The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-13

tude, either ictory or defeat at presidential
elections. Who will inquire how goes the bat
tie in any other but one or two Northern states
except in Indiana? You gentlemen in the
South with everything in peril, will not ask
how goes Illinois, on our west for YOU know
how she will CO. You will not ask how goes
the battle in Ohio? 1t is already predeter-
mined what the result will be there. Nor will
you ask how the battle RACES in Pennsylvania,
except to inquire how great the majority
against us will be? There will be no inquiry
made except how is the shock of battle sus-
tanned in Indiana and in the state of New
York, in the state of New jersey, and some
times with an inquiry as to Connecticut.
Gentlemen of the convention, we come before
you not as mendicants or supplicants, but as
representing power We ask an honor on
this ticket and tender you victory with the
other hand. We ask name on this ticket and
we tender you fifteen electoral votes TO 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 in
augurated except by her vote. Applause In
diana has voted for every democrat who was
ever sworn into the Office from 1916 forward
She voted for Monroe; she voted for johnson !;
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. TCheers1 Where is the
state whose record overmatches her? Where
is the state who comes before this convention
with higher right to demand respect and recog-
milton? We will again cast that vote, but dis
miss from your mInds now and
from this on, until November,
the thought calculation that this
year is to be any exception to her history.
Grover Cleveland and whoever goes on the
ticket with him will be reelected this fall with
the vote of Indiana will not be reelected at
all. Applause. Make no mistakes. | know
of certain calculations to leave Indiana out
Whatever calculations 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. Applause. Take New Jersey
in our embrace and Connecticut as far as in our
power to do so. In those lines lie success.
i say, Mr.. Chairman, and gentlemen of this
magnificent convention, that the lines of battle
are the same this year that they were in 1884
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 succeed
at all, are the same. You cannot recast the
lines of battle, and the attempt to do so will be
fraught with disaster, and the overthrow of our
splendid democratic administration. A voice
Oregon Somebody shouts Oregon. Take
warning by Oregon and rely upon Indiana and
you Will not be deceived. [Applause.l We
present 10 YOU man for this ticket physically
and mentally strong, endowed with mental and
physical life for years TO come. We name a
man who has ever proven himself, over and
over again, winner He has never been
started In a race that he has not led the field
If you say TO me that he came late to the demo-
cratic party, / say he came in the year when
Doolittle came, when Trumbull came when John
Nj. Palmer. whom the democrats have nomin-
ated for governor of Illinois. [ApplauSe.l He
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 of Indiana than a recruit
could stay poor soldier in the ranks of the
old guard under the hands of the great NapO-
leon. They become veteranized soldiers Such
battles as we wage In Indiana are happily
known in other states. You know them not in
Massachusetts,. You know them not in Geor-
ga, or in any of the other states. The majority
is so set In the other states one way the
other that the conclusion Is almost foregone;
but look at the spectacle which Indiana pre-
sents. Four years ago she cast $4,000 votes.
She will cast $4,000 votes at the approaching
election, and with that enormous vote there is
simply plurality between the great parties of
six or seven thousand, no majority-a bare
plurality.
You can imagine then what the shock of
battle is here. You can imagine how important
it is for us to have every atom of strength per-
sonal and political which we can obtain in
order to hold our hard-pressed lines Recruit
wise. The key to the situation is in Indiana.
Strengthen her, you bold, brave men whose
judgments are convinced despite the honorable
sentiment that is at your hearts. Come to the
rescue of the situation on the battlefield where
the fight is to be the hottest and the battle is
to be won, if won at all
/ reflect upon no other name that has been or
will be placed before this convention, but /
charge every candid mind to answer what
electoral vote, what state any other name
L.
Isaac p. Gray. Cheers.] We do not put up a
man for show or pride, but for hard battle and
winning results. You say there are charges
made against him at home and elsewhere.
Show me a man who has never had charges
made against him, and will show you a worth
less, eolorless creature, unfit TO lead battle any
where. know something about charges. But
how have these charges, whatever they may be-
and they are not worth dignifying, how have
they been met? Isaac p. Gray on the same
ticket with Grover Cleveland and Thomas A.
Hendricks, blessed be his memory forever
[Cheersl, and strong as the ticket was in In
diana, combination of power evoking the en-
thusasm and every heart of our people, yet
this man whom we present 10 you to-day car
ried the state of Indiana by majority of $50
more votes than Cleveland and Hendricks car
ried it for the presidency and the vice-presi-
dency. Applause
He has been tried by jury of his peers,
jury of the vicinage and the verdict has been
with him, and 10 VIII be with MIN again. lie
will be in the ranks fighting whether on yonr
ticket or not but he is so interviewer with our
hopes and our organization this year in lndi
ana, that his name on the ticket becomes a
guaranty of success. / am not here to say we
cannot win without him, but | am here TO say
that il you want to take a bond of fate to re-
duce il to an absolute certainty on the fifteen
electoral votes of Indiana, before you leave this
hall nominate Isaac p. Gray with Grover Cleve-
land and the work will be done.
j thank you, gentlemen. Loud applause.l
The Chairman-"The chair will now in
troduce Albert IL. Cox of Georgia"
AS Mr.. Cox stepped forward by the side
of the chairman he was greeted with
warm applause by his friends upon the
floor and began his remarks as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTIONAL union
man from Georgia, | arise TO second the nomi-
nation of Gov. Isaac p. Gray of Indiana.
[Cheers.1 More indeed TO the South than TO
any other section is entrusted the destiny of
that glorious army which goes 20 the country
for the Endorsement OF this administration, and
coming from where success or failure means so
much, beg 10 call TO the judgment of the con-
vention the Napoleonic rule Of strategy that
strength should be maSsed, as the key 10 the
battle. [Cheers
Where, IL you please, will the eyes of Amer.
lea rest upon that Hateful day in November?
They will rest not upon Georgia where IL Is
safe but upon Indiana where IL is close; and
where then IL we should nominate the Old
Columbiad of Ohio, where then will fall his
solid shot and shell2 They will fall upon the