The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-05-02


administration the confidence of the peo-
pie of the United States. (Applause) As
you have been faithful to the party in the
hours or weakness and darkness, we are
glad that you are here this morning, when
the country is awakened TO the fact that a
restoration of republican principles in ad-
ministration is essential 70 the prosperity
and happiness OF the people. Great ap-
plause-l
ing with an acknowledgment OF my gra te-
full obligations for those undersigned and
accumulated favors which you have heaped
upon me. l will not undertake-it would be
inappropriate-any fun discussion OF repub-
hcan principles. | will not stand between
you and the important work which you
have assembled 10 DO and which you are
eager 70 be about. At some time during
the campaign which so auspiciously opens
today-if it be the pleasure of nv fellow
citizens-I shall hold myself al their serv-
ice for fuller discussion. Great cheer
ing) | can not allow, as l have said be
fore, that an ex-President has lost his citi-
zenship daughter and applause); nor can
I admit that a calm and temperate dis
cussion OF great public questions is I'M
dignihed in any man; (Applause0 We
nave had. oeslnnlng Win those years when
as champion Of the whig principles. you
Cunning to Col. thompson spoke TO your
fellow-citizens of Indiana, down to the
upon the it question Of the tari The The people
have now accepted one view OF the ques-
ton. and now. turning, have adopted the
eloquence. sir. was hardly equal to stirring
great interest in the question
rich. labor was so universally employed at
good wages. that men ceased to appre-
eiate the danger and the disaster that was
involved In an abandonment Of the pro-
lection principle. (Applause) No orator
was equal to the task of maintaining their
interest But events have stirred that in
terest to the profoundest depths Of our
society. (ApplauseD What the orator and
the Panphileteer could not s do a bitter ex-
home. and into many brought starvation
has done and is doing today. Our friends
people that this period of depression is
only one Of periodic panics that they say
at intervals. more or less certain. neces-
to Persuade you that the nii5iene eee9 ib9
have brought it about were climatic or
seismic But l believe / do not state Il
too strongly when l say that the common
mind-the close observation Of those who
are educated and instructed by facts rather
than given to refined theories has settled
upon the cause of this present financial
depression. They find that cause i'm the
attempt to wipe out protection legislation
and to substitute for IL doctrines of
revenue tariff. They find it in that un-
certainty which has intruded itself into
every mans business enterprises which
has paralyzed his energy and which has
compelled the wheels to stop while this
great issue was being concluded The
American workman is realizing today that
il is not possible for him to separate him
self in interests from the manufacturer
who employs him; that he cannot, listen
ing TO the wild and vicious appeals which
have been made to him, strike at the men
who give employment to labor without
bringing the blow back to recoil upon him
self and upon his family. (Applause) The
times are full of unrest. disaster and APP
prehension. / believe today that all the
a voice of omnipotence If the great in
dustrial and commercial classes of the
country could know today that there would
be no attempt TO strike down protection
in American legislation. (Applause)
The republican party Is friendly TO
restoration of silver TO q place of honor
n RID
(Applause.) Some of my friends in the
West thought / was uttering new doctrine
use Of silver. upon international agree
ment that would assure its continued
anything j knew of save the establishment
Of the protection principle, to bring again
prosperity into our commerce. (Applause)
The trouble upon this question has been
that some of our western friends would not
who believed that we could only u c1 inv 81
freely ana maintain its parity with gold
by coming into an arrangement with the
other great commercial nations of the
world. They should have been more liberal.
I believe today that we can see in En-
gland-the nation that has stood against
nation that has followed England-the clear
indication of the growth of a sentiment
for an International agreement upon this
question is increasing in power; and 1 be-
lieve If rightly and wisely encouraged and
directed from America IL will finally bring
other nations by the compulsion of their
Ny republican friends. I congratulate Won
upon the hopeful and suspicious incidents
that surround your meeting today We
enter upon this campaign with better
heart and higher courage than upon any
dence that l hear expressed that 1 would
drop a word Of caution, for there is dan
ger in overconfidence. 1 beg TO say to you
that, in my opinion, a citizen. having
absolutely no interests except those thar
you have, that every one Of you here and
had the opportunity in their lives TO serve
their country more efficiently than bv de-
voting themselves industriOusly from now
until November TO the support of that
ticket which will here be nominated. (Ap-
plause)
We have state matters which should be
set right-the equality of men at the ballot
box. The abolition Of all legislation that
tends 10 enhance the power Of one man
by abstracting from the just power of an
other must be re-established. We have
fought this question of unequal, Ubiquitous
legislative .apportionments for years, and
we are today throttled by gerrymander
that must be overturned. (Applause)
For years we have cOntended that a pure
clean. non-partisan civil service should
be introduced into the management of our
benevolent and penal institutions. Cap
pause) Citizens of Indiana nail that
motto to YOUR flagstaff. and appeal to the
good people, the Decent people Of Indiana,
TO maintain and establish II. (Applause)
But now your kindness mas betrayed me
into further speech than / had contem-
plated. There is here today active competi-
ton for office. That is wholesome; not to
be deprecated. Every man, / have always
contended, had a right honorably 10 seek
office, and that president had no right to
complain that his time was somewhat oc-
cupied in attending 10 them. daughter
and applause) But there Is one condition
that goes with all this that must not be
forgotten. When man has hOnOrably,
earnestly, by appeal TO his friends or to
the appointing power, sought a nomination
and failed. he is altogether to be repro
bated If he carries his grievance home with
him and diStracts the party. (Applause) So
in advance I appeal TO this large body of ex-
cellent friends who TO be disappointed
today to put themselves at the front in
cheering for their more fortunate COMPETE
tors.
1 thank you. gentlemen for you kind
welcome. l hope you may succeed today
in announcing a platform that will win
the appreciation, that will satisfy the in
telligence and the conscience of our peo-
pie, and that you may nominate a ticket
worthily representative of the great prin-
ciples that you will declare. (Applause.)
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