The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-26


from being compelled to carry the visitors
up and down in an elevator led TO change
of plans. and the Msennerchor Society very
generously rendered the use OF its club
rooms A more suitable place for holding
the reception could not have been desired.
LITTLE IMPROMPTU TALKS.
At about IL o'clock in the evening the
visitors felt inclined to have little speech
making. Mr.. Kinney raped the table
for order and for an hour and a half the
delegates were called upon for impromptu
remarks. Mr.. Dill, of New York. was the
first to speak. He made very felicitous
talk, in which he took occasion to highly
praise the address of welcome made by
Governor Mount at the conference. Gov
ernor Shaw, of Iowa, was next called upon
and made & clever little speech about there
being other people present who came hoping
for an opportunity to speak, and as he ap-
preciated what anguish an undelivered
speech entailed and Furthermore, as he had
already said quite enough for one day, he
gracefully made his bow and the delegates
called for General Simon Bolivar Buckner,
OF Kentucky. The stalwart form of the
gray-haired veteran made its way to the
front amid great applause. He told OF
former visit in this city an involuntary visit
that occurred during the war, when he spent
some time in the prison on the third floor
OF the postoftice. He compared that occa-
sion to this in a very happy manner. Speak
! ing of currency reform he said as long as
he had the ability to take part he would
be found ready and willing to do all in his
power to further the cause.
When the delegates called for Augustus
r. Wilson, of Louisville, they were awarded
with a true specimen of Kentucky elo-
quence. He took the entire audience off it's
feet and stirred up great enthusiasm. He
began by saying, in the words of a famous
statesman, he believed that condition and
not theory confronted the gentlemen as
sembled. He had reference to those who
had dined heartily at the board. He said
My condition is to be described in a little
poem that is current among the children
of Louisville about a horse. 1t is as fol-
lows:
MY horse was sick as he could be,
| use the liniment mighty free,
Says he to me, What's the use of doing
that;
1t is down in my stomach where the misery
IS at.
Continuing, Mr. Wilson said: 'It is a
| great privilege to us all to meet each other
| here in Indianapolis and great pleasure
| to know that every good man who has par
| ticipated in a movement that from begin
ming to end has been as uneslfish as this
movement is better for being part of it,
| From the highest to the lowest there has
| been no case where we have seen man
trying to make capital out of the move
ment. / have in my mind a man whom
| everybody in Indianapolis loves; who has
been the inspiration and soul of this move
mentioned his name who has always been
first in every part of this great work, and
whose ability, integrity and devotion must
AT this point the delegates set up one
unanimous cry of Hanna, HANNAH Mr.
Wilson, proceeding said: "A movement
earnestness which this movement has de-
veloped. is bound to succeed, and we can go
forward with more wisdom and more faith
that our cause will triumph and that the
people will record in the journals of Con-
gress the judgment which they rendered in
1896"
Mr. Williamson, of Illinois upon being
called for said that the object of a meet
ing like the present conference was to Sc
cannot be accomplished it will not have
been held in vain. He said that the CON
fuence and that the business men compos-
ing it must go forward with the fight TAX
ing with them the great body of American
people. He made Il special plea for 1nSti-
tuting literary propaganda.
MR. OVERSTREET'S OVATION.
Representative Overstreet was the next
speaker and was greeted with quite ova-
ton. He said he was not one of these in
dviduals who feel that it is always advisa
BILE to let sleeping dog lie, and that he
believed in pressing the bill to vote in the
House, leaving the responsibility of the de-
feat to the Senate, if defeat should come.
He termed the monetary reform movement
grand movement to build up the integrity
of American money, and said that it must
succeed He also eliminated that the Key
stone State had moved from Pennsylvania
to Indiana.
H. H. Hanna had not up to this time been
in the hall, but Mr.. Overstreet was fin
ishing his speech, some of the delegates
noticed him enter. Immediately there We're
hurrahs for Hanna, and there was nothing
for the chairman of the executive commit.
tee to do but to go through the ordeal OF
making a little speech. He spoke very
briefly saying: I'VE certainly have reason
to felicitate ourselves because of the pres
ent status of our work, and the recognition
it is receiving in Washington. Of course,
there are many difficulties in our path.
some of which are serious enough, but we
are gaining ground steadily. | congratulate
you most heartily on the progress you have
made [ do not intend to make speech,
but will say that am glad to see you and
thank you for the assistance and courtes1es
you have extended the executive commit
tee
John l.. Griffiths next stepped to the
speakers place and showed the Kentuckians
that there are a few orators in Indiana, as
well as south of the Ohio river. He said
there had been time when If a man reg
istered from Indiana in any of the hotels
of the East he was shown to a back room
on the top floor, but that time has passed.
Mr.. Grifiths then .extolled the record of
the State made by her soldiers IN the war,
and by her literary genluses Riley ana
Wallace of the present. He ended his eu-
logy of the State of Indiana by saying that
he was proud of the fact that the initiative
of the movement for sound money was
taken in Indianapolis.
Mr. Kennel, who was a Republican can
| didate for Governor in Arkansas last year.
(! followed Mr. Grifhths Taking up the
| theme about Indiana he described the sur
| prise which was his when he first saw the
| beautiful valleys of Hooppole township, Po-
| sey county The same unjust odium, he
| said has attached to Arkansas as once at
| tached to Indiana. He then praised the APP
| pearance of his State and the quality of her
| citizens and as evidence of her adj
vancement said that in the campaign of
last year the voters for sound money had
increased from 200 to $50 per cent. over the
! previous election.
Among others who spoke at the recep-
| ton were George H. Russell, of Detroit,
and Mr.. Thayer, of Ohio. 1t was midnight
| when the delegates returned to their no.
| tells in a very pleased frame of mind at the
| enjoyment that had been theirs.