The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-15


Lodge is now in the Senate, hun
dred years after his great-grandfather
left it, the two mems terms beginning and
ending century of senatorial life. Mr.
Lodge is a rich man. He has large in
herited fortune and can hence afford 10
follow politics as a profession
Governor j. b. Foraker. of Ohio. will pre-
sent McKinley's name to the convention
Foraker will be fifty years old next month
He is straight, broad shouldered and well
built He has grown little stouter of late
years than when he was Governor of Ohio.
but he is still one of the handsomest men
in public life. His face is a strong one.
His forehead is high. his nose straight and
his determined mouth is half covered with
an iron gray mustache. He is ringing
speaker, and in 1854 and 1sss he made what
were considered TO be among the finest
speeches of the two conventions. The last
time he presented the name of Sherman
Now he is to present the name OF Nc
Kinley. Foraker is fighter. He is man
of wonderful personal magnetism, and he
has strong following in Ohio His rela-
tions with Mckinley at times have been
rather strained, the two representing OPP
posite factions in the Republican party,
and the wisdom Of choosing Foraker 10 pre-
sent McKinley's name has, by certain small
men. been questioned. Such men. however,
do not understand. Forakers caliber. He is
q big enough man to rise above such petty
considerations, and he will do all that he
can to present Mckinley in the best light.
had chat with Mr. Foraker in the ST.
Nicholas Hotel this afternoon. and asked
him as to how the audience of a national
convention differed from an ordinary one.
He replied: AZ don't know that there is
much difference. You know. speeches are
largely made by the occasion and the sur
roundings. and there is no place more In
spring than that of a national convention.
You have fifteen thousand of the best peo-
pie in the United States before you. They
are strung up to the highest pitch OF in
tcllectual excitement. and, in addition. you
know that the tens of millions of Repub-
licans and Democrats outside are waiting
to hear what you have to say. The tele-
graph wires in the convention hall carry
your speech almost soon as ii is uttered
into every home in the United States. and
the surroundings such that they ought
to bring out all that there Is in man or
a speaker. Speeches, however, depend very
much on a mans mood at the time. A
very little thing may knock one out. If a
man is not thoroughly In sympathy with
the occasion. If a cog gets wrong in his
machinery. either physical intellectual.
he may not be able to do his best"
Governor" said /. sit is supposed by
some that this is your condition to-day.
| You are said to be not in accord with Nc
Kinley, and not in sympathy with the
| movement to make him President"
''That is not true" replied Governor
| Foraker. 1T is true that we have had fac
tional differences in Ohio; you will find
such differences existing in nearly all OF
the States. They are for the good of the
party. but all Republicans. and we
believe that Major Mckinley is the natural
| and logical candidate for President at this
| time. Mckinley knows that I am of that
| opinion. AS to this speech. did not ask
| the honor / tried, in fact, to get out OF
being delegate to this convention. but as
am here / am going to do all can. and
/ will present his name just as well as 1
can.'
How do you make a speech of this kind.
Governor? Have you written out the one
you will deliver?"
| NO" replied Governor Foraker, 'I have
not You can't give cut-and-dried speech
| TO a convention like this. You have to
speak on the inspiration of the moment
The surroundings make the speech"
| But, Governor, are you not afraid to do
this?"
NO" replied Governor Foraker "Un-
| derstand me; do not mean to say that I
| have not prepared for the speech. l only
mean that have not dictated or written
it out. have however. given IL no such
| thought as some people think. Two weeks
| ago was I'm New York and the papers
| were then speaking about the work had
| put on this speech. At that time had hard
| ly begun to think seriously about ii. II was
| ten days ago that commenced my work on
| 1T. i am, you know, a very busy man. and
you know / live on Walnut Hills In Gin
| cinnati, about two miles from my office.
| and / drive out and in every day. Ny
chief work on the speech has been done
while have been going to and from my
Office"
Please tell me how you begin work OF
| this kind?" I asked.
II have, of course, first to think what Is
| to be in the speech. When a good though,
occurs to me jot it down on a slip OF pa
per. and / keep this up till have gone
over the points I wish to cover. Then
comes the logical connection of the points
and have a general idea OF just what
| WdHt 10 ssty. Inc matter becomes tnOr-
oughly fixed in my mind and 1 am ready to
| go before my audience
How about sentences? Do you not com.
pletely frame some that you wish to use ?'
mot entirely" replied the Governor 81
| think of certain phrases and combinations
of words. These. however. have no fixed
place in the speech. They may be put IN
| or dropped out, according to the moment
| AS said. the occasion makes the speech. "
"But, Governor. it is said you have nc
heart in the work"
THAT is not true. believe In holdinp
the State together. and have done that as
far as could in the past. / tried to hold
4 Ohio for Sherman in the convention o,
1854. when Mckinley and the blind orato,
West broke away from Blaine. and held
the State together for Sherman I'm 1885,
know i was accused of treachery at the
time, but the accusation was unjust. and
think that Sherman now knows that dc
| all could for him. i know that had not
worked as did he would not have had q
show at that convention"
What is it. Governor. that makes Ohio
the presidential baby farm of the Union
You raise candidates for the presidenc,
over there fast as other States raise
weeds"
That comes largely from the Constitu.
ton of the State" replied Governor Fora
ker. "Ohio is made up from the union o.
the best els ments OF the country The
Western Reserve population at the north