The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
MIR. HANLY's SPEECH.
Party Must Give the Country Strong
Financial System.

Mr.. J. Frank Hanly was called out ano
introduced by the chair. Said he:
''Not the state committee alone, but the
Republican party in general is to be con-
graduated upon this magnificent assenblage
of representative Republicans, called for no
express purpose, brought here only by their
courage and devotion to the principles of
the party to which they belong Our friends
the enemy have been consoling themselves
with the thought ever since last November
that after each great political victory there
must needs come reaction. am not at
all sure gentlemen, that the reaction fore
Swallowed by this assemblage is the one they
are looking for. l am not so sure but what
it foreshadows a reaction that will be very
dangerous to them next November. Such
an assemblage, the spirit of enthusiasm that
pervades this meeting, is the logical Sc
quence of the great conflict of last year.
The stand taken by the Republican party
in the late campaign for protective tariff,
for the supremacy and enforcement Of the
law, for a sound currency, the honor and
integrity of the Republic, touched the heart
of the people, aroused their patriotism ard
their love of country to degree unknown
since the days of the civil war. The atti-
tude of the party in that campaign was
worthy its brightest and best past. Through
a storm that convulsed the Nation, broke
up political organizations, disrupted party
ties and affiliations and obliterated to a
great extent the line that hitherto had d.
vided our people, the Republican party
stood unmoved, sublime in her integrity and
invincibility of purpose. Such stand and
such position at such q time was an IN
answerable appeal to every thoughtful and
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by the votes of nearly seven millions of our
people. But you will pardon me If l suggest
nest, that they were not moved by the hope
of spoils or place, but were actuated by the
highest and most ennobling principle that
pervades the human heart-the preservation
of free institutions. After the election, after
the victory, the people We're quick to de-
mand of the new administration the per-
Mr. Chairman, to the honor and glory of
the President of the United States and of
both houses of Congress, that an answer
was made to that demand with such dis
patch, with such promptness, with such
energy OF purpose as to command the adj
miration of friend and foe alike.
Within four months a tariff measure had
been formulated and enacted into law the
beneficial effects of which are already APP
parent on every hand. And in no State, in
no place are those effects, my friends. more
marked than in our own State. We do not
have to go beyond the confines of Indiana
to measure the great good that has already
come from that legislation Furnace fires
that were dark for years have been lighted
again. Dead industries have been revivitied.
Labor to-day is finding remunerative wage
and permanent employment. Every avenue
of trade feels the revivifying influence of a
constantly increasing volume of business.
To the commercial world has come conf
dence. TO the hearts of the people hope
has come again. But gentlemen, while we
may congratulate ourselves upon these
splendid results, we must not be unmindful
of the fact that our work is only half COM
pleted, our pledges are only half fulfilled. and
that the people by whose votes We won the
late election will not be- and of a right ought
not 10 be, satisfied with anything else than
complete performance on our part. That
will not have been accomplished until we
shall have given TO the country financial
system strong. safe, conservative enough
TO Withstand the attacks of those who would
depreciate the currency and impair the in