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+Project Gutenberg's Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, by Benjamin Harrison
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+Title: Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
+       Twenty-third President of the United States
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+Author: Benjamin Harrison
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+Release Date: January 16, 2014 [EBook #44682]
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+[Illustration: Benjamin Harrison]
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+                         SPEECHES
+
+                            OF
+
+                    BENJAMIN HARRISON
+
+        TWENTY-THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
+
+
+  A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY,
+      1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892, CHRONOLOGICALLY CLASSIFIED;
+        EMBRACING ALL HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, LETTER
+         OF ACCEPTANCE, INAUGURAL ADDRESS, AND THE
+            NUMEROUS SPEECHES DELIVERED DURING
+             HIS SEVERAL TOURS; ALSO EXTRACTS
+                  FROM HIS MESSAGES TO
+                         CONGRESS
+
+
+                        COMPILED BY
+                       CHARLES HEDGES
+
+
+                          NEW YORK
+                 UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY
+                       SUCCESSORS TO
+                   JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
+                  142 TO 150 WORTH STREET
+
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1892,
+BY
+CHARLES HEDGES
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+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!
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+                                                                   C. H.
+
+  WASHINGTON, D. C., February 20, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+BIOGRAPHICAL.
+
+
+Benjamin Harrison, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+In 1860 he was elected reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of
+Indiana, as a Republican, receiving 9,688 majority.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+In 1878 he was chosen chairman of the Republican State Convention.
+
+In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes a member of the Mississippi
+River Commission.
+
+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.
+
+President Garfield tendered him any position but one in his Cabinet, but
+the high honor was declined.
+
+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.
+
+In 1884 he again represented his State as delegate at large to the
+National Convention.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+HARRISON'S SPEECHES.
+
+
+
+
+DETROIT, FEBRUARY 22, 1888.
+
+_Michigan Club Banquet._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The officers of the club were: _President_, Clarence A. Black;
+_Vice-President_, William H. Elliott; _Secretary_, Fred. E. Farnsworth;
+_Treasurer_, Frederick Woolfenden.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison responded to the sentiment, "Washington, the
+republican. The guarantee of the Constitution 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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Senator spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Michigan Club_--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.]
+
+  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 impossible 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.
+
+  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, "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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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. [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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 laborers in the South had their due
+  representation in the House of Representatives.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1888.
+
+_Marquette Club Banquet._
+
+
+On 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.
+
+The officers of the club for that year were: George V. Lauman,
+_President_; William H. Johnson, _First Vice-President_; Hubert D.
+Crocker, _Second Vice-President_; Charles U. Gordon, _Secretary_; Will
+Sheldon Gilbert, _Treasurer_.
+
+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.
+
+President Lauman was toastmaster, and opened the banquet with an address
+of welcome to Senator Harrison.
+
+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.
+
+Amid hearty applause General Harrison rose to respond to the toast, "The
+Republican Party." He spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Marquette Club_--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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 subjection. 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?
+
+  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?
+
+  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 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?
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 25, 1888.
+
+_Nomination Day._
+
+
+A few 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+To the Danville Club General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+Responding to their call, General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+On the evening of the twenty-fifth five thousand or more neighbors and
+residents of the city congregated before the Harrison residence.
+
+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 head. Hon. W. N. Harding finally quieted the crowd and
+presented General Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Neighbors and Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 26.
+
+
+The 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. Thompson; also the returning delegates
+from Vermont to the Chicago convention, headed by Gov. Redfield Proctor
+and General J. G. McCullough.
+
+Responding to the address of Major Grubbs, on behalf of the veterans,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 that we loved, made again
+  secure against all the perils which had threatened them.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Fellow-Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen_--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
+  politically. 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.
+
+  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 campaign 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 30.
+
+
+During 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.
+
+One of the resolutions recited that
+
+"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."
+
+General Harrison in response said:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Marquette Club_--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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Comrade Mitchell and Fellow-Soldiers_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Bagby and Gentlemen of the Harrison Club_--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.
+
+  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
+  parties. 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!"]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 4, 1888.
+
+_The Notification._
+
+
+The 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:
+
+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.
+
+At noon on July 4 the notification committee representing the Republican
+National Convention arrived under escort at the residence of General
+Harrison, No. 674 Delaware Street. The following delegates comprised the
+committee:
+
+Judge Morris M. Estee of California, _Chairman_; 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+July 4, 1888, was a memorable day in the life of General Harrison and
+his wife; for aside from the official 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.
+
+Nearly all the younger and able-bodied members attended the Chicago
+Convention and worked unceasingly for the nomination of General Benjamin
+Harrison.
+
+Their average age was seventy-five years, while one member, James
+Hubbard of Mapleton, was over one hundred years old.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Tippecanoe Club of Marion
+  County_--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 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.
+
+  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?
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 7.
+
+
+Five 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Indiana
+  and Visiting Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 9.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 12.
+
+
+General Harrison 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:
+
+  _Comrades and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Cowgill and my Wabash County Friends_--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 demonstrative 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Colonel Streight, Fellow-citizens, and Comrades_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+Another contingent was commanded by David O. Mason, 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 ćgis 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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 13.
+
+
+One 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:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 14.
+
+
+A notable 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:
+
+  _Mr. Wulsin and Gentlemen of the Lincoln Club of Cincinnati_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 18.
+
+
+Howard County 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:
+
+  _Father Rayburn and my Howard County Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 19.
+
+
+Illinois 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Attorney-General Hunt spoke on behalf of all the visitors. General
+Harrison's reply was one of his happiest speeches. He said:
+
+  _General Hunt and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Judge Adams and my Shelby County Friends_--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 that his end of the regiment should get
+  to the top of that hill as quick as the other end. [Prolonged cheers.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 24.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+Prominent members of the delegation were Rev. I. S. 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 25.
+
+
+Two thousand visitors from Edgar and Coles counties, Illinois, paid
+their respects to the Republican nominee this day.
+
+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, 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:
+
+  _Senator Bacon and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+  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:
+
+          "Thy proudest mother's eyelids fill,
+            As dares her gallant boy,
+          And Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill
+            Yearn to thee, Illinois."
+
+  [Applause.] He commanded successively brigades, divisions, corps
+  and armies, and fought them with unvarying success. I greet these
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 26.
+
+
+From 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:
+
+  _Gentlemen and Friends from Clay County_--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!"]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _My Bloomington Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 27.
+
+
+Kosciusko County, 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:
+
+  _Mr. Biggs and my Kosciusko County Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 28.
+
+
+Jennings County, 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 31.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+Repeated outbursts of enthusiasm punctured his address. He said:
+
+  _Comrade Grose and my Henry County Friends_--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.]
+
+  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. 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+  _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._ [Applause.] And what is essential
+  to that end? Regular mails are the first condition of commerce.
+
+  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. _We desire those friendly political,
+  mental, and commercial relations which shall promote their interests
+  equally with ours._ 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.]
+
+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.
+
+In introducing his guest General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+General Alger responded as follows:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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 _post-mortem_ 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.] 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 1.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Adams and my Morgan and Brown County Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 3.
+
+
+On 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+In reply to their addresses General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 4.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Downs, Gentlemen of the Terre Haute Railroad Club, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 6.
+
+
+Monday, August 6, General Harrison received a visit from one hundred
+members of the Kansas City Blaine Club, accompanied by many ladies, _en
+route_ 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 concluding 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 7.
+
+
+Indianapolis 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.
+
+General Harrison, in his response, touched upon the origin and
+principles of the Republican party. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Smith and my Tippecanoe County Friends_--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
+  conservative 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+The second delegation comprised fifteen hundred citizens from Vanderburg
+County. The Tippecanoe Club of Evansville, with sixty veterans, led the
+column.
+
+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.
+
+Dr. W. G. Ralston delivered an address in the name of the delegation.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _My Good Friends from the Pocket_--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.
+
+  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 division 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."
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 8.
+
+_The Republican State Convention._
+
+
+The Republican State Convention convened at Tomlinson Hall, city of
+Indianapolis, August 8, 1888, and concluded its work in one day.
+
+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:
+
+_Governor_--Alvin P. Hovey, Posey County.
+
+_Lieutenant-Governor_--Ira J. Chase, Hendricks County.
+
+_Secretary of State_--Charles F. Griffin, Lake County.
+
+_Auditor of State_--Bruce Carr, Orange County.
+
+_Treasurer_--J. A. Lemcke, Vanderburg County.
+
+_Attorney-General_--L. T. Michner, Shelby County.
+
+_Superintendent Public Instruction_--H. M. LaFollette, Boone County.
+
+_Reporter Supreme Court_--John L. Griffiths, Marion County.
+
+
+JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT.
+
+_First District_--Silas T. Coffey, Clay County.
+
+_Second District_--J. G. Berkshire, Jennings County.
+
+_Fourth District_--Walter Olds, Whitely County.
+
+_Electors-at-Large_--James M. Shackelford, Vanderburg County; Thomas H.
+Nelson, Vigo County.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention_--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 reception 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 14.
+
+
+Godfrey Commandery, Knights Templars, of Chicago, colored men, _en
+route_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _Colonel Gray and my Hamilton County Friends_--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.
+
+  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
+  congratulate 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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Republican Friends_--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 responsibilities.
+  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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  Now, having spoken once already to-day, you will accept this
+  inadequate acknowledgment of this magnificent demonstration.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 15.
+
+
+Rush, 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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Judge Cullen and my Rush County Friends_--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.
+
+  I cannot in these daily addresses enter much into public questions.
+
+  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, 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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, 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.
+
+In reply to these several addresses General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 17.
+
+
+Delegations from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, aggregating between nine
+and ten thousand visitors, paid their respects to the Republican nominee
+on the seventeenth of August.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Indiana visitors came from three counties--Bartholomew, Johnson, and
+Vermilion.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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. 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Peoria,
+  Bloomington, Lafayette, and Terre Haute_--I thank you for this most
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  The principle of protection, the intelligent recognition in the
+  framing of our tariff laws of the duty to protect our American
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TOLEDO, OHIO, AUGUST 21.
+
+
+General Harrison 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.
+
+He was accompanied by Mrs. Harrison, Judge Wm. A. Woods and wife, Miss
+Woods, Samuel Miller, and representatives of the Associated Press and
+Cincinnati _Commercial-Gazette_.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, speaking from the train, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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."
+
+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 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 campaign 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO, AUGUST 31.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+From a pavilion in the adjacent grove John Brown introduced Hon. Charles
+Foster, who said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+As Governor Foster concluded, General Harrison arose midst a shout of
+welcome and spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FORT WAYNE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4, 1888.
+
+
+General Harrison and party, _en route_ 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 prosperity. 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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+HUNTINGTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The next stop was at Huntington, where two thousand people were
+congregated.
+
+In response to repeated calls General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+PERU, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KOKOMO, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The city of Kokomo welcomed the party in the evening with a brilliant
+illumination by natural gas. Three thousand people were present. General
+Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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?
+
+
+
+
+TIPTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At Tipton Junction, where several hundred people had congregated,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+NOBLESVILLE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+To the assembled citizens of Noblesville the general said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 6.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 8.
+
+
+General Harrison 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 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 10.
+
+
+General Harrison's visitors to-day comprised six hundred G. A. R.
+veterans and their wives from Northwestern Kansas--_en route_ 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. 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:
+
+  _My Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL HARRISON'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
+
+
+                        INDIANAPOLIS, IND., September 11, 1888.
+  HON. M. M. ESTEE AND OTHERS, COMMITTEE, ETC.:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  The territorial form of government is a temporary expedient, 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects
+  upon which the convention gave an expression.
+
+  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.
+
+  Inviting a calm and thoughtful consideration of these public
+  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.
+
+          Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
+                                            BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+CLAYTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 13.
+
+_Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment._
+
+
+General Harrison, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+With great earnestness the General replied as follows:
+
+  _Miss Mitchell_--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
+
+             "A bridal of the earth and sky."
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+General Harrison was unanimously re-elected President of the
+Association, Colonel Samuel Merrill Vice-President, M. G. McLean
+Secretary, Major James L. Mitchell Treasurer.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, visibly affected, simply said: "I feel myself crowned
+again to-day by this evidence of comradeship of the old soldiers of the
+Seventieth Indiana." [Cheers.]
+
+On his return from Clayton, General Harrison was visited at his
+residence by fifty veterans of Potter Post, G. A. R., Sycamore, Ill.,
+_en route_ 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 14.
+
+
+All 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:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.
+
+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 Wisconsin, 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.]
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Rusk, Comrades of the Grand Army, and Ladies_--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.]
+
+  Every man and every woman should do them honor. We have a body of
+  citizen soldiers instructed in tactics and strategy and accustomed 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 15.
+
+
+General Harrison held three receptions this date. The first was tendered
+the Scott Rifles of Kansas City, all members of the G. A. R., _en route_
+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:
+
+  _Captain and Comrades_--I did not need to be assured that comrades
+  of the Grand Army, whether bearing arms or not, brought me no 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+                                       NATHAN P. BRADY, _President_.
+
+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 spokesman
+was Mr. John F. Beggs. General Harrison delivered one of his happiest
+responses. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Beggs and my Friends of the Irish-American Republican
+  Club of Cook County, Ill._--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 illustration
+  of the good effects of our American system upon the home life.
+  [Continued applause.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 18.
+
+
+General Harrison's 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 _Daily News_, was spokesman. General Harrison,
+in response, said:
+
+  _My Illinois Friends_--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, 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _My Kentucky Friends_--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 division. [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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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; 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:
+
+  _General Powell and Comrades_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 19.
+
+
+Five 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:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.]
+
+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 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.
+
+To these several addresses General Harrison responded:
+
+  _My Illinois and my Indiana Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 than I had intended.
+  I thank you for this cordial manifestation of your confidence and
+  respect. [Cheers.]
+
+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:
+
+  _General Hayes and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Colonel Bridgland and Comrades_--I am fast losing my faith in men.
+  [Laughter.] This morning a representative or two of this 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+
+Responding to their greeting the General said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 21.
+
+
+Randolph 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 contingent. 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."
+
+To these addresses the General, responding, said:
+
+  _My Ohio and Indiana Friends_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER
+
+
+On 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 Commercial Travellers' Escort Club of
+Indianapolis, George C. Webster, President; Ernest Morris, Secretary.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison's appearance was signalized by a remarkable
+demonstration. Col. H. H. Rude delivered the address on behalf of his
+associates.
+
+In response General Harrison made one of his best speeches. He said:
+
+  _Sir, and Gentlemen of the Republican Commercial Travellers'
+  Association of Chicago_--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.
+
+  I want now to introduce to you for a moment another speaker--an
+  Englishman. Within the last year I have been reading, wholly 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:
+
+    "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."
+
+  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:
+
+    "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!"]
+
+    "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!"]
+
+    "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."
+
+  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 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  I thank you again for this beautiful and cordial demonstration, and
+  will now be glad to meet you personally.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 25.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Wabash County Friends and my Little Friends from Parke_--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.
+
+  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 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 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.].
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 26.
+
+
+Ohio 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; 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Gentlemen, my Ohio and Indiana Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 27.
+
+
+General Harrison's 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.
+
+General Harrison, with his usual vigor, replied:
+
+  _Gentlemen and my Ohio Friends_--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.]
+
+  It is said by some of our opponents that a protective tariff has
+  no 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 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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison addressed them and said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 29.
+
+
+Ohio 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.
+
+General Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen and Friends_--The organizations represented here this
+  morning have for me each an individual interest. Each is suggestive of
+  a line of thought which _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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 doubt that
+  you will as wisely and as resolutely help to settle that also.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+The largest delegation of the day, numbering over a thousand business
+men, arrived from Chicago, after stopping _en route_ 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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _My Illinois Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 2.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Indiana Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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 beneficent 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 3.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _Mr. Woods and my Friends_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 4.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+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.
+
+The third delegation comprised 1,200 voters from Jay County, Indiana,
+led by Gen. N. Shepherd, Theodore Bailey, Richard A. Green, John Geiger,
+E. J. Marsh, Frank H. Snyder, and M. V. Moudy, of Portland. Jesse M. La
+Follette was their speaker.
+
+To these several addresses General Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _My Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana Friends_--These cordial
+  manifestations of your personal regard move me very deeply [applause],
+  but I do not at all appropriate to myself the great expressions of
+  popular interest of which this meeting is only one. I understand
+  that my relation to these public questions and to the people is a
+  representative one--that the interest which thus expresses itself is
+  in principles of government rather than in men. [Cheers.] I am one
+  of the oldest Republicans; my first presidential vote was given to
+  the first Republican candidate for that office [applause], and it has
+  always been a source of profound gratification to me that, in peace
+  and war, a high spirit of patriotism and devotion to our country has
+  always pervaded and dominated the party. [Cheers.] When, during the
+  Civil War, the clouds hung low, disasters thickened, and the future
+  was crowded with uncanny fears, never did any Republican convention
+  assemble without declaring its faith in the ultimate triumph of our
+  cause [great cheering]; and now, with a broad patriotism that embraces
+  and regards the interests of all the States, it advocates policies
+  that will develop and unite all our communities in the friendly and
+  profitable interchange of commerce as well as in a lasting political
+  union. [Applause.] These great Western States will not respond to
+  the attempt to excite prejudice against New England. We advocate
+  measures that are as broad as our national domain; that are calculated
+  to distil their equal blessing upon all the land. [Cheers.] The
+  people of the great West recognize and value the great contribution
+  which those commonwealths about Plymouth Rock have made to the
+  civilization, material growth, and manhood of our Western States.
+  [Cheers.] We are not envious of the prosperity of New England; we
+  rejoice in it. We believe that the protective policy developed her
+  great manufacturing institutions and made her rich, and we do not
+  doubt that a continuance of that policy will produce the same results
+  in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. [Cheers.] We are not content to remain
+  wholly agricultural States in our relations to either New England or
+  old England. [Applause.] We believe that in all these great Western
+  States there are minerals in the soil and energy and skill in the
+  brains and arms of our people that will yet so multiply and develop
+  our manufacturing industries as to give us a nearer home market for
+  much of the products of our soil. [Cheers.] And for that great surplus
+  which now and always, perhaps, we shall not consume at home we think
+  a New England market better than a foreign market. [Enthusiastic and
+  prolonged cheering.] The issue upon this great industrial question
+  is drawn as sharply as the lines were ever drawn between contending
+  armies. Men are readjusting their party relations upon this great
+  question. The appeal that is now made for the defence of our American
+  system is finding its response, and many of those who are opposed to
+  us upon other questions are committing such questions to the future
+  for settlement, while they help us to settle now and for an indefinite
+  future the great question of the preservation of our commercial
+  independence. [Applause.] The Democratic party has challenged our
+  protected industries to a fight of extermination. The wage-earners of
+  our country have accepted the challenge. The issue of the contest will
+  settle for many years our tariff policy. [Prolonged cheering.] The
+  eloquent descriptions to which we have listened of the material wealth
+  of the great State of Michigan have been full of interest to us as
+  citizens of Indiana. We cannot doubt that the people of a State having
+  such generous invitations to the developments of great home wealth in
+  manufacturing and mining pursuits will understand the issue that is
+  presented, and will cast their influence in favor of that policy which
+  will make that development rapid and sure; and more than all, and
+  better than all, will maintain in her communities a well-paid class
+  of wage-workers. [Cheers.] Our wage-workers vote; they are American
+  citizens, and it is essential that they be kept free from the slavery
+  of want and the discontents bred of injustice. [Applause.]
+
+  I thank my Michigan friends for these handsome specimens of the
+  products of their mines and of their mills. I shall cherish them with
+  grateful recollection of this pleasant visit. [Applause.]
+
+  To my Indiana friends, always generous, I return my thanks for this
+  new evidence of their esteem. [Cheers.]
+
+  To my Ohio friends, who so often before have visited me with kind
+  expressions of their regard, I return the thanks of a native-born
+  Ohioan. [Prolonged cheers from the Ohio delegation.]
+
+  Three great States are grouped here to-day. I remember at Resaca,
+  when the field and staff of the regiments that were to make the
+  assault were ordered to dismount, there was a Michigan officer too
+  sick to go on foot and too proud to subject himself to the imputation
+  of cowardice by staying behind.
+
+  He rode alone, the one horseman in that desperate charge, and
+  died on that bloody hillside rather than subject his State to the
+  imputation that one of her sons had lingered when the enemy was to be
+  engaged. He was a noble type of the brave men these great States gave
+  to the country. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 5.
+
+
+Wisconsin and Indiana were the States represented at this day's
+reception. The Wisconsin visitors came from Madison, Janesville, and
+Beloit. Prominent among them were General Atwood, editor Wisconsin
+_State Journal_, Surgeon-General Palmer, W. T. Van Kirk, and T. G.
+Maudt. R. C. Spooner spoke for the Badgers.
+
+Fountain County, Indiana, sent 2,000 visitors, led by a club of
+Tippecanoe veterans. Among their representative men were H. La Tourette,
+W. W. Layton, John H. Spence, of Covington; A. H. Clark, and W. H.
+Malory, of Veedersburg; A. S. Peacock, H. C. Martin, and C. E. Holm, of
+Attica. Capt. Benj. Hegeler, of Attica, delivered the address on behalf
+of the Hoosiers.
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Wisconsin and my Indiana Friends_--These great daily
+  manifestations of the interest of great masses of our people in the
+  principles represented by the Republican party are to me increasingly
+  impressive. I am glad to-day that Indiana has opportunity to welcome
+  a delegation from the magnificent State of Wisconsin. [Cheers.] It
+  offers a fitting opportunity to acknowledge my personal obligation and
+  the obligation of the Indiana Republicans for the early and constant
+  support which Wisconsin gave to the efforts of the Indiana delegation
+  in the Chicago convention. [Prolonged cheers.] To-day two States, not
+  contiguous in territory, but touching in many interests, are met to
+  express the fact that these great electoral contests affect all our
+  people. It is not alone in the choice of Presidential electors that
+  we have common interests. Our national Congress, though chosen in
+  separate districts, legislates for all our people. Wisconsin has a
+  direct interest that the ballot shall be free and pure in Indiana, and
+  Wisconsin and Indiana have a direct interest that the ballot shall be
+  free and pure in all the States. [Great cheering.] Therefore let no
+  man say that it is none of our business how elections are conducted in
+  other States. [Cheers.] I believe that this great question of a free
+  ballot, so much disturbed by race questions in the South, would be
+  settled this year if the men of the South who believe with us upon the
+  great question of the protection of American industries would throw
+  off old prejudices and vote their convictions upon that question.
+  [Cheers and cries of "Good! Good!"] I believe there are indications
+  that the independent manhood of the South will this year strongly
+  manifest itself in this direction. Those intelligent and progressive
+  citizens of the South who are seeking to build up within their own
+  States diversified industries will not much longer be kept in bondage
+  to the traditions of the days when the South was wholly a community of
+  planters.
+
+  When they assert their belief in a protective tariff, by supporting
+  the only party that advocates that policy, the question of a free
+  ballot, so far as it is a Southern question, will be settled forever,
+  for they will have the power to insist that those who believe with
+  them shall vote, and that their votes shall be counted. [Applause.]
+  The protective policy, by developing a home supply and limiting
+  importations, helps us to maintain the balance of trade upon our side
+  in our dealings with the world. [Cheers.] Under the tariff of 1846
+  from the year 1850 to 1860 the balance of trade was continuously
+  against us, aggregating in that period over three hundred millions
+  of dollars. Under the influence of a protective tariff the balance
+  of trade has been generally and largely with us, unless disturbed
+  by special conditions. Instead of sending our gold abroad to pay a
+  foreign balance we have usually been bringing foreign gold here to
+  augment our store. [Cheers.] I will not detain you further. These
+  daily demands upon me make it necessary that I shall speak briefly.
+  Let me thank most profoundly those gentlemen and ladies from Wisconsin
+  who have come so far to bring me this tribute of their respect. I very
+  highly value it. These, my Indiana friends, unite with me in thanking
+  you for your presence to-day. [Cheers from the Indianians.] To my
+  nearer friends, my Fountain County friends, let me say I am profoundly
+  grateful to you for this large and imposing demonstration and for the
+  interest you are individually taking in this campaign. [Cheers.] I
+  do not think of it as a personal campaign. It has always seemed to
+  me to be altogether greater than that, and when I thank you for your
+  interest and commend your zeal it is an interest in principles and a
+  zeal for the truth that I approve. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 6.
+
+
+Saturday, October 6, was one of the great days of the campaign. The
+first delegation, numbering 2,000, came from Wells and Blackford
+counties, Indiana. Conspicuous in their ranks were two large uniformed
+clubs of ladies, one from Montpelier, and the Carrie Harrison Club of
+Bluffton. In the Wells County contingent were many 1840 veterans and
+21 newly-converted Democrats. Their leaders were Asbury Duglay, D. H.
+Swaim, B. W. Bowman, Peter Ulmer, Silas Wisner, Joseph Milholland, J.
+C. Hatfield, and T. A. Doan. J. J. Todd was their spokesman. Prominent
+in the Blackford delegation were Frank Geisler, H. M. Campbell, W. L.
+Ritter, Eli Hamilton, R. V. Ervin, W. A. Williams, John Sipe, and John
+Cantwell, of Hartford City; J. C. Summerville, Wm. Pugh, J. H. Morrical,
+G. A. Mason, John G. Ward, and J. M. Tinsley, of Montpelier. Hon. B. G.
+Shinn delivered the address on behalf of the Blackford people.
+
+General Harrison confined his speech to State questions. He said:
+
+  _My Wells and Blackford County Friends_--I am glad to meet you.
+  It is extremely gratifying to be assured by your presence here
+  this inclement day, and by the kind words which you have addressed
+  to me through your representatives, that I have some part in your
+  friendly regard as an individual. But individuals are not of the
+  first importance. That man who thinks that the prosperity of this
+  country or the right administration of its affairs is wholly dependent
+  upon him grossly exaggerates his value. The essential things to us
+  are the principles of government upon which our institutions were
+  builded, and by and through which we make that symmetrical and safe
+  growth which has characterized our Nation in the past, and which is
+  yet to raise it to a higher place among the nations of the earth.
+  [Applause.] We are Indianians--Hoosiers, if you please [cheers]--and
+  are proud of the State of which we are citizens. Your spokesmen have
+  referred with an honest pride to the counties from which you have
+  come, and that is well. But I would like to suggest to you that
+  every political community and neighborhood has a character of its
+  own, a moral character, as well as every man and every woman, and it
+  is exceedingly important, looked at even from the side of material
+  advantage, that our communities should maintain a good reputation
+  for social order, intelligence, virtue, and a faithful and willing
+  obedience to law. [Applause.] It cannot be doubted that such a
+  character possessed by any State or county attracts immigration and
+  capital, advances its material development, and enhances the value
+  of its farms. There has been much in the history of Indiana that is
+  exceedingly creditable. There have been some things--there are some
+  things to-day--that are exceedingly discreditable to us as a political
+  community; things that I believe retard the advancement of our State
+  and affect its material prosperity by degrading it in the estimation
+  of right-thinking men. One of those things is this patent and open
+  fact: that the great benevolent institutions of this State, instead
+  of being operated upon the high plane that public charities should
+  occupy, are being operated and managed upon the lowest plane of party
+  purposes and advantage. [Cries of "That's so!"] Another such thing is
+  of recent occurrence. In the campaign of 1886, after advising with
+  the chief law officer of the State, a Democratic Governor declared
+  to the people of this State that there was a vacancy in the office
+  of Lieutenant-Governor which the people were entitled to fill at the
+  ensuing general election. The Democratic party acted upon that advice,
+  assembled in convention in this hall, and nominated John C. Nelson
+  for Lieutenant-Governor. The Republican party followed with their
+  convention, and placed in nomination that gallant soldier, Robert S.
+  Robertson. [Cheers.] These two gentlemen went before the people of
+  Indiana and made a public canvass for the office. The election was
+  held, and Colonel Robertson was chosen by a majority of about 3,000.
+  [Applause.] Is there a man in the State, Democratic or Republican,
+  who doubts that if the choice had been otherwise, and Mr. Nelson
+  had received a majority at the polls, the House of Representatives,
+  which was Republican, would have met with the Democratic Senate in an
+  orderly joint meeting, for canvassing the votes, and that Mr. Nelson
+  would have been inaugurated as Lieutenant-Governor? [Cries of "No,
+  no!"] But the result was otherwise; and the public fame, the good
+  reputation of this State, was dishonored when, by force and brutal
+  methods, the voice of the people was stifled, and the man they had
+  chosen was excluded from the right to exercise the duties of the
+  office of Lieutenant-Governor. [Cries of "Yes, yes!"] Do the people
+  think that the attractiveness of Indiana as a home for Americans who
+  believe in social order and popular government has been increased
+  by this violent and disgraceful incident? Do our Democratic friends
+  who have an honest State pride, who would like to maintain the honor
+  and good reputation of the State, who would have the people of our
+  sister States believe that we have a people who believe in a warm
+  canvass but in a free ballot, and a manly and ready acquiescence in
+  election results, intend to support their leaders in this violent
+  exclusion from office of a duly chosen public officer? Do those
+  who are Democrats from principle, and not for personal spoils,
+  intend to support the men who have first prostituted our benevolent
+  institutions to party and now to personal advantage? These things, if
+  not reproved and corrected by our people, will not only disgrace us in
+  the estimation of all good people, but will substantially retard the
+  material development of the State. [Cheers.] I am not talking to-day
+  of questions in which I have any other interest than that you have,
+  my fellow-citizens. [Applause.] I believe the material prosperity of
+  Indiana, much more the honor, will be advanced if her people in this
+  State election shall rebuke the shameless election frauds that have
+  recently scandalized our State, the prostitution of our benevolent
+  institutions, and the wanton violence that overturned the result of
+  the popular election in 1886. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+THE CHICAGO VETERANS.
+
+
+The great event of the day was the reception tendered the veterans and
+citizens from Chicago, Hyde Park, Pullman, South Chicago, and the town
+of Lake. They numbered over 3,000, and arrived in the evening, after
+stopping _en route_ at Danville, Ill., and Crawfordsville, Ind., to
+participate in demonstrations. The Chicago contingent comprised 800
+members of the Union Veteran Club, commanded by its President, Capt.
+John J. Healy; 600 members of the Veteran Union League, led by Capt.
+James J. Healy; the Blaine Club, Second Regiment Band, and many smaller
+clubs. Leaders in the delegation were Major McCarty, Col. Dan. W. Munn,
+Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., S. W. King, Charles H. Hann, and others.
+Hyde Park sent several hundred rolling-mill men; the city of Pullman 200
+car-builders; the town of Lake--"the largest village in the world"--was
+represented by a flambeau club, the Lake View Screw Club, and numerous
+other organizations. Their leading representatives were Col. J.
+Hodgkins, Judge C. M. Hawley, Hon. John E. Cowells, Hon. B. E. Hoppin,
+Geo. C. Ingham, Judge Freen, Hon. L. D. Condee, Joseph Hardacre, Edward
+Maher, M. J. McGrath, A. G. Proctor, Frank I. Bennett, and Col. Foster.
+
+The visitors were met by about 10,000 citizens and escorted to Tomlinson
+Hall. When General Harrison appeared, accompanied by Judge E. B.
+Martindale, Chairman of the Reception Committee, there ensued a scene
+never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. The 6,000 people
+present arose to their chairs, surrounding the visiting veterans, all
+frantically waving flags and banners. The demonstration continued
+without abatement for ten minutes. General Harrison stood as if dazed by
+the spectacle. Finally ex-Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, secured quiet,
+and on behalf of the veterans addressed the gathering, followed by Judge
+E. W. Keightly on behalf of the Hyde Park visitors.
+
+General Harrison's response was by many regarded as his greatest speech
+of the campaign. He said:
+
+  _Comrades and Friends_--It is a rare sight, and it is one very
+  full of interest to us as citizens of Indiana, to see this great
+  hall filled with the people of another State, come to evidence their
+  interest in great principles of government. [Cheers.] I welcome
+  to-night for myself and for our people this magnificent delegation
+  from Chicago and Hyde Park. [Cheers.] We have not before in the
+  procession of these great delegations seen its equal in numbers,
+  enthusiasm, and cordiality. I thank you profoundly for whatever of
+  personal respect there is in this demonstration [cheers]; but above
+  all, as an American citizen, I rejoice in this convincing proof that
+  our people realize the gravity and urgency of the issues involved in
+  this campaign. [Cheers.] I am glad to know that this interest pervades
+  all classes of our people. [Cheers.] This delegation, composed of the
+  business men of Chicago and of the men who wield the hammer in the
+  shops, shows a common interest in the right decision of these great
+  questions. [Great cheers.]
+
+  Our Government is not a government by classes or for classes of
+  our fellow-citizens. [Cheers.] It is a government of the people and
+  by the people. [Renewed cheering.] Its wise legislation distills its
+  equal blessings upon the homes of the rich and the poor. [Cheers.] I
+  am especially glad that these skilled, intelligent workmen coming out
+  of your great workshops have manifested, by their coming, to their
+  fellow-workmen throughout the country their appreciation of what is
+  involved for them in this campaign. [Prolonged cheers.]
+
+  May that God who has so long blessed us as a Nation long defer that
+  evil day when penury shall be a constant guest in the homes of our
+  working people, and long preserve to us that intelligent, thrifty
+  and cheerful body of workmen that was our strength in war and is our
+  guaranty of social order in time of peace! [Great cheering.] Comrades
+  of the Civil War, it was true of the great Union army, as it is said
+  to be of the kingdom of heaven--not many rich. [Cheers.] It was out of
+  the homes of our working people the great army came. It was the strong
+  arm inured to labor on the farm or in the shop that bore up the flag
+  in the smoke of battle, carried it through storms of shell and shot,
+  and lifted it again in honor over our national Capital. [Prolonged
+  cheers.]
+
+  After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of
+  abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff,
+  we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of
+  protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we
+  not had enough of such experiments? Does not the history of our tariff
+  legislation tell us that every revenue tariff has been followed by
+  business and industrial crashes, and that a return to the policy
+  of protection has stimulated our industries and set our throbbing
+  workshops again in motion? [Cheers.] And yet, again and again, the
+  Democratic party comes forward with this pernicious proposition--for
+  it has been from that party always that the proposition to abandon our
+  protective policy and to substitute a revenue tariff has come. [Cries
+  of "That's so!"]
+
+  I had placed in my hands yesterday a copy of the London News for
+  September 13. The editor says in substance that, judging the purposes
+  of the Democratic party by the executive message of last December,
+  the English people were justified in believing that party meant free
+  trade; but if they were to accept the more recent utterances of its
+  leader, protesting that that was not their purpose, then the editor
+  thus states the issue presented by the Democratic party. I read but
+  a single sentence: "It is, at any rate, a contest between protection
+  and something that is not protection." [Prolonged and wild cheering.]
+  It is not of the smallest interest to you what that other thing is.
+  [Continued cheering.] It is enough to know that it is not protection.
+  [Renewed cheering.] Those who defend the present Democratic policy
+  declare that our people not only pay the tariff duty upon all imported
+  goods, but that a corresponding amount is added to the price of every
+  domestic competing article. That for every dollar that is paid into
+  the Treasury in the form of a customs duty the people pay several
+  dollars more in the enhanced cost of the domestic competing article.
+  Those who honestly hold such doctrines cannot stop short of the
+  absolute destruction of our protective system. [Cries of "No, no!"]
+  The man who preaches such doctrines and denies that he is on the road
+  to free trade is like the man who takes passage on a train scheduled
+  from here to Cincinnati without a stop, and when the train is speeding
+  on its way at the rate of forty miles an hour, denies that he is going
+  to Cincinnati. [Great laughter and cheering.] The impulse of such
+  logic draws toward free trade as surely and swiftly as that engine
+  pulls the train to its appointed destination. It inevitably brings us
+  to the English rule of levying duties only upon such articles as we do
+  not produce at home, such as tea and coffee. That is purely revenue
+  tariff, and is practically free trade.
+
+  Against this the Republican party proposes that our tariff duty
+  shall be of an intelligent purpose, be levied chiefly upon competing
+  articles. [Cheers.] That our American workmen shall have the benefit
+  of discriminating duties upon the products of their labor. [Cheers.]
+  The Democratic policy increases importation, and, by so much,
+  diminishes the work to be done in America. It transfers work from the
+  shops of South Chicago to Birmingham. [Cries of "Right you are!"]
+  For, if a certain amount of any manufactured article is necessary for
+  a year's supply to our people, and we increase the amount that is
+  brought from abroad, by just so much we diminish the amount that is
+  made at home, and in just that proportion we throw out of employment
+  the men that are working here. And not only so, but when this equal
+  competition is established between our shops and the foreign shops,
+  there is not a man here who does not know that the only condition
+  under which the American shop can run at all is that it shall reduce
+  the wages of its employees to the level of the wages paid in the
+  competing shops abroad. [Cheers.] This is, briefly, the whole story.
+  I believe we should look after and protect our American workingmen;
+  therefore I am a Republican. [Renewed enthusiastic cheering.]
+
+  But I will not detain you longer. [Cries of "Go on!"] You must
+  excuse me; I have been going on for three months. [A voice, "And
+  you'll go on for four years!"] I am somewhat under restraint in what I
+  can say, and others here are somewhat under restraint as to what they
+  can appropriately say in my presence. I beg you therefore to allow me,
+  after thanking you again for your kindness, to retire that others who
+  are here may address you. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 11.
+
+
+In point of numbers the greatest day of the Indiana campaign was
+Thursday, October 11, when over 50,000 visitors arrived from all points
+in Indiana and along the border counties of Ohio to participate in the
+greeting to the Hon. James G. Blaine, who was the guest of General
+Harrison.
+
+From the balcony of the New-Denison Hotel General and Mrs. Harrison,
+accompanied by Mr. Blaine, Gen. Adam King, of Baltimore; Col. A. L.
+Snowden and Gen. D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania; Col. M. J. Murray, of
+Massachusetts; Gen. W. C. Plummer, of Dakota; Corporal James Tanner,
+of New York; ex-Senator Ferry, of Michigan; Hon. R. W. Thompson,
+ex-Governor A. G. Porter, Hon. J. N. Huston, Gen. A. P. Hovey, and Ira
+J. Chase, reviewed probably the greatest political parade ever witnessed
+in this country outside of the city of New York. Twenty-five thousand
+men constituted the marching column, in nine great divisions, commanded
+by Col. Charles S. Millard, Chief Marshal, with Gen. James S. Carnahan,
+Chief of Staff, and 200 aids. The division commanders and principal aids
+were:
+
+First Division, Gen. N. R. Ruckle, of Indianapolis. Chief of Staff,
+Charles J. Many, of Indianapolis.
+
+Second Division, Capt. H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. Chief of Staff,
+Major J. M. Watt, of Delphi.
+
+Third Division, John W. Lovett, of Anderson. Chief of Staff, Col. George
+Parker.
+
+Fourth Division, Gen. Tom Bennett, of Richmond. Chief of Staff, Capt.
+Ira B. Myers, of Peru.
+
+Fifth Division, Col. T. C. Burnside, of Liberty. Chief of Staff, J. W.
+Ream, of Muncie.
+
+Sixth Division, Col. J. M. Story, of Franklin. Chief of Staff, Capt.
+David Wilson, of Martinsville.
+
+Seventh Division, Col. W. R. McClellen, of Danville. Chief of Staff,
+Capt. W. H. Armstrong, of Terre Haute.
+
+Eighth Division, Capt. T. H. B. McCain, of Crawfordsville. Chief of
+Staff, Edward Watson, of Brazil.
+
+Ninth Division, Capt. J. O. Pedigo, of Lebanon. Chief of Staff, C. C.
+Shirley, of Kokomo.
+
+Mr. Blaine visited the Exposition grounds in the afternoon, where Major
+W. H. Calkins introduced him to an audience of about 30,000, to whom he
+addressed a few words. At night Mr. Blaine delivered one of his masterly
+speeches at Tomlinson Hall to an audience of 6,000. At the close of the
+Blaine meeting General Harrison received a delegation from Cincinnati,
+consisting of A. B. Horton, H. D. Emerson, Wm. Fredberger, James A.
+Graff, H. R. Probasco, Dr. M. T. Carey, Abram Myer, Fred Pryor, and
+Walter Hartpense, who called to invite him to attend the Cincinnati
+Exposition on "Republican Day." A St. Louis delegation, members of the
+Loyal Legion, also paid their respects. Among them were Col. R. C.
+Kerens, Col. Nelson Cole, Col. J. S. Butler, Major W. R. Hodges, Captain
+Gleason, G. B. Adams, H. L. Morrill, C. H. Sampson, and W. B. Gates.
+
+On October 18 a party of distinguished railroad magnates visited General
+Harrison. They were Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, J. D. Layng, H. W. Webb,
+Sam'l Barton, Seward C. Webb, and C. F. Cox, of New York; J. De Koven,
+of Chicago; S. M. Beach, of Cleveland, and J. Q. Van Winkle, of St.
+Louis.
+
+On October 19 General Harrison received informally 150 survivors of
+the Eleventh Indiana Regiment, headed by their first colonel, Gen. Lew
+Wallace, and General McGinnis.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Two large and influential organizations visited General Harrison
+on October 13. From Milwaukee came 400 members of the Young Men's
+Republican Club--Paul D. Carpenter, President; George Russell,
+Secretary. Among other prominent members were Samuel Chandler,
+who organized the pilgrimage, and Walter W. Pollock. President
+Carpenter--son of the late Senator Matt Carpenter--and C. S. Otjen, a
+wage-worker, were spokesmen for the club.
+
+The second and largest delegation was the Chicago German-American
+Republican Club--Franz Amberg, President; F. J. Buswick, Secretary.
+Accompanying them was the Excelsior Band and sixteen voices from the
+Orpheus Maennerchor Society of Chicago. Among the widely known members
+with the club were Hon. Chris. Mamer, Louis Huck, Peter Hand, Edward
+Bert, Peter Mahr, Henry Wulf, City Treasurer Plantz, N. F. Plotke, and
+Alderman Tiedemann. As General Harrison entered the hall the reception
+exercises were opened by the Maennerchor Society with the inspiring
+hymn--"This is the Lord's own day." Addresses on behalf of the visitors
+were made by Hon. Wm. Vocke, Henry Greenbaum, and Andrew Soehngen; also,
+General Fred Knefler for the German Republicans of Indiana, and Hon A.
+B. Ward, of Dakota.
+
+General Harrison, responding to both visiting delegations, said:
+
+  _My Friends of the German-American Republican Club of Chicago, and
+  of the Club of Milwaukee, and my Home German Friends_--I am very
+  grateful for the kind words you have addressed to me. The long journey
+  most of you have taken upon this inclement day to tender your respects
+  to me as the candidate of the Republican party is very convincing
+  evidence that you believe this civil contest to be no mock tournament,
+  but a very real and a very decisive battle for great principles.
+  [Cheers]. My German-American friends, you are a home-loving people;
+  father, mother, wife, child are words that to you have a very full
+  and a very tender meaning. [Cheers.] The old father and mother never
+  outlive the veneration and love of the children in a German household.
+  [Cheers.] You have come from the fatherland in families, and have set
+  up again here the old hearth-stones. Out of this love of home there
+  is naturally born a love of country--it is only the widening of the
+  family circle--and so our fellow-citizens of German birth and descent
+  did not fail to respond with alacrity and enthusiasm to the call of
+  their adopted country when armies were mustered for the defence of the
+  Union. [Cheers.] The people of Indiana will long remember the veteran
+  Willich and the Thirty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers (or First
+  German), which he took into the field in 1861. The repulse by this
+  regiment alone of an attacking force under General Hindman of 1,100
+  infantry, a battalion of Texas Rangers, and four pieces of artillery
+  at Rowlett's Station, in December, 1861, filled our people with
+  enthusiasm and pride. Again and again the impetuous Texas horsemen
+  threw themselves with baffled fury upon that square of brave hearts.
+  No bayonet point was lowered, no skulker broke the wall of safety that
+  enclosed the flag. [Cheers.]
+
+  Your people are industrious, thrifty, and provident. To lay by
+  something is one of life's earliest lessons in a German home. These
+  national traits naturally drew your people to the support of the
+  Republican party when it declared for freedom and free homes in the
+  Territories. [Cheers.] They secured your adherence to the cause of the
+  Union in the Civil War. They gave us your help in the long struggle
+  for resumption and an honest currency, and I do not doubt that they
+  will now secure our sympathy and help in this great contest in behalf
+  of our American homes. Your people are largely wage-earners. They have
+  prospered under a protective tariff, and will not, I am sure, vote for
+  such a change in our tariff policy as will cut them off from their
+  wages that margin which they are now able to lay aside for old age and
+  for their children.
+
+  And now a word to my young friends from Wisconsin. You have come
+  into the possession of the suffrage at an important, if not critical,
+  time in our public affairs. The Democratic party out of power was a
+  party of negations. It did not secure its present lease of power upon
+  the platform or the policies it now supports and advocates. [Cheers.]
+  The campaign of 1884 was not made upon the platform of a tariff for
+  revenue only. Our workingmen were soothed with phrases that implied
+  some regard to their interests, and Democrats who believed in a
+  protective tariff were admitted to the party councils and gladly heard
+  in public debate. [Cheers.] But four years of power have changed all
+  this. Democrats who thought they could be protectionists and still
+  maintain their party standing have been silenced or their opinions
+  coerced. The issue is now distinctly made between "protection and
+  something that is not protection." [Cheers.] The Republican party
+  fearlessly accepts the issue and places itself upon the side of the
+  American home and the American workingman. [Cheers.] We invite these
+  young men who were too young to share the glory of the struggle for
+  our political unity to a part in this contest for the preservation of
+  our commercial independence. [Cheers.]
+
+  And now to these friends who are the bearers of gifts, one word of
+  thanks. I especially value this cane as a token of the confidence and
+  respect of the workingmen of Bay View. [Cheers.] I accept their gift
+  with gratitude, and would wish you, sir, to bear in return my most
+  friendly regards and good wishes to every one of them. I do not need
+  to lean on this beautiful cane, but I do feel like resting upon the
+  intelligent confidence of the men who sent it. [Great cheering.] I am
+  glad to know that they have not stumbled over the simple problem that
+  is presented for their consideration in this campaign. They know that
+  an increase of importation means diminished work in American shops.
+  [Cheers.] To my friend who brings this beautiful specimen of American
+  workmanship, this commonly accepted token of good luck, I give my
+  thanks. But we will not trust wholly in this symbol of good luck. The
+  earnest individual effort of the American people only can make the
+  result of this contest so decisive, so emphatic, that we shall not for
+  a generation hear any party contest the principle that our tariff laws
+  shall adequately protect our own workingmen. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 17.
+
+
+Ohio's chief executive, Gov. Joseph B. Foraker, escorted by the Garfield
+Club and the Fourteenth Regiment Band of Columbus, made a pilgrimage to
+the Republican Mecca on October 17. The widely known Columbus Glee Club
+accompanied them. Among the prominent Republicans with the delegation
+were Auditor of State Poe, Adjutant-General Axline, Hon. Estes G.
+Rathbone, C. L. Kurtz, D. W. Brown, C. E. Prior, L. D. Hogerty, J. W.
+Firestone, and Ira H. Crum. Escorted by the Columbia Club, the Buckeyes
+marched to the residence of General Harrison and were introduced by
+Governor Foraker.
+
+In response to their greeting General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--It was very appropriate that these representative
+  Ohio Republicans should accompany to the State of Indiana your
+  distinguished Governor, whose presence among us to-day is so welcome
+  to our people. We know his story as the young Ohio volunteer, the
+  fearless champion of Republican principles in public debate, and the
+  resolute, courageous, and sagacious executive of the great State of
+  Ohio. [Applause.] We welcome him and we welcome you. The fame of
+  this magnificent glee club has preceded them. We are glad to have an
+  opportunity to hear you.
+
+  To these members of the Garfield Club I return my thanks for this
+  friendly call. You bear an honored name. I look back with pleasure to
+  the small contribution I was able to make in Indiana toward securing
+  the electoral vote of this State to that great son of Ohio, whose
+  tragic death spread gloom and disappointment over our land. I welcome
+  you as citizens of my native State--a State I shall always love,
+  because all of my early associations are with it. In this State, to
+  which I came in my earliest manhood, the Republicans are as staunch
+  and true, as valorous and resolute, as can be found in any of the
+  States. You have no advantage of us except in numbers. We welcome
+  you all as Republicans. [A voice, "That's what we are!"] We believe
+  that our party now advocates another great principle that needs to be
+  established--made fast--put where it shall be beyond assault. It is
+  a principle which has wrought marvellously in the development of our
+  country since the war. It has enabled us to handle a great national
+  debt, which our desponding Democratic friends said would inevitably
+  sink our country into bankruptcy, so that we are not troubled about
+  getting the money to pay our maturing bonds, but are getting it
+  faster than our bonds mature. We need to establish this principle of
+  protection, the defence of our American workers against the degrading
+  and unfriendly competition of pauper labor in all other countries
+  [cheers], so unmistakably that it shall not again be assailed. [A
+  voice, "Amen!"] Our Democratic friends in previous campaigns have
+  deceived the people upon this great question by uncertain and evasive
+  utterances. We are glad to know that now they have drawn the issue
+  clearly; we accept it. [Applause.] If we shall be able in this
+  campaign, as I believe we will, to arouse our people to the importance
+  of maintaining our defences against unfair foreign competition,
+  we shall administer those who believe in revenue tariffs and in
+  progressive free trade a wholesome lesson--one that will last them a
+  lifetime. [Cheers.]
+
+  I had resolutely determined when I came upon these steps not to make
+  a speech. [Laughter and cries of "Go on!"] I am absolutely determined
+  to stop now. [Laughter.] I shall be glad to meet the members of these
+  escort clubs personally in my house. [Three cheers.]
+
+Later in the day about 100 survivors of the Seventy-ninth Indiana
+Regiment, led by their first colonel, General Fred Knefler, called on
+General Harrison, and were presented by their leader in a brief speech,
+in response to which General Harrison, speaking from his doorway, said:
+
+  _General Knefler and Comrades_--I am always deeply touched when
+  my comrades visit me and offer their kindly greetings. I have no
+  higher ambition than to stand well in the estimation of my comrades
+  of the old Union army. I will not speak of any political topic. These
+  men who stand before me gave the supreme evidence of their love and
+  devotion to their country. No man could give more than they offered.
+  The perpetuity of our institutions, the honor of what General Sherman
+  so felicitously called the "old glory," demand the country shall
+  always and in every appropriate way honor and reward the men who kept
+  it a Nation. Whatever may be said of our great prosperity since the
+  war, and it can scarcely be exaggerated, if we look for the cause
+  under God, is it not found in the stout hearts of these men? They
+  have opened this wide avenue of prosperity and honor in which we are
+  moving. It will be a shame if our people do not in every way properly
+  recognize that debt and properly honor the men who gave this supreme
+  evidence of their devotion to the country and its institutions.
+  Thanking you again for this visit, I will be glad if you will enter my
+  house and let me meet you personally.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 20.
+
+
+For the fifth time during the campaign the commercial travellers visited
+General Harrison, each time with increased numbers. On Saturday,
+October 20, under the supervision of the Commercial Travellers'
+Republican Club of Indianapolis--G. C. Webster, President; Ernest
+Morris, Secretary--they held one of the largest and most successful
+demonstrations of this remarkable campaign. Their gathering partook
+of a national character, as large numbers of "drummers" were present
+from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan,
+Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, and Vermont, while every important
+city in Indiana sent its complement.
+
+The visitors were received by a local committee of travelling men,
+consisting of Fred Schmidt, Chairman; C. McPherson, Wm. Faucet, Joseph
+Stubbs, Jeff Cook, Ed. Allcott, J. C. Norris, M. P. Green, Geo. White,
+O. W. Morman, Chas. D. Pearson, Jeff Taylor, Wm. P. Bone, Henry Ramey,
+Albert A. Womack, John A. Wright, James W. Muir, and Frank Brough. It
+was estimated that 40,000 spectators witnessed their fine parade, a
+conspicuous feature of which was a big bull covered with a white cloth
+on which was printed the words--"John Bull rides the Democratic party
+and we ride John Bull." On his back rode "Drummer" Dan'l B. Long in an
+emerald suit, while L. A. Worch, dressed as Uncle Sam, led the bovine.
+The parade was in charge of Chief Marshal J. R. Ross and his aids. As
+the column passed their residence it was reviewed by General and Mrs.
+Harrison. Later in the day the visitors were received at Tomlinson Hall.
+When General Harrison appeared a great demonstration occurred. President
+Webster presided; the speakers were: John E. Dowell, of Boston; R. T.
+Dow, of Atlanta; C. L. Young and John L. Fennimore, of Columbus, Ohio;
+Chas. P. Banks, of Brooklyn; John L. Griffiths and John C. Wingate, of
+Indiana.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--Four times already, I believe, the commercial
+  travellers have honored me by calling upon me in large delegations.
+  You have assembled to-day, not from a single State or locality, but
+  from many States, upon the invitation of your associates of this
+  city, to show your intelligent interest in the principles that are
+  involved in this campaign. [Cheers.] I do not need to repeat what I
+  have said on former occasions, that I very highly value the respect
+  and confidence of the commercial travellers of the United States.
+  [Cheers.] I value it because I believe they give their adherence to
+  the party whose candidate I am upon an intelligent investigation and
+  upon an earnest conviction as to what is good for the country of which
+  they are citizens. [Cheers.] Who should be able, better than you, to
+  know the commercial and business needs of our country? You, whose hand
+  is every day upon the business pulse of the people; you, who travel
+  the country up and down upon all the swift highways of commerce, and
+  who are brought in contact with the business men of the country, not
+  only in our great centres of commerce, but in all the hamlets of the
+  land. I believe I may say for you that, as a result of this personal
+  knowledge of our business needs, you have concluded that the policy
+  for America is the policy of a protective tariff. [Great cheering.]
+
+  There are doubtless here many representatives of great American
+  manufacturing establishments; and who should know better than they the
+  prostrating effects upon the industries they represent of this policy
+  of a revenue tariff, or the not much differing policy of free trade?
+  [Cheers.] Who should know better than you that if the discriminating
+  duties now levied, which enable our American manufacturers to maintain
+  a fair competition with the manufacturers of other countries, and at
+  the same time to pay a scale of living wages to the men and women who
+  work for them, is once broken down, American competition with foreign
+  production becomes impossible, except by the reduction of the scale
+  of American wages to the level of the wages paid abroad? [Cheers.]
+  Certainly you do not need to be told that that shop or mill that
+  has the smallest pay-roll in proportion to its production will take
+  the market. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be told that the
+  wages now enjoyed by our American workmen are greatly larger and the
+  comforts they enjoy greatly more than those enjoyed by the working
+  people of any other land. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be
+  told that if the American Government, instead of patronizing home
+  industries, buys its blankets for the public service in England there
+  is just that much less work for American workmen to do. [Cheers.] This
+  is to me the beginning and the end of the tariff question. Since I
+  was old enough to have opinions or to utter them, I have held to the
+  doctrine that the true American policy was that which should maintain
+  not only a living rate of wages, but one with a margin for savings and
+  comfort for our workmen. I believe that policy is essential to the
+  prosperity and possibly to the perpetuity of our Government. [Cheers.]
+  The two propositions that now stare our working people--and our whole
+  country--in the face are these: competition with foreign countries,
+  without adequate discriminating and favoring duties, means lower wages
+  to our working people; a revenue-only tariff, or progressive free
+  trade, means larger importations of foreign goods, and that means less
+  work in America. [Cheers.]
+
+  Let our Democratic friends fairly meet these two indisputable
+  conclusions. How do they do it? [Cries, "They don't; they can't!"]
+  By endeavoring to prevent and poison the minds of our working people
+  by utterly false and scandalous campaign stories. [Enthusiastic
+  cheering.] Let me say in conclusion that I believe the managers of
+  the Democratic campaign greatly underestimate the intelligence,
+  the sense of decency, and the love of fair play that prevail among
+  out people. [Great cheering.] You will pardon further remark. The
+  evening is drawing on, and many of you, I am sure, have been made
+  uncomfortable by your muddy walk through the streets of our city. I
+  cannot omit, however, to thank my friends from Lafayette for this
+  beautiful floral tribute which they have placed at my side--an emblem
+  of their profession. [Floral gripsack.] I accept it gratefully, and
+  very highly appreciate it as a mark of the confidence and respect of
+  the intelligent body of my own fellow-citizens of Indiana. [Great
+  cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 22.
+
+
+Three thousand enthusiastic citizens of Springfield, Clarke County,
+Ohio, paid their respects to the Republican nominee on this date, under
+the auspices of the Republican White Hat Brigade, Gen. A. S. Bushnell,
+Commander; E. T. Thomes, Vice-Commander; S. J. Wilkerson, Chief of
+Staff; J. W. R. Cline, Sam'l Hoffman, and J. H. Arbogast, Aids. The
+brigade, comprising 2,300 voters, each wearing a white beaver hat, was
+divided into three regiments and accompanied by six excellent bands.
+
+The First Regiment was commanded by Col. J. A. Dickus, Lieut.-Col.
+Geo. Lentz, Major Henry Harper. Second Regiment--Col. Wm. F. Bakhaus,
+Lieut.-Col. Darwin Pierce, Major Wm. Robinson. Third Regiment--Col.
+H. N. Taylor, Lieut.-Col. Henry Hains, Major P. M. Hawk. When General
+Harrison entered the hall every Buckeye stood on his chair and
+frantically waved his high hat in one hand and a flag in the other.
+General Bushnell made the presentation address, to which General
+Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _General Bushnell and my Ohio Friends_--The people of Clarke
+  County owed me a visit. I recall, with great pleasure, two occasions
+  when I visited your prosperous county and the rich and busy city
+  of Springfield to speak in behalf of the Republican party and its
+  candidates. I recall with pleasure the cordiality with which I was
+  received by your people. [Applause.] I noted then the intelligent
+  interest manifested by the masses of your people in public questions,
+  and the enthusiasm with which you rallied to the defense of Republican
+  principles. [Cheers.] We are glad to welcome you to Indiana, but
+  regret that this inclement day and our muddy streets have thrown
+  about your visit so many incidents of discomfort. I hope that you
+  will not allow these incidents to give you an unfavorable impression
+  of the beautiful capital city of Indiana. [Cheers and cries of "We
+  won't!"] Our people are glad to have this added evidence of the
+  interest which the people of your State take in the question which
+  the issue of this campaign will settle. I say settle, because I
+  believe that the question of the life of protective tariff system is
+  now very distinctly presented. The enemies of the system have left
+  their ambuscades and taken to the open field, and we are to have a
+  decisive battle over this question. [Great cheers.] I believe that
+  never before, in any campaign, has this question been so fully and
+  ably discussed in the hearing of our people. [Cheers.] There can
+  be found nowhere in this country a better illustration of what a
+  great manufacturing centre will do for the farmer in enhancing the
+  value of his farm and in furnishing a home market for his products
+  than the city of Springfield. [Cheers.] Your city and county--your
+  merchants and farmers--are prosperous, because you have a great body
+  of well-paid wage-earners in your great shops and factories. [Cheers.]
+  It is the policy of the Republican party to multiply, all through our
+  agricultural regions, such centres of manufacturing industries as
+  Springfield. [Cheers.] It is conceded that to all our working people,
+  all those who earn their subsistence by toil, this campaign involves
+  most important interests. I will not pursue in its details this
+  question. You have heard it discussed, and most of you, perhaps all,
+  have made up your conclusions. It is of such importance as, wholly
+  without respect to the candidate who may by chance represent it, to
+  be worthy of the intelligent and earnest thought and vigorous effort
+  of every American citizen. [Cheers.] Let me now only thank you for
+  this most remarkable evidence of the interest of your people. We have
+  rarely, if it all, seen here, in this long procession of delegations,
+  one that equalled that which I see before me now. [Great cheering.]
+
+At the conclusion of General Harrison's speech General Bushnell
+presented him with a highly polished horse-shoe, manufactured from
+American steel by S. B. Thomas, formerly an Englishman. Repeated calls
+for Mr. Thomas brought that gentleman out, and there was another
+prolonged demonstration as General Harrison cordially clasped his hand
+and said:
+
+  I accept with pleasure this product of the skill and industry of
+  one who, out of his own experience, can speak of the benefits of a
+  protective tariff. One who sought our land because it offered better
+  wages and better hopes [cheers], and who in his life here has been
+  able to contrast the condition of working people in England and in
+  America. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 25.
+
+
+During the campaign in Indiana several prominent labor representatives
+from the East canvassed the State in advocacy of a protective tariff
+and the Republican ticket. Chief among these speakers were Charles H.
+Litchman, of Massachusetts, ex-Secretary-General of the Knights of
+Labor; John J. Jarrett, Hon. Henry Hall, Eccles Robinson, and Robert
+D. Layton, of Pennsylvania, and Jeremiah Murphy, of New York. These
+gentlemen, assisted by John R. Rankin, Marshall C. Woods, and other
+prominent Indiana labor leaders, signalized the conclusion of their
+campaign work by a notable workingmen's demonstration on October 25.
+About 10,000 voters from over the State participated in the parade, led
+by Chief Marshal John R. Rankin, assisted by C. A. Rodney, George E.
+Clarke, Wm. R. Mounts, John Baker, Fred Andler, Wm. H. Baughmier, Geo.
+E. Perry, Lewis Rathbaust, J. N. Loop, Wm. Cook, Gustave Schneider, John
+W. Browning, A. Raphel, and Michael Bamberger.
+
+General Harrison, with Hon. William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, Senator John
+C. Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Senator Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire,
+reviewed the column and later attended a great meeting at Tomlinson
+Hall. Many ladies occupied seats on the stage, among them Mrs. Harrison.
+When General Harrison appeared, escorted by Secretary Litchman, the vast
+audience arose and cheered frantically for full five minutes.
+
+L. W. McDaniels, a prominent member of the Typographical Union,
+presided, and in his address among other things said:
+
+  We are here to repudiate the authority claimed by a few professional
+  men to speak for the wage-workers of Indiana, to deny the truthfulness
+  of their statements, and to contradict the assertion that there is
+  other than the kindliest feeling among the workingmen of Indiana
+  toward General Harrison. While General Harrison has never acted the
+  blatant demagogue by making loud professions, yet we have had evidence
+  of his earnest sympathy and sincere friendship on more than one
+  occasion, notably his advocacy while in the Senate of the bill making
+  arbitration the means of settlement of labor troubles and excluding
+  contract labor from our shores. Also the bill prohibiting the use of
+  convict labor on Government works, or the purchasing by the Government
+  of any of the products of convict labor.
+
+As General Harrison arose to respond there was another prolonged
+outbreak; he appeared greatly moved, and delivered probably his most
+earnest speech of the campaign. The demonstrations of approval were very
+marked, especially as the General warmed up to his denials of matters
+suggested by Chairman McDaniels' remarks. He said:
+
+  _Mr. McDaniels and my Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 27.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison was the first speaker. He said:
+
+  _My Friends of the Railroad Republican Clubs_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 5.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Captain Ebel and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+The General then, in behalf of Mrs. Harrison, thanked the ladies for
+their present to her.
+
+
+
+
+THE ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1888.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Coming out on the steps the General said:
+
+  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
+  you for your call to-night and for that friendly spirit which you have
+  shown to me during the campaign.
+
+
+_A Famous Telegram._
+
+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:
+
+                                          INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 9, 1888.
+  _To_ HON. WARNER MILLER, _Herkimer, N. Y._:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JANUARY 1, 1889.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+In response to their enthusiastic greeting, General Harrison--speaking
+in public for the first time since his election--in substance said:
+
+  _Commander and Comrades_--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 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.
+
+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!"
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, FEBRUARY 25, 1889.
+
+_The Departure for Washington._
+
+
+President-elect 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 and joined the _cortége_ as it passed through
+Pennsylvania Street.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison was greatly affected by the scene and the occasion.
+Speaking with emotion he said:
+
+  _My Good Friends and Neighbors_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+As 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+The city of Richmond was reached at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, where
+several thousand people greeted the travellers. General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLUMBUS, OHIO, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 4, 1889.
+
+
+General Harrison 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+President Harrison delivered his inaugural address from the terrace of
+the Capitol in the presence of a vast concourse and during a rainfall.
+
+
+THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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. 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 heard in the depths of the
+  earth as well as in the sky--men were made free and material things
+  became our better servants.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  Our pension law should give more adequate and discriminating 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 30, 1889.
+
+_The Nation's Centenary._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+At Trenton the party was met by the New Jersey Centennial 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.
+
+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. _Despatch_, 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.
+
+At the gangway of the _Despatch_ 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 _Despatch_ 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 _Despatch_ as she proudly entered the harbor. The scene was a most
+memorable one.
+
+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 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 _Despatch_--were ex-President R. B. Hayes and the
+Governors of thirty-five States.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman, my Countrymen_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Great Military Parade and Banquet._
+
+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 remained at his post,
+saluting the last company. The troops of the various States were led by
+their Governors.
+
+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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 city
+  offered thoroughfares so magnificent, or a people so great, so
+  generous, as New York has poured out to-day to celebrate that event?
+
+  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.]
+
+  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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  Let me add a thought due to our country's future. Perhaps 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 22, 1889.
+
+_Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument._
+
+
+A memorable 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+To their addresses President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Committees and Friends_--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.
+
+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.
+
+The march to the monument was one of the most imposing 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+President Harrison's reply was:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman, Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 23, 1889.
+
+_Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana._
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Taylor_--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 marched--in these exercises connected with the dedication of a
+  monument that knows no regimental distinction. [Applause.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO, DECEMBER 9, 1889.
+
+
+Monday 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 frontage 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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."
+
+As Mr. Peck introduced President Harrison the great assembly
+enthusiastically testified its welcome. The President spoke as follows:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  You will permit me, then, to thank you, to thank the Mayor of
+  Chicago, to thank the President of this Association, and to thank 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 30, 1890.
+
+_Garfield Memorial Dedication._
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The President spoke with great earnestness. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOSTON, AUGUST 11, 1890.
+
+_The Guest of Massachusetts._
+
+
+Monday afternoon, August 11, the cruiser _Baltimore_, bearing President
+Harrison, Secretary Rusk, Secretary Noble, and a number of friends,
+entered Boston harbor, saluted by the _Atlanta_, the _Kearsage_,
+the _Petrel_, the _Yorktown_, the _Dolphin_, the dynamite cruiser
+_Vesuvius_, and the torpedo-boat _Cushing_. 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+In response to these cordial greetings the President said:
+
+  _Comrades_--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, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOSTON, AUGUST 12.
+
+_G. A. R. National Encampment._
+
+
+The 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 _prima donna_, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman_--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 commonwealth 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison was introduced as Comrade Harrison, President of the
+United States, and was greeted with tremendous applause. He spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic_--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.]
+
+  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 body and bear it to the grave, you may die in peace
+  and in the hope of a glorious resurrection! [Applause.]
+
+
+
+
+CRESSON, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 13.
+
+
+Nearly 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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+OSCEOLA, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+During 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 Passenger 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+HOUTZDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+Arrived 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.
+
+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.
+
+A notable incident of the demonstration was the reception 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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PHILIPSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+Other 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.
+
+Philipsburg was reached at 3 P.M. 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.
+
+Returning to the station Mayor Warfel introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Citizens of Philipsburg_--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.
+
+
+
+
+WESTERN TOUR, OCTOBER, 1890.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+
+
+
+CLIFTON FORGE, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 6.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Arrived at Lawrenceburg the President was visibly affected at meeting
+many old friends and neighbors of 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.
+
+The President addressed the large assembly in a voice heavy with
+emotion. He said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+NORTH VERNON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SEYMOUR, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+After he had introduced Secretary Tracy, the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SHOALS, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SULLIVAN, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+In answer to repeated calls for a speech the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+The 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. _En route_ 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.
+
+Mayor Frank C. Danaldson made the welcoming address, and concluded by
+introducing President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens of Indiana, Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+Danville was reached at 6 P.M. 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.
+
+Congressman Cannon introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 assembly 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Good Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PEORIA, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Clarke introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.
+
+_The Public Reception._
+
+
+During 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.
+
+Arriving at the Court-House Park, Mayor Stevens delivered the address of
+welcome. President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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 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?
+
+  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."
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Reunion First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps._
+
+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 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.
+
+The President then addressed the brigade as follows:
+
+  _Comrades_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  Those early days in which we were being transformed from civilians
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 spring melts and disappears, and settles into
+  the earth to clothe it with verdure and beauty and harvest. [Great
+  cheering.]
+
+
+_Alumni Hall, Knox College._
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+_Phi Delta Theta Banquet._
+
+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 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Brigade Banquet._
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+OTTUMWA, IOWA, OCTOBER 9.
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Boies and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+(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.)
+
+  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!"]
+
+(At this point the management succeeded in finally turning off the water
+so that the deafening noise ceased.)
+
+  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.]
+
+  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
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Colonel Dawes made a brief welcoming address and presented the
+President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ATCHISON, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+Entering 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.
+
+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. 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+TOPEKA, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 suggestions 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.]
+
+  Now, fellow-citizens, you will excuse me from the attempt at further
+  speech. I beg you again to believe that I am grateful, so 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+NORTONVILLE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+At Nortonville the citizens, and especially the school children, turned
+out _en masse_ 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.
+
+Governor Humphrey introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+In response to the enthusiastic greetings the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Henley, in the name of the city, welcomed the President, who,
+responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KANSAS CITY, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The presidential party reached Kansas City at 5:30 P.M. 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, J. W. Merrill, D. G. Saunders, F. W.
+Hatch, G. Bernheimer, B. C. Burgess, S. T. Smith, and J. L. Walker.
+
+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.
+
+In response to a toast to the President's health, General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+After passing the evening at his brother's residence, at 8 P.M. 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.
+
+Major William Warner introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 kindness, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. LOUIS, OCTOBER 11.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Hon. Charles Parsons then introduced the President, who addressed the
+assemblage as follows:
+
+  _Governor Francis, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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 together 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 the public relations of every
+  American citizen. And now, my friends, again let me say thank you and
+  good-by.
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ANDERSON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+President Harrison passed the Sabbath quietly at his Indianapolis
+residence, and early Monday morning, accompanied by Secretary Tracy and
+Marshal Ransdell, started for Washington.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MUNCIE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+WINCHESTER, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Winchester's 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.
+
+Gen. Thomas M. Browne, on behalf of the citizens, delivered an eloquent
+address of welcome, and closed by introducing President Harrison, who
+said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+UNION CITY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Senator Shockney and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+DE GRAFF, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Crossing 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.
+
+Superintendent of Schools Joseph Swisher introduced the President, who
+said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Bellefontaine 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.
+
+Mayor Wright delivered a brief welcoming address and introduced the
+President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CRESTLINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Pool welcomed and introduced the President in a brief address.
+General Harrison responded:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 be hopeful, let us be faithful and true, and the
+  future of our country and our own comfort are assured. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+MANSFIELD, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Senator Sherman introduced the President, who spoke briefly, saying:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+WOOSTER, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Congressman Smyser introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 social order as here? The individual free to aspire and work,
+  the community its own police officer and guardian.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ORRVILLE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+MASSILLON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 work for human rights a kindly consideration
+  with compensatory wages. [Cheers.]
+
+  Now, to these children and Grand Army friends who greet me here, I
+  say, thank you and God speed you and good-by. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+CANTON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Canton, 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.
+
+Major McKinley introduced the President, who addressed the large
+assemblage, saying:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALLIANCE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Chairman Fording delivered a welcoming address and introduced President
+Harrison, who in response said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, APRIL 14, 1891.
+
+_Letter to Western States Commercial Congress._
+
+
+The 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:
+
+                                           WASHINGTON, April 7.
+  HON. H. B. KELLY, _Chairman, Kansas City, Mo._:
+
+  DEAR SIR--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 considering 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+          Very respectfully,                     BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+ACROSS THE CONTINENT, 1891.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+The train that safely carried the head of the Nation on this great tour
+was a marvel of mechanical perfection unrivalled in equipment. Mr. Geo.
+W. Boyd, General Assistant Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
+prepared the schedule and had charge of the train throughout.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, APRIL 14.
+
+
+Leaving Washington shortly after midnight, the train passed through
+Lynchburg at an early hour and arrived at Roanoke, its first
+stopping-point, at 8:50 A.M. 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.
+
+After shaking hands with several hundred, President Harrison, in
+response to repeated calls, spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRISTOL, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Judge Wood made the welcoming address and introduced the President, who,
+in response, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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?
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14. 1891
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Congressman Alfred A. Taylor presented the President, who spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+JONESBORO, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+General Harrison's allusion to John Sevier and his struggle to establish
+the State of Franklin elicited hearty applause. He spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  On all these new things I congratulate the citizens of Tennessee.
+  Turn your faces to the morning, for the sun is lightening the
+  hill-tops; 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.]
+
+
+
+
+GREENVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+MORRISTOWN, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison's speech on the occasion was as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+On 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. Chamberlain, 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.
+
+Col. William A. Henderson introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  It is the one rule of conduct for us all. I may not choose as
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, APRIL 15.
+
+
+Chattanooga 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.
+
+The committee escorted the distinguished guests to the 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.
+
+Ex-Congressman Evans, amid deafening cheers, introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  I congratulate Tennessee, I congratulate this prosperous city, I
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.
+
+          "What War has ravaged Commerce can bestow,
+          And he returns a Friend who came a Foe."
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+ATLANTA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+On 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  Thanking you for your reception, which has been warm and
+  hospitable, I go from you very grateful for your kindness and very
+  full of hope for your future.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TALLAPOOSA, GEORGIA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+The 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, O. F. Sampson, H. Martin, M.
+C. Haiston, G. W. Tumlin, and J. C. Murrey.
+
+Responding to the welcoming cheers the President addressed the assembly
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  The development which is coming to you in these regions of the
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ANNISTON, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+Many 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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+Large 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+Both the Governor and the Mayor delivered eloquent addresses of welcome,
+to which President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Jones, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, APRIL 17.
+
+
+The 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 L. Norton, W. H. Bates, M. T.
+Garvin, S. H. Dunscomb, F. H. White, and R. D. Jordan.
+
+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.
+
+Chairman Clapp made the address of welcome. President Harrison responded
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 between 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.]
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.
+
+
+As 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.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Governor Eagle and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.
+
+
+Notwithstanding 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.
+
+The President spoke briefly and said:
+
+  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 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.
+
+
+
+
+PALESTINE, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Governor Hogg made the formal address of welcome, to which the President
+responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Hogg and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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 city participated in receiving and entertaining the ladies in the
+presidential party.
+
+Congressman Stewart introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 and examined by the European governments, will remove the
+  last excuse for the exclusion of our meats from those foreign states.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+GALVESTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison's response was the longest speech of his trip, and
+attracted wide-spread and favorable comment. He said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  The great States of the South will be in discontent with the old
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, APRIL 20.
+
+
+The 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 _Alamo City_ 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,
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 satisfaction 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DEL RIO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Rev. Dr. H. S. Thrall, the veteran historian of Texas, delivered the
+address of welcome. The President, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+EL PASO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.
+
+
+The 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, Seńor Mejia, Seńor 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.
+
+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 eloquent address welcomed him to the Gate City of the two
+republics.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 increased 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DEMING, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.
+
+
+As 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 Robert Campbell. Professor Hayes delivered the welcoming
+address.
+
+In reply President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.
+
+
+At 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TUCSON, ARIZONA, APRIL 21.
+
+
+Tucson, 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.
+
+Hon. Thos. F. Wilson made the address of welcome. The President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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. [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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+
+
+COLTON, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+The President addressed the assemblage and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+H. Z. Osborne, of the Los Angeles committee, introduced the President,
+who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BANNING, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+Banning, 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 _Herald_, 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+POMONA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+The 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 20,000 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,
+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. Johnson, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 to
+  your sea-coast defences until all these great ports of the Atlantic
+  and Pacific are made safe. [Cheers.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+                                [Signed]              PORFIRIO DIAZ.
+
+Responding to this friendly international salute, President Harrison
+said:
+
+  _Governor Torres_--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.
+
+As the President sat down Governor Torres remarked: "The Mexican people
+respond heartily to your kind wishes."
+
+
+
+
+SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+On 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, and the Hon.
+W. H. Spurgeon, founder of the city, introduced the President, who spoke
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+ORANGE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+Through 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.
+
+Responding to enthusiastic cheers the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--I am glad to look into your smiling faces, and I
+  thank you for this welcome. California is a State that is favorably
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+One 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.
+
+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.
+
+On being presented by Mr. Evans the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+The distinguished visitors then proceeded through the city and reviewed
+the parade, at the conclusion of which the President, speaking without
+introduction, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+Another 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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow citizens_--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 cultivation,
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+It 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. 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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--I beg you to accept my thanks for this banquet spread
+  in honor of this community of strangers who have dropped in upon 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FERNANDO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Dr. Hawks made a brief address of welcome and introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Maj. Joseph R. Haugh, an old Indianapolis acquaintance, welcomed the
+President on behalf of the committee. President Harrison, replying, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN BUENAVENTURA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+Gen. William Vandever welcomed the party, and the President spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Gen. Wm. Vandever delivered an address of welcome, to which the
+President, responding, said:
+
+  _General Vandever, Gentlemen of the Committee and Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TULARE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+Tulare 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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Governor Markham introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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, 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+A crowd 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.
+
+Dr. Rowell delivered the welcoming address. President Harrison,
+responding, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MERCED, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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 Mrs. Harrison
+with a beautiful souvenir in the shape of a large American flag woven
+from roses and violets.
+
+Chairman Dixon made the welcoming address, and President Harrison
+replied in the following words:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+Modesto was reached at 2:40 P.M. 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.
+
+George Perley introduced President Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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?
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LATHROP, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  My heart has but one language: it is, "I thank you."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 25.
+
+
+At 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, 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.
+
+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 _Piedmont_ for passage across the bay.
+On board the _Piedmont_, 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 _Piedmont_ 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 _Piedmont_
+resembled volcanoes. The entire population of the city came out to
+do honor to the head of the Nation, and the principal streets were
+beautifully illuminated.
+
+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.
+
+In response the President said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 27.
+
+
+Monday, 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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+With the closing words Mr. Sutro extended to the President a red plush
+album inclosing the letter. President Harrison, in accepting it, said:
+
+  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.
+
+The next visit was to the Presidio, where the President and
+General Ruger witnessed the brilliant manoeuvres 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.
+
+
+_Phi Delta Theta._
+
+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."
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends and Brothers in this Old Society_--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.]
+
+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. 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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 28.
+
+_Launch of the Monterey._
+
+
+Tuesday, April 28, the President enjoyed an excursion on the bay on
+board the steamer _Puebla_. Following the _Puebla_ came the cruiser
+_Charleston_, 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.
+
+In the afternoon, at the Union Iron Works, the President and Mrs.
+Harrison participated in the launch of the armored coast-defence vessel
+_Monterey_. 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. On the
+platform with the President's party were Henry T. Scott and Irving M.
+Scott, builders of the _Monterey_; master shipwright Geo. W. Dickie,
+Governor Markham, and other prominent people.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Leaving San Francisco on Wednesday, April 29, the President spent the
+morning at Senator Stanford's famous Palo Alto ranch. The first stop _en
+route_ 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. 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.
+
+As the train moved off President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN JOSÉ, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Arriving 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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said.
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 triumph. 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+GILROY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Two 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.
+
+Mayor Loupe introduced the President, who made one of his briefest
+speeches. He said:
+
+  _My Friends_--It gives me great pleasure to see you for a moment,
+  and thank you for your kindness in coming out on this occasion. 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.
+
+
+
+
+WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 30.
+
+
+The 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."
+
+In response the President said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+As the President arose to respond the great audience cheered
+enthusiastically. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Chairman J. W. Lyndon made the address of welcome and introduced
+President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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.
+
+  I thank you for your cordial greeting. It overpowers me I feel that
+  these brief stops are but poor recompense for the trouble and 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 1.
+
+_Chamber of Commerce Reception._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+When the President arose to respond he was greeted with a storm of
+applause. His address was punctured throughout with cheers. He said:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of these Assembled Societies_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS TO THE VETERANS, MAY 1.
+
+
+From 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.
+
+He spoke as follows:
+
+  _Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic_--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.
+
+  It was that these things might continue to be that you went to
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PALACE HOTEL BANQUET, MAY 1.
+
+
+In 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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 _ad libitum_. [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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 citizens who
+  may be domiciled there to feel lonesome for the sight of the American
+  flag. [Cheers.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+The President's address was as follows:
+
+  _Governor Markham and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BENICIA, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+In response to calls for a speech the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+_State University._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, standing with uncovered head in the carriage, spoke as
+follows:
+
+  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 will fit them to maintain, develop, and perpetuate what
+  their fathers have begun.
+
+  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.
+
+
+_Institute of the Dumb and Blind._
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+Leaving 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, speaking from the same carriage, responded as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+_Union League Reception._
+
+
+Immediately 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, in accepting the beautiful souvenir, said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 3.
+
+_Farewell._
+
+
+Sunday 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:
+
+  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 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.
+
+                                                  BENJ. HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+Monday 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.
+
+On being presented to the assemblage by his former comrade the President
+spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  Seriously, my friends, you have a most beautiful State, capable of
+  promoting the comfort of your citizens in a very high degree, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+REDDING, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SISSON, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+A brief 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, addressing the assemblage, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+ASHLAND, OREGON, MAY 4.
+
+
+The first stop in Oregon was at Ashland, at 8 P.M., 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. R. Mills, Dr. J. Hall, and
+Col. J. T. Bowditch, Judge Advocate General O. N. G.
+
+Responding to the greeting of the Legislative Committee the President
+said:
+
+  _Mr. Simon and Gentlemen of the Committee_--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.
+
+The President then appeared on the platform, and was presented to the
+citizens by the Mayor, and spoke briefly, saying:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+MEDFORD, OREGON, MAY 4.
+
+
+The President's visit to Medford at 10 P.M. 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 _en masse_.
+Mayor G. W. Howard made a brief address and introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALBANY, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALEM, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+Salem, the capital of Oregon, was reached at 9 A.M. 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. _En
+route_ 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."
+
+With marked earnestness President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Pennoyer, Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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, contented,
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHEMAWA, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Young Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+A cordial 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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+PORTLAND, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+Tuesday, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Conspicuous in the procession were the following staff 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison was tendered an ovation as he arose to respond. He
+said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  I am glad to know that we are here to-night as American citizens,
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Fellow-countrymen_--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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+Ten 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.
+
+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.
+
+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. Harrison
+made perhaps her first public speech on the trip. She said:
+
+  _Ladies_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_On Steamer "City of Seattle," Puget Sound._
+
+At 11:30 A.M. the President and his party left Tacoma, embarking on the
+steamer _City of Seattle_ 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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+The steamer bearing the presidential party, followed by a great flotilla
+that had come out to greet them, arrived at Seattle at 1:30 P.M., 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,
+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.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Judge Burke and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 _entrepot_, 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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 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.]
+
+As the President concluded there were loud calls for Postmaster-General
+Wanamaker, who waved his hand toward the children and said:
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+It was 10 P.M. 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+Responding to greetings the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CASCADE LOCKS, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+HOOD RIVER STATION, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+At Hood River Station the President shook hands with a number and
+addressed the gathering as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+THE DALLES, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+After 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 Mrs. J. Patterson. Many old
+soldiers and a large number of school children were present.
+
+Mayor Moody, in behalf of the city, welcomed the President, who
+responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PENDLETON, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+After 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:
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+The President replied:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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].
+
+
+
+
+LE GRANDE, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President responded:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BAKER CITY, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The closing event of the long day was the reception at Baker City
+at 11:30 P.M. 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.
+
+Responding to Mr. Anderson's welcoming address President Harrison said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOISE CITY, IDAHO, MAY 8.
+
+
+Boise City, 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+After the review Governor Willey and Mayor Pinney formally welcomed the
+President, who responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  I am glad to see that this banner of liberty, this flag of our
+  fathers, this flag that these--my comrades here present--defended
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+POCATELLO, IDAHO, MAY 8.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+Chairman Savidge of the committee delivered the welcoming address and
+introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+The presidential party arrived at the "City of Zion" at 2:45 A.M. 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, 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.
+
+Governor Thomas and Mayor Scott delivered welcoming addresses, to which
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Chamber of Commerce Speech._
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison made an address. He said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Address to the School Children._
+
+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:
+
+  _To the School Children_--In all this joyous journey through
+  this land of flowers and the sunny South I have seen nothing more
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LEHI CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President made a brief address, saying:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PROVO CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+The presidential train arrived at Provo--the Garden City of Utah--at
+1:30 P.M. 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.
+
+Mayor Booth introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+The President, addressing the school children, said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SPRINGVILLE, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+As the presidential train reached Castle Gate, a mining town on the
+summit of the Wahsatch Mountains, the people turned out _en masse_. A
+salute was fired with dynamite cartridges. The President briefly thanked
+the people for their greeting.
+
+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.
+
+Governor Thomas introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 10.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+The Mayor made the welcoming address and presented the President with a
+solid silver plate, superbly engraved with the coat-of-arms of Colorado.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+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.
+
+In accepting this rare token the President said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens and Children_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LEADVILLE, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Leadville, the Cloud City, was reached at 7:30 A.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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,
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BUENA VISTA, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Buena Vista 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALIDA, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  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 cańons. 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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CAŃON CITY, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Leaving 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 Cańon. Emerging through the Royal Gorge
+the party reached Cańon City at 2 P.M. 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+FLORENCE, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUEBLO, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+An artillery salute welcomed the party to Pueblo at 3:30 P.M. 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.
+
+At the Court House Square 6,000 children greeted the President, who was
+introduced by Dr. William A. Olmsted and said:
+
+  _Children of the Public Schools and Others_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+Colonel Stanton made the welcoming address and introduced President
+Harrison to the great assemblage, who responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+The 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. 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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+After the parade the Garfield School was visited, and the President
+addressed the scholars as follows:
+
+  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 and honorable position may be
+  achieved by you all. Wishing you every prosperity and success, I bid
+  you good-by. [Cheers.]
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 production. [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.]
+
+
+
+
+DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 12.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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. 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, 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.
+
+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, who portrayed
+the triumphant struggle and growth of Denver. President Harrison
+responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Routt, Mr. Mayor, Pioneers of Colorado, Comrades of the
+  Grand Army_ [cheers] _and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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, 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+Responding to a toast in honor of the President of the United States,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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 included 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  I say good-by, and again express our thanks for your hospitality,
+  which has been excelled nowhere on our journey. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+AKRON, COLORADO, MAY 12.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Commander John N. Tague, of Akron Post, G. A. R., introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+HASTINGS, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+Hastings, 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.
+
+J. N. Clarke delivered the address of welcome and introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-countrymen_--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.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  The Westerners are the overspill of the enterprising population
+  of 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CRETE, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Governor Thayer introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  I am glad to see these children here this morning. They have greeted
+  me everywhere with their happy smiles, and they brighten 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.]
+
+
+
+
+LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 13
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison responded:
+
+  _Governor Thayer and Mr. Mayor_--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 much, that this time could
+  be extended and that I would be able to address you with more comfort
+  to myself and to you.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ASHLAND, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+About 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+When the demonstration subsided President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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. 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  We have a surplus production in these great valleys for which we
+  must seek foreign markets. It is pleasant to know that 90 per 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_At the High-School Grounds._
+
+On concluding the formal reception the President and his party became
+the guests of Hon. E. Rosewater, editor and proprietor of the Omaha
+_Daily Bee_, and after inspecting the editorial rooms the President held
+a reception in the rotunda of the _Bee_ building. This was followed
+by a ride over the city, escorted by the Reception Committee. As the
+_cortége_ passed the High-School grounds 20,000 children and adults gave
+the President a most patriotic greeting.
+
+Halting in front of the building, the President arose in his carriage
+and said:
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Little Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, MAY 13.
+
+
+A short 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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SHENANDOAH, IOWA, MAY 13.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, responding to cheers from the large crowd, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MARYVILLE, MISSOURI, MAY 13.
+
+
+It was 11 P.M. 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.
+
+When the cheering subsided President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, MAY 14.
+
+
+About 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--I have only time to assure you that I
+  appreciate very highly this evidence of your respect. We have
+  extended 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+_At the Tomb of Lincoln._
+
+
+Brief 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Governor Fifer and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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!
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_At the State House._
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--I feel that we make a very poor return to you
+  here for your cordial welcome, and for these extensive preparations
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+Decatur 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.
+
+In response to Mayor Chambers' welcoming address President Harrison said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.] 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TUSCOLA, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+In response to a hasty but cordial welcome from Mayor Sloan the
+President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Mr. Van Voorhees introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTEZUMA, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+It was about 3 P.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+At this point tears came to the President's eyes, and his utterance
+became so choked he could say no more.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+Promptly 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.
+
+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.
+
+Cheer after cheer went up from the vast concourse as 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Governor Hovey, Mayor Sullivan and Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Congressman Johnson introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+DAYTON, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+A great 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 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.
+
+The President's appearance was the signal for a prolonged outburst of
+patriotic feeling, in recognition and response to which he spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+XENIA, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+Judge Little introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLUMBUS, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+In response to repeated calls the President appeared, accompanied by
+Secretary Rusk, and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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."
+
+The President spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 Pennsylvania 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.]
+
+
+
+
+HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.
+
+
+The arrival at Harrisburg at 1:15 P.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison closed his long series of brilliant and interesting
+addresses in the following words:
+
+  _Governor Pattison and Fellow citizens_--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.]
+
+  It is a pleasant thing that we appreciate our surroundings. We
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+THE RETURN TO WASHINGTON.
+
+
+There 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 a man. He then returned his thanks individually to the engineer,
+conductor, and every employee.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+PHILADELPHIA, MAY 30.
+
+
+On 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
+Commander-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.
+
+The President, replying to the address of welcome, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+_At General Meade's Grave._
+
+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.
+
+Along the entire line of march to the stand were immense crowds, who
+greeted the President with silent demonstrations of respect.
+
+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."
+
+As the President stepped forward he was heartily cheered. He said:
+
+  _Commander, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  I have recently returned from an extended tour of the States, and
+  nothing so impressed and refreshed me as the universal display of
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE BENNINGTON TRIP, AUGUST, 1891.
+
+
+On 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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Colonel Sleicher introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 our people; that upon the
+  Sacramento as well as upon the Hudson men love the old memories and
+  the old flag. [Applause.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+KINGSTON, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+After shaking hands for several minutes, Hon. William H. Turner
+introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALBANY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+It 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:
+
+                                                  ALBANY, August 12.
+  HON. BENJAMIN HARRISON, _Cape May, N. J._:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                      DAVID B. HILL.
+
+                                STOCKTON HOUSE, CAPE MAY, August 12.
+  GOV. D. B. HILL, _Albany_:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+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 Westbrook, H. N. Fuller, C. B. Templeton,
+William H. Cull, and Oscar Smith.
+
+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.
+
+Responding to these hospitable addresses, the President said:
+
+  _Governor Hill, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 have been in the
+  past, I believe this year will spread a smile of gladness over the
+  entire agricultural population of our country.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+TROY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+When 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. 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+The President was here interrupted by the blowing of steam-whistles, and
+continued, smiling:
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BENNINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 19.
+
+_Dedication of the Battle Monument._
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+After the review the presidential party was escorted to the grand stand
+at the monument, where 15,000 people assembled.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+At the conclusion of Mr. Phelps' oration Chairman Veazey introduced
+President Harrison, who arose midst prolonged cheers and spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 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]
+
+
+_The Banquet in the Tent._
+
+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,
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 Sčvres and old Delft ware.
+
+General Veazey, the President of the Committee, again introduced
+President Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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 attempt 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+MT. M'GREGOR, AUGUST 20.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison arose and amid great cheering began:
+
+  _Mr. Arkell and Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, AUGUST 21.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+FROM SARATOGA THROUGH VERMONT.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+WHITEHALL, NEW YORK, AUGUST, 25.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 inspiration 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FAIR HAVEN, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Mr. Hazard introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--We have already lost some minutes at your
+  station, and it will not be possible for me to hold the train longer.
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  Thanking you again for this pleasant morning reception, I will bid
+  you good-by. [Applause.]
+
+
+
+
+CASTLETON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Judge Clark introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRANDON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+Brandon gave the travellers a hearty reception at 11 A.M. 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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+On the arrival of the train at Middlebury at 11:30 A.M. 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.
+
+Governor Stewart introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+VERGENNES, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Secretary Proctor introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BURLINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+Burlington 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.
+
+Mayor Hazelton delivered the address of welcome and introduced President
+Harrison, who responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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, 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. ALBANS, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+The President and party embarked at Burlington on board Col. W. Seward
+Webb's yacht _Elfrida_ 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 P.M., 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.
+
+When the President appeared on the balcony the enthusiasm was great. He
+was introduced by Hon. E. C. Smith, and spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.] 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.]
+
+  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 domestic 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+Congressman Powers introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 communication, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+WATERBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST, 26.
+
+
+Waterbury was reached at 10:30 A.M. 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.
+
+Hon. Wm. Paul Dillingham made the welcoming address and introduced the
+President, who responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 connected 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTPELIER, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+After the applause subsided the Lieutenant-Governor introduced President
+Harrison, who addressed the legislators as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen, the Legislature of the State of
+  Vermont_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Public Reception._
+
+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 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:
+
+  _Governor Page and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PLAINFIELD, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison was introduced by Senator Dwinnel, and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens and Comrades_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+Brief 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 P.M.
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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
+  patriotic towns and villages, movements are being inaugurated to
+  display the American flag over our institutions of learning.
+
+  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.]
+
+  I am most happy to witness in this prosperous New England town so
+  many evidences that your community is intelligent, industrious,
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BILLINGS PARK, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+When 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.
+
+Col. Hooker, as President of the Association, introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _Colonel Hooker and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRADFORD, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+At Bradford 1,000 people assembled to do honor to the President, who
+arrived at 10 A.M. 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.
+
+Ex-Governor Farnham introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+WINDSOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+It was raining when the President arrived at Windsor, at 1 P.M. 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+Notwithstanding 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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Colonel Webber and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+When 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, who marshalled the hosts for Gen. Wm. Henry
+Harrison in 1836 and '40. The building was packed.
+
+Mr. Swain introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 conquer 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+Just 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.
+
+Colonel Estey welcomed and presented the President, who made the
+following address:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 _Despatch_ 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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."
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+RUTLAND, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens and Comrades of the Grand Army of the
+  Republic_--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 battle-fields 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 disturbed 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.
+
+  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 beginning 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PROCTOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+Secretary Proctor, in an affectionate address, introduced President
+Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  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 artistic
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.
+
+_The Augusta Exposition._
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+Chairman Walsh, on behalf of the committee, made the invitation address,
+to which the President, responding, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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 stethoscopes, 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.
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 17, 1891.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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 Compton, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison then addressed the Conference as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conference_--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.
+
+  Assembling from countries unlike in their civil institutions, from
+  churches not wholly in accord as to doctrine or church order, you
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN TIN PLATE, OCTOBER 23.
+
+
+While 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:
+
+                                EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 19, 1891.
+
+  MY DEAR SIR--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+                                      Very truly yours,
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 14 AND DECEMBER 9, 1891.
+
+_The Chilian Imbroglio._
+
+
+In 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 Seńor Uribirru, the Argentine Minister.
+
+During the conduct of the war, the _Itata_, 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 _Itata_, 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 _Times_, 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.
+
+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 _Baltimore_, 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
+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, Seńor Don Pedro
+Montt was presented to President Harrison as the newly accredited
+Chilian Minister to the United States.
+
+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.
+
+The Minister was accompanied by Seńors Anibal Cruz, Secretary of
+Legation; Guillermo Arenanetegan and Valentin del Campo, attachés. After
+the formal introductions by Secretary Blaine, Seńor Montt addressed the
+President in Spanish as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President_--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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _Mr. Minister_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+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 _Baltimore_ with the following significant
+paragraphs:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+PROTECTION FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
+
+[_Extract from President's Message, December 9, 1891._]
+
+
+On 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:
+
+  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.
+
+Consistent with these views, President Harrison, in his message to
+Congress, December 9, 1891, made the following pertinent suggestions:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
+
+[_From Annual Message to Congress, December 9, 1891._]
+
+
+Perhaps 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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 provides 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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 Representatives.
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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, 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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE CHILIAN MESSAGE, JANUARY 25, 1892.
+
+
+Just 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 to Congress that Chili had substantially complied
+with our demands.
+
+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.
+
+  _To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
+
+       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ
+
+  We have now received from the Chilian Government an abstract of the
+  conclusions of the _Fiscal General_ 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.
+
+       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ
+
+  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 _Baltimore_ 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 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.
+
+Here follow the details of the attack upon the sailors of the
+_Baltimore_ in the streets of Valparaiso, October 16th.
+
+  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.
+
+  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....
+
+  No amount of evasion or subterfuge is able to cloud our clear vision
+  of this brutal work....
+
+  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 _Baltimore_, 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....
+
+  The evidence of our sailors clearly shows that the attack was
+  expected by the Chilian people, that threats had been made against
+  our 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....
+
+  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 _Baltimore_, 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.
+
+       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ
+
+  The testimony of Captain Jenkins, of the American merchant ship
+  _Keweenaw_, which had gone to Valparaiso for repairs, and who was a
+  witness of some part of the assault upon the crew of the _Baltimore_,
+  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.
+
+  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 _Baltimore's_ 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....
+
+  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 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.
+
+       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ       ˇ
+
+  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:
+
+  "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.
+
+  "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.
+
+  "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 suitable apology and
+  for some adequate reparation for the injury done to this Government."
+
+  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.
+
+  The request for the recall of Mr. Egan upon the ground that he was
+  not _persona grata_ 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  Upon information received that Patrick Shields, an Irishman and
+  probably a British subject, but at the time a fireman of the American
+  steamer _Keweenaw_, 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....
+
+  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."
+
+  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.
+
+BENJ. HARRISON.
+
+EXECUTIVE MANSION,
+
+January 25, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO SPEECHES, ETC.
+
+
+  Akron, Colorado, reception address at, 460
+
+  Albany, Oregon, reception address at, 402
+
+  Albany, New York, reception address at, 498
+
+  Alger, Gen. R. A., response of, 69
+
+  Allen County, Ohio, to delegation from, 149
+
+  Alliance, Ohio, reception address at, 284
+
+  Altoona, Pa., reception address at, 487
+
+  American Fork, Utah, reception address at, 435
+
+  Anderson, Indiana, reception address at, 271
+
+  Anniston, Alabama, reception address at, 308
+
+  Ashland, Oregon, reception address at, 400
+
+  Ashland, Nebraska, reception address at, 464
+
+  Atchison, Kansas, reception address at, 259
+
+  Atlanta, Georgia, address to students, 304
+    farewell address, 305
+    Mr. Wanamaker's address, 306
+
+  Augusta, Georgia, to exposition committee from, 549
+
+
+  Bakersfield, California, reception address at, 362
+
+  Baker City, Oregon, reception address at, 425
+
+  Banning, California, reception address at, 341
+
+  Bartholomew County, Indiana, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Bellefontaine, Ohio, to delegation from, 89
+    reception address at, 277
+
+  Bellows Falls, Vermont, reception address at, 540
+
+  Benicia, California, reception address at, 392
+
+  Bennington trip, 1891, personnel of party, 493
+
+  Bennington, Vermont, Battle Monument address, 502
+    at great tent banquet, 505
+
+  Benton Harbor, Michigan, to delegation from, 41
+
+  Benton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 44
+
+  Berkeley, California, at State University, 393
+    dumb and blind institute, 394
+
+  Billings Park, Vermont, speech at horse fair, 535
+
+  Birmingham, Alabama, reception address at, 311
+    luncheon address, 313
+
+  Blackford County, Indiana, to delegation from, 163
+
+  Blaine Club of Kansas City, address to, at Indianapolis, 76
+
+  Blaine reception, demonstration at Indianapolis Oct. 11, 1888, 170
+
+  Bloomington, Illinois, to delegation from, 62
+
+  Boise City, Idaho, reception address at, 427
+
+  Boone County, Indiana, to delegation from, 46
+
+  Boston, Mass., reception address at, 226
+    Mayor's Club banquet, 228
+    G. A. R. national encampment, 230
+
+  Bradford, Vermont, reception address at, 536
+
+  Brandon, Vermont, reception address at, 516
+
+  Brattleboro, Vermont, reception address at, 542
+
+  Bristol, Tennessee, reception address at, 291
+
+  Brown County, Indiana, to delegation from, 70
+
+  Buena Vista, Colorado, reception address at, 444
+
+  Burlington, Vermont, reception address at, 519
+
+
+  California delegates to Chicago, visit from, 29
+
+  California tour, 1891, personnel of party, 289
+
+  Cańon City, Colorado, reception address at, 446
+
+  Canton, Ohio, reception address at, 283
+
+  Cartersville, Georgia, reception address at, 302
+
+  Cascade Locks, Oregon, reception address at, 421
+
+  Castleton, Vermont, reception address at, 515
+
+  Centennial address, New York City, April 30, 1889, 207
+
+  Centralia, Washington, reception address at, 412
+
+  Champaign County, Illinois, to delegation from, 55
+
+  Champaign, Illinois, reception address at, 241
+
+  Charlestown, New Hampshire, reception address at, 539
+
+  Chattanooga, Tennessee, reception address at, 301
+
+  Chehalis, Washington, reception address at, 420
+
+  Chemawa, Oregon, reception address at, 405
+
+  Chicago, Marquette Club banquet address, 16
+    to committee from Marquette Club, 31
+    to Irish-American Club from, 124
+    to commercial travellers from, 140
+    to delegation business men from, 155
+    to Union veterans and others from, 166
+    to German-American Club from, 172
+    Auditorium dedication address, 218
+
+  Chilian Minister, official reception of, response to, 557
+
+  Chilian affair, message on, January 25, 1892, 564-70
+
+  Chrisman, Illinois, reception address at, 479
+
+  Cincinnati, Ohio, to Lincoln Club from, 49
+
+  Cincinnati Exposition Committee, visit from, 136
+
+  Cincinnati Exposition, invitation committee from, 171
+
+  Clay County, Indiana, to delegation from, 60
+
+  Clayton, Indiana, reunion 70th Regiment, 115
+
+  Clearfield, Pa., trip to the coal regions, 231
+
+  Cleveland, Ohio, to delegation from, 152
+    Garfield mausoleum dedication, 222
+
+  Clifton Forge, Virginia, reception address at, 235
+
+  Clinton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 72
+
+  Coles County, Illinois, to delegation from, 57
+
+  Colorado Springs, Colorado, address to scholars, 450
+    reception address, 453
+
+  Colton, California, reception address at, 339
+
+  Columbus, Ohio, to delegation veteran voters from, 145
+    to Garfield Club and Gov. Foraker, 174
+    reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, 192
+    reception address at, May 14, 1891, 487
+
+  Commercial travellers of Indiana, address to, 40
+
+  Commercial travellers of Ill. and Ind., address to, 92
+
+  Commercial travellers of Chicago, address to, 139
+
+  Commercial travellers of United States, address to, 177
+
+  Council Bluffs, Iowa, reception address at, 471
+
+  Cresson, Pa., to visiting Altoona veterans, 231
+
+  Crestline, Ohio, reception address at, 278
+
+  Crete, Nebraska, reception address at, 462
+
+
+  Danville, Indiana, to Republican Club from, June 25, 1888, 25
+
+  Danville, Illinois, reception address at, 240
+
+  Dayton, Ohio, to delegation from, 137
+    reception address at, 485
+
+  Decatur County, Indiana, to delegation from, 87
+
+  Decatur, Illinois, reception address at, 476
+
+  Defiance, Ohio, reception address at, 94
+
+  De Graff, Ohio, reception address at, 276
+
+  Delaware County, Indiana, to delegation from, 87
+
+  Del Rio, Texas, reception address at, 332
+
+  Deming, New Mexico, reception address at, 335
+
+  Denver, Colorado, address at Capitol, 454
+    address at Hotel Metropole, 459
+
+  Depew, Hon. Chauncey M., visits the nominee, 171
+
+  Detroit, Michigan Club banquet address, 9
+
+  Diaz, President Porfirio, telegram from, 350
+
+  Douglas County, Illinois, to delegation from, 84
+
+  Duluth, Minnesota, to delegation from, 156
+
+
+  Ecumenical Conference, address to, at Washington, 550
+
+  Edgar County, Illinois, to delegation from, 57
+
+  Election results, popular vote for President, 1888, 188
+
+  Electoral College, extract from President's message, Dec., 1891, 560
+
+  Eleventh Indiana Regiment, survivors received, 171
+
+  Elkhart County, Indiana, to delegation from, 146
+
+  El Paso, Texas, reception address at, 333
+
+  Ex-prisoners of war, address to, at Indianapolis, 129
+
+
+  Fair Haven, Vermont, reception address at, 514
+
+  Florence, Colorado, reception address at, 447
+
+  Floyd County, Indiana, to delegation from, 122
+
+  Foraker, Gov. J. B., congratulates the nominee, 174
+
+  Ford County, Illinois, to delegation from, 89
+
+  Fort Wayne, Indiana, reception address at, 99
+
+  Foster, ex-Gov. Charles, introduces the nominee, 97
+
+  Fountain County, Indiana, to delegation from, 162
+
+  Fresno, California, reception address at, 365
+
+  Fulton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 156
+
+
+  Galesburg, Illinois, reception address at, 243
+    address at reunion 1st Brigade, 246
+    Alumni Hall, Knox College, 251
+    Phi Delta Theta banquet, 251
+    at 1st Brigade banquet, 252
+
+  Galveston, Texas, great speech and reception, 322
+
+  Garfield Club of Columbus, address to, at Indianapolis, 175
+
+  Garfield Monument, address at dedication of, 225
+
+  G. A. R. veterans and Gov. Rusk, address to, at Indianapolis, 120
+
+  G. A. R. installation officers, address to comrades, 189
+
+  G. A. R. camp fire, Indianapolis, address to comrades, 216
+
+  G. A. R. national encampment, address at Boston, 228
+
+  Gilroy, California, reception address at, 377
+
+  Glenwood Springs, Colorado, reception address at, 437
+    address to miners, 438
+    address to children, 440
+
+  Godfrey Commandery of Chicago, visit from, 83
+
+  Grand Rapids, Michigan, to delegation from, 159
+
+  Greenville, Tennessee, reception address at, 296
+
+  Grundy County, Illinois, to delegation from, 134
+
+
+  Hamilton County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 26
+    to delegation from, August 14, 1888, 83
+
+  Hancock County, Ohio, to delegation from, 149
+
+  Hannibal, Missouri, reception address at, 472
+
+  Harrison, Gen. Benj., biographical sketch of, 7-8
+
+  Harrison League of Indianapolis, address to, 33
+
+  Harrisburg, Pa., reception address at, 488
+
+  Hastings, Nebraska, reception address at, 461
+
+  Hendricks County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 25
+    to delegation from, Nov. 9, 1888, 188
+
+  Henry County, Indiana, to delegation from, 67
+
+  Hill, Gov. David B., his invitation to the President, 497
+
+  Hood River Station, Oregon, reception address at, 421
+
+  Houston, Texas, reception address at, 321
+
+  Houtzdale, Pa., reception address at, 233
+
+  Howard County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 26
+    to delegation from, July 18, 1888, 50
+
+  Huntington, Indiana, reception address at, 101
+
+  Hyde Park, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+
+  Inaugural Executive Committee, personnel of, 193
+
+  Inaugural address, March 4, 1889, 194-203
+
+  Indianapolis, to his neighbors, June 25, 1888, 27
+    to Indiana delegates, June 26, 1888, 29
+    to colored citizens, June 30, 1888, 33
+    to veterans 70th Regiment, 28
+    to veterans 26th Infantry, 134
+    to veterans 7th Cavalry, 131
+    to veterans 79th Regiment, 176
+    to veterans and neighbors, 32
+    introducing Gen. R. A. Alger, 69
+    official notification, July 4, 1888, 35
+    to Tippecanoe veterans, July 4, 1888, 38
+    to railroad employees, July 13, 1888, 47
+    speech at State Convention, Aug. 8, 1888, 80
+    on returning from Put-in Bay, Sept. 4, 1888, 105
+    great street demonstration, Sept. 6, 1888, 106
+    address to children, Sept. 8, 1888, 107
+    to the Porter-Columbian Club, Oct. 3, 1888, 158
+    Labor-Day address, Oct. 25, 1888, 183
+    to railroad clubs of Indiana, Oct. 27, 1888, 185
+    to the saw-makers of city, Nov. 9, 1888, 188
+    to G. A. R. veterans, Jan. 1, 1889, 189
+    farewell to neighbors, Feb. 25, 1889, 191
+    dedication Soldiers' Monument, 211
+    at G. A. R. camp-fire, Aug. 22, 1889, 216
+    at reunion 70th Regiment, Aug. 23, 1889, 217
+    the home welcome, May 14, 1891, 481
+
+  Indio, California, received by Gov. Markham, 338
+
+  Irish-American Club, address to, Sept. 15, 1888, 125
+
+  Iroquois County, Illinois, to delegation from, 131
+
+
+  Jacksonville, Illinois, to delegation from, July 19, 1888, 51
+    to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, 90
+
+  Janesville, Wisconsin, to delegation from, Oct. 5, 1888, 161
+
+  Jay County, Indiana, to delegation from, Sept. 21, 1888, 137
+    to delegation from, Oct. 4, 1888, 159
+
+  Jennings County, Indiana, to delegation from, July 28, 1888, 65
+
+  Johnson County, Indiana, to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, 90
+
+  Johnson City, Tennessee, reception address at, 293
+
+  Jonesboro, Tennessee, reception address at, 295
+
+
+  Kankakee, Illinois, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Kansas City, Missouri, to Blaine Club from, 77
+    to Scott Rifles from, 121
+    banquet address at, 265
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 266
+    letter to Commercial Congress, 286
+
+  Kansas veterans, address to, at Indianapolis, 108
+
+  Kingston, New York, reception address at, 495
+
+  Knightstown, Indiana, to soldiers' orphans at, 192
+
+  Knoxville, Tennessee, reception address at, 299
+
+  Kokomo, Indiana, to delegations from, 26, 50
+    reception address at, 103
+
+  Kosciusko County, Indiana, to delegation from, 63
+
+
+  Labor-Day address, close of the great campaign, 182
+
+  La Porte County, Indiana, to delegation from, 132
+
+  Lathrop, California, reception address at, 368
+
+  Lawrenceburg, Indiana, reception address at, 235
+
+  Lawrence, Kansas, reception address at, 265
+
+  Leadville, Colorado, reception address at, 442
+
+  Le Grande, Oregon, reception address at, 424
+
+  Lehi City, Utah, reception address at, 434
+
+  Letter of acceptance, Sept. 11, 1888, 108
+
+  Letter to Commercial Congress, April 14, 1891, 286
+
+  Letter on tin plate, its manufacture in America, 554
+
+  Lincoln, Nebraska, reception address at, 463
+    thanks to travelling men, 464
+
+  Lincoln Club, Cincinnati, address to, at Indianapolis, 49
+
+  Little Rock, Arkansas, reception address at, 317
+
+  Lordsburg, New Mexico, reception address at, 336
+
+  Los Angeles, California, reception address at, 345
+    speech at the pavilion, 347
+
+  Los Gatos, California, reception address at, 381
+
+  Louisville, Kentucky, to delegation from, 128
+
+
+  Macon County, Illinois, to delegation from, 84
+
+  Madison, Wisconsin, to delegation from, 161
+
+  Mansfield, Ohio, reception address at, 279
+
+  Marion County, Indiana, to the Tippecanoe Club, 38
+
+  Marquette Club, Chicago, speech at banquet, 16
+    to delegates from, 31
+    the President received by, 219
+
+  Marshall County, Indiana, to delegation from, 156
+
+  Maryville, Missouri, reception address at, 472
+
+  Massillon, Ohio, reception address at, 282
+
+  Medford, Oregon, reception address at, 401
+
+  Memphis, Tennessee, reception address at, 315
+
+  Merced, California, reception address at, 366
+
+  Message to Congress, presidential electors, Dec. 9, 1891, 560-63
+    Chilian affair, Dec. 9, 1891, 558
+    Chilian affair, Jan. 25, 1892, 564-70
+
+  McDaniels, L. W., extract from his address, 182
+
+  Michigan Club, Detroit, speech at banquet, 9
+
+  Middlebury, Vermont, reception address at, 517
+
+  Miller, Hon. Warner, famous telegram to, 189
+
+  Milwaukee German American Club, address to, 172
+
+  Modesto, California, reception address at, 367
+
+  Monterey, California, reception address at, 379
+
+  Montezuma, Indiana, welcomed by Gov. Hovey, 480
+
+  Montgomery County, Indiana, to delegation from, 71
+
+  Monticello, Illinois, to delegation from, 51
+
+  Montpelier, Vermont, address to Legislature, 527
+    reception address at, 529
+
+  Montt, Seńor Don Pedro, his address to the President, 556
+
+  Morgan County, Indiana, to delegation from, 70
+
+  Morgan County, Illinois, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Morristown, Tennessee, reception address at, 297
+
+  Mt. McGregor, New York, birthday dinner speech, 510
+
+  Muncie, Indiana, reception address at, 272
+
+  Muskegon, Michigan, to delegation from, 159
+
+
+  Newburgh, New York, reception address at, 494
+
+  New York City, Washington centenary speech, 204
+    Centennial banquet address, 209
+
+  Ninth Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 134
+
+  Noblesville, Indiana, reception address at, 104
+
+  Normal, Illinois, to students from, 152
+
+  North Vernon, Indiana, reception address at, 236
+
+  Northen, Gov. Wm. J., welcomes the President, 303
+
+  Nortonville, Kansas, reception address at, 263
+
+  Notification committee, personnel of, 36
+
+
+  Oakland, California, reception address at, 395
+
+  Ogden, Utah, committee escorts President, 430
+
+  Omaha, Nebraska, reception address at, 465
+    addresses to school children, 470
+
+  Ontario, California, reception address at, 340
+
+  Orange, California, reception address at, 351
+
+  Oregon City, Oregon, reception address at, 406
+
+  Orrville, Ohio, reception address at, 281
+
+  Osceola, Pa., reception address at, 231
+
+  Ottumwa, Iowa, speech at Coal Palace, 255
+
+  Oxford College, Ohio, visit from students, 186
+
+
+  Palestine, Texas, received by Gov. Hogg, 319
+
+  Parke County, Indiana, to delegation from, 143
+
+  Pasadena, California, reception address at, 356
+
+  Paxton, Illinois, to delegation from, 89
+
+  Pendleton, Oregon, reception address at, 423
+
+  Pennsylvania gas men, address to, at Indianapolis, 151
+
+  Peo, Umatilla chief, his unique address to President, 423
+
+  Peoria, Illinois, reception address at, 242
+
+  Peru, Indiana, reception address at, 102
+
+  Philadelphia, speech at Independence Hall, 491
+    remarks at Gen Meade's grave, 492
+
+  Phillipsburg, Pa., reception at, Sept. 20, 1890, 234
+
+  Plainfield, Indiana, to delegation from, 26
+
+  Plainfield, Vermont, reception address at, 530
+
+  Pocatello, Idaho, reception address at, 429
+
+  Pomona, California, reception address at, 342
+
+  Porter-Columbian Club, address to members, 158
+
+  Portland, Oregon, reception address at, 408
+    Secretary Rusk's address, 411
+    Postmaster-General Wanamaker's speech, 410
+
+  Proctor, Vermont, farewell to New England, 546
+
+  Provo City, Utah, reception address at, 434
+
+  Pueblo, Colorado, address to school children, 448
+    Mineral Palace speech, 449
+
+  Puget Sound, remarks on board steamship, 415
+
+  Pullman, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+  Put-in Bay, Ohio, reception address at, 97
+
+  Puyallup, Washington, reception address at, 420
+
+
+  Railroad Club of Terre Haute, address to, 73
+
+  Railroad clubs of Indiana, address to, 185
+
+  Railroad employees of Indianapolis, address to, 47
+
+  Railroad employees should be protected, message, 559
+
+  Randolph County, Indiana, to delegation from, 137
+
+  Ransom Post, G. A. R., address to delegation from, 119
+
+  Red Bluff, California, reception address at, 398
+
+  Redding, California, reception address at, 399
+
+  Redwood City, California, reception address at, 375
+
+  Republican State Convention, speech before, 81
+
+  Richmond, Indiana, reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, 192
+    reception address at, May 14, 1891, 483
+
+  Richmond, Vermont, reception address at, 524
+
+  Riverside, California, reception address at, 352
+
+  Roanoke, Virginia, reception address at, 290
+
+  Rush County, Indiana, to delegation from, 86
+
+  Rusk, Gov. J. M., names Gen. Harrison for a second term, 120
+
+  Rusk, Secretary, speech of, at Portland, Oregon, 411
+
+  Rutland, Vermont, reception address at, 544
+
+
+  Sacramento, California, address at State House, 391
+
+  Salem, Oregon, address at Capitol, 403
+
+  Salida, Colorado, reception address at, 445
+
+  Salt Lake, Utah, reception address at, 431
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 433
+    address to children, 434
+
+  San Antonio, Texas, reception address at, 329
+
+  San Bernardino, California, reception address at, 353
+
+  San Buena Ventura, California, reception address at, 359
+
+  San Diego, California, to Indiana residents, 347
+    at citizens' reception, 349
+    response to Gov. Torres, 350
+
+  San Fernando, California, reception address at, 358
+
+  San Francisco, the arrival address, 371
+    Sutro Heights speech, 372
+    at Phi Delta Theta banquet, 373
+    launch of the _Monterey_, 374
+    reception at Senator Stanford's, 375
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 383
+    address to veterans, May 1, 384
+    Palace Hotel banquet speech, 386
+    at Union League reception, 396
+    farewell to California, 397
+
+  San José, California, reception address at, 376
+
+  Santa Ana, California, reception address at, 351
+
+  Santa Barbara, California, reception address at, 361
+
+  Santa Cruz, California, reception address at, 380
+
+  Santa Paula, California, reception address at, 358
+
+  Saratoga, New York, reception address at, 511
+    House of Pansa reception, 512
+
+  Seattle, Washington, reception address at, 417
+    Mr. Wanamaker's address, 419
+
+  Second Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 134
+
+  Seventieth Indiana Infantry, reunion address, Sept. 13, 1888, 116
+    reunion address, Aug. 23, 1889, 216
+
+  Seventh Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 131
+
+  Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, 176
+
+  Seymour, Indiana, reception address at, 237
+
+  Shelby County, Indiana, to delegation from, 54
+
+  Shenandoah, Iowa, reception address at, 471
+
+  Shoals, Indiana, reception address at, 238
+
+  Sisson, California, reception address at, 400
+
+  Soldiers' Monument, Indianapolis, dedicatory address, 214
+
+  South Chicago, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+  Springfield, Ohio, to delegation from, 180
+
+  Springfield, Illinois, to delegation from, 52
+    at Lincoln's tomb, 473
+    State House address, 475
+
+  Springville, Utah, reception address at, 436
+
+  State Fair, Indianapolis, address to exhibitors, 136
+
+  St. Albans, Vermont, reception address at, 521
+
+  St. Johnsbury, Vermont, reception address at, 531
+
+  St. Joseph, Missouri, reception address at, 258
+
+  St. Louis, Missouri, delegation from Ransom Post, 119
+    Loyal Legion delegation, 171
+    Merchants' Exchange speech, 268
+    at Jockey Club banquet, 270
+
+  Sullivan, Indiana, reception address at, 238
+
+  Sutro, Hon. Adolph, presentation address to President, 372
+
+
+  Tacoma, Washington, reception address at, 413
+    Mrs. Harrison's thanks, 414
+
+  Tallapoosa, Georgia, reception address at, 307
+
+  Terre Haute, Indiana, to Railroad Club from, 74
+    response to chair presentation, 187
+    reception address at, 239
+
+  Texarkana, Arkansas, reception address at, 318
+
+  Texas G. A. R. veterans, visit to Gen. Harrison, 122
+
+  The Dalles, Oregon, reception address at, 422
+
+  Tiffin, Ohio, to delegation from, 159
+
+  Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to delegation from, 78
+
+  Tipton, Indiana, reception address at, 104
+
+  Tipton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 146
+
+  Toledo, Ohio, reception address at, 95
+
+  Topeka, Kansas, address to veterans, 261
+
+  Tower, Minnesota, to delegation from, 156
+
+  Troy, New York, reception address at, 500
+
+  Tucson, Arizona, reception address at, 337
+
+  Tulare, California, reception address at, 364
+
+  Tuscola, Illinois, reception address at, 478
+
+  Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, 134
+
+
+  Union City, Indiana, reception address at, 274
+
+  Union ex-prisoners war address to delegates, 130
+
+
+  Valley Falls, Kansas, reception address at, 264
+
+  Vanderberg County, Indiana, to delegation from, 79
+
+  Vergennes, Vermont, reception address at, 518
+
+  Vermilion County, Indiana, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Vermilion County, Illinois, to delegation from, 126
+
+
+  Wabash County, Indiana, to veterans from, 42
+    to delegation from, July 12, 1888, 43
+    to delegation from, Sept. 25, 1888, 143
+
+  Wanamaker, Hon. John, address at Atlanta, 306
+    address at Portland, 410
+    address at Seattle, 419
+
+  Washington, D. C., to Augusta Exposition Committee, 549
+    to Methodist Ecumenical Conference, 551
+    the return to, May 15, 1891, 489
+
+  Waterbury, Vermont, reception address at, 525
+
+  Watsonville, California, reception address at, 378
+
+  Wells County, Indiana, to delegation from, 163
+
+  Western tour, 1890, personnel of party, 234
+
+  Whitehall, New York, reception address at, 513
+
+  Winchester, Indiana, reception address at, 274
+
+  Windsor, Vermont, reception address at, 537
+
+  Wooster, Ohio, reception address at, 280
+
+
+  Xenia, Ohio, reception address at, 486
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+  Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent
+  spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been
+  preserved.
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
+       Twenty-third President of the United States
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="600" height="865" alt="Portrait Benjamin Harrison" title="Portrait Benjamin Harrison" />
+</div>
+
+<h1>
+SPEECHES<br />
+
+<span class="small-title">of</span><br />
+
+BENJAMIN HARRISON<br />
+
+<span class="small-title">Twenty-third President of the United States</span>
+</h1>
+
+<p class="tapered">
+A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY,
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892,
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>CHRO&shy;NO&shy;LOGICALLY CLASSI&shy;FIED;
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>EM&shy;BRACING ALL HIS
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>CAM&shy;PAIGN SPEECHES, LET&shy;TER
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>OF AC&shy;CEP&shy;TANCE, IN&shy;AU&shy;GU&shy;RAL
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>AD&shy;DRESS, AND THE
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>NUME&shy;ROUS SPEECHES
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>DELIV&shy;ERED DURING
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>HIS SEV&shy;ER&shy;AL TOURS;
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>ALSO EXTRACTS
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>FROM HIS
+<span class="taper-left">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right">&nbsp;</span>MESSAGES TO
+<span class="taper-left-last">&nbsp;</span><span class="taper-right-last">&nbsp;</span>CON&shy;GRESS
+</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&mdash;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&mdash;only terms of generous tolerance&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;the third son of President William Henry Harrison
+and Anna Symmes&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;with his bride, Miss Caroline W. Scott,
+to whom he was wedded October 20, 1853&mdash;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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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&mdash;"Blue Jeans"&mdash;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&mdash;the
+unanimous choice of his party&mdash;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&mdash;viz.: "I am a dead statesman, but a living and
+rejuvenated Republican"&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;"Washington,
+the republican; a free and equal ballot the only guarantee of
+the Nation's security and perpetuity"&mdash;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&mdash;one
+that was to-day in the Senate at Washington read from the
+desk by its presiding officer&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;sometimes it is called a corner-stone,
+sometimes the foundation of our structure of government&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;yes, largely more than reverse&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;and why? Simply
+because the predominating sentiment in the Territory of Dakota is
+Republican&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;not in a spirit of enmity
+against the men who fought against us&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;one
+of the leading social and political organizations
+of that great city&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;Abraham
+Lincoln&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;we could
+wait, but in the mean time interest would accumulate&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;a government
+by constitutional majority&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;which seems
+to have no limit&mdash;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&mdash;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"&mdash;in the language of the
+parole&mdash;"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&mdash;after his nomination&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;of which General Harrison is an honorary
+member&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;as it
+would be if other duties did not crowd me&mdash;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&mdash;and I have many
+manifestations of it&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;a
+great increase in the value of farms and farm products&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;rightly, as I believe&mdash;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&mdash;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 ćgis 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&mdash;J. C. Finch, President, and A. D. Shaw, Marshal
+of the occasion&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;inventive
+and skilful, faithful and courageous, sober and educated&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;the citizens of
+that prosperous place as well as the farmers throughout the county&mdash;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&mdash;Nov.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+8, 1858&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;that the same great impulse
+swept over your State that swept over ours&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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]&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;which I have no
+doubt he has repented of&mdash;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&mdash;the fruit of our Christian civilization&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;that fearless and
+first of volunteer soldiers&mdash;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&mdash;Sergeant Tillman Joy&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the farm, the office, and
+the shop&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;rightly&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;after the Henry County
+reception in University Park&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;as you would
+know if you lived in Michigan&mdash;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&mdash;who is our candidate also&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the tilling
+of the soil&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;and I
+hope you will never allow yourselves to doubt&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;"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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;Alvin P. Hovey, Posey County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Lieutenant-Governor</i>&mdash;Ira J. Chase, Hendricks County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Secretary of State</i>&mdash;Charles F. Griffin, Lake County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Auditor of State</i>&mdash;Bruce Carr, Orange County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Treasurer</i>&mdash;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>&mdash;L. T. Michner, Shelby County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Superintendent Public Instruction</i>&mdash;H. M. LaFollette,
+Boone County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Reporter Supreme Court</i>&mdash;John L. Griffiths, Marion
+County.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Judges of Supreme Court.</span></p>
+
+<p><i>First District</i>&mdash;Silas T. Coffey, Clay County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Second District</i>&mdash;J. G. Berkshire, Jennings County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Fourth District</i>&mdash;Walter Olds, Whitely County.</p>
+
+<p><i>Electors-at-Large</i>&mdash;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&mdash;"the next President"&mdash;and General
+Harrison spoke as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p><i>Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention</i>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;General
+Grant's original regiment&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;I am glad to see you
+here&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;Wm. Ramsey, President, and the
+Paxton League&mdash;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&mdash;all of Jacksonville.</p>
+
+<p>The Indiana visitors came from three counties&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;upon
+invitation of ex-Gov. Charles Foster, of Ohio&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;not in my interest, but
+in your own; in the interest of your families and the country you
+love&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;a great number, I might say&mdash;he
+has kindly consented to give a reception here to-day, upon one
+condition&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;our plain people&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;if we are to
+have foreign competition without favoring duties&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;standing in his own door&mdash;facing
+the great assembly, said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p><i>My Friends</i>&mdash;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&mdash;<i>en route</i> to the Grand Encampment&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;free trade in the English sense. The
+legend upon the banner may not be "Free Trade"&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;I feel quite incompetent to discharge the duty that
+now devolves upon me&mdash;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&mdash;possibly
+a fuller&mdash;share than we in the great achievements of the war. We
+claim only this for the Seventieth Indiana&mdash;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&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;General Sherman's
+Post&mdash;who were introduced by Col. Murphy. General
+Harrison, responding to their greeting, said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p><i>Comrades</i>&mdash;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&mdash;I consider it both an honor and a pleasure
+in introducing to you the President of the United
+States for the next eight years&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;its cruel, hard
+memories&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;You were Irishmen, you are Americans
+[cheers]&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;no one would advise that&mdash;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&mdash;afterward
+President of the United States&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;though I
+took no security [laughter]&mdash;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&mdash;then in
+progress&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;the child of England, as
+she has been wont to call us, speaking the mother tongue, having
+many institutions inherited from her&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;coal, metals, ships,
+an aptitude for machinery, energy and industry&mdash;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]&mdash;coal, metals, ships, an
+aptitude for machinery, energy, and industry&mdash;while the early obstacles
+of deficient capital and scanty labor are rapidly disappearing."
+And I am sure there is a "New South"&mdash;shackled as it is by traditions
+and prejudices&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;their
+arithmeticians do not agree on the exact figures&mdash;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&mdash;Senator Sherman has advocated the same policy with great
+ability in the Senate&mdash;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&mdash;put it out on mortgages, at interest,
+or in any other way&mdash;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&mdash;and
+from such high authority that I think that we must accept it as
+true&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and
+so produces most cheaply&mdash;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&mdash;as it is in some other countries&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;200 veterans
+of the Civil War&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and you may
+confidently submit to the judgment of every brave Confederate
+soldier whether the terms are not fair&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;weighing
+over 500 pounds&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;labor
+upon the farm, labor upon our streets&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;Hoosiers, if you
+please [cheers]&mdash;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&mdash;there are some things to-day&mdash;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&mdash;"the largest
+village in the world"&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;Paul D. Carpenter,
+President; George Russell, Secretary. Among
+other prominent members were Samuel Chandler, who organized
+the pilgrimage, and Walter W. Pollock. President
+Carpenter&mdash;son of the late Senator Matt Carpenter&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;"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>&mdash;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&mdash;it is only the widening of the family
+circle&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;made fast&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;G. C. Webster, President; Ernest Morris,
+Secretary&mdash;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&mdash;"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>&mdash;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&mdash;and our whole
+country&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;Col. Wm. F. Bakhaus, Lieut.-Col. Darwin
+Pierce, Major Wm. Robinson. Third Regiment&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;your merchants and farmers&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;and
+others more forcibly than I&mdash;that it seems to me should be conclusive
+with the wage-earners of America. The policy of the Democratic
+party&mdash;the revision of our tariff laws as indicated by the
+Democratic party, a revenue-only tariff, or progressive free trade&mdash;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&mdash;each man carrying a colored lantern&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;about 100 in
+number&mdash;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&mdash;at
+the same election&mdash;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&nbsp;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&mdash;speaking
+in public for the first time since his election&mdash;in
+substance said:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p><i>Commander and Comrades</i>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;except Virginia&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;other than the members of the Cabinet and the
+other prominent gentlemen who accompanied the President
+on the <i>Despatch</i>&mdash;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&mdash;Centennial Day&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;onerous, exacting, and too often unthankful&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;under
+whose supervision the attendant exercises were conducted&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;where the regiment was organized&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;while in an unfinished state&mdash;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&mdash;of which the President
+is an honorary member&mdash;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&mdash;the modern Parthenon&mdash;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&mdash;one of the tallest buildings
+in the world. The permanent seating capacity of the
+auditorium is over 4,000, but for conventions&mdash;by utilizing
+stage&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;"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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;who occupied places of honor&mdash;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&mdash;the Forty-second
+Ohio&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;a
+day consecrated to the memory of those who died that there might
+be one flag of honor and authority in this republic&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the place where he labors, the place where he lives,
+the roof under which his family is sheltered&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;if some of them are here to meet with us
+to-day&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;not me, I am sure&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and
+I hope all of you have them&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the President's brother&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and I do not need these
+eloquent words of assurance to have already impressed upon me&mdash;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&mdash;the high branches of your enterprise&mdash;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>&mdash;I have sometimes thought that the life
+of the President of the United States is like that of the policeman
+in the opera&mdash;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&mdash;we are all proud of our State and proud of our communities&mdash;I
+desire to say that while I have friends elsewhere, these
+were my earliest friends&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;above the just pride
+which Ohioans have in that noble State, and above the just pride
+which we have in Indiana&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;to the institutions and business
+with which we are connected&mdash;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&mdash;one whom I
+know you have learned to love and honor as you are now privileged
+to know&mdash;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&mdash;The American people are very
+kind"&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;every kindly heart&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;as I have seen the evidence of
+it in a very extended trip through the West&mdash;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&mdash;and
+I have no doubt it is true in your midst&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;representatives of the silver States&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;my Postmaster-General is near, and if I fall into
+error will correct me [laughter]&mdash;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&mdash;Greenville,
+Tenn.&mdash;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>&mdash;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"&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;It gives me pleasure to visit this historical
+city&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;one with arms, the other with
+the gentle influences of peace&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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.&mdash;nearly a million and a quarter of tons&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;which God forbid&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;It gives me pleasure to come
+this fresh morning into this great State&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;is it so?&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;in a great measure&mdash;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&mdash;himself
+a farmer, who has with his own hands wrought
+in all the work of the farm&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;our
+meats, our breadstuffs, and certain lines of manufactured goods&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;all
+that is good&mdash;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>&mdash;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, Seńor Mejia, Seńor 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>&mdash;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&mdash;the home, the school, and
+the church&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;because no country can settle up and become
+populous while the titles to its land remain insecure&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and the good-will as well&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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]&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;these flowers of the field and this flag, representing
+organized government&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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!&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;Maj. R. P. Hammond. California Pioneers&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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 man&oelig;uvres 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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;I have
+been subjected during my stay in California in some respects to
+the same treatment the policeman accords to the tramp&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;of the flag&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;I
+know it will not be long if we but unitedly pursue this great scheme&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the executive, the legislative, and the judicial&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and such inspiring
+presences as this but kindle and confirm my belief&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;quickening it, increasing it&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;for years are
+increasing with us all&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;indeed, I do not need the assurance&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;my comrades here present&mdash;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&mdash;the
+common school&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;if it was a place then&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;the compact
+of our Government&mdash;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&mdash;first, the
+territory northwest of the Ohio, then the Louisiana purchase, then
+these accessions upon the Pacific coast&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the Garden
+City of Utah&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;notwithstanding it was the Sabbath&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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 cańons. 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">CAŃON 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 Cańon. Emerging through the Royal Gorge the
+party reached Cańon 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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;accursed
+of God&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;proof will be made whenever the occasion
+requires&mdash;that, as much as we pursue gain and personal ends, we
+have nothing&mdash;property or life&mdash;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&mdash;all this is too great for any
+man&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;indeed, I knew
+I should find&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;even in Arizona, where a few scores had
+gathered from distant ranches&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;it is characteristic of free people&mdash;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&mdash;and we think
+this hope fills the great West as well as the East&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;which is common ground
+upon which we can all stand&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;all
+classes of our people&mdash;felt at their firesides and loved. The love
+of our people is drawn to him because he had such a great heart&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;this most beneficial institution&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;in
+addition to the distinguished officials mentioned
+at Montezuma&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;and it is
+only a sample of many&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the glory of our country, the permanency of our
+institutions, and the general good of our people. The springs of
+all good government&mdash;the most important things after all&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;on the homestretch of its great
+run of 9,232 miles&mdash;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&mdash;without accident of any kind and without a
+minute's variance from the prearranged schedule&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;as
+a great manufacturing city&mdash;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&mdash;any administrative method&mdash;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&mdash;not a home in the United States
+of America&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;they had the gravest
+reason to fear&mdash;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&mdash;other than those previously
+enumerated&mdash;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 Sčvres 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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;having endured in march and camp and battle
+the utmost that men can endure, and given the utmost that men
+can give&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;a
+comrade dropping out, borne to the hospital, followed to the grave&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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,&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;and
+not only that, but of the moral side of your young men&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;many of them gave&mdash;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&mdash;it is essential&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;a market the
+best per capita of any in the world&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;It is very pleasant to know that a public officer may
+travel everywhere through this great land of ours&mdash;and only those
+who have traversed it can understand how great it is&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;the capacity to make mistakes. He can be, if he is
+true, sure of one thing&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;Misses May Masten, Lala
+McNeil, Marian Moore, Lottie Holder, Beatrice May, and
+Emma May&mdash;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>&mdash;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]&mdash;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&mdash;this
+great cup of good-will which you put to my lips&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;I am about completing a very pleasant trip
+through the State of Vermont&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;the doughface&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;temporarily in a place of influence in this
+country&mdash;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>&mdash;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 Seńor
+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, Seńor
+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&mdash;with the two governments apparently on the
+verge of war&mdash;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 Seńors Anibal Cruz,
+Secretary of Legation; Guillermo Arenanetegan and
+Valentin del Campo, attachés. After the formal introductions
+by Secretary Blaine, Seńor Montt addressed the
+President in Spanish as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p><i>Mr. President</i>&mdash;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>&mdash;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&mdash;as indicated
+through the press of the day&mdash;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&mdash;South Carolina&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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">ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ</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">ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ</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&mdash;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&mdash;the nationality&mdash;and
+not upon the men.</p>
+
+<p class="dot">ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ</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">ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ ˇ</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&mdash;largely by
+the police&mdash;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>Cańon 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, Seńor 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. Inconsistent
+  spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been
+  preserved.
+</p>
+</div>
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+Title: Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
+       Twenty-third President of the United States
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+Author: Benjamin Harrison
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+[Illustration: Benjamin Harrison]
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+
+
+                         SPEECHES
+
+                            OF
+
+                    BENJAMIN HARRISON
+
+        TWENTY-THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
+
+
+  A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF HIS PUBLIC ADDRESSES FROM FEBRUARY,
+      1888, TO FEBRUARY, 1892, CHRONOLOGICALLY CLASSIFIED;
+        EMBRACING ALL HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES, LETTER
+         OF ACCEPTANCE, INAUGURAL ADDRESS, AND THE
+            NUMEROUS SPEECHES DELIVERED DURING
+             HIS SEVERAL TOURS; ALSO EXTRACTS
+                  FROM HIS MESSAGES TO
+                         CONGRESS
+
+
+                        COMPILED BY
+                       CHARLES HEDGES
+
+
+                          NEW YORK
+                 UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY
+                       SUCCESSORS TO
+                   JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY
+                  142 TO 150 WORTH STREET
+
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1892,
+BY
+CHARLES HEDGES
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+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!
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+                                                                   C. H.
+
+  WASHINGTON, D. C., February 20, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+BIOGRAPHICAL.
+
+
+Benjamin Harrison, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+In 1860 he was elected reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of
+Indiana, as a Republican, receiving 9,688 majority.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+In 1878 he was chosen chairman of the Republican State Convention.
+
+In 1879 he was appointed by President Hayes a member of the Mississippi
+River Commission.
+
+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.
+
+President Garfield tendered him any position but one in his Cabinet, but
+the high honor was declined.
+
+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.
+
+In 1884 he again represented his State as delegate at large to the
+National Convention.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+HARRISON'S SPEECHES.
+
+
+
+
+DETROIT, FEBRUARY 22, 1888.
+
+_Michigan Club Banquet._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The officers of the club were: _President_, Clarence A. Black;
+_Vice-President_, William H. Elliott; _Secretary_, Fred. E. Farnsworth;
+_Treasurer_, Frederick Woolfenden.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison responded to the sentiment, "Washington, the
+republican. The guarantee of the Constitution 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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Senator spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Michigan Club_--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.]
+
+  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 impossible 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.
+
+  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, "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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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. [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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 laborers in the South had their due
+  representation in the House of Representatives.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO, MARCH 20, 1888.
+
+_Marquette Club Banquet._
+
+
+On 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.
+
+The officers of the club for that year were: George V. Lauman,
+_President_; William H. Johnson, _First Vice-President_; Hubert D.
+Crocker, _Second Vice-President_; Charles U. Gordon, _Secretary_; Will
+Sheldon Gilbert, _Treasurer_.
+
+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.
+
+President Lauman was toastmaster, and opened the banquet with an address
+of welcome to Senator Harrison.
+
+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.
+
+Amid hearty applause General Harrison rose to respond to the toast, "The
+Republican Party." He spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Marquette Club_--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 Fremont, 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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 subjection. 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?
+
+  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?
+
+  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 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?
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 25, 1888.
+
+_Nomination Day._
+
+
+A few 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+To the Danville Club General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+Responding to their call, General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+On the evening of the twenty-fifth five thousand or more neighbors and
+residents of the city congregated before the Harrison residence.
+
+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 head. Hon. W. N. Harding finally quieted the crowd and
+presented General Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Neighbors and Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 26.
+
+
+The 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. Thompson; also the returning delegates
+from Vermont to the Chicago convention, headed by Gov. Redfield Proctor
+and General J. G. McCullough.
+
+Responding to the address of Major Grubbs, on behalf of the veterans,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 that we loved, made again
+  secure against all the perils which had threatened them.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Fellow-Citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen_--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
+  politically. 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.
+
+  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 campaign 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 30.
+
+
+During 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.
+
+One of the resolutions recited that
+
+"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."
+
+General Harrison in response said:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Marquette Club_--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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Comrade Mitchell and Fellow-Soldiers_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Bagby and Gentlemen of the Harrison Club_--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.
+
+  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
+  parties. 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!"]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 4, 1888.
+
+_The Notification._
+
+
+The 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:
+
+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.
+
+At noon on July 4 the notification committee representing the Republican
+National Convention arrived under escort at the residence of General
+Harrison, No. 674 Delaware Street. The following delegates comprised the
+committee:
+
+Judge Morris M. Estee of California, _Chairman_; 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+July 4, 1888, was a memorable day in the life of General Harrison and
+his wife; for aside from the official 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.
+
+Nearly all the younger and able-bodied members attended the Chicago
+Convention and worked unceasingly for the nomination of General Benjamin
+Harrison.
+
+Their average age was seventy-five years, while one member, James
+Hubbard of Mapleton, was over one hundred years old.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Tippecanoe Club of Marion
+  County_--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 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.
+
+  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?
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 7.
+
+
+Five 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Indiana
+  and Visiting Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 9.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 12.
+
+
+General Harrison 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:
+
+  _Comrades and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Cowgill and my Wabash County Friends_--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 demonstrative 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Colonel Streight, Fellow-citizens, and Comrades_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+Another contingent was commanded by David O. Mason, 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 aegis 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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 13.
+
+
+One 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:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 14.
+
+
+A notable 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:
+
+  _Mr. Wulsin and Gentlemen of the Lincoln Club of Cincinnati_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 18.
+
+
+Howard County 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:
+
+  _Father Rayburn and my Howard County Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 19.
+
+
+Illinois 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Attorney-General Hunt spoke on behalf of all the visitors. General
+Harrison's reply was one of his happiest speeches. He said:
+
+  _General Hunt and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Judge Adams and my Shelby County Friends_--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 that his end of the regiment should get
+  to the top of that hill as quick as the other end. [Prolonged cheers.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 24.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+Prominent members of the delegation were Rev. I. S. 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 25.
+
+
+Two thousand visitors from Edgar and Coles counties, Illinois, paid
+their respects to the Republican nominee this day.
+
+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, 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:
+
+  _Senator Bacon and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+  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:
+
+          "Thy proudest mother's eyelids fill,
+            As dares her gallant boy,
+          And Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill
+            Yearn to thee, Illinois."
+
+  [Applause.] He commanded successively brigades, divisions, corps
+  and armies, and fought them with unvarying success. I greet these
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 26.
+
+
+From 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:
+
+  _Gentlemen and Friends from Clay County_--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!"]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _My Bloomington Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 27.
+
+
+Kosciusko County, 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:
+
+  _Mr. Biggs and my Kosciusko County Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 28.
+
+
+Jennings County, 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 31.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+Repeated outbursts of enthusiasm punctured his address. He said:
+
+  _Comrade Grose and my Henry County Friends_--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.]
+
+  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. 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+  _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._ [Applause.] And what is essential
+  to that end? Regular mails are the first condition of commerce.
+
+  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. _We desire those friendly political,
+  mental, and commercial relations which shall promote their interests
+  equally with ours._ 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.]
+
+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.
+
+In introducing his guest General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+General Alger responded as follows:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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 _post-mortem_ 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.] 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 1.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Adams and my Morgan and Brown County Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 3.
+
+
+On 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+In reply to their addresses General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 4.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Downs, Gentlemen of the Terre Haute Railroad Club, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 6.
+
+
+Monday, August 6, General Harrison received a visit from one hundred
+members of the Kansas City Blaine Club, accompanied by many ladies, _en
+route_ 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 concluding 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 7.
+
+
+Indianapolis 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.
+
+General Harrison, in his response, touched upon the origin and
+principles of the Republican party. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Smith and my Tippecanoe County Friends_--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
+  conservative 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+The second delegation comprised fifteen hundred citizens from Vanderburg
+County. The Tippecanoe Club of Evansville, with sixty veterans, led the
+column.
+
+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.
+
+Dr. W. G. Ralston delivered an address in the name of the delegation.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _My Good Friends from the Pocket_--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.
+
+  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 division 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."
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 8.
+
+_The Republican State Convention._
+
+
+The Republican State Convention convened at Tomlinson Hall, city of
+Indianapolis, August 8, 1888, and concluded its work in one day.
+
+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:
+
+_Governor_--Alvin P. Hovey, Posey County.
+
+_Lieutenant-Governor_--Ira J. Chase, Hendricks County.
+
+_Secretary of State_--Charles F. Griffin, Lake County.
+
+_Auditor of State_--Bruce Carr, Orange County.
+
+_Treasurer_--J. A. Lemcke, Vanderburg County.
+
+_Attorney-General_--L. T. Michner, Shelby County.
+
+_Superintendent Public Instruction_--H. M. LaFollette, Boone County.
+
+_Reporter Supreme Court_--John L. Griffiths, Marion County.
+
+
+JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT.
+
+_First District_--Silas T. Coffey, Clay County.
+
+_Second District_--J. G. Berkshire, Jennings County.
+
+_Fourth District_--Walter Olds, Whitely County.
+
+_Electors-at-Large_--James M. Shackelford, Vanderburg County; Thomas H.
+Nelson, Vigo County.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention_--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 reception 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 14.
+
+
+Godfrey Commandery, Knights Templars, of Chicago, colored men, _en
+route_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _Colonel Gray and my Hamilton County Friends_--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.
+
+  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
+  congratulate 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.
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Republican Friends_--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 responsibilities.
+  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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  Now, having spoken once already to-day, you will accept this
+  inadequate acknowledgment of this magnificent demonstration.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 15.
+
+
+Rush, 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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Judge Cullen and my Rush County Friends_--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.
+
+  I cannot in these daily addresses enter much into public questions.
+
+  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, 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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, 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.
+
+In reply to these several addresses General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 17.
+
+
+Delegations from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, aggregating between nine
+and ten thousand visitors, paid their respects to the Republican nominee
+on the seventeenth of August.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Indiana visitors came from three counties--Bartholomew, Johnson, and
+Vermilion.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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. 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Peoria,
+  Bloomington, Lafayette, and Terre Haute_--I thank you for this most
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  The principle of protection, the intelligent recognition in the
+  framing of our tariff laws of the duty to protect our American
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TOLEDO, OHIO, AUGUST 21.
+
+
+General Harrison 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.
+
+He was accompanied by Mrs. Harrison, Judge Wm. A. Woods and wife, Miss
+Woods, Samuel Miller, and representatives of the Associated Press and
+Cincinnati _Commercial-Gazette_.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, speaking from the train, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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."
+
+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 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 campaign 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO, AUGUST 31.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+From a pavilion in the adjacent grove John Brown introduced Hon. Charles
+Foster, who said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+As Governor Foster concluded, General Harrison arose midst a shout of
+welcome and spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FORT WAYNE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4, 1888.
+
+
+General Harrison and party, _en route_ 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 prosperity. 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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+HUNTINGTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The next stop was at Huntington, where two thousand people were
+congregated.
+
+In response to repeated calls General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+PERU, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KOKOMO, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The city of Kokomo welcomed the party in the evening with a brilliant
+illumination by natural gas. Three thousand people were present. General
+Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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?
+
+
+
+
+TIPTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At Tipton Junction, where several hundred people had congregated,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+NOBLESVILLE, IND., SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+To the assembled citizens of Noblesville the general said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 4.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 6.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 8.
+
+
+General Harrison 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 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 10.
+
+
+General Harrison's visitors to-day comprised six hundred G. A. R.
+veterans and their wives from Northwestern Kansas--_en route_ 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. 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:
+
+  _My Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL HARRISON'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
+
+
+                        INDIANAPOLIS, IND., September 11, 1888.
+  HON. M. M. ESTEE AND OTHERS, COMMITTEE, ETC.:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  The territorial form of government is a temporary expedient, 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects
+  upon which the convention gave an expression.
+
+  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.
+
+  Inviting a calm and thoughtful consideration of these public
+  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.
+
+          Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
+                                            BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+CLAYTON, IND., SEPTEMBER 13.
+
+_Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana Regiment._
+
+
+General Harrison, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+With great earnestness the General replied as follows:
+
+  _Miss Mitchell_--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
+
+             "A bridal of the earth and sky."
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+General Harrison was unanimously re-elected President of the
+Association, Colonel Samuel Merrill Vice-President, M. G. McLean
+Secretary, Major James L. Mitchell Treasurer.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, visibly affected, simply said: "I feel myself crowned
+again to-day by this evidence of comradeship of the old soldiers of the
+Seventieth Indiana." [Cheers.]
+
+On his return from Clayton, General Harrison was visited at his
+residence by fifty veterans of Potter Post, G. A. R., Sycamore, Ill.,
+_en route_ 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 14.
+
+
+All 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:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.
+
+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 Wisconsin, 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.]
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Rusk, Comrades of the Grand Army, and Ladies_--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.]
+
+  Every man and every woman should do them honor. We have a body of
+  citizen soldiers instructed in tactics and strategy and accustomed 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 15.
+
+
+General Harrison held three receptions this date. The first was tendered
+the Scott Rifles of Kansas City, all members of the G. A. R., _en route_
+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:
+
+  _Captain and Comrades_--I did not need to be assured that comrades
+  of the Grand Army, whether bearing arms or not, brought me no 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+                                       NATHAN P. BRADY, _President_.
+
+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 spokesman
+was Mr. John F. Beggs. General Harrison delivered one of his happiest
+responses. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Beggs and my Friends of the Irish-American Republican
+  Club of Cook County, Ill._--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 illustration
+  of the good effects of our American system upon the home life.
+  [Continued applause.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 18.
+
+
+General Harrison's 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 _Daily News_, was spokesman. General Harrison,
+in response, said:
+
+  _My Illinois Friends_--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, 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _My Kentucky Friends_--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 division. [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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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; 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:
+
+  _General Powell and Comrades_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 19.
+
+
+Five 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:
+
+  _Comrades_--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.]
+
+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 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.
+
+To these several addresses General Harrison responded:
+
+  _My Illinois and my Indiana Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 than I had intended.
+  I thank you for this cordial manifestation of your confidence and
+  respect. [Cheers.]
+
+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:
+
+  _General Hayes and my Illinois Friends_--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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Colonel Bridgland and Comrades_--I am fast losing my faith in men.
+  [Laughter.] This morning a representative or two of this 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+
+Responding to their greeting the General said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 21.
+
+
+Randolph 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 contingent. 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."
+
+To these addresses the General, responding, said:
+
+  _My Ohio and Indiana Friends_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER
+
+
+On 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 Commercial Travellers' Escort Club of
+Indianapolis, George C. Webster, President; Ernest Morris, Secretary.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison's appearance was signalized by a remarkable
+demonstration. Col. H. H. Rude delivered the address on behalf of his
+associates.
+
+In response General Harrison made one of his best speeches. He said:
+
+  _Sir, and Gentlemen of the Republican Commercial Travellers'
+  Association of Chicago_--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.
+
+  I want now to introduce to you for a moment another speaker--an
+  Englishman. Within the last year I have been reading, wholly 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:
+
+    "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."
+
+  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:
+
+    "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!"]
+
+    "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!"]
+
+    "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."
+
+  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 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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  I thank you again for this beautiful and cordial demonstration, and
+  will now be glad to meet you personally.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 25.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Wabash County Friends and my Little Friends from Parke_--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.
+
+  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 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 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.].
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 26.
+
+
+Ohio 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; 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Gentlemen, my Ohio and Indiana Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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!"]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 27.
+
+
+General Harrison's 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.
+
+General Harrison, with his usual vigor, replied:
+
+  _Gentlemen and my Ohio Friends_--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.]
+
+  It is said by some of our opponents that a protective tariff has
+  no 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 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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison addressed them and said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 29.
+
+
+Ohio 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.
+
+General Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen and Friends_--The organizations represented here this
+  morning have for me each an individual interest. Each is suggestive of
+  a line of thought which _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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 doubt that
+  you will as wisely and as resolutely help to settle that also.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+The largest delegation of the day, numbering over a thousand business
+men, arrived from Chicago, after stopping _en route_ 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.
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _My Illinois Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 2.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Indiana Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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 beneficent 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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 3.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison, in reply, said:
+
+  _Mr. Woods and my Friends_--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!"]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 4.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+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.
+
+The third delegation comprised 1,200 voters from Jay County, Indiana,
+led by Gen. N. Shepherd, Theodore Bailey, Richard A. Green, John Geiger,
+E. J. Marsh, Frank H. Snyder, and M. V. Moudy, of Portland. Jesse M. La
+Follette was their speaker.
+
+To these several addresses General Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _My Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana Friends_--These cordial
+  manifestations of your personal regard move me very deeply [applause],
+  but I do not at all appropriate to myself the great expressions of
+  popular interest of which this meeting is only one. I understand
+  that my relation to these public questions and to the people is a
+  representative one--that the interest which thus expresses itself is
+  in principles of government rather than in men. [Cheers.] I am one
+  of the oldest Republicans; my first presidential vote was given to
+  the first Republican candidate for that office [applause], and it has
+  always been a source of profound gratification to me that, in peace
+  and war, a high spirit of patriotism and devotion to our country has
+  always pervaded and dominated the party. [Cheers.] When, during the
+  Civil War, the clouds hung low, disasters thickened, and the future
+  was crowded with uncanny fears, never did any Republican convention
+  assemble without declaring its faith in the ultimate triumph of our
+  cause [great cheering]; and now, with a broad patriotism that embraces
+  and regards the interests of all the States, it advocates policies
+  that will develop and unite all our communities in the friendly and
+  profitable interchange of commerce as well as in a lasting political
+  union. [Applause.] These great Western States will not respond to
+  the attempt to excite prejudice against New England. We advocate
+  measures that are as broad as our national domain; that are calculated
+  to distil their equal blessing upon all the land. [Cheers.] The
+  people of the great West recognize and value the great contribution
+  which those commonwealths about Plymouth Rock have made to the
+  civilization, material growth, and manhood of our Western States.
+  [Cheers.] We are not envious of the prosperity of New England; we
+  rejoice in it. We believe that the protective policy developed her
+  great manufacturing institutions and made her rich, and we do not
+  doubt that a continuance of that policy will produce the same results
+  in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. [Cheers.] We are not content to remain
+  wholly agricultural States in our relations to either New England or
+  old England. [Applause.] We believe that in all these great Western
+  States there are minerals in the soil and energy and skill in the
+  brains and arms of our people that will yet so multiply and develop
+  our manufacturing industries as to give us a nearer home market for
+  much of the products of our soil. [Cheers.] And for that great surplus
+  which now and always, perhaps, we shall not consume at home we think
+  a New England market better than a foreign market. [Enthusiastic and
+  prolonged cheering.] The issue upon this great industrial question
+  is drawn as sharply as the lines were ever drawn between contending
+  armies. Men are readjusting their party relations upon this great
+  question. The appeal that is now made for the defence of our American
+  system is finding its response, and many of those who are opposed to
+  us upon other questions are committing such questions to the future
+  for settlement, while they help us to settle now and for an indefinite
+  future the great question of the preservation of our commercial
+  independence. [Applause.] The Democratic party has challenged our
+  protected industries to a fight of extermination. The wage-earners of
+  our country have accepted the challenge. The issue of the contest will
+  settle for many years our tariff policy. [Prolonged cheering.] The
+  eloquent descriptions to which we have listened of the material wealth
+  of the great State of Michigan have been full of interest to us as
+  citizens of Indiana. We cannot doubt that the people of a State having
+  such generous invitations to the developments of great home wealth in
+  manufacturing and mining pursuits will understand the issue that is
+  presented, and will cast their influence in favor of that policy which
+  will make that development rapid and sure; and more than all, and
+  better than all, will maintain in her communities a well-paid class
+  of wage-workers. [Cheers.] Our wage-workers vote; they are American
+  citizens, and it is essential that they be kept free from the slavery
+  of want and the discontents bred of injustice. [Applause.]
+
+  I thank my Michigan friends for these handsome specimens of the
+  products of their mines and of their mills. I shall cherish them with
+  grateful recollection of this pleasant visit. [Applause.]
+
+  To my Indiana friends, always generous, I return my thanks for this
+  new evidence of their esteem. [Cheers.]
+
+  To my Ohio friends, who so often before have visited me with kind
+  expressions of their regard, I return the thanks of a native-born
+  Ohioan. [Prolonged cheers from the Ohio delegation.]
+
+  Three great States are grouped here to-day. I remember at Resaca,
+  when the field and staff of the regiments that were to make the
+  assault were ordered to dismount, there was a Michigan officer too
+  sick to go on foot and too proud to subject himself to the imputation
+  of cowardice by staying behind.
+
+  He rode alone, the one horseman in that desperate charge, and
+  died on that bloody hillside rather than subject his State to the
+  imputation that one of her sons had lingered when the enemy was to be
+  engaged. He was a noble type of the brave men these great States gave
+  to the country. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 5.
+
+
+Wisconsin and Indiana were the States represented at this day's
+reception. The Wisconsin visitors came from Madison, Janesville, and
+Beloit. Prominent among them were General Atwood, editor Wisconsin
+_State Journal_, Surgeon-General Palmer, W. T. Van Kirk, and T. G.
+Maudt. R. C. Spooner spoke for the Badgers.
+
+Fountain County, Indiana, sent 2,000 visitors, led by a club of
+Tippecanoe veterans. Among their representative men were H. La Tourette,
+W. W. Layton, John H. Spence, of Covington; A. H. Clark, and W. H.
+Malory, of Veedersburg; A. S. Peacock, H. C. Martin, and C. E. Holm, of
+Attica. Capt. Benj. Hegeler, of Attica, delivered the address on behalf
+of the Hoosiers.
+
+General Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Wisconsin and my Indiana Friends_--These great daily
+  manifestations of the interest of great masses of our people in the
+  principles represented by the Republican party are to me increasingly
+  impressive. I am glad to-day that Indiana has opportunity to welcome
+  a delegation from the magnificent State of Wisconsin. [Cheers.] It
+  offers a fitting opportunity to acknowledge my personal obligation and
+  the obligation of the Indiana Republicans for the early and constant
+  support which Wisconsin gave to the efforts of the Indiana delegation
+  in the Chicago convention. [Prolonged cheers.] To-day two States, not
+  contiguous in territory, but touching in many interests, are met to
+  express the fact that these great electoral contests affect all our
+  people. It is not alone in the choice of Presidential electors that
+  we have common interests. Our national Congress, though chosen in
+  separate districts, legislates for all our people. Wisconsin has a
+  direct interest that the ballot shall be free and pure in Indiana, and
+  Wisconsin and Indiana have a direct interest that the ballot shall be
+  free and pure in all the States. [Great cheering.] Therefore let no
+  man say that it is none of our business how elections are conducted in
+  other States. [Cheers.] I believe that this great question of a free
+  ballot, so much disturbed by race questions in the South, would be
+  settled this year if the men of the South who believe with us upon the
+  great question of the protection of American industries would throw
+  off old prejudices and vote their convictions upon that question.
+  [Cheers and cries of "Good! Good!"] I believe there are indications
+  that the independent manhood of the South will this year strongly
+  manifest itself in this direction. Those intelligent and progressive
+  citizens of the South who are seeking to build up within their own
+  States diversified industries will not much longer be kept in bondage
+  to the traditions of the days when the South was wholly a community of
+  planters.
+
+  When they assert their belief in a protective tariff, by supporting
+  the only party that advocates that policy, the question of a free
+  ballot, so far as it is a Southern question, will be settled forever,
+  for they will have the power to insist that those who believe with
+  them shall vote, and that their votes shall be counted. [Applause.]
+  The protective policy, by developing a home supply and limiting
+  importations, helps us to maintain the balance of trade upon our side
+  in our dealings with the world. [Cheers.] Under the tariff of 1846
+  from the year 1850 to 1860 the balance of trade was continuously
+  against us, aggregating in that period over three hundred millions
+  of dollars. Under the influence of a protective tariff the balance
+  of trade has been generally and largely with us, unless disturbed
+  by special conditions. Instead of sending our gold abroad to pay a
+  foreign balance we have usually been bringing foreign gold here to
+  augment our store. [Cheers.] I will not detain you further. These
+  daily demands upon me make it necessary that I shall speak briefly.
+  Let me thank most profoundly those gentlemen and ladies from Wisconsin
+  who have come so far to bring me this tribute of their respect. I very
+  highly value it. These, my Indiana friends, unite with me in thanking
+  you for your presence to-day. [Cheers from the Indianians.] To my
+  nearer friends, my Fountain County friends, let me say I am profoundly
+  grateful to you for this large and imposing demonstration and for the
+  interest you are individually taking in this campaign. [Cheers.] I
+  do not think of it as a personal campaign. It has always seemed to
+  me to be altogether greater than that, and when I thank you for your
+  interest and commend your zeal it is an interest in principles and a
+  zeal for the truth that I approve. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 6.
+
+
+Saturday, October 6, was one of the great days of the campaign. The
+first delegation, numbering 2,000, came from Wells and Blackford
+counties, Indiana. Conspicuous in their ranks were two large uniformed
+clubs of ladies, one from Montpelier, and the Carrie Harrison Club of
+Bluffton. In the Wells County contingent were many 1840 veterans and
+21 newly-converted Democrats. Their leaders were Asbury Duglay, D. H.
+Swaim, B. W. Bowman, Peter Ulmer, Silas Wisner, Joseph Milholland, J.
+C. Hatfield, and T. A. Doan. J. J. Todd was their spokesman. Prominent
+in the Blackford delegation were Frank Geisler, H. M. Campbell, W. L.
+Ritter, Eli Hamilton, R. V. Ervin, W. A. Williams, John Sipe, and John
+Cantwell, of Hartford City; J. C. Summerville, Wm. Pugh, J. H. Morrical,
+G. A. Mason, John G. Ward, and J. M. Tinsley, of Montpelier. Hon. B. G.
+Shinn delivered the address on behalf of the Blackford people.
+
+General Harrison confined his speech to State questions. He said:
+
+  _My Wells and Blackford County Friends_--I am glad to meet you.
+  It is extremely gratifying to be assured by your presence here
+  this inclement day, and by the kind words which you have addressed
+  to me through your representatives, that I have some part in your
+  friendly regard as an individual. But individuals are not of the
+  first importance. That man who thinks that the prosperity of this
+  country or the right administration of its affairs is wholly dependent
+  upon him grossly exaggerates his value. The essential things to us
+  are the principles of government upon which our institutions were
+  builded, and by and through which we make that symmetrical and safe
+  growth which has characterized our Nation in the past, and which is
+  yet to raise it to a higher place among the nations of the earth.
+  [Applause.] We are Indianians--Hoosiers, if you please [cheers]--and
+  are proud of the State of which we are citizens. Your spokesmen have
+  referred with an honest pride to the counties from which you have
+  come, and that is well. But I would like to suggest to you that
+  every political community and neighborhood has a character of its
+  own, a moral character, as well as every man and every woman, and it
+  is exceedingly important, looked at even from the side of material
+  advantage, that our communities should maintain a good reputation
+  for social order, intelligence, virtue, and a faithful and willing
+  obedience to law. [Applause.] It cannot be doubted that such a
+  character possessed by any State or county attracts immigration and
+  capital, advances its material development, and enhances the value
+  of its farms. There has been much in the history of Indiana that is
+  exceedingly creditable. There have been some things--there are some
+  things to-day--that are exceedingly discreditable to us as a political
+  community; things that I believe retard the advancement of our State
+  and affect its material prosperity by degrading it in the estimation
+  of right-thinking men. One of those things is this patent and open
+  fact: that the great benevolent institutions of this State, instead
+  of being operated upon the high plane that public charities should
+  occupy, are being operated and managed upon the lowest plane of party
+  purposes and advantage. [Cries of "That's so!"] Another such thing is
+  of recent occurrence. In the campaign of 1886, after advising with
+  the chief law officer of the State, a Democratic Governor declared
+  to the people of this State that there was a vacancy in the office
+  of Lieutenant-Governor which the people were entitled to fill at the
+  ensuing general election. The Democratic party acted upon that advice,
+  assembled in convention in this hall, and nominated John C. Nelson
+  for Lieutenant-Governor. The Republican party followed with their
+  convention, and placed in nomination that gallant soldier, Robert S.
+  Robertson. [Cheers.] These two gentlemen went before the people of
+  Indiana and made a public canvass for the office. The election was
+  held, and Colonel Robertson was chosen by a majority of about 3,000.
+  [Applause.] Is there a man in the State, Democratic or Republican,
+  who doubts that if the choice had been otherwise, and Mr. Nelson
+  had received a majority at the polls, the House of Representatives,
+  which was Republican, would have met with the Democratic Senate in an
+  orderly joint meeting, for canvassing the votes, and that Mr. Nelson
+  would have been inaugurated as Lieutenant-Governor? [Cries of "No,
+  no!"] But the result was otherwise; and the public fame, the good
+  reputation of this State, was dishonored when, by force and brutal
+  methods, the voice of the people was stifled, and the man they had
+  chosen was excluded from the right to exercise the duties of the
+  office of Lieutenant-Governor. [Cries of "Yes, yes!"] Do the people
+  think that the attractiveness of Indiana as a home for Americans who
+  believe in social order and popular government has been increased
+  by this violent and disgraceful incident? Do our Democratic friends
+  who have an honest State pride, who would like to maintain the honor
+  and good reputation of the State, who would have the people of our
+  sister States believe that we have a people who believe in a warm
+  canvass but in a free ballot, and a manly and ready acquiescence in
+  election results, intend to support their leaders in this violent
+  exclusion from office of a duly chosen public officer? Do those
+  who are Democrats from principle, and not for personal spoils,
+  intend to support the men who have first prostituted our benevolent
+  institutions to party and now to personal advantage? These things, if
+  not reproved and corrected by our people, will not only disgrace us in
+  the estimation of all good people, but will substantially retard the
+  material development of the State. [Cheers.] I am not talking to-day
+  of questions in which I have any other interest than that you have,
+  my fellow-citizens. [Applause.] I believe the material prosperity of
+  Indiana, much more the honor, will be advanced if her people in this
+  State election shall rebuke the shameless election frauds that have
+  recently scandalized our State, the prostitution of our benevolent
+  institutions, and the wanton violence that overturned the result of
+  the popular election in 1886. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+THE CHICAGO VETERANS.
+
+
+The great event of the day was the reception tendered the veterans and
+citizens from Chicago, Hyde Park, Pullman, South Chicago, and the town
+of Lake. They numbered over 3,000, and arrived in the evening, after
+stopping _en route_ at Danville, Ill., and Crawfordsville, Ind., to
+participate in demonstrations. The Chicago contingent comprised 800
+members of the Union Veteran Club, commanded by its President, Capt.
+John J. Healy; 600 members of the Veteran Union League, led by Capt.
+James J. Healy; the Blaine Club, Second Regiment Band, and many smaller
+clubs. Leaders in the delegation were Major McCarty, Col. Dan. W. Munn,
+Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., S. W. King, Charles H. Hann, and others.
+Hyde Park sent several hundred rolling-mill men; the city of Pullman 200
+car-builders; the town of Lake--"the largest village in the world"--was
+represented by a flambeau club, the Lake View Screw Club, and numerous
+other organizations. Their leading representatives were Col. J.
+Hodgkins, Judge C. M. Hawley, Hon. John E. Cowells, Hon. B. E. Hoppin,
+Geo. C. Ingham, Judge Freen, Hon. L. D. Condee, Joseph Hardacre, Edward
+Maher, M. J. McGrath, A. G. Proctor, Frank I. Bennett, and Col. Foster.
+
+The visitors were met by about 10,000 citizens and escorted to Tomlinson
+Hall. When General Harrison appeared, accompanied by Judge E. B.
+Martindale, Chairman of the Reception Committee, there ensued a scene
+never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. The 6,000 people
+present arose to their chairs, surrounding the visiting veterans, all
+frantically waving flags and banners. The demonstration continued
+without abatement for ten minutes. General Harrison stood as if dazed by
+the spectacle. Finally ex-Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, secured quiet,
+and on behalf of the veterans addressed the gathering, followed by Judge
+E. W. Keightly on behalf of the Hyde Park visitors.
+
+General Harrison's response was by many regarded as his greatest speech
+of the campaign. He said:
+
+  _Comrades and Friends_--It is a rare sight, and it is one very
+  full of interest to us as citizens of Indiana, to see this great
+  hall filled with the people of another State, come to evidence their
+  interest in great principles of government. [Cheers.] I welcome
+  to-night for myself and for our people this magnificent delegation
+  from Chicago and Hyde Park. [Cheers.] We have not before in the
+  procession of these great delegations seen its equal in numbers,
+  enthusiasm, and cordiality. I thank you profoundly for whatever of
+  personal respect there is in this demonstration [cheers]; but above
+  all, as an American citizen, I rejoice in this convincing proof that
+  our people realize the gravity and urgency of the issues involved in
+  this campaign. [Cheers.] I am glad to know that this interest pervades
+  all classes of our people. [Cheers.] This delegation, composed of the
+  business men of Chicago and of the men who wield the hammer in the
+  shops, shows a common interest in the right decision of these great
+  questions. [Great cheers.]
+
+  Our Government is not a government by classes or for classes of
+  our fellow-citizens. [Cheers.] It is a government of the people and
+  by the people. [Renewed cheering.] Its wise legislation distills its
+  equal blessings upon the homes of the rich and the poor. [Cheers.] I
+  am especially glad that these skilled, intelligent workmen coming out
+  of your great workshops have manifested, by their coming, to their
+  fellow-workmen throughout the country their appreciation of what is
+  involved for them in this campaign. [Prolonged cheers.]
+
+  May that God who has so long blessed us as a Nation long defer that
+  evil day when penury shall be a constant guest in the homes of our
+  working people, and long preserve to us that intelligent, thrifty
+  and cheerful body of workmen that was our strength in war and is our
+  guaranty of social order in time of peace! [Great cheering.] Comrades
+  of the Civil War, it was true of the great Union army, as it is said
+  to be of the kingdom of heaven--not many rich. [Cheers.] It was out of
+  the homes of our working people the great army came. It was the strong
+  arm inured to labor on the farm or in the shop that bore up the flag
+  in the smoke of battle, carried it through storms of shell and shot,
+  and lifted it again in honor over our national Capital. [Prolonged
+  cheers.]
+
+  After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of
+  abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff,
+  we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of
+  protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we
+  not had enough of such experiments? Does not the history of our tariff
+  legislation tell us that every revenue tariff has been followed by
+  business and industrial crashes, and that a return to the policy
+  of protection has stimulated our industries and set our throbbing
+  workshops again in motion? [Cheers.] And yet, again and again, the
+  Democratic party comes forward with this pernicious proposition--for
+  it has been from that party always that the proposition to abandon our
+  protective policy and to substitute a revenue tariff has come. [Cries
+  of "That's so!"]
+
+  I had placed in my hands yesterday a copy of the London News for
+  September 13. The editor says in substance that, judging the purposes
+  of the Democratic party by the executive message of last December,
+  the English people were justified in believing that party meant free
+  trade; but if they were to accept the more recent utterances of its
+  leader, protesting that that was not their purpose, then the editor
+  thus states the issue presented by the Democratic party. I read but
+  a single sentence: "It is, at any rate, a contest between protection
+  and something that is not protection." [Prolonged and wild cheering.]
+  It is not of the smallest interest to you what that other thing is.
+  [Continued cheering.] It is enough to know that it is not protection.
+  [Renewed cheering.] Those who defend the present Democratic policy
+  declare that our people not only pay the tariff duty upon all imported
+  goods, but that a corresponding amount is added to the price of every
+  domestic competing article. That for every dollar that is paid into
+  the Treasury in the form of a customs duty the people pay several
+  dollars more in the enhanced cost of the domestic competing article.
+  Those who honestly hold such doctrines cannot stop short of the
+  absolute destruction of our protective system. [Cries of "No, no!"]
+  The man who preaches such doctrines and denies that he is on the road
+  to free trade is like the man who takes passage on a train scheduled
+  from here to Cincinnati without a stop, and when the train is speeding
+  on its way at the rate of forty miles an hour, denies that he is going
+  to Cincinnati. [Great laughter and cheering.] The impulse of such
+  logic draws toward free trade as surely and swiftly as that engine
+  pulls the train to its appointed destination. It inevitably brings us
+  to the English rule of levying duties only upon such articles as we do
+  not produce at home, such as tea and coffee. That is purely revenue
+  tariff, and is practically free trade.
+
+  Against this the Republican party proposes that our tariff duty
+  shall be of an intelligent purpose, be levied chiefly upon competing
+  articles. [Cheers.] That our American workmen shall have the benefit
+  of discriminating duties upon the products of their labor. [Cheers.]
+  The Democratic policy increases importation, and, by so much,
+  diminishes the work to be done in America. It transfers work from the
+  shops of South Chicago to Birmingham. [Cries of "Right you are!"]
+  For, if a certain amount of any manufactured article is necessary for
+  a year's supply to our people, and we increase the amount that is
+  brought from abroad, by just so much we diminish the amount that is
+  made at home, and in just that proportion we throw out of employment
+  the men that are working here. And not only so, but when this equal
+  competition is established between our shops and the foreign shops,
+  there is not a man here who does not know that the only condition
+  under which the American shop can run at all is that it shall reduce
+  the wages of its employees to the level of the wages paid in the
+  competing shops abroad. [Cheers.] This is, briefly, the whole story.
+  I believe we should look after and protect our American workingmen;
+  therefore I am a Republican. [Renewed enthusiastic cheering.]
+
+  But I will not detain you longer. [Cries of "Go on!"] You must
+  excuse me; I have been going on for three months. [A voice, "And
+  you'll go on for four years!"] I am somewhat under restraint in what I
+  can say, and others here are somewhat under restraint as to what they
+  can appropriately say in my presence. I beg you therefore to allow me,
+  after thanking you again for your kindness, to retire that others who
+  are here may address you. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 11.
+
+
+In point of numbers the greatest day of the Indiana campaign was
+Thursday, October 11, when over 50,000 visitors arrived from all points
+in Indiana and along the border counties of Ohio to participate in the
+greeting to the Hon. James G. Blaine, who was the guest of General
+Harrison.
+
+From the balcony of the New-Denison Hotel General and Mrs. Harrison,
+accompanied by Mr. Blaine, Gen. Adam King, of Baltimore; Col. A. L.
+Snowden and Gen. D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania; Col. M. J. Murray, of
+Massachusetts; Gen. W. C. Plummer, of Dakota; Corporal James Tanner,
+of New York; ex-Senator Ferry, of Michigan; Hon. R. W. Thompson,
+ex-Governor A. G. Porter, Hon. J. N. Huston, Gen. A. P. Hovey, and Ira
+J. Chase, reviewed probably the greatest political parade ever witnessed
+in this country outside of the city of New York. Twenty-five thousand
+men constituted the marching column, in nine great divisions, commanded
+by Col. Charles S. Millard, Chief Marshal, with Gen. James S. Carnahan,
+Chief of Staff, and 200 aids. The division commanders and principal aids
+were:
+
+First Division, Gen. N. R. Ruckle, of Indianapolis. Chief of Staff,
+Charles J. Many, of Indianapolis.
+
+Second Division, Capt. H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. Chief of Staff,
+Major J. M. Watt, of Delphi.
+
+Third Division, John W. Lovett, of Anderson. Chief of Staff, Col. George
+Parker.
+
+Fourth Division, Gen. Tom Bennett, of Richmond. Chief of Staff, Capt.
+Ira B. Myers, of Peru.
+
+Fifth Division, Col. T. C. Burnside, of Liberty. Chief of Staff, J. W.
+Ream, of Muncie.
+
+Sixth Division, Col. J. M. Story, of Franklin. Chief of Staff, Capt.
+David Wilson, of Martinsville.
+
+Seventh Division, Col. W. R. McClellen, of Danville. Chief of Staff,
+Capt. W. H. Armstrong, of Terre Haute.
+
+Eighth Division, Capt. T. H. B. McCain, of Crawfordsville. Chief of
+Staff, Edward Watson, of Brazil.
+
+Ninth Division, Capt. J. O. Pedigo, of Lebanon. Chief of Staff, C. C.
+Shirley, of Kokomo.
+
+Mr. Blaine visited the Exposition grounds in the afternoon, where Major
+W. H. Calkins introduced him to an audience of about 30,000, to whom he
+addressed a few words. At night Mr. Blaine delivered one of his masterly
+speeches at Tomlinson Hall to an audience of 6,000. At the close of the
+Blaine meeting General Harrison received a delegation from Cincinnati,
+consisting of A. B. Horton, H. D. Emerson, Wm. Fredberger, James A.
+Graff, H. R. Probasco, Dr. M. T. Carey, Abram Myer, Fred Pryor, and
+Walter Hartpense, who called to invite him to attend the Cincinnati
+Exposition on "Republican Day." A St. Louis delegation, members of the
+Loyal Legion, also paid their respects. Among them were Col. R. C.
+Kerens, Col. Nelson Cole, Col. J. S. Butler, Major W. R. Hodges, Captain
+Gleason, G. B. Adams, H. L. Morrill, C. H. Sampson, and W. B. Gates.
+
+On October 18 a party of distinguished railroad magnates visited General
+Harrison. They were Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, J. D. Layng, H. W. Webb,
+Sam'l Barton, Seward C. Webb, and C. F. Cox, of New York; J. De Koven,
+of Chicago; S. M. Beach, of Cleveland, and J. Q. Van Winkle, of St.
+Louis.
+
+On October 19 General Harrison received informally 150 survivors of
+the Eleventh Indiana Regiment, headed by their first colonel, Gen. Lew
+Wallace, and General McGinnis.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Two large and influential organizations visited General Harrison
+on October 13. From Milwaukee came 400 members of the Young Men's
+Republican Club--Paul D. Carpenter, President; George Russell,
+Secretary. Among other prominent members were Samuel Chandler,
+who organized the pilgrimage, and Walter W. Pollock. President
+Carpenter--son of the late Senator Matt Carpenter--and C. S. Otjen, a
+wage-worker, were spokesmen for the club.
+
+The second and largest delegation was the Chicago German-American
+Republican Club--Franz Amberg, President; F. J. Buswick, Secretary.
+Accompanying them was the Excelsior Band and sixteen voices from the
+Orpheus Maennerchor Society of Chicago. Among the widely known members
+with the club were Hon. Chris. Mamer, Louis Huck, Peter Hand, Edward
+Bert, Peter Mahr, Henry Wulf, City Treasurer Plantz, N. F. Plotke, and
+Alderman Tiedemann. As General Harrison entered the hall the reception
+exercises were opened by the Maennerchor Society with the inspiring
+hymn--"This is the Lord's own day." Addresses on behalf of the visitors
+were made by Hon. Wm. Vocke, Henry Greenbaum, and Andrew Soehngen; also,
+General Fred Knefler for the German Republicans of Indiana, and Hon A.
+B. Ward, of Dakota.
+
+General Harrison, responding to both visiting delegations, said:
+
+  _My Friends of the German-American Republican Club of Chicago, and
+  of the Club of Milwaukee, and my Home German Friends_--I am very
+  grateful for the kind words you have addressed to me. The long journey
+  most of you have taken upon this inclement day to tender your respects
+  to me as the candidate of the Republican party is very convincing
+  evidence that you believe this civil contest to be no mock tournament,
+  but a very real and a very decisive battle for great principles.
+  [Cheers]. My German-American friends, you are a home-loving people;
+  father, mother, wife, child are words that to you have a very full
+  and a very tender meaning. [Cheers.] The old father and mother never
+  outlive the veneration and love of the children in a German household.
+  [Cheers.] You have come from the fatherland in families, and have set
+  up again here the old hearth-stones. Out of this love of home there
+  is naturally born a love of country--it is only the widening of the
+  family circle--and so our fellow-citizens of German birth and descent
+  did not fail to respond with alacrity and enthusiasm to the call of
+  their adopted country when armies were mustered for the defence of the
+  Union. [Cheers.] The people of Indiana will long remember the veteran
+  Willich and the Thirty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers (or First
+  German), which he took into the field in 1861. The repulse by this
+  regiment alone of an attacking force under General Hindman of 1,100
+  infantry, a battalion of Texas Rangers, and four pieces of artillery
+  at Rowlett's Station, in December, 1861, filled our people with
+  enthusiasm and pride. Again and again the impetuous Texas horsemen
+  threw themselves with baffled fury upon that square of brave hearts.
+  No bayonet point was lowered, no skulker broke the wall of safety that
+  enclosed the flag. [Cheers.]
+
+  Your people are industrious, thrifty, and provident. To lay by
+  something is one of life's earliest lessons in a German home. These
+  national traits naturally drew your people to the support of the
+  Republican party when it declared for freedom and free homes in the
+  Territories. [Cheers.] They secured your adherence to the cause of the
+  Union in the Civil War. They gave us your help in the long struggle
+  for resumption and an honest currency, and I do not doubt that they
+  will now secure our sympathy and help in this great contest in behalf
+  of our American homes. Your people are largely wage-earners. They have
+  prospered under a protective tariff, and will not, I am sure, vote for
+  such a change in our tariff policy as will cut them off from their
+  wages that margin which they are now able to lay aside for old age and
+  for their children.
+
+  And now a word to my young friends from Wisconsin. You have come
+  into the possession of the suffrage at an important, if not critical,
+  time in our public affairs. The Democratic party out of power was a
+  party of negations. It did not secure its present lease of power upon
+  the platform or the policies it now supports and advocates. [Cheers.]
+  The campaign of 1884 was not made upon the platform of a tariff for
+  revenue only. Our workingmen were soothed with phrases that implied
+  some regard to their interests, and Democrats who believed in a
+  protective tariff were admitted to the party councils and gladly heard
+  in public debate. [Cheers.] But four years of power have changed all
+  this. Democrats who thought they could be protectionists and still
+  maintain their party standing have been silenced or their opinions
+  coerced. The issue is now distinctly made between "protection and
+  something that is not protection." [Cheers.] The Republican party
+  fearlessly accepts the issue and places itself upon the side of the
+  American home and the American workingman. [Cheers.] We invite these
+  young men who were too young to share the glory of the struggle for
+  our political unity to a part in this contest for the preservation of
+  our commercial independence. [Cheers.]
+
+  And now to these friends who are the bearers of gifts, one word of
+  thanks. I especially value this cane as a token of the confidence and
+  respect of the workingmen of Bay View. [Cheers.] I accept their gift
+  with gratitude, and would wish you, sir, to bear in return my most
+  friendly regards and good wishes to every one of them. I do not need
+  to lean on this beautiful cane, but I do feel like resting upon the
+  intelligent confidence of the men who sent it. [Great cheering.] I am
+  glad to know that they have not stumbled over the simple problem that
+  is presented for their consideration in this campaign. They know that
+  an increase of importation means diminished work in American shops.
+  [Cheers.] To my friend who brings this beautiful specimen of American
+  workmanship, this commonly accepted token of good luck, I give my
+  thanks. But we will not trust wholly in this symbol of good luck. The
+  earnest individual effort of the American people only can make the
+  result of this contest so decisive, so emphatic, that we shall not for
+  a generation hear any party contest the principle that our tariff laws
+  shall adequately protect our own workingmen. [Great cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 17.
+
+
+Ohio's chief executive, Gov. Joseph B. Foraker, escorted by the Garfield
+Club and the Fourteenth Regiment Band of Columbus, made a pilgrimage to
+the Republican Mecca on October 17. The widely known Columbus Glee Club
+accompanied them. Among the prominent Republicans with the delegation
+were Auditor of State Poe, Adjutant-General Axline, Hon. Estes G.
+Rathbone, C. L. Kurtz, D. W. Brown, C. E. Prior, L. D. Hogerty, J. W.
+Firestone, and Ira H. Crum. Escorted by the Columbia Club, the Buckeyes
+marched to the residence of General Harrison and were introduced by
+Governor Foraker.
+
+In response to their greeting General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--It was very appropriate that these representative
+  Ohio Republicans should accompany to the State of Indiana your
+  distinguished Governor, whose presence among us to-day is so welcome
+  to our people. We know his story as the young Ohio volunteer, the
+  fearless champion of Republican principles in public debate, and the
+  resolute, courageous, and sagacious executive of the great State of
+  Ohio. [Applause.] We welcome him and we welcome you. The fame of
+  this magnificent glee club has preceded them. We are glad to have an
+  opportunity to hear you.
+
+  To these members of the Garfield Club I return my thanks for this
+  friendly call. You bear an honored name. I look back with pleasure to
+  the small contribution I was able to make in Indiana toward securing
+  the electoral vote of this State to that great son of Ohio, whose
+  tragic death spread gloom and disappointment over our land. I welcome
+  you as citizens of my native State--a State I shall always love,
+  because all of my early associations are with it. In this State, to
+  which I came in my earliest manhood, the Republicans are as staunch
+  and true, as valorous and resolute, as can be found in any of the
+  States. You have no advantage of us except in numbers. We welcome
+  you all as Republicans. [A voice, "That's what we are!"] We believe
+  that our party now advocates another great principle that needs to be
+  established--made fast--put where it shall be beyond assault. It is
+  a principle which has wrought marvellously in the development of our
+  country since the war. It has enabled us to handle a great national
+  debt, which our desponding Democratic friends said would inevitably
+  sink our country into bankruptcy, so that we are not troubled about
+  getting the money to pay our maturing bonds, but are getting it
+  faster than our bonds mature. We need to establish this principle of
+  protection, the defence of our American workers against the degrading
+  and unfriendly competition of pauper labor in all other countries
+  [cheers], so unmistakably that it shall not again be assailed. [A
+  voice, "Amen!"] Our Democratic friends in previous campaigns have
+  deceived the people upon this great question by uncertain and evasive
+  utterances. We are glad to know that now they have drawn the issue
+  clearly; we accept it. [Applause.] If we shall be able in this
+  campaign, as I believe we will, to arouse our people to the importance
+  of maintaining our defences against unfair foreign competition,
+  we shall administer those who believe in revenue tariffs and in
+  progressive free trade a wholesome lesson--one that will last them a
+  lifetime. [Cheers.]
+
+  I had resolutely determined when I came upon these steps not to make
+  a speech. [Laughter and cries of "Go on!"] I am absolutely determined
+  to stop now. [Laughter.] I shall be glad to meet the members of these
+  escort clubs personally in my house. [Three cheers.]
+
+Later in the day about 100 survivors of the Seventy-ninth Indiana
+Regiment, led by their first colonel, General Fred Knefler, called on
+General Harrison, and were presented by their leader in a brief speech,
+in response to which General Harrison, speaking from his doorway, said:
+
+  _General Knefler and Comrades_--I am always deeply touched when
+  my comrades visit me and offer their kindly greetings. I have no
+  higher ambition than to stand well in the estimation of my comrades
+  of the old Union army. I will not speak of any political topic. These
+  men who stand before me gave the supreme evidence of their love and
+  devotion to their country. No man could give more than they offered.
+  The perpetuity of our institutions, the honor of what General Sherman
+  so felicitously called the "old glory," demand the country shall
+  always and in every appropriate way honor and reward the men who kept
+  it a Nation. Whatever may be said of our great prosperity since the
+  war, and it can scarcely be exaggerated, if we look for the cause
+  under God, is it not found in the stout hearts of these men? They
+  have opened this wide avenue of prosperity and honor in which we are
+  moving. It will be a shame if our people do not in every way properly
+  recognize that debt and properly honor the men who gave this supreme
+  evidence of their devotion to the country and its institutions.
+  Thanking you again for this visit, I will be glad if you will enter my
+  house and let me meet you personally.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 20.
+
+
+For the fifth time during the campaign the commercial travellers visited
+General Harrison, each time with increased numbers. On Saturday,
+October 20, under the supervision of the Commercial Travellers'
+Republican Club of Indianapolis--G. C. Webster, President; Ernest
+Morris, Secretary--they held one of the largest and most successful
+demonstrations of this remarkable campaign. Their gathering partook
+of a national character, as large numbers of "drummers" were present
+from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan,
+Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, and Vermont, while every important
+city in Indiana sent its complement.
+
+The visitors were received by a local committee of travelling men,
+consisting of Fred Schmidt, Chairman; C. McPherson, Wm. Faucet, Joseph
+Stubbs, Jeff Cook, Ed. Allcott, J. C. Norris, M. P. Green, Geo. White,
+O. W. Morman, Chas. D. Pearson, Jeff Taylor, Wm. P. Bone, Henry Ramey,
+Albert A. Womack, John A. Wright, James W. Muir, and Frank Brough. It
+was estimated that 40,000 spectators witnessed their fine parade, a
+conspicuous feature of which was a big bull covered with a white cloth
+on which was printed the words--"John Bull rides the Democratic party
+and we ride John Bull." On his back rode "Drummer" Dan'l B. Long in an
+emerald suit, while L. A. Worch, dressed as Uncle Sam, led the bovine.
+The parade was in charge of Chief Marshal J. R. Ross and his aids. As
+the column passed their residence it was reviewed by General and Mrs.
+Harrison. Later in the day the visitors were received at Tomlinson Hall.
+When General Harrison appeared a great demonstration occurred. President
+Webster presided; the speakers were: John E. Dowell, of Boston; R. T.
+Dow, of Atlanta; C. L. Young and John L. Fennimore, of Columbus, Ohio;
+Chas. P. Banks, of Brooklyn; John L. Griffiths and John C. Wingate, of
+Indiana.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--Four times already, I believe, the commercial
+  travellers have honored me by calling upon me in large delegations.
+  You have assembled to-day, not from a single State or locality, but
+  from many States, upon the invitation of your associates of this
+  city, to show your intelligent interest in the principles that are
+  involved in this campaign. [Cheers.] I do not need to repeat what I
+  have said on former occasions, that I very highly value the respect
+  and confidence of the commercial travellers of the United States.
+  [Cheers.] I value it because I believe they give their adherence to
+  the party whose candidate I am upon an intelligent investigation and
+  upon an earnest conviction as to what is good for the country of which
+  they are citizens. [Cheers.] Who should be able, better than you, to
+  know the commercial and business needs of our country? You, whose hand
+  is every day upon the business pulse of the people; you, who travel
+  the country up and down upon all the swift highways of commerce, and
+  who are brought in contact with the business men of the country, not
+  only in our great centres of commerce, but in all the hamlets of the
+  land. I believe I may say for you that, as a result of this personal
+  knowledge of our business needs, you have concluded that the policy
+  for America is the policy of a protective tariff. [Great cheering.]
+
+  There are doubtless here many representatives of great American
+  manufacturing establishments; and who should know better than they the
+  prostrating effects upon the industries they represent of this policy
+  of a revenue tariff, or the not much differing policy of free trade?
+  [Cheers.] Who should know better than you that if the discriminating
+  duties now levied, which enable our American manufacturers to maintain
+  a fair competition with the manufacturers of other countries, and at
+  the same time to pay a scale of living wages to the men and women who
+  work for them, is once broken down, American competition with foreign
+  production becomes impossible, except by the reduction of the scale
+  of American wages to the level of the wages paid abroad? [Cheers.]
+  Certainly you do not need to be told that that shop or mill that
+  has the smallest pay-roll in proportion to its production will take
+  the market. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be told that the
+  wages now enjoyed by our American workmen are greatly larger and the
+  comforts they enjoy greatly more than those enjoyed by the working
+  people of any other land. [Cheers.] Certainly you do not need to be
+  told that if the American Government, instead of patronizing home
+  industries, buys its blankets for the public service in England there
+  is just that much less work for American workmen to do. [Cheers.] This
+  is to me the beginning and the end of the tariff question. Since I
+  was old enough to have opinions or to utter them, I have held to the
+  doctrine that the true American policy was that which should maintain
+  not only a living rate of wages, but one with a margin for savings and
+  comfort for our workmen. I believe that policy is essential to the
+  prosperity and possibly to the perpetuity of our Government. [Cheers.]
+  The two propositions that now stare our working people--and our whole
+  country--in the face are these: competition with foreign countries,
+  without adequate discriminating and favoring duties, means lower wages
+  to our working people; a revenue-only tariff, or progressive free
+  trade, means larger importations of foreign goods, and that means less
+  work in America. [Cheers.]
+
+  Let our Democratic friends fairly meet these two indisputable
+  conclusions. How do they do it? [Cries, "They don't; they can't!"]
+  By endeavoring to prevent and poison the minds of our working people
+  by utterly false and scandalous campaign stories. [Enthusiastic
+  cheering.] Let me say in conclusion that I believe the managers of
+  the Democratic campaign greatly underestimate the intelligence,
+  the sense of decency, and the love of fair play that prevail among
+  out people. [Great cheering.] You will pardon further remark. The
+  evening is drawing on, and many of you, I am sure, have been made
+  uncomfortable by your muddy walk through the streets of our city. I
+  cannot omit, however, to thank my friends from Lafayette for this
+  beautiful floral tribute which they have placed at my side--an emblem
+  of their profession. [Floral gripsack.] I accept it gratefully, and
+  very highly appreciate it as a mark of the confidence and respect of
+  the intelligent body of my own fellow-citizens of Indiana. [Great
+  cheering.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 22.
+
+
+Three thousand enthusiastic citizens of Springfield, Clarke County,
+Ohio, paid their respects to the Republican nominee on this date, under
+the auspices of the Republican White Hat Brigade, Gen. A. S. Bushnell,
+Commander; E. T. Thomes, Vice-Commander; S. J. Wilkerson, Chief of
+Staff; J. W. R. Cline, Sam'l Hoffman, and J. H. Arbogast, Aids. The
+brigade, comprising 2,300 voters, each wearing a white beaver hat, was
+divided into three regiments and accompanied by six excellent bands.
+
+The First Regiment was commanded by Col. J. A. Dickus, Lieut.-Col.
+Geo. Lentz, Major Henry Harper. Second Regiment--Col. Wm. F. Bakhaus,
+Lieut.-Col. Darwin Pierce, Major Wm. Robinson. Third Regiment--Col.
+H. N. Taylor, Lieut.-Col. Henry Hains, Major P. M. Hawk. When General
+Harrison entered the hall every Buckeye stood on his chair and
+frantically waved his high hat in one hand and a flag in the other.
+General Bushnell made the presentation address, to which General
+Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _General Bushnell and my Ohio Friends_--The people of Clarke
+  County owed me a visit. I recall, with great pleasure, two occasions
+  when I visited your prosperous county and the rich and busy city
+  of Springfield to speak in behalf of the Republican party and its
+  candidates. I recall with pleasure the cordiality with which I was
+  received by your people. [Applause.] I noted then the intelligent
+  interest manifested by the masses of your people in public questions,
+  and the enthusiasm with which you rallied to the defense of Republican
+  principles. [Cheers.] We are glad to welcome you to Indiana, but
+  regret that this inclement day and our muddy streets have thrown
+  about your visit so many incidents of discomfort. I hope that you
+  will not allow these incidents to give you an unfavorable impression
+  of the beautiful capital city of Indiana. [Cheers and cries of "We
+  won't!"] Our people are glad to have this added evidence of the
+  interest which the people of your State take in the question which
+  the issue of this campaign will settle. I say settle, because I
+  believe that the question of the life of protective tariff system is
+  now very distinctly presented. The enemies of the system have left
+  their ambuscades and taken to the open field, and we are to have a
+  decisive battle over this question. [Great cheers.] I believe that
+  never before, in any campaign, has this question been so fully and
+  ably discussed in the hearing of our people. [Cheers.] There can
+  be found nowhere in this country a better illustration of what a
+  great manufacturing centre will do for the farmer in enhancing the
+  value of his farm and in furnishing a home market for his products
+  than the city of Springfield. [Cheers.] Your city and county--your
+  merchants and farmers--are prosperous, because you have a great body
+  of well-paid wage-earners in your great shops and factories. [Cheers.]
+  It is the policy of the Republican party to multiply, all through our
+  agricultural regions, such centres of manufacturing industries as
+  Springfield. [Cheers.] It is conceded that to all our working people,
+  all those who earn their subsistence by toil, this campaign involves
+  most important interests. I will not pursue in its details this
+  question. You have heard it discussed, and most of you, perhaps all,
+  have made up your conclusions. It is of such importance as, wholly
+  without respect to the candidate who may by chance represent it, to
+  be worthy of the intelligent and earnest thought and vigorous effort
+  of every American citizen. [Cheers.] Let me now only thank you for
+  this most remarkable evidence of the interest of your people. We have
+  rarely, if it all, seen here, in this long procession of delegations,
+  one that equalled that which I see before me now. [Great cheering.]
+
+At the conclusion of General Harrison's speech General Bushnell
+presented him with a highly polished horse-shoe, manufactured from
+American steel by S. B. Thomas, formerly an Englishman. Repeated calls
+for Mr. Thomas brought that gentleman out, and there was another
+prolonged demonstration as General Harrison cordially clasped his hand
+and said:
+
+  I accept with pleasure this product of the skill and industry of
+  one who, out of his own experience, can speak of the benefits of a
+  protective tariff. One who sought our land because it offered better
+  wages and better hopes [cheers], and who in his life here has been
+  able to contrast the condition of working people in England and in
+  America. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 25.
+
+
+During the campaign in Indiana several prominent labor representatives
+from the East canvassed the State in advocacy of a protective tariff
+and the Republican ticket. Chief among these speakers were Charles H.
+Litchman, of Massachusetts, ex-Secretary-General of the Knights of
+Labor; John J. Jarrett, Hon. Henry Hall, Eccles Robinson, and Robert
+D. Layton, of Pennsylvania, and Jeremiah Murphy, of New York. These
+gentlemen, assisted by John R. Rankin, Marshall C. Woods, and other
+prominent Indiana labor leaders, signalized the conclusion of their
+campaign work by a notable workingmen's demonstration on October 25.
+About 10,000 voters from over the State participated in the parade, led
+by Chief Marshal John R. Rankin, assisted by C. A. Rodney, George E.
+Clarke, Wm. R. Mounts, John Baker, Fred Andler, Wm. H. Baughmier, Geo.
+E. Perry, Lewis Rathbaust, J. N. Loop, Wm. Cook, Gustave Schneider, John
+W. Browning, A. Raphel, and Michael Bamberger.
+
+General Harrison, with Hon. William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, Senator John
+C. Spooner, of Wisconsin, and Senator Henry W. Blair, of New Hampshire,
+reviewed the column and later attended a great meeting at Tomlinson
+Hall. Many ladies occupied seats on the stage, among them Mrs. Harrison.
+When General Harrison appeared, escorted by Secretary Litchman, the vast
+audience arose and cheered frantically for full five minutes.
+
+L. W. McDaniels, a prominent member of the Typographical Union,
+presided, and in his address among other things said:
+
+  We are here to repudiate the authority claimed by a few professional
+  men to speak for the wage-workers of Indiana, to deny the truthfulness
+  of their statements, and to contradict the assertion that there is
+  other than the kindliest feeling among the workingmen of Indiana
+  toward General Harrison. While General Harrison has never acted the
+  blatant demagogue by making loud professions, yet we have had evidence
+  of his earnest sympathy and sincere friendship on more than one
+  occasion, notably his advocacy while in the Senate of the bill making
+  arbitration the means of settlement of labor troubles and excluding
+  contract labor from our shores. Also the bill prohibiting the use of
+  convict labor on Government works, or the purchasing by the Government
+  of any of the products of convict labor.
+
+As General Harrison arose to respond there was another prolonged
+outbreak; he appeared greatly moved, and delivered probably his most
+earnest speech of the campaign. The demonstrations of approval were very
+marked, especially as the General warmed up to his denials of matters
+suggested by Chairman McDaniels' remarks. He said:
+
+  _Mr. McDaniels and my Friends_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, OCTOBER 27.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+General Harrison was the first speaker. He said:
+
+  _My Friends of the Railroad Republican Clubs_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 5.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Captain Ebel and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+The General then, in behalf of Mrs. Harrison, thanked the ladies for
+their present to her.
+
+
+
+
+THE ELECTION, NOVEMBER, 1888.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Coming out on the steps the General said:
+
+  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
+  you for your call to-night and for that friendly spirit which you have
+  shown to me during the campaign.
+
+
+_A Famous Telegram._
+
+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:
+
+                                          INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 9, 1888.
+  _To_ HON. WARNER MILLER, _Herkimer, N. Y._:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, JANUARY 1, 1889.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+In response to their enthusiastic greeting, General Harrison--speaking
+in public for the first time since his election--in substance said:
+
+  _Commander and Comrades_--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 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.
+
+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!"
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, FEBRUARY 25, 1889.
+
+_The Departure for Washington._
+
+
+President-elect 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 and joined the _cortege_ as it passed through
+Pennsylvania Street.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison was greatly affected by the scene and the occasion.
+Speaking with emotion he said:
+
+  _My Good Friends and Neighbors_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+As 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+The city of Richmond was reached at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, where
+several thousand people greeted the travellers. General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLUMBUS, OHIO, FEBRUARY 25.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 4, 1889.
+
+
+General Harrison 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+President Harrison delivered his inaugural address from the terrace of
+the Capitol in the presence of a vast concourse and during a rainfall.
+
+
+THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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. 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 heard in the depths of the
+  earth as well as in the sky--men were made free and material things
+  became our better servants.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  Our pension law should give more adequate and discriminating 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 30, 1889.
+
+_The Nation's Centenary._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+At Trenton the party was met by the New Jersey Centennial 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.
+
+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. _Despatch_, 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.
+
+At the gangway of the _Despatch_ 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 _Despatch_ 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 _Despatch_ as she proudly entered the harbor. The scene was a most
+memorable one.
+
+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 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 _Despatch_--were ex-President R. B. Hayes and the
+Governors of thirty-five States.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman, my Countrymen_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Great Military Parade and Banquet._
+
+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 remained at his post,
+saluting the last company. The troops of the various States were led by
+their Governors.
+
+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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 city
+  offered thoroughfares so magnificent, or a people so great, so
+  generous, as New York has poured out to-day to celebrate that event?
+
+  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.]
+
+  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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  Let me add a thought due to our country's future. Perhaps 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.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 22, 1889.
+
+_Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument._
+
+
+A memorable 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+To their addresses President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Gentlemen of the Committees and Friends_--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.
+
+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.
+
+The march to the monument was one of the most imposing 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+President Harrison's reply was:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman, Comrades_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, AUGUST 23, 1889.
+
+_Reunion of the Seventieth Indiana._
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Taylor_--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 marched--in these exercises connected with the dedication of a
+  monument that knows no regimental distinction. [Applause.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO, DECEMBER 9, 1889.
+
+
+Monday 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 frontage 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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."
+
+As Mr. Peck introduced President Harrison the great assembly
+enthusiastically testified its welcome. The President spoke as follows:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  You will permit me, then, to thank you, to thank the Mayor of
+  Chicago, to thank the President of this Association, and to thank 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 30, 1890.
+
+_Garfield Memorial Dedication._
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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.
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The President spoke with great earnestness. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOSTON, AUGUST 11, 1890.
+
+_The Guest of Massachusetts._
+
+
+Monday afternoon, August 11, the cruiser _Baltimore_, bearing President
+Harrison, Secretary Rusk, Secretary Noble, and a number of friends,
+entered Boston harbor, saluted by the _Atlanta_, the _Kearsage_,
+the _Petrel_, the _Yorktown_, the _Dolphin_, the dynamite cruiser
+_Vesuvius_, and the torpedo-boat _Cushing_. 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+In response to these cordial greetings the President said:
+
+  _Comrades_--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, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOSTON, AUGUST 12.
+
+_G. A. R. National Encampment._
+
+
+The 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 _prima donna_, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman_--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 commonwealth 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison was introduced as Comrade Harrison, President of the
+United States, and was greeted with tremendous applause. He spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic_--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.]
+
+  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 body and bear it to the grave, you may die in peace
+  and in the hope of a glorious resurrection! [Applause.]
+
+
+
+
+CRESSON, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 13.
+
+
+Nearly 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.
+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+OSCEOLA, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+During 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 Passenger 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+HOUTZDALE, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+Arrived 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.
+
+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.
+
+A notable incident of the demonstration was the reception 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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PHILIPSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 20.
+
+
+Other 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.
+
+Philipsburg was reached at 3 P.M. 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.
+
+Returning to the station Mayor Warfel introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Citizens of Philipsburg_--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.
+
+
+
+
+WESTERN TOUR, OCTOBER, 1890.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+
+
+
+CLIFTON FORGE, VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 6.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Arrived at Lawrenceburg the President was visibly affected at meeting
+many old friends and neighbors of 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.
+
+The President addressed the large assembly in a voice heavy with
+emotion. He said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+NORTH VERNON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SEYMOUR, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+After he had introduced Secretary Tracy, the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SHOALS, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SULLIVAN, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+In answer to repeated calls for a speech the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+The 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. _En route_ 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.
+
+Mayor Frank C. Danaldson made the welcoming address, and concluded by
+introducing President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens of Indiana, Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+Danville was reached at 6 P.M. 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.
+
+Congressman Cannon introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 assembly 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 7.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Good Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PEORIA, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Clarke introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 8.
+
+_The Public Reception._
+
+
+During 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.
+
+Arriving at the Court-House Park, Mayor Stevens delivered the address of
+welcome. President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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 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?
+
+  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."
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Reunion First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps._
+
+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 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.
+
+The President then addressed the brigade as follows:
+
+  _Comrades_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  Those early days in which we were being transformed from civilians
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 spring melts and disappears, and settles into
+  the earth to clothe it with verdure and beauty and harvest. [Great
+  cheering.]
+
+
+_Alumni Hall, Knox College._
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+_Phi Delta Theta Banquet._
+
+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 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Brigade Banquet._
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+OTTUMWA, IOWA, OCTOBER 9.
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Boies and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+(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.)
+
+  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!"]
+
+(At this point the management succeeded in finally turning off the water
+so that the deafening noise ceased.)
+
+  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.]
+
+  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
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Colonel Dawes made a brief welcoming address and presented the
+President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ATCHISON, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+Entering 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.
+
+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. 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+TOPEKA, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 suggestions 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.]
+
+  Now, fellow-citizens, you will excuse me from the attempt at further
+  speech. I beg you again to believe that I am grateful, so 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+NORTONVILLE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+At Nortonville the citizens, and especially the school children, turned
+out _en masse_ 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.
+
+Governor Humphrey introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+In response to the enthusiastic greetings the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LAWRENCE, KANSAS, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Henley, in the name of the city, welcomed the President, who,
+responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+KANSAS CITY, OCTOBER 10.
+
+
+The presidential party reached Kansas City at 5:30 P.M. 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, J. W. Merrill, D. G. Saunders, F. W.
+Hatch, G. Bernheimer, B. C. Burgess, S. T. Smith, and J. L. Walker.
+
+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.
+
+In response to a toast to the President's health, General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+After passing the evening at his brother's residence, at 8 P.M. 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.
+
+Major William Warner introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 kindness, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. LOUIS, OCTOBER 11.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Hon. Charles Parsons then introduced the President, who addressed the
+assemblage as follows:
+
+  _Governor Francis, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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 together 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 the public relations of every
+  American citizen. And now, my friends, again let me say thank you and
+  good-by.
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ANDERSON, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+President Harrison passed the Sabbath quietly at his Indianapolis
+residence, and early Monday morning, accompanied by Secretary Tracy and
+Marshal Ransdell, started for Washington.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MUNCIE, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+WINCHESTER, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Winchester's 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.
+
+Gen. Thomas M. Browne, on behalf of the citizens, delivered an eloquent
+address of welcome, and closed by introducing President Harrison, who
+said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+UNION CITY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Senator Shockney and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+DE GRAFF, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Crossing 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.
+
+Superintendent of Schools Joseph Swisher introduced the President, who
+said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Bellefontaine 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.
+
+Mayor Wright delivered a brief welcoming address and introduced the
+President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CRESTLINE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Mayor Pool welcomed and introduced the President in a brief address.
+General Harrison responded:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 be hopeful, let us be faithful and true, and the
+  future of our country and our own comfort are assured. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+MANSFIELD, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Senator Sherman introduced the President, who spoke briefly, saying:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+WOOSTER, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Congressman Smyser introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 social order as here? The individual free to aspire and work,
+  the community its own police officer and guardian.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ORRVILLE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+MASSILLON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 work for human rights a kindly consideration
+  with compensatory wages. [Cheers.]
+
+  Now, to these children and Grand Army friends who greet me here, I
+  say, thank you and God speed you and good-by. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+CANTON, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+Canton, 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.
+
+Major McKinley introduced the President, who addressed the large
+assemblage, saying:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALLIANCE, OHIO, OCTOBER 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Chairman Fording delivered a welcoming address and introduced President
+Harrison, who in response said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, APRIL 14, 1891.
+
+_Letter to Western States Commercial Congress._
+
+
+The 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:
+
+                                           WASHINGTON, April 7.
+  HON. H. B. KELLY, _Chairman, Kansas City, Mo._:
+
+  DEAR SIR--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 considering 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+          Very respectfully,                     BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+ACROSS THE CONTINENT, 1891.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+The train that safely carried the head of the Nation on this great tour
+was a marvel of mechanical perfection unrivalled in equipment. Mr. Geo.
+W. Boyd, General Assistant Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
+prepared the schedule and had charge of the train throughout.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, APRIL 14.
+
+
+Leaving Washington shortly after midnight, the train passed through
+Lynchburg at an early hour and arrived at Roanoke, its first
+stopping-point, at 8:50 A.M. 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.
+
+After shaking hands with several hundred, President Harrison, in
+response to repeated calls, spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRISTOL, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Judge Wood made the welcoming address and introduced the President, who,
+in response, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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?
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14. 1891
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Congressman Alfred A. Taylor presented the President, who spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+JONESBORO, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+General Harrison's allusion to John Sevier and his struggle to establish
+the State of Franklin elicited hearty applause. He spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  On all these new things I congratulate the citizens of Tennessee.
+  Turn your faces to the morning, for the sun is lightening the
+  hill-tops; 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.]
+
+
+
+
+GREENVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+MORRISTOWN, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+President Harrison's speech on the occasion was as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, APRIL 14.
+
+
+On 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. Chamberlain, 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.
+
+Col. William A. Henderson introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  It is the one rule of conduct for us all. I may not choose as
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, APRIL 15.
+
+
+Chattanooga 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.
+
+The committee escorted the distinguished guests to the 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.
+
+Ex-Congressman Evans, amid deafening cheers, introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  I congratulate Tennessee, I congratulate this prosperous city, I
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 15.
+
+          "What War has ravaged Commerce can bestow,
+          And he returns a Friend who came a Foe."
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+ATLANTA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+On 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  Thanking you for your reception, which has been warm and
+  hospitable, I go from you very grateful for your kindness and very
+  full of hope for your future.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TALLAPOOSA, GEORGIA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+The 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, O. F. Sampson, H. Martin, M.
+C. Haiston, G. W. Tumlin, and J. C. Murrey.
+
+Responding to the welcoming cheers the President addressed the assembly
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  The development which is coming to you in these regions of the
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ANNISTON, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+Many 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.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, APRIL 16.
+
+
+Large 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+Both the Governor and the Mayor delivered eloquent addresses of welcome,
+to which President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Jones, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, APRIL 17.
+
+
+The 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 L. Norton, W. H. Bates, M. T.
+Garvin, S. H. Dunscomb, F. H. White, and R. D. Jordan.
+
+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.
+
+Chairman Clapp made the address of welcome. President Harrison responded
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 between 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.]
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.
+
+
+As 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.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Governor Eagle and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS, APRIL 17.
+
+
+Notwithstanding 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.
+
+The President spoke briefly and said:
+
+  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 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.
+
+
+
+
+PALESTINE, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Governor Hogg made the formal address of welcome, to which the President
+responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Hogg and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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 city participated in receiving and entertaining the ladies in the
+presidential party.
+
+Congressman Stewart introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 and examined by the European governments, will remove the
+  last excuse for the exclusion of our meats from those foreign states.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+GALVESTON, TEXAS, APRIL 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison's response was the longest speech of his trip, and
+attracted wide-spread and favorable comment. He said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  The great States of the South will be in discontent with the old
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, APRIL 20.
+
+
+The 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 _Alamo City_ 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,
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 satisfaction 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DEL RIO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Rev. Dr. H. S. Thrall, the veteran historian of Texas, delivered the
+address of welcome. The President, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+EL PASO, TEXAS, APRIL 21.
+
+
+The 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. Jose 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, Senor Mejia, Senor 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.
+
+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 eloquent address welcomed him to the Gate City of the two
+republics.
+
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 increased 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DEMING, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.
+
+
+As 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 Robert Campbell. Professor Hayes delivered the welcoming
+address.
+
+In reply President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO, APRIL 21.
+
+
+At 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TUCSON, ARIZONA, APRIL 21.
+
+
+Tucson, 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.
+
+Hon. Thos. F. Wilson made the address of welcome. The President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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. [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.]
+
+
+
+
+INDIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+
+
+COLTON, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+The President addressed the assemblage and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+H. Z. Osborne, of the Los Angeles committee, introduced the President,
+who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BANNING, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+Banning, 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 _Herald_, 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+POMONA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Responding to their cheers and calls the President said:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 22.
+
+
+The 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 20,000 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,
+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. Johnson, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 Fremont 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.]
+
+  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 to
+  your sea-coast defences until all these great ports of the Atlantic
+  and Pacific are made safe. [Cheers.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.
+
+                                [Signed]              PORFIRIO DIAZ.
+
+Responding to this friendly international salute, President Harrison
+said:
+
+  _Governor Torres_--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.
+
+As the President sat down Governor Torres remarked: "The Mexican people
+respond heartily to your kind wishes."
+
+
+
+
+SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+On 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, and the Hon.
+W. H. Spurgeon, founder of the city, introduced the President, who spoke
+as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+ORANGE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+Through 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.
+
+Responding to enthusiastic cheers the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--I am glad to look into your smiling faces, and I
+  thank you for this welcome. California is a State that is favorably
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+One 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.
+
+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.
+
+On being presented by Mr. Evans the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+The distinguished visitors then proceeded through the city and reviewed
+the parade, at the conclusion of which the President, speaking without
+introduction, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+Another 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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow citizens_--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 cultivation,
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 23.
+
+
+It 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. 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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--I beg you to accept my thanks for this banquet spread
+  in honor of this community of strangers who have dropped in upon 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FERNANDO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Dr. Hawks made a brief address of welcome and introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Maj. Joseph R. Haugh, an old Indianapolis acquaintance, welcomed the
+President on behalf of the committee. President Harrison, replying, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN BUENAVENTURA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+Gen. William Vandever welcomed the party, and the President spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 24.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Gen. Wm. Vandever delivered an address of welcome, to which the
+President, responding, said:
+
+  _General Vandever, Gentlemen of the Committee and Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+TULARE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+Tulare 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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Governor Markham introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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, 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+A crowd 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.
+
+Dr. Rowell delivered the welcoming address. President Harrison,
+responding, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MERCED, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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 Mrs. Harrison
+with a beautiful souvenir in the shape of a large American flag woven
+from roses and violets.
+
+Chairman Dixon made the welcoming address, and President Harrison
+replied in the following words:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+Modesto was reached at 2:40 P.M. 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.
+
+George Perley introduced President Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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?
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LATHROP, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25.
+
+
+The 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 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  My heart has but one language: it is, "I thank you."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 25.
+
+
+At 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, 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.
+
+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 _Piedmont_ for passage across the bay.
+On board the _Piedmont_, 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 _Piedmont_ 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 _Piedmont_
+resembled volcanoes. The entire population of the city came out to
+do honor to the head of the Nation, and the principal streets were
+beautifully illuminated.
+
+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.
+
+In response the President said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 27.
+
+
+Monday, 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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+With the closing words Mr. Sutro extended to the President a red plush
+album inclosing the letter. President Harrison, in accepting it, said:
+
+  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.
+
+The next visit was to the Presidio, where the President and
+General Ruger witnessed the brilliant manoeuvres 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.
+
+
+_Phi Delta Theta._
+
+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."
+
+General Harrison, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends and Brothers in this Old Society_--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.]
+
+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. 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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 28.
+
+_Launch of the Monterey._
+
+
+Tuesday, April 28, the President enjoyed an excursion on the bay on
+board the steamer _Puebla_. Following the _Puebla_ came the cruiser
+_Charleston_, 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.
+
+In the afternoon, at the Union Iron Works, the President and Mrs.
+Harrison participated in the launch of the armored coast-defence vessel
+_Monterey_. 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. On the
+platform with the President's party were Henry T. Scott and Irving M.
+Scott, builders of the _Monterey_; master shipwright Geo. W. Dickie,
+Governor Markham, and other prominent people.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Leaving San Francisco on Wednesday, April 29, the President spent the
+morning at Senator Stanford's famous Palo Alto ranch. The first stop _en
+route_ 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. 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.
+
+As the train moved off President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Arriving at San Jose 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.
+
+President Harrison, responding, said.
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 triumph. 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+GILROY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+Two 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.
+
+Mayor Loupe introduced the President, who made one of his briefest
+speeches. He said:
+
+  _My Friends_--It gives me great pleasure to see you for a moment,
+  and thank you for your kindness in coming out on this occasion. 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.
+
+
+
+
+WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 29.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 30.
+
+
+The 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."
+
+In response the President said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+As the President arose to respond the great audience cheered
+enthusiastically. He said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA, MAY 1.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Chairman J. W. Lyndon made the address of welcome and introduced
+President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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.
+
+  I thank you for your cordial greeting. It overpowers me I feel that
+  these brief stops are but poor recompense for the trouble and 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 1.
+
+_Chamber of Commerce Reception._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+When the President arose to respond he was greeted with a storm of
+applause. His address was punctured throughout with cheers. He said:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen of these Assembled Societies_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ADDRESS TO THE VETERANS, MAY 1.
+
+
+From 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.
+
+He spoke as follows:
+
+  _Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic_--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.
+
+  It was that these things might continue to be that you went to
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PALACE HOTEL BANQUET, MAY 1.
+
+
+In 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+  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 _ad libitum_. [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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 citizens who
+  may be domiciled there to feel lonesome for the sight of the American
+  flag. [Cheers.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+The President's address was as follows:
+
+  _Governor Markham and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BENICIA, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+In response to calls for a speech the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+_State University._
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, standing with uncovered head in the carriage, spoke as
+follows:
+
+  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 will fit them to maintain, develop, and perpetuate what
+  their fathers have begun.
+
+  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.
+
+
+_Institute of the Dumb and Blind._
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+
+Leaving 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, speaking from the same carriage, responded as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 2.
+
+_Union League Reception._
+
+
+Immediately 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+General Harrison, in accepting the beautiful souvenir, said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 3.
+
+_Farewell._
+
+
+Sunday 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:
+
+  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 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.
+
+                                                  BENJ. HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+Monday 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.
+
+On being presented to the assemblage by his former comrade the President
+spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  Seriously, my friends, you have a most beautiful State, capable of
+  promoting the comfort of your citizens in a very high degree, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+REDDING, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SISSON, CALIFORNIA, MAY 4.
+
+
+A brief 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison, addressing the assemblage, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+ASHLAND, OREGON, MAY 4.
+
+
+The first stop in Oregon was at Ashland, at 8 P.M., 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. R. Mills, Dr. J. Hall, and
+Col. J. T. Bowditch, Judge Advocate General O. N. G.
+
+Responding to the greeting of the Legislative Committee the President
+said:
+
+  _Mr. Simon and Gentlemen of the Committee_--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.
+
+The President then appeared on the platform, and was presented to the
+citizens by the Mayor, and spoke briefly, saying:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+MEDFORD, OREGON, MAY 4.
+
+
+The President's visit to Medford at 10 P.M. 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 _en masse_.
+Mayor G. W. Howard made a brief address and introduced the President,
+who said:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALBANY, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison, in response, said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALEM, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+Salem, the capital of Oregon, was reached at 9 A.M. 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. _En
+route_ 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."
+
+With marked earnestness President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Pennoyer, Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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, contented,
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHEMAWA, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+At 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:
+
+  _My Young Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+OREGON CITY, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+A cordial 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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+PORTLAND, OREGON, MAY 5.
+
+
+Tuesday, 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.
+
+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.
+
+Conspicuous in the procession were the following staff 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison was tendered an ovation as he arose to respond. He
+said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  I am glad to know that we are here to-night as American citizens,
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Fellow-countrymen_--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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+The President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+TACOMA, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+Ten 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.
+
+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.
+
+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. Harrison
+made perhaps her first public speech on the trip. She said:
+
+  _Ladies_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_On Steamer "City of Seattle," Puget Sound._
+
+At 11:30 A.M. the President and his party left Tacoma, embarking on the
+steamer _City of Seattle_ 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, 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor_--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.
+
+
+
+
+SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+The steamer bearing the presidential party, followed by a great flotilla
+that had come out to greet them, arrived at Seattle at 1:30 P.M., 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,
+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.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Judge Burke and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 _entrepot_, 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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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 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.]
+
+As the President concluded there were loud calls for Postmaster-General
+Wanamaker, who waved his hand toward the children and said:
+
+  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
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+It was 10 P.M. 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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+
+
+
+CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+Responding to greetings the President said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CASCADE LOCKS, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+HOOD RIVER STATION, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+At Hood River Station the President shook hands with a number and
+addressed the gathering as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+THE DALLES, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+After 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 Mrs. J. Patterson. Many old
+soldiers and a large number of school children were present.
+
+Mayor Moody, in behalf of the city, welcomed the President, who
+responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PENDLETON, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+After 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:
+
+  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.
+
+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.
+
+The President replied:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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].
+
+
+
+
+LE GRANDE, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President responded:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BAKER CITY, OREGON, MAY 7.
+
+
+The closing event of the long day was the reception at Baker City
+at 11:30 P.M. 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.
+
+Responding to Mr. Anderson's welcoming address President Harrison said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BOISE CITY, IDAHO, MAY 8.
+
+
+Boise City, 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+After the review Governor Willey and Mayor Pinney formally welcomed the
+President, who responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+  I am glad to see that this banner of liberty, this flag of our
+  fathers, this flag that these--my comrades here present--defended
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+POCATELLO, IDAHO, MAY 8.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+Chairman Savidge of the committee delivered the welcoming address and
+introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+The presidential party arrived at the "City of Zion" at 2:45 A.M. 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, 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.
+
+Governor Thomas and Mayor Scott delivered welcoming addresses, to which
+President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Chamber of Commerce Speech._
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison made an address. He said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_Address to the School Children._
+
+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:
+
+  _To the School Children_--In all this joyous journey through
+  this land of flowers and the sunny South I have seen nothing more
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LEHI CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President made a brief address, saying:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+PROVO CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+The presidential train arrived at Provo--the Garden City of Utah--at
+1:30 P.M. 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.
+
+Mayor Booth introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+Early 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.
+
+The President, addressing the school children, said:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+SPRINGVILLE, UTAH, MAY 9.
+
+
+As the presidential train reached Castle Gate, a mining town on the
+summit of the Wahsatch Mountains, the people turned out _en masse_. A
+salute was fired with dynamite cartridges. The President briefly thanked
+the people for their greeting.
+
+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.
+
+Governor Thomas introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 10.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+The Mayor made the welcoming address and presented the President with a
+solid silver plate, superbly engraved with the coat-of-arms of Colorado.
+
+President Harrison replied:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+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.
+
+In accepting this rare token the President said:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens and Children_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+LEADVILLE, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Leadville, the Cloud City, was reached at 7:30 A.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+The President responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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,
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BUENA VISTA, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Buena Vista 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.
+
+President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SALIDA, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Three 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  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 canyons. 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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CANYON CITY, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+Leaving 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 Canyon. Emerging through the Royal Gorge
+the party reached Canyon City at 2 P.M. 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+FLORENCE, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PUEBLO, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+An artillery salute welcomed the party to Pueblo at 3:30 P.M. 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.
+
+At the Court House Square 6,000 children greeted the President, who was
+introduced by Dr. William A. Olmsted and said:
+
+  _Children of the Public Schools and Others_--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.]
+
+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.
+
+Colonel Stanton made the welcoming address and introduced President
+Harrison to the great assemblage, who responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 11.
+
+
+The 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. 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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+After the parade the Garfield School was visited, and the President
+addressed the scholars as follows:
+
+  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 and honorable position may be
+  achieved by you all. Wishing you every prosperity and success, I bid
+  you good-by. [Cheers.]
+
+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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 production. [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.]
+
+
+
+
+DENVER, COLORADO, MAY 12.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+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. 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, 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.
+
+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, who portrayed
+the triumphant struggle and growth of Denver. President Harrison
+responded as follows:
+
+  _Governor Routt, Mr. Mayor, Pioneers of Colorado, Comrades of the
+  Grand Army_ [cheers] _and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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, 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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.
+
+Responding to a toast in honor of the President of the United States,
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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.
+
+  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 included 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  I say good-by, and again express our thanks for your hospitality,
+  which has been excelled nowhere on our journey. [Cheers.]
+
+
+
+
+AKRON, COLORADO, MAY 12.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Commander John N. Tague, of Akron Post, G. A. R., introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+HASTINGS, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+Hastings, 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.
+
+J. N. Clarke delivered the address of welcome and introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-countrymen_--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.
+
+  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!"]
+
+  The Westerners are the overspill of the enterprising population
+  of 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CRETE, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Governor Thayer introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  I am glad to see these children here this morning. They have greeted
+  me everywhere with their happy smiles, and they brighten 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.]
+
+
+
+
+LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 13
+
+
+The 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.
+
+President Harrison responded:
+
+  _Governor Thayer and Mr. Mayor_--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 much, that this time could
+  be extended and that I would be able to address you with more comfort
+  to myself and to you.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+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:
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ASHLAND, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+About 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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+OMAHA, NEBRASKA, MAY 13.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+When the demonstration subsided President Harrison responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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. 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  We have a surplus production in these great valleys for which we
+  must seek foreign markets. It is pleasant to know that 90 per 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_At the High-School Grounds._
+
+On concluding the formal reception the President and his party became
+the guests of Hon. E. Rosewater, editor and proprietor of the Omaha
+_Daily Bee_, and after inspecting the editorial rooms the President held
+a reception in the rotunda of the _Bee_ building. This was followed
+by a ride over the city, escorted by the Reception Committee. As the
+_cortege_ passed the High-School grounds 20,000 children and adults gave
+the President a most patriotic greeting.
+
+Halting in front of the building, the President arose in his carriage
+and said:
+
+  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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Little Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, MAY 13.
+
+
+A short 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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+SHENANDOAH, IOWA, MAY 13.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+The President, responding to cheers from the large crowd, said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MARYVILLE, MISSOURI, MAY 13.
+
+
+It was 11 P.M. 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.
+
+When the cheering subsided President Harrison said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+
+
+
+HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, MAY 14.
+
+
+About 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.
+
+President Harrison spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--I have only time to assure you that I
+  appreciate very highly this evidence of your respect. We have
+  extended 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.]
+
+
+
+
+SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+_At the Tomb of Lincoln._
+
+
+Brief 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Governor Fifer and Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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!
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_At the State House._
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--I feel that we make a very poor return to you
+  here for your cordial welcome, and for these extensive preparations
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+Decatur 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.
+
+In response to Mayor Chambers' welcoming address President Harrison said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.] 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.]
+
+
+
+
+TUSCOLA, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+In response to a hasty but cordial welcome from Mayor Sloan the
+President said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHRISMAN, ILLINOIS, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Mr. Van Voorhees introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTEZUMA, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+It was about 3 P.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.
+
+At this point tears came to the President's eyes, and his utterance
+became so choked he could say no more.
+
+
+
+
+INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+Promptly 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.
+
+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.
+
+Cheer after cheer went up from the vast concourse as 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _Governor Hovey, Mayor Sullivan and Friends_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, INDIANA, MAY 14.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Congressman Johnson introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+DAYTON, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+A great 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 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.
+
+The President's appearance was the signal for a prolonged outburst of
+patriotic feeling, in recognition and response to which he spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+XENIA, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+Judge Little introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+COLUMBUS, OHIO, MAY 14.
+
+
+It 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.
+
+In response to repeated calls the President appeared, accompanied by
+Secretary Rusk, and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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."
+
+The President spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 Pennsylvania 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.]
+
+
+
+
+HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 15.
+
+
+The arrival at Harrisburg at 1:15 P.M. 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison closed his long series of brilliant and interesting
+addresses in the following words:
+
+  _Governor Pattison and Fellow citizens_--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.]
+
+  It is a pleasant thing that we appreciate our surroundings. We
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+THE RETURN TO WASHINGTON.
+
+
+There 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 a man. He then returned his thanks individually to the engineer,
+conductor, and every employee.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+PHILADELPHIA, MAY 30.
+
+
+On 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
+Commander-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.
+
+The President, replying to the address of welcome, said:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+_At General Meade's Grave._
+
+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.
+
+Along the entire line of march to the stand were immense crowds, who
+greeted the President with silent demonstrations of respect.
+
+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."
+
+As the President stepped forward he was heartily cheered. He said:
+
+  _Commander, Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
+  Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  I have recently returned from an extended tour of the States, and
+  nothing so impressed and refreshed me as the universal display of
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE BENNINGTON TRIP, AUGUST, 1891.
+
+
+On 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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+Colonel Sleicher introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 our people; that upon the
+  Sacramento as well as upon the Hudson men love the old memories and
+  the old flag. [Applause.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+KINGSTON, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+After shaking hands for several minutes, Hon. William H. Turner
+introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ALBANY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+It 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:
+
+                                                  ALBANY, August 12.
+  HON. BENJAMIN HARRISON, _Cape May, N. J._:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                      DAVID B. HILL.
+
+                                STOCKTON HOUSE, CAPE MAY, August 12.
+  GOV. D. B. HILL, _Albany_:
+
+  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.
+
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+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 Westbrook, H. N. Fuller, C. B. Templeton,
+William H. Cull, and Oscar Smith.
+
+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.
+
+Responding to these hospitable addresses, the President said:
+
+  _Governor Hill, Mr. Mayor, and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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 have been in the
+  past, I believe this year will spread a smile of gladness over the
+  entire agricultural population of our country.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+TROY, NEW YORK, AUGUST 18.
+
+
+When 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. 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Friends_--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.]
+
+The President was here interrupted by the blowing of steam-whistles, and
+continued, smiling:
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BENNINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 19.
+
+_Dedication of the Battle Monument._
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+After the review the presidential party was escorted to the grand stand
+at the monument, where 15,000 people assembled.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+At the conclusion of Mr. Phelps' oration Chairman Veazey introduced
+President Harrison, who arose midst prolonged cheers and spoke as
+follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 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]
+
+
+_The Banquet in the Tent._
+
+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,
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 Sevres and old Delft ware.
+
+General Veazey, the President of the Committee, again introduced
+President Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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 attempt 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+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."
+
+
+
+
+MT. M'GREGOR, AUGUST 20.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison arose and amid great cheering began:
+
+  _Mr. Arkell and Friends_--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 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.
+
+
+
+
+SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, AUGUST 21.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+FROM SARATOGA THROUGH VERMONT.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+WHITEHALL, NEW YORK, AUGUST, 25.
+
+
+The 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:
+
+  _Comrades and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 inspiration 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+FAIR HAVEN, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Mr. Hazard introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--We have already lost some minutes at your
+  station, and it will not be possible for me to hold the train longer.
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  Thanking you again for this pleasant morning reception, I will bid
+  you good-by. [Applause.]
+
+
+
+
+CASTLETON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Judge Clark introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRANDON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+Brandon gave the travellers a hearty reception at 11 A.M. 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.
+
+General Harrison said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+On the arrival of the train at Middlebury at 11:30 A.M. 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.
+
+Governor Stewart introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+VERGENNES, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+Secretary Proctor introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BURLINGTON, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+Burlington 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.
+
+Mayor Hazelton delivered the address of welcome and introduced President
+Harrison, who responded as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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, 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. ALBANS, VERMONT, AUGUST 25.
+
+
+The President and party embarked at Burlington on board Col. W. Seward
+Webb's yacht _Elfrida_ 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 P.M., 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.
+
+When the President appeared on the balcony the enthusiasm was great. He
+was introduced by Hon. E. C. Smith, and spoke as follows:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.] 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.]
+
+  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 domestic 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+RICHMOND, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+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.
+
+Congressman Powers introduced the President, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 communication, 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.]
+
+
+
+
+WATERBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST, 26.
+
+
+Waterbury was reached at 10:30 A.M. 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.
+
+Hon. Wm. Paul Dillingham made the welcoming address and introduced the
+President, who responded as follows:
+
+  _My Friends_--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 connected 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+MONTPELIER, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+A great 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.
+
+After the applause subsided the Lieutenant-Governor introduced President
+Harrison, who addressed the legislators as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President and Gentlemen, the Legislature of the State of
+  Vermont_--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 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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+_The Public Reception._
+
+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 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:
+
+  _Governor Page and Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PLAINFIELD, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+At 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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison was introduced by Senator Dwinnel, and said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens and Comrades_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT, AUGUST 26.
+
+
+Brief 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 P.M.
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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
+  patriotic towns and villages, movements are being inaugurated to
+  display the American flag over our institutions of learning.
+
+  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.]
+
+  I am most happy to witness in this prosperous New England town so
+  many evidences that your community is intelligent, industrious,
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BILLINGS PARK, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+When 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.
+
+Col. Hooker, as President of the Association, introduced President
+Harrison, who said:
+
+  _Colonel Hooker and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRADFORD, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+At Bradford 1,000 people assembled to do honor to the President, who
+arrived at 10 A.M. 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.
+
+Ex-Governor Farnham introduced the President, who spoke as follows:
+
+  _Ladies and Gentlemen_--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 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.]
+
+
+
+
+WINDSOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+It was raining when the President arrived at Windsor, at 1 P.M. 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+Notwithstanding 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.
+
+The President, responding, said:
+
+  _Colonel Webber and Fellow-citizens_--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.]
+
+
+
+
+BELLOWS FALLS, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+When 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, who marshalled the hosts for Gen. Wm. Henry
+Harrison in 1836 and '40. The building was packed.
+
+Mr. Swain introduced President Harrison, who said:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens_--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.
+
+  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 conquer 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, AUGUST 27.
+
+
+Just 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.
+
+Colonel Estey welcomed and presented the President, who made the
+following address:
+
+  _My Fellow citizens_--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.]
+
+  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 _Despatch_ 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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."
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+RUTLAND, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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:
+
+  _My Fellow-citizens and Comrades of the Grand Army of the
+  Republic_--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 battle-fields 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 disturbed 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.
+
+  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 beginning 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+PROCTOR, VERMONT, AUGUST 28.
+
+
+On 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.
+
+Secretary Proctor, in an affectionate address, introduced President
+Harrison, who spoke as follows:
+
+  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 artistic
+  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.]
+
+  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 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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891.
+
+_The Augusta Exposition._
+
+
+President Harrison 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.
+
+Chairman Walsh, on behalf of the committee, made the invitation address,
+to which the President, responding, said:
+
+  _Gentlemen_--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 stethoscopes, 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.
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 17, 1891.
+
+
+The 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.
+
+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 Compton, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Harrison then addressed the Conference as follows:
+
+  _Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conference_--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.
+
+  Assembling from countries unlike in their civil institutions, from
+  churches not wholly in accord as to doctrine or church order, you
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.
+
+  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.]
+
+  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.]
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN TIN PLATE, OCTOBER 23.
+
+
+While 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:
+
+                                EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 19, 1891.
+
+  MY DEAR SIR--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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+                                      Very truly yours,
+                                                  BENJAMIN HARRISON.
+
+
+
+
+WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 14 AND DECEMBER 9, 1891.
+
+_The Chilian Imbroglio._
+
+
+In 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 Senor Uribirru, the Argentine Minister.
+
+During the conduct of the war, the _Itata_, 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 _Itata_, 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 _Times_, 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.
+
+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 _Baltimore_, 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
+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, Senor Don Pedro
+Montt was presented to President Harrison as the newly accredited
+Chilian Minister to the United States.
+
+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.
+
+The Minister was accompanied by Senors Anibal Cruz, Secretary of
+Legation; Guillermo Arenanetegan and Valentin del Campo, attaches. After
+the formal introductions by Secretary Blaine, Senor Montt addressed the
+President in Spanish as follows:
+
+  _Mr. President_--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.
+
+The President, in response, said:
+
+  _Mr. Minister_--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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+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 _Baltimore_ with the following significant
+paragraphs:
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+PROTECTION FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
+
+[_Extract from President's Message, December 9, 1891._]
+
+
+On 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:
+
+  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.
+
+Consistent with these views, President Harrison, in his message to
+Congress, December 9, 1891, made the following pertinent suggestions:
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE APPOINTMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
+
+[_From Annual Message to Congress, December 9, 1891._]
+
+
+Perhaps 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:
+
+  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.
+
+  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 provides 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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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 Representatives.
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  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, 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."
+
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+
+
+
+THE CHILIAN MESSAGE, JANUARY 25, 1892.
+
+
+Just 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 to Congress that Chili had substantially complied
+with our demands.
+
+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.
+
+  _To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
+
+       .       .       .       .       .
+
+  We have now received from the Chilian Government an abstract of the
+  conclusions of the _Fiscal General_ 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.
+
+       .       .       .       .       .
+
+  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 _Baltimore_ 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 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.
+
+Here follow the details of the attack upon the sailors of the
+_Baltimore_ in the streets of Valparaiso, October 16th.
+
+  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.
+
+  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....
+
+  No amount of evasion or subterfuge is able to cloud our clear vision
+  of this brutal work....
+
+  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 _Baltimore_, 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....
+
+  The evidence of our sailors clearly shows that the attack was
+  expected by the Chilian people, that threats had been made against
+  our 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....
+
+  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 _Baltimore_, 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.
+
+       .       .       .       .       .
+
+  The testimony of Captain Jenkins, of the American merchant ship
+  _Keweenaw_, which had gone to Valparaiso for repairs, and who was a
+  witness of some part of the assault upon the crew of the _Baltimore_,
+  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.
+
+  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 _Baltimore's_ 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....
+
+  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 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.
+
+       .       .       .       .       .
+
+  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:
+
+  "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.
+
+  "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.
+
+  "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 suitable apology and
+  for some adequate reparation for the injury done to this Government."
+
+  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.
+
+  The request for the recall of Mr. Egan upon the ground that he was
+  not _persona grata_ 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.
+
+  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 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.
+
+  Upon information received that Patrick Shields, an Irishman and
+  probably a British subject, but at the time a fireman of the American
+  steamer _Keweenaw_, 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....
+
+  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."
+
+  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.
+
+BENJ. HARRISON.
+
+EXECUTIVE MANSION,
+
+January 25, 1892.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX TO SPEECHES, ETC.
+
+
+  Akron, Colorado, reception address at, 460
+
+  Albany, Oregon, reception address at, 402
+
+  Albany, New York, reception address at, 498
+
+  Alger, Gen. R. A., response of, 69
+
+  Allen County, Ohio, to delegation from, 149
+
+  Alliance, Ohio, reception address at, 284
+
+  Altoona, Pa., reception address at, 487
+
+  American Fork, Utah, reception address at, 435
+
+  Anderson, Indiana, reception address at, 271
+
+  Anniston, Alabama, reception address at, 308
+
+  Ashland, Oregon, reception address at, 400
+
+  Ashland, Nebraska, reception address at, 464
+
+  Atchison, Kansas, reception address at, 259
+
+  Atlanta, Georgia, address to students, 304
+    farewell address, 305
+    Mr. Wanamaker's address, 306
+
+  Augusta, Georgia, to exposition committee from, 549
+
+
+  Bakersfield, California, reception address at, 362
+
+  Baker City, Oregon, reception address at, 425
+
+  Banning, California, reception address at, 341
+
+  Bartholomew County, Indiana, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Bellefontaine, Ohio, to delegation from, 89
+    reception address at, 277
+
+  Bellows Falls, Vermont, reception address at, 540
+
+  Benicia, California, reception address at, 392
+
+  Bennington trip, 1891, personnel of party, 493
+
+  Bennington, Vermont, Battle Monument address, 502
+    at great tent banquet, 505
+
+  Benton Harbor, Michigan, to delegation from, 41
+
+  Benton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 44
+
+  Berkeley, California, at State University, 393
+    dumb and blind institute, 394
+
+  Billings Park, Vermont, speech at horse fair, 535
+
+  Birmingham, Alabama, reception address at, 311
+    luncheon address, 313
+
+  Blackford County, Indiana, to delegation from, 163
+
+  Blaine Club of Kansas City, address to, at Indianapolis, 76
+
+  Blaine reception, demonstration at Indianapolis Oct. 11, 1888, 170
+
+  Bloomington, Illinois, to delegation from, 62
+
+  Boise City, Idaho, reception address at, 427
+
+  Boone County, Indiana, to delegation from, 46
+
+  Boston, Mass., reception address at, 226
+    Mayor's Club banquet, 228
+    G. A. R. national encampment, 230
+
+  Bradford, Vermont, reception address at, 536
+
+  Brandon, Vermont, reception address at, 516
+
+  Brattleboro, Vermont, reception address at, 542
+
+  Bristol, Tennessee, reception address at, 291
+
+  Brown County, Indiana, to delegation from, 70
+
+  Buena Vista, Colorado, reception address at, 444
+
+  Burlington, Vermont, reception address at, 519
+
+
+  California delegates to Chicago, visit from, 29
+
+  California tour, 1891, personnel of party, 289
+
+  Canyon City, Colorado, reception address at, 446
+
+  Canton, Ohio, reception address at, 283
+
+  Cartersville, Georgia, reception address at, 302
+
+  Cascade Locks, Oregon, reception address at, 421
+
+  Castleton, Vermont, reception address at, 515
+
+  Centennial address, New York City, April 30, 1889, 207
+
+  Centralia, Washington, reception address at, 412
+
+  Champaign County, Illinois, to delegation from, 55
+
+  Champaign, Illinois, reception address at, 241
+
+  Charlestown, New Hampshire, reception address at, 539
+
+  Chattanooga, Tennessee, reception address at, 301
+
+  Chehalis, Washington, reception address at, 420
+
+  Chemawa, Oregon, reception address at, 405
+
+  Chicago, Marquette Club banquet address, 16
+    to committee from Marquette Club, 31
+    to Irish-American Club from, 124
+    to commercial travellers from, 140
+    to delegation business men from, 155
+    to Union veterans and others from, 166
+    to German-American Club from, 172
+    Auditorium dedication address, 218
+
+  Chilian Minister, official reception of, response to, 557
+
+  Chilian affair, message on, January 25, 1892, 564-70
+
+  Chrisman, Illinois, reception address at, 479
+
+  Cincinnati, Ohio, to Lincoln Club from, 49
+
+  Cincinnati Exposition Committee, visit from, 136
+
+  Cincinnati Exposition, invitation committee from, 171
+
+  Clay County, Indiana, to delegation from, 60
+
+  Clayton, Indiana, reunion 70th Regiment, 115
+
+  Clearfield, Pa., trip to the coal regions, 231
+
+  Cleveland, Ohio, to delegation from, 152
+    Garfield mausoleum dedication, 222
+
+  Clifton Forge, Virginia, reception address at, 235
+
+  Clinton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 72
+
+  Coles County, Illinois, to delegation from, 57
+
+  Colorado Springs, Colorado, address to scholars, 450
+    reception address, 453
+
+  Colton, California, reception address at, 339
+
+  Columbus, Ohio, to delegation veteran voters from, 145
+    to Garfield Club and Gov. Foraker, 174
+    reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, 192
+    reception address at, May 14, 1891, 487
+
+  Commercial travellers of Indiana, address to, 40
+
+  Commercial travellers of Ill. and Ind., address to, 92
+
+  Commercial travellers of Chicago, address to, 139
+
+  Commercial travellers of United States, address to, 177
+
+  Council Bluffs, Iowa, reception address at, 471
+
+  Cresson, Pa., to visiting Altoona veterans, 231
+
+  Crestline, Ohio, reception address at, 278
+
+  Crete, Nebraska, reception address at, 462
+
+
+  Danville, Indiana, to Republican Club from, June 25, 1888, 25
+
+  Danville, Illinois, reception address at, 240
+
+  Dayton, Ohio, to delegation from, 137
+    reception address at, 485
+
+  Decatur County, Indiana, to delegation from, 87
+
+  Decatur, Illinois, reception address at, 476
+
+  Defiance, Ohio, reception address at, 94
+
+  De Graff, Ohio, reception address at, 276
+
+  Delaware County, Indiana, to delegation from, 87
+
+  Del Rio, Texas, reception address at, 332
+
+  Deming, New Mexico, reception address at, 335
+
+  Denver, Colorado, address at Capitol, 454
+    address at Hotel Metropole, 459
+
+  Depew, Hon. Chauncey M., visits the nominee, 171
+
+  Detroit, Michigan Club banquet address, 9
+
+  Diaz, President Porfirio, telegram from, 350
+
+  Douglas County, Illinois, to delegation from, 84
+
+  Duluth, Minnesota, to delegation from, 156
+
+
+  Ecumenical Conference, address to, at Washington, 550
+
+  Edgar County, Illinois, to delegation from, 57
+
+  Election results, popular vote for President, 1888, 188
+
+  Electoral College, extract from President's message, Dec., 1891, 560
+
+  Eleventh Indiana Regiment, survivors received, 171
+
+  Elkhart County, Indiana, to delegation from, 146
+
+  El Paso, Texas, reception address at, 333
+
+  Ex-prisoners of war, address to, at Indianapolis, 129
+
+
+  Fair Haven, Vermont, reception address at, 514
+
+  Florence, Colorado, reception address at, 447
+
+  Floyd County, Indiana, to delegation from, 122
+
+  Foraker, Gov. J. B., congratulates the nominee, 174
+
+  Ford County, Illinois, to delegation from, 89
+
+  Fort Wayne, Indiana, reception address at, 99
+
+  Foster, ex-Gov. Charles, introduces the nominee, 97
+
+  Fountain County, Indiana, to delegation from, 162
+
+  Fresno, California, reception address at, 365
+
+  Fulton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 156
+
+
+  Galesburg, Illinois, reception address at, 243
+    address at reunion 1st Brigade, 246
+    Alumni Hall, Knox College, 251
+    Phi Delta Theta banquet, 251
+    at 1st Brigade banquet, 252
+
+  Galveston, Texas, great speech and reception, 322
+
+  Garfield Club of Columbus, address to, at Indianapolis, 175
+
+  Garfield Monument, address at dedication of, 225
+
+  G. A. R. veterans and Gov. Rusk, address to, at Indianapolis, 120
+
+  G. A. R. installation officers, address to comrades, 189
+
+  G. A. R. camp fire, Indianapolis, address to comrades, 216
+
+  G. A. R. national encampment, address at Boston, 228
+
+  Gilroy, California, reception address at, 377
+
+  Glenwood Springs, Colorado, reception address at, 437
+    address to miners, 438
+    address to children, 440
+
+  Godfrey Commandery of Chicago, visit from, 83
+
+  Grand Rapids, Michigan, to delegation from, 159
+
+  Greenville, Tennessee, reception address at, 296
+
+  Grundy County, Illinois, to delegation from, 134
+
+
+  Hamilton County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 26
+    to delegation from, August 14, 1888, 83
+
+  Hancock County, Ohio, to delegation from, 149
+
+  Hannibal, Missouri, reception address at, 472
+
+  Harrison, Gen. Benj., biographical sketch of, 7-8
+
+  Harrison League of Indianapolis, address to, 33
+
+  Harrisburg, Pa., reception address at, 488
+
+  Hastings, Nebraska, reception address at, 461
+
+  Hendricks County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 25
+    to delegation from, Nov. 9, 1888, 188
+
+  Henry County, Indiana, to delegation from, 67
+
+  Hill, Gov. David B., his invitation to the President, 497
+
+  Hood River Station, Oregon, reception address at, 421
+
+  Houston, Texas, reception address at, 321
+
+  Houtzdale, Pa., reception address at, 233
+
+  Howard County, Indiana, to delegation from, June 25, 1888, 26
+    to delegation from, July 18, 1888, 50
+
+  Huntington, Indiana, reception address at, 101
+
+  Hyde Park, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+
+  Inaugural Executive Committee, personnel of, 193
+
+  Inaugural address, March 4, 1889, 194-203
+
+  Indianapolis, to his neighbors, June 25, 1888, 27
+    to Indiana delegates, June 26, 1888, 29
+    to colored citizens, June 30, 1888, 33
+    to veterans 70th Regiment, 28
+    to veterans 26th Infantry, 134
+    to veterans 7th Cavalry, 131
+    to veterans 79th Regiment, 176
+    to veterans and neighbors, 32
+    introducing Gen. R. A. Alger, 69
+    official notification, July 4, 1888, 35
+    to Tippecanoe veterans, July 4, 1888, 38
+    to railroad employees, July 13, 1888, 47
+    speech at State Convention, Aug. 8, 1888, 80
+    on returning from Put-in Bay, Sept. 4, 1888, 105
+    great street demonstration, Sept. 6, 1888, 106
+    address to children, Sept. 8, 1888, 107
+    to the Porter-Columbian Club, Oct. 3, 1888, 158
+    Labor-Day address, Oct. 25, 1888, 183
+    to railroad clubs of Indiana, Oct. 27, 1888, 185
+    to the saw-makers of city, Nov. 9, 1888, 188
+    to G. A. R. veterans, Jan. 1, 1889, 189
+    farewell to neighbors, Feb. 25, 1889, 191
+    dedication Soldiers' Monument, 211
+    at G. A. R. camp-fire, Aug. 22, 1889, 216
+    at reunion 70th Regiment, Aug. 23, 1889, 217
+    the home welcome, May 14, 1891, 481
+
+  Indio, California, received by Gov. Markham, 338
+
+  Irish-American Club, address to, Sept. 15, 1888, 125
+
+  Iroquois County, Illinois, to delegation from, 131
+
+
+  Jacksonville, Illinois, to delegation from, July 19, 1888, 51
+    to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, 90
+
+  Janesville, Wisconsin, to delegation from, Oct. 5, 1888, 161
+
+  Jay County, Indiana, to delegation from, Sept. 21, 1888, 137
+    to delegation from, Oct. 4, 1888, 159
+
+  Jennings County, Indiana, to delegation from, July 28, 1888, 65
+
+  Johnson County, Indiana, to delegation from, Aug. 17, 1888, 90
+
+  Johnson City, Tennessee, reception address at, 293
+
+  Jonesboro, Tennessee, reception address at, 295
+
+
+  Kankakee, Illinois, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Kansas City, Missouri, to Blaine Club from, 77
+    to Scott Rifles from, 121
+    banquet address at, 265
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 266
+    letter to Commercial Congress, 286
+
+  Kansas veterans, address to, at Indianapolis, 108
+
+  Kingston, New York, reception address at, 495
+
+  Knightstown, Indiana, to soldiers' orphans at, 192
+
+  Knoxville, Tennessee, reception address at, 299
+
+  Kokomo, Indiana, to delegations from, 26, 50
+    reception address at, 103
+
+  Kosciusko County, Indiana, to delegation from, 63
+
+
+  Labor-Day address, close of the great campaign, 182
+
+  La Porte County, Indiana, to delegation from, 132
+
+  Lathrop, California, reception address at, 368
+
+  Lawrenceburg, Indiana, reception address at, 235
+
+  Lawrence, Kansas, reception address at, 265
+
+  Leadville, Colorado, reception address at, 442
+
+  Le Grande, Oregon, reception address at, 424
+
+  Lehi City, Utah, reception address at, 434
+
+  Letter of acceptance, Sept. 11, 1888, 108
+
+  Letter to Commercial Congress, April 14, 1891, 286
+
+  Letter on tin plate, its manufacture in America, 554
+
+  Lincoln, Nebraska, reception address at, 463
+    thanks to travelling men, 464
+
+  Lincoln Club, Cincinnati, address to, at Indianapolis, 49
+
+  Little Rock, Arkansas, reception address at, 317
+
+  Lordsburg, New Mexico, reception address at, 336
+
+  Los Angeles, California, reception address at, 345
+    speech at the pavilion, 347
+
+  Los Gatos, California, reception address at, 381
+
+  Louisville, Kentucky, to delegation from, 128
+
+
+  Macon County, Illinois, to delegation from, 84
+
+  Madison, Wisconsin, to delegation from, 161
+
+  Mansfield, Ohio, reception address at, 279
+
+  Marion County, Indiana, to the Tippecanoe Club, 38
+
+  Marquette Club, Chicago, speech at banquet, 16
+    to delegates from, 31
+    the President received by, 219
+
+  Marshall County, Indiana, to delegation from, 156
+
+  Maryville, Missouri, reception address at, 472
+
+  Massillon, Ohio, reception address at, 282
+
+  Medford, Oregon, reception address at, 401
+
+  Memphis, Tennessee, reception address at, 315
+
+  Merced, California, reception address at, 366
+
+  Message to Congress, presidential electors, Dec. 9, 1891, 560-63
+    Chilian affair, Dec. 9, 1891, 558
+    Chilian affair, Jan. 25, 1892, 564-70
+
+  McDaniels, L. W., extract from his address, 182
+
+  Michigan Club, Detroit, speech at banquet, 9
+
+  Middlebury, Vermont, reception address at, 517
+
+  Miller, Hon. Warner, famous telegram to, 189
+
+  Milwaukee German American Club, address to, 172
+
+  Modesto, California, reception address at, 367
+
+  Monterey, California, reception address at, 379
+
+  Montezuma, Indiana, welcomed by Gov. Hovey, 480
+
+  Montgomery County, Indiana, to delegation from, 71
+
+  Monticello, Illinois, to delegation from, 51
+
+  Montpelier, Vermont, address to Legislature, 527
+    reception address at, 529
+
+  Montt, Senor Don Pedro, his address to the President, 556
+
+  Morgan County, Indiana, to delegation from, 70
+
+  Morgan County, Illinois, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Morristown, Tennessee, reception address at, 297
+
+  Mt. McGregor, New York, birthday dinner speech, 510
+
+  Muncie, Indiana, reception address at, 272
+
+  Muskegon, Michigan, to delegation from, 159
+
+
+  Newburgh, New York, reception address at, 494
+
+  New York City, Washington centenary speech, 204
+    Centennial banquet address, 209
+
+  Ninth Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 134
+
+  Noblesville, Indiana, reception address at, 104
+
+  Normal, Illinois, to students from, 152
+
+  North Vernon, Indiana, reception address at, 236
+
+  Northen, Gov. Wm. J., welcomes the President, 303
+
+  Nortonville, Kansas, reception address at, 263
+
+  Notification committee, personnel of, 36
+
+
+  Oakland, California, reception address at, 395
+
+  Ogden, Utah, committee escorts President, 430
+
+  Omaha, Nebraska, reception address at, 465
+    addresses to school children, 470
+
+  Ontario, California, reception address at, 340
+
+  Orange, California, reception address at, 351
+
+  Oregon City, Oregon, reception address at, 406
+
+  Orrville, Ohio, reception address at, 281
+
+  Osceola, Pa., reception address at, 231
+
+  Ottumwa, Iowa, speech at Coal Palace, 255
+
+  Oxford College, Ohio, visit from students, 186
+
+
+  Palestine, Texas, received by Gov. Hogg, 319
+
+  Parke County, Indiana, to delegation from, 143
+
+  Pasadena, California, reception address at, 356
+
+  Paxton, Illinois, to delegation from, 89
+
+  Pendleton, Oregon, reception address at, 423
+
+  Pennsylvania gas men, address to, at Indianapolis, 151
+
+  Peo, Umatilla chief, his unique address to President, 423
+
+  Peoria, Illinois, reception address at, 242
+
+  Peru, Indiana, reception address at, 102
+
+  Philadelphia, speech at Independence Hall, 491
+    remarks at Gen Meade's grave, 492
+
+  Phillipsburg, Pa., reception at, Sept. 20, 1890, 234
+
+  Plainfield, Indiana, to delegation from, 26
+
+  Plainfield, Vermont, reception address at, 530
+
+  Pocatello, Idaho, reception address at, 429
+
+  Pomona, California, reception address at, 342
+
+  Porter-Columbian Club, address to members, 158
+
+  Portland, Oregon, reception address at, 408
+    Secretary Rusk's address, 411
+    Postmaster-General Wanamaker's speech, 410
+
+  Proctor, Vermont, farewell to New England, 546
+
+  Provo City, Utah, reception address at, 434
+
+  Pueblo, Colorado, address to school children, 448
+    Mineral Palace speech, 449
+
+  Puget Sound, remarks on board steamship, 415
+
+  Pullman, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+  Put-in Bay, Ohio, reception address at, 97
+
+  Puyallup, Washington, reception address at, 420
+
+
+  Railroad Club of Terre Haute, address to, 73
+
+  Railroad clubs of Indiana, address to, 185
+
+  Railroad employees of Indianapolis, address to, 47
+
+  Railroad employees should be protected, message, 559
+
+  Randolph County, Indiana, to delegation from, 137
+
+  Ransom Post, G. A. R., address to delegation from, 119
+
+  Red Bluff, California, reception address at, 398
+
+  Redding, California, reception address at, 399
+
+  Redwood City, California, reception address at, 375
+
+  Republican State Convention, speech before, 81
+
+  Richmond, Indiana, reception address at, Feb. 25, 1889, 192
+    reception address at, May 14, 1891, 483
+
+  Richmond, Vermont, reception address at, 524
+
+  Riverside, California, reception address at, 352
+
+  Roanoke, Virginia, reception address at, 290
+
+  Rush County, Indiana, to delegation from, 86
+
+  Rusk, Gov. J. M., names Gen. Harrison for a second term, 120
+
+  Rusk, Secretary, speech of, at Portland, Oregon, 411
+
+  Rutland, Vermont, reception address at, 544
+
+
+  Sacramento, California, address at State House, 391
+
+  Salem, Oregon, address at Capitol, 403
+
+  Salida, Colorado, reception address at, 445
+
+  Salt Lake, Utah, reception address at, 431
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 433
+    address to children, 434
+
+  San Antonio, Texas, reception address at, 329
+
+  San Bernardino, California, reception address at, 353
+
+  San Buena Ventura, California, reception address at, 359
+
+  San Diego, California, to Indiana residents, 347
+    at citizens' reception, 349
+    response to Gov. Torres, 350
+
+  San Fernando, California, reception address at, 358
+
+  San Francisco, the arrival address, 371
+    Sutro Heights speech, 372
+    at Phi Delta Theta banquet, 373
+    launch of the _Monterey_, 374
+    reception at Senator Stanford's, 375
+    Chamber Commerce speech, 383
+    address to veterans, May 1, 384
+    Palace Hotel banquet speech, 386
+    at Union League reception, 396
+    farewell to California, 397
+
+  San Jose, California, reception address at, 376
+
+  Santa Ana, California, reception address at, 351
+
+  Santa Barbara, California, reception address at, 361
+
+  Santa Cruz, California, reception address at, 380
+
+  Santa Paula, California, reception address at, 358
+
+  Saratoga, New York, reception address at, 511
+    House of Pansa reception, 512
+
+  Seattle, Washington, reception address at, 417
+    Mr. Wanamaker's address, 419
+
+  Second Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 134
+
+  Seventieth Indiana Infantry, reunion address, Sept. 13, 1888, 116
+    reunion address, Aug. 23, 1889, 216
+
+  Seventh Indiana Cavalry, address to survivors, 131
+
+  Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, 176
+
+  Seymour, Indiana, reception address at, 237
+
+  Shelby County, Indiana, to delegation from, 54
+
+  Shenandoah, Iowa, reception address at, 471
+
+  Shoals, Indiana, reception address at, 238
+
+  Sisson, California, reception address at, 400
+
+  Soldiers' Monument, Indianapolis, dedicatory address, 214
+
+  South Chicago, Illinois, to delegation from, 166
+
+  Springfield, Ohio, to delegation from, 180
+
+  Springfield, Illinois, to delegation from, 52
+    at Lincoln's tomb, 473
+    State House address, 475
+
+  Springville, Utah, reception address at, 436
+
+  State Fair, Indianapolis, address to exhibitors, 136
+
+  St. Albans, Vermont, reception address at, 521
+
+  St. Johnsbury, Vermont, reception address at, 531
+
+  St. Joseph, Missouri, reception address at, 258
+
+  St. Louis, Missouri, delegation from Ransom Post, 119
+    Loyal Legion delegation, 171
+    Merchants' Exchange speech, 268
+    at Jockey Club banquet, 270
+
+  Sullivan, Indiana, reception address at, 238
+
+  Sutro, Hon. Adolph, presentation address to President, 372
+
+
+  Tacoma, Washington, reception address at, 413
+    Mrs. Harrison's thanks, 414
+
+  Tallapoosa, Georgia, reception address at, 307
+
+  Terre Haute, Indiana, to Railroad Club from, 74
+    response to chair presentation, 187
+    reception address at, 239
+
+  Texarkana, Arkansas, reception address at, 318
+
+  Texas G. A. R. veterans, visit to Gen. Harrison, 122
+
+  The Dalles, Oregon, reception address at, 422
+
+  Tiffin, Ohio, to delegation from, 159
+
+  Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to delegation from, 78
+
+  Tipton, Indiana, reception address at, 104
+
+  Tipton County, Indiana, to delegation from, 146
+
+  Toledo, Ohio, reception address at, 95
+
+  Topeka, Kansas, address to veterans, 261
+
+  Tower, Minnesota, to delegation from, 156
+
+  Troy, New York, reception address at, 500
+
+  Tucson, Arizona, reception address at, 337
+
+  Tulare, California, reception address at, 364
+
+  Tuscola, Illinois, reception address at, 478
+
+  Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry, address to survivors, 134
+
+
+  Union City, Indiana, reception address at, 274
+
+  Union ex-prisoners war address to delegates, 130
+
+
+  Valley Falls, Kansas, reception address at, 264
+
+  Vanderberg County, Indiana, to delegation from, 79
+
+  Vergennes, Vermont, reception address at, 518
+
+  Vermilion County, Indiana, to delegation from, 90
+
+  Vermilion County, Illinois, to delegation from, 126
+
+
+  Wabash County, Indiana, to veterans from, 42
+    to delegation from, July 12, 1888, 43
+    to delegation from, Sept. 25, 1888, 143
+
+  Wanamaker, Hon. John, address at Atlanta, 306
+    address at Portland, 410
+    address at Seattle, 419
+
+  Washington, D. C., to Augusta Exposition Committee, 549
+    to Methodist Ecumenical Conference, 551
+    the return to, May 15, 1891, 489
+
+  Waterbury, Vermont, reception address at, 525
+
+  Watsonville, California, reception address at, 378
+
+  Wells County, Indiana, to delegation from, 163
+
+  Western tour, 1890, personnel of party, 234
+
+  Whitehall, New York, reception address at, 513
+
+  Winchester, Indiana, reception address at, 274
+
+  Windsor, Vermont, reception address at, 537
+
+  Wooster, Ohio, reception address at, 280
+
+
+  Xenia, Ohio, reception address at, 486
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+  Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent
+  spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been
+  preserved.
+
+
+
+
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