The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-23

the people of the United States. There IS
not one intelligent man in the United
States Of America who can read and write
who does not know and who did not know
when Mckinley was elected that the road
to prosperity was a road of sorrow, road
OF perseverance, of industry and or wisdom.
not to be suddenly Travelled. The curse OF
the Democratic administration has been SO
implanted on us that time Will be required
to extricate us. The brutal blow of Democ-
racy fell so heavily that the reaction must
come by scientific processes. by wise states
manship in the enactment of laws and by
faithful perseverance in execution by faith
and patience and dependence upon the
truth of our position and the recttnde or
our purposes.
ut could be imagined as possible that
| there might be dissatisfaction with Repub-s
lican inaction or nonaction or action, put
it can scarcely be imagined that the intel
ligetat people of the country will for one
monlent even consider the proposition to
seek relief by returning to the power OF
the Democratic party. What assurance
have the people of the country of better
times or better action by the Democratic
party If now put In power than they re-
ceived at the hands of the Democratic party
| when it was in power That party has gone
off into condition of hopeless demoraliza-
ton in the direction of cheap money and
unsound currency, and TO-DAY II is snegotlat-
ing with the advocates of other false doc
trines known to American politics to form
fusions and combines, and its divisions on
the questions of pl ction leave 1t without
one principle upon which It can unite
but prosperity is coming. The prices of
commodities produced in the United States
to the lowest item of manufactured prod
ucts higher in the markets of the world
to-day than when the Democratic party
went out of power by the blow that was
dealt to it in November last. Grant that
return to prosperity is slow. It is coming
and everybody knows 1T IS. and that is why
the Democratic calamity bowler stands on
the street corners and breaches that Mr
Mckinley's prosperity is not coming. f,Ir;3 IL Is
accelerated when a Republican Congress
over the protest of a Democratic minority
and the howl of the mugwump. and the
! utterances of the mugwump press, snail
! have passed a tariff bill, under the pledge
of the St Louis convention A monetary
| commission has been appointed with view
| to negotiations looking TO securing an an
| ternational agreement II possible, to settle
| this question of the coinage of the world.
THE American people sympathize with
| the struggling masses of down-trodden peo-
| pie in Cuba, and no man of the Republican
| party more deeply and sincerely sympa-
! thizes with them than does the President OF
| the United States but he owes a duty to
the laws and Constttutior OF the country,
| and our treaties with foreign nations are
| d part of the law. and so the President,
emitting no opportunity that could be just
| ly reached and Justly acted on, will not fail
! to respond to the cry of the suffering Gu
| bans, but ne will not PLUNGE this country
into war until the means of peace and di-
| pfomacy have all failed to Vlndlcate the
| honor of the nation.
| "Our friends far and wide are complain
| ing of the infamous prostitution of the
| ciVil-service law to the base ends of spoils-
| men and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of partisan
| purposes, and criticism of the present ad-
| ministration is heard in the land. While
| the orders of Grover Cleveland, by which
| forty thousand offices were seized on and
| appropriated under the specious false cry
| and unrepealed by congress, the President
! of the United States must obey the law
and enforce its orders. That the carrier
| friends of the civi-service law are dis
| gusted with it is evident on every hand:
| Our Democratic friends are to hold
| convention in Ohio shortly and they will
| 11rn i'm qllGQiAnPa the doctrine
| of the free and unlimited coinage of silver,
| taking their stand firmly on the foundation
citation and degradation of the coin
age of the country. The people, OF
this country are opposed to anarchy. They
are opposed to the reign of the commune.
! They believe in law and order. Let the
Democratic party, in its calamity bowling
! convention dare to enforce the Chicago
| heresy of anarchy, and resistance of law,
! and the people of Ohio will win q victory
that will forever place Ohio in the front
| rank of law-abiding States.
| 1.-The issues then on which the contest is
| to be fought are to be the issues OF the
| platform formed at st. Louis. Under 1t we
| followed our magnIncent leader to mag
| nificent victory. Under it we are achieving
| the results which he promised. BY it we
| will stand or fall BY it we will win victory
| or honorable defeat Under its terms we
| will challenge the world and under its
| terms will we march to victory in Novem-
| Der"
When the congressional districts were
contests in the Fourth and Eighth districts,
so that the state committeeman from those
| districts could not be named till after the
| report on credentials was adopted.
| Following is the new state central commit
| tee: First district Vivian J. Fagan; Second,
Peter Darr; Third, John e. Feighth; Fifth.
| N. E. Matthews Sixth, Charles Fisher;
| Seventh Harry M. Daughtey Ninth, Frank
| Thompson; Tenth. II. S. Willard; Eleventh,
| Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor; Twelfth. c.
Huling; Thirteenth, Thomas =. Dewey;
| Fourteenth, w. w. Skyles; Fifteenth. w.
| M Miller; Sixteenth, Leroy G. Sedgwick;
| Seventeenth NJ. L. Smyser; Eighteenth W.
| G. Weirick; Nineteenth, Frank M. ,Reltzel;
| Twentieth, DIR. r. S. Hubbard; Twehty-
Following is the committee sos on seeoda Tesoq-
| Fourth, D. c. Gaskell; Fifth G. u. Marble;
Sixth, Hon G w Brown Brown Seventh w .:
Ninth, J. NJ. Ashley; Tenth. Hon. |; ].
Fenton; Eleventh, Gen. j: P. Entrikin;
| Carey: Fourteenth w. S. Kerr; Fifteenth.
| Hon c. c. Van Voorhis; SxteeAth, j. j.
Gil; Seventeenth; Capt w G; Lyons;
Hon. S. A. Northway; Twentieth. James
r. Garfield; Twenty-frst II. p. Coulder
| The committee met tonight and the
conferences between the Hanna and Dick
| and the Bushnell and Kurtz men con-
| tinued The Governor received a telegram
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| afford to continue the fight for KurtZ and
| against Senator Hanna after the result of
| the district meetings. The Governor had
| previously announced that he would abide
| by the action of both the convention and
| of the state central committee, and Chair
| man Kurtz had conceded his defeat Cen
| eral Grosvenor was made a member of the
| state committee from Chairman Kurtz's old
| home district. Mr.. KurtZ is now resident
/ of the Columbus district, which car
| ried by Dick, as was the Springfield dis
| trict in which Governor Bushnell resides
The committee credentials heard ar
| guments tonight on the contests. but ad-
| was decided to make the temporary organi-
! zation, with General Grosvenor as presiding
| officer, permanent.
The committee on resolutions organized
! with Colonel j. G. Entriken as chairman.
! There was a hot discussion on a resolution
! to adopt civil service in state, county and
| city affairs A resolution by ex-Congress~
man Watson indorsing the principle of civil
service and condemning Cleveland's par
| tisan application of it was adopted by
| vote of IA to Z. Resolutions were submitted
! for a national board of labor arbitration
| for the recognition of the Cubans as bellig-
| erents, for good roads, for biennial ses-
! sons of the Legislature, for the ample pro-
/ lection of wool and various other purposes
| The financial and tariff questions will be
! covered in the reaffirmation of the st. Louis
| platform. After discussing the grist of
! resolutions a subcommittee consisting of B.
! w. Taylor, s. A. Northway II. c. Van
| Voorhees,, Harvey -. Goueder and Scott
| Bonham was appointed to draft the plat
| form and present the same to the full COM
| mittee at a. m, tomorrow.
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