Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — WALKER TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

WALKER TOWNSHIP.

The Republicans of Walker township will meet at the Kniman school house at 2 o’clock p.m., on March the 17th, 1894, to select delegates to the county republican convention of March, 19, 1894. G. E. Meyers, John O'Connor. Secy. ; Chairman.

Gen. Harrison, in his eloquent speech before the Lincoln league at Indianapolis, gave utterance to some thoughts on national questions calculated to inspire republicans to action. In the course of his remarks he said: “The present state of the country is net one of prosperity. There was a nation recently prosperous, but this was not clue to anyone man. It was the result of a definite policy adopted and put into force. The present distress we are now enjoying is not due to any one man but is due to the threat th ■>t this old established policy is .to.be reversed and a new one instituted. That is the cause of the trouble. I am not one of the ancient land marks but my memory runs back to when such men as Thomas A. Hendricks and Joseph E. McDonald were the leading spirits in Indiana democracy and the exponents of that party ! g principles in the state. Often have I heard my late late lamented friend Mr. McD mild, expound the principles of the democratic party. He often and often said that one of the most important principles of tli© democratic party in this state was that the natioual revenue of this great government of ours should be raised by customs duties, levied upon such articles as not to Jiarm the interests of the laboring man or the agricultural classes. These were the words of the great McDonald. Had the Wilson bill been constructed upon a principle such as this there would have been no harm done nud our national calamity would have been averted.