St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-08
THE TALL SYCAMORE.
Senator Voorhees, Presents the
Name of Indiana,s Gnvernnr


Name of Indiana's Governor.
ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE call of states
was then proceeded with by the secre-
tary, calling Delaware, Florida,
Georgia and Illinois without eliciting
response. The call for Indiana was re-
sponded to by Hon. Daniel w. Voor-
hees, who came forward to the platform
and said:
The historians of Europe describe
Belgium as the battle ground in
all the great wars that transpired be-
tween European nations. l come from
the political battle ground of the
United States-the state of Indiana
While great wars take place in other
countries and empires, and dynasties
are overthrown OF re-established, SO in
Indiana questions of mightier i'm
port are determined for the whole
country by her attitude
EITHER OF VICTORY OR DEFEAT
at presidential elections. Who will in
Quire, ''How goes the battle," in any
other but one OF two Northern states.
except in Indiana? You gentlemen i'm
the South, with everything in peril. will
not ask how goes Illinois in our West,
for you know how she will 90. You
will not ask how goes the battle in Ohio;
it is already predetermined what the
result will be there. Nor will you ask
how the battle RACES in Pennsylvania,
except to inquire how great the majority
inquiry made, except how is the shock
of battle sustained in Indiana and the
state of New York, in the state of New
Jersey and sometimes with an inquiry
as to Connecticut. We come before
you not as mendicants or suppliantS,
but as representing power. We ask
an honor OH this ticket and we tender
you victory with the other hand. We
ask name on this ticket and we tender
you fifteen electoral votes in your col
lege, making the election sure Bear
with me moment in retrospect of his
tory. Indiana became a state in 1916,
and from that hour to this no Demo-
crat has ever been inaugurated except
by her vote. Indiana has voted for
every Democrat who was ever sworn
into the office from 1916 forward. She
voted for Monroe; she voted for Jack
son; she voted for Van Buren, for Polk,
Tor Pierce. for Buchanan, for Samuel j.
Tilden, who was
ROBBED OF THE ELECTION,
and for Grover Cleveland. Where is
the state whose record overmatches her?
Where is the state who comes before
this convention with higher right to
demand respect and recognition? We
will again cast that vote, but dismiss
from your minds now and from this on
until November the thought or calcula-
ton that this year is to be any excep-
ton to her history. Grover Cleveland
and whoever else goes on the ticket
with him will be reelected this fall with
the vote of Indiana, or will not be
elected at all. Make no mistakes, l
know of certain calculations to leave
Indiana out. Whatever industries de-
stroy Indiana, destroy every hope and
vestage of success. She is interviewer
with the situation, and the safety of this
hour is for New York and Indiana as
Jersey in our embrace and Connecticut
as far as is in our power to do so. In
those lines lie success. say, Mr.. Chair
man 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 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 mean the overthrow of our splendid
Democratic administration. Ia voice,
| Oregon.] Somebody shouts Oregon.
Take warning by Oregon and rely upon
Indiana and you will not be deceived
We present to you again for this ticket
| physically and mentally strong, en-
! dowed 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 race that he has not led the
field. If you say to me he came late to
| the Democratic party, l say that he
came in the year when Doolittle came,
| when Trumbull came. when John NJ
| Palmer, whom the Democrats have
nominated for governor of Illinois,
came. He came with them, and allow
me to say to you that a recruit into the
| ranks of the Democratic marty in In