The herald., 1896-07-10
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When Indiana was called, Senator Tur-
pie made his way to the stage and plac-
ed in nomination the choice of the Hoos-
Ter state Gov. Claude Matthews.
SENATOR TURP1E'S SPEECH
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Conventions The choice of candidate
for the presidency by the national Dem
ocratic convention. of one who lei to be
the chief magistrate of this country for
the next official term, becomes so easily
the subject of glowing zeal and fancy
that the act Of selection is prone to be
obscured by the glamour of the theme.
Yet we ought to realize that the result
is plain question of arithmetic, de-
pending upon simple count Of numbers,
and that for many other reasons our
action herein should be determined only
by the most rigid scrutiny and by the
most careful calculation.
w ask, then, as practical men, where
should this nomination be placed? In
diana has long been known as the arena
of the most severe and closely fought
political contests. 1t is a member of
the great Democratic phalanx of the
&sOi Ill lHCiQQlHS NEW OIk, NEW Jersey
and Connecticut. but strangely isolated
it has stood alone.
In a state so nearly balanced that for
years there has not been, in a presiden-
tial election, majority, either way, of
10000 in total of four or five hundred
thousand, the conditions require that
our Democracy stand always in battle,
whether waiting victory or defeat, al
ways prepared.
We submit to the delegations from
the great states of Tennessee, of Geor-
gia. of Mississippi and others more cer-
tainly situated as to their political life
and progress. what would you give,
what would you not give to name this
state as certain as your own? How
and when shall you help us to send you
the message In November next of VIC
tory? This is the place, the time is now,
to write that message You can write
that message today, ready for trans
mission, If your favor shall make the
man of our choice the nominee of this
convention.
The search light of inspection will
show that Indiana is the strategic point
We may court defeat as a lover wooes
his bride, by failure to put the right man
for the right place.
Let us dispose of the aid of this pres
tige of nomination where it will be most
highly appreciated where it will be
most effective, where it is most needed
and where it must win.
Our candidate had the good fortune
to be born in the state of Kentucky.
was reared to manhood in one of the old
Kentucky homes, as near to mansions
in the skies as any habitations on the
planet. He, was educated and gradu-
ated at Center college, Danville, in its
palmiest days of yore, from whose doors
came McCreary. Vest, Blackburn, Stew
enson and others. men of national dis
junction and renown. He belongs, by
birth and lineage to the South. The
South has no worthier or nobler son.
He married early in life the daughter
Of one we'll known in the history of our
state, Governor and Senator Whitcomb.
He commenced life as farmer in one
of the most fertile sections of the valley
of the Wabash. Prosperity, we'll pleas
ed and justly earned, has waited upon
his, footsteps Protection he needed not,
save that of his pure heart and stalwart
arm. He is now, and always has been,
farmer.
We ask the delegates of this convent
ton deliberately to consider whether it
may not be well worth the while to make
choice of one who is in the closest
natural alliance with this most numer-
Gus and most influential body of our
fellow citizens, one who has been all his
life member of this grand confrater-
nifty of the field and farm.
1t is fifty-five years since a farmer
appeared at the East front of the Capi-
tol to take the oath as president upon an
Inauguration day.
Our candidate is, and has been from
his youth up to this hour, after the
straitest sect of our political school.
a Democrat, an intelligent, able, earnest
and most diligent laborer in the cause.
His first public service was that of a
member of the general assembly. to
which he had been chosen by his friends
and neighbors in and near the county of
his residence.
In 1890 he was elected secretary of
state of the state Of Indiana. After a
very exciting and laborious canvass in
1892, he was chosen governor Of Indiana,
the Office he now holds.
Upon the issue of the tariff, of federal
election laws, of the liberty of the citi-
zens, of the disposition of the public do.
main to actual settlers only, in oppo-
sition to all subsidies to private corpo-
rations. in favor of the rights and privi-
legesN of organized labor and of still fur
ther legislation toward that beneficent
end, our candidate has stood with us
and for us through many years of heat
ed quarrel and debate, and upon that
question now so conspicuous, his opinions
have long been known and have often
both in his own state and elsewhere
been the subject of the most public and
explicit declarations.
Our candidate believes in the immed-
late restoration of silver to the full
franchise of the mint that the standard
silver dollar should be coined, without
at the same ratio of 16 to 1,
as was formerly by law established
and when so coined that it shall be
legal tender for all debts.
He is not in favor Of awaiting the ac-
tom of European nations upon this sub
ject, and perceives no reason for de-
ferring or postponing the remonetiza-
ton Of silver to suit the convenience, as
sent or agreement Of other govern
ments.