The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01
They VIII Receive Not Less than i'll
Electoral Votes, and May Secure
Nearly Sixty More.
JONES ADMITS WEAKNESS
BRYAN's MANAGER NOW SAYS ILL,
NOIs IS DOUBTFUL,
But Has the "GaII- to Claim Indiana
Reviews of the Situation in
the Leading States.

CHICAGO, Oct. 30-M. A. Hanna, chair
man of the Republican national committee,
has issued the following address to the
patriotic citizens of the Republic:
THE earnest support which the loyal citi-
ZenS of the United States, irrespective of
former political affiliations, have rendered
sound money in the campaign about to end,
justilies an expression from those who have
been called upon to conduct it.
mo campaign since the war OF the re-
bellion has presented such great response
bilitieS to those entitled TO the elective fran
chise. The dangerous principles enunciated
by the Chicago platform, which proposes
not only a debasement of the currency, but
the destruction of the highest judicial au-
tbority of the land, have justified good citi-
zens, irrespective of past party preferences,
in uniting TO rcbuke those who would thus
endanger the very foundation of our ma
tional organization.
Abandoning their time-honored prin-
cipes of strict construction of the Con-
stitution, the supporters Of that platform
propose a system which endangers the very
life of the Constitution and OF the Nation
itself. The proper enforcement Of law, rec
ognition of the highest tribunal of the
land, the maintenance of high and I'M
varying standard of our medium of eX-
change. the payment of obligations, public
and private III currency equal to that
contemplated when they were made, are all
repudfated and denounced, both by that
platform and the candidate placed upon It,
Their appeals TO prejudice, to selfishness
and to passion, the efforts to array the
employe against his employer and the ia
borer against that which furnishes him the
desired labor, have led good citizens, with
OUT respect to party lines. and thought
or their employment, to array themselves
against the methods which would endanger
government and property rights. and the
employment which they guarantee.
1t is gratifying to know that the two
classes of citizens to whom these appeals
have have been most strongly directed-the
and towns-have resented the imputations
which have been placed upon them by the
assumption that they desire to deal falsely
with those with whom they have business
relations or with the people OF the Nation
me proposition that the farmer may re-
pudiate portion Of his obligations by the
winch he agreed to pay has been as in
dlgnantly rejected as has that which as
sumed that the workingman held principles
which he was ashamed to avow and which
are dangerous to the peace Of the Nation
. Inc developments of the closing week of
the campaign leave no doubt that the judg-
nent OIL an overwhelming majority of the
people of the Nation is against the plat
form and candidate of reputation and
national dishonor. 1t now remains for the
voters TO register at the polls their answer
10 the attempts to excite passion, prejudice
and selhshness for the benefit of few who
are wiling to destroy national honor and
endanger national existence for their per
sonal ambitions and individual profit Good
cltlzenS In every section and Of every
p par tha nave united in publicly express
DUTY now is to do so in such manner
as Will forever put an end to further at
tempts in this line. There is but one way
or doing this, and that is at the polls
While each man has his especial field i'm the
preliminary work of the campaign. the du-
ty of election day is common to ali.
NO man, however much he has done in
influencing Others can neglect his personal
duty at the polls. and no citizen. however
humble or devoted to employment or bust
ness, should fail to exercise his privilege
and duty on election day. 1t not merely
the duty Of every good citizen to express
his will at the polls on all occasions that
duty was never more serious or important
than now. Sound arguments and express
Slons or loyalty count for nothing unless
those who offer them or are convinced by
them exercise that universal privilege Of
participating in the actual direction Of the
government by voting on election day
liens will join hands on Tuesday in MAIN
tanning the honor of the Nation by register
ing their ballots In favor of that candidate
who has been honored by the support of
loyal men Of all parties-William Mckin-
ley. The issue is between two men and
two platforms. the one representing ma
uonal honor, good government sound mon
ey and sound principles, the other standing
for doctrines dangerous to the peace and
prosperity Of the Nation, and promising
only a system which must debase the cur
rency, destroy business and end employ
ment. 1t is. as has been recently said by
Major Mckinley himself, "a time when the
voice of the partisan is hushed in the cho-
rus of patriotism, which sounds from one
loyal citizen take this thought to the polls
with him on election day. and the country
will be saved from the danger which con-
fronts it. and saved by that same loyal
devotion which obliterated party lines in
defense of the Nation on an occasion Of
equal but not greater peril.