The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-12
THE TALK OF "a CHANGE, J,

An Irishman's Exposition of the Fallacy Of
the Democracy's Favorite Cry.
Hon. John f. Scanlan at Terre Haute.
And now, my friends, you are urged to place
this party in power because it is time for a
change have heard of men changing their
drinks when the stomach rebelled against poor
whisky, and changing their boarding house
when the servant girls were too liberal in the dis
tribution of their hair in the hash, but have
never heard of sensible men changing good bust
ness for bad, good times for poor, and good
government for prospective bad one. Should
any voter listening to me to onight think of voting
for Cleveland and Hendricks on the sole ground
of desiring change, let me request him, before
he finally decides on that important act to 60
home to his good wife tonight and sit down be-
side her and say, "Jane when you and I came
together were married and went to house-keep-
Ing this house was a kind of q rattle-trap
the pigs and the chickens used to track
the floor, the institution was pretty
shaky, and, if you remember VIXEN
we were coming into this house, on our honey
moon, an old tramp of woman that lived down
the road met us on the highway, laughed and
jeercd at us, and told me 1 could never run this
house with YOU Soon after that, some of her
children, kind of Jesse James crowd, settled on
the corner of our farm, and claimed it as theirs,
forthwith they started an institution of their
own, and would not allow me on my own farm
Some of the boys had grown up. You armed
them and sent them forth with your blessing to
drive her marauding children of the farm. Some
of them never came back You wept over their
graves, but thanked God you had sons to protect
their fathers farm; by your advice we Drospered;
instead of the old rattle-trap of house we built
anew brick one; by your advice we let our poor
black faced servant go free, and she now rears a
family of freemen; by your advice we mended
our old rickety fence, and finally placed pro-
lection fence around our farm which kept strag-
glers out and built up that village down by the
stream and that mill on the east side of our
farm you have carefully guarded my interests
and my children: and, above ALL you have sa-
credly preserved the honor of my house; all
this time that old woman that jeered us on
our wedding day kept telling me that your man
ner of doing things was failure and while our
old house is now turned into palace, our old
NANCY shcep into pure breed and our old raw
boned cattle into alarge flock that now COW
ers the seven hills of our farm; while can now
borrow money ON the farm for 3 per cent, instead
Of 10 and ~, whichwe paid when we settled
here; while my bank account has now got
$100 900 to my credit and while know that
you have honestly kept my books and never neg
lected my interests, still that old woman keeps
dinging in my ears that 1t is time for change,
and so Jane, after twenty four years Of faithful
service, have made up my mind to turn you
out and take in that old strumpet in your place.
But perhaps, all Of the voters here tonight
have not wives; IL not then they have motheie'
and If there lives liolier creature than a wife
that creature IS mother; to those young men
would say 50 home tonight and call you1