The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-21
BLISS, TRACY, BLACK
THREE PROMINENT REPUBLICANS
TALK AT 4 POLITICAL RALLY.
Secretary of the Interior Indirectly
Strong and Seth Low.


Governor Frank Black addressed an audi
ence of 1850 persons at a Republican meet
ing held tonight in the Lenox Lyceum here.
Secretary Bliss, in the course of his re-
marks, said:
There are two candidates in this town
standing on the Chicago platform-one
squarely, the other not saying much about
it, but standing there just the same.
There has been criticism about men
coming from Washington and Ohio and
Nebraska and other places to speak to the
people of New York I thought 1 had a
right as citizen of this town to come. 1
have seen Senators Thurston and Foraker
come here before and some of our friends
who now critcise them for coming were
then glad to see them. They did not come
to tell you what to do, but to find what you
are going to do The State of Kansas is
raising money for Georges campaign.
fund to elect George is being contributed
by Kansas people.
II can say that hear from all over the
country what is New York going to do.
They ask Are the people of New York go
ing back on what they did last year? That
is the question. There is but one thing for
the great Republican party in this State
to do. 1t is to get behind General B. f.
Tracy, elect him mayor of this great city
and guarantee for four years honest govern
ment in every way and concurrence with
the country in honest money and the kill
ing of anarchism and everything that goes
with the Chicago platform"
When General Tracy rose to speak he met
with an ovation, but it was rot as lasting rs
the one he got when he entered with Mr..
Piss. General Tracy, in his speech, dwelt
largely on Brooklyn politics and made an
argument against the Citizens Union
GOVERNOR BLACKS SPEECH.
Gov. Frank c. Black, of New York, was
the next speaker. He said in part:
''This is not the time for honest men to
keep their faces from the light. We are
just but emerging from a period SO critical
that its full significance will not be seen for
many years. We have only passed the point
where disaster seemed almost certain; We
are slowly gaining, but are still within
reach of that disaster if through indiffer-
ence or design we invite it to return. If this
year we relax single effort or do but little
where we might do more we are no wiser
than he who. stricken with fever. yields
himself to folly and impruGence at the first
sign of returning health.
Less than year ago the whole country
was engaged in political contest, almost
the gravest in its history Men were then
aroused as only war had ever aroused them
before. The menace uttered at Chicago in
July had before November driven thousands
from the associations of a lifetime and had
forced them to form alliances to meet
the peril then impending. They had heard
all their lives of issues in political cam
paigns, but those of last year were not ques-
tons of policies or Of men, as they had been
mainly heretofore, but issues that involved
the permanence of government the safety
of society, and when these things are
reached and lost, the true friends of the
Republic may we'll be fearful for its future.
The heresies that were loud and defiant last
year have not been converted or Subdued
They are active, hopeful and determined,
and assertions from their ranks are few.
Those who are now falling down or retiring
from the fight or interpreting visions Of
their own come mainly from the ranks of
those who then fought for order and the
supremacy of law. 1t is a strange element
those who pursue an evil object while the
friends of just cause will soon grow weak
and scatter.
and cities of this country The same army
that threatened us last fall is again abroad,
under the same commanders, in the same
in smaller groups Every victory they win
now in separate companies every element
of strength you permit them to acquire in
detachments will be used against you in
every contest hereafter when their forces
are massed again in one complete and, per-
change, victorious army, The issues now
are the issues of last year There has been
no attempt to change them, and they are
not even disguised by phraseology. In every
spot where. the fight is on It is waged on
the lines of st. Louis and Chicago. Social
ism, anarchy junk money and every wild
eyed hybrid that stared through the Chi
cage platform of year ago will gather
in knots next month around the polling
places of this Republic
He who pretends that anarchy is dan
pudaton dishonest p only in national cleo
lions, and is willing at other times to keep
them company, is himself q dangerous citi-
zen and unworthy of his privileges. You
cannot divorce a city from the state,
state from the country, any more than you
can divorce a citizen from his community.
who does. not realize this fundamental
truth self-evident and so necessary to our
preservation and our growth does not UNI
derstand the basis of the government in
which we live.
"And yet in these times we are told that
political contests should be fought upon
nonpolitical lines. / utterly repudiate that
declaration. | believe in the principles of
the Republican party not for a day or
year, not with intermittent and varying
fidelity but for all time as the best eX
preston of a political creed, and as the
safest guide to those who. enjoying the
marvellous rights to citizenship, would pre-
pare themselves to meet its grave demands.
/ believe in craftsmanship always, for when
devoted to noble purposes i attains the
plane of patriotism i Should never fall
part or through the false persuasion of
those who would overcome us when they
have lulled us TO sleep
Henry George meeting in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music tonight called forth an
WulCn ullcu lile OiS bullulilS 10
OVERLOOKING. The principal attraction was
the appearance in Brooklyn of Henry George
for the first time during the campaign. Mr.
George was received with tremendous cheer
ing, at the conclusion of which he began
an address that was interrupted repeatedly
by prolonged applause. He made his GUS
tomary appeal to the true Democracy in
the name of Thomas Jefferson. A second
meeting was held in the C1ermont-avenue
Rink, Brooklyn, where an immense audience
was addressed by Mr.. George and ex-Con-
gresham Tom l.. johnson, of Ohio.
Seth Low addressed a large meeting in
Flushing tonight.
The executive committee of the Manhattan
Democracy, so-called Stecxler Democracy,
unanimously Endorsed the Citizens Union
ticket tonight and issued an address to the
people giving the reason for so doing. The
Steckler Democracy polled 10000 votes and is
composed principally of Germans.
The breach in the Henry George ranks
caused by the refusal of the United Democ-
racy to indorse the Citizens Union and Of
the Jeffersonian Democracy ticket, and later
Henry Georges refusal to allow his name to
appear at the head of the United Democracy
ticket, was healed tonight in conference
between the United Democracy and the
Henry George campaign committee. Mr..
George will receive the full support of the
United Democracy.
HARRISON FOR TAMMANY.