Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — GEN. HARRISON IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

GEN. HARRISON IN CHICAGO.

The Republicans and Their Past History —The Present and Future. The Marquette club gave a banquet at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, Tuesday evening. Senator Harrison, of Indiana. responded to the toast, “The Republican Party.” He said he was the oldest Republican in the United States. The Republican party is the only party that had been proscribed and persecuted for adherence to the cause of humanity. In the darkest days of the rebellion the the Republican party saw Appomattox througn the smoke of Bull Run. The British instinct to coin commercial advantages out of war made England an ally of the Confederacy. ‘ The Republican party has always been able to handle the greatest questions Dresented to American statesmanship for solution. What is the condition of things to-day in the Southern States? The Republican vote is absolutely suppressed. More votes were cast in Nebraska to elect one congressman than were cast at the same election in Alabama to elect her entire delegation, and the Democrats say, what are yon going to do about it? We can protest if nothing more. I have no quarrel with the South, I am willing to forget that they were rebels as soon as they will forget it themselves. They do not seem to have reached that point yet. “The Republican parly has committed itself to the doctrine ‘ ot protection to American industries. I believe so long as our genius can supply us with what we need, we must take care of it. The prosperous voyage of the ship of state now is accounted for by the fact that the course of the ship was marked out and the rudder tied down before the present captain went aboard.” He said the intelligent people of Dakota were now barred from any voice in National affairs because the State was controlled by Republicans while National affairs at Washington were controlled by Democrats.