The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-10

! own? How and when shall you help
/ US to send you the message IN NoVerl-
! the time is now, to write that message
/ You can write that message today
ready for transmission. if your favor
| shall make the man of our choice the
nominee of this convention
Survey the field. examine its various
| positions, throw the search light OF IN
! spection upon the status of the dimer-
4 ent candidates., you Will md that IN
/ diana is the strategic point ana pivot
of this conflict. The prestige, the pow
I er, the honor of this nomination are
| great, but too great to be used as
means of assured success.
Let US not be misled by the ferV1d
! predictions 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 be-
gin to arrive until many months hence.
We must overcome an enemy strongly
fOrtressed against attack, reinforced
by influence, today unnamed, unknown,
( flushed with the shont OF recent trl-
umph.
we may make an error which shall
cost US the whole stake, an error ire
is here, but also that of defeat. Let
every man SO act that he may not have
to say hereafter, ALL 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 falling to
put the right man in the right place.
Let us then consult reason.
Let US calmly weigh pro-
liabilities, and compute the
chances at such a ratio as shall include
and cover all contingencies. Let US
dispose of the aid of this prestige of
nomination where it will be most high
ly appreciated, where it will be most
effective, where it is most needed and
where it must win.
Our candidate had the good fortune
to be born in the state of Kentucky,
was reared to manhood in one of the
old kentucky homes as near to man
siOns in the skies as any habitation on
| this planet. He was educated and
graduated at Center college, Danville,
in it's palmiest days of yore, from
whose doors 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 married early in life the daughter
of one we'll known in the history of our
state. Governor and Senator WhitcOm.
He commenced life as farmer in one
of the most fertile sections of the valley
of the Wabash. Prosperity well placed
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 seer of the
WOL0S 44OLGQ III the O1Q aQaBes
He that by the plow 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
business interests of this country. The
business of a country is that vocation
in which the larger number of it's in
habitants are engaged Agriculture in
the United States employs a greater
number of wOrkTnen than any other
calling, hardly less than that of all
others combined. We ask the dele
gates of this convention deliberately
to consider whether it may not be
well worth the while to make a choice
of one who is the closest natural alli-
ance with TINS most numerous and most
lnIuentlai body OF our fellow citizens.
One who has been all his life a mem
Der of this grand cOnfraternity of the
field and farm.
It is So years since a farmer aDDeared
at the east front of the capitol to take
the oath as president upon Inaugural
ton day. The Inauguration and serv-
ice OF indiana choice would be a re-
minder of the earlier the ideal days of
this republic, when, as tradition re-
lates, jefferson left his farm at Mon
ticelIO, Travelled on horseback to the
seat OF government without ceremony,
took the constitutional obligation 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,
Democrat. An intelligent, able, ear
nest and most diligent laborer in the
causeRis first public service was that
of 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 1890 he was
elected secretary of state Of the state
of Indiana. After a very exciting and
laborious canvass in 1892, he was chOs-
en- governor of Indiana, the office he
now holds and in which ne has shown
those rare qualities of wise admins
tratiOn, executive skill and genius
and unWearied and conscientious dis
charge of duty in such 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 sake, but for our own, we sOlic-
1t your favor and support YOU will
find the best attachments of the schol-
ar and statesman fifty joined together,
and most intimate acquaintance with
the wants and interests of the many
upon whose SURFACES the success Of
these, our labOrs, must depend.
The person whose name we shall IRE
sent has never been beaten i'll a pOpG-
lar election in his own state Our state
the state which by every sort of ac-
cent and emphasis is pushed, at tins
juncture, to the front, where the men
in the gap of this great controversy
abide, this state which danger 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 member
and inmate of the family to his house
and home wherein he has gained the
right of domicile by lifelong fealty to
the cause of American Democracy.
Upon the issue of the tariff, of fed
eral election laws, of the liberty of the