The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-25

ton of Major Mckinley you have gained
an executive 10 your satisfaction and will
have an administration 70 your liking. 1t
was victory for sound money against the
forces of state sovereignty and OF anarchy.
victory for the executive authority and
for our Supreme Court The grand result
Of the campaign has set In motion Dusi-
ness confidence. public and private enter
prises, besides all the Deaming eooc-felioW-
ship and loving kindness among our Wnoie
people"
against putting too much commence IN tne
terings in New York, he said. against Nc
kinley.
many amusing incidents of the tour OF the
generals throughout the South and West.
I'VE corrected the mistakes of some OF the
men of the Nation at Appomattox and this
year the people have corrected the mis-
takes by another Appomattox.
CORPORAL TANNERS SPEECH.
Corporal Tanner was the next spe aker.
He said. in part;
I'VE rejoice tonight in an assured vic
tory. SO far as operations have extended,
issues being Joined and results possible TO
achieve reached. But gentlemen, IL we are
WISE we will reflect and try and determine
Just what we have secured. / think sum
1t up tersely. but comprehensively, when l
designate Ii present security and four
years TO work in For myself. / am frank
to say the victory was not decisive enough
TO suit me. Patriotism. common honesty,
of the Republic as laid by the fathers as
the cement of national honor did not show
up as many supporters on election day as
they ought. Once again the injunction thun-
ders i'm our ears-eternal vigilance Is the
price of liberty There must be no vaca-
tion i'm the campaign of education; and
when Mark Hanna announces that opera
tions on that line are to continue unin-
terruptedly he gives still further evidence
of the possession Of those attributes al
ready as fully exempif1ed by him which
stamp him as the very lieutenant general
of modern political operations.
1.-The most cursory examination of the
returns of the late elections show that
hand i'm hand with the greatest ratio of
iliteracy went the greatest ratio of Bryan
support. Looking upon the possibility of his
election as having involved very serious
peril to the Republic. 1t seems to me that
that fact should bring us many degrees
nearer the point when the fundamental
law of the land shall declare that the in
dvidual who cannot read ballot shall not
have the power to cast one. When that
time comes. gentlemen the point will be
feet will be potent factors with American
sovereigns in presidential campaign.
the air for all the honest sons of toll who
seek full employment, good wages and
payment therein in money. good the world
munerative helpful investment; gladness
for those who hold dear the name of the
Nation the world over and. last mentioned,
DuI SuDIctile dDoNe an SiduicsS III thooc
who hold all else as dross compared TO the
| perpetuity of a republic wherein there is
| no room for the 'sectionalism" of Till
| man or the anarchistic ideas of an Altgeld.
| a republic which is. and ever will be. the
| brightest hope. the very ark of the cove
| nant of the liberty-loving. down-trodden
! and oppressed of all the earth"
| Colonel Hopkins. of Detroit. Mich, who
| acted. he said, in the capacity of adjutant
| general to the commander of the generals
| expedition, made a speech in the nature OF
| n report of the trip. and said that over
| eight thousand miles were Travelled, and
| through thirteen States.
Hon. George A. Marden closed the
speech-nalIing by q characteristic address
| i'm which he said he was proud of the gen
| erals whom he accompanied on the tour
| through the West.