The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15


IDEA that the government should own all
all the express companies. They are the
people who have been advocating the IDEA
tnat all banks should be wiped out ana
that in place of the money of to-day there
should be nothing but fat money-money
founded on nothing. redeemable IN noth-
people who have been advocating the idea
that all taxes should be co.lected from
the land owners; that the government
should establish warehouses at every cross
road where the people might deposit their
potatoes and cabbage and get a govern
wbn u toah on ohe yonstitIitiop and
establish in place of it the theories ad-
vanced in Bellamy's Looking Backward. :
They have advocated the initiative ana
referendum. the tailendum and all other
endums that cranks have thought of
The very absurdity of some of their
ideas render them harmless. but there are
some that are not harmless. You CAN
not have failed to notice in all the books.
of the Populists the idea that the south
and West must array themselves against
the East The Populist candidate for Pres
ident spoke of the East as the enemy OF
the country What do you think of that!
Is Bunker Hill monument to be hereafter
looked upon as thing which simply apply
Is not Lexington 20 be remembered as a
spot t., for which we are all proud dr ana ana
low-citiZenS, this sort of talk If persisted
in. will hatch another secession.
cratic leaders advocate is that this is
campaign of the poor against the rich of
agapst fbe elass apa The OF pop 5n nand
date has not been bold enough to say it
in so many words, but by snea king nluu-
endo he has said that any man who mas
dollar is the natural enemy of the man
who does not have a dollar. This is free
and unlimited Bryanism on a parity with
communism at a ratio of six of one to half
a dozen OF the other Under every system
of finance some men have more money
than others. 1t is not what is in his pock-
ct. however but what is in his heart that
makes the man good or bad.
LABOR AND CAPITAL FRIENDS.
Labor and capital are friends. They
are dependent upon each other. 1t takes
a combination of capital and labor and
brains and energy to make the wheels CT
industry turn We stimulate capital to
open wide the factory doors and give en-
ployment to labor, and we have made the
people prosperous. Cities and communities
pay large bonuses to get capital to locate
its manufactures N tnei- midst in cider
that the people of the city or community
may get the labor and therefore the profit
of their labor. And yet these people are
anxious to array this capital against this
labor, this labor man against this capital.
make them enemies, that other hum
dreds of men will go out to join the grea,
throng already walking the street-men
who are anxious to get work, but who
cannot find it.
There is no such thing in this country as
a division of the people into masses and
classes. There are no royal titles here, no
law of entail by which property can be
man may be rich to-day and poor to-mor-
row, poor to-day and rich tomorrow. The
country is ours, the government is ours,
people of the United States Thank God
there is no royal road to wealth or fame
is open to the humblest citizen and that
seventy millions of people stand ready to
that bd the been race bodv far that the
federal courts are to be stripped of their
power to protect life and property Even
packed and the great questions which come
before it are to be decided according to the
the old question of States rights had died
out years ago, but / see it wriggles about
on the Chicago platform as venomous as
ever.
Il appeal to those of you who may be
wavering to come away from this man
who represents all that Altgeld represents
that stands for the Institutions of your
fathers and all that is dear to you. Do not
be deluded by men on the street corners or
by men who take the stump. Do not cut
open the goose that lays the golden egg
dollar. on the one side you have a party
which espouses the cause of law and order
and on the other side party which OPP
the Repubie a Platform and for William
Mckinley not because he is a Republican,
but as Fred Douglas once said in Sam
party is the deck; all else is sea-
Lincoln once said of the people,, They
wabble sometimes, but they generally wab-
BILE right 1 think they will wabble right
this time. We may see the old camptires of
high above all we will see the flag, of the
Union. To that all steps will be directed
and we will utterly overcome the bowling
mob which now confronts us.
ttHere in Indiana our distinguished ally
will not find himself in the enetays coun-
try, but he will be in the thickest of the
gether will draw inspiration from
the history of the battlefield where, Oh
liver p. Morton and Benjamin Harrison have
gone before and blazed the way. Senator
Thurston needs no Introduction here. but
it gives me great pleasure to present him to
this magnificent audience here tonight.
SENATOR THURSTON'S OVATION.
Senator Thurston was received with
round after round of applause the blowing
of horns, and finally with a selection from
the band which was necessary to restore
order When he finally began to speak it
was amidst perfect silence, for his every
word was eagerly listened for by the thou
sands present There were frequent cheer
ings, and at such times the crowd fairly
shouted itself hoarse, but 1t was only dur
ing such times that there was anything
like a sound. Senator Thurston began by
of doors recently and that his voice was
as rough and ragged as the Chicago plat
form, but he assured his hearers that, like
a Republican campaign, 1t would get bet
ter as it proceeded. He then made a
somewhat humorous comparison of the two
candidates for President, the making a
steeplechaSe over the country to catch
votes and the other remaining quietly in
his Canton home.
TIE speaker lnen referred to the recent
elections in Vermont and Maine Il was
down in Vermont, my native State, and
made a few speeches. before the election
he said, land when / heard from the
election there | said: Thank God I was in
Vermont And tonight when l heard from
Maine [ said Thank God | was in Maine.
too 1t used to be said that it went hell
bent for Governor Kent when the MAORI
ty was $4,000, but now it has gone by about
81, 000''
Senator Thurstons voice was not audi
cheering that was started lasted fully a
minute and when it had concluded the
speaker said that the election in Maine
was not the voice Of a State like Arkan-
sas, where majorities were made by evil
plotters by the scratch of the pen, but by
the consciences of free men speaking their
sentiments. He predicted that the action
of Vermont and Maine but the be-
ginning of the end. why" he exclaimed
Bryan has boosted about the States ne
will carry. He won't carry Nebraska He
won't even carry his own county; not even
his own ward"
The speaker paid nice tribute to General
Harrison. saying he glad to be here
in the city of the last great Republican
President of the United Safes" He said
that of Harrison it would be written in