The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-01-15
THE Woe PRESIDENT ELECT
AMONG THE EDITORS OF
INDIANA.
He Makes Characteristic
Talk, and Says Some
Good Things.
A Pleasant Word to the Quill
Drivers and General
CongraattttstlstiRRsss::: RRss:
nd~Only a Brief A1IuSiOn to
the Tariff for ReVe-
nue. Only.

INDIANAPoLIs, January 8.-Thc an
nuaI meeting of the Indiana demo-
cratic editors was held here to-day and
addressed by several prominent dem
ocrats, among others VIce-president-
elect Hendricks, who said: "Mr. Pres
ident and Gentlemen of the Associa-
tion-When l was asked to attend
your meeting, did not then nor do 1
now, intend to make any extended
speech. 1t seems impossible for me
tomake speech after contest is over
unless there is some pending question
to speak upon. That Is one Of
my troubles, but I have met
men who could speak without
anything particular to speak about.
[ may well, however, congratulate
you for the great work you have
done in the last six months. do not
think you ever yourselves felt thefull
force Of your arguments more than in
the great contest just closed. 1t has
placed some questions correctly before
the country. the most important and
striking of which, perhaps, was the
right of the people to select their own
rulers, without any fraudulent inter
ference whatever. That right, 1 think,
is now well established. 1t is
illustrated in the fact that the coun-
try accepts the results of the last elec-
tion, although very small majority in
the state of New York decided that
contest. That is very fine spectacle
the acQuiescence OF so many upon so
great a result, and upon so narrow a
majority. Hereafter, it Is to be IN
derstood that votes as cast shall be
counted. Thus our American insti-
tut1ons are fixed with greater stability
than before. Looking to the future /
think the great work OF Ghis associa-
tion is for reform-to make the bur-
dens of the governmen :: nd of the
people lighter. You said that for the
purpose of reform it was necessary to
have change of administration, and
upon the force Of your argument in a
great degree the change has been
made. L think it / settled now that
taxation shall only be for the purpose
of maintaining the government,
because it is part of the
platform adopted by the great con-
Yention which has been endorsed by
the majority Of the people. Other re-
forms must Come il ling the
careful management OF ndCi6sesSa- at
fairs. There we're some two or three
things about the compaign, last sum-
mer, that were very agreeable. There
was an independence about the press
that was very striking. Everything
was as well discussed in Indiana as
anywhere in the country, and the
advocacy of the cause was not in
trusted to foreign speakers.
Affairs were for the most
part, in the hands of home talent, and
1 cannot say of the press, as of the
speakers, that Indiana depended upon
herself, and we came forth with
glorious victory. Your work is not
done. 1t goes on with the cause you
have placed in success. feel that 1
should thank you. L received such
grand. and encouraging support that
l cannot express the depth Of my
gratitude to you for it. In 1884, in
Indiana, 'the pen was mightier than
the sword"
This evening, at the banquet of the
Editorial Association, Mr.. Hendricks
responded to the toast, ''the state of
Indiana"