The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-02
U REPUBLICANS
Addressed by Hons. Stanton j. Peelle and j.
W. GOrdon-A Contrast Between Re-
publican and Democratic Rule.

The Young Mems Republican Club met last
night, and Hon. Stanton ]. Peelle being called
upon, made a short speech. He spoke of the Re-
publican party and what had been required of
1T in national, State and city affairs, and how it
had met those demands. In national affairs, the
revenue has been reduced, civil service reformed
and letter postage reduced. The Republican
party does the peoples will, not only in national
affairs, but in State legislation. Every reform
in our State institutions has been brought about
by the instrumentality of the Republican party.
We have fostered the benevolent institutions,
and when, by the Legislature of 1881, the DEM
ocrats got control of them, with, as we thought,
judicious men to manage them, they were not
satisfied, but with laws enacted to revolutionize
they put these institutions in the hands of men
stepped in political crimes, in order to WELD the
Institutions in the interests of party. The me-
tropolitan police bill is another outrageous
measure that bears ON its face the vile brand of
political trickery. The history of that Legis-
lature, had it been a Republican one,
would have damned our party for all time to
come. Mr.. Peelle said of city affairs that the
Republican party can best meet the needs of the
CITY. lndlan adolis is the child of the Repub.
years. that party has built IL up, and One-th1rd
of the debt the city now bears was made in those
two years of Democratic misrule. There need
be no fear as to the character of the men we
have chosen to represent us in the Council, in
the Board of Aldermen and in the city offices.
They are good men and they have the Re-
publican party behind them.
Mr.. Schmuck, the Democratic candidate for
mayor, says II he is elected he will conduct the
affairs OF the city for the best interests of the
Democratic party, Mark that: Mr.. McMaster
says he will conduct them to the best interests
of the greatest number, that what conduees to
the best interests of the many will also be to
the best interests of the few. L like the in
dependence Of the man who does not for party's
GaEa nln6ua hInEnlF IN hICrAnItn h1a nafE Nh
man is so weak as when he labors for a faction
against the interest of the many. 1 like an in
dependence that forces a man to be governed by
the dictates of a conscience.
Major Gordon being called upon, said he came
there not to make a speech, but to give in his adj
hesiOn to the Republican party. He was a dead
man whose shadow hung upon the walls of the
club-rOom pointing to his picture) with those of
the other dead. He came, he said, like William
2. Fishback, to give III his adhesion to the
party at the eleventh hour. Fishback has in
formed us, after writing fourteen letters against
the present tariff and our representative in Con-
gress, that he is still a Republican, will support
the party and Mr.. Peelle in preference to their
adversaries, because he believes in that kind of
Incredibly that lnheres IN them. After having
done all that he could TO hurt both, he begins to
feel the strong, steady American breeze that
pushes them both still forward toward success.
to take that will enable him either
to evade or oppose It's force. IL is easier
those whom it hears to success. Our weather
cock thus adjusts his position on the vane of
PUBIC observation most carefully TO lndlcate
the shiftings of the wind,
IL is well. Had the Democratic magnet pos
sessed sutficiet power it would perhaps have
lifted the steel filings and borne it off. Let US
rejoice that 1t still remains In our pile of metal
lie dust, and rejoice that he has come back to
the support of American ideas against those
which, though Democratic, are not American.
The Majors speech, which started as badin-
age, acquired the keen edge of sarcasm, and he
was here interrupted with great laughter and
applause. He continued, briefly referring to the
merits of the Republican party and the dement's
of Democratic legislation, speaking of the met
rOpolitan police bill as a measure that splits in
our face and in the face of local self-government,
being all the more Infamous in that 1t was a
contradiction of a mueh-vaunted principle Of
Democracy, and that it had been cOnJrived to
exclude the Democratic city of Fort Wayne.