Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-08

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nlendicants or supplicants, but as repre-.
senting power. We ask an honor on
this ticket end we tender you victory with
the other hand. We ask name on this
ticket and we tender you fifteen votes in
your college, making the election sure.
Bear with me a moment in retrospect of
history. Indiana became state in
1916, and from that hour to this no
Democratic president has ever been
inaugurated except by her vote. Jap
plause. Indiana has voted for every Dem
ocrat who was ever sworn into the office
| from 1916 forward. She voted for Monroe;
she voted for jackson; she voted for Van
Buren,, for Polk, for Pierce, for Buchanan,
for Samuel j. Tilden [cheersl. who was
| robbed of the election, and for Grover
| Cleveland [cheers1. Where is the state
whose record overmatches her? Where
the state that comes before this convention
with higher right to demand respect aud
recognitions We will again cast that vote.
but dismiss from your minds now and
| from this one unit in November the
thought or calculation that this year is
to be an exception to her history.
Grover Cleveland and whoever else
goes on the ticket with him will be re-elect-
will not be reelected at ali (applause)
Make no mistakes / know of certain cal
culations to leave Indiana out. Whatever
industries destroy Indiana destroy every
hope and vestige OF success. She is inter
woven with the situation, and the safety
of this hour is for New York and Indiana
as of old to clasp hands (appause). Take
New Jersey in our mbrace and Connecticut
as far as in our power to do so. In those lines
lay success. | say, Mr.. Chairman, and
gentlemen of this magnificent convention,
that the lines of battle are the same this
year that they were in 1854 They will
not be changed. The trenches in which
we will fight are the same. The states
where victory is to be obtained, if we sue
coed at all, are the same. You can not re-
cast the lines of battle, and the attempt
to do so will be fraught with disaster and
the overthrow Of our splendid Democratic
administration Ia voice: "Oregon."l
by Oregon and rely upon Indiana and you
will not be deceived Zap
pIause.l We present to you
man for this ticket, physically
and mentally strong, endowed with mental
and physical life Tor years to come, we
name man who has ever proven himself
over and over again winner. He has
not been started in a race that he has not
led the field. If you say to me that he
came late to the Democratic party, | say
that he came in the year when Doolittle
came, when Trumbull came. when John
VI. Palmer, whom the Democrats have
nominated for governor of Illinois, zap
plause) came with them. And allow me
to say to you that recruit into the ranks !
of the Democratic party in Indiana soon
becomes a veteran soldier. a recruit
could no more stay raw IN the ranks OF the
Democracy in Indiana than recruit could
stay poor, unframed soldier In the ranks
Il H. 4 ln b,v H..
great Napolean. They become veteranized
soldiers. Such battles as we wage in In
diana are, happily, unknown in other
states. You know them not in MasSachu-
sets You know them not in Georgia, or
i'll any of the other states. The majority
is so set in the other states one way or the |
other that the conclusion is almost fore
gone. Then look at the spectacle Indiana |
presents. Four years ago she cast 495, 900 /
votes. She will cast FIVE hundred and fifty |
thousand votes at the approaching cleo |
ton, and with that enormous vote there is |
simply a plurality between the great |
parties of six or seven thousand. No ma I
iority has bare plurality. You can
imagine Then what the shock of battle is |
there. You can imagine how important
it is to us to have every atom OF strength |
personal and political, which we can |
obtain in order to hold our hard pressed I
lines. Recruit the critical point OF the |
DaUJle IeIu, IL you are wise.
The key OF tbs situation IS in Indiana. |
Strengthen her. You hold brave men whose |
judgments are convinced despite the hon
orable sentiment that is at your hearts, |
come to the rescue of the situation on the |
battle field where the fight is to be the |
hottest and the battle is to be won, if to be |
won at all reflect upon no other name |
than has been or will be placed before this |
convention, but | charge every candid |
mind to answer what electoral vote, what |
state and other name can bring the cleo |
toral college except that of Isaac Gray. |
[Cheers. We do not put up man for |
show orparade, but for hard battle and |
made against him at home and |
elsewhere. Show me man who |
has never had charges made against |
him, and | will show you WORTHLESS, color |
less creature, unfit to lead battle any
where. | know something about charges.
But how have these charges, whatever
they may be, end they are not worth signi-
flying, how have they been met? Isaac p. |
Gray was on the ticket with Grover Cleve-
land and Thomas A. Hendricks blessed |
be his memory forever cheerSl, and strong |
as that ticket was in In Indiana a COM
bination of power evoking the enthusiasm |
and very heart of our people, yet this man
state of Indiana by ma ority of $50, |
move votes than Cleveland and Hend- |
ricks carried it for the presidency and vice
presidency. (Applause.l He has been
tried by the jury Of his peers, jury of the |
vicinage and the verdict has been with |
him and it will be with him again. He |
will be in the ranks fighting, whether on
your ticket or not, but he is so interviewer
with our hopes and our organization this
year in Indiana, that his name on the tick
ct becomes a guaranty of success. | am
not here to say we cannot win without him,
but am here to say that if you want to |
take bond of fate, to reduce it to an alb
solute certainty on the fifteen electoral
votes of Indiana, before you leave this hall,
nominate Isaac 2. Gray with Grover Cieve-
land and the work will be done. | thank |
you gentlemen. (Applause)
JOHN w. DANIELS SPEECH.