The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-04
PRACTICAL CAMPAIGNING
Some Valuable Suggestions as to the Manner
and Matter of the Pending Canvass.


Tenth district, held at Monticello, White
county. exAttorney general Baldwin made the
following speech, which is worth careful read
ing
Allow me to address myself for few minutes
to the question How can the Republican party
carry Indiana this yearp Indiana holds the po.
litical keyof the United States forneither party
can build auy solid hopes of success
without her. help. For this reason y
had rather live IN Indiana than in any.
other States in the Union. Nowhere are there.
such rewards held out for political brains as.
among the Hoosiers. Unless two is more than
five unless the tail is larger than the dog, ours
is q Republican State 1t is true that in 1856
and in 1876 the Democracy carried State
but in 1856 the Republican party was only two
years old, and it IS NO very greatmerit for man
Of past fifty to arrest a baby, so that we have
never been fairly whipped in Indiana in presi-
dental year except once; and we have only 70 do
duty this year TO win anoJher victory. There is
nothing like getting into a habit of winning vic
tories Talleyrand once said Everybody knows
more than anybody. That's the reason why
we are met together to-day In convention. In
theory the people are here, for see before me
lS0 chosen delegates representing ten counties.
In truth and fact the people are in their corn
helds and their shops and stores. Fully one
third of our people never attend political meet
ings, but this kind hold the balance of power. As
the people don't come to the convention the eon-
vention must go to the people 1t is the un-
organized political units that we must reach
y we want success II we would succeed AGAIN
IN Indiana we must set down good Republican
newspaper beside every freside in the State. Ii
were chairman OF our State central committee
and had $40 600 at my disposal would put ten
thousand copies Of the Indianapolis Journal in
ten Thousand homes where IT Is not now
read, and put beside 1t as many copies OF the
local newspaper and the campaign songsbook
Newspapers are the cannon and songs the
musketry Of politics. A good general always
nis 50 az 70 0elver snelr reauS nv
Ms Messh P'ee5 y
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tract For one, gentlemen, take no stock in
me average congressional or the long wlnded
time to read them tbe broadside 1sbigeest effort
of his life from resident 81. visiting statesmen
is all well enough But. AZ 4 MATTE, Of fact no
one ever does read them; or. If he glanees at
them at all seldom or never gets beyond
the headlines In b11vinp eircTlIafinoe cam
paign documents. beware of LONG sneeches
Better far the ineisiye naragranl1er Or
short. sharp. puneent editorials ~ uorltet1
pistol tract The best noIiticaI documents
never should be longer than the relfcious tract
State few facts clearly and terseIv and. if
possible witfiIv- I,oint Them with a sfnrv and
then circulate Let vorr ea,nnair-T dnclirass,,ts
be of the pocket-pistol order Ponderous co.
lunn biads-lonc cr,sl,ino are-,1,ne,,tsIree ,1se
less, because never read. They are only time
and money vcasted r., nv, xUav If tbinlr;oe, tha
most effective of all political documents are
campaign songs / would not give a straw for a
platform or a candidate could you not set it or
him to music. remenber, in 1880. of hearing
the somewhat heavy debates of our two. candi-
dates for Governor Soon after 4 GIozen tf T1aI,
and boys drawled out that popular carupsig1l
lyric:
Frank Landers you ain rs the man.
Frank Landers you amt the man.
Wa = 49, Z $500 su. V.sm z 1851
sa;Iia;s h nc WIZ %
- % n nae Viie AA5
.Jss
old john Brown 8 body hes moider1ng IN the grave
and the echoes of
..Framp. tra1np. trarnrs the bows are n.arct,,ur,