The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14
Large Attendance at the Two Business
Sessions of the League, Despite
the Snow Blockades.
RANK DEMOCRACY SCORED
Managers for the Districts and the
Denver Delegates Chosen.
Marcus r. SulZer Is Unanimously Re-
Elected President and Robert
Mansfield Secretary.

At n:so O'Clock yesterday morning the
annual meeting Of the State Lincoln Leagus
was called to order in Superior Court room
No. B by President Marcus r. Sulzer. OF
Madison. Sunday night the advance guard
of delegates arrived in the city from the
more remote sections OF the State and reg
istered at the hotels The first arrivals were
few, but Monday and Monday night they
began TO arrive in larger and more fire.
quent delegations Many OF them came Ia
late, and wearied from long journeys by
rail on trains that were compelled 10 plow
through snow drilts, arriving at the Union
Station several hours behind their sche,l-
uled time. One or two delegations were
held by the snow till they were unable TO
get here in time for the business meetings
yesterday. and came in last night in time
for the big meeting at Tomlinson Hall and
the reception at the Marion clubrooms.
Before the meeting was called 10 order
the delegates spent the time circulating
about the court room discussing the situa-
ton and outlook for Republican successes
in the coming elections Delegates from the
southern extremties OF the State hailed del
egates from the north and exchanged en-
couraging bits OF information as TO the
trend OF opinion in their respective sections.
There was one tone throughout-that OF
confidence-and with all a determination not
TO permit overconfidence 10 take possession
OF the energies and result in reduction OF
the plurality that was deemed certainty.
Even men who are known to be always on
the side of conservatism seemed TO have
come over to the 81 le of radicalism in their
expressions OF confidence The delegates
took advantage Of the opportunity afforded
| to acquaint themselves with the exact con.
dition OF existing affairs in the various dis.
| tricts, and will return to their homes pre-
| pared to wage an even warfare against the
common enemy on a uniform basis of oper-
alton.
Promptly at the hour set President Sulzer
assumed the chair and called. the meeting
to order. There were not more than half
| enough chairs in the room 10 accommodate
the delegates, and a large part OF them
were compelled to remain standing during
the proceedings. The President, as eoon as
the meeting mad quieted. delivered his all
| nual address, which was as follows:
| 1t Is a matter of sincere congratulation
| that the Republican league OF Indiana
meets to-day with such bright prospects for
| the future. AS L gaze over this great rep
resentation, my mind goes back to the
| meeting or year ago, held under the
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| which our league ever assembled our
| party had received the most decisive de-
| feat in its history, and within less than
| month, the Democratic party was returned
| to power i'm the legislative and executive
| branches of the government for the first
| time in nearly third Of a century. / said
| then in my remarks to the few that were
| present that the next annual meeting of the
/ league would be the largest in it's history.
1 / believed then. as the Nations record
| taught, and the past years experience had
| shown, that the hand OF Democracy as in
the past would only touch TO blight and
| wither. Our league is intended to better
| further and make more complete the or
| ganization of the party In Indiana
''All men cannot be statesmen; but most
| can, to some extent, be politicians. Poll
| tics is generally what the men engaged in
| it make it We advocate organization OF
the workers In clubs, whose meetings are
intended TO be social and educationali seek
| ing to unite their members in advising,
| perfecting and executing the best means
| Verts, increasing the Republican vote and
| depicting the ranks of Democracy These
clubs should discuss all public matters so
| upon public questions and keep atreast
with the issues of the campaign We do
| not seek to make votes except by legiti-
| mate intelligent, legal methods. And II Is
| my opinion that the Republican party has
| always secured its victories in Indiana
| not S our opponents have so oIten al
| legged, by ways that are dark and tricks
| that are vain,' but by perfect organization,
unity i'm our own ranks consequent enthu-
siasm and resulting triumph. IL has been
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the habit for the Democratic press ana
orators in the past few years TO assam
every victorious Indiana Republican poll
tician in order to injure his character and
drive him from public life Within the past
month a Democratic Senator from INDIANA
stopped below the dignity OF his posltlon
10 assaH the character OF an honest ana
upright Judge, whose decisions nave STOOD
the tests of criticism and good opinion.
and whose uprightnesS ana ability are
such that when his defamers are forgotten,
the records OF time viii remempsr anu
acter of Judge William A. Woods. / am
frank in saving that the evils OF the Demo
cratic party have been felt more forcloly
and have come upon the country more rap
idly than 1 had anticipated they would.
| Democracy has always been efncleht IN
the creation of deficiencies. II iound "a. iuIi ~
treasury in 1853, il left an empty one IN
1861. 1t found the United states cohers IN
good condition in 1898 and. before the year
ended. for the first time since the wal,
| the contents OF our treasury became so
| low as TO precipitate q panic upon tne
country, and we were compeileu 10 iaSuo .s
| bonds at a higher rate or interest s%han %
| we had lately been paying. AS in the days
| Of Buchanan cur debt Is tncreaslnsi win
credit assaiied our bonds must aeprecia5'e ..'
in value as they did in those DAYS, anu
with increasing debt, depreclated S CT - -
our people, as In the degenerate uays Vi
higher rate OF interest on the money they
THE CHANGE CAME.
''There is nothing like knowing how 10
appreciate good thing When you nave II
We under the Harrison administration en-
joyed an era of prosperity almost equal to
that pictured by Sir Thomas Moore In
Utopia; at least, compared 10 the present
situation, IL seems like those were halcyon
days never 70 be forgotten But we
thirsted for change and we got IT. We
are forciblv reminded Of IL from Addison 3
Spectator where all OF troubled humanity
were privileged 10 lay down thelr buruens
i'm a heap and select in their place some
one else's trouble from the same heap.
But alas; dissatisfaction was UNIVERSAL.
one man longed for his gout again IL he
could only rid himself OF dlssolute son
whom he had snatched from the heaps.
and the galley slave yearned for his shack
els again in preference 10 a scoldlng vile
he had selected. And So at the present
time. we have change just as We bar
gained for but we would gladly swap IL
or for the gout or even a scolding wife
THE reign OF Grover Cleyeland-haS II
given universal satisfaction? Well, IL is
scarcely what the Democrats had hoped
for IL keeps the stanchest OF the party
busy apologiZ.ng for his maneuNers. Moth
ing ever was or ever will be more absurd
than his rosftfon REGARDING the restoration