The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09

What now of the futurel / have confidence in
Republican success when it abides. have no
faith in success when we get too high for the
people. Let a man seek Office if he will; the
surest and the safest way, though not always the
shortest, is to be near and faithful to the plain
people. James g. Blaine has always stood near
to the people, and they have always felt that his
heart beat in unison with theirs. The men that
elected Garfield mean he shall WIN
the race before him. The men that
like intrepidity in the canddate-the men that
have not forgotten the Ben Hill episode-they
mean that their champions banner shall not trail
in the dust Let our Democratic opponents put
up their best man The 'Plumed Knight does
not want to match himself against any other
We do not wish to match him against the infirm
or the weak. We wish him to have foeman
worthy of his blade.
For the present we need not much speech
making. The people need less than they have.
But we should begin at once our organization.
Our adversary fights well-let US give him that
credit We have fought always the better on
that account. AS we have carried six successive
presidential elections it is now committed TO us
to carry a seventh
Who are to win for us this election9 In 1880
the men who placed Garfield in his high place
chiefly men who lived by labor. They felt
him to be their friend and champion. The same
men have it at heart to put Mr.. Blaine in the
same high place.
I told you in the late campaign the story Of
little Vermont man, who, when big bully ap
preached him and threatened to chastise him,
said: "Be slow, old fellow; when I'm in good
humor 1 weigh about LIS pounds, but
when I'm mad 1 weigh ton" Now,
my friends feel in the contest just
beginning that you are at your heaviest weight
feel that you contribute to Republican success
If every Republican shall thus feel-as in many
of our Republican campaigns you have felt-we
will return to our old-time majorities, and we
will send message to the bearer of our stand
ard after the election in November that will I'LL
his heart with joy. Cries Of I'VE will do it
l must say a word before close about General
Logan. l served in Congress with him once
and I have witnessed his strength and force
When the war broke out he enlisted early, and
he became the most successful of our volunteer
generals. He is faithful to his convictions and
near to the people. Through thick and thin he
has always stood by them. If the fate Of Blaine
should be like that of Lincoln and Garfield the
man who will take his place will fitly carry out
his policy and perform faithfully the will Of the
people.
Mr.. CLANS ADDRESS.
Hon. John B. Elan was next introduced, and
he spoke as follows:
A few months ago I promised myself and as
sured some of my friends that would do moth
ing in the pending campaign except to cast my
vote at its close. Last night l heard the old
music in Chicago from hundreds of instruments
and thousands of voices. The old standard is
UP, the leaders are in the field, the clans are
gathering, and l know not how or why it is, but
here 1 am at the first public meeting of the cam
paign. l am here with my mind made up l
do not care to wait for other nominations or
declarations of principles. Whatever the future
may have in store, this year am Republican.
l feel to night that l am able to render reasons.
But | cannot enter at large upon this work to-
night One who undertakes to give reasons for
being Republican should begin early in the
day.
The speaker then alluded to the city Of Chicago
as the great commercial mart of the Northwest,
spoke of the beautiful country drained by the
Wabash and Kankakee, through which he had that
day passed in returning from the convention
described the great convention and the impress
sion it made upon him; spoke of the great coun-
try stretching from the Gulf of California to the
pine woods of Maine that was represented in
that great assemblage, and asked, could it be
possible that such q country was intended by
the Almighty for the Democratic party! Look
upon this picture and then upon that Should
December be joined to June! Is the beautiful
maiden, sincere and truthful, radiant with the
charms of the womanhood of twenty fit bride
for the decrepit, toothless, bald headed old man
of seventy, who has been false to every love and
untrue to every pledge! If so, then this country
is ready to be welded to the Democratic party
The principles just announced at Chicago rep
resent all that is best and most progressive
in American politics. They will commend them
selves to the people. They come up to the full
measure of bold, aggressive, and yet prudent and
manly craftsmanship When heard it read l
was at a loss to know out of what material the
Democratic platform could be constructed. The
ground seemed all covered and the work well
done. Better than this, the history of the party
adopting it is an earnest that the platform means
something. When we look back over twenty
five years and compare Democratic promise with
Democratic performance we ought to be par
doned if 1--WE entertain a little suspieian of any
thing that party may say in platform.
The Chicago platform suggested the candidates
and prepared the way for them. Some sentences
be- llA.1 Of,
call Logan's history and great public services.
There will be some criticism of these leaders.
1t has been charged, and may be again, that
Logan's grammar is bad Democratic editors
with well-sharpened pencils sitting com
fortabIy in the fourth story of news
paper Offices, will criticise his English
Such work is vastly easy. But many a man will
engage in it and wage valiant warfare on mis-
placed propositions and conjunctions gone
astray who lived in that trying time when the
their foundations when the question was not
who could write or utter ell-turned periods
but upon whom could the country lean and any
and all Of these critics may, if they choose, in
the months that are before us, compare the
records made by them in that awful time with
that of the gallant leader of that grand corps
whose distinctive badge was representation of
a cartridge box with forty rounds.
Senator Harrison-He always makes himself
understood.
Mr.. Elam-Yes, he has always been wonder
fully well understood in the halls of Congress-
the Senate chamber and on the field of battle
But l waste time. Criticism of q
mans English is not a thing the
Democrats can make much capital out of
Neither of our candidates are unknown men,
What they have done has not been done in a
corner We throw down the gage of battle by
these nominations. We say, gentlemen, turn
your electric lights on these candidates. Exam
inc their long and conspicuous career in the pub
lie service and let us know what you discover
In this campaign, as in the last, there will be
no doubt something said about letters Let it
be so. Revive all the scandals of the past two
decades, Fill your columns and speeches with
stories exploded or ignored by the people before
some of our younger voters can remember.
That powder has all been burned and is harm
less. Every arrow of malice and ealumny has
been discharged. The Knight of Maine has
been prominent candidate for the presidency
for ten years His whole life has been eanvassed