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
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.
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