The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-05-04
A PROMISE OF VICTORY.
Indiana Republicans Have Great Co

Indiana Republicans Have q Great Con-
vention.
From all accounts the state conven-
ton of Indiana republicans held at In
dianapolis April %. was the greatest
the state has ever seen. The city was
thronged with statesmen who came
from all quarters to attend the con-
vention. The most notable figure pres
emit was that of Ex-President Harri-
son. who was heard from during the
day. The convention was presided
over by Uncle Dick Thompson, g
stanch old wheelhorse of the party. who
in the opening said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: Facts
are stubborn things This great convention DOM
onstrates this TO be true beyond the shadow Of
. doubt and that the republican party Is alive,
that II Is thoroughly alive; that IL Is alive all
over and prepared to buckle on Its srmor and
so into battle against any adversary who shall
come between the people and the honor OF this
nation
I'VE are In the midst OF great struggle, and
The party against which we contend has demon
strsted beyond all question its uttsr income
potency 70 manage the affairs OF the govern
ment II Is absolutely unable when the sun
sinks at night TO tell what Is to become Of IL or
the country when it rises In the morning
These people are our countrymen They are
blood Of our blood They have the same inter
est that we have In the perpetuity Of our In
situations, snd II is dificult 70 understand how
they could, In so short 9 time, do 50 much mis-
chief Though this party has only been La
charge Of the affairs Of this government for
year or two Il has brought our fellow-cttlzens
10 the very verge Of adversely. And these men
who are bone Of our bone. and blood Of our
blood, have the country's interest IN thets
hands.
Instead OF encouraging the genius and IN
custry of the land, they are simply quarreltna
about whether this man that man shall be
postmaster or who shall hold the second class
consuships. They seem 70 be diseased They
seem TO be affictedl they are sick; and the
only trouble ! have In deciding In my mind 10
what particular disease they have contracted
believe 1t IL dyspepsia simply for the reason
that they cannot digest Q plain revenue propo-
Bition-
while they have all the advantages Of
power they are Quarreling among themselves
whether We shall retain the policy which We
now have or turn the contract OF formulating
new one over to q foreign government They
seem TO be, in point of fact bewildered They
cannot count themselves II IL had not been
for Tom Reed they would not have able to find
themselves They told US two years ago that
D protective tariff was unconstitutional What
Is protective tariff 1t means nothing more
or less than an American tariff That Is all
there Is about it-a tariff TO take care of and
foster and protect our own interests, our own
labor, our own country, a tariff that will enable
Us to go out on the high seas representing
American factories and American homes and
lie recognized as first among the nations OF the
Earth
LET me tell you. friends, that this question
Of the constituticnality Of protective tariff 10
an old one. IT is older than 1 am, and am NOS
boy. can remember as look back when
this question existed in the same shape and
form in which # Is presented by the democratic
party OF to-day. Let me tell you where l can
Ind 1t. II you will look back to the year 1888
you will ind that the state OF South Carolina
resolved TO nullify the laws Of this union be-
cause Of the protective tariff, and in the resolu.
ton which they passed you will find the demo
cratic argument Of to-day. At that time there
was an old man in the presidential chair by the
name OF Jackson 1 like to think OF that old
man. I have seen him often and remember
him we'll He received his ideas from Wash
Engton and the men Of that period In the admin.
stratIon OF the government He swore by the
sternal that notification SHOULD not triumph,
snd that unless IL lowered its head he would
hang John C. Calhoun. We have no Jackson
now, but we have the power so completely In
our hands that II Is for US to say whether We
shall go on or not"
Following Mr.. Thompson's speech
* President Harrison delivered short
address of which the following is the
substance:
ITO you, my friends I come this morning
with an acknowledgment of my grateful oblf
| ratious for these undeserved and accumulated
| ,svors which you have hesped upon me. VIII
not undertake this mornng-it would be map
| propriste-any full discussion OF republican
| principles will not stand between you and
the important work which you have assembled
| 10 do, and which you are eager to be about Az
| some time during the campaign which 30
| aus piciously opsns todsy-if 1t be the pleasure
Of nv fellow citizens-I shall hold myself %
| their service for fuller discussion / csnnct
allow, as have said before that IN ex-presf
| aent has lost his citizenship Nor csn admis
that q calm and temperate discussion OF sress
| public question Is undignfned In any man
I'VE have had, beginning with those years
| when as Q champion Of whig principles Goa
Thompson spoke TO US fellow citizens OF In
iisne down 70 the last national campaign .
continuous debate upon the question OF tbs
tariff. The people have now accepted one Wow
| Of the question. and, now turning, have sdops-
ID the other The debate seemed TO have worn
! itself out Even your silvery eloQuence, sir,
was hardly equal 70 stirring great interest in
the question Our people became so prosper.
GUS SO rich: labor Was 50 universally employed
| at good wages that men ceased 70 appreciate
| the danger and the disaster that were involved
| In an abandonment Of the protection princi-
| pies No orator was equal 70 the task OF main.
tanning their interest What the orator and
the pamphleteer could not do bitter expo
rienoe that has intrudea itself into every home.
| and into many brought starvation, has done
| and is doing to-day. Our friends may endeavor
| 70 persuade the American people that this Pc
Rod Of depression Is only one Of those period
tcsl psnics that they say st intervals more or
less certain necessarily fall upon US
Some may endesvor 10 persuade you that ths
Influences that have brought IL about were ell
| mstic or seismic but believe do not state 10
| too strongly when say that the common mind
| the close observation OF those who are eou-
| cated and instructed by facts rather than given
| TO refined theories-has settled upon the cause
| Of the present disastrous depression Tney
| end that cause In the attempt 70 wipe out pro-
lection legislation, and TO substitute for it the
| doctrines Of q revenue tariff They ind IL in
| that uncer tainty which has intruded itself into
| ,yery mans business enterprises. which has
paralyzed his energies. and which has COM
PEELED the wheels TO stop while this great ISSUE
| was being concluded
The American workman Is realizing today
that IL IL not possible for him to separate him.
! self in interest from the manufacturer who en-
ployes him: that he cannot listen to the Wild
| and vicious appeals which have been made 70
| him and strike at the men who give employ
ment TO labor. without bringing the blow back
In reooiI upon himself and upon his family
The times are full OF unrest disaster. and sp-
| prehension- / believe, to-day. that al tns
tumult OF this Wild sea would be stlled as oy
the voice Of omnipotence the great Industrial
| and commercial classes Of this country couId
know that there would be no attempt 70 strike
down protection IN American legislation
The committee on resolutions re-
ported the following platform, which
was adopted Asynopsis is as follows:
| IT.. ,i.,,o-r, yea rrms the platform and