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
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.
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