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
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.
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