Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesHarrison, Benjamin
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; United States -- Politics and government
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.
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