Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — CHEEKS FOR THE CHIEF. [ARTICLE]

CHEEKS FOR THE CHIEF.

HARRISON’S TRIP TO WASHINGTON—SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE. Immense CroitrA* Follow the Carriage* to the Station Farewell to ludUnapolh Citizen*—Members of the Party—Reception in Washington—The First Caller. [lndianapolis (Ind.) special.] Many of the business houses of this city were elaborately decorated in honor of Gen. Harrison on the 25th ult., the day be departed for Washington. A.host of friends called at his home to pay their respects and say good-by. T. 8. Quincey, of Chicago, was among the early visitors, and he presented to the General the traveling sachel procured for him by the Chicago Traveling Men's Political Club. The valise is of extraordinary beauty and richness. It is made of black seal leather, with frame of triple-plated gold, lined with the finest calfskin, and the ten toilet articles accompanying the valise are of solid silver. It is said 10 be the finest article of the kind ever manufactured in this country. Alter Mr. Quincey left, Gen. Harrison, with a few members of his family, gathered about the valise to examine it. As the articles were removed, one by one, and admired, a flask was found. It was a beautiful piece of workmanship, with a screw top. The General looked at. it quizzically and smiled. “I guess that is large enough," he said. But the practical eye of Mrs. McKee no sooner beheld the flask than, with true motherly instinct, she had a plan for it s use. “Oh, that will be just the thing to hold baby’s milk," ww her decisive declaration, and sho carried it away. Early in the afternoon the streets of the city were thronged with thousands anxious to participate in the farewell demonstration to the President-elect. A hundred or more people stood before the Harris on home when the Presi-dent-elect and his family left the house, escorted by Gov. Hovey and Mayor Benny. The General, the Governor, and the Mayor entered a carriage drawn by two white horses, Mrs. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. McKee entered a second carriage, and the Presidential party started on the journey to the station. A siring of carriages and a thousand or more people followed them. Th 6 greatest enthusiasm prevailed along the route. In front of every residence were groups of people who cheered enthusiastically as the carriages drove by, the General constantly tipping his hat and waving his hand in farewell to some old friend whom he recognized.

Cheer after cheer went up as the General passed. When Ohio street was reached the throng was innumerable. Here the veterans of George H. Thomas Post were in line, among them being Gen. lew Wallace and many other well-known men. They were accompanied by a military band, and as the General's carriage drove up they opened ranks and a cheer went up from the thousands of people that was heard for many squares and notified the other thousands that the General had reached the city. From this point to the stntiou it was an impenetrable throng. The buildings were black with people. At the intersection of Market and Pennsylvania streets the members of the Legislature were drawn up in line, and the carriages passed through the open files, the law-makers cheering lustily. They thin fell in line and escorted the General to the station. It was three oclock when the party reached the Union Station, where a crowd of fully 10,000 awaited them. The General and his partv were escorted to their car. The great throng continued cheering, and the President-elect presently appeared on the rear platform, accompanied by Governor Hovey, who Introduced him to th 9 crowd and called for order, which being partially secured General Harrison said: “My good friends and neighbors, I cannot trust myself to put in words what I feel at this time. Every kind thought that is in your minds, and every good wish that is in your hearts for me finds its responsive wish and thought in my mind and heart for each of you. I love this city. It has been my own cherished home. Twice belore I have left it to discharge public duties and returned to it with gladness, as I hope to do again. It is a city on whose streets the pompous displays of wealth are not seen. It is full of pleasant homes, and in these homes there is an unusual store of contentment. The memory of your favor and kindness will abide with me, ana my strong desire to hold your respect aud confidence will strengthen me in the discharge of my new and responsible duties. Let me say farewell to all my Indiana friends. For the public honors that have come to me I am their grateful debtor. They have made the debt so large that I can never discharge it. There is a great sense of loneliness in the discha-ge of high public duties. The moment of decision is one ot isolation. But there is One whose help comes even into the quiet chamber of judgment, and to His wise and unfailing guidance will I look for direction and safety. My family unites with me in grateful thanks for this cordial good-by, and with me wish that these years of separation may be full of peace and happiness for each of you." The speech was received with cheers. At its conclusion the General re-entered his car, and the train at once proceeded. The Presidential party was assigned by cars as follows: In President Kobarts'private car were Gen. and Mrs. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Mctheir two children (Benjamin and Mary), and'the nurse, and Mrs. Lord (Mrs. Harrison’s sister); in the car Maywood were Bussell B. Harrison, wife, child, and nurse, Senator Saunders am wife, the Hon. J. N. Huston, W. H. H. Miller, Mrs. Eaton (Gen. Harrison’s half-sister), Private Secretary Halford, and Josephine, Mrs. Harrison’s maid.

GREETED WITH CHEERS. Crowds Assembled at the Stations Along the Clue. The train pulled out of the Union station at 3:19 p. m., chetred by thousands of people. As it passed the grounds’ of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, just east of the city, the fences and freight cars on an adjoining track were covered by the hundreds of pupils of the school, to whom Gen. Harrison waved his hand. Irvington, the seat of Butler University, turned out several hundred spectators, as did also the small towns of Cumberland, Philadelphia, Greenfield and Charlottesville. When Knightstown was reached/ where is located the So.diers Orphans’ Home, the train stopped for a moment. A crowd of five or six hundred gathered about the rear platform and gave three cheers for Harrison. As the cheers died away Gen. Harrison said: “My friends, I thank you for this cordial gathering and demonstration. I can detain the train but a moment, and I only stopped at the request of the Superintendent of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home so that the children might have an opportunity to see me, and that I might wish them the bright and prosperous future which the sacrifices of their fathers won for them. I bid you farewell. ” A halt was made at Dunreith, the crossing of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad, and there congratulatory messages from the Postal Telegraph employes and the citizens of Henry County were received. Cambridge ■City was reached at 4:45 p. m. Here a crowd of about 500 cheered lustily as the train stopped for a moment. The boom»of cannon echoed through the train. Richmond was reached at 5:02 p. m. Fully four thousand people cheered at the top of their voices, while cannon boomed and the -whistles blew, making a din that was deafening. Gen. -and Mrs. HaVrison appeared on the rear platform of the car, and when the tumult had partly subsided Gen. Harrison spoke as follows : •“My friends, I have so long had my borne among you that I cannot but leel a sense of regret in leaving the soil of Indiana. Igo with a deep sense of inadequacy, but I am sure yon will be patient with my mistakes and that yon will all give me your help as citizens [cheers and cries of “We will"] in my efforts to promote the ■best interests of our people and the honor of the nation we love. [Cheers. I I thank you for this cordial greeting.” [Cheers.] Among the crowd at Richmond was a delegation of worn men from the Hoosier drill works, at the head of which, following the band, was borne their oampaign banner, inscribed: “Hoosier Drill Protection Club." Ab the train passe 1 along the track out of the city it was accompanied by the screeching of whistles of factories and the boom of cannon. While the train hahed, a profusion of flowers were carried into > the car and presented to Mrs. Harrison in the mame of the Republicans of Richmond. On the way from Richmond to Columbus the entire (party, from Gen. Harrison to the colored porter who accompanies him to the Whitt House,

bought tickets for the trip at the regular rat- ■ of fare. THE Rtcr -TION IN OHIO. Few Stops Were Made Before Reaching Piqua —Paying for Tickets. [Denison tOhio) dispatch.] The first stop iu Ohio was at Greenville, which was reached at 5:43. Here another large crowd greeted the President-elect, who stepped to the rear of the car. but the stop was too short for speech-making. Bradford Junction was reached at Gp. m. The next stopping place, Piqua, was reached at 6: A) p. m. About five thousand people, gatnered there, kept up a continual cheering. Gov. J. B. Foraker and his wife boarded the (’residential train, and found the General and his party just sitting down to supper. Gov. Foraker rushed back to the General s car aud brought the latter to the platform of the Maywood just as the train pulled out. The Governor called out. "This is our next President,” and Gen. Harrison, bareheaded, bowed his acknowledgment to the cheering thousands as the train moved on It was 6aOp. m. when Urbana was reached. Here another large crowd welcomed the Presidential party, but tue stop was short. Between Piqua and Urbana, twenty-six miles, there were no stops, but at all the stations, Jordon, Fletchsr, Conover, St. Paris, and Westvilie, the passage of tbe train was greeted by the cheers of hundreds. From Piqua on, dense darkness prevented the occupants of the train from judging the size of the crowds. At Westvilie the glsre of a number of pine-knot torches was flashed into the car windows as the train dashed by. Gov. Foraker introduced the President-elect to about two thousand people at Urbana. Columbus was reached at 8:15 p. m. At least 20,000 people bad gathered at the station, and the crush was terrible. The booming of cannon and the din of brass music, drum corps, and , yells greeted the Presidential train as it moved into the depot. It required a large force of policemen to open the way lor* the engine. The scramble then began. The crowd pushed, jammed, and swayed in a solid mass. The train pulled pretty well through the depot before stopping, and the people were trying to keep up and rushed madly over each other. A large number of women were in the crowd, and many of them were injuroa. Nearly tbe entire membership of the Legislature went down to the station with the Foraker Club, but they were all lost sight of in the general crush There was no definite programme carried out. It was the intention to have several songs from the Harrison and Morton Glee Club, and also listen to a speech from Gen. Harrison. The former was almost entirely eliminated from the programme, and less than fifty persons heard anything the President-elect had to say. People within ten feet of him could see his lips move as if in the act of making a speech and that was all. The cheering, firing of cannon, beating of drums, and general confusion lost none of its force. The General talked less than five minutes. Mrs. Harrison, Bussell Harrison, and as many of the women of the Presidential party as could crowded out to the platform where tbe General was speaking. Mrs. Harrison watched the crowd fairly crawling over each other, aud stopped the General in his speech as she called his attention to the manner in which the women were being pushed, uuable to help themselves. The train was wedged about by people until it pulled out. After the L ain left Columbus, preparations were made lor retiring. The day had been a very fatiguing one to the President-elect. Before Columbus was reached two of the grandchildren were fast asleep, but Baby Mary McKee was bright and alert to all that was going on, and great y enjoyed the sights and sounds. In the station there was a demand for a sight of the favorite grandchild by many persons in the crowd, and she was held up to the car window in the strong glare of an eloetric light, and gleefully waved a bunch of roses in h3r baud. Fully a thousand people met the train at Newark with a brass baud and torches, as the train passed the station, running about fifteen miles an hour, the crowd cheered and fired off roman candles. Just as the station was reached everv steam-whistle in the city screeched its loudest. Pandemonium seemed to have broken loose. The fifty locomotives in the Baltimore and Ohio yards took up the medley and the Jesuit was simply indescribable. The sleepers oh the train were all awakened. There was a good array of people on the platform at Newcomerstown, and as the train slowly drew up at the crossing there a perfect blaze or light surrounded it from scores of roman candies, in which manner alone the enthusiasm of the crowd foun l vent. The run was made from Newark to this c'ty in an hour and a half, the train then being thirty minutes late.

ARRIVAL AT WASHINGTON. Gen. Harrison and . Party Domiciled at the Arlington Annex. [Washington (D. C.) dispatch.] President-elect Harrison, his family and immediate friends are comfortably housed in the Johnson Annex to the Arlington Hotel, the journey hither having been made without accident. Everything is homelike. No one intrudes on their privacy and there are no unbidden guests. For the few days that elapse before the General becomes the White House tenant he is assured as much freedom from annoyance as was possible in his Indianapolis home. The arrival of the Presidential party in Washington was marked by no public demonstration. This was in accordance with the wishes of Gen. Harrison. The special train came in about 2:3J. The Inaugural Committee arranged to have tho train stopped at the comer of Maryland avenue and Ninth street. Consequently the party avoided the crowd of people who were in waiting at the Pennsylvania Railway Station. In the evening, an informal general reception took place, and nearly all the leaders of the Republican party called. The family are delighted with their rooms, which were arranged for their reception. They were not only newly decorated but were filled with the most beautiful flowers. Mr. Elliot F. Shepard sent a large basket of roses to each of the ladies in the party—Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Harrison, Jr„ and Mrs. Saunders, her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Adams, of Chicago, left a beautiful cluster upon the center-table, and Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Hiscock, Mr. Roselle, the proprietor of the hotel; Congressman IfeUien and wife, of Rochester, and several others remembered them in a similar manner, until the room looked as If it had been adorned for a ball. James G. Blaine was the first caller, and was accorded a ready welcome. Next was Sloan B. basset, soon followed by Gen. Powetl Clayton, of Arkansas. Alter supper and until midnight the calls of prominent people were frequent. It is claimed'that there were no detectives on the Harrißon train, and that he willjiot have any oroqnd him at the hotel. He has no fear of cranks or assassins, but, on the other hand, has a dread of detectives, which Mrs. Harrison shares with him.