Ben Harrison: “With due respect to your own personal convictions, I invite and urge you to consider first and mainly the welfare and…”

No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.

The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.

But the most serious objection to the legislation is that it creates at once upon the taking effect of the law the offices of district attorney and marshal for each of the three districts, and the effect, it seems to me, must be to abolish…

It gives me pleasure to consummate here to-day, by the act of lifting this flag, the efforts in support of a principle to which I give my hearty support.