The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-04-27
INDIANA REPUBLICANS HOLD A
GREAT CONVENTIONS.
THE SLOGAN FOR 1895 IS SOUNDED
The Ex-Presldent Discusses the Tarin
and silver Questions - Gives Disap-
pointed ONCE Seekers Advice
Warns the Party Against over
Confidence The state
Conventions Platform.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 2O,-Nh hen
the Republican state convention me
yesterday, LIS delegates filled
the lower floor of Tomlinson
hall. while the galleries were
crowded with women and men.
A picture of eX-President lIar-
rison, l0XG feet, was suspended i'm
mediately above the chairmans desk.
Pictui es of Blaine. the late Governor
Morton, Governor Mckinley and ex-
Presidents Garfield, Lincoln and Grant
also adorned the walls
At 10 o'clock, the convention was
called to order by state Chairman
Goudy and the venerable presiding
officer, eX-Secretary of the Navy
Richard w. Thompson of Terre Haute,
came on the stage amid cheers. The
Rev. DIR. Coultas of this city offered a
prayer.
Before the echo of DR. Coultas'
PRAYER had subsidized, lusty lunged
delegate cried: "Hurrah for Har-
risoni'
When x-President Harrison fol-
lowed the presiding officer, hats and
handkerchiefs were waved and the au-
diencc arose to its feet amid cheers.
Mr.. Harrison then discussed the
present depression from a high pro-
lection standpoint and continues:
The times are full of unrest. dis
aster and apprehension. believe
to-day that all the tumult of this wild
sea would be stilled as by the voice of
omnipotence if the great industrial
and commercial classes of this coun-
try could know to-day that there
would be NO attempt to strike down
protection in American legislation.
The Republican party is friendly TO
restitution Of silver to place OF
honor among the money metals of the
world. Some of my friends in the
West thought was uttering new doc
trines when declared believed the
free use of silver upon an interna-
tional agreement that would assure
its continued equality with gold,
would do more than anything | know
of save the establishment of the pro-
lection principle to bring again pros
perity into our commerce. The
trouble upon this question has been
that some of our Western friends
would not receive any man as the
friend of silver who believed that we
could not coin it freely and maintain
its parity with gold by coming into
an arrangement with other great com
mercial nations of the world. They
should have been more liberal. | be-
lieve to-day that we can see in Eng
land the nation that has stood most
strongly against the larger use of sill
ver and in Germany, nation that
has followed England, the clear indi-
faatti9onsn 9f ths iR6SnYth 9fe ansGRtiment
l.. inn
err and believe if rigidly and wisely
encouraged and directed from Amer
ca it will finally bring other nations
by the compulsion OF their own ne ne
eSsities. into accord with us upon TINS
subject =,
Mr.. Harrison warned a}lS presen
AGAINST over-confidence and advised
the Republicans of the state TO laoo
increasingly for reforms. In closing
he said: -
Every man, l have always cor
tended. has "A right honorably to see
office and that president had
right To complain that his time wa
somewhat occupied in attending
them. Applause. But there Is on
contention that goes with all tins th'
must not be forgotten. When ma
has honorably, earnestly
appeal to his friends, or
the the appointing power, sOug
nomination and falled
is altogether to be reprobated II q,
carries his grievance home with nj
and deserts the party. So in advan
appeal to this body to-day who o. a a
TO be disappointed to-day to put the
selves at. the front in charge OF tht
more fortunate competitors.