The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03

man Fellows INDUCED in a little pleasantly
with regard to that other Louisianan,
Marston, who, at the Chicago convention,
acquired a national reputation through his
copious libations while he was on the plat
form. Mr.. Farrar addressed the meeting
as follows:
FARRAR'S ADDRESS.
Mr.. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen
I believe there is a delegation here from the
South of sufficient size and character to
show that the Populistic anaconda that
swallowed the Chicago convention has not
poured its slime or fastened it's fangs on
everybody in our part of the United States.
We claim to represent tens of thousands of
Democrats who will not surrender the faith
of their fathers, who will not fall down and
worship false gods, although set up with
all the gorgeous pomp of authority and all
the trumpet blowing and cymbai claShing
of officialism. We regard the contest into
which the American people have plunged
as one not merely of the administration of
governmental affairs for four years, but as
one which puts to every voter the solemn
question: Do you wish this Republic to
stand and to continue to stand on the cor.
nerstones of Justice. of public order and OF
private right, or Go you wish to overthrow
our social fabric, to organize injustice, to
glorify reputation, to paralyZe the power
of the courts, to invade the domain of con-
tract between man and man, and to estab-
lish a State socialism at war with the
princip Is Of FREE government and abhorreht
TO the conscience OF 1ree men!
1.-The Popocrats virtually declare that in
the federal government lies the power and
the duty of issuing legaI-tender money,
they attack the financial organization of
the Nation, they propose to prohibit all
men from making exchanges of their prod
ucts or their labor freely and according to
the essential principles of ownership and
contract. They make three separate as
saults on the integrity and authority of the
federal judiciary.
who Matched this brood of infernalism
and dubbed it Democracy? Who will stand
sponsor for this lame, swart, crooked
founding that claIIIs; to be the legitimate
offspring of Democratic thought and Dem
ocratic Sentiment?
Mr. Farrar then entered into an eXhauS-
tive consideration of the financial question,
declaring strongly against the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, and continued:
The men who can believe and act upon
such an absurdity this belong to the
passionately declared that one Southerner
could whip fifteen Yankees. If they should
be mistaken a second time the resulting
calamity would be worse than that of the
civil war The leaders who are bearing
the banner inscribed with all these strange
devices have assembled under its folds
motley hOrd as that which Genghis Kahn
yards and wheat fields of the then western
world l do not say that they are all So
cialistS, and crankS, and regulators, and
enemies of public order, but l do say that
the Socialists, cranks regulators and enc
mics of public order are fighting on that
side of the field One glance, fellow-citi-
zenS, at that fell array and there sounds a
loves his country to draw his sword and
smite. and smite, and smite once again I'M
til those black legionS are scattered to the
four winds of heaven.