The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-25

IN general. under the auspices of any special
pleyes first and the commerc,sl ' trareiers nexf:
tapplausel: FOR there II a link-and not miss
ing Enk-that binds the railway men and com.
mercial travellers together commercial
traveller Is always on the railroad and the rail-
road Is always at the service OF the commercial
onn,e"ss LOT ia, ahe curreht Iare. lLausnter anu
popular sentiment. the man who is better
Judge than any other OF what the people are
quenty With his felow-citizens than any one
else Is the knight of the grip: He travels every
where, sees everybody. introduces himself and is
n lifelong friend within two minutes after the
introduction. iAppause
notice In reading your Democratic paper here
mat In lis attack upon me IL has that peculiarly
which characterizes n Democratic paper, a Dem
ocratic orator or Democratic platforn-itis on
Sentinel charges the citizens of Indianapolis and
Indiana not TO listen TO because OF certain
things done ON the New York Central railroad;
at the same time IN its editorial columns IL quotes
reported remarks of mine In regard 10 Grover
Cleveland and tells the Democratic party OF tile
state TO listen to what say on that subject
Laughter go il / read the Sentinel Alright
would be very bad authority for Republic
ans 10 follow, but the Democrats ready
10 follow me unanimously. My friends of the
Sentinel quote against me Mr.. Powderly and his
remarks at the time of that trouble the New
YORK Central, and then the seem TO forget that
the latest uttera nee of Mr. POwderly, delivered
only yesterday and reported to-day, is that any
laboring man who votes for the Democratic ma
tional ticket this year forfets his right to belong
To the X nights of Labor or any other labor or.
ganzation. IGreat applause,l II Powdery is a
good witness against mo three years ago. he is n
better one against the Democratic party yester-
day. IApplause.
Tho first time that have seen any political en-
thuslasin. the first time that have felt pulsa-
ton beyond the ordinary one has been since I
struck the line of Indiana. Applause L find
there Is in this State that thing which love
beyond all others. though my lot In life has per-
United me TO give little practical attent ton to II.
aud that Is politics; Laughter. believe in
state that likes politics, talks politics. and fights
no m IA L mot n
four millions of Indianians coming down here
to-day LAUGHTER and applausel, all
tante shem tbem OF bs1 1nS eH nd
all of them for Harrison and Reid iapplause.l
Ihs e my na 70 nas any 1Sst ir n
| did't cheat us was superiuous. 1t Is the pecul
iarty OF the Republican party that it is neces-
| get their honest vote in and then to get 1t
| counted and IL Is necessary to have majority
npo e s9s ga iss against
| side or Indiana Is general apathy. The distin-
| guished soldier is in command
PROSPERITY AND APATHY.
That soldier ordinarily In political affairs is q
| Democrat because he does not believe in any
thing. OF in doing anything; but this year Gen
eral Apathy is in command, whyl 1t is because
there is prosperity in the country so great that
| no ono feels the necessity of doing anything In
/! order to protect his interests. We have not had
try in nineteen years. [Applause.l After the
4 war OF ST., when there was reversal of the
| policy of~Washington, and OF Hamilton. and OF
jefferson, there came panic which reduced the
whole country 10 beggary. Then came enact
lnents for the protection OF American industries,
pTGspery ss a Taen aSar tas
had the panic of 1897. when farms
We're sold at one-fourth their value upon
| to buy; when merchants went into bankruptcy
and when skilled artisans were tramps. Then
IN aa asa be n Of inc n pSsy
| poned the catastrophe, but 1t came In 1887 with
the closing of banks with the closing OF factories
| With mills going out OF business and furnaces
| out OF blast. and with the labor market being
glutted with men willing and able to work. but
their families and that Condition continued until
| the civil war, when the civil war found MS with
the treasury bankrupt for the Nation. and the
| treasury OF the people bankrupt, and their
credit gone We had reached the point where
II was believed that every ten years Tiers
But during the war there was enacted tariff
law, called the Morrill, law 1t done for
the purpose of raising money to save this Re
| pubic. When the Republic was saved, IT was
continued for the purpose of paying oil the ma
tionai debt. When the national debt had been
| largely reduced, Ii was continued for the pur-
pose of continuing the prosperity which had put
down the rebellion and paid on two;thiras OK the
debt, lAppansel We had panic In 1913,
growing out OF the speculatl0ns Occasi0ned By
the greenback currency. and by the failure to re-
| sumo specie payments, but since specie pay
| ucHts NtIo itsuintu, anu lHt cOuutkl lut upOu
| sound business basis. for nineteen years we
have had no panic. We have had fiurries.but not
panics. There is scarcely man of the younger
| generation who knows what q panic is so
| A paDicl What does Ii meant It means that
| men who arc dong business upon credit, and
who, under ordinary circumstances, would make
large amounts of money. tail. because they can
raise no money upon their credit. Ii means that
men who have security but owe fail because
It means that mills close '' 1t means that fur
naces go out Of blast. 1t means that there is no
market for agricultural products. It means
ital is idle, and It that artisans and labor
ers are tramps. That is panic.
i Under the Republican policy, continued for
thirty years. promoting prosperity. opening
mills, opening furnacee, opening mines, con.
stantIy giving employ ment to the labor market,
panics have been impossible; but let the Demo
cratic party once get possession OF the prosi-
sion OF the House of Representatives.; let them
| pass laws such as are outlined in their Chicago
glorious old panic Of the real old fashioned Kind.
Applause. told n story to-day, and IL is an
old story. but it fairly illustrates what would
gentlemen who went out to hunt. and they found
| cave, and one of them crawled In TO see what
| was there, and while lac was inside the old bear
came up-a fat round-beled bear with large,
round neek-and filled that cave and Just as he
was going inside the partner on the outside saw
| took double twist on IL and braced both feet
against the sides OF the cave. sambo inside
|
'Pompey, what dat darks de hoier'
Pompey said:
III dis heah tail pulls out. you'll find out what
| darks lie hole"
Laughter aud applause.I And If the Republic
ans of Indiana and New York lose their hold
aud our large Democratic bear FROM New York
gets inside you'll lind out what darks de hole.
| Laughter and great appausel
sCHURZ AND MCvEvGH.
Ny friend Carl Schurz who Is a very able and
| eloquent man--one OF the most brilliant men,
/ German or American, there are In this country
labors only under one difficulty, and that is he
has found but one man in this country tit to run
II. and that man the country has not selected for
that service. Nineteen gentlemen In Brooklyn
wrote to Mr.. Schurz asking him what reasons he
could give them for voting for Cleveland, saying
they intended 10 vote for him anyhow, but didn't
know why. Mr.. Schurz has the power OF con-
densati0n beyond most men, when the subject is
clear, so that he condeDse
his statement into epicram .but
in order 10 tell these nineteen gentle
men why they should vote for Grover Cleveland
it took Carl Scnurz nine columns In the Evening
POst-the speech was four hours in len gth-and
what we're the reasOnsl Why. the reasons were,
| first, that he had never met General Harrison
and did not know him. ana had no confidence In
| him. Laughter Second. that Grover Cleve-
land met his requirements for the presidency bet
ter than any man living. except one-the writer
OF the letter. Laughter.I Third. that the Dem
ocratic party was n party that no man who had
self-respect could vote for unless II had Clevc-
| land for q candidate for President laughter 1,
and fourth. that the Republican party had a
| glOrious past, but its present was not equal 10
the SchurZ standard. tt
| 1t is the regularity of tho Democratic CAM
paign committee that in every presidential can
hrfta To ,,o~s