The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-04


unconquerable valor.
We honor. congratulate and applaud our
Countrys heroes who have once more
proved the matchless intelligence. devotion
and courage of American manhood. They
have proved to the world that the United
without sections and without classes, whose
purpose is Ito deal justly, love mercy and
walk humbly before Cod
We felicitate the country on the fact,
when in the exigencies of war it became
necessary to issue $4,000 900 of government
bonds to meet the extraordinary expendi-
lures, Republican administration had the
good sense and wisdom to put the loan
within the easy reach of the people. where
It has been wholly absorbed; furnish
ings, awakening new interest in the per-
manency of our government and the sound
ness of its financial system.
Mckinley.
We most cordially approve the administra-
ton OF President Mckinley. He has met the
unusually grave and difficult questions
which have arisen since his incumbency of
the presidential office in a manner so wise
and patriotic as to challenge the admira-
ton ito t Of al al parties at home, and and
We especially commend his conser-
vative and patriotic course in earnestly
hoping and negotiating for peace while yet
prudently preparing for war. And we
further express our most earnest approval
of his vigorous prosecution of the war, and
our entire confidence in his ability to secure
such terms of peace, now happily near at
hand, as will advance human liberty and
comport with the dignity and honor of the
Finance.
The Republicans of Indiana are unre-
servedly for sound money, and are therefore
opposed to the heresy to which the Dem
limited coinage of both gold and silver at
the ratio of 16 to /, which we regard as alb
solutely sure to debase our money and de-
stroy our private and public credit, and
cause general business disaster. We recog-
nize the necessity of comprehensive and en-
that the declaration in the ST. Louis ma
tional Republican platform for the mainte-
nance OF the gold standard and the parity
the vitality Of public law and the money
of the American people should be made
like, all its institutions, the best in the
world.
We especially commend the President and
Congress for the prompt passage of a wise
| revenue law in accordance with the sound
Republican doctrine of reciprocity and pro-
lection to American industries and home
labor, and express our unbounded confidence
in the beneficial results predicted for this
measure by our party leaders. evidences of
which are daily accommodating in the way of
| renewed business prosperity and ample rev.
enue for ordinary governmental eXpendi-
lures. We, therefore, reaffirm our belief in
the doctrine of reciprocity and protection to
American labor and home industries, and
condemn the Democratic doctrine of tariff
for revenue only as unsound and unsuited
to the best interests of the coun-
f hsz been d0otns WnGss b fSsty WHICH
perience under the Wilson revenue bill that
plunged. the Nation into commercial and
covering since the change from that Demo-
cratic policy.
Pensions.
We hold in undying honor the soldiers and
sailors whose valor saved the life of the
Nation. and those who were but recently
called to arms in vindication of their coun-
try's honor and the cause of human liberty.
Just and liberal pensions to all deserving
soldiers are sacred debt of the Nation,
and the widows and orphans of those who
are dead are entitled to the care of gen.
erous and grateful people.
Hawaii and Nicaraguan Canal.
Having achieved its manhood, the Repub-
lie, under God, is entering upon its greatest
period of power happiness and responsible
n.y. ing dne mighty future He OF wea d
us, we favor the extension of American
trade. the reformation of our consular sys-
tenn accordingly the encouragement by all
legitimate means of the American merchant
marine, the cation of a navy as powerful
as our commerce shall be extensive and for
the public defense and security, and the
establishment of coaling stations and naval
rendezvous wherever necessary.
We most heartily approve of the annexa-
ton of the Hawaiian islands as a wise
measure. We recommend the early cOnStruc-
ton of the Ncaraguan canal under the i'm
mediate direction and exclusive control of
lance and necessity of the canal having been
emphasized by recent events connected with
the present war with Spain.
We favor the enactment and enforcement
If laws restricting and preventing the i'm
migration Of such undesirable foreign popu-
lation as is prejudicial to free American
labor.
we indorse the record of Senator Fair
banks, who has by his wise and patriotic
counsel and courageous ability aided the
President and served his country with
marked distinction and great honor to our
State.
We commend and congratulate the Repub-
lican congressional delegation upon the high
standard of ability manifested by them and
the conspicuous station they have taken in
national legislation.
State Matters.
We commend the administration of Gov.
Mount and the Republican state officials
under which, with reduction of % per
centum in the state tax rate within the
last eighteen months, $920,O00 of the state
debt has been discharged; an army of over
seven thousand men has been equipped and
placed in the field at an expense of over
5000, 900; the laws have been enforced and
the name of Indiana honored throughout
In 1857 for the first time since 1883, ow-
ing to the vicious system of enacting ap
portionment laws, whereby the minority
publican party found itself in condition to
legislate for the State, and the laws that
it wisely enacted and the other measures
which 1t still more wisely refused to pass,
constitute an epoch in legislation that is an
enduring monument to the faithfuness and
intelligence of the party which the Fifty
ninth and Sixtieth General Assemblies rep
resented Among the many wise and just
measures of legislation that stand upon the
fbe sDor BOOKS those the two result Geneo
Assemblies, are the acts creating a labor
commission; providing means for the set
Element of disputes between employers and
employees by arbitration: abolishing the
prison contract system; taking convict labor
out of competition with free labor; provid-
ing for factory inspection and the protection
of the lives and health of operatives and
prohibiting the employment of child labor;
providing safeguards in the auditing of pub
lie expenditures; complying with the conSti
tutional mandate that the penal code should
be founded on principles of reformation and
not of vindictiVe justice; providing for the
protection of the people against incompe-
tent and inefficient professional men; max
ing permanent in county and extending to
State officials the provision that officers
shall be paid according to their services,
and not constitute a burden upon
the people by reason of excessive fees and
salaries the taking of the benevolent in
situations out of the purview of partisan
wards of the State are assured competent
and humane treatment; and. above all. the
enactment of an honest fair and conStitu~
tional apportionment law. These acts en-
phasize and illustrate the intelligence
and integrity of the Fifty-ninth
congratulate the Republican party and the
people of the State upon their action.
Believing that there is need of reform
in county and township government, and
that vast saving of the public money can
be made by better methods, we favor early
and thorough revision of the laws upon this
subject to the end that the people of In
diana may have the best and most economi-