The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-11
MR.. GRIFFITHs's ADDRESS.
Hoosfers Presented by the Well
KnoMn IndimnmpO Orator.

In presenting the Indiana delegations the
Hon. John l.. Grffiths said
Major McKinley-On behalf of the Re-
publican commercial travellers OF Indiana L
desire to express 10 you the deep interest
they feel in the issues Involved in this cam
paign and the earnest PURPOSE they have
OF doing whatsoever lies in their power TO
do TO secure final and decisive victory for
sound money. They come from the state
OF Colfax and Lane, of Morton and Harri-
son, those great leaders of poiticai thought.
to assure you OF their ioyas and en-
thusiastic support. Many with us to-day
have heretofore acted with the Democratic
party, but they refuse longer 10 follow
leadership from whose teachings their con-
sciences recoil. They deprecate the effort
that is being made to array section against
section ana ciass against class, because
they believe that this Is not a land OF
special privileges but of largest opportuni-
ties From New York bay to the Golden
Gate we have the same schools the same
literature, the same churches, the same
aims ambitions and aspirations. ana, filled
with a common purpose and animated by
under one nag and keeping step with tbs
music of the Union TO the fulhiiment OF u
common destiny.
..'The Republican party has not only
proved efficient but sufficient for the wise
solution of all the great problems OF states
manship it has been called upon to solve.
1t has been a party of constancy. consist
ency and conscience. 1t came into power
with a demoralized army, a scattered navy
and a bankrupt treasury when States were
seeding and traitors were multiplying. 1t
name of the Republic upon the map of the
world and its tag in heaven. In all it's
splendid history it has. never wandered
after strange gods OF finance. Individual
members of the party may have espoused
this or that financial heresy. but the party
in its organized capacity has always stood
for u currency in which each dollar should
have an equal purchasing power with every
other dollar, a currency resting on intrinsic
value and not on government fiat Too
much treasure has been expended and too
many lives have been laid down to keep
this Nation in the straight and narrow
path of honor and honesty to permit Ii to
go astray. even temporarily, along the
crooked byways of reputation and dis
honor There is no room for compromise
on n question of morals. There is no half
way halting place between honesty and dis
honesty. Whatever turns on point OF
conscience turns completely the one way
or the other. The moral sensbilities of the
people have been quickened and their con-
sciences aroused as In the bloody years
from 1861 to 1866 TO prevent the humiliation
and disgrace always attendant upon act
of national bad faith.
THE commercial traveller feels most
quickly the disastrous effects which fol-
low the slightest disturbance OF settled
trade conditions. He Is opposed To experi-
menting with prosperity, he knows that
during the last Republican administration
money WAS active instead OF heing hoard
ed as 1t Is to-day: that merhants bought
freely and paid promptly. His order book