living in a quiet suburb of Indianapolis. He gradually became
recognized as an able lawyer, and was finally sent to the Senate.
For six years he sat by my side. I know him as well as I know any
man. He is without stain or blemish. He is a man of marked ability,
an able debater. He has grown greatly since he has been President
of the United States. His speeches are models of propriety and
eloquence. In every act of his life while President he had come
up to the full standard and measure of that great office. If there
was a controversy with foreign powers, the strongest in the world
or the weakest, he was fair and just, but firm and manly.

"His worthy associate is Whitelaw Reid, of your city. He has been
placed on the ticket by the side of Harrison. He is an honorable
man. I knew him when he was a young reporter, making his living
as best he could, and helping his father and mother. He has shown
himself worthy the honor conferred upon him by the Republican party.

"Now, I have nothing to say against Mr. Cleveland. I am not here
to belittle any man. I have sometimes thought he is better than
his party, because he has stood up firmly on occasion in resistance
of some of their extreme demands; but there is this to be said of
him, that he was a man full grown at the opening of the war, an
able-bodied man when the war was on. I have never known, nor has
it ever been proved, that he had any heart for or sympathies with
the Union solider or the Union cause.

"I know Harrison, from the top of his head to the bottom of his
feet, was in that cause. I do not see how any patriotic man, who
was on the side of his country in the war, can hesitate to choose
Harrison rather than Cleveland."

I returned from New York to Cincinnati, where I had agreed to speak
in Turner Hall on the 14th of October. This hall had long been a
place for public meetings. It is situated in the midst of a German
population and is their usual place for rendezvous. They had
recently greatly improved and enlarged it, and wished me to speak
in it as I had frequently spoken in the old hall. It was well
filled by an intelligent audience, nearly all of whom were of German
birth or descent. They were, as a rule, Republicans, but they were
restive under any legislation that interfered with their habits.
They drank their beer, but rarely consumed spirituous liquors, and
considered this as temperance. With their wives and children, when
the weat