Show HARRISON AT RICHMOND addresses five thousand people h aregash of his new york speech and he talks of the assault on J the constitution dont like it a bit va oct 5 ex president benjamin harrison addressed abndt awo people here tonight at the auditorium the exposition grounds of the number named about liala were colored people the distinguished distin gushed speaker wag met at hanover ba a committee ol 01 well known republicans and on his arrival here was to tho jefferson hotel alter the dinner the president ex was driven to alie auditorium hairlson was cordially received by the audience judge lewis who presided over the meeting presented the speaker of the occasion there was in the a number of leading republicans and sound money democrats and there were many bryan men in the audience about 9 the electric lights in the ball ead denly went out as they did when mr bryan poke in the same place recently for about five minutes the was in durina this time mr harrison sent out for lights and remarked that our parly does not need so much light that of our opponents an old colored man boon brought in a torch which he hand the speaker abe turned antoon afterwards mr harti eon then epoco follows ladies and gentlemen I 1 have apon upon my return to my home in the west been requested by virginia to speak tu you for a little while upon some of the areat issues hat aro now aKita tine in m extraordinary wy all the people 0 of this great country virginia is not the country to me it is my ancestral home anil its citizen are my fellow citizens there was a alir e when the north nd south were arrayed against each other that time ie to us now only we are again one j united loyal people it should ever be the sad fate of thie country to be acain involved in war it any foreia i power traca bleg on that flag or invades our shores indiana an virginia all charge together against the enemy and then what shall stay that the memory of gettysburg and lp will make it impossible for a regiment ct either state to stop outside ef the the enemy the speaker then eaid that they were there of a union I 1 by our forefathers and were then dais tint for themselves were left to the states when the constitution ution ws organized the wisdom of men ho saidi never devised a system eo as that system which our fathers formed tor med by chion they the national government all national concerns ard to abe state all local concerns I 1 to notice that ia this campaign a assault is made upon what I 1 believe to be the ast constitutional powers ol 01 the national the incident out of which abie grown ie what come to be well known as the creat chicago riot there in det of law both state and national great organized bodies or individually upon a baad impulse went streets rith firo and deword destroying destro yin property interrupting 11 ral load stopped the passage of united and the of commerce between states thid barf iia origin in a railroad str itee but believe these acts ot violence were largely if not wholly the acts of and desperate nen who under the red flag ot anarchy thae president pre eident of the united states mr Ot a democrat belt it to be hia doty under the constitution to use the forca of alie states to open a way for the public malli and for interstate commerce its ae plainly bis duty to do as any anty ever devolved upon a public official does virginia consent does ebe mean to a her thia fall that the mails in virginia may be flopped by mob in ny city of our states and their delivery interrupted doea virginia aeao to lay taja fall at the election that she is content that the products of her elate on the way to another bbate may be stopped by an mob in any city in the land continuing the speaker said the president of the united Stat esIs sworn to execute the laws and is made commander in chief of the army and navy of the united states that he may have suitable instruments to execute them without unnecessary vio lence with a restraint that was re troop of tle united states were simply used to push out of the way those rioters who obstructed the pros resa of tho mails and of interstate commerce the courts of the united states were appealed to that right is familiar to every lawyer aad every intelligent citi ren the right of injunction by which the courts restrain lawless conspiracies to oppose the law and it was faed by the circuit courts ot the united states it is ea to the life of the judiciary that it should have power to punish those who insult its judges or disobeys its orders these courts proceed with the moet edrict conformity to law they proceeded upon lines familiar to the profession prof estion and judicial system and yet the president ako executed the law by using the forces of the united states and the conits that used their powers to anticipate ond prevent violation ot the law are both denounced in the chicago platform the speaker aid that our communities everywhere rested upon the law and its enforcement for their security and that of all sections the south should more jealous to see that the power of the law waa pro served and virginia especially the that gave to the united states the great chief justice marshall the speaker alien declared that senator daniel had introduced and had passed revolution rego lution in the senate in dorsing the act of president cleveland and vet he biad presided over th consention con dention which denounced that very act continuing on this sir biar hwe you evet heard anything from the candidate ol 01 the chicago chuven alor has he ever said in any speech he ahks made that it he should be president of the united states that T execute the law as mr executed it he baa not eaid it he aliee accepted every word and sentence of the chicago convention and therefore pledged that if he should DO president 1 ia new york or chicago or in any creater cente population mob should lift the red flag of anarchy audetat the pro gress of your moile be would not interfere until the governor asked leini to of Virg nuu whatever may have been your putty are you prepared for the of sir speech was devoted toillie discussion of abe question in its various hr thecile tonight on abe private mr pree ideLt and ohio railway |