The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-16
MASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN.
Speeches by WOIcOtt, HOar and Lodge
at n Republican Ratification.

BOSTON, Oct 15.-The Republican cam
paign in this State was formally opened to-
night with a grand ratification meeting in
Music Hall, at which Governor Wolcott
and the two Massachusetts senator's, Hoar
and Lodge, spoke to a gathering of party
supporters that completely filled the hall
Governor Wolcott was introduced amid
wild enthusiasm. He said, in part There
are certain phrases in the nomenclature of
politics that 1 would gladly see pass into
early and final disuses. One of these is the
phrase An off year There is no such
thing as an off year in the politics of the
American Republic. This year the election
will be as important as every election is in
the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The Republicans of this Commonwealth
should grid up their loins to meet a united
opposition. The orderly, just progressive
control of the affairs of this Common
wealth. for which we are indebted to the
Republican party, is before the eyes of all
its citizens. Pass fair judgment upon it.
gentlemen, and answer the question wheth-
er or not the people of this Commonwealth
wish to entrust it's complicated affairs to
new and untried hands, or whether, on the
whole, they are satisfied with the orderly
conduct of the affairs by the Republican
party"
Senator Hoar paid high tribute to Gov
ernor Wolcott's first administration of state
affairs and, in commencing his political af-
filiations said: He did not have to change
his coat to show it's silver lining; did not
have to denounce the courts of his country,
which are the protection and guardians of
everything that we hold dear in prosperity
or in the home, and summon to tear them
down an audience which had to be kept
from tearing each other to pieces. They
tell you that although prosperity may have
come it did not come SO quick as we pre-
dicted last year. Well, a Democratic ma
tional administration is a disease that 1T
takes longer to recover from than thought
it would. They tell you that there is a
judge in West Virginia and another in Ill-
nois who have issued some injunctions
which they think ought not to have been
issued. Well, l cannot understand what
practical bearing it has on the state cleo
ton in Massachusetts this year. / think we
can trust the Supreme Court OF MasSa-
Senator Lodge said: "The last candidate
of the Democratic party for the presidency
said that if Mckinley was elected wheat
would go down to 20 cents a bushel. Wheat
instead of running down to % bushel has
been running upwards steadily to the dol
lar mark. (Applause) l do not propose to
claim that the advance Is owing simply
to Republican legislation, yet should have
claim. The Republican party in the short
time it has been in has passed a tariff bill:
There is no question but that the duty of
the Republican party was to pass that bill
and they passed it, and it is in the main,
almost throughout an excellent BILL 1t has
removed one great cause of uncertainty
from business. 1t has done more
than that 1t has enabled certain indus
tries, Frustrated under the tariff reform, to
rise up again. Under these conditions bust
ness has taken heart Last year we faced
the greatest danger, not merely to good
business, but to the efficient conduct of
government, that we have ever faced at an
election in our history. All the patriotic
conservative elements of the community
rallied under the standard of the Repub
lcan party. We won on that line 1t Is
just as important this year as it was last
year"