The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-10

D4A III anu " llic SOulli. iAS
south has no worthier or more noble
son. He married early in life the daugh-
ter of one we'll known in the history
! of our state, Governor and Senator
Whitcomb. He
COMMENCED LIFE AS A FARMER
in one of the most fertile sections of
the valley of the Wabash. Prosperity,
well planned 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 a farmer. He has
walked for years in the furrow; he has
stepped off the lands" he is not only
a nearer but a doer of the word, noted
in the old adage
He that by the plough would thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive"
Our candidate belongs to the largest,
the most ancient and honorable bust
ness association of the world. Much is
now said about the business. and bust
ness interests of this country. The bust
ress of a country is that vocation in
which the larger number OF its inhab-
itants are engaged. Agriculture in the
United States employs
( GREATER NUMBER OF WORKMEN
than any other calling, hardly less
than of all others combined. We ask
the delegates of this convention de-
liberately to consider whether it may
not be we'll worth the while 10 make
choice of one who is in the closest
natural alliance with this most nu
merous and most influential body of
CUR fellow-citiZens, one who has been
all his life member of this grand
confraternity of the field and farm.
;- -, f1,- vow.
! appeared at the east front of the cap
ital to take the oath as president upon
inauguration day; the Inauguration
and services of Indiana's choice would
be a reminder of the earlier, the ideal
days of this republic, when, as tradi-
ton relates, Jefferson left his farm at
Monticello, Travelled on horseback to
! the seat of government, without cere-
mony, took the constitutional obliga
| tons and was indicted into office.
/ Our candidate is, and has been, from
his youth up to this hour after the
straightest 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 mem
Der 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 In
diana, after very exciting and labor
ious canvass; in 1892 he was chosen
governor of Indiana, the office he now
holds, and in which he has shown
those rare qualities of wise admins
tration, executive skill and genius, and
unwearied and conscientious discharge
| of duty in such a manner as to have
challenged alike the admiration and
approval of men of all parties in our
commonwealth.
in this friend of ours, for whom, not
for his asking, but for our own, we So
licit your favor and support, you will
find the best attainments of the scholar
and statesman fifty Joined together,
( and a most intimate acquaintance with
| the wants and interests of the many
| upon whose suffrages the success of
these our labors must depend.
The person whose name we shall
present has
NEVER BEEN BEATEN
in a popular election in his own state.
Our state, the state which, by every
sort of accent and emphasis, is pushed
at this juncture to the front where the
men in the gap of this great contro-
versy abide, this state to which dan
ger haunts, which doubt has known
and marked, this state we offer while
we ask the man.
/ He whose name we shall announce for
/ your consideration comes not as a
/ guest or sojourner to this great ma
! tional council. He comes as a mem
| Der and inmate of the family to his
| house and home, wherein he has gain
ed the right of domicile by lifelong
| fealty to the cause of American Dem
! ocracy
Upon the issue of the tariff. of Fed
! e~91 election laws of the liberty of the
citizen, of the disposition of the pub
lie domain to actual settlers only, in
favor, OF the rights and privileges of
organized labor and of still further
| legislation toward that beneficent end,
! our candidate has stood with US; and
| for US, through
MANY YEARS OF HEATED QUAR-
| 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
| declaration.
Our candidate believes in the inlme-
J diate restoration OF silver to the full
! franchise of the mint, that the stand
! ard silver dollars should be coined at
the standard ratio of Is to l, as was
formerly by law established, and when
so coined that it shall be a legal ten
der for all debts.
He is not in favor of awaiting the ac-
ton of European nations upon this
subject and perceives no reason for
! deferring or postponing our legisla-
ton for the reconciliation of silver
to suit the convenience, assent or
agreement of other governments.
Ardently sympathizing with the re-
public of Cuba, he is strongly attached
to the doctrine of Monroe.
AN AMERICAN IN EVERY FIBRE,
he would resist foreign aggression in
any form. He heartily denounces as
un-American the Republican platform
adopted not long since at St. Louis,
which would maintain and continue in
this country that alien rule Of foreign
policy, the English single standard of
, gold, and which proposes at this time to
reduce the government and the people
of the United States financially to their
ancient condition as a colonial pos
( session of the British crown. He thinks
that the freedom and independence of
the mint and coinage of the United
I States are as necessary to our national
prosperity as any other of our liberties:
these rights once ours, now lost from
whatever causes, must and shall be
regained
Thus the state, the man, the cause
are merged at last into one. The one
request, the single entreaty, the mo-
mentous ultimate appeal, an appeal to
your wisdom, to your serious judg-
ment, to your discreet discernment.
And l now, therefore, In pursuance
of the instructions of the united Dem
| ocracy of our state expressed in con-