The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-22

islature and Speaker of the House Of Represen-
tatives of Maine. And finally we follow him to
Congress, and three times was he Speaker of
the national House of Representatives And
then into Che Senate and then
into the Cabinet the trusted adviser
of James A. Garfield our murdered President.
lGreat applause. There is the man we present
to you our candidate; and it is the same with
John a. Logan. Applause. A Democrat at
the inception of the rebellion it knocked all the
Democracy out of General Logan, and he has
been nothing but a patriot since then. A man
that went into the army, low IN rank, and fought
through the war successfully and came out a
major general was ordinary man, nor was
1t any ordinary man when Mcpherson fell and
Logan took command and turned defeat into a
grand and glorious victory. tCireat
s sEand by N these ad s5Sw y TSev %
the candidates of the people. tGreat applause. !
You can always trust such men as James Ct.
Blaine and John A. Logan, for it is a double
headed ticket turn it either way; put Logan
first, and it will go just as we'll every bit And
when we nominated John A Logan for second
place on this glorious ticket, we placed an in
suranee policy on the life of James e.. Blaine
that no Democrat will dare modest. Nobody is
going to hurt Blaine when Logan is to step into
right for these four years and
for another four years after it. fApplause. |
And when we get through with Blaine for eight
years we will put brave Jack Logan into it
lGreat applause.l We have no notion of giving
uP-the American people have no notion of de
sorting the Republican party. 1t is grand
party, and has a glorious record. Applause. /
1t Is party that has a record that we would tell
you everything it has done, and hide nothing
from you. We are running ON our record The
Democratic party is running away from its
record. We don't intend that it shall run away
from it. 1t has attempted to get into power
through fraud ever since 1860 Look at the
tickets they have nominated, and see
If 1t does not bear out. They nominated
Mcclellan in 1864 to catch the soldier vote, and
made platform to catch the Democratic cop
perhead vote of the North. We beat him. In
lS6S they nominated Seymour. with General
Frank Blair, federal soldier, to catch the sol
diers. They failed in that, and In 1872 they de
termined to throw fraud to the wind; they deter
mined TO come out honestly and candidly for the
first time in their lives and nominate man
whom everybody in the land knew to be the best
Democrat under the sun-a better Democrat
than jackson or Jefferson-that simon pure old
Democrat Horace Greeley, of tine State of New
York. Great applause aud laughter Oh,
they don't like to be told about when thew were
for Horace Greeley; that is the reason mention
1t occasionally. Now, what would have
become of the Republican party if we
had undertaken to nominate a man who had
been against the Republican party like Mr..
Greeley had fought the Democratic partyY 1t
would have burst US into smithers, and nothing
would have been left but that old corrupt
Democratic party, hunting for the spoils, anx
ious to get its hands into the Treasury, could
survive even such a campaign as that. 1t sur
vived, but poor old honest Horace Greeley-it
killed him deader than a founder Il will kill
almost any one. Come out from amongst
the Democrats. 1t will not do to stay with
them. There is no patriotism in them. Why,
whoever went to a Democratic meeting in hrs
life and heard such song as these men sing.
Who ever heard Rally round the flag boys"
at a Democratic meetngl Who ever heard
Marching through Georgia. at q Democratic
meeting They all belong to US. even Dixie
Land" belongs to US, although we captured that.
Applause Now, gentlemen, there are other
speakers here much ADLER than / am. ICries of
"Oh, no. Go on" l tell you that in Kentucky
we are going to give more votes for James G.
Blaine than ever were cast for any Republican
President. lApplause.l We have been gradu-
ally going along We have stood there and
b. Hayes 100000 votes; we gave Garfield 106,
900 votes, and we going to give Blaine and
Logan $4,000 EGreat Applausel l judge
other places by my own place. | have heard
men there who told me they were going to vote
the Republican ticket that never voted it before,
find the Irishnen coming, saying that they
are going to stand by the Republican ticket; that
they did vote the Republican ticket in August,
and that they are going to do it again in Novem-
ber
was in Bawrenceburg last night, and men
down there told me that they could count
thirty-f five men in that little town that never
had voted for the Republican ticket but all of
them promised and pledged to vote the Repub-
the Republicans. ais there single Republican
here that you heard say is going to vote the
Democratic ticketF Not one, they say, mot
one And it is the same everywhere 1t is
true that there are English free traders
and dudes that are going to vote the
Democratic ticket who have heretofore
been considered Republ -ans; but if they
will do as wen a~d as kindly
by US as Mr. Sehurz has done we can only hope
there are great many more of them than we
know of, for in every place that Mr.. Schurz
made speech in Ohio they gave increased he
publican maiorities. laughter and applause
He does not hold the Germans in his pocket, and
no other man holds them in his pocket. How
ever high Republican may be, however able
or strong or influential in his party he may be-
whenever he turns his back upon that party the
party turns its back upon him. There is no
man stronger than the party Now, gentlemen.
| must go. am utterly unable to speak longer
in this wind. As Mr.. Thompson says, have
got Republieanism in me enough to talk
to you for six months, but the day of talk is now
almost past it is one of action. Stand by the
Republican party, stand by its ticket and do
not believe we will ever have to run against
that internal Democratic party again as long as
we live. Great applause.
At the conclusion of Col Goodloe's address,
the Central Blaine and Logan Gee Club sang,
after which, Hon. John f. Scanlan was intro
duced.
SPEECH OF JNo p. sCANLAN
Fellow citizens 1t is one Of the ambitions of
the Democratic party statesmen to be able to
perform the circus feat of sitting on top of the
fence and eating grass from both sides. In the
opening of this campaign the Democratic party
attempted to dodge the principal issue, which
the people desired to settle
Throughout the land the Uriah Keeps, or
'Boot-strap Brigade" of Carl SchuH and his
few followers, attempted to cry Reform"
thereby that the people OF this country
were going to turn the question of reform in
politics over TO the Democratic party. Railways
sounds to me like the requiem of the cyclone
that is moaning over it's own destruction to hear
a Democratic statesman talk of reform. Reform
from the mouth of Democratic statesman is like
a smile on the lips of corpse. Applause.