The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-21
IDDIAuA'S FREE SILVER
Magnificent Service of Plate
From the State to the
Battleship.
GOVERNOR MATTHEWS ADDRESS
The Presentation Made Today at
Tompkinsville-sail on
the Dolphin.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW'S ADDRESS

tHo DUlputne
NEW YORK, Sept. q, tSs6.-Governor
Matthews, of Indiana, and the party OF
distinguished citizens who accompanies
him 10 this city for the purpose of pre-
senting silver service ana library to the
battleship Indiana, boarded the United
States despatch boat Dolphin off West
Thirty-fourth street shortly after ten
o'clock this morning. The party were
Joined by a number of New Workers who
were former Indianians, and by officials
who were to take part in the programme
and other prominent persons. Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison and Mrs. Harrison were
among the number.
The Dolphin was late in getting away
owing to the late arrival of Mr., and Mrs.
Harrison. The Dolphin did not stop at
the Barge Office for other members of
the party who were invited to go aboard
at that place. These guests reached the
Indiana by means of Staten Island fer
ryboat Among them were:-Mr. Samuel
D. Miller, son of former Attorney General
Miller; Mrs. Samuel D. Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Lee and others. In the
party on the Dolphin were the following
from Indiana:-Governor and Mrs. Mat
thews. Miss Matthews, Miss McMachan,
Mayor Thomas Taggart of Indianapolis
and Mrs. and Miss Taggart, Adjutant-
General and Mrs Robbins, Brigader-
General and Mrs. Mckee, Colonel James
B. Curtis, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. ]. H.
Murphy, Captain H. T. Condor, Charles
H. Williams, Miss Williams, Mrs. Nor
ris, Ross Bishop, F. S. Chatard, C.
Studebaker, Major and Mrs. o. T. Doxey,
Mrs. Kinnard. Col. and Mrs. James r.
Ross, Miss Florence Coffin, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. S. Denny, Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Shearin,
John H. Holiday, Alexander Holiday, 1.
S. Gordon, Colonel William R. Holiday,
DR.. ]. Livingston Thompson and his
daughter, Mrs. Oliver; Major Thomas De
Frees. Mr.. Gagg of Terre Haute. and
number of others
Capt Evans received the visitors at
the gangway of the Indiana. The ship
had been made ready for the occasion by
giving an extra scrub to the white decks
and an additional polish to the shining
brass work.
The guests took good look at Uncle
Sans best fighting ship, and declared her
worthy to carry the name Indiana The
services were brief and consisted in the
presentation of the services by Gov. Mat
thews in behalf of the State of which he
is the chief executive, and short speeches
by ex-President Harrison and the repre-
sentatives of the Navy Department. Af-
ter the ceremony the guests were given an
excursion on the Dolphin to West Point.
II. presenting the service Gov. Matthews
said
Captain Evans, we are here today rep
resenting the citizens of a great inland
State, to greet you on the sea, and to ex-
press in part a grateful recognition of
an honor conferred upon the State which
justly holds our loyal devotion. Indiana
felt truly honored when this magnificent
vessel and powerful engine of war was
christened with her name, and yet, with
pardonable pride, we citizens of Indiana
feel that she could wear upon her massive
side or float from her masthead no proud
er name
A great ship, a triumph of the ingenu-
lily OF man, should we'll be coupled with
great State, whose greatness rests upon
the generous gifts of God and their wise
development and ennobling use by man
You. sir, to whom, as commander we
bring this tribute of our people, so truly
expressive OF their culture, their gener-
osity and their patriotism, we beg you
to accept for the good ship Indiana for
the use of yourself, your officers and
those who may come after you to walk
American citizen, whether upon the land
or upon the sea.
For this gift was prompted and en-
couraged by the highest sense of patriot
ism, contributed as it was by toilers on
the farm, and in the workshop, by men
IN the professions, by citizens of every
vocation, high and low, rich and poor,
and last, but not least, by the children
Of our schools, where early are taught
the lessons of sublime devotion to
country, supreme reverence for its
laws and its flag.
It may be appropriate to speak a brief
word on thiS occasion to you-whose
great misfortune it is not to have been
a child of Indiana. and which YOU doubt
less appreeiate-about the great State we
nan FROM, and in the achievements of
winch our hearts are filled with just and
parconable pride Indiana, in the central
part OF that vast domain we call our
common country, and today the centre of
populations is through soil and climate
and position in the high way of progress,
pest located for the highest physical and
intellectual development The pioneers
sturdy, manly race of farmers who
first pierced the dense umbrag geous forests
Of Indiana, Drawing the dangers of a new
and unknown country, and facing merci-
less foes, came with stout hearts and
strong arms. the advance guard in the
grand march of civilization to lay the
foundation of an empire and rear their
children in noble, self-reliant manhood
What pathetic sublimity in the record
OF their humble lives, and could we but
read in full the simple annals of the
earnest struggle, the daily sufferings and
sacrifice, what glory would encircle the
day..
Indiana entering the sisterhood of
States but eighty years ago, is small in
age as compared with many others hut
God has been so bountiful in His bless
Engs bestowed, her soil is so rich that she
has long been placed in the front rank of
agricultural and grain producing States
through the energy, the Industry and en-
terpTfse Of her sons. In other resources
how rich and wonderful-with the finest
quality of coal underlying over & f00
square miles of her territory: the llnex
relied building stone, evidenced in MANY
Fplendid buildings in this great rnetropo-
lis; the as yet unknown supply of gas and
oil underlying nearly one-haif her arsa
With great manufactures and thriving
cities springing up everywhere: with
beautiful lakes and rivers and over 00o
miles Of railroad and all these intell;
gently developed by wise, cultured. in
1ustrfous and progressive people-who
gould AndeYtake to paint the picture Of
fndiana's future2 With even step have
her people kept pace with this ulafer,aJ
Aeveloprnent in the wisdom and the In
manity CT her laws and government In
1o State ana among no people have been
aid the foundations of broader or more
generous SENSATIONAL system which mas
peen copied in a greater degree by every
etateEzf following Indiana into the Union Of
states. -
There Is. too, a broad humanity in the
sare Of the unfortunate and affIicted
md her. ample. and hospital institutions