for you all, and especially for these little ones, +every happiness in life. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_DALLES_OREGON_MAY_7" id="THE_DALLES_OREGON_MAY_7">THE DALLES, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">After</span> traversing the famous gorge of the Columbia +River the presidential train at 11 o'clock emerged within +view of the city of The Dalles, where an enthusiastic welcome +was extended the Chief Executive. The Committee +of Reception consisted of Mayor Moody, D. M. French, +Dr. William Shackelford, J. A. Varney, R. F. Gibson, +Robert Mays, H. M. Beall, John McCaul, J. P. McInerry, +M. T. Nolan, George Ruch, and the following prominent +ladies of the city: Mrs. T. S. Lang, Mrs. N. B. Sinnott, +Mrs. A. M. Williams, Mrs E. M. Wilson, Mrs. S. French, +Mrs. S. Brooks, Mrs. Geo. Liebe, Mrs. Charles Hilton, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_422" id="Page_422">[422]</a></span> +Mrs. J. Patterson. Many old soldiers and a large number +of school children were present.</p> + +<p>Mayor Moody, in behalf of the city, welcomed the President, +who responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I have spoken at all times of the night and all hours +of the day, and under conditions much less auspicious than those +around us this morning. We have here a bright sunshine and a +bracing air, and everything in nature adds to the gladness of this +demonstration which you have made in our honor. I most sincerely +thank you for this evidence of your friendliness. I assure +you that it is very pleasant, and I cannot but believe that it is very +useful for those who are charged with public duties at Washington +occasionally to move about a little and look into the faces of the +plain, patriotic people of the country. Most of the people who +come to see me at Washington want something, and as the provision +made by law is not adequate to meet all these wants there +is very apt to be a great deal of discontent; but when we get out +among the great masses of the people, among those who are doing +the work of the farm, of the shop, and of the office, who have a +patriotic pride in their country and its institutions, and are kindly +disposed, charitable in their judgments, and who have no other +interests than that the laws shall be faithfully executed and the +whole interest of the people faithfully looked after, we find great +refreshment in their presence. I am sure we have such an audience +here this morning. You will not expect of any officer that +he will altogether avoid mistakes; you have a right to expect a +conscientious, courageous fidelity to public duty. I quite sympathize +with the suggestion of your Mayor, that it is one of the +proper Government functions to improve and to open to safe navigation +the great waterways of our country. The Government of +the United States has reserved to itself the exclusive control of all +navigable inland waters, and that being so, it is, of course, +incumbent upon the Government to see that the people have the +best possible use of them. They are important, as they furnish +cheap transportation, and touch points that are often, either for +economy or natural reasons, inaccessible to railway traffic. I +thank you again for your interest and bid you a kindly farewell. +If no ill happens to you that I do not wish, and all the good comes +to you that I do wish in your behalf, your lives will be full of +pleasantness and peace. [Enthusiastic cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_423" id="Page_423">[423]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PENDLETON_OREGON_MAY_7" id="PENDLETON_OREGON_MAY_7">PENDLETON, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">After</span> leaving The Dalles the presidential party encountered +a sand storm. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon they +arrived at the beautiful city of Pendleton and were greeted +by a large crowd, including several hundred Umatilla +Indians, led by Chiefs Peo and Ten-a-ow-itz. Chief Peo +made an address and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I am glad to greet the great father. Indian and white man are +now one family, friendly, and I give you the hand of welcome for +my people. You represent one race, I another, but we are all of +one Government, and between red man and white there should no +longer be war. My people want only peace. In behalf of my +tribe I say welcome, President.</p></div> + +<p>The Committee of Reception comprised Mayor J. H. +Raley, Judge J. A. Fee, J. M. Leezer, Senator Matlock, +Capt. A. L. Ewing, T. C. Taylor, W. D. Fletcher, S. Rothchild, +T. F. Rourke, R. Alexander, Lot Livermore, Benj. S. +Burroughs, H. L. Marston, T. G. Hailey, W. D. Hansford, +F. W. Vincent, Mrs. M. B. Clopton, Mrs. T. C. Taylor, and +Mesdames Fee, De Spain, and Fletcher. Mayor Raley +made an address of welcome.</p> + +<p>The President replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Among all the surprises that have greeted us +on our journey I do not remember any that burst upon us with +more suddenness than this beautiful sight that you have arranged +for our welcome here. Travelling for some hours through a +sparsely settled region, I did not at all anticipate that so large an +assemblage could be gathered here. I am glad to read in your +faces a full confirmation of the Mayor's words of welcome. You +have a pride in the common heritage of Government which our +fathers organized for us. You honor the flag which floats about +us here. It is pleasant to meet here, scattered over these plains of +the West, so many veterans of the great Civil War, men who +came out of the army poor as they went into it, men who did not +serve their country for reward, but out of a loving fealty to its +flag and to their Government; men who asked no questions about +pay, but went with loyal hearts to battle, determined that the flag<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_424" id="Page_424">[424]</a></span> +should be maintained in its supremacy from sea to sea; men who, +returning safely from the vicissitudes of the camp and the march +and from the perils of battle, have been ever since giving their +brave endeavors to open this new country, to increase its prosperity, +and by honorable labor to make comfortable homes for +themselves and their children. I greet you to-day, comrades, with +a loving heart. God grant that these later days—for years are +increasing with us all—may be full of sunshine, full of the respect +of your neighbors, full of prosperity, and crowned at last with the +full blessing of immortality.</p> + +<p>To these little ones now enjoying the beneficent provisions which +your State has made for their care and education I give the most +affectionate greeting. The children of this land are the light and +the life of our households. They are in the family what the blossoms +are in the orchard and garden. May they appreciate the +blessings they enjoy, and when they come to mature years and +take up the unfinished labors of their fathers, may they hold aloft +the flag which their fathers followed to battle and maintain all +those things that conduce to decent and orderly communities and +to the purity of the home. To these pioneers who have under discouragements +and great difficulties sought these Western homes +and opened the way for civilization I give my greeting, and to all +I give the assurance that these distant States are not forgotten by +us who are, for the time, chosen to administer public office at +Washington. We take you all into our consideration, our confidence, +and our affection. I believe there is a great community of +interest that touches all our States. I believe that our legislation +should be as broad as our territory, should not be for classes, but +should be always in the interest of all our people. And now, thanking +you for this most interesting and cordial welcome, I bid you +good-by. [Cheers].</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LE_GRANDE_OREGON_MAY_7" id="LE_GRANDE_OREGON_MAY_7">LE GRANDE, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President had an enthusiastic reception at Le +Grande from several thousand residents. The city was +beautifully illuminated in honor of the visit. The Committee +of Reception consisted of Hon. J. H. Slater, E. S. +McComas, M. F. Honan, and R. E. Bryan. Mayor C. H. +Finn made the welcoming address.</p> + +<p>The President responded:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_425" id="Page_425">[425]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very gratifying to see this vast assembly +here to-night, and I regret that our arrival was not in the daylight, +that we might have a better view of this city and its surroundings, +as well as of these prosperous and happy people who are assembled +here to-night. We have travelled many thousands of miles on this +journey, and it has been one continued succession of happy greetings. +We have passed through the land of flowers, and they have +strewn our pathway with them. We have come now to this north +land where the flowers are not so abundant, but where the welcome +and heartiness of the people is quite as manifest and quite as sincere. +I rejoice to have had the opportunity to see portions of the +State of Oregon which I had not previously visited. Your industries +and products are so varied that working together, supplying +the wants of different communities by the productions of each, it +must be that you shall grow in population, and that the rewards of +your labor shall be full and rich. But above all these material +things in which you show the country the resources of your people, +I rejoice that social order, education, good morals, and all those +things that tend to promote the human happiness, the peace of +your communities, and the glory of your State, are also here +thought of and promoted. [Cheers.] We are citizens of one great +country, and I do not believe there is a nation in the world where +there is a more perfect unification of heart and purpose than in the +United States of America. I do not believe there is anywhere any +people more earnestly in love with their institutions and with the +flag that symbolizes them, more in love with peace and peaceful +industries, and yet stronger in their defence of the truth and of +the right. [Cheers.] I beg again to thank your citizens of this +city and of the surrounding country for this gracious and hospitable +welcome. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BAKER_CITY_OREGON_MAY_7" id="BAKER_CITY_OREGON_MAY_7">BAKER CITY, OREGON, MAY 7.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> closing event of the long day was the reception at +Baker City at 11:30 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> Fifteen hundred people were +present and the town was illuminated. The Reception +Committee was Mayor S. B. McCord, Hon. R. S. Anderson, +and Geo. H. Tracy. Joe Hooker Post, G. A. R., Fred K. +Ernst, Commander, was present.</p> + +<p>Responding to Mr. Anderson's welcoming address President +Harrison said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_426" id="Page_426">[426]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very pleasing, so late at +night, to be greeted on our arrival here by this large audience and +by these hearty cheers. We thank you very sincerely for this evidence +of your friendly interest, and beg to assure you in return +that not only as public officers, but as citizens with you of this +great country, we are in hearty sympathy with all your pursuits +and plans and hopes in this distant State. I have heard before of +its beauty and the fertility and productiveness of its wheat fields +and of the rich mines which are found in this vicinity. Situated +as you are, the great question with you must be one of transportation, +one of getting the products of your field, the surplus of your +agricultural products, to a market. I hope you appreciate all the +advantages in this regard which the development of these Pacific +cities is giving. Every great manufacturing establishment that is +built there produces and increases population, and makes additional +and nearer market for the products of your fields. I hope the day +is not far distant when the completion of the Nicaragua Canal will +make a shorter way to the Atlantic seaboard States and much +shorter and cheaper communication with a European market. I am +glad to be assured—indeed, I do not need the assurance—that here +in Oregon, as in the Central and Eastern States, we are one people, +loyal and united in the love for the flag which some of these comrades +aided to be victorious in the great war, and that you are +thoroughly in love with our American institutions. I am glad to +assure you that, so far as I am concerned, I know no sections in +this country. I desire to promote those measures which shall +always be for the interests of all classes, and which shall diffuse +the benefits of our institutions equally and fairly among all the +States and among all our people. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BOISE_CITY_IDAHO_MAY_8" id="BOISE_CITY_IDAHO_MAY_8">BOISE CITY, IDAHO, MAY 8.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Boise City</span>, the capital of Idaho, was reached at 7 o'clock +the morning of the 8th, where a stop of two hours was +made. The following committee of distinguished officials +and citizens received the President: His Excellency Gov. +N. B. Willey and official staff, comprising Col. E. J. Curtis, +Col. J. A. Torrance, Lieutenant-Colonel Casswell, and +Maj. Geo. F. Hinton; Senator Geo. L. Shoup, Hon. James +A. Pinney, Mayor of Boise City; R. Z. Johnson, President<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_427" id="Page_427">[427]</a></span> +Board of Trade; John Lemp, Charles A. Clark, E. R. +Leonard, C. W. Moore, J. W. Daniels, Calvin Cobb, A. J. +Glorieaux, Nathan Falk, Peter Sonna, A. R. Andola, J. +H. Richards, Hon. S. W. Moody, Capt. C. C. Stevenson, +and Capt. D. W. Figgins.</p> + +<p>The President was escorted to the Capitol grounds by +Phil. Sheridan Post, G. A. R., D. F. Baker Commander, +A. C. Bellus, Senior Vice-Commander, N. F. Kimball, +Junior Vice-Commander. The parade was in charge of +Maj. H. E. Noyes, of the Fourth Cavalry, and was one of +the most creditable demonstrations witnessed on the trip. +The local militia and more than 1,000 school children participated. +Every veteran and each scholar carried a flag, +which elicited from President Harrison a beautiful tribute +to the national symbol.</p> + +<p>After the review Governor Willey and Mayor Pinney +formally welcomed the President, who responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This is instructive and inspiring to us all as American +citizens. It is my great pleasure to stand for a little while +this morning in the political Capitol of this fresh and new State. +I had great satisfaction in taking an official part in admitting +Idaho to the Union of States. I believed that it was possessed of +a population and resources and capable of a development that fairly +entitled her to take her place among the States of the American +Union. You are starting now upon a career of development which +I hope and believe will be uninterrupted. Your great mineral +resources, now being rapidly developed, have already brought you +great wealth. Undoubtedly these are to continue to be a source of +enrichment and prosperity to your State, but I do not forget that +we must look at last for that paramount and enduring prosperity +and increase which our States should have to a development of +their agricultural resources. You will, of course, as you have +done, carefully guard and secure your political institutions. You +will organize them upon a basis of economy, and yet of liberal +progress. You will take care that only so much revenue is taken +from the people as is necessary to the proper public expenditure. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to see that this banner of liberty, this flag of our +fathers, this flag that these—my comrades here present—defended<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_428" id="Page_428">[428]</a></span> +with honor and brought home with victory from the bloody strife +of the Civil War, is held in honor and estimation among you. +[Great applause.] Every man should take off his hat when the +starry flag moves by. It symbolizes a free republic; it symbolizes +a Nation; not an aggregation of States, but one compact, solid +Government in all its relations to the nations of the earth. [Applause.] +Let us always hold it in honor. I am glad to see that +it floats not only over your political Capitol, but over the school-houses +of your State; the children should be taught in the primary +schools to know its story and to love it. To these young children, +entering by the beneficent and early provision of your State into +the advantages of that great characteristic American institution—the +common school—I give my greeting this morning. May every +good attend them in life, and as the cares of life come on to take +the place of the joys of childhood, God grant that, instructed in +mind and heart in those things that are high and good, they may +bear with honor the responsibility which you will soon lay down.</p> + +<p>To these comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, survivors +of the great war, upon whom the years are making their impression, +I do not doubt that these who stand by me have borne an +honorable part among your fellow-citizens in the development of +the resources of this, their adopted State. Not long will we tarry; +but, my comrades, the story of what you have done is undying, +and I doubt not this morning that the satisfaction of having had +some small part in redeeming this Nation and preserving its integrity +will fill your hearts with gladness, even under adverse conditions +of life. A grateful Nation honors you. Every community +should give you its respect, and I can only add to-day a comrade's +greeting and a hearty God bless you all! [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="POCATELLO_IDAHO_MAY_8" id="POCATELLO_IDAHO_MAY_8">POCATELLO, IDAHO, MAY 8.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A great</span> crowd, including several hundred Indians, +greeted the President's arrival at Pocatello the night of +the 8th. The Committee of Reception consisted of Frederick +K. Walker, A. B. Bean, A. F. Caldwell, John S. +Baker, O. L. Cleveland, R. J. Hayes, E. C. Hasey, George +Dash, Frank Ramsey, J. J. Guheen, H. G. Guynn, and L. +A. West. A large delegation from Blackfoot was represented +on the committee by Hon. F. W. Beane, Col. J. W. +Jones, and F. W. Vogler.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_429" id="Page_429">[429]</a></span></p> + +<p>Chairman Savidge of the committee delivered the welcoming +address and introduced the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—In 1881, that sad summer when General Garfield +lay so long in agony and the people suffered so long in painful suspense, +I passed up the Utah and Northern Narrow Gauge Railroad +through this place—if it was a place then—to Montana on a visit. +The country through which we have passed is therefore not unfamiliar +to me. I have known of its natural conditions, and I +have seen its capabilities when brought under the stimulating influence +of irrigation. I have had, during my term in the Senate, +as Chairman of the Committee on Territories of that body, to give +a good deal of attention to the condition and needs of our Territories. +My sympathy and interest have always gone out to those +who, leaving the settled and populous parts of our country, have +pushed the frontiers of civilization farther and farther to the westward +until they have met the Pacific Ocean and the setting sun. +Pioneers have always been enterprising people. If they had not +been they would have remained at home; they endured great hardships +and perils in opening these great mines of minerals which +show in your State, and in bringing into subjection these wild +plains and making them blossom like gardens. To all such here +I would do honor, and you should do honor, for they were heroes +in the struggle for the subjugation of an untamed country to the +uses of man. I am glad to see that you have here so many happy +and prosperous people. I rejoice at the increase of your population, +and am glad to notice that with this development in population +and in material wealth you are giving attention to those +social virtues—to education and those influences which sanctify the +home, make social order secure, and honor and glorify the institutions +of our common country. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad, not only for the sake of the white man, but of the +red man, that these two extensive and useless reservations are +being reduced by allotment to the Indians for farms, which they are +expected to cultivate and thereby to earn their own living [cheers], +that the unneeded lands shall furnish homes for those who need +homes. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now, fellow-citizens, extending to such comrades of the +Grand Army of the Republic as I see scattered about through this +audience my most cordial greeting as a comrade, to these children +and these ladies who share with you the privations of early life on +the frontier, and to all my most cordial greeting and most sincere +thanks for your kindly demonstration, I will bid you good-by. +[Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_430" id="Page_430">[430]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SALT_LAKE_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9" id="SALT_LAKE_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9">SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Pocatello the President was met by a committee +representing the citizens of Ogden, Utah, who took this +opportunity to pay their respects, it being impracticable to +hold a reception in that city owing to the late hour the +train passed. The Ogden committee consisted of Mayor +W. H. Turner and wife, Hon. James A. Miner, E. M. Allison +and wife, J. R. Elliott, W. N. Shilling and wife, Capt. +Ransford Smith, Wm. H. Smith, M. N. Graves and wife, +Col. A. C. Howard, Rev. A. J. Bailey, E. M. Correl and +wife, Thomas Bell, J. Cortez and wife, W. W. Funge and +wife, O. E. Hill and wife, John N. Boyle, Gilbert Belnap +and wife, Joseph Belnap, J. S. Painter, Maj. R. H. Whipple, +W. R. White, and Prof. T. B. Lewis.</p> + +<p>The committee appointed by Governor Thomas to meet +and welcome the President at the State line on behalf of +the Territory of Utah consisted of Hon. E. P. Ferry, of +Park City; H. G. Whitney, O. J. Salisbury, and M. K. +Parsons, of Salt Lake; Lieutenant Dunning, of Fort +Douglas; and Chief-Justice Zane, Associate Justice Anderson, +Hon. C. S. Varian, Colonel Godfrey, John E. +Dooly, Heber M. Wells, E. C. Coffin, and Spencer Clawson.</p> + +<p>The presidential party arrived at the "City of Zion" at +2:45 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> At 8 o'clock they were met by Governor +Thomas and Mayor Geo. M. Scott at the head of the +following Citizens' Committee of Reception: Secretary +Sells, Irving A. Benton, General Kimball, Colonel Nelson, +Commissioner Robertson, C. C. Goodwin, Hon. J. T. Caine, +R. C. Chambers, Fred Simon, Hoyt Sherman, Ellsworth +Daggett, Judge Blackburn, Colonel Lett, James Hansborough, +Frank D. Hobbs, Judge Miner, General Connor, +Judge Bartch, J. H. Rumel, C. E. Allen, Arthur Pratt, +H. G. McMillan, J. P. Bache, Judge Boreman, W. H. H. +Spafford, A. J. Pendleton, Fred Heath, W. L. Pickard, H. +Pembroke, Daniel Wolstenholm, Councilman Armstrong,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431" id="Page_431">[431]</a></span> +W. P. Noble, Louis Cohn, W. P. Lynn, L. C. Karrick, E. +R. Clute, J. B. Walden, J. M. Young, Sheriff Burt, Selectmen +Howe, Miller, and Cahoon; C. B. Jack, W. H. Bancroft, +R. Mackintosh, J. H. Bennett, Robert Harkness, H. +W. Lawrence, J. B. Toronto, and Mesdames Zane, Salisbury, +Dooly, Blunt, Chambers, Goodwin, James, Anderson, +Lawrence, Gaylord, Simon, and Bartch; Miss Robertson, +Mrs. I. A. Benton, and Mrs. Hobbs. This committee +and a large body of citizens escorted the party to the +Walker House, where breakfast was served. The President +then headed a procession, composed of U.S. troops, +State guards, G. A. R. veterans, pioneers, and many other +local organizations, and was escorted to a pavilion in +Liberty Park.</p> + +<p>Governor Thomas and Mayor Scott delivered welcoming +addresses, to which President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Fellow-citizens</i>—The scenes which have been presented to us in +this political and commercial metropolis of the Territory of Utah +have been very full of beauty and full of hope. I have not seen in +all this long journey, accompanied as it has been with every manifestation +of welcome and crowned with flowers, anything that +touched my heart more than that beautiful picture on one of your +streets this morning when the children from the free public schools +of Salt Lake City, waving the one banner that we all love [cheers] +and singing an anthem of praise to that beneficent Providence +that led our worthy forefathers to land and has followed the pathway +of this Nation with His beneficent care until this bright hour, +gave us their glad welcome. [Applause and cheers.]</p> + +<p>My service in public life has been such as to call my special attention +to, and to enlist my special interest in, the people of the +Territories. It has been a pleasant duty to welcome the Dakotas, +Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming into the great sisterhood +of the States. I think it has not fallen to any President of +the United States to receive into the Union so large a number of +States. The conditions that surround you in this Territory are of +the most hopeful character. The diversity of your productions, +your mines of gold and silver, iron, lead and coal, placed in such +proximity as to make the work of mining and reduction easy and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_432" id="Page_432">[432]</a></span> +economical; your well-watered valley, capable, under the skilful +touch of the husbandman, of transformation from barren wastes +into fruitful fields—all these lying in easy reach and intercommunication, +one with the other, must make the elements of a great +commercial and political community. You do not need to doubt +the future. You will step forward confidently and progressively +in the development of your great material wealth.</p> + +<p>The great characteristic of our American institutions—the compact +of our Government—is that the will of the majority, expressed +by legal methods at the ballot box, shall be the supreme law of all +our community. To the Territories of the United States a measure +of local government has always been given, but the supervisory +control, the supreme legislative and executive power has been, +continuously, as to the Territories, held and exercised by the general +Government at Washington. The territorial state has always +been regarded as a temporary one. The general Government has +always looked forward to a division of its vast domain—first, the +territory northwest of the Ohio, then the Louisiana purchase, then +these accessions upon the Pacific coast—into suitable sections for +the establishment of free and independent States. This great work +of creating States has gone forward from the Ohio to the Pacific, +and now we may journey from Maine to Puget Sound through +established States. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>The purity of the ballot-box, the wise provisions and careful +guardianship that shall always make the expression of the will of +the people fair, pure and true, is the essential thing in American +life. We are a people organized upon principles of liberty, but, +my good countrymen, it is not license. It is liberty within and +under the law. [Great applause.] I have no discord, as a public +officer, with men of any creed or politics if they will obey the law. +My oath of office, my public duty, requires me to be against those +who violate the law.</p> + +<p>The foundation of American life is the American home. That +which distinguishes us from other nations whose political experience +and history have been full of strife and discord is the American +home, where one wife sits in single uncrowned glory. [Great +applause and cheers.] And now, my countrymen, I beg to assure +you that every hope you have for safe running on these lines of +free government, on these lines of domestic and social order, I +have. For every one of you I have the most cordial greeting. +God bless and keep you and guide you in the paths of social purity, +order, and peace, and make you one of the great communities of the +American Union. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433" id="Page_433">[433]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Chamber of Commerce Speech.</p> + +<p>The visitors were then taken to the new Chamber of +Commerce, where the business men of the city greeted the +Chief Executive. The occasion was also the formal opening +of the building for business.</p> + +<p>President Harrison made an address. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I am very glad to witness in this magnificent structure which +you are opening to-day for your use an evidence of the commercial +importance of the city. Organizations of this character are very +useful when rightly conducted, very promotive of the business +prosperity of the cities in which they are established, and of the +best interest of their membership. It is quite right that those who +may be engaged in the rivalries of business, pushing their several +lines of trade with the energy and enterprise that characterize our +people, should now and then assemble and lay aside things that +are personal and selfish and consider the things that affect the +whole community. These organizations, as I have known them in +other States, have been the council chamber in which large and +liberal things have been devised for the development of the interests +and prosperity of the community. I do not doubt that you +will do so here; that new enterprise will be welcomed, and that +the friendly business hand will be extended to those who are seeking +investments. I wish you all success in this enterprise, and I +hope you may grow until its membership shall embrace all of your +commercial classes, and that its influence may do for your business +here what the water of your mountain streams has done for the +plains—make them grow longer and more productive, and at the +same time expel from them those mean jealousies which sometimes +divide men. [Prolonged Cheers.]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">Address to the School Children.</p> + +<p>The party visited the Mormon Tabernacle, which was +profusely decorated with bunting and flags. On the side +of the Temple in large letters was the motto "Fear God; +Honor the President." The entire city was tastefully +decorated. The President reviewed the school children, +about 2,000 in number. They rendered patriotic songs, +and he addressed them in the following happy speech:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>To the School Children</i>—In all this joyous journey through this +land of flowers and the sunny South I have seen nothing more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_434" id="Page_434">[434]</a></span> +beautiful and inspiring than this scene which burst upon us so +unexpectedly. This multitude of children bearing waving banners +makes a scene which can never fade from our memories. Here, +in these children from the free schools established and guarded by +your public authorities, is the hope of Utah and the country. +[Cheers.] I give you my thanks for a demonstration that has +cheered my heart. May each of you enjoy every blessing that a +free country and a more beneficent and kindly Creator can bestow. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LEHI_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9" id="LEHI_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9">LEHI CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop after leaving the capital of Utah was at +Lehi City, where a large sugar factory is located. The +Committee of Reception consisted of Mayor A. J. Evans, +Bishop T. R. Cutler, James Harwood, and C. A. Granger.</p> + +<p>The President made a brief address, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This industry which you have established here is +very interesting to me. I hope it is to open the way to a time +when we shall have a home supply of sugar for every household. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PROVO_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9" id="PROVO_CITY_UTAH_MAY_9">PROVO CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential train arrived at Provo—the Garden +City of Utah—at 1:30 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> The greeting was a cordial +one; about 1,000 school children were present. The Reception +Committee was Mayor J. E. Booth, R. H. Dodd, +J. R. Bishop, J. B. McCauslin, M. M. Kellogg, W. S. +Myton, E. A. Wilson, Wm. H. King, D. D. Houtz, Dr. J. +N. Christensen, Dr. H. Simmons, F. F. Reed, G. W. Olger, +and W. Burlew.</p> + +<p>Mayor Booth introduced the President, who spoke as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—This is another of those bright +and beautiful pictures that have been spread before our eyes on +this whole journey from Washington. I am glad to stop for a +moment in this enterprising and prosperous city. I am glad to +know that you are adding manufacturing to your agriculture, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_435" id="Page_435">[435]</a></span> +that you are weaving some of the abundance of wool that is furnished +by your flocks. It is the perfection of society, commercially, +when you find immediately at your own doors a market for +those things that you have to sell. You are a long way from the +seaboard. The transportation companies, however fair their rates +may be, must levy very heavy tolls upon your produce for taking +it to the Atlantic or to the Pacific. It is then a pleasing thing +when, instead of sending your wool to some distant city to be +woven into cloth, you can do that work yourselves as you develop, +bringing in these manufacturing industries whose employees consume +the products of your farm and in turn give to the farmer that +which he and his children have to wear. You are approaching +the most independent commercial condition. When every farmer +is able to sell from his own wagon everything he produces and is +emancipated from transportation tolls, he is independent and prosperous.</p> + +<p>I am glad to see these dear children here coming from the +free schools of your city. The public school is a most wholesome +and hopeful institution. It has an assimilative power possessed +by no other institution in our country. Where the children +of rich and poor mingle together on the play-ground and in the +school-room, there is produced a unity of feeling and a popular +love for public institutions that can be brought about in no other +way. [Cheers.] God bless and promote your public schools until +every child in your Territory shall be gathered into them. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="AMERICAN_FORK_UTAH_MAY_9" id="AMERICAN_FORK_UTAH_MAY_9">AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, MAY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Early</span> in the afternoon a brief stop was made at American +Fork, where several hundred children were marshalled +under Bishop George Halliday (Mormon) and Rev. +F. G. Webster. The Reception Committee consisted of +Mayor George Cunningham, James Chipman, John J. +Cushing, and John F. Pribyl.</p> + +<p>The President, addressing the school children, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I want to express my interest in these dear children who have +gathered here. It is very pleasant to have at all these little stations +these expressions of your good-will. I rejoice to see the +development which has taken place in these regions since I was +here a few years ago, and I have no doubt that it will go on until +all your valleys are prosperous and full of happy homes. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_436" id="Page_436">[436]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SPRINGVILLE_UTAH_MAY_9" id="SPRINGVILLE_UTAH_MAY_9">SPRINGVILLE, UTAH, MAY 9.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">As</span> the presidential train reached Castle Gate, a mining +town on the summit of the Wahsatch Mountains, the people +turned out <i>en masse</i>. A salute was fired with dynamite +cartridges. The President briefly thanked the people +for their greeting.</p> + +<p>At Springville, the last stopping-point in Utah, the +committee that welcomed the President consisted of Don +C. Johnson, Joseph M. Westwood, H. M. Dougall, R. A. +Deal, and Anthony Ethier.</p> + +<p>Governor Thomas introduced President Harrison, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—Your towns in Utah are very close together. I +scarcely close an address at one before we are in the corporate +limits of another; but I am glad to receive here this pleasant welcome. +The evidence of kindliness which I read in all your faces +is very reassuring and very comforting. It is delightful, I think, +to those who are charged with public duties to come now and then +and look into the faces of the people who have no other interest +than that the Government shall be well administered. [Cheers.] +I cannot hope, of course, to give a post office to everybody. I have +endeavored in the selection of those who are to administer the +functions of public office for the general Government to secure +good men. I have desired that everywhere they should understand +that they were the servants of the people [applause], that they +were to give the best public service possible, and that they were to +treat everybody alike.</p> + +<p>It has been very pleasant to-day to ride through this most extraordinary +valley, and to notice how productive your fields are +and how genial and kindly your people are. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am to do whatever I can in public office to serve our people. +I am glad to contribute whatever I can as a citizen to the general +prosperity and to the glory and dignity of our country. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now one word or two to these few comrades who gather +about me. They are not many, but they are entitled to honor. +Those who struggled in the early years to establish homes in the +West, and those who in the hour of public distress and peril bared +their breasts to the shaft of battle that the Nation might live, are +worthy of the highest regard. [Cheers.] You have entered into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_437" id="Page_437">[437]</a></span> +the heritage which they bought and preserved. May you, with as +true, loyal hearts as they, preserve and hand down to your children +these institutions. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="GLENWOOD_SPRINGS_COLORADO_MAY_10" id="GLENWOOD_SPRINGS_COLORADO_MAY_10">GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 10.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> an early hour Sunday morning, May 10, the presidential +party arrived at Glenwood Springs, where they +were met by the Governor of Colorado, Hon. J. L. Routt, +Chief-Justice J. C. Helm, Hon. N. P. Hill, ex-Senator H. +A. W. Tabor, and Congressman Townsend, from Denver. +At 8 o'clock the Hon. J. L. Hodges, Mayor of the city, with +Judge G. D. Thayer, L. Schwarz, C. W. Darrow, J. H. +Fesler, F. Mager, and M. W. Mather, escorted the party to +the Hotel Glenwood, where they passed the day. The +President and Postmaster-General Wanamaker attended +divine services at the Presbyterian Church. The pastor, +Rev. W. S. Rudolph, was assisted by Rev. A. E. Armstrong, +of Leadville, and Rev. L. N. Haskell, of Denver, +Chaplain of the State Senate. The city was filled with +thousands of visitors from Aspen and other neighboring +mining towns and camps until over 10,000 people were +gathered—notwithstanding it was the Sabbath—to greet +the Chief Magistrate of the Nation.</p> + +<p>When the President returned from witnessing several +members of his party enjoy a dip in the mammoth pool he +was met by Mayor Hodges at the head of the following +Reception Committee of prominent citizens: Joseph Love, +A. W. Dennis, Reed Burritt, F. C. Ewing, F. S. Dart, +F. C. Sohram, H. C. Eaton, J. R. De Remer, Alex. Anderson, +A. W. Dennis, Miles Standish, J. L. Hays, W. H. +Hallett, H. R. Kamm, J. T. McLean, W. H. Bradt, J. +R. Wallingford, J. G. Pease, Paul Blount, J. H. Campbell, +C. B. Ellis, B. T. Napier, Thomas Kendrick, E. T. Wolverton, +Fred Korupkat, C. A. Lee, Dr. G. H. Moulton, M. V. +B. Blood, James Leach, P. F. Carr, George Edinger, W.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_438" id="Page_438">[438]</a></span> +H. Spear, Joseph Enzensperger, C. M. Keck, J. W. Beaman, +J. M. Stevens, R. O. Hoover, E. Schuster, J. W. +Ross, William Chrisman, G. H. Ferris, F. A. Enoch, +Frank Lindsley, Frank Kaiser, J. A. I. Claudon, F. A. +Barlow, Ed. B. Everett, N. Falk, H. C. Bunte, H. W. +Ennen, William Dougan, Dr. L. G. Clark, James Anderson, +Chris. Beck, J. S. Swan, H. J. Holmes, James Coughlin, +S. H. Wood, John Miller, N. S. Henderson, J. M. +Durand, Jr., Matt. Carroll, John Lynch, W. H. Trumbor, +S. W. Nott, B. Hopkins, William Houston, C. V. Noble, +C. M. Kiggins, Dr. E. A. Bryant, J. N. Bishop, William +Denning, A. Miller, J. H. Connor, C. H. Belding, William +Dinkle, C. L. Todd, George Yule, C. A. Hahn, H. H. Gates, +James Soister, C. C. Hendrie, P. R. Morris, J. L. Noonan, +Fred L. Walthers, T. W. Thomas, C. C. Parks, J. T. +Shumate, Wm. Gelder, M. J. Bartley, A. E. Bartlett, John +McReavy, W. S. Parkinson, Frank Dallis, E. H. Watson, +J. H. Bixby, Jake Kline, M. M. Cantrell, J. H. Pierce, C. +C. Streeter, E. T. Taylor, John Eitel, P. C. Coryell, Frank +Mason, Fred Korn, W. H. Richardson, H. C. Babize, +George Bennett, Frank Lyle, J. F. Myser, R. Stees, J. +W. Ritter, R. P. Mallaby, W. De Long, L. F. Grace, Ed. +Meachem, Andrew Anderson, Joe Keating, W. H. Sikes, +W. L. Willoughby, T. R. Williams, J. W. Dollison, Alex. +Voorhees, Theo. Rosenberg, H. T. Sale, S. J. De Lan, +William Cardnell, G. B. Garrison, R. M. Hedden, P. H. +Fitzpatrick, C. W. Durand, Kellie Cookson, Albert Gerstle, +F. P. Monroe, William Shaw, C. J. Feist, E. E. +Knight, George Phillips, Ed. S. Hughes, D. W. Smart, P. +G. Foote, W. T. Beans, C. Poole, J. H. Mager, W. J. +Brennan, Murdo McLeod, J. E. Chaney, A. W. Maxfield, +William Smith, A. M. Stevenson, C. B. Brown, M. N. Edwards, +and Harry Van Sickle.</p> + +<p>The Mayor made the welcoming address and presented +the President with a solid silver plate, superbly engraved +with the coat-of-arms of Colorado.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_439" id="Page_439">[439]</a></span></p> + +<p>President Harrison replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—In arranging the programme of +this trip, and desiring to find one day in the seven for rest, we +selected this spot because of its fame throughout the East as one of +delightful location and natural attractions. I am glad this selection +was made. It has given me much pleasure—the beauty of +your surroundings and especially the picturesque attractiveness +and magnificence of the scenery. The city which you are launching +forth upon the tide of usefulness and prosperity will grow in +fame. I thank you most cordially for this souvenir, and I leave +with you my most earnest hope for the prosperity of the city.</p></div> + +<p>Senator Tabor introduced a delegation from Aspen representing +1,000 miners from that famous camp. Col. E. F. +Browne then presented a most unique souvenir—a silver +card bearing mottoes worked in native wire silver.</p> + +<p>In accepting this rare token the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>This is one of the most beautiful of all the souvenirs that have +been presented me on this trip. I wish to say to you that I do not +regard your visit as an intrusion. I will not undertake to dilate +upon the fatigue of this trip. I have been leaning over the hind +rail of the train for a long time, and I came to Glenwood Springs +tired. I wish to remain quiet, not from any puritanical notion of +the Sabbath, and I hope none of you will feel that way. It is not +because I don't want to see you. It is the contrary, I assure you, +and I regret my inability to give you all a public reception.</p> + +<p>I have for Aspen and her people the kindest wishes. As for the +State of Colorado, it will grow more vigorous and richer in all that +makes an American commonwealth.</p> + +<p>In common with Western States, Colorado has had the pick of +the people of the Eastern States. It seems to me as though her +citizens had passed competitive examination for push and enterprise, +and only the worthless were turned back at the ferry. I +thank you for your liberality.</p></div> + +<p>Charles R. Bell, of Aspen, State President Patriotic Order +Sons of America, presented the President with an address. +In the afternoon President Harrison and Mr. +Wanamaker attended union services and children's mass-meeting +at Durand's Hall. Rev. H. M. Law presided, but +Mayor Hodges introduced the President, who said:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_440" id="Page_440">[440]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens and Children</i>—Our stop at Glenwood +Springs was, as you all know, intended to be for rest; and yet I +have not felt that I could deny myself to this large body of friends +assembled from the homes of this city, and, perhaps, to an even +larger body of friends who have come from some of the neighboring +towns to pay their respects and testify their good-will. The trip +we have been making has been a prolonged one, and it has been a +continued experience of speech-making and hand-shaking. The +physical labor has been very great, and I think if one had been +called upon to do the same amount of work without the stimulus +and inspiration which have come from the happy faces and kind +hearts of the people who have greeted us, almost any man would +have given out. Certainly I would had I not been borne up and +helped by the wonderful kindness of our people.</p> + +<p>I have been intensely interested in what I have seen. It has +testified to me of the unity of the people East and West. Out here +you take on some peculiarities as we do in Indiana, but underneath +these peculiarities there is the same true American grit and spirit. +[Applause.] It is not wonderful that this should be so. It is not +a mere likeness between different people, because you are precisely +the same people that I have known in the Central and Eastern +States. Everywhere I have gone I have seen Hoosiers; everywhere +Mr. Wanamaker has gone he has seen Pennsylvanians; everywhere +General Rusk has gone Wisconsin hands have been reached up to +him. These new States have been filled up by the enterprising +and pushing young men of the older States. They have set out to +find here greater advantages, more rapid pathways to wealth and +competence. Many of them have found it, many of them are still +perhaps in the hard struggle of life; but to you all, to every man, +whether he is mine-owner or handles the pick, I bring you my +warmest sympathy and my most sincere thanks for your friendly +greeting. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Our Government was instituted by wise men—men of broad +views. It was based upon the idea of the equal rights of men. It +absolutely rejects the idea of class distinction and insists that men +should be judged by their behavior. That is a good rule; those +who are law-abiding and well-disposed, those who pursue their +vocations lawfully and with due respect to the rights of others, are +the true American citizens. I am glad to know that the love of +our institutions is so deeply imbedded in your hearts. It has been +a most delightful and cheering thing to see that the starry banner, +the same old flag that some of you carried amid the smoke of +battle, the rattle of musketry, booming of cannon, and the dying<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_441" id="Page_441">[441]</a></span> +of men, is in the hands of such children. [Applause.] Some of +the prettiest as well as some of the most hopeful sights we have +looked upon have been these companies of children gathered on +the streets or hill-sides waving this banner.</p> + +<p>The American institutions deserve our watchful care. All our +communities should be careful in the beginning to establish law +and maintain it. It is very difficult when lawlessness once obtains +the upper hand to put it down. It is very easy to keep it out of +any community if the well-disposed, true-hearted people will sink +all their differences, religious and political, and stand together as +citizens for the good of their municipalities. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I want to thank the children who have gathered for this Sabbath-day's +observance. I have had a life that has been full of labor. +From my early manhood until this hour my time has had many +demands upon it. I have been under the pressure of the practice +of my profession. I have been under the pressure of political +campaigns and of public office, and yet in all these pursuits, and +under all these conditions, I have found, simply as a physical +question, without reference to its religious aspects at all, that I +could do more by working six days than seven.</p> + +<p>I think you will all find it so, and that as a civil institution rest +on the Sabbath day is good for man. It is not only good, but it is +the right of the workingman. Men should have one free day in +which to think of their families, of themselves, of things that are +not material, but are spiritual. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I desire to express from a sincere and earnest heart my thanks +to you all for all your kindness, giving you in return simply the +pledge that I will in all things keep in mind what seems to me to +be the true interests of our people. I have no thought of sections, +I have no thought upon any of the great public questions that does +not embrace the rights and interests of all our people and all our +States. I believe we shall find a common interest and safe ground +upon all the great questions, and by moderating our own views +and making reasonable and just concessions we shall find them all +settled wisely and in the true interest of the people. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_442" id="Page_442">[442]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LEADVILLE_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="LEADVILLE_COLORADO_MAY_11">LEADVILLE, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Leadville</span>, the Cloud City, was reached at 7:30 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> +Monday. Ten thousand citizens greeted the Chief Magistrate +at this greatest of silver camps. The following +delegation met the presidential party at Glenwood and +escorted them to Leadville: His Honor Mayor John E. +Foutz, Hon. H. I. Higgins, W. Arens, John Harvey, A. +Sherwin, A. V. Hunter, S. F. Maltby, John Ewing, John +Williams, W. F. Patrick, H. C. Burnett, Rev. A. E. +Armstrong, Mrs. Foutz, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Morgan H. +Williams, and Mrs. E. Forbes. The ladies of this committee +presented Mrs. Harrison with numerous beautiful +silver souvenirs.</p> + +<p>Chairman Higgins and the following members of the +Reception Committee escorted the party to the Hotel Kitchen: +Mrs. W. F. Patrick, W. W. Old, Mrs. J. Y. Oliver, +A. A. Blow, Mrs. H. W. Hardinge, Charles Cavender, +Rev. E. S. Ralston, B. S. Buell, Samuel Brown, A. Sherwin, +Robert Estey, H. R. Pendery, Charles L. Hill, J. S. +Jones, Robert Cary, Geo. W. Trimble, C. P. Schumacher, +J. S. Saunders, John Harvey, J. H. Weddle, John Nowland, +W. F. Patrick, Hon. Wm. Kellogg, Frank G. White, +John F. Champion, James Smith, Moses Londoner, J. J. +M. McRobbie, Maj. A. V. Bohn, and John Lumsden. The +veterans of Garfield Post, G. A. R., composed the guard +of honor. Judge Luther M. Goddard made the welcoming +address, and in the name of the city presented the distinguished +visitor a silver brick.</p> + +<p>The President responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—This rare, pure atmosphere, this +bright sunshine, the national colors, this multitude of lifted, smiling +faces to greet us is a scene that should raise the dullest heart +to emotions of thankfulness and pride—pride wholly separated from +personal considerations, a pride in which everything personal is +swallowed up by the contemplation that all this is the outcome,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_443" id="Page_443">[443]</a></span> +the manifestation, the culmination of free American institutions. +[Cheers.] We stand here on this mountain-top and see what I +think is the highest evidence of American pluck to be found in +the United States. [Laughter and applause.] I have addressed +my fellow-citizens on many thousands of occasions, but never +before stood so near the dome. [Cheers.] It is a wonderful testimony +to the energy and adaptation of the American that he should +have pushed his way to this high altitude, above the snow-line, +and erected here these magnificent and extensive industries and +these beautiful and happy homes. I rejoice with you in all that +has been accomplished here.</p> + +<p>I bring thanks to you for that great contribution you have made +to the wealth of a country we all love. [Cheers.] I bring to you +the assurance that as an individual citizen and as a public officer +my interest, my affection, and my duty embrace all the people of +this land. [Cries of "Good!" and cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to know we have in the past history of our country +found that happy unity of interest which has acted beneficially +upon all our institutions and all our people. With due regard to +all local interests, we should seek that general legislation which +touches with kindly fingers the humblest homes in our land. I do +most sincerely thank you for this token of the product of your +mines. It is a precious metal, but much more precious to me is +the kindly thought and the generous welcome which you have +given us in Leadville. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>My lungs are unaccustomed to this rare and stimulating atmosphere, +and you will permit me to close by giving you all, to the +men who, deep down in these mines, are toilsomely working out +the precious metal, to those who welcome you in your homes when +you return from your toil, the wives and children who add grace +and sweetness to our lives, to these children who have gathered +to greet us, a most cordial salutation and a regretful good-by. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_444" id="Page_444">[444]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BUENA_VISTA_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="BUENA_VISTA_COLORADO_MAY_11">BUENA VISTA, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Buena Vista</span> gave the President a cordial greeting. +The Committee of Reception included Mayor Mason, Hon. +A. R. Kenedy, Capt. A. V. P. Day, A. H. Wade, Col. +Henry Logan, J. C. Stuart, and A. C. Bottorff. Phil. Sheridan +Post, G. A. R., Col. G. D. Childs Commander, participated +in the reception. Dr. Struthers and W. W. Fay +presented the President with three fine trout caught in +Thompson's Lake, and weighing six pounds each.</p> + +<p>President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very glad to see your bright and kind faces +this morning, and to tarry for a few moments, just long enough to +say "How do you do?" and "Good-by." It is very pleasant to find +everywhere and at every station the same friendly looks and the +same kindly greeting. I am glad to have an opportunity that I +have not previously had of seeing the State of Colorado, great in +her present condition and having a greater future development +than perhaps you yourselves realize. This combination of agricultural +and mining industries can work but good for the high +development of Colorado. Your cattle and your sheep and your +mines and your agriculture in your valleys all produce that ideal +condition of things in which you find a nearer market for what +you raise. I hope the time will come when in addition to smelting +furnaces in your mines you will learn to weave the wool from your +sheep in place of sending it abroad to be made into clothing. The +more you can develop these things and do your own work the +more prosperous will be your condition. These dear children have +cheered me heartily all the way on this journey. The public +schools are worthy of your most thoughtful care. It is there that +the children meet on a common ground. It is there class distinctions +are wiped out. It is the great American institution. You +have well named your little hamlet Buena Vista. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_445" id="Page_445">[445]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SALIDA_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="SALIDA_COLORADO_MAY_11">SALIDA, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Three</span> thousand people from the surrounding district +welcomed the President at Salida. The Reception Committee +consisted of Mayor John G. Hollenbeck, J. H. Stead, +S. M. Jackson, W. W. Roller, J. A. Israel, E. B. Jones, and +W. P. Harbottle. Stanton Post, G. A. R., W. G. Westfall +Commander, and the children of the public schools +were present. Miss Clara Ayers, on behalf of the public +schools, presented Mrs. Harrison with a handsome portfolio +of Colorado wild flowers prepared by Mrs. E. P. Chester. +Dr. Durbin, on behalf of the citizens of Villa Grove, presented +a fine collection of mineral specimens.</p> + +<p>President Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I have looked with great interest, in passing through these mountain +gorges, at the enterprise of the people who have constructed +intersecting lines of railroad upon these difficult grades and through +threatening cañons. It has not been many days since such feats of +engineering would have been regarded as impossible, and yet now +railroads have touched the highest points, have gone above the +snow line, have reached elevated mines, and brought isolated valleys +into rapid and easy communication with the more settled parts +of the country. It has given me great pleasure to look upon the +beautiful valley in which the town of Salida is situated, and which +will undoubtedly be capable of large agricultural production when +a system of irrigation is completed. It might be desirable to the +people of Indiana and Illinois and other agricultural States if Colorado +had to buy her wheat and corn from them, but our larger +interest makes it desirable that every community should supply its +own wants. I anticipate with pleasure the day when these mountain +States will not be content with mining, but shall add agricultural +pursuits and manufacturing, and when the wool which is +sheared from the flocks will be woven at home. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It is a pleasant condition of things when all classes are prosperous, +when the workingman has fair wages that leave him some +margin above his daily necessities. I should lose hope for our +institutions when there should be despairing classes among us. An +American citizen could not be a good citizen who did not have +hope in his heart. Every boy, however humble, can pass through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_446" id="Page_446">[446]</a></span> +our public schools and climb to any position of usefulness and +honor he has the ability to attain. There have been marvellous +instances of what courage and pluck and intelligence may do in +this way.</p> + +<p>To the children I give a cordial greeting. They have been a +happy feature of almost every gathering in the journey. I hope +they may all receive that attention which will make them men and +women of intelligence, and capable of taking a full share in all +these good things in the community and in the State, for which +they are to be responsible. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CANON_CITY_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="CANON_CITY_COLORADO_MAY_11">CAÑON CITY, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Leaving</span> Salida the route lay through a stretch of country +unsurpassed in grandeur. The train made a short +stop on the hanging bridge over the Arkansas River in the +Grand Cañon. Emerging through the Royal Gorge the +party reached Cañon City at 2 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> amid the cheers of +its entire population, including 400 school children. Mayor +J. M. Bradbury, T. M. Harding, A. D. Cooper, and Warden +W. A. Smith were among the prominent residents who +welcomed the President; also, Greenwood Post, G. A. R., +Dr. J. L. Prentiss, Commander.</p> + +<p>President Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades and Fellow-citizens</i>—It gives me great pleasure to see +you and accept with a thankful heart those cordial greetings with +which you have met us. I have been talking so much since I left +Washington that I really am almost talked out; and yet, until I +shall have altogether lost my voice, of which there does not seem +to be any prospect, I cannot refrain from saying thank you to +those friends who greet us with such affectionate interest. We do +appreciate it very highly. But I do not at all assume it is merely +your interest in me. It is, I am sure, your interest in the country, +in its Constitution, and in its flag—the flag for which these comrades +fought, which they carried through the stress of battle and +brought home in honor. It is our free institutions, our free ballot, +our representative Government, that you all honor in coming here +to-day. It is very surprising and very pleasant to drop down out +of these snow-clad summits and to have passed into our hands in +the valley, branches of peach and pear and bouquets of flowers, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_447" id="Page_447">[447]</a></span> +first fruits of spring—a spring more genial here than it seemed +at Leadville this morning. [Applause.] I am very glad to have +revealed to me the possibilities of this country, and to see how, +under the system of irrigation, that which seemed to be a waste—accursed +of God—comes to be a very garden of Eden in beauty and +productiveness. I hope you have not only the fruits and flowers +of paradise, but that you have in your homes that state of peace +and blessedness which prevailed before our first mother took the +apple. [Applause.] To these comrades I want to give a comrade's +greeting. I know of no higher honor in this world than to be +called "comrade" by the survivors of those who saved the Union, +[Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="FLORENCE_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="FLORENCE_COLORADO_MAY_11">FLORENCE, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> next stop was at Florence, in the oil district, whose +citizens gave the President a most cordial greeting. The +Reception Committee comprised Mayor Isaac Canfield, +Senator J. A. McCandless, J. F. Collins, J. H. McDaniel, +Thomas Robinson, Thomas E. Spencer, Richard McDonald, +W. J. Daniels, and Joseph Patterson. An enthusiastic +citizen proposed three cheers "for the first President who +has thought enough of us to come and see us." They were +given with a will, and the President responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow citizens</i>—I am very much obliged to you for this +greeting. I expect there have been other Presidents who thought +of you, though they have not visited you. This has been a very +pleasant and instructive journey to me. I thought I had kept +myself reasonably well informed of the capabilities of this country +and of its productions, but I am amazed to find how things are +put together. We come out of the snow where everything is barren +and where labor is under ground, where the precious metals are +being extracted, and there is nothing pleasant in the landscape +except the snow covered mountains, and presently we are into a +land of fruit, and have handed up to us great branches laden with +well-set peach and pear, and are showered again, as we were in +California, with the flowers of the early spring, and now, to my +surprise, we seem to be in the oil region of Pennsylvania. These +numerous derricks and oil lodes remind us of things about Oil +City. Until I saw them I was not aware that you had here in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_448" id="Page_448">[448]</a></span> +Colorado oil production. It shows us how impartial, after all, the +great Creator has been. He has given us everywhere possibilities +which, if well improved, will make comfortable, happy homes. +You have the metals, precious and common, and the coal that is +needed for the smelter; oil to light your homes and lubricate your +machinery, and these orchards and beautiful valleys, all in the +right proximity. No man could have improved upon it. [Applause.] +Our Government intends to have a careful and impartial +consideration of all its people. We do not recognize classes or +distinctions. We want everybody to be prosperous and happy, +especially the working people. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I do not know how our institutions could endure unless we so +conduct our public affairs and society that every man who is sober +and industrious shall be able to make a good, comfortable living +and lay something aside for old age or for evil days; to have hope +in his heart and better prospects for his children. That is the +strength of American institutions. Whatever promotes that I +want to favor. Whatever tends to pauperize our people or impair +the earning power of the laboring class I do not favor. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PUEBLO_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="PUEBLO_COLORADO_MAY_11">PUEBLO, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">An</span> artillery salute welcomed the party to Pueblo at 3:30 +<span class="smcap">P.M.</span> Mayor W. B. Hamilton, Col. M. H. Fitch, D. W. +Barkley, Hon. I. W. Stanton, A. McClelland, and O. H. +P. Baxter comprised the committee that escorted the President +from Glenwood Springs. Arrived at the station the +Chief Executive was conveyed to the Court House Square +by the following Committee of Reception: E. C. Lyman, +Paul Wilson, Benjamin Guggenheim, D. L. Holden, E. +R. Chew, Fred Betts, N. O. McClees, W. A. Moses, F. E. +Baldwin, A. S. Dwight, J. R. Flickenger, R. M. Stevenson, +W. B. McKinney, John Lockin, E. C. Billings, A. +F. Ely, W. B. Palmer, J. S. Johnston, N. E. Guyot, M. +Studzinski, G. T. Nash, J. W. Purdy, P. F. Sharp, S. A. +Abbey, E. H. Martin, N. S. Walpole, T. J. Cribbs, J. G. +Keller, and C. C. Gaines. Upton Post, G. A. R., C. J. +Long Commander, and many other organizations participated +in the parade.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_449" id="Page_449">[449]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the Court House Square 6,000 children greeted the +President, who was introduced by Dr. William A. Olmsted +and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Children of the Public Schools and Others</i>—I am glad to meet +such an immense number here, and I can't allow this opportunity +to pass without expressing to you my thanks for this whole-souled +reception. It moves my heart to say that from your appearances +you are well taught, not only in manners but in your intellectual +pursuits; your bright, ruddy faces show health, and as you are +living in this healthful place it speaks marvels for Pueblo. The +country need fear no attack from foreign foes when such an army +as you'll some day make would be called into action. You have +your destiny all before you, and no one can tell but that some of +these boys may be a President and these beautiful girls advise +those who are born to fill high places in the Government. Children, +I am pleased to see you, and will hold in dear remembrance +this, my first visit to Pueblo—a city full of American genius and +enterprise, which will hold its own and keep on apace with that +progress characteristic of Americans. God bless you all. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>As Mrs. Harrison's carriage drew up the school children +presented her with a handsome painting—the "Colorado +Columbine." The President then visited the Colorado +Mineral Palace, where President L. S. McLain and Secretary +Livezey of the Exposition presented him with specimens +of rich ore.</p> + +<p>Colonel Stanton made the welcoming address and introduced +President Harrison to the great assemblage, who +responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—The brief time which we are +able in this hasty journey to allot to the city of Pueblo has now +almost expired. It has given me pleasure to drive through the +streets of this prosperous and enterprising municipality and to see +that you are concentrating great business interests which must in +the future make you a very important centre in this great State. +You have in this State a variety of resources unexcelled, I think, +by any other State. Your attention was very naturally first directed +toward the precious metals, to the mining of gold and silver. The +commoner ores were neglected. Your cities were mining camps. +Nowhere in all our history has the American capacity for civil +organization been so perfectly demonstrated as in the mining camps<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_450" id="Page_450">[450]</a></span> +of the West. Coming here entirely beyond the range of civil institutions, +where courts, sheriffs, and police officers could not give a +hand to suppress the unruly at a time when our mining laws were +unframed, these pioneer miners of California, Colorado, Nevada, +Montana, and Idaho wrought out for themselves in their mining +camps a system of government and mining laws that have received +the approval of the State. [Cheers.] It was quite natural that +interest should have been first directed toward the precious metals. +You are coming to realize that the baser metals, as we call them, +with which your great hills are stored are of great and more lasting +value. [Cheers.] We passed this morning through a region where +I was surprised to see orchards that reminded me of California. +Now for all these things, for the beneficent influence under which +you live, for that good law that has distributed this public domain +freely to every man who desires to make a home for himself and +family, for this free Government that extends its protection over +the humblest as well as the mighty, for all these resources of sky +and air and earth, the people of Colorado should be joyously +thankful. [Cheers.] I am glad to hail you as fellow-citizens. I +am glad for a moment to stand in the midst of you, to see your +great capabilities, and to assure you that my best wishes are with +you in the development of them all. [Cheers] I am glad to know +that Colorado, this young Centennial State, has established a system +of free public schools unexcelled by any State in the Union +[Cheers.] But, my friends, as I said once before, I am in slavery +to a railroad schedule, and time is up Good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="COLORADO_SPRINGS_COLORADO_MAY_11" id="COLORADO_SPRINGS_COLORADO_MAY_11">COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 11.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> presidential party arrived at Colorado Springs at +6 o'clock in the evening and received the heartiest kind of +a welcome. They were met at the station by the Hon. Ira +G. Sprague, Mayor of the city, at the head of a large Committee +of Reception, comprising the following prominent +citizens: Judge John Campbell, J. F. Seldomridge, J. H. +Barlow, Irving Howbert, J. W. Stillman, W. S. Jackson, +B. F. Crowell, Col. Geo. De La Vergne, Hon. W. F. +Slocum, J. A. Hayes, Jr., E. Barnett, Geo. H. Stewart, +G. S. Barnes, W. A. Conant, W. L. Weed, H. C. McCreery, +E. W. Davis, D. Heron, W. R. Roby, C. H.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_451" id="Page_451">[451]</a></span> +White, C. E. Noble, B. W. Steele, L. H. Gowdy, J. H. +B. McFerran, D. M. Holden, W. S. Nichols, Dr. T. G. +Horn, Dr. W. A. Campbell, Thomas Hughes, J. P. Barnes, +W. A. Roby, Dr. B. P. Anderson, Judge J. B. Severy, +T. A. McMorris, F. L. Martin, J. M. Sellers, H. H. +Stevens, J. A. Weir, Geo. W. Thorne, J. J. Hagerman, +H. C. Lowe, L. R. Ehrich, J. F. Pebbles, Charles Thurlow, +A. Van Vechten, E. S. Wooley, J. M. Ellison, C. C. +Hoyt, Dr. W. M. Strickler, Dr. J. P. Grannis, Dr. S. E. +Solly, Judge William Harrison, W. H. Reed, Geo. F. +Whitney, E. A. Colburn, W. R. Barnes, Charles W. Collins, +N. O. Johnson, E. W. Giddings, P. C. Helm, C. E. +Durkee, W. C. Stark, Matt Wilbur, C. E. Stubbs, H. C. +Fursman, J. H. Sinclair, L. P. Lowe, J. C. Woodbury, +W. H. Tilton, L. A. Pease, Thomas Barber, David McShane, +H. A. Fuller, W. A. Perkins, Fred Robinson, +Geo. B. Perry, Count James Pourtales, W. B. Faunce, +E. M. Stedman, M. W. Everleth, Dr. O. Gillette, A. +A. McGooney, E. J. Eaton, Matt France, Henry L. B. +Wills, H. S. Ervay, C. J. Reynolds, Frank White, +W. F. Anderson, Thomas Parrish, P. A. McCurdy, C. +B. Crowell, W. A. Otis, J. N. Bolton, H. A. Ferugson, H. +Collbran, Geo. P. Riplet, H. G. Lunt, T. H. Edsall, A. L. +Lawton, W. H. D. Merrill, K. H. Field, Dr. H. T. Cooper, +A. J. Denton, H. I. Reid, C. W. Howbert, W. H. Hoagland, +J. W. D. Stovell, S. H. Kingsley, F. A. Mangold, Dr. +T. C. Kirkwood, Godfrey Kissell, Thomas Gough, V. Z. +Reed, H. S. Van Petten, T. S. Brigham, O. P. Hopkins, D. +C. Dudley, E. R. Stark, A. S. Holbrook, Milo Rowell, +Charles Walker, Prof. J. E. Ray, W. S. Nichols, Thomas +Shideler, Leonard Jackson, L. C. Dana, L. E. Sherman, +Samuel Bradford, William Clark, F. E. Dow, Geo. P. +Vaux, I. J. Woodworth, A. A. Williams, W. D. Belden, +W. H. Goshen, D. A. Russell, C. L. Gillingham, C. E. +Aiken, Dr. G. W. Lawrence, Geo. H. Parsons, Jehu Fields, +Edward Ferris, E. F. Clark, A. Sutton, Phil Strubel, F.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_452" id="Page_452">[452]</a></span> +A. Sperry, P. K. Pattison, L. H. Gilbert, Prof. Wm. +Strieby, Theo. Harrison, F. H. Morley, E. T. Ensign, Wm. +Lennox, W. H. McIntyre, J. E. Newton, John Hundley, +Dr. F. Hale, John Lennox, Wm. Bischoff, N. J. Davis, J. +L. Clinton, J. D. O'Haire, Dr. B. St. G. Tucker, E. S. +Josleyn, Seth Baker, Joseph Dozier, O. Roberts, J. E. Ray, +J. Plumb, H. Hall, Dr. M. S. Smith, W. H. Sanford, Lawrence +Myers, S. N. Nye, John Potter, C. H. Burgess, L. +G. Goodspeed, J. Sumner, E. F. Rudy, Maj. O. Remick, +E. S. Bumstead, G. C. Hemenway, John Simmons, H. +Halthusen, William Banning, Reuben Berrey, A. H. Corman, +F. D. Pastorious, J. L. Armit, Judson Bent, Rev. +James B. Gregg, Rev. A. R. Kieffer, Rev. R. Montague, +Rev. H. H. Bell, Rev. J. P. Lucas, Rev. M. D. Ormes, Rev. +H. E. Warner, and Rev. M. Carrington.</p> + +<p>The G. A. R. veterans comprised the presidential guard +of honor during the parade through the city. Civic organizations +from Manitou, Colorado City, Colfax, and Koener +participated in the demonstration, which was very fine +and received the special commendation of President Harrison.</p> + +<p>After the parade the Garfield School was visited, and +the President addressed the scholars as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>You have very appropriately named this school in which you +have gathered a portion of the children of Colorado Springs for +instruction—Garfield. I understand another of your public schools +is named after Abraham Lincoln. That, too, is a most appropriate +designation; for where, in all the story of our country, among its +men who have been illustrious in civil pursuits or in war, can +two names be found which furnish more inspiration and hope to +the youth of the land than the names of Lincoln and Garfield? +[Applause.] Both men came of parentage so poor that no advantages +attended their early years, and yet each by his own indomitable +will, by the persevering improvement of the meagre opportunities +they enjoyed, reached the highest place in our land, and are to-day +embalmed in the affectionate recollection of their countrymen. I +bid you all to read the lessons of these great lives, and to ponder +them well, for while not all may achieve all they achieved, useful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_453" id="Page_453">[453]</a></span> +and honorable position may be achieved by you all. Wishing you +every prosperity and success, I bid you good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>At night the city was brilliantly illuminated. A public +reception was held at the Hotel Antlers. The President +and his party were assisted by Governor and Mrs. Routt +and the Citizens' Committee. The welcoming ceremonies +took place before a great assemblage; Mayor Sprague made +the address.</p> + +<p>The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am sure you will crown the +kindness which you have shown me to-day by permitting me to +make my response to these words of welcome exceedingly brief. I +have spoken four or five times to-day, and the chill of the evening +will not allow me to exercise my voice with the accustomed immunity, +but I cannot refrain from saying to you how much we +have been pleased by the hasty glimpse we have been permitted to +get of this beautiful city. The fame of Colorado Springs has spread +throughout the entire East. I heard much of the beauty of its +location, the grandeur and sublimity of these mountains that stand +about bulwarked, as it is, like Jerusalem of old; of the health-giving +atmosphere that fills this valley, of the marvellous springs, +refreshing and life giving, which break out from your mountain +sides; of these marvellous and weird products of time that stand +in the Garden of the Gods—of all this I had heard. But, my +countrymen, no spring that ever broke from mountain side, no +bracing air that ever filled these valleys, was more refreshing and +invigorating to the invalid or to the weary than your hearty greeting +has been to us. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I visit your great State for the first time. When this journey has +been completed only two of the States of the Union, and only its +most distant Territory, will have escaped my personal inspection +and observation. From Maine to California, from the northern +line of Michigan, where it is washed by the waters of the Sault +Ste. Marie, to the Savannah, I have traversed this broad land of +ours, and out of all this journeying, out of all this mingling with +our people, I have come to be a prouder and, I hope, a better +American. We have a country whose diversity of climate, soil, +and production makes it, in a degree not true of other people in +the world, independent and self-contained. None of the necessaries +of life, and few of its luxuries, would be denied to us if we +were to limit ourselves to articles of American growth and pro<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_454" id="Page_454">[454]</a></span>duction. +[Cheers.] But better than all this, greater than our +bulk, are those things that enter into and characterize the American +social and political life. A distinguished Englishman journeying +in this country not many years ago, speaking of his +observations, rather caustically mentioned that the question most +often propounded to him was whether he was not surprised by the +great size of the country. He was a man of discernment, one who +looked beneath the surface, who had learned to measure the mighty +impulses which turn the current of human civilization, and rebuking +this pride of bulk he said: Yes, it was a surprise, but +greater still to him was the surprise that over 60,000,000 people +could maintain and preserve under free republican institutions +the social order and individual liberty which was maintained here; +greater to him than bulk was the marvel that this great people +could have survived and maintained its institutions under the terrible +stress of the great Civil War; greater than all else to him +was that unification of the people which seemed to follow that period +of deadly strife. I rejoice to be with you to-night as an American +citizen. I rejoice in the glory which the Centennial State has +brought to the Union, and which will greatly increase. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DENVER_COLORADO_MAY_12" id="DENVER_COLORADO_MAY_12">DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 12.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> his arrival at Denver, at 9:45 Tuesday morning, +President Harrison received an ovation. The tribute was +a spontaneous, hearty one, emphasized by the acclaim of +100,000 people. Governor Routt, ex-Senator Tabor, ex-Senator +Hill, and other distinguished citizens escorted the +presidential party from Glenwood Springs.</p> + +<p>The Chief Executive was met at the Union Depot by +the Hon. Platt Rogers, Mayor of the city, and 200 prominent +residents, comprising the Committee of Reception, +as follows: D. H. Moffat, I. B. Porter, C. E. Taylor, Wolfe +Londoner, J. E. Leet, Professor Haswell, S. H. Standart, W. +S. Cheesman, James Leonard, W. D. Todd, Adolph Zang, +Phil. Bockfinger, T. M. Patterson, C. S. Thomas, J. M. +Berkey, M. J. McNamara, C. H. Reynolds, J. D. McGilvray, +H. N. Chittenden, J. A. Thatcher, J. S. Wolfe, Dr.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_455" id="Page_455">[455]</a></span> +L. E. Lemen, Edward Eddy, Dr. Stedman, E. R. Barton, +D. Sheedy, H. B. Chamberlin, George Tritch, James Rice, +Victor Elliott, E. Monash, Thomas E. Poole, W. J. Barker, +J. T. Cornforth, J. K. Mullen, E. B. Light, Fine P. Ernest, +Colonel Dodge, Donald Fletcher, W. G. Fisher, A. C. Fisk, +M. Hallett, F. A. Meredith, Charles B. Kountz, I. E. Blake, +Dr. Dennison, W. H. James, C. M. Kittredge, Joseph H. +Smith, William Stapleton, J. C. Helm, S. T. Smith, P. J. +Flynn, Isaac Brinker, Judge Rising, Frank Bishop, Supervisor +Anderson, J. W. Roberts, Herman Strauss, J. H. +Brown, A. B. McKinley, W. J. Barker, H. P. Steele, Lafe +Pence, George F. Batchelder, Rev. J. M. Freeman, John +Arkins, ex-Governor Grant, J. M. Lawrence, J. J. Joslin, +F. J. V. Skiff, W. S. Decker, John Corcoran, W. B. Felker, +F. B. Hill, J. D. Best, John Riethmann, Thomas Hayden, +Anthony Sweeney, ex-Governor Cooper, Charles D. Cobb, +John Evans, William Scott Lee, Peter Magnes, Dr. Bancroft, +E. F. Hallack, R. H. McMann, S. L. Holzman, H. +R. Wolcott, J. S. Brown, M. B. Carpenter, Joseph Cresswell, +R. W. Woodbury, E. M. Ashley, J. S. Appel, E. L. +Scholtz, Dennis Sullivan, Samuel Elbert, G. W. Clayton, +J. C. Montgomery, G. C. De Bronkart, Louis Mack, C. S. +Morey, George E. Randolph, William Barth, T. S. McMurray, +J. E. Bates, C. F. Wilson, Rev. Myron W. Reed, +Dr. Graham, J. L. McNeill, W. H. Bush, G. G. Symes, +Rodney Curtis, J. W. Nesmith, O. E. Le Fevre, Judge +Furman, H. J. Adams, J. C. Twombly, Judge Graham, F. +Rinne, Supervisor Slack, Gen. W. A. Hamill, H. P. Parmelee, +General Dunn, J. H. Poole, George Raymond, J. +W. Hampton, Henri Foster, W. C. Lothrop, James H. +Blood, E. W. Merritt, Wm. Harris, General Humphrey, +Daniel Ryan, R. S. Roe, R. W. Speer, C. S. Lee, Jos. Milner, +J. A. McDonald, Judge Bentley, M. Currigan, M. D. +Van Horn, Fred Walsen, Dr. H. K. Steele, Assyria Hall, +A. P. Rittenhouse, Richard Sopris, F. C. Goudy, C. H. +Hackley, Isaac N. Stevens, Thomas Croke, J. P. Ewing,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_456" id="Page_456">[456]</a></span> +George C. Manly, J. T. Adams, George Ady, D. W. Hart, +Judge Alvin Marsh, C. D. Titus, Supervisor Chase, Otto +Mears, H. Solomon, D. F. Carmichael, Amos Steck, E. S. +Chapman, W. B. Hanscome, R. A. Gurley, C. H. Sage, +Rev. Dr. Tupper, Henry Apple, Herbert George, W. H. +Firth, Egbert Johnson, F. E. Edbrooke, S. K. Hooper, +Thos. G. Anderson, A. D. Shepard, J. S. McGilvray, E. L. +Fox, D. C. Packard, O. Whittemore, David May, Ralph +Voorhees, Senator Cochrane, J. M. Daily, Col. C. J. Clark, +H. L. Morris, Rev. Father Malone, Dr. Blickensderfer, J. +M. Downing, C. M. Hampson, Thomas Nicholas, Judge +Miller, Jerome Riche, J. D. McGilvray, W. H. Milburn, +F. H. Kreuger, L. H. Guldman, W. N. Byers, William M. +Bliss, George H. Graham, Lewis Price, Jay Cook, Jr., +C. S. Prowitt, S. C. Shepard, O. Carstarphen, Captain J. +T. Smith, and Hugh Butler.</p> + +<p>The parade was an imposing and brilliant spectacle, in +charge of Chief Marshal A. H. Jones, assisted by Gen. E. +K. Stimson, Chief of Staff, and the following aides: John +C. Kennedy, Adjutant-General of Colorado; Benjamin F. +Klee, E. J. Brooke, W. H. Conley, John A. McBeth, W. +Y. Sedam, N. G. Dunn, George Ady, Thomas R. Scott, +John Corcoran, B. A. Harbour, Thomas Baldwin, G. G. +Symes, S. A. Shepard, and Robert R. Wright. Over +1,000 G. A. R. comrades were in line, led by George W. +Cook, and several hundred Sons of Veterans, commanded +by Col. C. H. Anderson. The President's carriage, drawn +by six white horses, was escorted by Lieut. Col. A. W. +Hogle and staff. Countless thousands thronged the streets +along the route of the procession. As the column passed the +High School 10,000 scholars and children gave the President +and Mrs. Harrison an enthusiastic greeting. A vast +assemblage awaited the President's arrival at the reviewing +stand, where he was met by the Colorado Pioneers, led +by Maj. William Wise. Governor Routt delivered an +eloquent address of welcome, followed by Mayor Rogers,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_457" id="Page_457">[457]</a></span> +who portrayed the triumphant struggle and growth of +Denver. President Harrison responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Routt, Mr. Mayor, Pioneers of Colorado, Comrades of +the Grand Army</i> [cheers] <i>and Fellow-citizens</i>—This scene is inspiring. +This beautiful city, the fame of which your journeying citizens +have not failed to carry to the far East [laughter and cheers], +has become known to me as we can know by the hearing of the +ear; and I am rejoiced to add to my pleasant impressions of Colorado, +and of its commercial and political capital, that which is +in sight of the eye, which has but deepened and enlarged the +favorable impressions which I brought to your State. It is a marvellous +thing that all we see here is in a State whose existence +dates from the dawn of the second century of our national life. +What a tremendous testimony to the organizing power and energy +of the American people this great State is! That these wastes, so +unpromising to the eye in that early time, should have been invaded +by the restless energy of indomitable men; that they should +have seen in visions that which was to follow their heroic labor +for the development of these hidden resources; that no drought or +drifting sand, no threat of mountain nor of sky, could turn back +these brave-hearted men who had set their faces to pierce and +uncover the hidden riches of these mountains. The pioneers of +Colorado are worthy of honor. Those who have entered into their +labors, who have come not toilsomely but on swift and easy wings +into the heritage that they have opened, should, always and everywhere, +gratefully acknowledge the services of those who made this +easy pathway for their feet. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Your State is blessed in the diversity of its resources. You do +not depend on any one of the great industries of civilized life. +You have taken from your mines immense stores of the precious +metals, but when these are gone or their supply is diminished you +will turn your eyes toward those metals that we call base, but that +after all enter in so many ways into human life that they supply +more enduring and in the end more profitable industries. Your +iron, and coal, and lead, and building stone will be sources of +income inexhaustible. These valleys, touched by the magical +power of irrigation, will yield to your population abundant food, +and you will yet have within yourselves that happy commercial +condition of a State producing and exchanging within its own +limits nearly all the necessaries of life. [Cheers.] Transportation +is always a burden. The industrial condition is always best when +the producers and the consumers are near together.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_458" id="Page_458">[458]</a></span> +<p>I am glad to know that you have not been so busy in delving +into the earth; that you have not so turned your minds to the +precious metal as to have forgotten that there is a blue sky above +you; that there are aspirations, and hopes, and glories that are +greater than all material things. [Cheers.] You have not failed +to make sure that the children, the blessed children of your homes, +that are now coming on, are made secure in the possession of a +well-ordered and of a well-endowed school system. [Cheers.] +What a testimony it is to the American character that, however +intense the push for the things of this life, however eager the +pursuit of gain, you can never assemble a community of 200 people +that they do not begin to organize schools for the children. +[Cheers.] These common schools are not simply nurseries of +intellectual training; they are nurseries of citizenship. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It has been a most happy sight to see the same old banner that +we bore into the smoke of battle and carried over dying comrades +to place it in triumph on the ramparts of the enemy now in the +hands of the children of Colorado. [Cheers.] Proof has been +made a thousand times—proof will be made whenever the occasion +requires—that, as much as we pursue gain and personal ends, we +have nothing—property or life—that we do not freely lay down +upon the altar of our country for the general good. [Cheers.] +But, my fellow-citizens, this assemblage is too vast, and the +demand upon my time for public speech has been too protracted, +to enable me to pursue these remarks further.</p> + +<p>Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, survivors of the +great war whose success preserved all that our fathers had devised +and established, whose success brought back this flag in honor and +established it again the undisputed emblem of an indissoluble +Union [cheers], God has bountifully lengthened out your days +that you might catch some glimpse of the glory that has come +from the achievements in which you bore an honorable part. But +only the vision of the prophet reaching out over centuries to come +can catch the full glory of what your deeds have wrought. I give +you to-day a most affectionate greeting [cheers]; I give you a +regretful good-by. May you hold in the community where you +live that respect and honor to which you are entitled. Let no +Grand Army man ever dishonor in civil life the noble record he +made in war. May every blessing follow you, and if it shall not +be in God's dispensation to give you riches, at least, comrades, +you shall die with the glorious satisfaction of having contributed +to the greatest work that man ever wrought for humanity and +good; and, wrapped in the flag you followed, your comrades will,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_459" id="Page_459">[459]</a></span> +one by one, see that in honored graves your bodies rest until the +resurrection, and that on each returning day of decoration flowers +are strewn upon your graves.</p> + +<p>Citizens of Denver, I cannot close without expressing the great +satisfaction and surprise with which I have witnessed this morning +the magnificent commercial developments which have been made +here. These streets, these towering, substantial, and stately houses +in which your commerce is transacted, place you in the front rank +of enterprise. I do not think any city so young can claim so high +a place. [Cheers.] I thank you very sincerely for a demonstration +which I cannot accept as personal—all this is too great for any +man—but as a spontaneous tribute to our free institutions. I +accept this as an evidence that in all essential things we are one +people. The fuller revelation of that fact to us all has been worth +all the labor and time we have mutually expended in this long +journey. In all essential things we are one; we divide and strive +and debate, but we are patriotic American citizens, having a love +for the Constitution and the flag that brings us all at last to submit +our opinion to the lawfully expressed wish of the majority. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>And now again good-by. I shall leave behind me every good +wish for your prosperity, individually as a municipality and as a +State. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>After a drive over Capitol Hill the President and the +gentlemen of his party were the guests of W. H. Bush at +the Hotel Metropole. Senator Teller presided at luncheon.</p> + +<p>Responding to a toast in honor of the President of the +United States, General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I cannot fail to respond to such a toast. Indeed, I +should be unkind to you and to myself as well if I did not. However, +I cannot speak at length in thanking you for the gracious +hospitality I have received in Denver. I can truly say my visit +has culminated in Denver. For pleasure during my stay here, for +perfection in arrangement, for cordiality, and all things which go +to make a stop pleasant, Denver has given a climax of enjoyment.</p> + +<p>It has given me great pleasure to take note of some of the things +which have made this beautiful city here and its recent and massive +developments a wonder to the civilization of to-day. I am apt +to judge the city by the home. That is with me the test, more +than the business buildings, the manufactories, etc. It gives me +great pleasure to state that in all my travels, and they have in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_460" id="Page_460">[460]</a></span>cluded +all the States but two, I have never seen a city with such +elegant homes as here. [Cheers.] I am sure, when you have +worked out your silver mines and the more common products, +stone and granite, you will have that which will last you for an +indefinite time, and which will also add to the beauty of your +already beautiful city. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I have the pleasure of testifying to the satisfaction with which +the party has spent these few days in the Centennial State. I hope +I may have the pleasure of being with you again at some near +future time.</p> + +<p>I say good-by, and again express our thanks for your hospitality, +which has been excelled nowhere on our journey. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="AKRON_COLORADO_MAY_12" id="AKRON_COLORADO_MAY_12">AKRON, COLORADO, MAY 12.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President made his farewell Colorado speech at +Akron at 9 o'clock at night. The Reception Committee +consisted of Hon. D. W. Irwin, R. S. Langley, and J. M. +Aitkin. Upward of 3,000 people welcomed the distinguished +travellers. Colonel Griffith and Gen. L. C. Colby, +Commander Nebraska State Guards, joined the party at +Akron as the representatives of Governor John M. Thayer.</p> + +<p>Commander John N. Tague, of Akron Post, G. A. R., +introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It is very kind of you to gather here to-night as we +pass by. We have had a very pleasant trip. Our interest in your +State and our appreciation of its great resources have been very +much increased on this visit. I am glad to find—indeed, I knew +I should find—the same people here that we have in Illinois, Indiana, +and Ohio. Most of you come from some of those States, and +you are not new people. I have been very much pleased to notice +that here, as well as in the East, you take deep interest in schools +and in all those things that tend to elevate a community and to +set social order on a firm and secure basis. Allow me to thank +you again, and to bid you good-night. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_461" id="Page_461">[461]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HASTINGS_NEBRASKA_MAY_13" id="HASTINGS_NEBRASKA_MAY_13">HASTINGS, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Hastings</span>, Nebraska's third city, was reached at 6:30 +the morning of the 13th, and notwithstanding the early +hour fully 10,000 people were present to welcome the +President. The Reception Committee consisted of Mayor +A. L. Clarke, Hon. John M. Ragan, C. H. Dietrich, Judge +W. R. Burton, F. H. Firman, W. M. Kerr, General Dilworth, +J. J. Buchanan, R. A. Batty, James B. Heartwell, +A. F. Powers, A. V. Cole, M. Van Fleet, Dr. Johnson, Dr. +J. E. Hilts, A. H. Brown, Dr. Cook, R. B. Wahlquist, and +C. Cameron.</p> + +<p>J. N. Clarke delivered the address of welcome and introduced +President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-countrymen</i>—There is a freshness and a beauty about +the Nebraska prairies, but I hope I will not fall in your esteem if +I say I do not like to get up early. [Shouts, "Neither do we!"] +Occasionally, in our trip, we seem to pick up an hour. When I +retired at Denver last night, at none too early an hour, I was told +that we would be at Hastings at 6:30. But we arrived here, it +seems to me, at 5:20 by the time I went to bed by last night; but, +my friends, all these things that make labor of travel are as nothing +compared with the great gratification we find in such assemblages +as this.</p> + +<p>As we journeyed eastward we have seen the arid land where +the water ran in ditches and did not fall in showers. That system +has its advantages and its disadvantages, but I must confess that +it seems more homelike for me to get back to the land where the +showers fall and everything is fresh and green. This diversity of +natural conditions and of agricultural and mineral wealth makes +the greatness of our country. Diversity is found everywhere in +nature, and it is a happy thing. It is found in the field and crop, +but never in the people—any observing man can see that we are +one people. [Cheers.] The people I saw in California, in Arizona, +and all along our journey, were just such people as I see here; +indeed, they were in a strict sense the same people, because they +are Yankees, Pennsylvanians, Wisconsin men, Hoosiers, and +Buckeyes—I think the Ohio man must be here. [Several responses +of "Here we are!"]</p> + +<p>The Westerners are the overspill of the enterprising population of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_462" id="Page_462">[462]</a></span> +the East. They kept going a little farther west, still a little farther, +until at last they touched the Pacific; and so anywhere the +traveller may go, if he will make himself known, the hands of old +neighbors will be stretched out to him. Out of all this comes the +love for the one flag, and I am glad to say that we have not passed +any little way station—even in Arizona, where a few scores had +gathered from distant ranches—but some one with an American +flag was there and American cheers for that flag. Sometimes the +incidents were almost pathetic. At one little station in Arizona, +as we drew up in the darkness, there were half a dozen ranchers +on the platform. I noticed on the lapels of two or three coats the +Grand Army button. One of them shouted, "There are but few of +us, but let us give a cheer for the old flag, boys!" [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I thank you most cordially for your gathering here. I do not +know whether it is prejudice or not, but anyway I always have +a very high opinion of a State whose chief production is corn. +[Laughter and applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CRETE_NEBRASKA_MAY_13" id="CRETE_NEBRASKA_MAY_13">CRETE, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Crete the President received a musical welcome. +Nedela's band rendered "America," and over 2,000 voices +joined in the chorus. It was a beautiful tribute to patriotism. +Governor Thayer, accompanied by Lieut. Gov. T. +J. Majors, Secretary of State J. C. Allen, Auditor T. H. +Benton, Treasurer J. E. Hill, Atty. Gen. Geo. H. Hastings, +Adjt. Gen. A. V. Cole, Commissioner A. R. Humphry, and +Col. H. E. Palmer, came down from Lincoln and met the +President's party at Crete. The local Reception Committee +consisted of Mayor Norris, ex-Governor Dawes, S. L. +Andrews, Capt. John Sherrill, and H. M. Wells.</p> + +<p>Governor Thayer introduced the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It appears sometimes in the heat of political campaigns +that the American people do not agree upon anything; but +after it is all over we take a broader survey of things and we find +that underneath all these divisions is the bed rock of patriotism. +In that at least we have a common purpose.</p> + +<p>I am glad to see these children here this morning. They have +greeted me everywhere with their happy smiles, and they brighten<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_463" id="Page_463">[463]</a></span> +the way quite as much as the flowers that have been given us. It +is pleasant to know that in these pioneer countries you are establishing +common schools in order that the generation which is +coming on may have a better chance than you had. I do not +know of anything better than the father and mother working and +striving that their children may have an easier and better chance +in life than they had. I am very glad to see you all this morning, +and thank you for your cordial welcome. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="LINCOLN_NEBRASKA_MAY_13" id="LINCOLN_NEBRASKA_MAY_13">LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 13</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> capital of Nebraska was reached at 9 o'clock in the +morning and the Lincolnites gave the President a warm +greeting. The State officials, with Mayor Weir and the +following prominent citizens, comprised the Committee of +Reception: Maj. H. C. McArthur, Charles H. Gere, E. E. +Brown, N. S. Harwood, C. M. Parker, C. E. Montgomery, +S. S. Royce, A. H. Weir, J. B. Archibald, W. E. Churchill, +Alva Brown, John D. Wright, Phelps Paine, J. B. Strode, +C. H. Gould, Joseph Teeters, J. J. Imhoff, John H. McClay, +D. W. Mosely, J. H. McMurtry, Professor Bessey, and +Alva Kennard. During the march to the Capitol grounds +the President was escorted by the veterans of Farragut +Post, Martin Howe Commander, and Appomattox Post, +C. W. Lyman Commander. Governor Thayer and Mayor +Weir each delivered an address welcoming the President +to Nebraska and to Lincoln.</p> + +<p>President Harrison responded:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Thayer and Mr. Mayor</i>—It will, I think, be entirely +impossible for me to make myself heard by this vast assemblage, +situated as you are here this morning. Our stay with you is +necessarily brief, and yet I do not want you to feel that we have +discriminated against the political capital of one of the very +greatest of the newer States. I have been so pressed with the +engagements which have been suggested to us that I have only +been able to give three-quarters of an hour to Indianapolis, my +own home. I have given you the same, and I had hoped, very<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_464" id="Page_464">[464]</a></span> +much, that this time could be extended and that I would be able +to address you with more comfort to myself and to you.</p> + +<p>We are here as American citizens, for common hope and love; +we are here the friends of the flag, of the Constitution, of social +order, of every school, of all that characterizes this Nation and +makes it better than any other nation in the world.</p> + +<p>I thank you, most cordially thank you, for this magnificent +demonstration. It has but one fault, and that is it is altogether +too large to be suitably arranged with a view to public speaking.</p> + +<p>I hope you will allow me again to thank you very sincerely for +your most cordial and magnificent welcome, and wish for you and +your State all prosperity and for the country of which we are common +citizens a career of unchecked glory. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<p>As the President was about to depart he was met by a +committee representing the Nebraska Travelling Men's +Association, consisting of President Fred A. Wilson, Secretary +R. M. Simons, and Capt. J. S. Agey, who presented +him with an address of welcome printed on satin in gold. +In accepting the souvenir the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>Convey my thanks to the travelling men, for whom I entertain +the kindest regard. I remember them in the last campaign, and +shall always be thankful for the favors extended. I noticed your +body in the parade, and have never seen a finer representation of +the fraternity. [Renewed cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ASHLAND_NEBRASKA_MAY_13" id="ASHLAND_NEBRASKA_MAY_13">ASHLAND, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">About</span> 2,000 people greeted the President at Ashland. +The school children were assembled at the station under +Superintendent Crabtree. Mayor J. C. Railsback, H. H. +Shedd, S. G. Bryan, Col. J. K. Clarke, R. E. Butler, C. N. +Folsom, M. Newman, W. T. Spere, J. H. Snell, J. H. +Oliver, J. W. Moon, and S. B. Hall, Commander of Bob +McCook Post, G. A. R., welcomed the President, who made +a brief address, as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I am very much obliged to you for your cordial +welcome. We pause but for a moment, and it will not be possible +for me to make a speech. You are talking yourselves, and I am<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_465" id="Page_465">[465]</a></span> +sure in very high tones of patriotism, by your display of the +national colors in your own hands and in the hands of the school +children, and by this welcome to one who for the time is placed at +the head of the national Government. I have not accepted what +I have seen on this trip as personal; it is too much for any man. +I accept it as the expression of our people for the love of our flag +and for the institutions which it symbolizes. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="OMAHA_NEBRASKA_MAY_13" id="OMAHA_NEBRASKA_MAY_13">OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> arrived at Omaha Wednesday +noon and was accorded a reception that in numbers and +enthusiasm was scarcely surpassed during the entire trip. +He was met at Lincoln by an escort committee consisting +of Senator Charles F. Manderson, Senator A. S. Paddock, +Hon. J. C. Cowin, ex-Gov. R. B. Furnas, Maj. D. H. +Wheeler, Judge J. M. Thurston, G. W. Willard, W. V. +Morse, D. J. O'Donohue, B. B. Wood, Dr. G. L. Miller, C. +Hartman, Maj. T. S. Clarkson, C. J. Greene, A. J. Poppleton, +Hon. J. E. Boyd, J. H. Millard, Thomas Swobe, A. P. +Hopkins, Max Meyer, W. F. Bechel, and T. J. Lowry.</p> + +<p>Arrived at the station the President and his party were +met and welcomed by Mayor R. C. Cushing at the head of +the following committee of prominent citizens: Hon. E. +S. Dundy, E. Wakely, T. J. Mahoney, Dr. J. E. Summers, +L. Berka, W. J. Broatch, Fred Metz, T. L. Kimball, G. M. +Hitchcock, J. A. Creighton, J. F. Coad, C. V. Gallagher, +Herman Kountze, W. A. Paxton, C. S. Chase, G. W. Lininger, +Lee Hartley, Amos Field, H. G. Burt, G. W. Holdrege, +J. E. Kinney, Edward Rosewater, M. V. Gannon, +W. A. L. Gibbon, Henry Pundt, J. B. Furay, J. T. Clarke, +E. A. Cudahy, J. O. Phillippi, F. P. Hanlon, B. S. Baker, +John Peters, W. H. Alexander, Brad Slaughter, W. N. +Nason, Euclid Martin, Henry Yates, J. L. McCague, J. +A. Wakefield, C. L. Chaffee, Julius Meyer, C. E. Burmester, +L. R. Rosaker, James Stephenson, J. M. Woolworth,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_466" id="Page_466">[466]</a></span> +Charles Ogden, J. S. Webster, Col. Dudley Evans, Richard +Smith, L. D. Fowler, G. M. Nattinger, J. W. Eller, Simon +Bloom, H. H. Benson, Capt. R. S. Wilcox, S. Adamsky, J. +A. Cusadore, O. G. Decker, Charles L. Thomas, M. J. +Feenan, Frank Moores, General Brooke and staff, and +the following city officials: C. S. Goodrich, John Rush, +Lee Helsley, W. S. Shoemaker, Silas Cobb, John Groves, +Geo. W. Tillson, P. W. Birkhauser, Geo. C. Whitlock, +Geo. L. Dennis, A. B. Howatt, Clark Gapan, J. J. Galligan, +Wilber S. Seavey, James Flannery, H. L. Rammacciotti, +James Gilbert, Thomas J. McLean, J. H. Standeven, +Thomas Riley, Thomas Bermingham, Fred Hickstein, +Peter A. Welch, and Frank R. Morrisey.</p> + +<p>The ladies on the Reception Committee were Mrs. Alvin +Saunders, Mrs. General Brooke, Mrs. General Wheaton, +Mrs. Judge Dundy, Mrs. Clark Woodman, Mrs. H. W. +Yates, Mrs. E. Rosewater, Mrs. S. S. Caldwell, and Mrs. +Geo. M. O'Brien.</p> + +<p>An imposing procession, conducted by Chief Marshal +C. F. Weller, assisted by Jacob Fawcett and Capt. Geo. +Porter, escorted the presidential party to the pavilion near +the Court House, from whence the President reviewed the +column, headed by the Second Regiment U.S. Infantry. +General Frederick, Col. M. V. Sheridan, Colonel Turson, +General Mulcahy, Captain Morseman, Major Potwin, +Colonel Curtis, Colonel Strong, Captain Richardson, Captain +Rhodes, Captain Stickle, Major Luddington, Lieutenant +Jensen, Lieutenant Korty, and other members of the +Loyal Legion, awaited the Commander-in-Chief at the pavilion, +around which a vast concourse assembled. Mayor +Cushing made the welcoming address.</p> + +<p>When the demonstration subsided President Harrison +responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I can accept without question +and with very deep gratitude these cordial words of welcome +which you have spoken on behalf of the people of this great city.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_467" id="Page_467">[467]</a></span> +Twice before it has been my pleasure to spend a brief time in this +great commercial metropolis of the great Valley of the Missouri. +I have had opportunity, therefore, to witness the rapid development +which your city has made. I recollect it as I saw it in 1881, +and as I see it to-day I feel that I need to be told where I am. +[Applause and cheers.]</p> + +<p>These magnificent structures dedicated to commerce, these magnificent +churches lifting their spires toward the heavens, these +many school-houses consecrated to the training of those who shall +presently stand in our places to be responsible for these our public +institutions, these great stock-yards, where the meat product of +the great meat-producing States of the Missouri Valley is prepared +for market, and, above all and crowning all, these thousands of +happy, comfortable homes which characterize and constitute your +great city are a marvel and tribute to the enterprise and power of +development of the American people, unsurpassed, I think, by any +city in the United States. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>As I turn my face now toward Washington, as I hasten on to +take up public duties partially laid aside during this journey, I +rejoice to receive here in Omaha that same kindly greeting with +which we were welcomed as we journeyed from Washington +through the South to the Pacific. If anything were needed to call +for a perfect surrender of all personal thought in an absolute consecration +of public duty to the general good of all our people, I +have found it in these magnificent demonstrations. [Cheers.] We +shall always have parties—it is characteristic of free people—we +need to have party divisions, debate, and political contention; but +it is pleasant to observe in all this journey we have taken how +large a stock of common patriotism we find in all the people. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>You have here in Nebraska a State of magnificent capabilities. +I have seen the orange grove, and all those fruits which enrich +and characterize the State of California. I have seen Leadville, +the summit city, these mining camps upon the peaks where men +are delving into the earth to bring out the riches stored there, but +I return again to the land of the cornstalk with an affection that +I cannot describe. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am sure these friends who have delighted us with the visions +of loveliness and prosperity will excuse me if my birth and early +training in Ohio and Indiana leads me to the conclusion that the +States that raise corn are the greatest States in the world. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We have a surplus production in these great valleys for which +we must seek foreign markets. It is pleasant to know that 90 per<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_468" id="Page_468">[468]</a></span> +cent. or more of our agricultural productions are consumed by our +own people. I do not know how soon it may be that we shall +cease to be dependent upon any foreign market for our farm products. +With the rapid development which is being made in manufacturing +pursuits, with the limitation which the rapid occupation +of our public domain now brings to our minds as to the increase +of agriculture, it cannot be a very distant day when the farmer +shall realize the ideal condition and find a market out of his own +farm wagon for what he produces.</p> + +<p>It has been a source of constant thought and zealous effort on +the part of the Administration at Washington to secure larger foreign +markets for our farm products. I rejoice that in the last two +years some of those obstructions which hindered the free access of +our meat products to American markets have been removed. I +rejoice to know that we have now freer, larger access for our +meats to the markets of England and of Europe than we have had +in many years. [Applause.] I rejoice to know that this has +brought better prices to the stock-raisers of these great western +valleys. I believe, under the provision looking to reciprocal trade +in the law of the last Congress, that we shall open yet larger and +nearer markets for the products of Nebraska farmers. [Cheers.] +So distant as you are from the Atlantic seaboard, it may have +seemed to you that your interest in the revival of our trade, in the +re-establishment of an American merchant marine, was not perceptible +or direct.</p> + +<p>Not long since an inquiry was made as to the origin of the +freight that was carried by one of the Brazilian steamers from the +port of New York, and it was found that twenty-five States had +made contribution to that cargo, and among those States was the +State of Nebraska. [Cheers.] And so by such methods as we can +it is our purpose to enlarge our foreign markets for the surplus +productions of our great country. And we hope—and we think +this hope fills the great West as well as the East—that when this +increased traffic and commerce is found upon the sea it shall be +carried in American bottoms. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>A few days ago, sailing in the harbor of San Francisco, I saw +three great deep-water ships enter the Golden Gate. One carried +the flag of Hawaii and two the British flag, and at Portland they +took the pains to tow up from the lower harbor and to deck in +bunting an American ship that was lying in the harbor. It was a +curious sight—one they thought important to exhibit to strangers +visiting that city. Why, my countrymen, I hope the day is not +far distant when the sight of great American ships flying the Stars<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_469" id="Page_469">[469]</a></span> +and Stripes at the fore will be familiar not only in our own ports, +but in every busy mart of commerce the world around. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>This Government of ours cannot do everything for everybody. +The theory of our Government is large individual liberty. It is +that we shall take out of the way all legislative obstructions to the +free and honest pursuit of all human industries; that each individual +shall in his own place have the best chance possible to develop +the highest prosperity for himself and his family.</p> + +<p>Some functions are lodged with our Government. It must provide +a currency for the use of our people, for I believe the time +has gone by when we will be content to return to the old system +of an issue of money by State banks. But I will not discuss such +questions. I only desire to say this—which is common ground +upon which we can all stand—that whatever money the Government +issues, paper or coin, must be good money. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I have an idea that every dollar we issue should be as good as +any dollar we issue, for, my countrymen, whenever we have any +money, paper or coin, the first errand that dollar does is to pay +some workingman for his daily toil. No one so much as the +laboring man and the farmer requires a full value dollar of permanent +value the year around. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>But, my countrymen, I had not intended to speak so long. I +hope I have not intruded upon any ground of division. I am talking, +not as a partisan, but as an American citizen, desiring by every +method to enhance the prosperity of all our people; to have this great +Government in all that it undertakes touch with beneficence and +equal hands the pursuits of the rich and of the poor. [Cheers.] +Nothing has been so impressive in all this journey as the magnificent +spirit of patriotism which pervades our people. I have seen +enough American flags to wrap the world around. [Great applause +and cheers.]</p> + +<p>The school children have waved it joyously to us, and many a +time in some lonesome country home on the bleak sand I have seen +a man or woman or a little boy come to the door of a cabin as we +hurried by waving the starry banner in greeting to our train. I +am sure, as your Mayor has said, that this same magnificent, patriotic, +American spirit pervades you all here to-day.</p> + +<p>God bless you all; prosper you in every endeavor; give glory +and increase to your city, and settle all its institutions upon a +secure basis of social order and obedience to the law. [Great +cheering.]</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_470" id="Page_470">[470]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">At the High-School Grounds.</p> + +<p>On concluding the formal reception the President and +his party became the guests of Hon. E. Rosewater, editor +and proprietor of the Omaha <i>Daily Bee</i>, and after inspecting +the editorial rooms the President held a reception in +the rotunda of the <i>Bee</i> building. This was followed by a +ride over the city, escorted by the Reception Committee. +As the <i>cortége</i> passed the High-School grounds 20,000 +children and adults gave the President a most patriotic +greeting.</p> + +<p>Halting in front of the building, the President arose in +his carriage and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>It gives me great pleasure to receive this cordial greeting from +the teachers and pupils of the Omaha public schools. The most +pleasant features of this journey have been the beautiful and cordial +receptions given us by the school children. I am pleased to +notice the magnificent system of schools you have here in Omaha—part +of a system that had its origin in New England and now +extends over this entire country, the mainstay of this great Government. +A number of years ago I was standing upon the banks +of the headwaters of the Missouri River, where its waters are pure +and limpid, but after passing through the bad lands of Dakota +the waters of the mighty river become contaminated and impure, +as you see it rolling by your beautiful city. Let me hope that +none of you, my little friends, will ever become tainted by contact +with the bad lands of experience as you journey through life on to +manhood and womanhood. God bless you all; good-by.</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion of these remarks General Harrison +was apprised that a mistake had been made in halting at +the entrance, as the children were unable to either hear or +see him. Upon learning this the President immediately +alighted and made his way with some difficulty to the +platform, where he addressed the children, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Little Friends</i>—You do not feel half as badly as I do at the +thought that I made my speech intended for you to your papas +and mammas. I have not the time to attempt to repeat it, but I +can't get away without telling you of the affectionate interest I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_471" id="Page_471">[471]</a></span> +have in all the children of this great country. Bless you—you are +the blossoms of our homes. With a good-by and another God bless +you I am off. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="COUNCIL_BLUFFS_IOWA_MAY_13" id="COUNCIL_BLUFFS_IOWA_MAY_13">COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A short</span> stop was made at Council Bluffs, where several +thousand people greeted the party. Owing to the brief +time allowed by the schedule no committees were appointed, +but the veterans of Abe Lincoln Post, G. A. R., Dr. F. S. +Thomas Commander, greeted the party. Hon. Joseph R. +Reed made a brief welcoming address.</p> + +<p>The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It gives me great pleasure to thank you for this +cordial greeting as we cross the river. I was not anticipating a +meeting here or any call for an address. I see about me some of +my old comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and I want +to give them a comrade's greeting. I have seen them everywhere; +even out on the sands of Arizona I found them gathered together, +and it has always been a pleasure to meet them. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SHENANDOAH_IOWA_MAY_13" id="SHENANDOAH_IOWA_MAY_13">SHENANDOAH, IOWA, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> town of Shenandoah was illuminated in honor of +the President's visit. The travellers were welcomed by +Mayor H. S. Nichols, Hon. Benjamin Todd, C. M. Conway, +W. H. Harrison, R. W. Morse, C. S. Keenan, Capt. C. V. +Mount, and the veterans of Burnside Post, G. A. R., commanded +by C. P. Coleneous.</p> + +<p>The President, responding to cheers from the large +crowd, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It gives me great pleasure to see you and to receive +from you this hearty greeting. Our schedule is so close that we +can tarry only a moment with you, and therefore I can only say +thank you and good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_472" id="Page_472">[472]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MARYVILLE_MISSOURI_MAY_13" id="MARYVILLE_MISSOURI_MAY_13">MARYVILLE, MISSOURI, MAY 13.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was 11 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> when the train made its first stop in +Missouri, at Maryville, where an unusually large crowd +greeted the President. The welcoming committee consisted +of Judge Lafayette Dawson, Ira K. Alderman, +James Todd, W. C. Pierce, H. E. Robinson, and Lyman +Parcher.</p> + +<p>When the cheering subsided President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—This multitude is a great surprise. I have already +spoken six or seven times to-day, and am very much fatigued, so +that I shall not attempt to speak. Indeed, my time is so close +that I can tarry but a moment. But I would be untrue to myself +if I did not acknowledge this most magnificent demonstration. I +thank you most sincerely for your kindness and bid you good-night.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HANNIBAL_MISSOURI_MAY_14" id="HANNIBAL_MISSOURI_MAY_14">HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">About</span> the earliest reception on the great journey +occurred at Hannibal, which was reached at 5:30 +the morning of the 14th. Notwithstanding the hour, +5,000 people gave the President an enthusiastic welcome. +Secretary Rusk and Postmaster-General Wanamaker +appeared on the platform with General Harrison. +The Reception Committee comprised Capt. John E. Catlett, +C. P. Heywood, J. J. Kirkland, Smith Alexander, +Lewis Jackson, W. H. Dulany, Edward Price, S. J. Miller, +James C. Gill, J. H. McVeigh, John T. Leighter, J. +H. Pelhem, W. E. Chamberlain, J. H. Boughton, Thomas +H. Bacon, G. O. Bishop, S. W. Philips, and W. F. Drescher. +The veterans of W. T. Sherman Post, G. A. R., W. +H. Davis Commander, and several hundred school children +were conspicuous in the reception.</p> + +<p>President Harrison spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have only time to assure you that I appreciate +very highly this evidence of your respect. We have ex<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_473" id="Page_473">[473]</a></span>tended +our journey to the Pacific coast: we have crossed the sandy +plain, where for days together the eye saw little to refresh it, where +the green of the blue grass that is so restful to the eye was wanting, +and yet again and again at some lone station in the desert a +few children from a school and some of the enterprising people +who had pushed out there to make new homes assembled with this +old banner in their hands and gave us a hearty American welcome. +I am glad to return to this central body of States in which I was +raised; glad to be again in the land of the buckeye, the beech, and +the maple. To these dear children I want to say one word of +thanks. They have done for us much on this journey to make it +pleasant; their bright faces have cheered us; I love to see them. +The care the States are taking for their education is wisely bestowed. +God bless them all; open to their feet pleasant ways and +qualify them better than we have been in our generation to uphold +and perpetuate these magnificent civil institutions. Thanking you +most sincerely for this kindly demonstration I bid you good-by. +[Great cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SPRINGFIELD_ILLINOIS_MAY_14" id="SPRINGFIELD_ILLINOIS_MAY_14">SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">At the Tomb of Lincoln.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Brief</span> stops were made at Barry, Baylis, Griggsville, +and Jacksonville, but not long enough for speech-making. +Thousands of visitors from neighboring towns helped the +people of Springfield welcome the President on his arrival +at 9:15 o'clock. The Committee of Reception that met +the presidential party and escorted them through the principal +streets to the Lincoln Monument in Oak Ridge +Cemetery consisted of the Hon. Joseph W. Fifer, Governor +of Illinois; Senator Shelby M. Cullum, Senator John M. +Palmer, ex-Governor Oglesby, Representatives Henderson +and Springer, Lieut.-Gov. L. B. Ray, Secretary of State J. +N. Pearson, Auditor of State C. W. Pavey, Treasurer of +State E. S. Wilson, Atty.-Gen. George Hunt, Adjt-Gen. +J. W. Vance, Hon. Rheuna D. Lawrence, Mayor of Springfield, +and Hon. James C. Conkling; also, Hon. John M. +Clark and Col. E. D. Swain, of Chicago.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_474" id="Page_474">[474]</a></span></p> + +<p>The procession, composed of Illinois National Guards, +veterans of the G. A. R., Sons of Veterans, Knights of +Pythias, and the City Fire Department, was marshalled +by Gen. Jasper N. Reese, assisted by Col. J. H. Barkley. +During the exercises at the monument Mayor Lawrence +presided. Governor Fifer delivered an eloquent address +of welcome, to which the President made the following +response:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Fifer and Fellow-citizens</i>—During this extended journey, +in the course of which we have swept from the Atlantic coast to +the Golden Gate, and northward to the limits of our territory, we +have stood in many spots of interest and looked upon scenes that +were full of historical associations and of national interest and inspiration. +The interest of this journey culminates to-day as we +stand here for a few moments about the tomb of Lincoln. As I +passed through the Southern States and noticed those great centres +of busy industry which had been builded since the war, as I saw +how the fires of furnaces had been kindled where there was once +a solitude, I could not then but think and say that it was the hand +that now lies beneath these stones that kindled and inspired all +that we beheld; all these fires of industry were lighted at the +funeral pyre of slavery. The proclamation of Abraham Lincoln +can be read on all those mountain sides where free men are now +bending their energies to the development of States that had long +been under the paralysis of human slavery.</p> + +<p>I come to-day to this consecrated and sacred spot with a heart +filled with emotions of gratitude that that God who wisely turned +toward our Eastern shores a body of God-fearing and liberty-loving +men to found this republic did not fail to find for us in the hour +of our extremity one who was competent to lead the hearts and +sympathies and hold up the courage of our people in the time of +our greatest national peril.</p> + +<p>The life of Abraham Lincoln teaches more useful lessons than +any other character in American history. Washington stands remote +from us. We think of him as dignified and reserved, but we +think of Lincoln as one whose tender touch the children, the poor—all +classes of our people—felt at their firesides and loved. The love +of our people is drawn to him because he had such a great heart—such +a human heart. The asperities and hardships of his early life +did not dull, but broadened and enlivened, his sympathies. That +sense of justice, that love of human liberty which dominated all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_475" id="Page_475">[475]</a></span> +his life, is another characteristic that our people will always love. +You have here in keeping a most precious trust. Toward this +spot the feet of the reverent patriots of the years to come will bend +their way. As the story of Lincoln's life is read his virtues will +mould and inspire many lives.</p> + +<p>I have studied it and have been filled with wonder and admiration. +His life was an American product; no other soil could have +produced it. The greatness of it has not yet been fully discovered +or measured. As the inner history of the times in which he lived +is written we find how his great mind turned and moved, in time +of peril and delicacy, the affairs of our country in their home and +foreign relations with that marvellous tact, with that never-failing +common-sense which characterized this man of the people. And +that impressive lesson we have here this morning. I see in the +military uniform of our country, standing as guards about this +tomb, the sons of a race that had been condemned to slavery and +was emancipated by his immortal proclamation. And what an +appropriate thing it is that these whose civil rights were curtailed +even in this State are now the trusted, affectionate guards of the +tomb in which he sleeps!</p> + +<p>We will all again and again read the story of Lincoln's life, and +will find our hearts and minds enlarged, our loves and our charities +broadened, and our devotion to the Constitution, the flag, and +the free Government which he preserved to us, intensified. And +now, my friends, most cordially do I thank you for these kind +words of welcome. I shall go from this tomb impressed with new +thoughts as to the responsibilities of those who bear the responsibilities, +though in less troublous times, of that great man to +whose memory my soul bows this morning. [Applause.]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">At the State House.</p> + +<p>When the President closed he was presented by Governor +Fifer, on behalf of the citizens of Petersburg, Ill., with +a gold-headed cane made from the Lincoln store building +at New Salem. Speeches were made by Postmaster-General +Wanamaker and Secretary Rusk, during which the +President and Governor Fifer proceeded to the State +House, where a large crowd collected and the President +made the following address:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I feel that we make a very poor return to you +here for your cordial welcome, and for these extensive prepara<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_476" id="Page_476">[476]</a></span>tions +which you have made to do us honor, but this journey has +been so long, the time consumed already so great, the demand for +my presence in Washington is such that I cannot protract the stay +here with you this morning. I beg all to believe that most heartily +and sincerely I thank you for this cordial welcome from Illinois, +for the interesting moments that we have spent about the tomb of +that man who would have made the fame of Illinois imperishable +and Springfield the Mecca for patriotic feet if no other man in the +history of the State had ever come to eminence—Abraham Lincoln. +[Cheers.] In his life you have a treasury of instruction for your +children, a spring of inspiration for your people that will be lasting. +[Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DECATUR_ILLINOIS_MAY_14" id="DECATUR_ILLINOIS_MAY_14">DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Decatur</span> tendered the President an enthusiastic greeting. +Ten thousand citizens and school children participated +in the welcoming demonstrations. The Committee +of Reception consisted of Mayor Chambers, Hon. S. S. Jack, +Hon. W. C. Johns, Dr. John T. Hubbard, Dr. William A. +Barnes, W. H. Bramble, Maj. F. L. Hays, M. F. Kanan, +Mrs. W. B. Chambers, Mrs. J. M. Clokey, Mrs. W. F. Calhoun, +and Miss Belle Burrows. Hon. J. H. Rowell, of +Bloomington, was also a member of the committee.</p> + +<p>In response to Mayor Chambers' welcoming address +President Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—We have been now something +more than four weeks traversing this broad and beautiful domain +which, without regard to State lines, we call our country. We +have passed with such rapidity that our intercourse with the people +has necessarily been brief and attended by many inconveniences to +them. Everything that kind hearts could do to make the trip +pleasant to us has been done, and yet I have always felt that our +hasty call at these prosperous cities where so much pains have been +taken in decoration to do honor to us gives us opportunity to make +very inadequate returns to them. We have been shooting like a +meteor as to rapidity, but without its luminosity. [Laughter.]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_477" id="Page_477">[477]</a></span> +It is very pleasant after seeing California, Arizona, Idaho, and +Colorado, States in which the annual rainfall is inadequate to the +annual crops, and where the dependence of the husbandman is +wholly upon irrigation, to come again in these Central States, +familiar to me from my boyhood, to see crops that the Lord +waters in every season. The land of the blue grass is the land of +my love. Nowhere can there be seen fairer landscapes, nowhere +richer farms, than here in your own great State of Illinois, a State +whose history has been full of illustrious achievements, rich in possibilities, +where lived our illustrious sons; a State whose population +is intelligent, contented, orderly, and liberty-loving; a State +whose development has not yet begun to approach its possible +limits; a State having advantages by the location, swept as it is +by two of the great waterways of the continent, advantages of +access and markets by lake and rail and river unexcelled by any +State in the Union; a State that has not forgotten that the permanence +of our free institutions depends upon the intelligence of the +people, and has carefully, at the very beginning, laid a foundation +for a common-school system in which every man's child may +have a free education. [Cheers.] These are not simply schools of +intelligence, but, as I have said before, they are schools of statesmanship. +They tend as much as any other public institution to +make our people a Nation of loving people. Here on these benches +and on this playground the people of rich and poor mingle together, +and the pampered son gets his airs rubbed off with the vigor of +his playmates. ["That's so!" and cheers.] Our Government does +not undertake to regulate many of the affairs of civil life. The +bright blue sky of hope is above every boy's head, affording great +opportunities for advancement, and then our people are left to +themselves. Certain great duties are devolved upon the Government—to +provide revenue and finance and in every branch of +public interest to legislate in the general interests of all the people. +I thank you most heartily for this great demonstration. We leave +you with our thanks, our best wishes for your State, your city, +and especially for these dear little ones from your schools who +come to greet us. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_478" id="Page_478">[478]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TUSCOLA_ILLINOIS_MAY_14" id="TUSCOLA_ILLINOIS_MAY_14">TUSCOLA, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Tuscola another large assemblage greeted the travellers +most enthusiastically. The Committee of Reception +consisted of Mayor Patrick C. Sloan, A. W. Wallace, J. J. +Knox, Frank Pearce, Dr. S. V. Ramsey, O. H. Sloan, Hans +Heurichs, A. C. Sluss, J. W. King, P. M. Moore, D. A. +Conover, and Col. W. Taggart.</p> + +<p>In response to a hasty but cordial welcome from Mayor +Sloan the President said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is very kind of you to assemble here in +such large numbers to extend to us a greeting as we hurry through +your beautiful State. We can tarry with you but for a moment, +for we are in true sense pilgrims. It is pleasant to look in your +faces and to read there the same kindly thoughts and the same +friendliness that seems to have covered this whole land as we have +journeyed through it. I do not like to say anything anywhere that +makes a line of division; for I know that these assemblages are +without regard to politics, and that men of all parties have extended +to us a cordial greeting. The flag, the institutions, and the +general good of our people are themes which we appreciate, are +themes which we honor, though we may approach them on different +lines. I am glad to notice as I journey through your State the +evidences of a coming harvest that I hope will be bountiful. +Wishing for you every good, I bid you good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHRISMAN_ILLINOIS_MAY_14" id="CHRISMAN_ILLINOIS_MAY_14">CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Chrisman the President met with another hearty +welcome. More than 6,000 people were present, many +coming from Paris, Danville, and other neighboring points. +The Reception Committee consisted of J. F. Van Voorhees, +C. E. Kenton, C. A. Smith, and Revs. Wiley and +Wilkin. Kenesaw Post, G. A. R., of Paris, Ill., J. M. +Moody Commander, and a number of veterans from Ridge +Farm were present.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_479" id="Page_479">[479]</a></span></p> + +<p>Mr. Van Voorhees introduced the President, who spoke +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I have but one message for all these vast assemblies +of my fellow-citizens who have been greeting us for something +more than a month at every point where we have stopped. That +message is to thank you for all these greetings and for the friendliness +which shines in your faces. I am glad this is a Government +by the people, because they are the most capable governors that +can be found. No man can traverse this country, as I have done, +from the Potomac to the Golden Gate and from the Golden Gate to +the cities that open on Puget Sound, to the great North Sea, and +can look into the faces of these people that come from every pursuit, +without feeling that this Government, raised upon the bulwark +of patriotism, is, by God's goodness, a perpetual institution. The +patriotism of our people, their unselfish love for the flag, the great +good-nature with which they lay aside all sharp party divisions and +come together under one banner, is very gratifying to us all. Our +trip has been attended by many incidents that have been full of +pleasure and sometimes full of pathos.</p> + +<p>We have never lost sight of the flag in all this journey. Sometimes +out on the Great American Desert, as it used to be called, +where nothing but the sage brush gave evidence of the power of +nature to clothe the earth, from a little dug-out, where some man +had set out to make a home for himself, would float the starry +banner. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>This is a great country, girded around by the Grand Army of the +Republic. I have never been out of the fellowship of that great +organization. I have never stopped on all this trip but some comrade +did not stretch up his hand to greet me. I have evidence +that some of you are here to-day in this great State, such a magnificent +contribution to the Grand Army that they were. I am glad +to see these children. They have added grace and beauty to every +meeting which we have had in this long journey. Cherish it in +your community—this most beneficial institution—the common +school of your State.</p> + +<p>And now, thanking your kindly welcome, and sorry that we can +tarry for only these few minutes, I bid you good-by, and God bless +you. [Prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_480" id="Page_480">[480]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MONTEZUMA_INDIANA_MAY_14" id="MONTEZUMA_INDIANA_MAY_14">MONTEZUMA, INDIANA, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was about 3 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> Thursday when the train crossed +the Indiana line and arrived at Montezuma, where the +President was met by a very large and enthusiastic delegation +from Indianapolis, headed by Gov. Alvin P. Hovey, +Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan, Gen. Lew Wallace, ex-Gov. +Isaac P. Gray, Judge William A. Woods, ex-Senator McDonald, +and Senator David Turpie. The escort from Indianapolis +included representatives from 52 labor organizations, +from each G. A. R. post in the city, and delegates +from the Hendricks, Gray, Cleveland, Columbia, Marion, +Metropolitan, and Tippecanoe clubs. The Montezuma +committee consisted of Rev. Thomas Griffith, Joseph +Burns, T. A. Welshan, J. E. Johnston, N. S. Wheeler, and +H. B. Griffith.</p> + +<p>No meeting could have been more cordial. Hon. James +T. Johnston, of Rockville, in a few eloquent sentences welcomed +the President and Mrs. Harrison on their home-coming.</p> + +<p>The greeting overcame the President for a few moments, +and he was unable to respond to the demand for a speech +at any length. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—We have had a long journey, and one that has been +attended by a great many pleasant incidents. We have had cheers +of welcome reaching from our first stop, at Roanoke, Va., stretching +across the mountains of Tennessee and Northern Georgia and +Alabama, down through Arkansas and Texas, and along the Pacific +coast. Everywhere we have had the most cordial and kindly +greeting; but as I cross to-day the border line of Indiana and meet +again these old friends I find in your welcome a sweetness that +exceeds it all.</p></div> + +<p>At this point tears came to the President's eyes, and his +utterance became so choked he could say no more.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_481" id="Page_481">[481]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="INDIANAPOLIS_INDIANA_MAY_14" id="INDIANAPOLIS_INDIANA_MAY_14">INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Promptly</span> on schedule time, at 4:45, the presidential +train arrived at Indianapolis. Its approach was heralded +by an artillery salute. The stay in the city was limited +to forty-five minutes. The Escort and Reception Committee—in +addition to the distinguished officials mentioned +at Montezuma—consisted in part of the following +prominent citizens: Hon. R. B. F. Peirce, Hon. C. W. +Fairbanks, Rev. M. L. Haines, Daniel Stewart, Col. Eli +Lilly, George L. Knox, George G. Tanner, President of +the Board of Trade; W. D. Wiles, John W. Murphy, +George E. Townley, Silas T. Bowen, W. B. Holton, John +M. Shaw, Albert Gall, I. S. Gordon, John P. Frenzel, +D. A. Richardson, W. F. C. Golt, Arthur Gillet, John +H. Holliday, Dr. Henry Jameson, Robert Kipp, Thomas +C. Moore, V. K. Hendricks, Charles E. Hall, Nathan +Morris, E. E. Perry, Smiley N. Chambers, G. B. Thompson, +Franklin Landers, and R. K. Syfers.</p> + +<p>The preparations for the President's reception were upon +an extensive scale; the business houses were covered with +bunting, and pictures of the distinguished traveller were +seen everywhere. Fully 50,000 people participated in the +welcome home. A speakers' stand was erected in Jackson +Place. The parade was a most successful feature of the +demonstration; thousands of veterans, sons of veterans, +and other citizens were in line. Gen. Fred Knefler was +Marshal of the day, aided by the following staff: Major +Holstein, George W. Spahr, J. Hauch, John V. Parker, +J. B. Heywood, W. O. Patterson, Samuel Laing, J. A. +Wildman, H. C. Adams, A. W. Hendricks, John W. +Keeling, Charles Martindale, W. H. Tucker, J. M. Paver, +H. C. Cale, Josh Zimmerman, T. S. Rollins, E. S. Kise, +O. P. Ensley, Frank Sherfey, and Berry Robinson.</p> + +<p>Cheer after cheer went up from the vast concourse as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_482" id="Page_482">[482]</a></span> +the President made his way to the stand, accompanied by +Secretary Rusk, Postmaster-General Wanamaker, and the +Escort Committee. It was a genuine Hoosier welcome. +Governor Hovey made a brief but feeling address, welcoming +the President's return with "pride and pleasure." +Mayor Sullivan followed the Governor in a warm greeting +on behalf of the citizens of Indianapolis.</p> + +<p>President Harrison was visibly affected at the manifestations +of love and esteem, and during the speech-making +clearly betrayed the emotion he felt at the cordiality of +his welcome. He spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Hovey, Mayor Sullivan and Friends</i>—I do not think I +can speak much to-day. The strain of this long journey, the frequent +calls that have been made upon me to speak to my fellow +citizens from Washington to the Golden Gate, from the Golden +Gate to the Straits of Fuca, and from the most northwestern portion +of our territory here to my own home, has left me somewhat +exhausted in body and in mind, and has made my heart so open +to these impressions, as I greet my old home friends, that I cannot, +I fear, command myself sufficiently to speak to you at any length. +Our path has been attended by the plaudits of multitudes; our way +has been strewn with flowers; we have journeyed through the +orchards of California, laden with its golden fruit; we have +climbed to the summit of great mountains and have seen those +rich mines from which the precious metals are extracted; we have +dropped again suddenly into fruitful valleys, and our pathway has +been made glad by the cheerful and friendly acclaim of our American +fellow-citizens without regard to any party division [applause]; +but I beg to assure you that all the sweetness of the flowers that +have been showered upon us, that all the beauty of these almost +tropical landscapes upon which we have looked, that all the richness +of these precious mines sink into forgetfulness as I receive to +day this welcome from my old friends. [Great applause.] My +manhood has known no other home but this. It was the scene of +my early struggles; it has been the scene, and you have been the +instruments and supporters in every success I have achieved in +life. I come to lay before you to-day my thankful offering for +your friendly helpfulness that was extended to me as a boy and +that has been mine in all the years of our intercourse that have +intervened until this hour. [Applause.] I left you a little more +than two years ago to take up the work of the most responsible<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_483" id="Page_483">[483]</a></span> +office in the world. I went to these untried duties sustained by +your helpful friendliness. I come to you again after these two +years of public office to confess many errors, but to say to you that +I have had but one thought in my mind. It was to use whatever +influence had been confided to me for the general good of all our +people. [Applause.] Our stay to-day is so brief that I must deny +myself the pleasure I would have in taking these old friends by +the hand. God bless you all. I have not forgotten, I can never +forget, Indianapolis. [Prolonged applause.] I look forward to it, +if my life shall be spared, as the city in which I shall rest when +the hard work of life is done. I rejoice in its increase, in its +development as a commercial centre. I love its homes, its people; +and now if you will pardon me the effort of further speech and +believe me when I say this is a most interesting and tender moment +to me, allow me to say to you for a time, God bless you +every one and good-by. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RICHMOND_INDIANA_MAY_14" id="RICHMOND_INDIANA_MAY_14">RICHMOND, INDIANA, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Richmond, Ind., a very large and enthusiastic assemblage +cheered the President. The Reception Committee +consisted of Mayor Perry J. Freeman, Hon. Henry U. +Johnson, C. C. Binkley, John Harrington, Everett A. +Richey, Andrew F. Scott, J. H. Macke, John H. Nicholson, +Col. John F. Miller, Capt. J. Lee Yaryan, Dr. J. R. +Weist, E. D. Palmer, H. C. Starr, Frank J. Brown, J. B. +Howes, and Isaac Jenkins.</p> + +<p>Congressman Johnson introduced the President, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We are now about completing a very long +journey. For something more than four weeks we have been +speeding across the country, from the Potomac to the Golden Gate, +and northward along Puget Sound. The trip, while it has been +full of pleasurable incidents, while it has been attended with +every demonstration of friendliness and respect, has, as you can +well understand, been full of labor. I began this day—and it is +only a sample of many—at 5 o'clock this morning, by speaking to +my fellow-citizens at Hannibal, Mo., and from that place to this +I have been almost continuously on my feet or shaking hands over<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_484" id="Page_484">[484]</a></span> +this platform with friends who had gathered there. We have seen +regions that were new to me, people that were strangers, and yet, +throughout the whole of this journey we have been pervaded, surrounded, +inspired by the magnificent spirit of American patriotism. +[Cheers.] I come now to pass through my own State. I +have so often within the last two years been at Indianapolis and +passed through Richmond that I did not expect you would take +any special notice of our passage to-night. I am all the more gratified +that you should have surprised us by this magnificent demonstration. +As I had occasion to say at Indianapolis, the respect, the +confidence, the affectionate interest of my Indiana friends is more +valuable to me than anything else in life. I went from you two +years ago to new duties, borne down with a sense of the great +responsibility that was upon me, and I am glad to believe from +what I see to-night that I have at least saved the respect and +friendship of my Indiana fellow-citizens. [Cries of "That's so!" +and cheers.] And now, as I return again to labors and duties that +are awaiting me, I leave with you my most affectionate greeting +and sincere desire for the prosperity of Indiana and all its citizens. +I hope that my life will be spared to be once more a dweller in +this great State. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="DAYTON_OHIO_MAY_14" id="DAYTON_OHIO_MAY_14">DAYTON, OHIO, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A great</span> assembly, numbering over 10,000 people, +greeted the President on arrival at Dayton, Ohio, at 9 +o'clock. The veterans of "The Old Guard Post", Parker +Rusby Commander, were present in a body; also many +veterans from Dister Post, Hiram Strong Post, Birch, and +Martin De Lancy posts, together with a large representation +of the Sons of Veterans. Among the prominent citizens +and ladies who received the presidential party were +Mrs. W. D. Bickham, Miss Rebecca Strickel, Charles and +Daniel Bickham, Hon. Ira Crawford, Hon. Washington +Silzel, Wm. P. Callahan, Fred G. Withoft, Dr. J. M. +Weaver, E. B. Lyon, Dr. J. S. Beck, C. M. Hassler, A. L. +Bauman, Dr. Joseph E. Lowes, B. T. Guion, Henry Kissinger, +Hon. Dennis Dwyer, E. F. Pryor, Charles P. Garman, +D. K. Hassler, Charles Auderton, N. D. Bates, John<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_485" id="Page_485">[485]</a></span> +A. Miller, John A. Bell, C. Y. Osborn, Joseph S. Crane, +Ed. Best, Daniel E. Meade, Samuel Craighead, Warren +Munger, H. C. Harries, G. C. Kennedy, William Craighead, +A. A. Simonds, S. Brenner, D. F. Giddinger, Simon +Gebhart, George La Rue, D. E. McSherry, Charles +James John Patterson, Dr. J. A. Walters, and Rev. Dr. +A. A. Willett.</p> + +<p>The President's appearance was the signal for a prolonged +outburst of patriotic feeling, in recognition and +response to which he spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We have journeyed now about nine thousand +miles, and I have never been, in all this distance, out of sight of +an Ohio man. [Laughter and cheers.] Everywhere we have +journeyed, whether in the New South, awakening under the new +influences of freedom to an industrial life that was not possible +under slavery; whether on the deserts of Arizona or among the +orange groves of California, or in one of those wonderful States +that have been builded within the last few years on Puget Sound, +some one, noting the fact that I was Ohio-born, would claim kin-ship, +and so far as I could judge, in my limited observation of +them, I think they carried the Ohio faculty with them to their +new homes of getting their fair share of things. [Laughter and +cheers.] I do most cordially thank you, citizens of Dayton, for +this pleasant and friendly demonstration. I cannot talk long. +This whole journey has been a succession of speeches. I have +come to think it must be tiresome to you to have one of my +speeches every morning with your breakfast coffee. [Cries of +"No! no!" and applause.] But it has been a most cheerful thing +to me to observe everywhere, even in those distant and sparsely +settled regions of the West, that the American flag was never out +of sight. I do not think I have ever lost sight of the Stars and +Stripes since we left Washington. [Cheers.] Several times we +have been deeply touched as we moved along over the sandy plains +to see at some isolated and very humble cabin a man or child step +to the door and unfurl the Starry Banner. [Cheers.] Everywhere +I have met comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, everywhere +the atmosphere seemed to be pervaded by a magnificent +spirit of Americanism. [Cheers.] We are one people—one in our +purposes, aims and lives; one in our fealty to the flag, the Constitution, +and the indissoluble Union of the States. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_486" id="Page_486">[486]</a></span></p> + +<p>Ohio has always maintained a magnificently conspicuous place +in the sisterhood of the States—peopled, as she was, by the great +patriots of the Revolutionary period; receiving, as she did, in this +great basin, that overspill of patriotism that moved toward the West +after the Revolutionary struggle was ended. She has given to the +Government, in army life and in the civil service, a magnificent +galaxy of great men. [Cheers.] In the hope that this journey, +which has been full of toil, may not prove unprofitable to the +people, as it certainly has not been unprofitable to me, I leave you +to take up my public duties with new encouragement and new resolves +to do the best I can for all the people. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="XENIA_OHIO_MAY_14" id="XENIA_OHIO_MAY_14">XENIA, OHIO, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was nearly 10 o'clock when the city of Xenia was +reached, but a large crowd greeted the tired travellers. +A reception committee, consisting of Hon. Charles F. +Howard, Mayor; Hon. John Little, Hon. N. A. Fulton, +Hon. George Good, Charles L. Spencer, and F. E. James +escorted the party from Dayton.</p> + +<p>Judge Little introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I began my day's work at 5 o'clock and have +already made ten speeches, but I feel that a few spoken words are +but small return to those who have gathered to express their +friendly regard. No man is worthy to hold office in this Republic +who does not sincerely covet the good-will and respect of the +people. The people may not agree in their views on public questions, +but while they have a great many points of difference they +have more of agreement, and I believe we are all pursuing the +same great end—the glory of our country, the permanency of our +institutions, and the general good of our people. The springs of +all good government—the most important things after all—are in +the local communities. In the townships, school districts, and +municipalities, there the utmost care should be taken. If their +affairs are wisely and economically administered, those of the State +and the Nation are sure to be. Upon these foundation stones the +safety of the Nation rests, and I am glad to know that so much +careful thought is being given to these questions by public men +and the people generally. Thanking you for your attendance and +cordial greeting. I bid you good-night. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_487" id="Page_487">[487]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="COLUMBUS_OHIO_MAY_14" id="COLUMBUS_OHIO_MAY_14">COLUMBUS, OHIO, MAY 14.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> lacked but fifteen minutes of midnight when the +train rolled into the Union Depot at Columbus. Notwithstanding +the lateness of the hour a fair-sized and enthusiastic +crowd was present, including a number of G. A. R. +veterans.</p> + +<p>In response to repeated calls the President appeared, +accompanied by Secretary Rusk, and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I left Hannibal, Mo., this morning at 6 +o'clock, and have made twelve speeches to-day. You have been +very thoughtful to meet us here, and I know you will excuse me +if I say nothing more than I thank you. Good-night. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ALTOONA_PENNSYLVANIA_MAY_15" id="ALTOONA_PENNSYLVANIA_MAY_15">ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> last day of the long journey began with a speech at +Altoona at 10 o'clock. Superintendent and Mrs. Theodore +N. Eby joined the party here. The assemblage was a large +one and the President shook hands with many until the +crowd began calling for a speech.</p> + +<p>Postmaster-General Wanamaker introduced the distinguished +traveller, saying: "Outside of Indiana I think +the President could not be more at home than he is in +Pennsylvania, and he requires no introduction."</p> + +<p>The President spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—The book has been closed. I have been talking so +much while on this trip that I am sure you will excuse me this +morning. It has been a delightful journey, yet we experienced, +perhaps, that which is the crowning joy of all trips—getting back +home; that is the place for us. [Cheers.] I am glad to have this +greeting from my Pennsylvania friends this morning. Mr. Wanamaker +was not far wrong when he said that after Indiana Pennsylvania +was pretty close to me. It was in one of these valleys, not +very distant from your political Capitol, that my mother was born +and reared, and of course this State and this section of Pennsyl<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_488" id="Page_488">[488]</a></span>vania +has always had a very dear interest for me. [Cheers and +great noise from steam being blown off at shops.] Of the applause +that we have enjoyed on this journey our reception here has been +the most original of all. [Prolonged cheering.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="HARRISBURG_PENNSYLVANIA_MAY_15" id="HARRISBURG_PENNSYLVANIA_MAY_15">HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> arrival at Harrisburg at 1:15 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> was heralded +by a presidential salute, and 10,000 cheers went up as the +President emerged on the rear platform, accompanied by +Secretary Rusk and Postmaster-General Wanamaker.</p> + +<p>Among the prominent citizens who pressed forward to +greet the travellers was his excellency Governor Pattison, +Speaker Thompson, of the House of Representatives, Secretary +of the Commonwealth Harrity, Adjutant-General +McClelland, Hon. B. F. Meyers, Private Secretary Tate, +and many members of the Legislature. The Governor's +Troop, commanded by Lieutenant Ott, presented arms and +Bugler Bierbower sounded the President's march as the +Chief Magistrate appeared. Governor Pattison cordially +welcomed the President and presented him to the great +assemblage.</p> + +<p>President Harrison closed his long series of brilliant and +interesting addresses in the following words:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Pattison and Fellow citizens</i>—I thank you for the courtesy +of this reception at the political centre of the great State of +Pennsylvania. I was informed, a little while ago, by the stenographer +who had accompanied me on this trip, that I had made 138 +speeches, and when I saw the magnitude of my offence against the +American people I was in hopes I should be permitted to pass +through Harrisburg without adding anything to it. I will only +express my thanks and appreciation. No one needs to tell you +anything about Pennsylvania or its resources; indeed, my work +was very much lightened on this journey, because I found that all +the people clear out to Puget Sound had already found out more +about their country than I could possibly tell them. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It is a pleasant thing that we appreciate our surroundings. We<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_489" id="Page_489">[489]</a></span> +love our own home, our own neighborhood, our own State. It +would be a sad thing if it were not so. There is only just enough +discontent to keep our people moving a little. Now and then some +boy gets restless in the homestead and pushes out to the West; the +result is a thorough mingling of the people. I do not know what +would have become of Pennsylvania if some people from other +States had not come in and some of your people gone out. It is +this that makes the perfect unity of our country. It was delightful +on our trip to meet old faces from home. Though they had +apparently been discontented with Indiana and left it, they were +willing to recall the fact, as I came near to them, that they were +Hoosiers. It was very pleasant, also, to see people as they met the +Postmaster-General put up their hands and say, "I am from the +old Keystone State." General Rusk was never out of sight of a +Wisconsin man, and of course the Ohio man was always there. +[Laughter and applause.] Our journey has been accompanied with +the labor of travel, but out of it all I think I have a higher sense +of the perfect unity of our people and of their enduring, all-pervading +patriotism. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_RETURN_TO_WASHINGTON" id="THE_RETURN_TO_WASHINGTON">THE RETURN TO WASHINGTON.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">There</span> was no demonstration at Baltimore. As the +train neared Washington—on the homestretch of its great +run of 9,232 miles—the President gathered all the members +of his party about him in the observation car, including +the train employees and servants, and made a short +speech, in which he thanked all who accompanied him for +their courtesy and attention. He referred to the long +journey—without accident of any kind and without a +minute's variance from the prearranged schedule—as a +most remarkable achievement, and paid a high compliment +to Mr. George W. Boyd, the General Assistant Passenger +Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad for his successful +management of the trip, adding that it was a superb +exhibition of what energy and training could do for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_490" id="Page_490">[490]</a></span> +a man. He then returned his thanks individually to the +engineer, conductor, and every employee.</p> + +<p>The train reached Washington at 5:30 o'clock, exactly +on time to a fraction of a minute. General Harrison was +the first to alight to meet his young grandson, Master +Benjamin McKee, and the latter's little sister. There was +no unusual demonstration or speech-making. The President +was met by Secretaries Foster and Proctor, Attorney-General +Miller, Ass't Atty.-Gen. James N. Tyner, Assistant +Secretary Nettleton, Assistant Secretary Willetts, +Major Pruden, and Captain Dinsmore.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PHILADELPHIA_MAY_30" id="PHILADELPHIA_MAY_30">PHILADELPHIA, MAY 30.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> Decoration Day, 1891, President Harrison, accompanied +by Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Secretary +Proctor, Secretary Tracy, and Private Secretary Halford, +visited Philadelphia as the guests of George G. Meade +Post, No. 1, G. A. R., to participate in their memorial ceremonies. +They were met at the station by a committee +from the post, comprising the following veterans: Post +Commander Louis P. Langer, Senior Vice-Commander +Alexander M. Appel, Junior Vice-Commander James +Thompson, Adjutant A. C. Johnston, Officer of the Day +Robert M. Green, Guard Charles Harris, Chaplain Rev. +I. Newton Ritner, and Past Post Commanders Henry H. +Bingham, Joseph R. C. Ward, George W. Devinny, L. D. +C. Tyler, Alfred J. Sellers, William J. Simpson, James C. +Wray, John A. Stevenson, Alexander Reed, Lewis W. +Moore, John W. Wiedersheim, Isaiah Price, W. Wayne +Vogdes, G. Harry Davis, Charles L. Sherman, Henry C. +Harper, Penn Righter, and Isaac R. Oakford. Department +Commander George Boyer and Asst. Adjt.-Gen. +Samuel Town were also present to welcome the Comman<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_491" id="Page_491">[491]</a></span>der-in-Chief. +The historic City Troop of cavalry—who, +from the day that General Washington entered Philadelphia +to take his second inaugural oath, have acted as an +escort to every President who has been a guest of the city—escorted +the President and the committee to Independence +Hall, where in a brief speech Mayor Stuart, in behalf of +the city, welcomed the Chief Magistrate.</p> + +<p>The President, replying to the address of welcome, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Fellow-citizens</i>—I +esteem it a great pleasure to stand in this historic +edifice in this historic city and to take part to-day as a comrade of +the Grand Army of the Republic in these most interesting and +instructive exercises, which commemorate events which have been +most deeply sunk in our hearts. I think it eminently appropriate +that we should stand for a little time before going to the graves of +our fallen comrades in this edifice, where the foundations of independence +were laid and put into development to make this great +Nation to-day. In my recent extensive trip through the country I +was able to see the effects of planting these seeds of freedom, in the +flourishing plants that have grown. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>We are here in a community that was instituted on principles of +peace and good will among men. But you gave a conspicuous +illustration of the facts that the fruits of peace need to be protected.</p> + +<p>You did not all depart from the great lessons taught when you +united with the comrades from all the other States to hold up the +banner of the Union and to maintain peace and to perpetuate it at +all times. You went out to maintain peace, and you have established +in the affections of all of us the flag of our faith, and the +question of submission to the Constitution and the law in all States +has been settled to the contentment of all.</p> + +<p>I appreciate most highly this welcome, and I take part in these +exercises with a sense of their fitness and a sense of the greatness +of the event which they commemorate.</p> + +<p>I have never been able to think that this day is one for mourning, +but think that instead of the flag being at half mast it should +be at the peak. I feel that the comrades whose graves we honor +to-day would rejoice if they could see where their valor has placed +us. I feel that the glory of their dying and the glory of their +achievement covers all grief and has put them on an imperishable +roll of honor.</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_492" id="Page_492">[492]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">At General Meade's Grave.</p> + +<p>At the conclusion of the public reception at Independence +Hall the President and his party were escorted to Laurel +Hill Cemetery, where they took part in the ceremonies over +the grave of Gen. George G. Meade, the hero of Gettysburg.</p> + +<p>Along the entire line of march to the stand were immense +crowds, who greeted the President with silent +demonstrations of respect.</p> + +<p>The usual Memorial Day exercises were held, and at their +conclusion Commander Langer said: "I wish to introduce +to you the honored guest of the day, Comrade Harrison, +the Chief Magistrate of the Nation."</p> + +<p>As the President stepped forward he was heartily +cheered. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Commander, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and +Fellow-citizens</i>—I have neither the strength nor the voice adequate +to any extended speech to-day. I come to you as a comrade to +take part in the interesting exercises of this Memorial Day. It +gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute which I have +usually been able to pay since this day was instituted to the dead +of all our armies a special mark of respect to that great soldier who +won Gettysburg. It is impossible to separate some impressions of +sorrow from these exercises, for they bring to memory comrades +who have gone from us. How vividly there comes to my memory +many battle scenes; not the impetuous rush of conflict, but the +hour of sadness that followed victory. Then it was our sad duty +to gather from the field the bodies of those who had given the last +pledge of loyalty.</p> + +<p>There is open to my vision more than one yawning trench in +which we laid the dead of the old brigade. We laid them, elbow +touching elbow, in the order in which they had stood in the line +of battle. We left them in the hasty sepulchre and marched on. +Now we rejoice that a grateful Government has gathered together +the scattered dust of all these comrades and placed them in beautiful +and safe places of honor and repose. I cannot but feel that if +they could speak to us to-day they would say put the flag at the top +of the mast.</p> + +<p>I have recently returned from an extended tour of the States, and +nothing so impressed and refreshed me as the universal display of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_493" id="Page_493">[493]</a></span> +this banner of beauty and glory. It waved over every school-house, +it was in the hands of the school children. As we sped across the +sandy wastes at some solitary house a man, a woman, a child would +come to the door and wave it in loyal greeting. Two years ago I +saw a sight that has ever been present in my memory. As we +were going out of the harbor of Newport about midnight on a dark +night some of the officers of the torpedo station had prepared for +us a beautiful surprise. The flag at the top of the station was unseen +in the darkness of the night, when suddenly electric search-lights +were turned on it, bathing it in a flood of light.</p> + +<p>All below the flag was hidden, and it seemed to have no touch +with earth, but to hang from the battlements of heaven. It was +as if Heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality +typified by that flag.</p> + +<p>Let us take on this occasion a new draught of courage, make +new vows of consecration, for, my countrymen, it was not because +it was inconvenient that the rebel States should go, not that it +spoiled the autonomy of the country, but because it was unlawful +that all this sacrifice had to be made, to bring them back to +their allegiance. Let us not forget that as good citizens and good +patriots it is our duty always to obey the law and to give it our +loyal support and insist that every one else shall do so. There is +no more mischievous suggestion made than that the soldiers of the +Union Army desire to lay any yoke on those who fought against +us other than the yoke of the law. We cannot ask less than that +in all relations they shall obey the law, and that they shall yield +to every other man his full rights under the law.</p> + +<p>I thank you for the pleasure of participating in these exercises +with you to-day, and give you a comrade's best wishes and a comrade's +good-by.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_BENNINGTON_TRIP_AUGUST_1891" id="THE_BENNINGTON_TRIP_AUGUST_1891">THE BENNINGTON TRIP, AUGUST, 1891.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> Tuesday, August 18, President Harrison left Cape +May Point on a journey to Bennington, to participate in +the dedication of Bennington Battle Monument. He was +accompanied by Private Secretary Halford, Russell B. +Harrison, Mr. Howard Cale, of Indianapolis, and George +W. Boyd, of the Pennsylvania Company. The trip through +New Jersey was uneventful. At Vineland, Glassboro,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_494" id="Page_494">[494]</a></span> +Camden, Trenton, and Burlington crowds greeted the +President, but as it was raining there was no speech-making. +At Jersey City the party was joined by John +A. Sleicher, W. J. Arkell, and E. F. Tibbott, the President's +stenographer.</p> + +<p>Leaving New York at noon the first stop was at Cornwall, +where the President was heartily welcomed by a large +crowd and bowed his acknowledgments.</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="NEWBURGH_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18" id="NEWBURGH_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18">NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> weather cleared as the party reached historic Newburgh, +where 3,000 people gave the Chief Executive a +rousing welcome. Hon. M. Doyle, Mayor of Newburgh, +and the following representative citizens received the President: +Ex-Mayor B. B. Odell, Hon. A. S. Cassedy, Hon. +B. B. Odell, Jr., William G. Taggart, Daniel S. Waring, +William Chambers, Charles H. Hasbrouck, J. M. Dickey, +Henry B. Lawson, James G. Graham, Thomas R. Spier, +A. E. Layman, George Hasting, Maj. E. C. Boynton, A. +Woolsey, John F. Tucker, William Lynn, George Brown, +Dr. D. L. Kidd, H. C. Smith, Augustus Denniston, E. M. +Murtfeldt, and John J. Nutt.</p> + +<p>Colonel Sleicher introduced President Harrison, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I am very much obliged to you for this +friendly greeting. It is pleasant to run out of the rain and mist +that have hung about our train for an hour or two into this bright +sunshine and into the gladness of the pleasant welcome which you +have extended to us. You are situated here in a region full of +historic interest. Every child learns early here the story of the +sacrifice and courage of those who laid the foundation of this Government, +which has grown beyond the conception of even the +wisest of our fathers. I am sure that in these things you must all +find inspiration to good citizenship, and it is pleasant to know +that you rejoice that it has left its impress upon the hearts of all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_495" id="Page_495">[495]</a></span> +our people; that upon the Sacramento as well as upon the Hudson +men love the old memories and the old flag. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to pause with you a moment in passing to the observance +in Vermont of one of those great battle events which led to +the independence of our country. We have great common interests +as a people, and, while we divide as to the method by which we +would promote the national prosperity, I am sure we are all devoted +in heart to the country and the institutions that have done +so much for us. In the interest of good government we are one; +we all believe that the Government should be so administered that +all the people shall share equally in its benefits; that there shall be +no favored class. I thank you again, and bid you good-by. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="KINGSTON_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18" id="KINGSTON_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18">KINGSTON, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Kingston fully 2,000 people were assembled. Prominent +among those who welcomed the President were Hon. +James G. Linsley, Hon. Geo. M. Brink, H. W. Baldwin, +William D. Brinnier, D. C. Overbaugh, S. B. Sharpe, +B. J. Winnie, Charles B. Safford, George B. Merritt, O. +P. Carpenter, James E. Phinney, and Noah Wolven.</p> + +<p>After shaking hands for several minutes, Hon. William +H. Turner introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Perhaps I had better spend the moment or +two that remains in saying a word to all of you than in shaking +hands with the few that can gather about the car. You ask for a +speech. It is not very easy to know what one can talk about on +such an occasion as this. Those topics that are most familiar to +me, because I am brought in daily contact with them, namely, +public affairs, are in some measure prohibited to me, and I must +speak therefore only of those things upon which we agree; for I +have no doubt, if we were closely interrogated, some differences +would develop in the views of those assembled here. That is one +of the things we are proud of and that tend to the perpetuity and +purity of our institutions—that we are permitted to differ in our +views, to be independent in our opinions, and to be answerable to +our consciences and to God only for the convictions we entertain. +I am sure, however, we all rejoice in the evidences of prosperity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_496" id="Page_496">[496]</a></span> +which are spread over this good land of ours. We rejoice in the +freedom and happiness and contentment that are in our communities +and in our homes. We rejoice to know that no cloud is over +our horizon; that we are at peace with the world and at peace +among ourselves. I think the world has come to understand that +it is well to be at peace with us [applause], and I am sure we have +come to understand that it is very well to be at peace among our +selves. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Our situation is one of great favor. We are pretty widely separated +from those who would hurt us, if there are any such. We +are secure in our great isolation, and we are secure, too, in our +great and patriotic people. [Applause.] We do not maintain +armies; we do not need to extend the conscription list until it +takes old age and youth. We maintain only the merest skeleton +of an army, but we have already seen how speedily it may develop +into gigantic proportions, and how, in a few months, it may take +on the discipline that makes it the equal of any of the great armies +of the world. [Applause.] We have this year a season of unusual +productiveness. The orchards are laden with fruit, the gardens +yield their abundant supplies to the table, and the fields have produced +crops that are too great for our storehouses.</p> + +<p>God has greatly blessed us, and it happens that this season of our +abundance is not only good for us, but for the world; for again, +as many times before, the nations of Europe, by reason of crop +failures, must look to us to feed their people. We have a great +surplus and an assorted market for it. Our riches must be greatly +increased as the result of two magnificent harvests. Their good +effects will be felt in every home, contentment upon the farm, and +well-paid labor in all our cities and centres of manufacture. Thus +it should be. Thus, I am sure, we all rejoice that it is, because +these institutions of ours can have no danger except in a discontented +citizenship. As long as men have a free and equal chance, +as long as the labor of their hands may bring the needed supplies +into the household, as long as there are open avenues of hope and +advancement to the children they love, men are contented—they +are good, loyal, American citizens. [Applause.] And now I +thank you again for your kindness. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_497" id="Page_497">[497]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ALBANY_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18" id="ALBANY_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18">ALBANY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was 6 o'clock in the afternoon when the President +arrived at Albany, during a heavy rain. In anticipation +of this visit from the head of the Nation, the following telegraphic +correspondence had passed between the courteous +Governor of New York and President Harrison:</p> + +<div class="blockquot space-above"> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Albany</span>, August 12. +</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Hon. Benjamin Harrison</span>, <i>Cape May, N. J.</i>: +</p> + +<p>I learn for the first time to-day that you have accepted the invitation +of Mayor Manning to stop at Albany on your way to Vermont. +If the plan of your journey will enable you to pass a night +in Albany, as I hope it may, I shall be pleased to have yourself +and party become my guests at the Executive Mansion. Personally, +as well as officially, I assure you it gives me great pleasure +to extend this invitation, and I sincerely trust that you will so +arrange your plans as to give me the opportunity of entertaining +you. The Executive Mansion is ample for the accommodation of +such members of your Cabinet or friends as may accompany you. +On behalf of the people of the State, also, I shall be pleased to +tender you a public reception at the State Capitol.</p> + +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">David B. Hill.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot space-above"> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Stockton House, Cape May</span>, August 12. +</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Gov. D. B. Hill</span>, <i>Albany</i>: +</p> + +<p>I am very much obliged for your very cordial invitation, but it +will be only possible for me to make a brief stay at Albany. How +long depends upon the railroad schedule, not yet communicated to +me. As soon as details are arranged will advise you. For such +time as I can spare I will place myself in the hands of the city +and State authorities.</p> + +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<p>The following prominent citizens of Albany met the +President at Selkirk and escorted him to the city: James +Ten Eyck, Chairman; Col. A. E. Mather, John G. Myers, +James M. Warner, Henry C. Nevitt, and William Barnes. +Among others who greeted the President on his arrival +were Capt. John Palmer, Commander-in-Chief of the G. +A. R., Hon. Simon W. Rosendale, Deputy Controller<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_498" id="Page_498">[498]</a></span> +Westbrook, H. N. Fuller, C. B. Templeton, William H. +Cull, and Oscar Smith.</p> + +<p>The reception was held in City Hall Square, where many +thousand Albanians assembled. On the platform Governor +Hill, Mayor Manning, with the Common Council, Secretary +of State Rice, State Treasurer Danforth, and other +State and municipal officers were gathered. The President +received an ovation as he approached the stand. Mayor +Manning welcomed him in the name of the city and presented +Governor Hill, who extended to the Chief Magistrate +a broader welcome in the name of the people of the +Empire State.</p> + +<p>Responding to these hospitable addresses, the President +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Hill, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens</i>—The conditions of +the evening, these threatening and even dripping clouds, are not +favorable to any extended speech. I receive with great gratification +the very cordial expressions which have fallen from the lips +of his excellency, the Governor of this great State, and of his +honor, the Mayor of this great municipality. It is very gratifying +to me to be thus assured that as American citizens, as public officers +administering each different functions in connection with the +government of the Nation, of the State, and of the municipality, +we, in common with this great body of citizens, whose servants +we all are, have that common love for our institutions, and that +common respect for those who, by the appointed constitutional +methods, have been chosen to administer them, as on such occasions +as this entirely obliterates all differences and brings us together +in the great and enduring brotherhood of American citizens. +[Prolonged cheering.]</p> + +<p>This great capital of a great State I have had the pleasure of +visiting once or twice before. I have many times visited your +commercial capital, and have traversed in many directions the +great and prosperous Empire State. You have concentrated here +great wealth and great productive capacity for increased wealth, +great financial institutions that reach out in their influences and +effects over the whole land. You have great prosperity and great +responsibility. The general Government is charged with certain +great functions in which the people have a general interest. Among +these is the duty of providing for our people the money with which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_499" id="Page_499">[499]</a></span> +its business transactions are conducted. There has sometimes +been in some regions of the great West a thought that New York, +being largely a creditor State, was disposed to be a little hard with +the debtor communities of the great West; but, my fellow-citizens, +narrow views ought not to prevail with them or with you and will +not in the light of friendly discussion. The law of commerce may +be selfishness, but the law of statesmanship should be broader and +more liberal. I do not intend to enter upon any subject that can +excite division; but I do believe that the general Government is +solemnly charged with the duty of seeing that the money issued by +it is always and everywhere maintained at par. I believe that I +speak that which is the common thought of us all when I say that +every dollar, whether paper or coin, issued or stamped by the general +Government should always and everywhere be as good as any +other dollar. I am sure that we would all shun that condition of +things into which many peoples of the past have drifted, and of +which we have had in one of the great South American countries +a recent example—the distressed and hopeless condition into which +all business enterprise falls, when a nation issues an irredeemable or +depreciated money. The necessities of a great war can excuse +that.</p> + +<p>I am one of those that believe that these men from your shops, +these farmers remote from money centres, have the largest interest +of all people in the world in having a dollar that is worth one +hundred cents every day in the year, and only such. If by any +chance we should fall into a condition where one dollar is not so +good as another I venture the assertion that that poorer dollar will +do its first errand in paying some poor laborer for his work. +Therefore, in the conduct of our public affairs I feel pledged, for +one, that all the influences of the Government should be on the side +of giving the people only good money and just as much of that +kind as we can get. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>Now, my fellow-citizens, we have this year a most abundant, +yes, extraordinary, grain crop. All of the great staples have been +yielded to the labor of the farmer in a larger measure than ever +before. A leading agricultural paper estimated that the produce +of our farms will be worth $1,000,000,000 more this year than ever +before, and it happens that just with this great surplus in our +barns we find a scarcity in all the countries of Europe. Russia has +recently prohibited the export of rye, because she needs her crop to +feed her own people. The demands in France and in England and +Germany will absorb every bushel of the great surplus we shall +have after our people are fed, and, whatever complaints there may<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_500" id="Page_500">[500]</a></span> +have been in the past, I believe this year will spread a smile of +gladness over the entire agricultural population of our country.</p> + +<p>This is our opportunity, and I cannot see how it shall be possible +but that these exports of grain, now reaching the limit of the +capacity of our railroads and of our ships, shall soon bring back +to us the lost gold we sent to Europe and more that we did not lose. +I was told by an officer of the West Shore road to-day that that +road alone was carrying 100,000 bushels of wheat every day into +New York, and that it scarcely stopped an hour in the elevator, +but was run immediately into the bottom of a steam vessel that +was to carry it abroad. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>This is only an illustration of what is going on. As the result +of it our people must be greatly enriched. Where there has been +complaint, where there has been poverty, there must come this +year plenty, for the gardens have loaded the table, the orchards +cannot bear the burdens that hang upon their reddening limbs, +and the granaries are not equal to the product of our fields. We +ought, then, this day to be a happy people. We ought to be grateful +for these conditions and careful everywhere to add to them the +virtue of patience, frugality, love of order, and, to crown all, a +great patriotism and devotion to the Constitution and the law—always +our rule of conduct as citizens. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>My fellow-citizens, it is very difficult to speak in this heavy +atmosphere. I beg, therefore, that you will allow me to thank +you for your friendly demonstration, and bid you good-night.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="TROY_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18" id="TROY_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_18">TROY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> the special train reached Troy in the evening an +immense throng greeted the President. It was the noisiest +demonstration of the day. General Harrison shook +hands with hundreds, many of them working men just +from the shops. The following prominent Trojans composed +the Committee of Reception and escorted the party +from Albany: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, Charles W. Tillinghast, +William Kemp, Thomas Dickson, F. N. Mann, +William H. Hollister Jr., Col. Lee Chamberlin, John I. +Thompson, Col. Arthur MacArthur, D. S. Hasbrouck, +Samuel Morris, James H. Potts, J. F. Bridgeman, C. L.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_501" id="Page_501">[501]</a></span> +Fuller, T. J. O'Sullivan, Cornelius Hannan, Henry McMillen, +H. M. Reynolds, George H. Mead, Dr. C. B. Herrick, +and William Kemp, Jr. The veterans of Willard Post G. +A. R., under Commander Leet, participated in the reception.</p> + +<p>Ex-Mayor Wm. Kemp made the address of welcome in +the unavoidable absence of Mayor Whelan. Midst great +enthusiasm and cheers General Carr introduced the President, +who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—I attempted a little while ago to speak in Albany in +this damp atmosphere, and find my voice is so much roughened by +the effort that I can hardly hope to make myself heard by you. +I am glad to have the opportunity to pause some moments in the +city of Troy, to look into the faces of its industrious and thrifty +population. I have long known of your city as a city of industry—as +a great manufacturing city—sending out its products to all +the land, and by the skill of its workmen and the integrity of its +merchants finding everywhere a market for wares kept up to the +standard. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<p>The President was here interrupted by the blowing of +steam-whistles, and continued, smiling:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I am quite used to having my speeches punctuated by steam-whistles. +I am sure that you realize here in a large degree the +benefit of a policy that keeps the American market for the American +workmen. [Cries of "Good!" and applause.] I try to be +broadly philanthropic in my thoughts about the human race, but +cannot help thinking that an American workman has a stronger +claim on my sympathy and help than any other workman. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I believe that our institutions are only safe while we have intelligent +and contented working classes. I would adopt constitutional +methods—any administrative method—that would preserve this +country from the condition into which some others have unfortunately +fallen, where a hard day's work does not bring sustenance +for the workman and his family. [Applause.] I would be glad +if there were not a home in Troy—not a home in the United States +of America—where there was not plenty for man and wife and +child; where there was not only sustenance, but a margin of saving +that might make the old age of the husband and wife and the life +of the children easier than this generation has been. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_502" id="Page_502">[502]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BENNINGTON_VERMONT_AUGUST_19" id="BENNINGTON_VERMONT_AUGUST_19">BENNINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 19.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">Dedication of the Battle Monument.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> and his party reached North +Bennington at 8 o'clock on the night of the eighteenth. He +was met by the following Committee of Reception on the +part of the city of Bennington: Gen. J. G. McCullough, +M. S. Colburn, J. V. Carney, S. B. Hall, and A. P. Childs; +also, Dr. William Seward Webb, and Col. Geo. W. Hooker, +representing the State Entertainment Committee. As the +President appeared he was greeted with rousing cheers by +the large crowd and escorted to the residence of General +McCullough, whose guest he was.</p> + +<p>The following morning the distinguished visitors reviewed +the grand parade in honor of the centenary of +the admission of Vermont into the Union and the dedication +of the Bennington Battle Monument. Col. W. +Seward Webb, President-General of the Sons of the American +Revolution, accompanied by a mounted Grand Army +Post, escorted President Harrison to the Soldiers' Home, +where Gov. Carroll S. Page and all the living ex-Governors +of Vermont greeted him. The presidential party to review +the parade consisted of sixty guests of the State, and included +Secretary of War Proctor, Attorney-General Miller, +Gen. O. O. Howard, Governor Russell, of Massachusetts; +Governor Tuttle, of New Hampshire; Senator Henry +L. Dawes and ex-Gov. A. H. Rice, of Massachusetts; Senators +Edmunds and Morrill; Senators Wm. E. Chandler +and J. H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Congressmen +Grout and Powers; Adjutant-General Ayling and Hon. +John King, of New York.</p> + +<p>The parade was the most brilliant and imposing ever +seen in the State. A feature of the decorations was a +magnificent triumphal arch, the turrets and embrasures of +which were filled with young maidens clad in brilliant +colors, while on the top of the arch were 125 little girls<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_503" id="Page_503">[503]</a></span> +dressed in white, with flowing hair, singing patriotic +songs. In the loftiest turret was a gorgeous throne of +gold, occupied by Miss Lillie Adams, personating the +Goddess of Liberty.</p> + +<p>After the review the presidential party was escorted to +the grand stand at the monument, where 15,000 people assembled.</p> + +<p>The battle monument is a plain, square shaft of magnesian +limestone 302 feet high. The interior at the base is +22 feet square and has a stairway. It was built under the +supervision of the Trustees of the Bennington Battle Monument +Association. The Building Committee comprised +Gen. John G. McCullough, H. G. Root, A. B. Valentine, +M. C. Huling, and L. F. Abbott.</p> + +<p>Gen. Wheelock G. Veazey was President of the Day, +and introduced Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurst, of Boston, +who opened the dedicatory exercises with prayer. Governor +Page delivered the address of welcome, and was followed +by ex-Gov. B. F. Prescott, of New Hampshire, +President of the Bennington Battle Monument Association, +who transferred the monument to the care and keeping of +Vermont. Hon. Edward J. Phelps, the chosen orator of +the occasion, then delivered a historical and scholarly address, +which was listened to with marked attention by his +distinguished audience.</p> + +<p>At the conclusion of Mr. Phelps' oration Chairman +Veazey introduced President Harrison, who arose midst +prolonged cheers and spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Fellow-citizens</i>—There are several obvious +reasons why I should not attempt to speak to you at this time. This +great audience is so uncomfortably situated that a further prolongation +of these exercises cannot be desirable, but the stronger +reason is that you have just listened with rapt attention to a most +scholarly and interesting review of those historical incidents which +have suggested this assemblage and to those lessons which they +furnish to thoughtful and patriotic men. [Applause.] A son of +Vermont honored by his fellow-citizens, honored by the Nation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_504" id="Page_504">[504]</a></span> +which he has served in distinguished public functions, honored +by the profession of which he is an ornament and an instructor, +has spoken for Vermont [applause]; and it does not seem to me +fit that these golden sentences should be marred by any extemporaneous +words which I can add. I come to you under circumstances +that altogether forbid preparation. I have no other preparation +for speech than this inspiring cup of good-will which you +have presented to my lips. [Applause.] The most cordial welcome +which has been extended to me to-day makes it unfitting that I +should omit to make a cordial acknowledgment of it. Perhaps I +may be permitted, as a citizen of a Western State, to give expression +to the high regard and honor in which Vermont is held. +Perhaps I may assume, as a public officer representing in some +sense all the States of the Union, to bring to-day their appreciation +of the history and people of this patriotic State. Its history is +unique, as Mr. Phelps has said. The other colonies staked their +lives, their fortunes and honor upon the struggle for independence, +with the assurance that if, by their valor and sacrifice, independence +was achieved, all these were assured. The inhabitants of +the New Hampshire grants alone fought with their fellow-countrymen +of the colonies for liberty, for political independence, unknowing +whether, when it had been achieved, the property, the homes +upon which they dwelt, would be assured by the success of the +confederate colonies. They could not know—they had the gravest +reason to fear—that when the authority of the confederation of +the States had been established this very Government, to whose +supremacy Vermont had so nobly contributed, might lend its +authority to the establishment of the claims of New York upon +their homes; and yet, in all this story, though security of property +would undoubtedly have been pledged by the royal representative, +Vermont took a conspicuous, unselfish, and glorious part in +achieving the independence of the united colonies, trusting to the +justice of her cause for the ultimate security of the homes of her +people. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It is a most noble and unmatched history; and if I may deliver +the message of Indiana as a citizen of that State, and as a public +officer the message of all the States, I came to say, "Worthy Vermont!" +[Cheers]. She has kept the faith unfalteringly from Bennington +until this day. She has added, in war and peace, many +illustrious names to our roll of military heroes and of great +statesmen. Her representation in the national Congress, as it has +been known to me, has been conspicuous for its influence, for the +position it has assumed in committee and in debate, and, so far<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_505" id="Page_505">[505]</a></span> +as I can recall, has been without personal reproach. [Cheers] +We have occasionally come to Vermont with a call that did not +originate with her people, and those have been answered with the +same pure, high consecration to public duty as has been the case +with those who have been chosen by your suffrages to represent the +State, and I found when the difficult task of arranging a Cabinet +was devolved upon me that I could not get along without a Vermont +stick in it [laughter and applause], and I am sure you have plenty +of timber left in each of the great political parties. [Cheers.] +The participation of this State in the War of the Rebellion was +magnificent. Her troops took to the fields of the South that high +consecration to liberty which had characterized their fathers in +the Revolutionary struggle. [Applause.] They did not forget, on +the hot savannas of the South, the green tops of these hills, ever +in their vision, lifting up their hearts in faith that God would +again bring the good cause of freedom to a just issue. [Applause.] +We are to-day approaching the conclusion of a summer of extraordinary +fruitfulness. How insignificant the stores that were +gathered at Bennington in 1777 compared with these great storehouses +bursting with fulness to-day! Our excess meets the +deficiency of Europe, and a ready market is offered for all our +cereals. We shall grow richer by contributions which other countries +shall make as they take from our storehouses the food needed +to sustain their people. But after all, it is not the census tables of +production or of wealth that tell the story of the greatness of this +country. Vermont has not been one of the rich States of the +Union in gold and silver, and its lands have not given the returns +that some of the fertile riversides of the West yield. There has +been here constant effort and honest toil; but out of all this there +has been brought a sturdy manhood, which is better than riches, +on which, rather than to wealth, the security of our country rests. +[Applause.] I beg you to accept my sincere thanks again for the +evidence of your friendliness, and my apology that the conditions +are not such as to enable me to speak as I could wish. [Cheers]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">The Banquet in the Tent.</p> + +<p>At 4 o'clock the President's party and the State's invited +guests were entertained at a banquet spread in a mammoth +tent. The ladies of the party were seated in front of the +President. Among the notable ladies present were the +wives of General Alger and Attorney-General Miller,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_506" id="Page_506">[506]</a></span> +Mrs. E. J. Phelps, Mrs. H. H. Baxter, Mrs. A. F. Walker, +Mrs. Horatio Loomis, Mrs. W. G. Veazey, and the wives +of ex-Governor Ormsbee and Gen. L. G. Kingsley, Miss +Roberts, Miss Brown, Miss Ormsbee, the wife of Senator +Morrill, Mrs. B. B. Smalley, the wives of ex-Governors +Farnham and Pingree, and of Auditor Towell. President +Harrison was seated between Governor Page and Secretary +Proctor.</p> + +<p>Among the distinguished guests—other than those previously +enumerated—were Justice Blatchford, of the Supreme +Court; Gen. Russell A. Alger; Gen. Alexander S. +Webb, of New York; Col. A. F. Walker, of Chicago; +Speaker W. E. Barrett, Massachusetts; Col. Albert Clarke, +Boston; Maj.-Gen. J. M. Warner, of Albany; John King, +President Erie Railway; H. W. Bruce, Kentucky; ex-Gov. +R. S. Green, New Jersey; Hon. B. B. Smalley, Dr. +E. H. Doty, Asa B. Gardner, Maj.-Gen. William Walls; +Surg.-Gen. J. C. Rutherford and Quartermaster-General +W. H. Gilmore, of Vermont, F. B. Barrett and L. L. Tarbell, +Massachusetts; Col. H. C. Cutler, Col. M. J. Horton, +Col. W. H. H. Slack, and Col. H. F. Brigham, of Governor +Page's staff. The following ex-Governors of Vermont +were present: J. W. Stewart, Barstow, Pingree, Farnham, +and E. J. Ormsbee.</p> + +<p>The entertainment was upon an extraordinary scale, +inasmuch as over 3,500 persons were seated at the banquet +tables at one time, and 16,000 pieces of figured china were +used, while the President's table was provided with a +dinner service of rare Sèvres and old Delft ware.</p> + +<p>General Veazey, the President of the Committee, again +introduced President Harrison, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Fellow-citizens</i>—Whatever temporary injury +my voice has suffered was not at the hands of Vermont. [Laughter +and applause.] New York is responsible. In Albany I spoke in +the rain to a large assemblage. Perhaps, if it were worth while to +trace this vocal infirmity further, I might find its origin at Cape<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_507" id="Page_507">[507]</a></span> +May [laughter], for I think I started upon this trip with the elements +of a cold that has to some degree marred the pleasure which I +had anticipated to-day. But, notwithstanding what my friend, +General Veazey, has described as "the dilapidated condition" of my +voice, I will respond to his request to say a word to you. I know +that General Veazey had been put in charge of the transportation +lines of the country; but I did not expect to find him in charge of +what the boys used to call the "cracker line." [Laughter.] It +seems that his capacity for usefulness in the public service is so +great and so diversified that you have called upon him to conduct +the exercises of this magnificent occasion. He is a most excellent +Interstate Commerce Commissioner [applause], an honor to your +State, and I have no criticism of him as President of the day, except +that he calls too much attention to me. [Laughter and applause.]</p> + +<p>This scene, these tables so bountifully and so tastefully spread, +was one full of beauty when we entered, but it seems now to have +taken on some of that "dilapidation" which General Veazey ascribed +to my voice. [Laughter.] I am sure that if the supplies +gathered at Bennington to-day had been here in 1777 that struggle +would have been much more obstinate. [Laughter.] But, my +fellow-citizens, there is much in this occasion that is full of instruction +to the strangers who by your hospitable invitation have +the privilege of meeting with you. Wherever men may have been +born within this galaxy of great States, which makes the greater +Union, there is respect and honor for the New England character. +It has been a source of strength to the Nation in its development in +material things. It has furnished to literature and to invention +some of the largest contributions; but, more than all this, it has +done a great work for all the States, and especially those States +of the West and Northwest, in which its enterprising sons have +found new homes, in establishing everywhere a love of social order +and a patriotic devotion to the Union of States. [Applause.] If +we seek to find the institutions of New England that have formed +the character of its own people and have exercised a stronger +moulding influence than that of any other section upon our whole +people we shall find them, I think, in their temples, in their +schools, in their town meetings and in their God-fearing homes. +[Applause.] The courage of those who fought at Bennington, at +Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga was born of a +high trust in God. They were men who, fearing God, had naught +else to fear. That devotion to local self-government which originated +and for so long maintained the town meeting, establishing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_508" id="Page_508">[508]</a></span> +and perpetuating a true democracy, an equal, full participation and +responsibility in all public affairs on the part of every citizen, was +the cause of the development of the love of social order and respect +for law which has characterized your communities, has made them +safe and commemorable abodes for your people. These migrations +between the States have been to your loss, but there is now a turning +back to these States of New England and to some of its unused +farms, which I believe is to continue and increase. The migration +which you have sent into the South to develop its industries, to +open its mines, to set up factories and furnaces, is doing marvellous +work in unifying our people. [Applause.] As I journeyed +recently across the continent this oneness of our people was strongly +impressed upon me. I think these centennial observances which +have crowded one upon another from Concord to the centennial of +the adoption of the Constitution and the organization of the Supreme +Court have turned the thought of our people to the most +inspiring incident in our history, and have greatly intensified and +developed our love of the flag and our Constitution. [Applause.] +I do not believe there has been a time in our history when there +has been a deeper, fonder love for the unity of the States, for the +flag that emblematizes this unity, and for the Constitution which +cements it. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I believe we have come to a time when we may look out to +greater things. Secure in our own institutions, enriched almost +beyond calculation, I believe we have reached a time when we +may take a large part in the great transactions of the world. +[Cheers.] I believe our people are prepared now to insist that the +American flag shall again be seen upon the sea [applause], and +that our merchants and manufacturers are ready to seize the golden +opportunity that is now offered for extending our commerce into +the States of Central and South America. [Cheers.] I believe +that conservative views of finance will prevail in this country. +[Applause.] I am sure discontent and temporary distress will not +tempt our people to forsake those safe lines of public administration +in which commercial security alone rests. [Applause.] As long as +the general Government furnishes the money of the people for their +great business transactions I believe we will insist, as I have said before, +that every dollar issued, whether paper or coin, shall be as good +and be kept as good as any other dollar that issues. [Cheers.] The +purity, the equality of what we call dollars must be preserved, or +an element of uncertainty and of bankruptcy will be introduced +into all business transactions. This I may say without crossing +lines of division: How this end is to be attained I will not at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_509" id="Page_509">[509]</a></span>tempt +to sketch, but I do not hesitate to say that I feel myself, in +the public interest, pledged so far as in me lies to maintain that +equality between our circulating money that is essential to the perfect +use of all. [Prolonged applause.]</p> + +<p>I have gone beyond the promise of the President of the day, and +have been betrayed by your friendliness into speaking two or three +words. May I, in closing, tender to these good women of Vermont +my thanks for the grace and sweetness which their services and +their presence have lent to this happy occasion? May I say to them +that the devoted services of their mothers, their courage and +patience and helpfulness shown by the women in the great struggle +for liberty cannot be too highly appreciated? It was an easier fate +to march with bared breasts against the Hessian ramparts at Bennington +than to sit in the lonely homestead awaiting the issue +with tearful eyes uplifted to God in prayer for those who perilled +their lives for the cause. All honor to the New England mother, +the queen of the New England home! [Applause.] There, in those +nurseries of virtue and truth, have been found the strongest influences +that have moulded your people for good and led your +sons to honor. [Great cheering.]</p></div> + +<p>At the conclusion John B. Carney, Chairman of the +Citizens' Committee, presented General Harrison with a +gold medal bearing a likeness of the Bennington Monument. +As the medal was pinned on the President's coat +he remarked: "It needed not this memento to remind me +of this auspicious occasion."</p> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MT_MGREGOR_AUGUST_20" id="MT_MGREGOR_AUGUST_20">MT. M'GREGOR, AUGUST 20.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> and his party arrived at Saratoga +on the morning of the 20th, and were heartily greeted. He +immediately embarked for Mt. McGregor, where another +large gathering welcomed him. After visiting the historic +Grant cottage the President became the guest of W. +J. Arkell, at the latter's cottage on the mountain. In the +afternoon the party partook of a "country dinner" at the +Hotel Balmoral, given by the Hon. James Arkell in honor +of the President's fifty-eighth birthday.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_510" id="Page_510">[510]</a></span></p> + +<p>About 120 guests participated. Senator Arkell presided. +Among those present besides the President's party were: +B. Gillam, Capt. John Palmer, Commander G. A. R.; +Hugh Reilly, W. H. Bockes, M. L. Staver, P. Farrelly, J. +S. Lamoreaux, J. M. Francis, William Barnes, Jr., and +William Whitney, of Albany; Edward Ellis and Samuel +Insul, of Schenectady; John W. Vrooman, of Herkimer; +J. Y. Foster, C. C. Shayne, Spencer Trask, John A. +Sleicher, J. H. Breslin, W. A. Sweetzer, S. E. May, and +Marshall P. Wilder, of New York; D. F. Ritchie, W. T. +Rockwood, H. B. Hanson, J. G. B. Woolworthy, W. +Lester, C. S. Lester, W. W. Worden, E. H. Peters, J. M. +Marvin, E. C. Clark, and T. F. Hamilton, of Saratoga; J. +A. Manning, of Troy; D. W. Mabee, Frank Jones, and S. +C. Medberry, of Ballston, and John Kellogg and W. J. +Kline, of Amsterdam. Mr. Arkell paid an eloquent tribute +to the memory of General Grant and congratulated his +distinguished guest.</p> + +<p>President Harrison arose and amid great cheering began:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Arkell and Friends</i>—It was a part of the covenant of this +feast that it should be a silent one; not exactly a Quaker meeting, +as Mr. Arkell has said, because silence there is apt to be broken by +the moving of the spirit. That is not a safe rule for a banquet. +[Laughter.] I rise only to thank your generous host and these +gentlemen from different parts of the State who honor this occasion +for their friendliness and their esteem. We are gathered +here in a spot which is historic. This mountain has been fixed in +the affectionate and reverent memory of all our people and has been +glorified by the death on its summit of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. +[Applause.] It is fit that that great spirit that had already lifted +its fame to a height unknown in American history should take its +flight from this mountain-top. It has been said that a great life +went out here; but great lives, like that of General Grant, do not +go out. They go on. [Cries of "Good! Good!" and great applause.] +I will ask you in a reverent and affectionate and patriotic remembrance +of that man who came to recover all failures in military +achievement, and with his great generalship and inflexible purpose +to carry the flag of the republic to ultimate triumph, recalling with +reverent interest his memory, to drink a toast in silence as a pledge<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_511" id="Page_511">[511]</a></span> +that we will ever keep in mind his great services, and in doing so +will perpetuate his great citizenship and the glory of the Nation +he fought to save.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="SARATOGA_SPRINGS_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_21" id="SARATOGA_SPRINGS_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_21">SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, AUGUST 21.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President left Mt. McGregor the afternoon of the +21st, and reached Saratoga at 4 o'clock, where 50,000 people +joined in an ovation to him. It was the largest gathering +ever seen in Saratoga, and the town was resplendent with +colors. The Chief Executive was met by a reception +committee composed of Hon. John R. Putnam, Hon. A. +Bockes, Hon. Henry Hilton, Hon. H. S. Clement, Hon. +James M. Marvin, Hon. John W. Crane, Hon. J. W. +Houghton, Gen. W. B. French, Hon. John Foley, Hon. D. +Lohnas, Col. David F. Ritchie, Hon. Lewis Varney, Lieut. +A. L. Hall, Edward Kearney, John A. Manning, George +B. Cluett, Prof. Edward N. Jones, and J. G. B. Woolworth. +Wheeler Post, G. A. R., acted as an escort of honor.</p> + +<p>Arrived at the Grand Union Hotel, the President was +greeted with great clapping of hands and the waving of +10,000 handkerchiefs by the ladies. He reviewed the procession +from the piazza, and, on being introduced by Village +President Lohnas, spoke a follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The greatness of this assembly makes it impossible +that I should do more than thank you for the magnificent +welcome which you have extended me to-day. I have great +pleasure in being again for a few days in Saratoga—this world renowned +health and pleasure resort. It gives me great satisfaction +to witness, on the part of the citizens of Saratoga and of the visitors +who are spending a season for refreshment or recuperation here, +the expression of kindness which beams upon me from all your +faces. I am sure the explanation of all this is that you are all +American citizens, lovers of the flag and the Constitution [applause], +and in thus assembling you give expression to your loyalty +and patriotism. [Applause.] It is not, I am sure, an individual +expression; it is larger and better than that, for this country of ours +is distinguished in naught else more than in the fact that its people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_512" id="Page_512">[512]</a></span> +give their love and loyalty and service, not to individuals, but to +institutions. [Applause.] We love this country because it is a +land of liberty, because the web and woof of its institutions are +designed to promote and secure individual liberty and general +prosperity. [Applause.] We love it because it not only does not +create, but because it does not tolerate, any distinction between +men other than that of merit. [Applause.] I desire to thank +those comrades who wear the honored badge of the Grand Army +of the Republic for their escort and their welcome. I never see +this badge anywhere that I do not recognize its wearer as a friend. +[Applause.] Survivors of a great struggle for the perpetuity of +our institutions—having endured in march and camp and battle +the utmost that men can endure, and given the utmost that men +can give—they are now as citizens of this republic in civic life +doing their part to maintain order in its communities and to promote +in peace the honor and prosperity of the country they saved. +[Applause.] Thanking you once more for your friendliness and +cordial enthusiasm, I will ask you to excuse me from further +speech. [Great applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="FROM_SARATOGA_THROUGH_VERMONT" id="FROM_SARATOGA_THROUGH_VERMONT">FROM SARATOGA THROUGH VERMONT.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> last day of the President's stay at Saratoga Springs +he was tendered a reception by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. T. Stranahan, +of Brooklyn, at the Pompeiian House of Pansa. Admission +was by card, and several hundred well-known +people paid their respects to the Chief Magistrate. The +wives of Governor Jackson, of Maryland, ex-Governor +Baldwin, of Michigan, and Hon. George Bliss, of New +York, assisted the host and hostess in receiving. Hon. +David F. Ritchie introduced the guests.</p> + +<p>On the morning of August 25 the President, accompanied +by Secretary Proctor and the other members of his party, +left Saratoga on a journey through the Green Mountain +State. They were accompanied by Vice-President E. C. +Smith, of the Vermont Central road, and Superintendent +C. D. Hammond, of the Delaware and Hudson.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_513" id="Page_513">[513]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WHITEHALL_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_25" id="WHITEHALL_NEW_YORK_AUGUST_25">WHITEHALL, NEW YORK, AUGUST, 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> first stop was at Whitehall, where the party was +met by Hon. H. G. Burleigh, Gen. J. C. Rogers, William +Sinnott, Luke H. Carrington, A. J. Taft, and Maj. John +Dwyer, President of the Washington County Veteran Association. +A train containing several hundred veterans, +on their way to a reunion at Dresden, was in waiting, and +a large crowd assembled around the President's car. The +Burleigh Corps acted as a guard of honor. Ex-Congressman +Burleigh, in a brief speech, introduced the President, +whose remarks created much enthusiasm. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Comrades and Fellow-citizens</i>—It is pleasant to come this morning +upon an assemblage of comrades gathering with their families +to a social reunion to recall their services and sacrifices and to +bathe their souls in the glory of this bright day and of this great +land that they fought to save. [Applause.] Such assemblages are +full of interest to the veterans, and they are full of instruction and +inspiration to those who gather with them. It is our habit in the +West, as it is yours here, to have these annual meetings, and it is +always a pleasure to me when I can arrange to meet with the comrades +of my old regiment, or of the old brigade, or with the veterans +of any regiment of any State who stood for the flag. [Applause.] +There is a pathetic side to all this. We gather with +diminished ranks from year to year. We miss the comrades who +are dropping by the way. We see repeated now that which we +saw as the great column moved on in the campaign of the war—a +comrade dropping out, borne to the hospital, followed to the grave—and +yet these soldier memories and thoughts are brightened by the +glories which inspire and attend all these gatherings of the veterans +of the war. We see the old flag again, and I am glad to believe +that there has never been a period in our history when there was +more love for it. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It is quite natural that it should be so. These veterans who +stand about me have seen many days and months in camps and +battlefields and in devastated country through which they marched +when there was on all the horizon one thing of beauty—that glorified +flag. [Applause.] They brought home the love of it in their +hearts, wrought in every fibre of their nature; and it is very +natural that the children who have come on should catch this in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_514" id="Page_514">[514]</a></span>spiration +and love from the fathers who perilled everything that +the flag might still be held in honor, and still be an emblem of the +authority of one Constitution over an undivided Nation. We see +to-day how worthy the land was for which our comrades died, and +for which you, my comrades, offered your lives, in its great +development and its increasing population, in its multiplying +homes, where plenty and prosperity, the love of God and social +order, and all good things abide. In this great Nation, striding +on in wealth and prosperity to the very first place among the +nations of the earth; in this land, in truth as well as in theory the +land of the free, we see that which was worthy of the utmost +sacrifice of the truest men. [Prolonged Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I recall with pleasure that some of the New York regiments, +coming to the Western army with Hooker and Howard and Gerry +and Williams and others, served in the same corps to which I was +designated during the great campaign upon Atlanta. Some of the +comrades who made that march from Chattanooga to Atlanta and +the sea are here to-day, survivors of one of the greatest, in all its +aspects, of all the campaigns of the war. You came from those +bloody fields upon the Potomac, and struck hands with us of the +West as brothers. You helped us in the struggle there to cut the +Confederacy in twain, and, lapping around by the sea, to strike +hands with Grant again near Appomattox. [cheers.]</p> + +<p>I thank you again most cordially for your friendly demonstration +and presence. If I had the power to call down blessings upon my +fellow-men, the home of every comrade here would be full of all +prosperity. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="FAIR_HAVEN_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="FAIR_HAVEN_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">FAIR HAVEN, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Whitehall the party was joined by Adj.-Gen. T. S. +Peck and Col. M. J. Horton, of Governor Page's staff. +When the Vermont line was reached General Peck, in the +name of the Governor, formally welcomed the President to +the State. Fair Haven was reached at 10 o'clock. The +Reception Committee was Hon. Samuel L. Hazard, Andrew +N. Adams, George M. Fuller, and Wm. V. Roberts.</p> + +<p>Mr. Hazard introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—We have already lost some minutes at your +station, and it will not be possible for me to hold the train longer.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_515" id="Page_515">[515]</a></span> +I thank you for this friendly greeting, and for the kindness which +beams upon me from the faces of these contented and happy men +and women of the good State of Vermont. I am glad to see about +me the evidences of the indomitable pluck and successful enterprise +which characterize so highly all of your New England States. +When you found the stones too thick to make agriculture profitable +you compelled the rocks to yield you a subsistence, and these great +slate and marble industries have become the centre of wealthy and +prosperous communities. You are here, each in his own place; +these good ladies in that supremely influential position, the American +home, and you, my countrymen, in the shops and in the fields, +making contributions to the prosperity and glory of this great +Nation. It is pleasant to know that the love of country, stimulated +by the teaching of the father and of the mother, revived by these +recollections of the first struggle for independence, deepened by +the sacrifices which were made in the Civil War to preserve what +our fathers had purchased for us, are still holding sway in the +hearts of our people. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>We are conspicuously a people abiding in respect and honor for +the law. The law, as expressed in our constitutions and in our +statute-books, is the sovereign to which we all bow. We acknowledge +no other. To the law each and every one should give his undivided +allegiance and his faithful service. There is no other rule +that will bring and maintain in our communities that peaceful and +orderly condition, that good neighborhood and kindly intercourse, +which is so essential to the happiness of any community. I am +sure that these things, now as of old, characterize these New England +communities, where the strife which your colder climate and +your soil compel you to make for your subsistence has bred habits +of thrift, economy, and independence, and the love of liberty +which I am sure is as fadeless as the stars. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Thanking you again for this pleasant morning reception, I will +bid you good-by. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CASTLETON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="CASTLETON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">CASTLETON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Castleton there was a large crowd, including 200 +pupils of the Normal School, who pelted the President with +roses and golden-rod. The Reception Committee comprised +Hon. Henry L. Clark, A. E. Leavenworth, S. B. +Ellis, and A. L. Ramson.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_516" id="Page_516">[516]</a></span></p> + +<p>Judge Clark introduced the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—It is very pleasant to meet here, mingling +with the citizens of this neighborhood, the pupils of your Normal +School. One of the most influential characters in the history of +the United States is the New England school-teacher. If we could +follow the track of these intelligent men and women who have +gone out from the New England States into the West and South; +if we could trace those strong, yet slender and hard-to-be-discovered, +threads of influence which they have started in the communities +to which they went; if we could know how they have impressed +on the minds of the pupils brought under their care the +great lessons of self-respect and love for free institutions and social +order,—we should have a higher thought than we have yet had of +the power and dignity of these pioneers of education. [Cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BRANDON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="BRANDON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">BRANDON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Brandon</span> gave the travellers a hearty reception at 11 +<span class="smcap">A.M.</span> Ex-Gov. J. W. Stewart, of Middlebury, Hon. Aldace +F. Walker, of Chicago; G. G. Benedict and C. S. Forbes, of +St. Albans, joined the party here. Ex-Governor Ormsbee +welcomed the President on behalf of the residents of +Brandon.</p> + +<p>General Harrison said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—The kindly pelting which I have received at +the hands of some of your ladies and of these bright children +reminds me of a like experience on the California trip, when we +were so pelted with bouquets of handsome flowers that we were +very often compelled to retreat from the platform and take cover +in the car. These gifts of flowers which you bring to me here are +the products of your fields and not of your gardens. The beautiful +golden-rod! It is pleasant to think that in this plant, so widely +distributed, slightly diversified in its characteristics, but spreading +over nearly our whole country, we have a type of the diversity and +yet the oneness of our people; and I am glad to think that its +golden hue typifies the gladness and joy and prosperity that is over +all our fields this happy year, and, I trust, in all your homes. I +thank you for your pleasant greeting this morning, and bid you +good-by. [Cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_517" id="Page_517">[517]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MIDDLEBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="MIDDLEBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the arrival of the train at Middlebury at 11:30 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> +another large and enthusiastic throng was on hand. The +President was greeted by ex-Gov. John W. Stewart, Col. +A. A. Fletcher, G. S. Wainwright, Judge James M. Slade, +Charles M. Wilds, E. H. Thorp, E. P. Russell, B. S. Beckwith, +E. J. Mathews, John H. Stewart, A. J. Marshall, +Col. T. M. Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, and Frank A. +Bond. The veterans of Russel Post, G. A. R., were present +in a body, also the Sons of Veterans.</p> + +<p>Governor Stewart introduced the President, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—Though I have not before had the pleasure of +looking into the faces of many of you, Vermont has for many +years been familiar to me, and has been placed high in my esteem +by the acquaintance I have formed at Washington with the representatives +you have sent there. It has been a great pleasure to me +to know your esteemed fellow-citizen, Governor Stewart. Your +State and district and the Nation at large have had in him a most +able and faithful champion of all that was true and clean and right. +[Three cheers were given for Governor Stewart.]</p> + +<p>You have been particularly fortunate, I think, in your representatives +at Washington, as I had occasion to say the other day at +Bennington. I am glad to be here at the site of this institution of +learning—Middlebury College, which is soon to complete its hundredth +year of modest yet efficient service in training the minds of +your young men for usefulness in life. These home institutions, +in which these able and faithful men assiduously give themselves +and their lives to the building up and development of the intelligence—and +not only that, but of the moral side of your young men—are +bulwarks of strength to your State and to your community. +They cannot be too highly esteemed and honored by you; because, +my countrymen, kings may rule over an ignorant people, and by +their iron control hold them in subjection and in the quietness of +tyranny, but a free land rests upon the intelligence of its people, +and has no other safety than in well-grounded education and +thorough moral training. [Cries of "Good! Good!" and applause.] +Again I thank you for this cordial greeting which Vermont gives +me this morning, and to these comrades and friends I extend a comrade's +greeting and good wishes. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_518" id="Page_518">[518]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="VERGENNES_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="VERGENNES_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">VERGENNES, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Vergennes a large and joyful crowd greeted the distinguished +traveller. The Reception Committee comprised +Hon. J. G. Hindes, Mayor of the city; Hon. J. D. +Smith, Herrick Stevens, and J. N. Norton.</p> + +<p>Secretary Proctor introduced the President, who spoke +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I have had, as you know, some experience +in this business of speaking from the end of a railroad train. But +it has seemed to me this morning that these Vermont towns are +closer together than on any other route I have travelled. [Laughter.] +Perhaps it is because your State is not very large, and you have +had to put your towns close together in order to get them all in. +[Laughter.] I have heard an interesting story of the origin of this +city of Vergennes. I suppose it was one of the earliest instances +in the history of our country, if not the very first, of a city being +constructed upon paper before it was built upon the ground. +[Laughter.] That has come to be quite a familiar practice in these +late days of speculation, but it is singular that a city charter and +the ample corporate limits of one mile square should have been +given to Vergennes before this century began. If the expectations +of the founder of this city have not been realized fully, you have +more than realized all the thoughts of Ethan Allan and his contemporaries +in the greatness and prosperity of your State and in +the richer glory and higher greatness of the Nation of which you +are a part. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am glad this morning to look into the contented faces of another +audience of New England people. You were greatly disparaged in +the estimation of some of our people before the Civil War. There +had spread unfortunately over the minds of our Southern brethren +the impression that you were so much given to money, to thrift, +and to toil that your hands had forgotten how to fight. It was a +most wholesome lesson when the whole country learned again in +the gallant charges and stubborn resistances of the Vermont Brigade +that the old New England spirit still lived; that Paul Revere still +rode the highways of New England; and that the men of Concord +and Lexington and Bennington still ploughed her fields. [Applause.] +I am glad to meet you this bright, joyous morning; and +I am sure, in view of the fatigues that have preceded and that are +to follow, you will excuse me from further speech, and accept my +most heartfelt thanks for your friendliness. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_519" id="Page_519">[519]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BURLINGTON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="BURLINGTON_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">BURLINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Burlington</span> gave the President a royal reception Tuesday +noon. The Queen City was elaborately decorated, and +all business was suspended during the demonstration. +The distinguished visitors were welcomed by Senator +George F. Edmunds, his honor Mayor Hazelton, Col. Le +Grand B. Cannon, Hon. E. J. Phelps, Gen. William Wells, +ex-Gov. U. A. Woodbury, Hon. B. B. Smalley, Hon. G. G. +Benedict, C. F. Wheeler, ex-Governor Barstow, C. W. +Woodhouse, and Elias Lyman, President of the Board of +Aldermen. After luncheon at the home of Senator Edmunds, +the President was escorted through the Fletcher +Library to a platform fronting the park, where 20,000 people +greeted him.</p> + +<p>Mayor Hazelton delivered the address of welcome and +introduced President Harrison, who responded as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens</i>—I am not a little intimidated as I +face so unexpectedly this vast concourse of the citizens of this +great State of Vermont. I say great, though your territorial extent +does not place you among large States; great in an origin that +gave occasion for an early and resolute expression of that love of +liberty which has always pervaded your people; great in a population +that has never bowed the knee to the arrogance of power or to +the blandishments of wealth, and has, through all the history of +the State, maintained the inspiration of its early annals for love +of personal independence. I rejoice to be present to-day at the +home of one of your distinguished public servants, with whom it +was my good fortune for a time to be associated in the discharge +of public duties. I am glad to see here, at his own home, the +respect and honor in which George F. Edmunds is deservedly held +by the people of Vermont. [Applause.] Having for six years +witnessed the value of his services as a legislator in the Senate of +the United States, I share with you the regret that this country is +no longer to enjoy those services; though it is a source of gratification +to you, as it is to me, to know that in his love and loyalty to +the State that he has so highly honored, in his love and loyalty to +the Union of States, there will be no call for his wise counsel and +help that will not find a ready response from the walks of life +which he has chosen to resume. [Applause.]</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_520" id="Page_520">[520]</a></span> +<p>My fellow-citizens, it is true, as your Mayor has said, happily +true, that we not infrequently, and with ease, lift ourselves above +all the contentions of party strife and stand in the clear, inspiring +and stimulating sunshine as American patriots. [Applause.] We +are conspicuously a people who give their allegiance to institutions +and not to men. [Applause.] It were a happy thing for +others of our sister republics on this hemisphere if they could follow +this great example. Our people are not slow to appreciate +public services. They are not reluctant to acknowledge transcendent +genius, but they give their loyalty as citizens to institutions, +and not to parties or to men. [Applause.] This was happily +shown in our great rebellion, when party divisions, that seemed to +lift barriers between us like these mountain peaks, were obliterated +in a moment by that love for the Constitution and the flag which +pervaded all our people [applause]—a love that made the people +of all these great States one; that sent from Vermont and Massachusetts, +as from Indiana, those stalwart and devoted sons who +offered—many of them gave—their lives for the perpetuity of the +Union and the honor of the flag. Let us pursue our lines of division. +It is characteristic of a free people—it is essential—that +mental agitation and unrest out of which the highest and best is +evolved. But let us never forget that the fundamental thought of +our Government is the rule of the majority, lawfully expressed at +pure and clean elections, and that, when thus expressed, the laws +enacted by those chosen to make our laws are not less of the minority +than of the majority. [Applause.] Those who make the laws +are our servants, to whom we yield the respect of office and that +measure of personal regard to which their lives may entitle them. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>We are this year a most favored and happy people. Drouth has +blasted the crops of many of the nations of the world. Most of +the peoples of Europe are short of food. And God has this year, +mercifully to us, mercifully to them, made our store-houses to burst +with plenty. We have a great surplus of breadstuffs, and there is +not a bushel of wheat, corn, rye or oats that will not find a ready +market this year. Happy are we in this great prosperity; happy +that again out of your abundance the lack of other peoples may be +supplied. Let us be careful that our heads are not turned by too +much prosperity. It has been out of hardness, out of struggles, out +of self-denials, out of that thrift and economy which was an incident +of your soil, that the best things in New England have come. +[Applause.] And, while thankful to God for a season that diffuses +its blessings as this sweet sunshine is diffused into all our homes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_521" id="Page_521">[521]</a></span> +let us remember that it is not, after all, riches that exalt the +Nation. It is a pure, clean, high, intellectual, moral, and God-fearing +citizenship that is our glory and security as a Nation. +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>Let me thank you again for the friendliness of your manifestations, +for the opportunity to stand for a few moments in this most +beautiful city. [Applause.] You have the advantage of many of +our municipalities. You have not only the beauties of these groves +and gardens and pleasant streets and lovely homes, but from these +hilltops you have laid under contribution fifty miles in either +direction to beautify Burlington. [Applause.] I thank you, and +part with you with regret that my stay cannot be longer and my +intercourse with you more personal and informal. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ST_ALBANS_VERMONT_AUGUST_25" id="ST_ALBANS_VERMONT_AUGUST_25">ST. ALBANS, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President and party embarked at Burlington on +board Col. W. Seward Webb's yacht <i>Elfrida</i> and greatly +enjoyed the sail on Lake Champlain, landing at Maquam +in the evening, whence a special train carried them to St. +Albans, where they were welcomed by the Committee of +Reception, consisting of Hon. A. D. Tenney, George T. +Childs, Alfred A. Hall, T. M. Deal, W. Tracy Smith, B. +F. Kelley, A. L. Weeks, and A. W. Fuller. After dining +at Governor Smith's the President, at 9 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span>, was escorted +to the Welden House, fronting St. Albans Park. Twelve +thousand people greeted him. The scene was one of unusual +beauty; from the branching elms hung 2,000 Chinese +lanterns.</p> + +<p>When the President appeared on the balcony the enthusiasm +was great. He was introduced by Hon. E. C. Smith, +and spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I fear that my voice will not permit me suitably +to acknowledge this magnificent demonstration. In the tour +which I made this spring across the continent I witnessed very +many great assemblages and looked upon very many brilliant and +entrancing scenes, but I recall none outside the greater cities more +beautiful and worthy than this in St. Albans to-night. [Applause.]<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_522" id="Page_522">[522]</a></span> +Most deeply do I feel whatever of personal respect you thus evidence, +and yet more highly do I appreciate that love of American +institutions, that fealty to the flag, which I am sure is the dominant +impulse in this great assembly. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Your situation upon this great water line connecting the St. +Lawrence with the Hudson was an early suggestion to the trader +as well as to the invader. The Indian canoe, the boat of the fur-trader, +ploughed these waters in the early days of our history. At +a later time they suggested to the military leaders of Great Britain +who commanded the armies sent for the subjection of the colonies +that familiar strategy of severing the colonies into two parts by +moving and establishing posts upon Champlain and the Hudson. +These attempts and the brave resistance which was made by our +people, in which Vermont had so conspicuous and creditable a +part, have made all the shores of Lake Champlain historic ground. +In the address delivered by President Bartlett in 1877 at the observance +of the centennial of the battle of Bennington, I noticed that +he said, "Trading Manchester sent two regiments to conquer a +market," and it recalled to my mind the fact that one of the great +motives of resistance on the part of the colonies was the unjust +trade restrictions and exactions which were imposed upon them by +the mother country in order to secure the American markets for +the British manufacturer. You recall how severe and persistent +were the measures adopted in order to repress and crush out the +establishment of manufacturing industries in the colonies. This +battle for a market was never more general or more strenuous than +now among all of the nations of the world, though now generally +not pushed to bloodshed. [Applause.] All of the countries of the +Old World have through colonial extension by the division of +Africa, much as a boy might divide a watermelon among his fellows, +had reference largely to trade extensions and enlarged +markets. In this contest we have ourselves engaged, not by +attempting to push our political domain into lands that are not +rightfully ours, not by attempting to overthrow or subjugate the +weaker but friendly powers of this hemisphere, but by those +methods of peaceful and profitable interchange which are good for +them as for us, [Cries of "Good! good!" and applause.] Secure +in the great American market for our manufactures—a market the +best per capita of any in the world—we have come now to believe +that we may well extend our trade and send our manufactured +products to other countries across the seas and in ships carrying +the American flag. [Cries of "Good! good!" and applause.] We +do not need in any degree to break down or injure our own domes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_523" id="Page_523">[523]</a></span>tic +industries. We are consuming, to an enormous extent, of +tropical products not produced by our people, and by a fair exchange +with the nations sending us sugar, tea, and coffee we propose +and have entered successfully upon the enterprise of opening +the markets of Central and South America to the manufacturing +establishments of New England and the United States. [Cries of +"Good! good!" and applause.]</p> + +<p>I am sure every American will rejoice in the success which has +thus far attended these efforts, and will rejoice that with this expanding +trade to the southward there opens before us this year a +largely increased traffic in agricultural products with the nations +of Europe. We have never in the history of our country harvested +such a crop as has now been gathered into the granaries of the +United States. [Applause.] We shall have an enormously large +surplus of breadstuffs for exportation, and it happens that in this +period of our abundance crop failures or shortages in India, in +Russia, in France, in Germany, and England have opened a market +that will require the last bushel of grain we have to sell. [Cries +of "Good! good!" and applause.] Rejoicing in the peace that pervades +our land, proud of institutions which have for more than a +hundred years witnessed their adequacy to give peace and security +at home and to preserve our National honor abroad, rejoicing in +the great increase of material wealth which is flowing in upon us, +may we not on these great lines of enterprise, lifting ourselves now +to newer and larger thoughts of what this country may be, enter +upon these opening avenues of trade and influence upon which are +the beckoning invitations of friendly peoples? [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Let me thank you again for this magnificent assemblage of Vermont +patriots and of Vermont women, who have shared with her +gallant men the sacrifices and suffering that this State has borne +that it might be born among the States, and, having been admitted +to the sisterhood, might, though small in geographical extent and +population, bear a noble and honorable part in the work of holding +up the American character and defending the American flag. +[Great applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_524" id="Page_524">[524]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RICHMOND_VERMONT_AUGUST_26" id="RICHMOND_VERMONT_AUGUST_26">RICHMOND, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> passed the night at St. Albans. +On his departure, the morning of the 26th, he was accompanied +by Secretary Proctor, ex-Governor Smith and wife, +Colonel and Mrs. E. C. Smith, Tracy Smith, Hon. H. H. +Powers, Henry R. Start, D. Sage McKay, Col. Geo. T. +Childs, and Col. M. J. Horton, of Governor Page's +staff.</p> + +<p>The first stop of the day was at Richmond, where a +large audience greeted the party. Among the prominent +citizens who received the President were: Judge E. B. +Andrews, Hon. U. S. Whitcomb, Capt. G. A. Edwards, +Dr. C. W. Jacobs, Hon. H. A. Hodges, C. P. Rhodes and +Edgar T. Jacobs. The veterans of Bronson Barber Post, +G. A. R., were present in a body.</p> + +<p>Congressman Powers introduced the President, who +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—It is a little early in the morning to begin +the daily round of speech-making, and yet I cannot refrain from +saying to you how highly I appreciate your morning welcome. +There is the tonic of your fine mountain air and the glory of your +sunshine in these cordial manifestations of your respect and good-will. +I hope no American citizen will ever begrudge the President +of the United States the refreshment which comes from these +occasional visits through the country, and from that draught of +good-will which he receives as he looks into the faces and takes the +hands of these good people, who have no other interest in the Government +than that it shall be honestly administered for the general +good. Washington is not always full of that kind of people; we +are more certain, perhaps, to find them in the country. And yet no +one should complain of honest criticism, and perhaps fault-finding +has its use, for occasionally it must be well grounded and disclose +to us errors we might otherwise have failed to discern. But, after +all, the bracing of the good-will of the good people of this country +is very essential to those who, in the midst of great perplexity and +doubt and under staggering responsibility, endeavor as they see +the right to do it. No man can do more than this, and I look upon +this popular feature of our Government, the readiness of communi<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_525" id="Page_525">[525]</a></span>cation, +the nearness and familiarity of access which the people +have with all public servants, as a great safeguard to those who +might otherwise become separated from those impulses which are, +after all, the safest and best. [Applause.] I have had great +pleasure in passing through your beautiful valley this morning. I +can most sincerely commend what I see in these farms and thrifty +homes. Vermont is a mountain State, and, I suppose, because +your horizon is a little high you are more frequently than we who +live on the plains compelled to look up. That may account for a +great many of the good things which we discover in the New England +character. I thank you for your kindness. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WATERBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_26" id="WATERBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_26">WATERBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST, 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Waterbury</span> was reached at 10:30 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> Governor +Page and Hon. W. W. Grout joined the party here. About +10,000 people were assembled to greet the President, prominent +among whom were: G. E. Moody, Esq., Hon. G. +W. Rundall, Hon. E. F. Palmer, M. M. Knight, George +W. Atkins, John Batchelder, L. H. Haines, Justin W. +Moody, C. C. Warren, W. R. Elliott, C. H. Arms, Charles +Wells, Dr. Henry Janes, and F. H. Atherton.</p> + +<p>Hon. Wm. Paul Dillingham made the welcoming address +and introduced the President, who responded as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Friends</i>—It is very pleasant to know that a public officer may +travel everywhere through this great land of ours—and only those +who have traversed it can understand how great it is—and find +always his sure defence and care in the good-will and respect of +the people who surround him. If we bar out the irresponsible +crank, so far as I can see the President is in no peril, except that +he may be killed by the superabundant kindness of the people. +[Laughter.] There seems to be an impression that his strength +and capacity for speech-making is unfailing [laughter] and that +his arm is a hickory limb. But it is very kind of you and all +these good, people of Vermont who have met me on this journey to +express so pleasantly by your cheers, and much more by your +kindly faces, the love and loyalty you have for those in the situation +with which the suffrage of the people has for the time con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_526" id="Page_526">[526]</a></span>nected +me. The New England character is one that has been much +written about, much discussed, and I think that even those who +have found points for the sharpest criticism have, when they +adopted the Yankee method of averages, concluded that the influences +emanating from Plymouth Rock and diffusing themselves first +through the New Hampshire Grants and then the Western Reserve +of Ohio, and so scattering and disseminating the seeds of intelligence +and love of liberty throughout the whole land, have been +good for the whole country. The New England man is a man with +his eye open everywhere. I have sometimes thought that the habit +of attention, of giving the whole mind to the business in hand, +had its very natural origin and development in New England agriculture. +The man who holds a plough in a stumpy or stony ground +learns the lesson that he had better give his mind to the business +in hand. [Laughter.] Otherwise the revenge and punishments for +inattention are so prompt and severe that he is quickly called back +from any mental wanderings into which he may have fallen. I +had occasion to say a moment ago that the fact that the mountain +regions of the world had always furnished the bravest champions of +liberty and the most strenuous defenders of the faith was possibly +owing to the fact that their horizon was so high that if they looked +at all they were compelled to look up. [Laughter and applause.]</p> + +<p>My countrymen, we have a great and happy land—a people +dwelling in happy homes, and that is the origin of government, +and there is the essential of a contented citizenship. As long as +we can preserve this independence and self-respect, and that degree +of comfort in the home that makes it a pleasant abode when the +day's toil is ended, and that enables by the most careful thrift the +head of the household to lay by for the family and to lighten in +some measure the care and labor of the children that are to follow +him, there can be no happier land than ours. If we would perpetuate +and secure that which we have had handed down to us and +which we have so well preserved until this hour, this is the essential +thing.</p> + +<p>I thank you for this kindly greeting, and beg you to accept my +sincerest good-will. I can say nothing of public affairs. Every +man called to public office is subject to the infirmities that belong +to our nature—the capacity to make mistakes. He can be, if he is +true, sure of one thing—that in all that he does he has it in his +mind to do the best he can for all the people. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_527" id="Page_527">[527]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="MONTPELIER_VERMONT_AUGUST_26" id="MONTPELIER_VERMONT_AUGUST_26">MONTPELIER, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A great</span> throng greeted the President's arrival at the +Vermont capital. He was met by a Reception Committee +consisting of 15 prominent citizens: Col. Fred E. Smith, +Hon. Charles Dewey, Prof. J. A. DeBoer, J. C. Houghton, +M. E. Smilie, L. Bart Cross, G. H. Gurnsey, T. C. Phinney, +H. W. Kemp, D. F. Long, C. P. Pitkin, J. W. Brock, +George Wing, F. W. Morse, and Thomas Marvin. The +First Regiment N. G. V., commanded by Adjutant-General +Peck, with the Sons of Veterans, escorted the President +and Governor Page to the State House, the former walking +the entire distance with uncovered head, surrounded +by a guard of honor detailed from George Crook Post, G. +A. R. From the Governor's Room they were conducted +to the hall of the House of Representatives, where the +Legislature of Vermont was assembled in joint session. +The members arose and remained standing until the Chief +Magistrate was seated between Governor Page and Lieutenant-Governor +Fletcher.</p> + +<p>After the applause subsided the Lieutenant-Governor +introduced President Harrison, who addressed the legislators +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen, the Legislature of the State of Vermont</i>—I +am grateful to you for this cordial reception, which crowns +a series of friendly demonstrations which began with my entry +into this good State and have continued to this interesting and +important occasion. I am glad to meet the chosen representatives +of the towns of Vermont, appointed to the discharge of functions of +legislating for the general good. The wisdom of our fathers devised +that system of governmental division for the general Government +which has found adoption or adaptation in all the States—the +division of the powers of the Government into three great co-ordinate +departments, each independent, and yet having close and +important relations one with the other, and each adapted in the +highest degree to secure the liberty of the individual, the welfare +of our community, and the national honor and prosperity. [Applause.] +It has been fortunate for us as a people that no serious<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_528" id="Page_528">[528]</a></span> +clash has occurred to these great departments. The constitutional +balance and counterbalance have preserved with marvellous exactness, +with the perfection of the most perfect machinery, the relations +of these several departments, each doing its appropriate work +and producing the great result which had been intended. Surely +there is no other country where the springs of government are +higher than here. The impulses of our people are drawn from +springs that lie high in the hills of duty and loyalty. They respect +and obey the law, because it is the orderly expression of their own +will. The compact of our Government is a rule by the majority.</p> + +<p>The sanction of all law is that it is the expression by popular +election of the will of a majority of our people. Law has no other +sanction than that with us; and happy are we, and happy are those +communities where the election methods are so honestly and faithfully +prescribed and observed that no doubt is thrown upon the +popular expression and no question of the integrity of the ballot is +ever raised. [Applause.] If we shall ever or anywhere allow a +doubt to settle into the minds of our people whether the results of +our elections are honestly attained, whether the laws made are +framed by those who have been properly chosen by the majority, +then all sanction is withdrawn from law and all respect from the +rulers who by a false ballot are placed in public office. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I am glad to congratulate you upon your constituencies, intelligent, +devoted and patriotic. I am glad to congratulate you that +the State of Vermont, from its earliest aspirations and efforts for +liberty and self-government, which developed into your Constitution +in 1777, down through all the story of toil and the struggles +which have beset you as a State, and the vicissitudes which have +beset the country of which you are an honored part, that the State +of Vermont and her sons in the councils of the Nation and on the +blood-stained battle-fields of the great war have borne themselves +worthily. [Applause.] Will you permit me now to thank you +again for this demonstration and for the opportunity to stand for +a moment in your presence? I am sure that we may each, from +this occasion, in the discharge of public duty, draw some impulse +to a more perfect exercise of our powers for the public good. [Applause.]</p></div> + + +<p class="sub-header space-above">The Public Reception.</p> + +<p>The speech-making within doors being over, President +Harrison entered a side room, where he received the Tippecanoe +Club, shaking hands cordially with all. He was +then conducted to the Governor's Room, where he received<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_529" id="Page_529">[529]</a></span> +the members of the Legislature. Meanwhile a great crowd +massed on the beautiful grounds and waited impatiently +for the reappearance of the President. Finally he made +his way from the interior to the front of the Capitol. +Governor Page introduced him. The President spoke as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Governor Page and Fellow-citizens</i>—This sunshine is as warm as +a Vermont welcome. [Applause.] It is of the highest quality. +It has life in it. But too much of it is prostrating. [Laughter.] +I have felt, in endeavoring to respond to these calls, that I was +possibly overtaxing my own strength, and perhaps overcrowding +the Press Association. [Laughter.] I am not naturally a gossip, +I think I had some reputation as a taciturn man, but it is gone. +[Laughter.] I have not given it up willingly. I have struggled to +retain it, but it has been forcefully taken from me by kindness of +my fellow-citizens, whom I have met so frequently within the last +year. Perhaps, however, if I preserve other virtues I can let this +go. [Laughter.] It is a great thing to be a citizen of the United +States. I would not have you abate at all the love and loyalty you +have for Vermont. But I am glad to know that always in your +history as a State and a people you have felt that the higher honor, +the more glorious estate, was to be a citizen of the United States +of America. [Applause.] This association of States is a geographical +necessity. We can never consent that hostile boundaries +shall be introduced with all that such divisions imply. We must +be one from Maine to California, one from the Lakes to the Gulf +[applause], and everywhere in all that domain we must insist that +the behests of the Federal Constitution and of the laws written in +the Federal statute-book shall be loyally obeyed. [Applause.] A +statesman of one of the Southern States said to me, with tears in +his eyes, shortly after my inauguration: "Mr. President, I hope +you intend to give the poor people of my State a chance." I said +in reply: "A chance to do what? If you mean, sir, that they shall +have a chance to nullify any law, and that I shall wink at the +nullification of it, you ask that which you ought not to ask and +that which I cannot consider. [Applause.] If you mean that +obeying every public law and giving to every other man his full +rights under the law and the Constitution, they shall abide in my +respect and in the security and peace of our institutions. Then +they shall have, so far as in my power lies, an equal chance with +all our people." [Applause.] We may not choose what laws we +will obey; the choice is made for us. When a majority have, by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_530" id="Page_530">[530]</a></span> +lawful methods, placed a law upon the statute-book, we may endeavor +to repeal it, we may challenge its wisdom, but while it is +the law it challenges our obedience. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I thank you for the kindliness of this greeting in this capital of +Vermont. I wish for you and your gallant State and for all your +people in all their good, God-fearing homes continuance of that +personal liberty, that material prosperity, that love of the truth +which has always characterized them. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PLAINFIELD_VERMONT_AUGUST_26" id="PLAINFIELD_VERMONT_AUGUST_26">PLAINFIELD, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Montpelier the President's party was joined by Hon. +F. A. Dwinnel, Gen. F. E. Alfred, Gen. W. H. Gilmore, V. +R. Sartwell, W. A. Stowell, Col. H. E. Folsom, Fletcher +D. Proctor, Frank C. Partridge; also, E. W. Smith and +John Bailey, of Newbury.</p> + +<p>The first stop in the afternoon was at Plainfield, where +1,000 people gave the President a cordial greeting. Among +the leading citizens participating in the reception were: +Joseph Lane, George D. Kidder, Leroy F. Fortney, E. J. +Bartlett, H. E. Cutler, Henry Q. Perry, D. B. Smith, H. +G. Moore, John A. Fass, Ira F. Page, Nelson Shorey, H. +W. Batchelder, and W. B. Page. W. E. Martin Post, G. +A. R., H. H. Hollister Commander, occupied a conspicuous +position.</p> + +<p>President Harrison was introduced by Senator Dwinnel, +and said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens and Comrades</i>—For I see here, as everywhere, +some of those who wore the blue and carried the flag in the great +Civil War gathered to greet me. It gives me pleasure to stop for +a moment and to thank you for the friendliness which has brought +you from your homes to make this journey bright with your presence +and cordial welcome. I have been talking so much to-day +that I will not attempt to make a speech. I have already said a +great deal about Vermont, have expressed my esteem for it and +for its people, and all that. I have been very sincere, for I think +that your State does hold a very high place among the States. +Your sons, who have gone out to represent you and to take part<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_531" id="Page_531">[531]</a></span> +in those stirring enterprises which have laid the foundations of +new States, have already borne themselves with honor and with +true New England thrift, obtaining in the long run the full share +of all the good things that were going. I met some of them in +California. They are scattered this broad land over, and I think +they carry with them everywhere the love of the flag, respect for +law and order, love of liberty and of education, and interest in all +those things that make the communities where they abide prosperous +and happy. I think I owe a special debt to this neighborhood +for a pair of good Vermont horses that Secretary Proctor selected +for me, and in the driving of which I have had great relaxation +and pleasure. Your Vermont horses are well trained. The Morgan +horse has the good habit of entering into consultation with the +driver whenever there is any trouble. [Laughter and applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="ST_JOHNSBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_26" id="ST_JOHNSBURY_VERMONT_AUGUST_26">ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Brief</span> stops were made at Wells River, McIndoes, and +Barnet, and the President cordially thanked the people at +each place. St. Johnsbury, where great preparations were +made to welcome the distinguished guest, was reached at +4:30 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span></p> + +<p>The President's party headed a procession which moved +through the principal streets over a distance of two miles. +The guard of honor consisted of 300 mounted veterans +with drawn swords. The following prominent citizens +met the President: Col. Franklin Fairbanks, Hon. Jonathan +Ross, Chief Justice of Vermont, and Mrs. Ross; Rev. +Dr. C. M. Lamson, L. D. Hazen, A. H. McLeod, Charles +T. Walter, Hon. H. H. Powers, Col. Frederick Fletcher, +H. H. Carr, C. H. Stevens, E. H. Blossom, S. H. Brackett, +Lucius K. Hazen, Osborne Chase, George H. Cross, N. P. +Bowman, Albert Worcester, H. I. Woods, Dr. G. B. Bullard, +A. F. Walker, C. P. Carpenter, N. R. Switser, F. A. +Carter, L. W. Fisher, J. B. Gage, C. H. Horton, L. N. +Smythe, and Wm. H. Sargent. An incident of the parade +was the reception by the school children. The President's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_532" id="Page_532">[532]</a></span> +carriage halted and several hundred of the children, led +by H. H. May, rendered "America," at the conclusion of +which six pretty little girls—Misses May Masten, Lala +McNeil, Marian Moore, Lottie Holder, Beatrice May, and +Emma May—stepped forward and presented a beautiful +floral key, thus tendering the freedom of the city to the +illustrious guest. The President reviewed the procession +from "Undercliffe," the stately residence of Colonel and +Mrs. Fairbanks, whose guest he was.</p> + +<p>At night the town was brilliantly illuminated, and 10,000 +residents gathered in the public park. Colonel Fairbanks +made the welcoming address and introduced the +President, who received an ovation and spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I could wish that I were in better voice and +in full strength, that I might better respond to this most magnificent +demonstration. I have rarely looked upon a scene more calculated +to inspire a patriot than this upon which my eye rests to-night. +I do most profoundly thank you for this great welcome. +The taste and beauty and elaboration of these preparations exceed +anything that I have looked upon in this journey. [Applause.] I +am sure you are here to-night after making all this preparation to +give witness by your presence of your love to the flag of our country +[applause] and to those institutions of civil government and +of liberty which that flag represents. [Applause.] It gives me great +pleasure to see that the flag is everywhere. I journeyed across this +continent, and, except when darkness shut in the landscape, I was +never out of sight of the American flag. [Applause.] On those +wide plains of the West, once called the Great American Desert, +now and again, in the home of some adventurous settler, the flag +appeared and was waved in greeting as our train sped on its way. +I rejoiced to see it everywhere in the sight of school children. On +that great demonstration in New York in observance of the centennial +of the inauguration of Washington, as I moved from the +Battery up through those streets dedicated to commerce, I saw +every front covered with flags, hiding for the time those invitations +to trade which covered their walls. The thought occurred to +me, What will be done with these flags when this celebration is +over? And it occurred to me to suggest at the centennial banquet +that the flags should be taken into our school-houses. [Applause.] +I rejoice to know that everywhere throughout the land, in all our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_533" id="Page_533">[533]</a></span> +patriotic towns and villages, movements are being inaugurated to +display the American flag over our institutions of learning.</p> + +<p>I have several times been brought in contact with incidents +showing this love of the flag. I remember that when Hood was +investing Nashville, and when that gallant, sturdy, unostentatious, +but always faithful and victorious leader, Gen. George H. Thomas, +was gathering the remnants of an army that he might confront his +adversary in battle, it was assigned to me to intrench through the +beautiful grounds of a resident in the suburbs of Nashville. The +proprietor was a Tennessee Unionist. While I was digging and +tearing the sod of his beautiful lawn, he was removing his library +and other valuables from his mansion, for it was within easy range +of the rebel fire. Happening into his library while he was thus +engaged, he opened a closet below the book-shelf, and, taking out +a handsome bunting, asked me whether I had a garrison flag. I +told him no. "Well," he said, "take this. Sir, I have never been +without the American flag in my house." [Applause.] I would +be glad if that could be said by every one of our people. There is +inspiration in it. It has a story wrought into its every fold until +every thread has some lesson to tell of sacrifice and heroism. It is +the promise of all that we hope for. It is to it and about it that +we must gather and hold the affections of our people if these institutions +are to be preserved. I have it in my mind as I saw it one +night in Newport harbor. Going out of that harbor upon a Government +vessel about midnight, when the heavens were darkened +clouds, I saw a sight that lives fresh in my memory. The officers +of the torpedo station had run up the Starry Banner upon the staff, +and turned upon it as we moved out of the harbor two great electric +search-lights. It revealed the banner, while the staff and +buildings below it were all hidden in the blackness. I could see +it as if it had been hung out of the battlements of heaven, lifting +its folds in the darkness of night, a glorified emblem of the hope +of a free people. [Applause.] Let us keep it thus in our hearts; +let no other flag be borne in our marching processions. We have +no place for the red flag of anarchy. [Applause.] This emblem +typifies a free people, who have voluntarily placed themselves under +the restraints of the law, who have consented that individual +liberty shall cease where it infringes upon the right or property +of another. This is our contract. This is the liberty which we +offer those who cast in their lot with us, not a liberty to destroy, +but a liberty to conserve and perpetuate. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>I am most happy to witness in this prosperous New England +town so many evidences that your community is intelligent, in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_534" id="Page_534">[534]</a></span>dustrious, +enterprising, and your people lovers of home and order. +You have here some great manufacturing establishments, whose +fame and products have spread throughout the world. You have +here a class of enterprising, public-spirited citizens, who are building +these free libraries and galleries of art and are ministering to +the good of generations that are to come. You have here an intelligent +and educated class of skilled workmen, and nothing pleased +me more as I passed through your streets to-day than to be told +that here and there were the homes of the working people of St. +Johnsbury [applause]—homes where every evidence of comfort was +apparent; homes where taste has been brought to make attractive +the abodes where tired men sought rest; homes that must have +been made sweet for the children that are reared there, and comfortable +for the wives whose place of toil and responsibility it is. +Here is the anchor of our safety. This is the state that binds men +to good order, to good citizenship, to the flag of the Constitution, +a contented and prosperous working class. [Applause.] I will +not cross any lines of division in my remarks to night, for this +reception is general; but I will venture to say that all our public +policy, all our legislation, may wisely keep in view the end of +perpetuating an independent, contented, prosperous and hopeful +working class in America. [Applause.] When hope goes out of +the heart and life becomes so hard that it is no longer sweet, men +are not safe neighbors and they are not good citizens, Let us, +then, in cheerful, loving, Christian good neighborhood see that the +blessings of our institutions, the fruits of labor, have that fair +distribution that shall bring contentment into our homes. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>But, my countrymen, I did not intend to speak even so long. I +wish it were in my power to make some adequate return for the +generous welcome you have given me. I am not a man of promises. +I abhor pretension, but every such assembly as this that I see—this +great cup of good-will which you put to my lips—gives me strength +to do what I can for our country and for you. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_535" id="Page_535">[535]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BILLINGS_PARK_AUGUST_27" id="BILLINGS_PARK_AUGUST_27">BILLINGS PARK, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> the presidential party left St. Johnsbury on the +morning of the 27th, they were joined by Hon. A. A. Woolson, +C. S. Forbes, ex-Governor Farnham, and ex-Senator +Pingree. At White River Junction the President's car +was switched to a siding running to Billings Park, where +the Vermont Association of Road and Trotting Horse +Breeders was holding its annual exhibition. Senator +Morrill, Col. Geo. W. Hooker, and Capt. A. W. Davis accompanied +the party to the park, where carriages conveyed +them over the grounds. A large crowd was present.</p> + +<p>Col. Hooker, as President of the Association, introduced +President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Colonel Hooker and Fellow-citizens</i>—I have been called upon to +address my fellow-citizens under many diverse and some very +peculiar circumstances, but I think that those that surround me +this morning are absolutely unique. I understood that in the programme +Secretary Proctor had arranged for a day of pleasure here +at this horse fair, and that a more attractive entertainment was to +be provided for you and for me than speech-making. I am not well +up in the rules of the track, but I suppose on a morning like this +some allowance will be made for a heavy track, and if the horses +are entitled to it I think I may claim an allowance myself. +[Laughter.] Therefore, I have only to thank you for the friendliness +of your reception and to express my interest in this great +industry which is represented here—the breeding of horses. I +understand that it was so arranged that, after I had seen the flower +of the manhood and womanhood of Vermont, I should be given an +exhibition of the next grade in intelligence and worth in the +State—your good horses. [Applause.] I have had recently, +through the intervention of the Secretary of War, the privilege +of coming into possession of a pair of Vermont horses. They are +all I could wish for, and, as I said the other day at the little village +from which they came, they are of good Morgan stock, of which +some one has said that their great characteristic was that they +enter into consultation with the driver whenever there is any difficulty. +[Laughter and applause.] Thanking you again, I hope +you will give me the allowance to which a heavy track entitles +me. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_536" id="Page_536">[536]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BRADFORD_VERMONT_AUGUST_27" id="BRADFORD_VERMONT_AUGUST_27">BRADFORD, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> Bradford 1,000 people assembled to do honor to the +President, who arrived at 10 <span class="smcap">A.M.</span> The visitors were escorted +to a platform near the station. Among the prominent +residents who welcomed the Chief Executive were +H. E. Parker, Judge S. M. Gleason, Roswell Farnham, +John H. Watson, Dr. J. H. Jones, and L. J. Brown.</p> + +<p>Ex-Governor Farnham introduced the President, who +spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Ladies and Gentlemen</i>—I will only say a few words to thank +you for this welcome which is extended to me this morning, and +which it seems to me furnishes some proof of your well wishes and +kindly feelings. I have had a journey through Vermont that will +be very pleasant in my recollection, although attended with some +instances of an unpleasant nature. As I understood the purpose of +this trip when I gave my assent to it at the request of your excellent +fellow-citizen, whom you kindly loaned me for a little while, and +are now, as far as I can see, about to reclaim, the trip was to be +one of relaxation, and to visit him and some of his friends. It +seems to me that the circle has been enlarged beyond the limit of +his friends, and if not that they include the whole of the people of +Vermont. It is very pleasant to pass through your enterprising +manufacturing towns, and to see this rural population, which, +after all, is the foundation of all State organizations, which are +based upon the farms of old New England. The farm has been, +perhaps, one of the most productive measures toward the enrichment +of this country in things that are greater than the material +things—in manhood, valor in warfare, and statesmanship in political +life. It has been a matter of great pleasure to me as we have +driven through the streets of these cities, from Bennington until +this time, to observe one thing. As we pass by your streets I have +seen some aged father or mother or grandfather or grandmother +placed in a position for best observation and kindly attended by +some member of the family, showing that family love, that veneration +for the aged, that has, to me, been a source of particular +gratification. For, after all, the home is the beginning and centre +of all good things. The life of our Nation is learned in the first +rudiments of government at home and that lesson of veneration +for things that are good. With these elements I think you are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_537" id="Page_537">[537]</a></span> +sure to make the career of Vermont not greater in temporary +things, but greater in those things which are more productive to +the Nation and to mankind. [Prolonged cheers.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WINDSOR_VERMONT_AUGUST_27" id="WINDSOR_VERMONT_AUGUST_27">WINDSOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">It</span> was raining when the President arrived at Windsor, +at 1 <span class="smcap">P.M.</span> He was met by Senator William M. Evarts, +accompanied by Hon. C. C. Beaman, of New York; Hon. +Chester Pike, of Cornish, N. H., and the following prominent +citizens, comprising the local Committee of Reception: +Col. Marsh O. Perkins, Dwight Tuxbury, Hon. G. +A. Davis, Dr. C. P. Holden, Dr. J. S. Richmond, U. L. +Comings, George T. Low, Hon. Rollin Amsden, E. C. +Howard, Charles H. Fitch, O. L. Patrick, Rev. E. N. Goddard, +S. N. Stone, S. R. Bryant, J. M. Howe, George T. +Hazen, S. M. Blood, S. E. Hoisington, Horace Weston, +A. E. Houghton, A. J. Hunter, Allen Dudley, Dr. Deane +Richmond, J. R. Brewster, A. D. Cotton, G. R. Guernsey, +Charles N. Adams, Col. M. K. Paine, H. W. Stocker, +George M. Stone, Harvey Miller, George T. Winn, and +C. D. Penniman.</p> + +<p>After partaking of luncheon at the residence of Senator +and Mrs. Evarts, the President was conducted to the Town +Hall, and, being introduced to the assemblage by Colonel +Perkins, he spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I am about completing a very pleasant trip +through the State of Vermont—a trip which, while not the first, +has furnished the only occasion on which I have really been brought +in contact with the people of your State. My previous journeys +were those of a summer tourist, snatching these fine and attractive +views as we sped along some of your lines of railway, but getting +little impression of the character of the people who occupy these +towns and rural homesteads. It has given me great pleasure on +this occasion to receive at the hands of your people everywhere a +most cordial reception, It has been a source of constant regret to +me that I am able on such occasions as we have here this afternoon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_538" id="Page_538">[538]</a></span> +to make so small a return for the care, preparation, and friendly +interest which the people manifest. I am under such limitations +as to them and about which I may talk that the fertility of a very +rich and highly cultivated mind and imagination would be necessary +to furnish one with something new or interesting to say in +response to the repeated calls. I have supposed that all of these +meetings were expressions of patriotism and of popular interest in +a Government which Mr. Lincoln so felicitously described as "a +government of the people, by the people, for the people." +[Applause.] It is pleasant to have the personal esteem and respect of +my fellow-citizens, but I have not thought of appropriating to myself +these demonstrations. It is very gratifying to see a people in +love with their civil institutions and with that glorious flag which +typifies our diversity and our unity. [Applause.] I have said +before that it seemed to me this is the essential element and base +of every republican government, that the loyalty and love of the +people should be given to our institutions and not to men. [Applause.] +I think it is one element of discord and unhappiness in +some of our sister republics that the minds of these patriotic and +generous people are too much swayed by their admiration for men, +that they are often swept away from the moorings of principle by +the love of a leader. I have rejoiced to find everywhere in the +State of Vermont what seemed to me to be a deep-seated, earnest +patriotism. [Applause.] It is to be hoped that we may not soon +have any call for such manifestations as you have given in the +past on the battle-fields from Bennington to the surrender of Appomattox. +[Cheers.]</p> + +<p>It is pleasant to be here to day at the home of my esteemed friend +and your fellow-townsman, the Hon. William M. Evarts. [Applause.] +I am glad that he has introduced into Vermont model +farming [laughter and applause], and has shown you what the +income of a large city law practice can do in the fertilization of a +farm. [Laughter and applause.] He has assured me to-day that +his farm yields a net income. I accept the statement of my host +with absolute faith—and yet Mr. Evarts' reputation as a bookkeeper +is not the best in the world. [Laughter and applause.] It is +pleasant to see him and to be for a while in his genial presence, +and to have this journey illuminated by a visit to his home. I +hope he may dwell long with you in peace and honor, as he will +always dwell in the honor and esteem of our whole people. +[Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_539" id="Page_539">[539]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="CHARLESTOWN_NEW_HAMPSHIRE_AUGUST_27" id="CHARLESTOWN_NEW_HAMPSHIRE_AUGUST_27">CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Notwithstanding</span> the heavy downpour, 1,000 or more +sturdy citizens of historic old Charlestown welcomed the +President to New Hampshire. The Reception Committee +consisted of Hon. George Olcott, George S. Bond, Frank +Finnigan, Col. Samuel Webber, Herbert W. Bond, and +Frank W. Hamlin. Lincoln Post, G. A. R., Lyman F. +Partridge Commander, also participated in the reception. +Colonel Webber delivered an eloquent address of welcome.</p> + +<p>The President, responding, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Colonel Webber and Fellow-citizens</i>—I think it might be said to-day +that New Hampshire has "gone wet," as they say when the +election returns come in on a vote against prohibition. I am very +much obliged to you for this extraordinary manifestation of your +interest, for to stand in this downpour of rain is certainly an evidence +that you have a most friendly interest in this little party of +tourists, who touch in a journey through Vermont the mainspring +of the State of New Hampshire. I have been talking about Vermont +for the last two or three days, but if you will take the pains, +in the comfort of your own homesteads, to read all the good things +I have said about Vermont, and then understand that they are all +said of New Hampshire, it will abbreviate my speech and will be +expressive of my opinion of that sturdy, enterprising, masterful +New England character which you share with them. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BELLOWS_FALLS_VERMONT_AUGUST_27" id="BELLOWS_FALLS_VERMONT_AUGUST_27">BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">When</span> the train arrived at Bellows Falls, the rain was +pouring in torrents and the President was conducted to the +Opera House by the veterans of E. H. Stoughton Post, +G. A. R. The Committee of Reception consisted of Hon. +Wm. A. Russell, Hon. A. N. Swain, Judge L. M. Read, +Barnes Cannon, Jr., Wyman Flint, John T. Moore, C. +W. Osgood, Thomas E. O'Brien, George H. Babbitt, and +Capt. Walter Taylor, the latter a veteran of eighty years,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_540" id="Page_540">[540]</a></span> +who marshalled the hosts for Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison +in 1836 and '40. The building was packed.</p> + +<p>Mr. Swain introduced President Harrison, who said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens</i>—I will wait a moment until they turn out the +footlights. They put a barrier between us, and I always prefer to +get my light from above. [Applause.] We can only tarry in this +busy city a few moments. The inclement character of the day has +driven us to shelter, and the finding of a shelter has consumed +some small part of the allotment of time which our schedule gives +to you. I greatly appreciate the value and importance of these +manufacturing centres, which are now, fortunately for us, not +characteristic of New England alone, but are found west of the +Ohio and of the Mississippi and of the Missouri. I am one of those +who believe that in a diversification of pursuits we make most +rapid increase in wealth and attain best social relations and development. +I am one of those who believe that Providence did not +set apart the United States to be a purely agricultural region, +furnishing its surplus to supply the lack of other people of the +world while they do all the manufacturing for us. I think there +are suggestions in our very geographical position, and a great +many of them in our history and experience, that we may well +desire and reach for that condition in which we shall raise our own +food and in which a manufacturing class, withdrawn from agriculture +and other pursuits, shall furnish the farmer a market for +his surplus near to his fields and gardens, while he exchanges with +the farmer the products of the shop and the loom.</p> + +<p>I would not introduce politics. I do not intend to cross any +lines of division, but I think we all agree, though we may differ as +to the means by which it is to be done, that the nearer together the +producer and the consumer can be brought the less waste there is +in transportation and the greater the wealth. [Applause.] It is +known to you all that our 65,000,000 people furnish per capita a +larger market than any other like number of people. This grows +out of the fact that our capacity for purchasing is larger than is +found in those countries where poverty holds a larger sway. The +workingman buys more, has more to buy with in America than in +any other land in the world. [Applause.] I mentioned the other +day at St. Albans that this was the era of the battle for a market. +The whole world is engaged in it. The thought was suggested to +me by a sentence in the address of President Bartlett at the observance +of the centennial of the battle of Bennington in 1877. He says, +"Trading Manchester furnished two regiments to Burgoyne to con<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_541" id="Page_541">[541]</a></span>quer +a market." The foreign policy of the United States has never +been selfish. There has always been, if you will trace it through the +struggles of Greece and of our South American neighbors for independence +and a free Government, a brave, generous tone of sympathy +with struggling people the world round in our diplomatic +policy. I think we may well challenge comparison with the +foreign policy of any other great Government in the world in this +regard. It has never been our policy to push our trade forward at +the point of the bayonet. We have always believed that it should +be urged upon the ground of mutual advantage; and upon this +ground alone are we now endeavoring, by every means in our power, +to open the markets of our sister republics in Central and South +America to the products of American shops and farmers. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>We do not covet their territory. The day of filibustering aggression +has gone by in the United States. We covet their good will. +We wish for them settled institutions of government, and we +desire those exchanges that are mutually profitable. We have +found that we were receiving from some of these countries enormous +annual imports of sugar, coffee, and hides, and we have now placed +these articles on the free list upon the condition that they give to +the products of the United States fair reciprocity. [Applause.] If +our own laws, or any aggressive movement we are making for a +larger share in the commerce of the world, should excite the commercial +jealousy and rivalry of other countries we shall not complain +if those rivalries find only proper expressions. We have +come to a time in our development as a Nation when I believe that +interest on money is low enough for us to turn some of our +accumulated capital from the railways into steam transportation +on the sea; that the time has come when we shall recover a full +participation in the carrying trade of the world, when under the +American flag steamships shall carry our products to neighboring +markets and bring back their exchange to our harbors. Larger +foreign markets for the products of our farms and of our factories +and a larger share in the carrying trade of the world, peaceful relations +with all mankind, with naval and coast defences that will +silently make an effective argument on the side of peace, are the +policies that I would pursue. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_542" id="Page_542">[542]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="BRATTLEBORO_VERMONT_AUGUST_27" id="BRATTLEBORO_VERMONT_AUGUST_27">BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Just</span> before the train reached Brattleboro the rain ceased, +and the President rode in a procession to the house of Col. +J. J. Estey. The Committee of Reception consisted of +Colonel Estey, Col. Kittredge Haskins, Dr. H. D. Holton, +N. I. Hawley, F. W. Childs, ex-Governor Holbrook, Judge +Wheeler, Hon. B. D. Harris, Hon. J. L. Martin, E. C. Crosby, +Judge R. W. Clarke, C. F. Thompson, Col. W. C. Holbrook, +George S. Dowley, Colonel Fuller, Dr. Conland, Dr. +Ketchum, and G. A. Hines. Veterans of the G. A. R., +and the Estey Guard, escorted the Chief Executive through +the city. Several thousand were assembled on the grounds.</p> + +<p>Colonel Estey welcomed and presented the President, +who made the following address:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow citizens</i>—Governor Proctor held out to me the suggestion +that this trip to Vermont would be a very restful one. He +has the queerest appreciation of what rest means of any man I +know. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>When I attended the centennial demonstration of the inauguration +of Washington in New York, I spent part of one day on the +bridge of the <i>Despatch</i> bowing to the fleet in the bay as we moved +down to the Battery, and the balance of the day shaking hands at +the City Hall, attending a ball at night; ten hours the next day +reviewing a procession, with a banquet at night; and about as +many hours the day following reviewing the civic procession; and +when released from the stand about 5 o'clock in the evening I +hurried to the Jersey City depot to take the train, scarcely able to +stand upon my feet. One of the gentlemen of the committee said +to me: "Well, Mr. President, I hope you have enjoyed these three +days of rest in New York." [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>I wish I could see you more satisfactorily than I am able to do +on a hurried trip like this, but Governor Proctor kept me up very +late last night, and he was the last man down to breakfast this +morning himself.</p> + +<p>All that I have seen in your State has but increased the respect +I have always entertained for your people. My recent journey of +somewhat great length through the country has very deeply impressed +upon me the fact of the unity of our people. The building<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_543" id="Page_543">[543]</a></span> +of these great railroad lines making every part of every State +familiar, and stretching across the continent so as to bring within +easy access the most distant parts of our country, has had a great +tendency to unify our people and to wipe out whatever there was +provincial or local in our character. It has rubbed off some of the +edges of the New England character, and has rubbed on some of the +New England polish upon the West. In fact, wherever we have +any combining, nothing makes it homogeneous except a thorough +mixer, and the American people have certainly had a most thorough +mixing. [Cheers.]</p> + +<p>One of your war Governors was saying to me to-day, as we came +along in the train, your own distinguished fellow-citizen, that on +a journey West not long ago everywhere Vermont men came to +meet him; and as I went recently across the continent the railroad +train scarcely stopped at any station that some one from Indiana +did not reach up his hand and claim recognition; and so it is in +all the States.</p> + +<p>The West is now turning a little back toward the East, and I +have found some people, who probably had some ancestral connection +with New England, but whose birth, early residence, and business +life were in the West, who have come back to the old home. +All this is pleasant, all this is surety of the future of our country. +It is pleasant to know that the South is being obliterated, that all +that made it distinctive in the sense of separation or alienation is +being gradually wiped out. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Of course, the prejudices of generations are not like marks upon +the blackboard, that can be rubbed out with a sponge. These are +more like the deep glacial lines that the years have left in the rock; +but the water, when that surface is exposed to its quiet, gentle, and +perpetual influence, wears even these out, until the surface is +smooth and uniform. And so these influences are at work in our +whole country, and we should be hopeful for it, hopeful for its +future. I am sure you each feel pride in your American citizenship, +and would show readiness to defend it in war, and I am sure +that from every class of your community would come the response: +"We will maintain it, honorable and high, in peace."</p> + +<p>I thank you most sincerely for your friendly greeting, and regret +that I am not able to speak to you more satisfactorily, and can only +accept with a heart full of appreciation these marks of your respect. +[Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_544" id="Page_544">[544]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="RUTLAND_VERMONT_AUGUST_28" id="RUTLAND_VERMONT_AUGUST_28">RUTLAND, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> President and his party were guests of Secretary +Proctor on the night of the 27th, at the village of Proctor, in +the Green Mountains. The morning of the 28th, the party +visited Rutland, and were met by the local Reception Committee: +J. C. Baker, H. H. Dyer, W. G. Veazey, ex-Judge +Barrett, J. W. Cramton, Dr. J. D. Hanrahan, C. +H. Joyce, J. N. Woodfin, E. P. Gilson, P. W. Clement, +George E. Lawrence, Henry F. Field, John N. Baxter, P. +M. Meldon, John A. Sheldon, George J. Wardwell, Dr. +Norman Seaver, and Henry Carpenter, President of the +village.</p> + +<p>Arrived at Memorial Hall the President was greeted by +a large assemblage, including many ladies. He was presented +by Colonel Baker and made the following address:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>My Fellow-citizens and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic</i>—It +gives me great pleasure this morning, tired as I am, to +see and to have an opportunity to express my thanks to this large +assemblage of the good citizens of Rutland. My journey through +your State has been attended with every evidence of respect which +it was possible for the people to bestow. Your chairman has +spoken of the fact that the President of the United States may +travel everywhere through our country without any attendance of +policemen. As I have had occasion to say before, the only peril +he is likely to meet, if the railroads take good care of him and the +cranks keep out of the way, is from the over-kindness of the people +[laughter and applause]; and there is more peril in that than you +will understand at first thought. It is pleasant to stand upon the +steps of this Memorial Hall, erected as a place of deposit for +trophies of the great Civil War and as a monument of honor to +those soldiers from Vermont who aided so conspicuously in making +that war successful. We cannot tell how much hung upon that +contest. No orator has yet been inspired to describe adequately +the gravity of the great issue which was fought out upon the battlefields +of the War of the Rebellion. We say it was a contest to +preserve the unity of our republic, and so it was; but what dismemberment +would have meant; how greatly it would have +increased the cost of government; how sadly it would have dis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_545" id="Page_545">[545]</a></span>turbed +the plan of our border communities; how it would have +degraded in the eyes of the world this great people; how it would +have rejoiced the enemies of popular government, no tongue has +yet adequately described. But it was not to be so. God has desired +that this experiment of free government should have a more perfect +trial, and it was impossible that the brave men of the loyal +States should consent to dismemberment of the Union. We were +very patient, so patient, in the early contest, as it ranged through +the great debate of convention and Congress that our brethren of +the South altogether mistook the temper of our people. Undoubtedly +there were evidences that the men of trade were reluctant +to have those lines of profitable communication, which had been +so long maintained with the South, broken off. Undoubtedly that +character so undesirable in our politics—the doughface—was particularly +conspicuous in those days of discussion, but we were +altogether misjudged when the people of the South concluded that +they might support their threats of disunion which had so long +rung in Congress, and so long filled their boasting press, by force +of arms.</p> + +<p>I shall never forget, nor will any of you who are old enough to +remember it, that great electric thrill and shock which passed +through our whole country when the first gun was fired at Sumter. +Debate was closed. Our orators were withdrawn, and a great +wave of determined patriotism swept over the country higher than +any tidal wave ever lifted itself upon a devastated coast [applause], +and it was not to be stayed in its progress until the last vestige of +rebellion had been swept from the face of our beloved land. The +men of New England were a peaceful people. The farmers and +the farmers' sons were not brawlers. They were not found at the +tavern. They were abiding under the sheltering moral influences +and quietude of these New England hills. But the man who thought +that the spirit of 1776 had been quenched was badly mistaken. +The same resolute love of liberty, the same courage to face danger +for a cause that had its inspiration in high moral purposes and +resolves abided in the hearts of your people. [Applause.] Possibly +the war might have been avoided if the South had understood this, +but it was so written in the severe but benevolent purposes of God. +There was a great scroll of emancipation to be written. There was +a martyr President, who was to affix his name to a declaration that +would be as famous as that to which your fathers fixed their signature +in 1776. It was to be in truth as well as in theory a free +people [applause], and there was no other pathway to emancipation +than along the bloody track of armies, not seeing at the be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_546" id="Page_546">[546]</a></span>ginning +nor having the purpose that finally was accomplished, but +guided by the hand of power and wisdom that is above us and +over us to the accomplishment of that glorious result that struck +the shackles from four millions of slaves. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I greet most affectionately these comrades of the war who are +before me to-day. Let them abide in honor in all your communities. +Let shafts of marble and bronze lift themselves in all your +towns to tell the story of patriots' work well done and to teach +the generations that are to come how worthy their fathers were. +Let us preserve all these inspiring lessons of history, all these +individual examples of heroism, of which Vermont furnished so +many during the war. Let them not be forgotten. Let them be +the illuminated and inspiring pages of your State's history, and +then, whatever shock may come to us in the future, whenever +the hand of anarchy or disorder shall be raised, whenever foreign +powers shall seek to invade the rights or liberties of this great +people, there will be found again an impenetrable bulwark in the +brave hearts of a sturdy and patriotic people. [Applause.] You +will, I am sure, crown your kindness by excusing me from attempting +further speech and allowing me to express, as I part from you, +my good wishes for Vermont and all her good people. [Applause.]</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PROCTOR_VERMONT_AUGUST_28" id="PROCTOR_VERMONT_AUGUST_28">PROCTOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the return to Proctor in the evening the President +was tendered the final reception of his trip to Vermont. +The village was elaborately decorated; an illuminated +evergreen arch spanned the entrance to Secretary Proctor's +beautiful grounds. The residences and grounds of E. R. +Morse, F. D. Proctor, B. F. Taylor, W. E. Higbee, G. H. +Davis, E. J. Boyce, J. H. Edson, and H. E. Spencer were +also brilliantly illuminated. From a platform fronting the +Secretary's home the party reviewed the procession of +1,000 workmen from the marble quarries.</p> + +<p>Secretary Proctor, in an affectionate address, introduced +President Harrison, who spoke as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>It is not my privilege to call you neighbors, but I am sure I may +call you friends. This journey in Vermont is crowned to-night by +a reception and a good-by that is surpassingly brilliant and artis<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_547" id="Page_547">[547]</a></span>tic +in its preparation and one that I have never seen exceeded. +But above all this, I have been able here in Proctor to witness in +its best manifestation that which I have seen elsewhere in New +England and especially in Vermont—a community of workers, +men industriously pursuing mechanical avocations and doing it +under conditions of the greatest possible comfort. As I look upon +these homes in which you dwell and contrast them with the +wretchedness of the crowded tenement-houses of our great cities; +as I inhale to-night the bracing air of these mountains, and as my +eye has looked to-day upon their green summits, I have said how +happy is the lot of that man and that woman who work in one of +these bright, wholesome New England villages. [Applause.] It +has seemed to me that the relation of our mutual friend who has +inaugurated and developed these works in which many of you find +employment was that of a public benefactor and a personal friend. +[Applause.] The simplicity and naturalness of his own life among +you, his ready appreciation of the loyalty and intelligence of those +who are employed by him, his interest in their success in life, is +the ideal relation between the employer and his workmen. [Applause.] +I would to God it was always and everywhere so, that +when a man is put at a machine he should not be regarded by his +employer as a part of it, that the human nature, the aspirations of +a man, should still be recognized, and the relations with the employer +be that of mutual confidence and helpfulness and respect! +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>You are sharers in the responsibilities of local government, of +the government of your State and of the Nation, of which Vermont +is one of the honored members. I am sure that you have pride in +the faithful discharge of all these duties. I cannot but feel that +our national policy should be in the direction of saving our working +people from that condition of hopelessness which comes when +wages are barely adequate to the sustenance of animal life. [Applause.] +There is no hope for any community where this state of +things exists, and there will be no hope for the Nation should it +become the general condition of the workingmen of America. That +man or woman out of whose heart hope has gone, who sees nothing +better in life, before whom the vista of life stretches in one dead +level of unending and half-requited toil, that man's estate is calculated +to make him reckless in character. It is one of the beneficent +conditions of citizenship here that there are no disabilities +put in the way of ambitions and the aspiring. I hope it may +always be so. I cannot always sympathize with that demand +which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_548" id="Page_548">[548]</a></span> +cheap. They are too cheap when the man who produces them upon +the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory +does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age +and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. [Applause.] +I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman +who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment shall starve in +the process. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>I am most profoundly grateful to you, my fellow-citizens, and +to my good friend Governor Proctor, for this beautiful demonstration—this +magnificent rural welcome which we have had here to-day. +It will live always in my memory. I shall carry this +community in my thoughts as one of the best types of American +neighborhood life. I have found in him a most valuable contribution +to the administration of the Government at Washington. +[Applause.] You cannot know fully how he has grown into the +respect and confidence of all who have been associated with him +in the Cabinet and of all our legislators in Congress without distinction +of party. I regret that there is some danger that you may +reclaim him for Vermont [applause]; yet it is quite natural that +it should be so, and I shall do the best I can to get a substitute. +The labors of public office at Washington are full of high responsibility +and most burdensome toil. No man is endowed with an +incapacity to make mistakes. We can, however, all of us, in public +or private trust, be sure of our motives. These are our own. +We can know whether we are pursuing low and selfish ends or +have set before us the general good, the highest good of all our +people. Judgment upon what has been done is with you. I am +sure only that I have had it in my heart to do that which should +in the highest degree promote the prosperity of our people and lift +the glorious flag yet higher in the esteem of the world. [Great +applause.] We have been endeavoring to open a foreign market +for American trade. If these efforts are met, as I trust they will +be, by enterprise on the part of our merchants and manufacturers, +I do not doubt that the next ten years will see a most gratifying +increase in our foreign trade. [Applause.] They should diligently +set themselves to the study of the new markets into which their +goods may now go. The most intelligent representatives should be +sent there, and their goods adapted to the market that is to be +supplied. This I have no doubt they will do, and I add the expectation +that we shall presently have a most gratifying increase in +the American merchant marine. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_549" id="Page_549">[549]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WASHINGTON_SEPTEMBER_17_1891" id="WASHINGTON_SEPTEMBER_17_1891">WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Augusta Exposition.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">President Harrison</span> on the above date received at the +Executive Mansion a delegation of prominent citizens of +Georgia, who extended to him a formal invitation to attend +the Augusta Exposition in November. The delegation +comprised the following citizens and Exposition directors: +Hon. Patrick Walsh, Walter M. Jackson, J. P. Verdery, +H. G. Smith, J. L. Gow, C. H. Ballard, J. J. Doughty, W. +A. Garrett, G. J. Howard, W. H. Landrum, J. E. Barton, +W. E. Keener, Percy Burum, J. P. Bones, J. M. Cranston, +Crawford Mays, Maurice Walton, L. J. Henry, T. R. +Gibson, P. J. O'Connor, Jules Rival, Joseph Ganahl, Jr., +W. H. Barrett, Jr., P. A. Stovall, W. E. Platt, A. J. Gouley, +Frank X. Dorr, and Hon. J. C. Clements.</p> + +<p>Chairman Walsh, on behalf of the committee, made the +invitation address, to which the President, responding, +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Gentlemen</i>—I recall with pleasure the visit made by some of +your representatives. I think I have repeatedly, on every suitable +occasion, especially during my recent visit to the South, expressed +my sincere hope of the development of those marvellous resources +so long hidden from sight, but now about to be opened up. I had +occasion to say then that you would realize the advantage of combining +manufactures with agriculture. The old system made of +Georgia a plantation State. I would not have it less so. But you +may still develop other industries without destroying the surface +of the country. There is no competition between these industries; +one does not supersede the other. The farmer still has his near +market for some products that will not bear transportation. Out +of this diversity I think the highest development will come. Recently +I made a trip through New England and was deeply impressed +with the numerous industries and small factories showing +in little places, where the lives and homes of the workmen were so +much cleaner and purer than in the great cities, and this was +made possible by the great diversity of small interests. In Vermont +I came upon a busy little factory surrounded by cottages in the +midst of the hills. I was told that the proprietor made stetho<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_550" id="Page_550">[550]</a></span>scopes, +and out of a small beginning had built up a great trade. +These little things make happy homes; bring money, trade, and +development. I am greatly interested in these things, and I would +be very happy to see this development in Alabama and Georgia as +in any Northern State. We all wish it. Whether I can be with +you or not I cannot now say. I have a good many very important +matters demanding attention from now on to the meeting of Congress. +Some are home matters of importance and some are foreign. +Looking back over the last year, it would seem probable that there +was a conspiracy among the powers to see that those in responsible +places should have no rest. Many of these things must now come +to my personal attention. If I cannot be with you, you will know +that my heart is with you. If I can I will come, but the time +now being so close to the meeting of Congress it is doubtful.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WASHINGTON_D_C_OCTOBER_17_1891" id="WASHINGTON_D_C_OCTOBER_17_1891">WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 17, 1891.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Ecumenical Conference of the Methodist Church +convened in the Metropolitan Church at Washington, D. +C., on October 7, 1891. Rt. Rev. Thomas Bowman, Senior +Bishop of the Church in America, presided at the opening, +and Rev. William Arthur, M.A., of London, delivered the +inaugural sermon. It was in every respect the greatest +assembly in the history of Methodism.</p> + +<p>Among a few of the distinguished preachers and orators +from abroad were: Rev. T. B. Stephenson, D.D., LL.D., +Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, M.A., Rev. John Bond, Rev. +F. W. Bourne, Rev. J. Ernest Clapham, and Rev. David +J. Waller, D.D., all of London. The following Washingtonians +comprised the Committee on Reception: Bishop +J. F. Hurst, D.D.; Rev. G. H. Corey, D.D., Chairman; +Rev. C. W. Baldwin, Rev. J. H. Becket, Rev. J. W. E. +Bowen, Rev. T. E. Carson, Rev. R. H. G. Dyson, Rev. +George Elliott, Rev. S. R. Murray, Rev. C. H. Phillips, +Rev. J. A. Price, Rev. E. S. Todd, Rev. L. T. Widerman, +Rev. J. T. Wightman, Rev. L. B. Wilson, Alexander +Ashley, E. S. Atkinson, W. S. Birch, Gen. Cyrus Bussey, +J. F. Chestnut, D. S. Cissell, Robert Cohen, George Comp<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_551" id="Page_551">[551]</a></span>ton, +L. A. Cornish, G. S. Deering, Robert Dunn, A. B. +Duval, Hon. M. G. Emery, Prof. Edgar Frisbie, D. B. +Groff, T. A. Harding, Gen. S. S. Henkle, W. H. Houghton, +W. J. Hutchinson, Thomas Jarvis, B. F. Leighton, William +Mayse, H. B. Moulton, Hon. Hiram Price, B. Robinson, +W. J. Sibley, T. B. Stahl, B. H. Stinemetz, H. L. +Strang, G. W. F. Swartzell, Frederick Tasker, J. S. Topham, +L. H. Walker, E. S. Wescott, J. B. Wilson, and W. +R. Woodward.</p> + +<p>On the tenth day of the Conference, President Harrison, +escorted by Rev. Dr. J. M. King, Secretary, and Rev. Dr. +Corey, the pastor of Metropolitan Church, attended the +session. Other distinguished visitors were Secretary of +the Treasury Foster, Secretary of the Interior Noble, and +Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister.</p> + +<p>The chief essay of the session was delivered by Mr. +Thomas Snape, of Liverpool, upon the topic of the day, +"International Arbitration," a subject which made the +presence of the President and the British envoy particularly +appropriate.</p> + +<p>As the President ascended to the pulpit, all the delegates +and the great audience instantly arose. The presiding +officer of the day, Rev. T. G. Williams, of Montreal, +presented the distinguished visitor, who was received with +prolonged applause, in which the English delegates led.</p> + +<p>President Harrison then addressed the Conference as +follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conference</i>—I come here this +morning to make an expression of my respect and esteem for this +great body of delegates assembled from all the countries of the +world, and much more to give a manifestation of my respect and +love for that greater body of Christian men and women for whom +you stand. Every Ecumenical Conference is a distinct step in the +direction, not only of the unification of the Church, but of the +unification of the human race.</p> + +<p>Assembling from countries unlike in their civil institutions, from +churches not wholly in accord as to doctrine or church order, you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_552" id="Page_552">[552]</a></span> +come together to find that the unlikeness is not so great as you +had thought, and to find your common sympathies and common +purposes greater and larger than you had thought—large enough +presently to overspread and to extinguish all these transitory lines +of division.</p> + +<p>I am glad to know that as followers of Wesley, whose hymns we +sing, you have been in consultation as to the methods by which +these minor divisions among you might be obliterated. It is the +natural order that subdivisions should be wiped out before the +grand divisions of the Church can be united. [Applause.] Who +does not greatly rejoice that the controversial clash of the churches +is less than it once was; that we hear more of the Master and His +teachings of love and duty than of hair-splitting theological differences? +[Applause.]</p> + +<p>Many years ago, while visiting in Wisconsin, when Sunday +came around I went with some friends to the little Methodist +church in an adjoining village. The preacher undertook to overturn +my Presbyterianism. [Laughter and applause.] An irreverent +friend who sat beside me as the young man delivered his +telling blows against Calvinism was constantly emphasizing the +points made by nudging me with his elbow. [Laughter.] Now I +am glad to say that very often since then I have worshipped in +Methodist churches, and that is the last experience of that kind I +have had. [Applause]</p> + +<p>You have to-day as the theme of discussion the subject of international +arbitration; and this being a public, or, in a large sense +of the word, a political question, perhaps makes my presence here +as an officer of the United States especially appropriate. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It is a curious incident that some days ago, and before I was +aware of the theme or the occasion which we have here this morning, +I had appointed this afternoon to visit the great gun foundry +of the United States at the navy yard. Things have come in their +proper sequence. I am here at this arbitration meeting before I +go to the gun factory. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>This subject is one that has long attracted the attention, and +I think I may say has, perhaps, as greatly attracted the interest +and adherence of the United States as that of any other Christian +power in the world. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>It is known to you all that in the recent conference of the American +states at Washington the proposition was distinctly made and +adopted by the representatives of all, or nearly all, of the governments +of America that, as applied to this hemisphere, all international +disputes should be settled by arbitration. [Applause.]</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_553" id="Page_553">[553]</a></span> +<p>Of course there are limitations as yet, in the nature of things, +to the complete and general adoption of such a scheme. It is quite +possible to apply arbitration to a dispute as to a boundary line; it +is quite impossible, it seems to me, to apply it to a case of international +feud. If there is present a disposition to subjugate, an +aggressive spirit to seize territory, a spirit of national aggrandizement +that does not stop to consider the rights of other men and other +people—to such a case and to such a spirit international arbitration +has none, or, if any, a remote and difficult application.</p> + +<p>It is for a Christian sentiment, manifesting itself in a nation, to +remove forever such causes of dispute; and then what remains will +be the easy subject of adjustment by fair international arbitration. +But I had not intended to enter into a discussion of this great +theme, for the setting forth of which you have appointed those +who have given it special attention. Let me, therefore, say simply +this: that for myself—temporarily in a place of influence in this +country—and much more for the great body of its citizenship, I +express the desire of America for peace with the whole world. +[Applause.] It would have been vain to suggest the pulling down +of block-houses or family disarmament to the settlers on a hostile +Indian frontier. They would have told you rightly that the conditions +were not ripe. And so it may be and is probably true that a +full application of the principle is not presently possible, the devil +still being unchained. [Laughter.]</p> + +<p>We will have our gun foundries, and possibly will best promote +the settlement of international disputes by arbitration, by having +it understood that if the appeal is to a fiercer tribunal we shall +not be out of the debate. [Great applause.] There is a unity of the +Church and of humanity, and the lines of progress are the same.</p> + +<p>It is by this great Christian sentiment, characterized not only by +a high sense of justice, but by a spirit of love and forbearance, +mastering the civil institutions and governments of the world, +that we shall approach universal peace and adopt arbitration +methods of settling disputes. [Applause.]</p> + +<p>Let me thank you, Mr. Chairman, and you, gentlemen of this +Conference, for the privilege of standing before you for a moment, +and for this most cordial welcome which you have given to me. +I beg to express again my high appreciation of the character of +this delegation and the membership of the great Church from +which you come, and to wish that in your remaining deliberations +and in your journeys to far-distant homes you may have the guidance +and care of that God whom we all revere and worship. [Applause.]</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_554" id="Page_554">[554]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="AMERICAN_TIN_PLATE_OCTOBER_23" id="AMERICAN_TIN_PLATE_OCTOBER_23">AMERICAN TIN PLATE, OCTOBER 23.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">While</span> the gubernatorial campaign in Ohio was in +progress and Major McKinley was making his famous +race, the question as to the successful manufacture of +tin plate in the United States was one of the leading issues +of the day. At this juncture W. C. Cronemyer, of the +United States Iron and Steel Tin Plate Works, at Demmler, +Pa., sent President Harrison a box of tin plate manufactured +at the Demmler works, and received in return the +following interesting letter, which was given wide publicity +at the time:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Executive Mansion</span>, October 19, 1891. +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Sir</span>—I have your letter of October 15, and also a box of +bright tin plate which you send as a specimen of the product being +turned out by the United States Iron and Tin Plate Company. +I have no skill in determining the character of this work; but, to +the eye, it seems to be eminently satisfactory, and I thank you for +this evidence that a new industry has been established in the United +States.</p> + +<p>I cannot quite understand how an American can doubt that we +have the mechanical skill and business sagacity to establish successfully +here the manufacture of tin plate. No other country, +certainly, surpasses us in the inventive genius of its citizens or in +the business sagacity of its capitalists. It is surprising to me that +any patriotic American should approach this question with a desire +to see this great and interesting experiment fail, or with an unwillingness +to accept the evidences of its success. It will be a +great step in the direction of commercial independence when we +produce our own tin plate.</p> + +<p>It seems to me that nothing, unless it be a lack of faith in the +maintenance of the present law, can thwart this desirable achievement. +I can understand how our success should be doubted and +our failure accepted with satisfaction in Wales, but I cannot understand +how any American can take that view of the question or why +he should always approach every evidence of the successful establishment +of this industry in this country with a disposition to discredit +it and reject it. If the great experiment is to fail, our own +people should not add to the mortification of failure the crime of +rejoicing in it.</p> + +<p class="mid-right"> +Very truly yours, +</p> +<p class="signature"> +<span class="smcap">Benjamin Harrison.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_555" id="Page_555">[555]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="WASHINGTON_NOVEMBER_14_AND_DECEMBER_9_1891" id="WASHINGTON_NOVEMBER_14_AND_DECEMBER_9_1891">WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 14 AND DECEMBER 9, 1891.</a></h3> +<p class="sub-header">The Chilian Imbroglio.</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> January, 1891, civil war broke out in the republic of +Chili between the Congressional forces and the established +Government under President Balmaceda. Deeds of cruelty +signalized the conflict, which continued until August +28, when the insurgent forces landed near Valparaiso and, +after a bloody engagement, captured that city. President +Balmaceda became a fugitive, and a few weeks later committed +suicide, by shooting, at the residence of Señor +Uribirru, the Argentine Minister.</p> + +<p>During the conduct of the war, the <i>Itata</i>, an armed vessel, +commanded by an officer of the Chilian insurgent fleet, +was seized under process of the United States Court at +San Diego, Cal., for a violation of the neutrality laws. +This seizure and the subsequent escape, surrender, and +return of the <i>Itata</i>, and the strict neutrality observed by +the American Minister, Hon. Patrick Egan, and Admiral +Brown, commanding the squadron, caused the victorious +Chilians to manifest a spirit of animosity toward the Government +and people of the United States. This feeling +was intensified by the false statements published in the +British press, notably the London <i>Times</i>, touching the +conduct of Admiral Brown and the American Minister, +and by the fact that the American Legation, exercising +the established right of asylum, opened its doors to several +prominent political refugees of the defunct Balmaceda +Government.</p> + +<p>On October 16, 1891, this hostility culminated in an +attack, in the streets of Valparaiso, upon a number of sailors +attached to the U. S. cruiser <i>Baltimore</i>, who were upon +shore leave. These sailors, wearing their uniforms, were +assaulted by armed men in different localities in the city; +one petty officer was killed outright, and eight seamen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_556" id="Page_556">[556]</a></span> +seriously wounded, one of whom died a few days later. +Many of their stab wounds were in the back. The news +of this bloody and unprovoked attack sent a thrill of indignation +across the American continent, and it was felt that +the deadly insult must be atoned in blood. The war feeling +was not lessened by the impudent tone of the reply +from the Chilian Minister of Foreign Affairs. American +indignation subsided somewhat pending a judicial inquiry +into the attack, but the determination to expiate the insult +had in no degree abated when, on November 14, Señor +Don Pedro Montt was presented to President Harrison +as the newly accredited Chilian Minister to the United +States.</p> + +<p>The reception of a new Minister is ordinarily a very +formal and uninteresting affair, but the circumstances +narrated—with the two governments apparently on the +verge of war—lent an unusual interest to this official meeting; +and the President's remarks, characterized by his +usual frankness and firmness, called forth the approval +of the whole Nation.</p> + +<p>The Minister was accompanied by Señors Anibal Cruz, +Secretary of Legation; Guillermo Arenanetegan and +Valentin del Campo, attachés. After the formal introductions +by Secretary Blaine, Señor Montt addressed the +President in Spanish as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. President</i>—I have the honor to present the credentials which +accredit me in the capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister +Plenipotentiary of the republic of Chili in the United States of +North America. The object of the mission which the Government +of Chili has confided to me is to cultivate and maintain the relations +of peace and friendship between the United States and Chili, +which have ever been close and cordial. For the accomplishment +of this purpose I rely upon the kindness and good-will which the +United States Government has always manifested for the representatives +of Chili. Permit me to express my country's sincere wishes +for the prosperity and welfare of this noble country, which is so +highly favored by Providence, and for your own happiness.</p></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_557" id="Page_557">[557]</a></span></p> + +<p>The President, in response, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p><i>Mr. Minister</i>—I am glad to receive from your hands the letters +accrediting you as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary +of the republic of Chili to the United States. The presence +of a representative of the Government of Chili at this capital +will, I hope, tend to promote a good understanding between the +two governments and the early settlement, upon terms just and +honorable to both, of the diplomatic questions now somewhat urgently +awaiting adjustment. The Government of the United States, +as well as its people, particularly desire and rejoice in the prosperity +of all our neighbors in this hemisphere. Our diplomatic relations +with them have always been and will continue to be free from intermeddling +with their internal affairs. Our people are too just +to desire that the commercial or political advantage of this Government +should be sought by the promotion of disastrous dissensions +in other countries. We hear with sorrow every fresh tale of +war or internal strife, and are always ready to give our friendly +offices to the promotion of peace. If these are not acceptable or +do not avail, it is our policy to preserve an honorable and strict +neutrality, as was done during the recent war in Chili. Tempting +commercial and political advantages may be offered for our aid or +influence by one or the other of the two contending parties, but +this we have not deemed to be consistent with the obligations of +international honor and good-will. This Government was quite +as determined in its refusal to allow a war-vessel of the United +States to carry to a neutral port, where it could be made available +for war purposes, the silver of Balmaceda, as it was to give aid to +the forces opposing him. The questions involved were Chilian +questions, and this Government endeavored to observe those principles +of non-intervention upon which it had so strongly insisted +when civil war disturbed our own people. I cannot doubt that +this policy will commend itself to those who now administer the +Government of Chili; nor can I doubt that when excitement has +given place to calmness, when the truth is ascertained and the +selfish and designing perversions of recent incidents have been +exposed, our respective governments will find a basis of increased +mutual respect, confidence, and friendship.</p> + +<p>Mr. Minister, this Government and our people rejoice that peace +has been restored in Chili, and that its Government is the expression +of the free choice of its people. You may assure your honored +President, who has been chosen under circumstances which +so strongly testify to his moderation and to the esteem in which he +is held by the people of all parties, that the Government of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_558" id="Page_558">[558]</a></span> +United States entertains only good-will for him and for the people +of Chili, and cannot doubt that the existing and all future differences +between the two governments will find an honorable adjustment. +To you, Mr. Minister, I tender a personal welcome.</p></div> + +<p>In his annual message to Congress, December 9, President +Harrison concludes his remarks upon Chilian affairs +relating to the attack upon the sailors of the cruiser <i>Baltimore</i> +with the following significant paragraphs:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>So far as I have yet been able to learn, no other explanation of +this bloody work has been suggested than that it had its origin in +hostility to these men as sailors of the United States, wearing the +uniform of their Government, and not in any individual act or +personal animosity. The attention of the Chilian Government was +at once called to this affair, and a statement of the facts obtained +by the investigation we had conducted was submitted, accompanied +by a request to be advised of any other or qualifying facts in the +possession of the Chilian Government that might tend to relieve +this affair of the appearance of an insult to this Government. +The Chilian Government was also advised that if such qualifying +facts did not exist, this Government would confidently expect full +and prompt reparation.</p> + +<p>It is to be regretted that the reply of the Secretary for Foreign +Affairs of the Provisional Government was couched in an offensive +tone. To this no response has been made. This Government is +now awaiting the result of an investigation which has been +conducted by the criminal court at Valparaiso. It is reported unofficially +that the investigation is about completed, and it is expected +that the result will soon be communicated to this Government, +together with some adequate and satisfactory response to +the note by which the attention of Chili was called to this incident. +If these just expectations should be disappointed or further needless +delay intervene, I will, by a special message, bring this matter +again to the attention of Congress for such action as may be +necessary. The entire correspondence with the Government of +Chili will at an early day be submitted to Congress.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_559" id="Page_559">[559]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="PROTECTION_FOR_RAILROAD_EMPLOYEES" id="PROTECTION_FOR_RAILROAD_EMPLOYEES">PROTECTION FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.</a></h3> + +<p class="center">[<i>Extract from President's Message, December 9, 1891.</i>]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> the evening of August 5, 1888, at Indianapolis, General +Harrison, responding to an address from D. T. Downs, +President of the Terre Haute Railroad Club, and in the +presence of several thousand railroad employees, speaking +of the heroic services rendered by the men who operate +the great railroad lines of the country, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I do not doubt that certain and necessary provisions for the safety +of the men who operate these roads will yet be made compulsory +by public and general law. The dangers connected with your calling +are very great, and the public interest, as well as your own, +requires that they should be reduced to the minimum. I do not +doubt that we shall yet require that uniformity in the construction +of railroad cars that will diminish the danger of those, who +must pass between them in order to make up trains.</p></div> + +<p>Consistent with these views, President Harrison, in his +message to Congress, December 9, 1891, made the following +pertinent suggestions:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>I have twice before urgently called the attention of Congress to +the necessity of legislation for the protection of the lives of railroad +employees, but nothing has yet been done. During the year +ending June 30, 1890, 369 brakemen were killed and 7,841 maimed +while engaged in coupling cars. The total number of railroad +employees killed during the year was 2,451 and the number injured +22,390. This is a cruel and largely a needless sacrifice, The Government +is spending nearly one million dollars annually to save +the lives of shipwrecked seamen; every steam-vessel is rigidly inspected +and required to adopt the most approved safety appliances. +All this is good; but how shall we excuse the lack of interest and +effort in behalf of this army of brave young men who in our land +commerce are being sacrificed every year by the continued use of +antiquated and dangerous appliances? A law requiring of every +railroad engaged in inter-State commerce the equipment each year +of a given per cent. of its freight cars with automatic couplers and +air brakes would compel an agreement between the roads as to the +kind of brakes and couplers to be used, and would very soon and +very greatly reduce the present fearful death-rate among railroad +employees.</p></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_560" id="Page_560">[560]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_APPOINTMENT_OF_PRESIDENTIAL_ELECTORS" id="THE_APPOINTMENT_OF_PRESIDENTIAL_ELECTORS">THE APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.</a></h3> + +<p class="center">[<i>From Annual Message to Congress, December 9, 1891.</i>]</p> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Perhaps</span> no official utterance of President Harrison +received more serious and profound consideration—as indicated +through the press of the day—than the following +patriotic admonishment regarding the danger lurking +within certain possible methods of choosing presidential +electors. He said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The method of appointment by the States of electors of President +and Vice-President has recently attracted renewed interest by reason +of a departure by the State of Michigan from the method which +had become uniform in all the States. Prior to 1832 various methods +had been used by the different States, and even by the same +State. In some the choice was made by the Legislature; in others +electors were chosen by districts, but more generally by the voters +of the whole State upon a general ticket. The movement toward +the adoption of the last-named method had an early beginning and +went steadily forward among the States, until in 1832 there remained +but a single State—South Carolina—that had not adopted it. That +State, until the Civil War, continued to choose its electors by a +vote of the Legislature, but after the war changed its method and +conformed to the practice of the other States. For nearly sixty +years all the States save one have appointed their electors by a +popular vote upon a general ticket, and for nearly thirty years this +method was universal.</p> + +<p>After a full test of other methods, without important division or +dissent in any State and without any purpose of party advantage, +as we must believe, but solely upon the considerations that uniformity +was desirable and that general election in territorial divisions +not subject to change was most consistent with the popular +character of our institutions, best preserved the equality of the +voters, and perfectly removed the choice of President from the +baneful influence of the "gerrymander," the practice of all the +States was brought into harmony. That this concurrence should +now be broken is, I think, an unfortunate and even a threatening +episode, and one that may well suggest whether the States that +still give their approval to the old and prevailing method ought +not to secure, by a constitutional amendment, a practice which +has had the approval of all. The recent Michigan legislation pro<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_561" id="Page_561">[561]</a></span>vides +for choosing what are popularly known as the Congressional +electors for President by Congressional districts, and the two Senatorial +electors by districts created for that purpose. This legislation +was, of course, accompanied by a new Congressional apportionment, +and the two statutes bring the electoral vote of the State +under the influence of the "gerrymander."</p> + +<p>These gerrymanders for Congressional purposes are in most cases +buttressed by a gerrymander of the legislative districts, thus making +it impossible for a majority of the legal voters of the State to +correct the apportionment and equalize the Congressional districts. +A minority rule is established that only a political convulsion can +overthrow. I have recently been advised that in one county of a +certain State three districts for the election of members of the Legislature +are constituted as follows: One has 65,000 population, one +15,000, and one 10,000; while in another county, detached, non-contiguous +sections have been united to make a legislative district. +These methods have already found effective application to the choice +of Senators and Representatives in Congress, and now an evil start +has been made in the direction of applying them to the choice by +the States of electors of President and Vice-President. If this is +accomplished, we shall then have the three great departments of +the Government in the grasp of the "gerrymander," the legislative +and executive directly and the judiciary indirectly, through the +power of appointment.</p> + +<p>An election implies a body of electors having prescribed qualifications, +each one of whom has an equal value and influence in +determining the result. So when the Constitution provides that +"each State shall appoint [elect], in such manner as the legislature +thereof may direct, a number of electors," etc., an unrestricted +power was not given to the legislatures in the selection of +the methods to be used. "A republican form of government" is +guaranteed by the Constitution to each State, and the power given +by the same instrument to the legislatures of the States to prescribe +methods for the choice, by the State, of electors must be exercised +under that limitation. The essential features of such a government +are the right of the people to choose their own officers and the +nearest practicable equality of value in the suffrages given in +determining that choice.</p> + +<p>It will not be claimed that the power given to the Legislature +would support a law providing that the persons receiving the smallest +vote should be the electors, or a law that all the electors should be +chosen by the voters of a single Congressional district. The State +is to choose, and under the pretence of regulating methods the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_562" id="Page_562">[562]</a></span> +legislature can neither vest the right of choice elsewhere nor adopt +methods not conformable to republican institutions. It is not my +purpose here to discuss the question whether a choice by the Legislature +or by the voters of equal single districts is a choice by the +State, but only to recommend such regulation of this matter by +constitutional amendment as will secure uniformity and prevent +that disgraceful partisan jugglery to which such a liberty of choice, +if it exist, offers a temptation.</p> + +<p>Nothing just now is more important than to provide every +guaranty for the absolutely fair and free choice by an equal +suffrage, within the respective States, of all the officers of the +national Government, whether that suffrage is applied directly, as +in the choice of members of the House of Representatives, or indirectly, +as in the choice of Senators and electors of President. +Respect for public officers and obedience to law will not cease to be +the characteristics of our people until our elections cease to declare +the will of majorities fairly ascertained, without fraud, suppression, +or gerrymander. If I were called upon to declare wherein our +chief national danger lies, I should say, without hesitation, in the +overthrow of majority control by the suppression or perversion of +the popular suffrage. That there is a real danger here all must +agree, but the energies of those who see it have been chiefly expended +in trying to fix responsibility upon the opposite party, +rather than in efforts to make such practices impossible by either +party.</p> + +<p>Is it not possible now to adjourn that interminable and inconclusive +debate while we take, by consent, one step in the direction +of reform by eliminating the gerrymander, which has been denounced +by all parties, as an influence in the selection of electors +of President and members of Congress? All the States have, acting +freely and separately, determined that the choice of electors by +a general ticket is the wisest and safest method, and it would seem +there could be no objection to a constitutional amendment making +that method permanent. If a legislature chosen in one year upon +purely local questions should, pending a presidential contest, meet, +rescind the law for a choice upon a general ticket, and provide for +the choice of electors by the legislature, and this trick should +determine the result, it is not too much to say that the public peace +might be seriously and widely endangered.</p> + +<p>I have alluded to the "gerrymander" as affecting the method of +selecting electors of President by Congressional districts, but the +primary intent and effect of this form of political robbery have +relation to the selection of members of the House of Representa<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_563" id="Page_563">[563]</a></span>tives. +The power of Congress is ample to deal with this threatening +and intolerable abuse. The unfailing test of sincerity in election +reform will be found in a willingness to confer as to remedies +and to put into force such measures as will most effectually preserve +the right of the people to free and equal representation.</p> + +<p>An attempt was made in the last Congress to bring to bear the +constitutional powers of the general Government for the correction +of frauds against the suffrage. It is important to know whether +the opposition to such measures is really vested in particular +features supposed to be objectionable or includes any proposition +to give to the election laws of the United States adequacy to the +correction of grave and acknowledged evils. I must yet entertain +the hope that it is possible to secure a calm, patriotic consideration +of such constitutional or statutory changes as may be necessary to +secure the choice of the officers of the Government to the people +by fair apportionments and free elections. I believe it would be +possible to constitute a commission, non-partisan in its membership +and composed of patriotic, wise, and impartial men, to whom +a consideration of the question of the evils connected with our +election system and methods might be committed with a good +prospect of securing unanimity in some plan for removing or mitigating +those evils. The Constitution would permit the selection of +the commission to be vested in the Supreme Court, if that method +would give the best guaranty of impartiality.</p> + +<p>This commission should be charged with the duty of inquiring +into the whole subject of the law of elections as related to the choice +of officers of the national Government, with a view to securing to +every elector a free and unmolested exercise of the suffrage and as +near an approach to an equality of value in each ballot cast as is +attainable.</p> + +<p>While the policies of the general Government upon the tariff, +upon the restoration of our merchant marine, upon river and harbor +improvements, and other such matters of grave and general +concern are liable to be turned this way or that by the results of +Congressional elections and administrative policies, sometimes involving +issues that tend to peace or war, to be turned this way +or that by the results of a presidential election, there is a rightful +interest in all the States and in every Congressional district that +will not be deceived or silenced by the audacious pretence that the +question of the right of any body of legal voters in any State or in +any Congressional district to give their suffrages freely upon these +general questions is a matter only of local concern or control. The +demand that the limitations of suffrage shall be found in the law,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_564" id="Page_564">[564]</a></span> +and only there, is a just demand, and no just man should resent +or resist it. My appeal is, and must continue to be, for a consultation +that shall "proceed with candor, calmness, and patience +upon the lines of justice and humanity, not of prejudice and +cruelty."</p> + +<p>To the consideration of these very grave questions I invite not +only the attention of Congress, but that of all patriotic citizens. +We must not entertain the delusion that our people have ceased to +regard a free ballot and equal representation as the price of their +allegiance to laws and to civil magistrates.</p> + +<p>I have been greatly rejoiced to notice many evidences of the +increased unification of our people and of a revived national +spirit. The vista that now opens to us is wider and more glorious +than ever before. Gratification and amazement struggle for supremacy +as we contemplate the population, wealth, and moral +strength of our country. A trust, momentous in its influence upon +our people and upon the world, is for a brief time committed to +us, and we must not be faithless to its first condition—the defence +of the free and equal influence of the people in the choice of public +officers and in the control of public affairs.</p></div> + + + +<hr class="chap" /> +</div> + +<div> +<h3><a name="THE_CHILIAN_MESSAGE_JANUARY_25_1892" id="THE_CHILIAN_MESSAGE_JANUARY_25_1892">THE CHILIAN MESSAGE, JANUARY 25, 1892.</a></h3> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Just</span> as this book is going to the printer there has appeared +a most satisfactory closing chapter—the masterly +message on the Chilian difficulty. This message quickly +won the approval of the civilized world, and has stirred, +as it has not been stirred in years, the patriotic pride of +our own people. It will rank side by side with Monroe's +famous declaration of American policy. It at once impresses +one with its character as the official statement of +their position by a powerful yet generous people, who, +conscious of their own strength, will firmly assert their +rights and maintain their dignity, without any disposition +to despoil or humiliate their weaker neighbors. The +position taken by the President was so firm and the justice +of our claims was so clearly set forth that three days +after the date of the message he was enabled to announce<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_565" id="Page_565">[565]</a></span> +to Congress that Chili had substantially complied with +our demands.</p> + +<p>Such parts of the message as contained only a recital of +facts, or were not necessary to an understanding of the policy +announced have, for the sake of brevity, been omitted.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p> +<i>To the Senate and House of Representatives</i>: +</p> + +<p class="dot">· · · · · ·</p> + +<p>We have now received from the Chilian Government an abstract +of the conclusions of the <i>Fiscal General</i> upon the testimony taken +by the Judge of Crimes in an investigation which was made to extend +over nearly three months. I very much regret to be compelled +to say that this report does not enable me to modify the conclusion +announced in my annual message. I am still of the opinion +that our sailors were assaulted, beaten, stabbed, and killed, +not for anything they or any one of them had done, but for what +the Government of the United States had done, or was charged +with having done, by its civil officers and naval commanders. If +that be the true aspect of the case, the injury was to the Government +of the United States, not to these poor sailors who were assaulted +in a manner so brutal and so cowardly.</p> + +<p class="dot">· · · · ·</p> + +<p>It is not claimed that every personal collision or injury in which +a sailor or officer of such naval vessel visiting the shore may be +involved raises an international question; but I am clearly of the +opinion that where such sailors or officers are assaulted by a resident +populace, animated by hostility to the Government whose +uniform these sailors and officers wear, and in resentment of acts +done by their Government, not by them, their nation must take +notice of the event as one involving an infraction of its rights and +dignity—not in a secondary way, as where a citizen is injured and +presents his claim through his own Government, but in a primary +way, precisely as if its minister or consul or the flag itself had +been the object of the same character of assault. The officers and +sailors of the <i>Baltimore</i> were in the harbor of Valparaiso under the +orders of their Government, not by their own choice. They were +upon the shore by the implied invitation of the Government of +Chili and with the approval of their commanding officer; and it +does not distinguish their case from that of a consul that his stay +is more permanent or that he holds the express invitation of the +local government to justify his longer residence. Nor does it affect +the question that the injury was the act of a mob. If there had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_566" id="Page_566">[566]</a></span> +been no participation by the police or military in this cruel work +and no neglect on their part to extend protection, the case would +still be one, in my opinion, when its extent and character are considered, +involving international rights.</p></div> + +<p>Here follow the details of the attack upon the sailors +of the <i>Baltimore</i> in the streets of Valparaiso, October +16th.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> + +<p>The scene ... is very graphically set before us by the Chilian testimony. +The American sailors, who, after so long an examination, +have not been found guilty of any breach of the peace so far as +the Chilian authorities are able to discover, unarmed and defenceless, +are fleeing for their lives, pursued by overwhelming numbers, +and fighting only to aid their own escape from death or to succor +some mate whose life is in greater peril. Eighteen of them are +brutally stabbed and beaten, while one Chilian seems, from the +report, to have suffered some injury; but how serious or with what +character or weapon, or whether by a missile thrown by our men +or by some of his fellow-rioters, is unascertained.</p> + +<p>The pretence that our men were fighting "with stones, clubs, and +bright arms" is, in view of these facts, incredible. It is further +refuted by the fact that our prisoners, when searched, were absolutely +without arms, only seven penknives being found in the +possession of the men arrested, while there were received by our +men more than thirty stab wounds, every one of which was inflicted +in the back, and almost every contused wound was in the +back or back of the head. The evidence of the ship's officer of +the day is that even the jack-knives of the men were taken from +them before leaving the ship....</p> + +<p>No amount of evasion or subterfuge is able to cloud our clear +vision of this brutal work....</p> + +<p>It is quite remarkable and quite characteristic of the management +of this affair by the Chilian police authorities that we should +now be advised that Seaman Davidson, of the <i>Baltimore</i>, has been +included in the indictment, his offence being, so far as I have been +able to ascertain, that he attempted to defend a shipmate against +an assailant who was striking at him with a knife. The perfect +vindication of our men is furnished by this report; one only is +found to have been guilty of criminal fault, and that for an act +clearly justifiable....</p> + +<p>The evidence of our sailors clearly shows that the attack was expected +by the Chilian people, that threats had been made against our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_567" id="Page_567">[567]</a></span> +men, and that, in one case somewhat early in the afternoon, the +keeper of one house into which some of our men had gone closed +his establishment in anticipation of the attack, which he advised +them would be made upon them as darkness came on....</p> + +<p>Several of our men sought security from the mob by such complete +or partial changes in their dress as would conceal the fact of +their being seamen of the <i>Baltimore</i>, and found it then possible to +walk the streets without molestation. These incidents conclusively +establish that the attack was upon the uniform—the nationality—and +not upon the men.</p> + +<p class="dot">· · · · ·</p> + +<p>The testimony of Captain Jenkins, of the American merchant ship +<i>Keweenaw</i>, which had gone to Valparaiso for repairs, and who +was a witness of some part of the assault upon the crew of the <i>Baltimore</i>, +is strongly corroborative of the testimony of our own +sailors when he says that he saw Chilian sentries drive back a seaman, +seeking shelter, upon a mob that was pursuing him. The +officers and men of Captain Jenkins' ship furnish the most conclusive +testimony as to the indignities which were practised toward +Americans in Valparaiso. When American sailors, even of merchant +ships, can only secure their safety by denying their nationality, +it must be time to readjust our relations with a government +that permits such demonstrations.</p> + +<p>As to the participation of the police, the evidence of our sailors +shows that our men were struck and beaten by police officers before +and after arrest, and that one at least was dragged with a lasso +about his neck by a mounted policeman. That the death of Riggin +was the result of a rifle-shot fired by a policeman or soldier on duty +is shown directly by the testimony of Johnson, in whose arms he was +at the time, and by the evidence of Charles Langen, an American +sailor not then a member of the <i>Baltimore's</i> crew, who stood close by +and saw the transaction. The Chilian authorities do not pretend to +fix the responsibility of this shot upon any particular person, but +avow their inability to ascertain who fired it, further than that it +was fired from a crowd....</p> + +<p>The communications of the Chilian Government in relation to +this cruel and disastrous attack upon our men, as will appear from +the correspondence, have not in any degree taken the form of a +manly and satisfactory expression of regret, much less of apology. +The event was of so serious a character that, if the injuries suffered +by our men had been wholly the result of an accident in a Chilian +port, the incident was grave enough to have called for some public +expression of sympathy and regret from the local authorities. It<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_568" id="Page_568">[568]</a></span> +is not enough to say that the affair was lamentable, for humanity +would require that expression, even if the beating and killing of +our men had been justifiable. It is not enough to say that the incident +is regretted, coupled with the statement that the affair +was not of an unusual character in ports where foreign sailors are +accustomed to meet. It is not for a generous and sincere government +to seek for words of small or equivocal meaning in which to +convey to a friendly power an apology for an offence so atrocious as +this. In the case of the assault by a mob in New Orleans upon the +Spanish consulate in 1851, Mr. Webster wrote to the Spanish minister, +Mr. Calderon, that the acts complained of were "a disgraceful +and flagrant breach of duty and propriety," and that his Government +"regrets them as deeply as Minister Calderon or his Government +could possibly do;" that "these acts have caused the President +great pain, and he thinks a proper acknowledgment is due to Her +Majesty's Government." He invited the Spanish consul to return +to his post, guaranteeing protection, and offered to salute the +Spanish flag if the consul should come in a Spanish vessel. Such +a treatment by the Government of Chili of this assault would +have been more creditable to the Chilian authorities; and much less +can hardly be satisfactory to a government that values its dignity +and honor.</p> + +<p class="dot">· · · · ·</p> + +<p>On the 21st instant I caused to be communicated to the Government +of Chili, by the American minister at Santiago, the conclusions +of this Government after a full consideration of all the +evidence and of every suggestion affecting this matter, and to these +conclusions I adhere. They were stated as follows:</p> + +<p>"First. That the assault is not relieved of the aspect which the +early information of the event gave to it, viz.: That of an attack +upon the uniform of the United States Navy, having its origin +and motive in a feeling of hostility to this Government, and not +in any act of the sailors or of any of them.</p> + +<p>"Second. That the public authorities of Valparaiso flagrantly +failed in their duty to protect our men, and that some of the police +and of the Chilian soldiers and sailors were themselves guilty of +unprovoked assaults upon our sailors before and after arrest. He +[the President] thinks the preponderance of the evidence and +the inherent probabilities lead to the conclusion that Riggin was +killed by the police or soldiers.</p> + +<p>"Third. That he [the President] is therefore compelled to bring +the case back to the position taken by this Government in the note +of Mr. Wharton of October 23 last, ... and to ask for a suit<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_569" id="Page_569">[569]</a></span>able +apology and for some adequate reparation for the injury done +to this Government."</p> + +<p>In the same note the attention of the Chilian Government was +called to the offensive character of a note addressed by Mr. Matta, +its Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Montt, its minister at this +capital, on the 11th ultimo. This despatch was not officially communicated +to this Government; but, as Mr. Montt was directed to +translate it and to give it to the press of this country, it seemed to +me that it could not pass without official notice. It was not only +undiplomatic, but grossly insulting to our naval officers and to the +Executive Department, as it directly imputed untruth and insincerity +to the reports of the naval officers and to the official communications +made by the Executive Department to Congress. It +will be observed that I have notified the Chilian Government that, +unless this note is at once withdrawn and an apology as public as +the offence made, I will terminate diplomatic relations.</p> + +<p>The request for the recall of Mr. Egan upon the ground that he +was not <i>persona grata</i> was unaccompanied by any suggestion that +could properly be used in support of it, and I infer that the request +is based upon official acts of Mr. Egan which have received the +approval of this Government. But however that may be, I could +not consent to consider such a question until it had first been settled +whether our correspondence with Chili could be conducted +upon a basis of mutual respect.</p> + +<p>In submitting these papers to Congress for that grave and patriotic +consideration which the questions involved demand, I desire +to say that I am of the opinion that the demands made of Chili by +this Government should be adhered to and enforced. If the dignity +as well as the prestige and influence of the United States are not to +be wholly sacrificed, we must protect those who, in foreign ports, +display the flag or wear the colors of this Government against insult, +brutality, and death inflicted in resentment of the acts of +their Government, and not for any fault of their own. It has been +my desire in every way to cultivate friendly and intimate relations +with all the governments of this hemisphere. We do not covet +their territory; we desire their peace and prosperity. We look for +no advantage in our relations with them, except the increased +exchanges of commerce upon a basis of mutual benefit. We regret +every civil contest that disturbs their peace and paralyzes their +development, and are always ready to give our good offices for the +restoration of peace. It must, however, be understood that this +Government, while exercising the utmost forbearance toward +weaker powers, will extend its strong and adequate protection to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_570" id="Page_570">[570]</a></span> +its citizens, to its officers, and to its humblest sailors when made +the victims of wantonness and cruelty in resentment, not of their +personal misconduct, but of the official acts of their Government.</p> + +<p>Upon information received that Patrick Shields, an Irishman and +probably a British subject, but at the time a fireman of the American +steamer <i>Keweenaw</i>, in the harbor of Valparaiso for repairs, +had been subjected to personal injuries in that city—largely by +the police—I directed the Attorney-General to cause the evidence +of the officers and crew of that vessel to be taken upon its arrival +in San Francisco; and that testimony is also herewith transmitted. +The brutality and even savagery of the treatment of this poor man +by the Chilian police would be incredible if the evidence of Shields +was not supported by other direct testimony and by the distressing +condition of the man himself when he was finally able to reach his +vessel....</p> + +<p>A claim for reparation has been made in behalf of this man, +for while he was not a citizen of the United States, the doctrine +long held by us, as expressed in the Consular Regulations, is "the +principles which are maintained by this Government in regard to +the protection, as distinguished from the relief, of seamen are well +settled. It is held that the circumstance that the vessel is American +is evidence that the seamen on board are such; and in every +regularly documented merchant vessel the crew will find their protection +in the flag that covers them."</p> + +<p>I have as yet received no reply to our note of the 21st instant, +but in my opinion I ought not to delay longer to bring these matters +to the attention of Congress for such action as may be deemed +appropriate.</p> + +<p class="right"> +<span class="smcap">Benj. Harrison.</span> +</p> +<p> +<span class="smcap">Executive Mansion</span>,<br /> + +<span class="mid-left">January 25, 1892.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_571" id="Page_571">[571]</a></span></p> + + + + +</div> + +<div class="index"> +<h2><a name="INDEX_TO_SPEECHES_ETC" id="INDEX_TO_SPEECHES_ETC">INDEX TO SPEECHES, ETC.</a></h2> + +<div class="center"> + <a href="#IX_A">A</a> + <a href="#IX_B">B</a> + <a href="#IX_C">C</a> + <a href="#IX_D">D</a> + <a href="#IX_E">E</a> + <a href="#IX_F">F</a> + <a href="#IX_G">G</a> + <a href="#IX_H">H</a> + <a href="#IX_I">I</a> + <a href="#IX_J">J</a> + <a href="#IX_K">K</a> + <a href="#IX_L">L</a> + <a href="#IX_M">M</a> + <a href="#IX_N">N</a> + <a href="#IX_O">O</a> + <a href="#IX_P">P</a> + <a href="#IX_R">R</a> + <a href="#IX_S">S</a> + <a href="#IX_T">T</a> + <a href="#IX_V">V</a> + <a href="#IX_W">W</a> + <a href="#IX_X">X</a> +</div> +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_A" name="IX_A"></a><span class="smcap">Akron</span>, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_460">460</a> +</li> +<li>Albany, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_402">402</a> +</li> +<li>Albany, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_498">498</a> +</li> +<li>Alger, Gen. R. A., response of, + <a href="#Page_69">69</a> +</li> +<li>Allen County, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_149">149</a> +</li> +<li>Alliance, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_284">284</a> +</li> +<li>Altoona, Pa., reception address at, + <a href="#Page_487">487</a> +</li> +<li>American Fork, Utah, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_435">435</a> +</li> +<li>Anderson, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_271">271</a> +</li> +<li>Anniston, Alabama, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_308">308</a> +</li> +<li>Ashland, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_400">400</a> +</li> +<li>Ashland, Nebraska, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_464">464</a> +</li> +<li>Atchison, Kansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_259">259</a> +</li> +<li>Atlanta, Georgia, address to students, + <a href="#Page_304">304</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>farewell address, + <a href="#Page_305">305</a> +</li> + <li>Mr. Wanamaker's address, + <a href="#Page_306">306</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Augusta, Georgia, to exposition committee from, + <a href="#Page_549">549</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_B" name="IX_B"></a><span class="smcap">Bakersfield</span>, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_362">362</a> +</li> +<li>Baker City, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_425">425</a> +</li> +<li>Banning, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_341">341</a> +</li> +<li>Bartholomew County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> +<li>Bellefontaine, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_89">89</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address at, + <a href="#Page_277">277</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Bellows Falls, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_540">540</a> +</li> +<li>Benicia, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_392">392</a> +</li> +<li>Bennington trip, 1891, personnel of party, + <a href="#Page_493">493</a> +</li> +<li>Bennington, Vermont, Battle Monument address, + <a href="#Page_502">502</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>at great tent banquet, + <a href="#Page_505">505</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Benton Harbor, Michigan, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_41">41</a> +</li> +<li>Benton County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_44">44</a> +</li> +<li>Berkeley, California, at State University, + <a href="#Page_393">393</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>dumb and blind institute, + <a href="#Page_394">394</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Billings Park, Vermont, speech at horse fair, + <a href="#Page_535">535</a> +</li> +<li>Birmingham, Alabama, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_311">311</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>luncheon address, + <a href="#Page_313">313</a> + </li> + </ul> +</li> + +<li>Blackford County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_163">163</a> +</li> +<li>Blaine Club of Kansas City, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_76">76</a> +</li> +<li>Blaine reception, demonstration at Indianapolis Oct. 11, 1888, + <a href="#Page_170">170</a> +</li> +<li>Bloomington, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_62">62</a> +</li> +<li>Boise City, Idaho, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_427">427</a> +</li> +<li>Boone County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_46">46</a> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_572" id="Page_572">[572]</a></span> + Boston, Mass., reception address at, + <a href="#Page_226">226</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Mayor's Club banquet, + <a href="#Page_228">228</a> +</li> + <li>G. A. R. national encampment, + <a href="#Page_230">230</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Bradford, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_536">536</a> +</li> +<li>Brandon, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_516">516</a> +</li> +<li>Brattleboro, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_542">542</a> +</li> +<li>Bristol, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_291">291</a> +</li> +<li>Brown County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_70">70</a> +</li> +<li>Buena Vista, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_444">444</a> +</li> +<li>Burlington, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_519">519</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_C" name="IX_C"></a><span class="smcap">California</span> delegates to Chicago, visit from, + <a href="#Page_29">29</a> +</li> +<li>California tour, 1891, personnel of party, + <a href="#Page_289">289</a> +</li> +<li>Cañon City, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_446">446</a> +</li> +<li>Canton, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_283">283</a> +</li> +<li>Cartersville, Georgia, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_302">302</a> +</li> +<li>Cascade Locks, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_421">421</a> +</li> +<li>Castleton, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_515">515</a> +</li> +<li>Centennial address, New York City, April 30, 1889, + <a href="#Page_207">207</a> +</li> +<li>Centralia, Washington, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_412">412</a> +</li> +<li>Champaign County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_55">55</a> +</li> +<li>Champaign, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_241">241</a> +</li> +<li>Charlestown, New Hampshire, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_539">539</a> +</li> +<li>Chattanooga, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_301">301</a> +</li> +<li>Chehalis, Washington, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_420">420</a> +</li> +<li>Chemawa, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_405">405</a> +</li> +<li>Chicago, Marquette Club banquet address, + <a href="#Page_16">16</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to committee from Marquette Club, + <a href="#Page_31">31</a> +</li> + <li>to Irish-American Club from, + <a href="#Page_124">124</a> +</li> + <li>to commercial travellers from, + <a href="#Page_140">140</a> +</li> + <li>to delegation business men from, + <a href="#Page_155">155</a> +</li> + <li>to Union veterans and others from, + <a href="#Page_166">166</a> +</li> + <li>to German-American Club from, + <a href="#Page_172">172</a> +</li> + <li>Auditorium dedication address, + <a href="#Page_218">218</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Chilian Minister, official reception of, response to, + <a href="#Page_557">557</a> +</li> +<li>Chilian affair, message on, January 25, 1892, + <a href="#Page_564">564</a>-70</li> +<li>Chrisman, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_479">479</a> +</li> +<li>Cincinnati, Ohio, to Lincoln Club from, + <a href="#Page_49">49</a> +</li> +<li>Cincinnati Exposition Committee, visit from, + <a href="#Page_136">136</a> +</li> +<li>Cincinnati Exposition, invitation committee from, + <a href="#Page_171">171</a> +</li> +<li>Clay County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_60">60</a> +</li> +<li>Clayton, Indiana, reunion 70th Regiment, + <a href="#Page_115">115</a> +</li> +<li>Clearfield, Pa., trip to the coal regions, + <a href="#Page_231">231</a> +</li> +<li>Cleveland, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_152">152</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Garfield mausoleum dedication, + <a href="#Page_222">222</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Clifton Forge, Virginia, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_235">235</a> +</li> +<li>Clinton County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_72">72</a> +</li> +<li>Coles County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_57">57</a> +</li> +<li>Colorado Springs, Colorado, address to scholars, + <a href="#Page_450">450</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address, + <a href="#Page_453">453</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Colton, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_339">339</a> +</li> +<li>Columbus, Ohio, to delegation veteran voters from, + <a href="#Page_145">145</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to Garfield Club and Gov. Foraker, + <a href="#Page_174">174</a> +</li> + <li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_573" id="Page_573">[573]</a></span> + reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, + <a href="#Page_192">192</a> +</li> + <li>reception address at, May 14, 1891, + <a href="#Page_487">487</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Commercial travellers of Indiana, address to, + <a href="#Page_40">40</a> +</li> +<li>Commercial travellers of Ill. and Ind., address to, + <a href="#Page_92">92</a> +</li> +<li>Commercial travellers of Chicago, address to, + <a href="#Page_139">139</a> +</li> +<li>Commercial travellers of United States, address to, + <a href="#Page_177">177</a> +</li> +<li>Council Bluffs, Iowa, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_471">471</a> +</li> +<li>Cresson, Pa., to visiting Altoona veterans, + <a href="#Page_231">231</a> +</li> +<li>Crestline, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_278">278</a> +</li> +<li>Crete, Nebraska, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_462">462</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_D" name="IX_D"></a><span class="smcap">Danville</span>, Indiana, to Republican Club from, June 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_25">25</a> +</li> +<li>Danville, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_240">240</a> +</li> +<li>Dayton, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_137">137</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address at, + <a href="#Page_485">485</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Decatur County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_87">87</a> +</li> +<li>Decatur, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_476">476</a> +</li> +<li>Defiance, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_94">94</a> +</li> +<li>De Graff, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_276">276</a> +</li> +<li>Delaware County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_87">87</a> +</li> +<li>Del Rio, Texas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_332">332</a> +</li> +<li>Deming, New Mexico, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_335">335</a> +</li> +<li>Denver, Colorado, address at Capitol, + <a href="#Page_454">454</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>address at Hotel Metropole, + <a href="#Page_459">459</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Depew, Hon. Chauncey M., visits the nominee, + <a href="#Page_171">171</a> +</li> +<li>Detroit, Michigan Club banquet address, + <a href="#Page_9">9</a> +</li> +<li>Diaz, President Porfirio, telegram from, + <a href="#Page_350">350</a> +</li> +<li>Douglas County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_84">84</a> +</li> +<li>Duluth, Minnesota, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_156">156</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_E" name="IX_E"></a><span class="smcap">Ecumenical</span> Conference, address to, at Washington, + <a href="#Page_550">550</a> +</li> +<li>Edgar County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_57">57</a> +</li> +<li>Election results, popular vote for President, 1888, + <a href="#Page_188">188</a> +</li> +<li>Electoral College, extract from President's message, Dec., 1891, + <a href="#Page_560">560</a> +</li> +<li>Eleventh Indiana Regiment, survivors received, + <a href="#Page_171">171</a> +</li> +<li>Elkhart County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_146">146</a> +</li> +<li>El Paso, Texas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_333">333</a> +</li> +<li>Ex-prisoners of war, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_129">129</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_F" name="IX_F"></a><span class="smcap">Fair</span> Haven, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_514">514</a> +</li> +<li>Florence, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_447">447</a> +</li> +<li>Floyd County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_122">122</a> +</li> +<li>Foraker, Gov. J. B., congratulates the nominee, + <a href="#Page_174">174</a> +</li> +<li>Ford County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_89">89</a> +</li> +<li>Fort Wayne, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_99">99</a> +</li> +<li>Foster, ex-Gov. Charles, introduces the nominee, + <a href="#Page_97">97</a> +</li> +<li>Fountain County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_162">162</a> +</li> +<li>Fresno, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_365">365</a> +</li> +<li>Fulton County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_156">156</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_G" name="IX_G"></a><span class="smcap">Galesburg</span>, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_243">243</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>address at reunion 1st Brigade, + <a href="#Page_246">246</a> +</li> + <li>Alumni Hall, Knox College, + <a href="#Page_251">251</a> +</li> + <li>Phi Delta Theta banquet, + <a href="#Page_251">251</a> +</li> + <li>at 1st Brigade banquet, + <a href="#Page_252">252</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_574" id="Page_574">[574]</a></span> + Galveston, Texas, great speech and reception, + <a href="#Page_322">322</a> +</li> +<li>Garfield Club of Columbus, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_175">175</a> +</li> +<li>Garfield Monument, address at dedication of, + <a href="#Page_225">225</a> +</li> +<li>G. A. R. veterans and Gov. Rusk, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_120">120</a> +</li> +<li>G. A. R. installation officers, address to comrades, + <a href="#Page_189">189</a> +</li> +<li>G. A. R. camp fire, Indianapolis, address to comrades, + <a href="#Page_216">216</a> +</li> +<li>G. A. R. national encampment, address at Boston, + <a href="#Page_228">228</a> +</li> +<li>Gilroy, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_377">377</a> +</li> +<li>Glenwood Springs, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_437">437</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>address to miners, + <a href="#Page_438">438</a> +</li> + <li>address to children, + <a href="#Page_440">440</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Godfrey Commandery of Chicago, visit from, + <a href="#Page_83">83</a> +</li> +<li>Grand Rapids, Michigan, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_159">159</a> +</li> +<li>Greenville, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_296">296</a> +</li> +<li>Grundy County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_134">134</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_H" name="IX_H"></a><span class="smcap">Hamilton</span> County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_26">26</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, August 14, 1888, + <a href="#Page_83">83</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Hancock County, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_149">149</a> +</li> +<li>Hannibal, Missouri, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_472">472</a> +</li> +<li>Harrison, Gen. Benj., biographical sketch of, + <a href="#Page_7">7</a>-8</li> +<li>Harrison League of Indianapolis, address to, + <a href="#Page_33">33</a> +</li> +<li>Harrisburg, Pa., reception address at, + <a href="#Page_488">488</a> +</li> +<li>Hastings, Nebraska, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_461">461</a> +</li> +<li>Hendricks County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_25">25</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, Nov. 9, 1888, + <a href="#Page_188">188</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Henry County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_67">67</a> +</li> +<li>Hill, Gov. David B., his invitation to the President, + <a href="#Page_497">497</a> +</li> +<li>Hood River Station, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_421">421</a> +</li> +<li>Houston, Texas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_321">321</a> +</li> +<li>Houtzdale, Pa., reception address at, + <a href="#Page_233">233</a> +</li> +<li>Howard County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_26">26</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, July 18, 1888, + <a href="#Page_50">50</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Huntington, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_101">101</a> +</li> +<li>Hyde Park, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_166">166</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_I" name="IX_I"></a><span class="smcap">Inaugural</span> Executive Committee, personnel of, + <a href="#Page_193">193</a> +</li> +<li>Inaugural address, March 4, 1889, + <a href="#Page_194">194</a>-203</li> +<li>Indianapolis, to his neighbors, June 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_27">27</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to Indiana delegates, June 26, 1888, + <a href="#Page_29">29</a> +</li> + <li>to colored citizens, June 30, 1888, + <a href="#Page_33">33</a> +</li> + <li>to veterans 70th Regiment, + <a href="#Page_28">28</a> +</li> + <li>to veterans 26th Infantry, + <a href="#Page_134">134</a> +</li> + <li>to veterans 7th Cavalry, + <a href="#Page_131">131</a> +</li> + <li>to veterans 79th Regiment, + <a href="#Page_176">176</a> +</li> + <li>to veterans and neighbors, + <a href="#Page_32">32</a> +</li> + <li>introducing Gen. R. A. Alger, + <a href="#Page_69">69</a> +</li> + <li>official notification, July 4, 1888, + <a href="#Page_35">35</a> +</li> + <li>to Tippecanoe veterans, July 4, 1888, + <a href="#Page_38">38</a> +</li> + <li>to railroad employees, July 13, 1888, + <a href="#Page_47">47</a> +</li> + <li>speech at State Convention, Aug. 8, 1888, + <a href="#Page_80">80</a> +</li> + <li>on returning from Put-in Bay, Sept. 4, 1888, + <a href="#Page_105">105</a> +</li> + <li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_575" id="Page_575">[575]</a></span> + great street demonstration, Sept. 6, 1888, + <a href="#Page_106">106</a> +</li> + <li>address to children, Sept. 8, 1888, + <a href="#Page_107">107</a> +</li> + <li>to the Porter-Columbian Club, Oct. 3, 1888, + <a href="#Page_158">158</a> +</li> + <li>Labor-Day address, Oct. 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_183">183</a> +</li> + <li>to railroad clubs of Indiana, Oct. 27, 1888, + <a href="#Page_185">185</a> +</li> + <li>to the saw-makers of city, Nov. 9, 1888, + <a href="#Page_188">188</a> +</li> + <li>to G. A. R. veterans, Jan. 1, 1889, + <a href="#Page_189">189</a> +</li> + <li>farewell to neighbors, Feb. 25, 1889, + <a href="#Page_191">191</a> +</li> + <li>dedication Soldiers' Monument, + <a href="#Page_211">211</a> +</li> + <li>at G. A. R. camp-fire, Aug. 22, 1889, + <a href="#Page_216">216</a> +</li> + <li>at reunion 70th Regiment, Aug. 23, 1889, + <a href="#Page_217">217</a> +</li> + <li>the home welcome, May 14, 1891, + <a href="#Page_481">481</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Indio, California, received by Gov. Markham, + <a href="#Page_338">338</a> +</li> +<li>Irish-American Club, address to, Sept. 15, 1888, + <a href="#Page_125">125</a> +</li> +<li>Iroquois County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_131">131</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_J" name="IX_J"></a><span class="smcap">Jacksonville</span>, Illinois, to delegation from, July 19, 1888, + <a href="#Page_51">51</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Janesville, Wisconsin, to delegation from, Oct. 5, 1888, + <a href="#Page_161">161</a> +</li> +<li>Jay County, Indiana, to delegation from, Sept. 21, 1888, + <a href="#Page_137">137</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, Oct. 4, 1888, + <a href="#Page_159">159</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Jennings County, Indiana, to delegation from, July 28, 1888, + <a href="#Page_65">65</a> +</li> +<li>Johnson County, Indiana, to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> +<li>Johnson City, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_293">293</a> +</li> +<li>Jonesboro, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_295">295</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_K" name="IX_K"></a><span class="smcap">Kankakee</span>, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> +<li>Kansas City, Missouri, to Blaine Club from, + <a href="#Page_77">77</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to Scott Rifles from, + <a href="#Page_121">121</a> +</li> + <li>banquet address at, + <a href="#Page_265">265</a> +</li> + <li>Chamber Commerce speech, + <a href="#Page_266">266</a> +</li> + <li>letter to Commercial Congress, + <a href="#Page_286">286</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Kansas veterans, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_108">108</a> +</li> +<li>Kingston, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_495">495</a> +</li> +<li>Knightstown, Indiana, to soldiers' orphans at, + <a href="#Page_192">192</a> +</li> +<li>Knoxville, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_299">299</a> +</li> +<li>Kokomo, Indiana, to delegations from, + <a href="#Page_26">26</a>, + <a href="#Page_50">50</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address at, + <a href="#Page_103">103</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Kosciusko County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_63">63</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_L" name="IX_L"></a><span class="smcap">Labor</span>-Day address, close of the great campaign, + <a href="#Page_182">182</a> +</li> +<li>La Porte County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_132">132</a> +</li> +<li>Lathrop, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_368">368</a> +</li> +<li>Lawrenceburg, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_235">235</a> +</li> +<li>Lawrence, Kansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_265">265</a> +</li> +<li>Leadville, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_442">442</a> +</li> +<li>Le Grande, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_424">424</a> +</li> +<li>Lehi City, Utah, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_434">434</a> +</li> +<li>Letter of acceptance, Sept. 11, 1888, + <a href="#Page_108">108</a> +</li> +<li>Letter to Commercial Congress, April 14, 1891, + <a href="#Page_286">286</a> +</li> +<li>Letter on tin plate, its manufacture in America, + <a href="#Page_554">554</a> +</li> +<li>Lincoln, Nebraska, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_463">463</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>thanks to travelling men, + <a href="#Page_464">464</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Lincoln Club, Cincinnati, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_49">49</a> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_576" id="Page_576">[576]</a></span> + Little Rock, Arkansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_317">317</a> +</li> +<li>Lordsburg, New Mexico, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_336">336</a> +</li> +<li>Los Angeles, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_345">345</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>speech at the pavilion, + <a href="#Page_347">347</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Los Gatos, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_381">381</a> +</li> +<li>Louisville, Kentucky, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_128">128</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_M" name="IX_M"></a><span class="smcap">Macon</span> County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_84">84</a> +</li> +<li>Madison, Wisconsin, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_161">161</a> +</li> +<li>Mansfield, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_279">279</a> +</li> +<li>Marion County, Indiana, to the Tippecanoe Club, + <a href="#Page_38">38</a> +</li> +<li>Marquette Club, Chicago, speech at banquet, + <a href="#Page_16">16</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegates from, + <a href="#Page_31">31</a> +</li> + <li>the President received by, + <a href="#Page_219">219</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Marshall County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_156">156</a> +</li> +<li>Maryville, Missouri, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_472">472</a> +</li> +<li>Massillon, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_282">282</a> +</li> +<li>Medford, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_401">401</a> +</li> +<li>Memphis, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_315">315</a> +</li> +<li>Merced, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_366">366</a> +</li> +<li>Message to Congress, presidential electors, Dec. 9, 1891, + <a href="#Page_560">560</a>-63 + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Chilian affair, Dec. 9, 1891, + <a href="#Page_558">558</a> +</li> + <li>Chilian affair, Jan. 25, 1892, + <a href="#Page_564">564</a>-70</li> + </ul></li> +<li>McDaniels, L. W., extract from his address, + <a href="#Page_182">182</a> +</li> +<li>Michigan Club, Detroit, speech at banquet, + <a href="#Page_9">9</a> +</li> +<li>Middlebury, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_517">517</a> +</li> +<li>Miller, Hon. Warner, famous telegram to, + <a href="#Page_189">189</a> +</li> +<li>Milwaukee German American Club, address to, + <a href="#Page_172">172</a> +</li> +<li>Modesto, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_367">367</a> +</li> +<li>Monterey, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_379">379</a> +</li> +<li>Montezuma, Indiana, welcomed by Gov. Hovey, + <a href="#Page_480">480</a> +</li> +<li>Montgomery County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_71">71</a> +</li> +<li>Monticello, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_51">51</a> +</li> +<li>Montpelier, Vermont, address to Legislature, + <a href="#Page_527">527</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address at, + <a href="#Page_529">529</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Montt, Señor Don Pedro, his address to the President, + <a href="#Page_556">556</a> +</li> +<li>Morgan County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_70">70</a> +</li> +<li>Morgan County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> +<li>Morristown, Tennessee, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_297">297</a> +</li> +<li>Mt. McGregor, New York, birthday dinner speech, + <a href="#Page_510">510</a> +</li> +<li>Muncie, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_272">272</a> +</li> +<li>Muskegon, Michigan, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_159">159</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_N" name="IX_N"></a><span class="smcap">Newburgh</span>, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_494">494</a> +</li> +<li>New York City, Washington centenary speech, + <a href="#Page_204">204</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Centennial banquet address, + <a href="#Page_209">209</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Ninth Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, + <a href="#Page_134">134</a> +</li> +<li>Noblesville, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_104">104</a> +</li> +<li>Normal, Illinois, to students from, + <a href="#Page_152">152</a> +</li> +<li>North Vernon, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_236">236</a> +</li> +<li>Northen, Gov. Wm. J., welcomes the President, + <a href="#Page_303">303</a> +</li> +<li>Nortonville, Kansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_263">263</a> +</li> +<li>Notification committee, personnel of, + <a href="#Page_36">36</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_O" name="IX_O"></a><span class="smcap"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_577" id="Page_577">[577]</a></span> + Oakland</span>, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_395">395</a> +</li> +<li>Ogden, Utah, committee escorts President, + <a href="#Page_430">430</a> +</li> +<li>Omaha, Nebraska, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_465">465</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>addresses to school children, + <a href="#Page_470">470</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Ontario, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_340">340</a> +</li> +<li>Orange, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_351">351</a> +</li> +<li>Oregon City, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_406">406</a> +</li> +<li>Orrville, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_281">281</a> +</li> +<li>Osceola, Pa., reception address at, + <a href="#Page_231">231</a> +</li> +<li>Ottumwa, Iowa, speech at Coal Palace, + <a href="#Page_255">255</a> +</li> +<li>Oxford College, Ohio, visit from students, + <a href="#Page_186">186</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_P" name="IX_P"></a><span class="smcap">Palestine</span>, Texas, received by Gov. Hogg, + <a href="#Page_319">319</a> +</li> +<li>Parke County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_143">143</a> +</li> +<li>Pasadena, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_356">356</a> +</li> +<li>Paxton, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_89">89</a> +</li> +<li>Pendleton, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_423">423</a> +</li> +<li>Pennsylvania gas men, address to, at Indianapolis, + <a href="#Page_151">151</a> +</li> +<li>Peo, Umatilla chief, his unique address to President, + <a href="#Page_423">423</a> +</li> +<li>Peoria, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_242">242</a> +</li> +<li>Peru, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_102">102</a> +</li> +<li>Philadelphia, speech at Independence Hall, + <a href="#Page_491">491</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>remarks at Gen Meade's grave, + <a href="#Page_492">492</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Phillipsburg, Pa., reception at, Sept. 20, 1890, + <a href="#Page_234">234</a> +</li> +<li>Plainfield, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_26">26</a> +</li> +<li>Plainfield, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_530">530</a> +</li> +<li>Pocatello, Idaho, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_429">429</a> +</li> +<li>Pomona, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_342">342</a> +</li> +<li>Porter-Columbian Club, address to members, + <a href="#Page_158">158</a> +</li> +<li>Portland, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_408">408</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Secretary Rusk's address, + <a href="#Page_411">411</a> +</li> + <li>Postmaster-General Wanamaker's speech, + <a href="#Page_410">410</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Proctor, Vermont, farewell to New England, + <a href="#Page_546">546</a> +</li> +<li>Provo City, Utah, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_434">434</a> +</li> +<li>Pueblo, Colorado, address to school children, + <a href="#Page_448">448</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Mineral Palace speech, + <a href="#Page_449">449</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Puget Sound, remarks on board steamship, + <a href="#Page_415">415</a> +</li> +<li>Pullman, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_166">166</a> +</li> +<li>Put-in Bay, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_97">97</a> +</li> +<li>Puyallup, Washington, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_420">420</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_R" name="IX_R"></a><span class="smcap">Railroad</span> Club of Terre Haute, address to, + <a href="#Page_73">73</a> +</li> +<li>Railroad clubs of Indiana, address to, + <a href="#Page_185">185</a> +</li> +<li>Railroad employees of Indianapolis, address to, + <a href="#Page_47">47</a> +</li> +<li>Railroad employees should be protected, message, + <a href="#Page_559">559</a> +</li> +<li>Randolph County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_137">137</a> +</li> +<li>Ransom Post, G. A. R., address to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_119">119</a> +</li> +<li>Red Bluff, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_398">398</a> +</li> +<li>Redding, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_399">399</a> +</li> +<li>Redwood City, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_375">375</a> +</li> +<li>Republican State Convention, speech before, + <a href="#Page_81">81</a> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_578" id="Page_578">[578]</a></span> + Richmond, Indiana, reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, + <a href="#Page_192">192</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reception address at, May 14, 1891, + <a href="#Page_483">483</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Richmond, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_524">524</a> +</li> +<li>Riverside, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_352">352</a> +</li> +<li>Roanoke, Virginia, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_290">290</a> +</li> +<li>Rush County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_86">86</a> +</li> +<li>Rusk, Gov. J. M., names Gen. Harrison for a second term, + <a href="#Page_120">120</a> +</li> +<li>Rusk, Secretary, speech of, at Portland, Oregon, + <a href="#Page_411">411</a> +</li> +<li>Rutland, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_544">544</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_S" name="IX_S"></a><span class="smcap">Sacramento</span>, California, address at State House, + <a href="#Page_391">391</a> +</li> +<li>Salem, Oregon, address at Capitol, + <a href="#Page_403">403</a> +</li> +<li>Salida, Colorado, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_445">445</a> +</li> +<li>Salt Lake, Utah, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_431">431</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Chamber Commerce speech, + <a href="#Page_433">433</a> +</li> + <li>address to children, + <a href="#Page_434">434</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>San Antonio, Texas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_329">329</a> +</li> +<li>San Bernardino, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_353">353</a> +</li> +<li>San Buena Ventura, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_359">359</a> +</li> +<li>San Diego, California, to Indiana residents, + <a href="#Page_347">347</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>at citizens' reception, + <a href="#Page_349">349</a> +</li> + <li>response to Gov. Torres, + <a href="#Page_350">350</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>San Fernando, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_358">358</a> +</li> +<li>San Francisco, the arrival address, + <a href="#Page_371">371</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Sutro Heights speech, + <a href="#Page_372">372</a> +</li> + <li>at Phi Delta Theta banquet, + <a href="#Page_373">373</a> +</li> + <li>launch of the _Monterey_, + <a href="#Page_374">374</a> +</li> + <li>reception at Senator Stanford's, + <a href="#Page_375">375</a> +</li> + <li>Chamber Commerce speech, + <a href="#Page_383">383</a> +</li> + <li>address to veterans, May 1, + <a href="#Page_384">384</a> +</li> + <li>Palace Hotel banquet speech, + <a href="#Page_386">386</a> +</li> + <li>at Union League reception, + <a href="#Page_396">396</a> +</li> + <li>farewell to California, + <a href="#Page_397">397</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>San José, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_376">376</a> +</li> +<li>Santa Ana, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_351">351</a> +</li> +<li>Santa Barbara, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_361">361</a> +</li> +<li>Santa Cruz, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_380">380</a> +</li> +<li>Santa Paula, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_358">358</a> +</li> +<li>Saratoga, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_511">511</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>House of Pansa reception, + <a href="#Page_512">512</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Seattle, Washington, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_417">417</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Mr. Wanamaker's address, + <a href="#Page_419">419</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Second Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, + <a href="#Page_134">134</a> +</li> +<li>Seventieth Indiana Infantry, reunion address, Sept. 13, 1888, + <a href="#Page_116">116</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>reunion address, Aug. 23, 1889, + <a href="#Page_216">216</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Seventh Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, + <a href="#Page_131">131</a> +</li> +<li>Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, + <a href="#Page_176">176</a> +</li> +<li>Seymour, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_237">237</a> +</li> +<li>Shelby County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_54">54</a> +</li> +<li>Shenandoah, Iowa, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_471">471</a> +</li> +<li>Shoals, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_238">238</a> +</li> +<li>Sisson, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_400">400</a> +</li> +<li>Soldiers' Monument, Indianapolis, dedicatory address, + <a href="#Page_214">214</a> +</li> +<li>South Chicago, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_166">166</a> +</li> +<li>Springfield, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_180">180</a> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_579" id="Page_579">[579]</a></span> + Springfield, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_52">52</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>at Lincoln's tomb, + <a href="#Page_473">473</a> +</li> + <li>State House address, + <a href="#Page_475">475</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Springville, Utah, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_436">436</a> +</li> +<li>State Fair, Indianapolis, address to exhibitors, + <a href="#Page_136">136</a> +</li> +<li>St. Albans, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_521">521</a> +</li> +<li>St. Johnsbury, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_531">531</a> +</li> +<li>St. Joseph, Missouri, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_258">258</a> +</li> +<li>St. Louis, Missouri, delegation from Ransom Post, + <a href="#Page_119">119</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Loyal Legion delegation, + <a href="#Page_171">171</a> +</li> + <li>Merchants' Exchange speech, + <a href="#Page_268">268</a> +</li> + <li>at Jockey Club banquet, + <a href="#Page_270">270</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Sullivan, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_238">238</a> +</li> +<li>Sutro, Hon. Adolph, presentation address to President, + <a href="#Page_372">372</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_T" name="IX_T"></a><span class="smcap">Tacoma</span>, Washington, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_413">413</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>Mrs. Harrison's thanks, + <a href="#Page_414">414</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Tallapoosa, Georgia, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_307">307</a> +</li> +<li>Terre Haute, Indiana, to Railroad Club from, + <a href="#Page_74">74</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>response to chair presentation, + <a href="#Page_187">187</a> +</li> + <li>reception address at, + <a href="#Page_239">239</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Texarkana, Arkansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_318">318</a> +</li> +<li>Texas G. A. R. veterans, visit to Gen. Harrison, + <a href="#Page_122">122</a> +</li> +<li>The Dalles, Oregon, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_422">422</a> +</li> +<li>Tiffin, Ohio, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_159">159</a> +</li> +<li>Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_78">78</a> +</li> +<li>Tipton, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_104">104</a> +</li> +<li>Tipton County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_146">146</a> +</li> +<li>Toledo, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_95">95</a> +</li> +<li>Topeka, Kansas, address to veterans, + <a href="#Page_261">261</a> +</li> +<li>Tower, Minnesota, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_156">156</a> +</li> +<li>Troy, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_500">500</a> +</li> +<li>Tucson, Arizona, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_337">337</a> +</li> +<li>Tulare, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_364">364</a> +</li> +<li>Tuscola, Illinois, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_478">478</a> +</li> +<li>Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, + <a href="#Page_134">134</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_U" name="IX_U"></a><span class="smcap">Union</span> City, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_274">274</a> +</li> +<li>Union ex-prisoners war address to delegates, + <a href="#Page_130">130</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_V" name="IX_V"></a><span class="smcap">Valley</span> Falls, Kansas, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_264">264</a> +</li> +<li>Vanderberg County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_79">79</a> +</li> +<li>Vergennes, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_518">518</a> +</li> +<li>Vermilion County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_90">90</a> +</li> +<li>Vermilion County, Illinois, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_126">126</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_W" name="IX_W"></a><span class="smcap">Wabash</span> County, Indiana, to veterans from, + <a href="#Page_42">42</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to delegation from, July 12, 1888, + <a href="#Page_43">43</a> +</li> + <li>to delegation from, Sept. 25, 1888, + <a href="#Page_143">143</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Wanamaker, Hon. John, address at Atlanta, + <a href="#Page_306">306</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>address at Portland, + <a href="#Page_410">410</a> +</li> + <li>address at Seattle, + <a href="#Page_419">419</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Washington, D. C., to Augusta Exposition Committee, + <a href="#Page_549">549</a> + <ul class="IX"> + <li>to Methodist Ecumenical Conference, + <a href="#Page_551">551</a> +</li> + <li>the return to, May 15, 1891, + <a href="#Page_489">489</a> +</li> + </ul></li> +<li>Waterbury, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_525">525</a> +</li> +<li>Watsonville, California, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_378">378</a> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_580" id="Page_580">[580]</a></span> + Wells County, Indiana, to delegation from, + <a href="#Page_163">163</a> +</li> +<li>Western tour, 1890, personnel of party, + <a href="#Page_234">234</a> +</li> +<li>Whitehall, New York, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_513">513</a> +</li> +<li>Winchester, Indiana, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_274">274</a> +</li> +<li>Windsor, Vermont, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_537">537</a> +</li> +<li>Wooster, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_280">280</a> +</li> +</ul> + +<ul class="IX"> +<li><a id="IX_X" name="IX_X"></a><span class="smcap">Xenia</span>, Ohio, reception address at, + <a href="#Page_486">486</a> +</li> +</ul> +</div> + + + +<div class="transnote"> +<p class="trans-heading">Transcriber's Notes +</p> +<p> + Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. 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