The record-union., 1896-07-10

are great, but not too great to be used
as a means of assured success.
Let us not be misled by the fervid
predications of over-confidence, by the
contagious and stirring enthusiasm of
the passing hour. Remember. gentle
men, that the returns of the election
are not yet received; they will not begin
to arrive until many months hence. We
must overcome an enemy stronly for
ltressed against attack, reinforced by
influence, to-day unnamed, unknown,
flushed with the shout of recent tri-
umph. We may make an error which
shall cost us the whole stake, an er-
ror irretrievable. The opportunity for
success is here, but also that of de-
feat. Let every man so act that he
may not have to say hereafter, 'Ah, I
had not thought of that as has been
done more than once before. We may
court defeat and disaster as a lover
wooes his bride, by failing to put the
right man in the right place.
Let US, then, consult reason. Let
us calmly weigh probabilities and COM
pute the chances at such ratio as
shall include and cover all contingent
cies. Let us dispose of the aid of their
prestige of nomination where it will be
most highly appreciated where 1t Will
be most effective, where it is most
needed and where it must win.
"Our candidate had the good fortune
to be born in one of the old Kentucky
homes, as near to mansions to the skies
as any habitations on this planet. He
was educated and graduated at Center
| no, in itC q
of yore, from the doors of which came
McCreary, Vest, Blackburn, Stevenson
and others, men of national distinction
and renown. He belongs by birth and
lineage to the South. The South has no
worthier or more noble son. He mar
ried early in life the daughter OF one
we'll known in the history of our State
Governor and Senator Whitcomb. He
commenced life as a farmer in Wabash.
Prosperity, we'll pleased 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 fur
row. he has stepped off the lands );
he is not only a hearer but a doer of the
word
" He that by the plow would thrive
Himself must either hold or drive
"Our candidate belongs to the largest,
the most ancient and honorable busi-
ness association of the world Much is
now said about the business and busi-
ness interests of this country. The
business of country is that vocation in
which the larger number of its inhab-
itants are engaged. Agriculture in the
United States employs a greater num-
Der of workmen than any other calling,
hardly less than that of all others COM
bined We ask the delegates of this
convention deliberately to consider
whether it may we'll be worth the while
to make a choice of one who is in the
closest natural alliance with this most
| numerous and most influential body of
our fellow citizens, one who has been
all his life member of this grand con-
fraternity of the field and farm.
1T is fifty-five years since farmer
appeared at the east front of the Capt.
tol to take the oath as President upon
| inauguration day The inaugura tion
and service of Indiana's choice would
| be a reminder of the earlier, the ideal
days of this Republic, when. as tradi-
| Monticello, travelled on horsebacE to the
seat of Government without ceremony
took the constitutional obligation and
| was inducted 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, earn
est and most diligent laborer in the
| n q
of a member of the General Assembly
| to which he had been chosen by his
| friends and neighbors in and near the
county of his residence. In 1S90 he was
elected Secretary of State of the State
of Indiana. After a very exciting anc
laborious 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 administration
executive skill and genius and unwear-
led and conscientious discharge Of duty
| in such manner as to have challenged
alike the admiration and approval OF
men of all parties in our commonwealth
I'm this friend Of ours for whom-no'
| for his sake, but for our own, we so
licit your favor and support, you vii
find the best attainments of the scholar
q most intimate acQuaintanceship WITT
and statesman fifty joined together, anc
| the wants and interests of the many
upon whose suffrages the success OF
these must depend. The person whose
name we shall present here has never
| been beaten in a popular election IN MS
own State Our State, the State which
by every sort of account and emphasis
| is pushed at this juncture to the front
where the men in the gap OF this srea1
controversy abide; this State Whicf
danger haunts, which doubt has knowr
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 tt
this great national council He comes
as a member and inmate of the family
to his house and home wherein he has
gained the right of domicile by life
| long fealty to the cause of American
| Democracy.
Upon the issue of the tariff, of Fed
| eral election laws, of the liberty OF the
citizens of the disposition of the public
domain to actual settlers only. in op-
position to all subsidies to private cor
pCrations, in favor of the rights anc
| privileges of organized labor, and OF
still further legislation toward thai
beneficent end. our candidate has stooc
with us and for us through many years
of heated quarrel and debate, and upor
that question now so conspicuous his
opinions have long been known anc
have often both in his own State ano
elsewhere been the subject of the plos1
public and most explicit declaration.
"Our candidate believes in the i'm