The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
E~LOQUENCE.
An OG-Hand Speech Instead of the
One He Wrote for the Press.

When Governor Bushnell next introduced
Senator-elect Foraker there was deafening
applause. The audience was expectant, and
Senator Foraker was alive to the situation.
He said he had prepared his speech for the
press in advance in compliance with an
urgent request, but that he would speak as
the impulse of the moment prompted him;
and it was "a remarkable speech that
swayed the immense audience at his will.
1t was replete with pungent phrases and
brilliant metaphors. Senator Foraker said:
I'VE have a new question this year. The
Democracy have started a new issue; they
made a new issue Why is it they have
made a new issue? Did not the Democracy
know every thing there was to know from
the beginning? 1 will tell you why it is We
nave a new issue. They have run COM
pletely out on the old. They were whipped
to a standstill before they started on the
they started in on the tariff. be-
cause unlike 1882 We ali of US under
stand the tariff question. You cannot find
a laboring man anywhere in the United
States who does not now understand it
without an argument that if you make a
product across the water in some other
country you do not have 10 make Ii In this
country. That if you make it over there
there is an increased demand for labor over
there. and that much less demand for la
Dor over here. That is what the laboring
sThe farmer has learned something, too.
Times have been pretty hard on him. He
Is I'LL Ills pIO00Ct q 4 lit Shtdttc
price ever known since before the war. He
has found out that 10 have a good demand
and to get good prices for his product he
must have a good home market.
And there IS Uncle Sam himself. He
has found out something. In the twenty
seven years the Republican party con-
trolled this country. after the close of the
war down TO 1892. we paid off and cancelled
forever more than 81, 700, 0 900 of the pub
lie debt. During the three years and a
fraction of Democratic free-trade rule they
have paid off nothing, but have increased
the public debt by more than S252. 0N. 900.
Uncle Sam is just pow calculating how
long. at that rate, ii will take him to get
out OF debt. He has made up his mind, like
some other people did in 1852, that he wants
a change, and he will have a change. just
as soon as the law and the Constitution
will allow il.
Now, my felIow-citizens. / would rather
take the judgment of John Sherman on a
financial proposition than the Judgment of
Mary Ellen Lease. i would rather, on a
profound constitutional or financial ques-
ton follow the leadership OF Benjamin Har,
rison than that OF 'Pitchfork' Tillman. /
would rather trust Governor Bushnell than
Governor Hogg. no matter how fat he may
be. And l would rather follow the leader
ship of gallant Governor Mckinley. with
all these great representatives of sound
money, sound principles. sound patriotism
than TO take the Boy Orator of the Platte
with all these people controlling him.
BRYAN'S SPEECH.
Il read a day or two - it took me
a day or two to do 1.-THE speech made by
the Boy Orator of the Platte when he
was notified in New York 1t occupied
eight columns close print. / read every
word of it. and when / got done with it /
thought l knew why he was called the
Boy Orator of the Platte Geography tells
us that the Platte is a very peculiar river.
They say IL is a thousand miles long and
only six inches deep. As / closed the read
ing OF ii j had another thought about him,
and / said out loud. Mr.. Bryan made him
self by one speech and now he has unmade
| himself by one speech. No man will be
ever President Of the United States upon
that speech.
What is the nature OF this case? There
is a great effort being made to create i'm
preston that the Republican party has
| changed its position in regard to this mat
ter. That is not true The Republican
party has not changed. 1t is moro explicit
In its declaration this year than ever be-
fore, because the circumstances were such
| but the Republican party has declared this
: year for identically the same thing 1t de-