The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14


that this meeting of the Lincoln League
Will result In renewed activity in every
quarter Of the State of Indiana"
HON. THOMAS H. NELSON SPEAKS.
The audience reluctantly allowed General
Harrison to retire. So far good taste
would permit his auditors insisted on his
continuing, but he bowed them a good
night and gave way TO President Sulzer,
who introduced Hon. Thomas H. Nelson of
! Terre Haute, as a man who showed his
! loyalty to his country by struggling for
four years for it's existence. a true Repub-
hcan and one 10 whom Republican audiences
I always listen with pleasure and profit.
/ proceeded 10 place himself the best of
terms with the audience by remarking that
aside from his inability to add anything
to the words so fifty spoken by General
Harrison ne was confronted by the en-
barrassment of having to talk to Repub-
said. to call in the Democratic sinners and
he could accomplish more in that line than
py addressing an audience of stanch Re
Take an ordinary brother of the house
mold OF the true faith,' said the speaker.
he can answer every question in the Re-
| publican catechism and give a true reason
for each one: The American people are
now confronting a condition not a theory.
lLaugnter ana applause.) They have the
| condition now. More laughter and ap-
dition but the Democratic party? one year
ago this was the richest and most pros
porous nation on the face Of the globe. In
| 1880 an investigation showed the wealth of
the United States to be twenty-five billion
dollars greater than that Of England. In
iSoO this country's wealth was sixteen bill
| lion dollars; in 1890 it was sixty-five bill
hon or an Increase in thirty years IN
der the wise care and administration of
the republican party of nearly fifty billions
| or dollars. We have 175,000 miles of rail-
road. more than in all the world together.
1t would reach seven times around the
globes. and these railroads employ over a
| million people In 1860 we were the third
power in the manufacturing world; now we
| are the very first Under the Republican
| party's fostering care our furnaces were
| at work. our manufactures busy. our work
| tration of President Harrison new markets
| were opened by the reciprocity plan in all
| parts OF the world. Laboring men were
prosperous everywhere, and we knew no
| such bugbear as hard times Notwith-
standing alI this the Democrats demanded
a change, and they got ii. Laughter and
| applause) God help us. IL it continues
much St longer we wont have any change
bread I and voters vOJed AGAINST their own
| OF their children. Wen. now they have
| an object lesson, and terrible one it is,
and they can never forget it. They have have
| seen the difference between Dnocratic
| promises and Democratic fulfillment. Mil
lions of people are to-day dependent upon
| public charity. Millions don't know where
their next meal is coming from. Many are
| driven to crime, to suicide, and the Nation
| is becoming demoraiized
| What has destroyed so many happy
| homes? The vicious policy of the Demo-
cratic party. They declared that protection
| to American industries was fraud and
| deception. Now General Washington was
| the first protectioniSt. jefferson, Madison,
| Monroe, Adams, Jackson. Lincoln, Grant
| and Harrison all believed in the policy of
| protection and would rather take their
| opinion than that of the crossroads and
| ale-house politicians who denounce il as
| the robber tariff. The Democrats make
great show every year of celebrating Jack
1 on g havr la HxyQH To
| day he would certainly be an honest, ear
nest hard-working Republican"
| General Nelson said that Jackson
| firmly against free trade that he cooled the
| ardor Of some of the advocates of that pol
icy BY threatening to hang them if they
| the protective policy The speaker declared
that in the campaign of 1S9? the Demo
! Gratis never advanced one sincere argu-
| ment They had no regard Tor consistency,
| speeches all addressed to ignorance.
| There never, he said, was such colossal,
| magnificent, fifteen-story lies told since the
| world was begun. Those old biblical DEM
| ocrats, AnaniaS and Saphira, were COM
| pletely overshadowed. If the same fate
| cratic orators during that campaign there
| wouldn't have been a Democratic speaker
left in the United States The Genera Ga t RE
| Democratic party as a. political millennium
which would be reioiced in by all good
| people. He called attention to the great Re
| publican majOritieS last fall, 10 the lncon-
| sistency of Democratic arguments. their
| shifting expedients, their barren record
| to the glorious achievements or the RepuD-
| lican party and concluded by saying that,
| while beaten now, Truth crushed to eartn
| will rise again" Throughout ms speech
| General Nelson was interrupted by APP
Col. Frank B. Posey of Evansville, was
| next introduced by President SulZer and
| spoke briefly but eloquently. He said the
| Democrats had not looked for the land
| slide that favored them in 1882, and that
I tI,o Nnp4h IN
| thought regretted the passing Of all the
| branches of the government TO Democratic
control. With headstrong President ana ma
| a needless Congress there was no hope for
| Northern Democrats, and he thought the
latter would be found very largely with
the Republicans next fall. The phantom OF
| calhoun he said, had taken the place of
| sober judgment with the Democrats anG Is
Leading the party ana the country on ntI
| Posey touched upon the restoration OF
monarchies as INDUCED in by, President
| Cleveland contrasted the conditions of two
| years ago with those of the present time
| and said that Republican prosperity should
not have been interrupted by a Demo;
cratic interregnum of disaster. He told
| the young Republicans who mean to go
| into and possess the future by developing
| firing every furnace that they could only
| do 1t by destroying the Democratic party.
He was confident that these young earn
J the country next fall.
Hon. Smiley n. Chambers. of this city,
| 1OllOWGu With Il lew dDiy
marks, saying among others things that
| many times have the eyes OF the people
turned to the Republican party to save
them from Democratic mistakes. 1t began
| away back when the the Democratic party
attempted to fasten upon the country the
| curse of slavery and undertook to sever the
Union. When the credit of the government
was being beaten down by the assaults OF
the greenba ckers the Republican party
Of the repeal of the silver BILL one of the
great opponents of Republican financial
principles John Sherman, had again come
to the country's and this time to the Dem
ocratic administrations rescue. Colonel
| Chambers referred to the first futile visit
| of Secretary Carlisle to New York to get
some one to take the governments new
| closed their ears to his appeal until Senator
| Sherman had said the government was
| pledged to the redemption of those bonds,
| and that they were good gold. In
| twenty-four hours after this declaration of
| the Republican statesman there were bids
| for more than the entire issue. The people
are again holding out their hands to the
| to save them from the Wilson bill by hav-
| ing 1t so amended as to prevent the absolute
ruin Of the country's business and manu-
| featuring interests.
| The last speaker Of the evening to be in
troduced was Col. A. II. Hardy, of Wash
| ington, Ind, candidate for congressional
| honorS from the Second district.
| There's a certain party missing from the
streets of Indianapolis these days." solemn.
used TO run round and sing Grover, Gro
| Yer, four more years of Grover That fel
| low can't be found, but we've got Grover
| although the clover is sadly lacking"