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
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:
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