The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-14
CAMPAIGNS AND CAMPAIGNERs.
Breezy Minnesota Editor Makes Time
Iy Remarks.

beue budget.
The whole country is being ripped up
issues, though slightly shifted, are the
same as in 1896 The Republican party in
on the gold standard, while the silver
forces are generally eschewing silver and
taking up the management of the war with
local and personal issues. This is but the
every field of thought and as the present is
an era of new political alignments 1t will
require a few campaigns for the parties to
adopt permanent policies and assume their
old-time definite shape. During this period
of readUstment there should be kindly
spirit of liberation, and if, as seems to
u.s. the whole American people have in some
measure changed their minds under the
conditions which have unbidden come upon
us, that is their inalienabe privilege and
not a crime.
So the campaigner, no matter what party
he represents, should be considerate and not
frighten the butter-fat all out of our milk
with narrowing tales and lurid pictures or
whittier we are drifting. We have heard
all that before, but the country is still here.
and the flag still challenges the admiration
of a Nation free.
There are evils on earth. 1t is true. for
kingdom come is not yet at hand, but on
the whole the world j. better brighter, hap
pier than before. and it is nothing less than
cruelty to animals for calamity campaign
ers to throw the pail Of pessimism over
smiling land.
If you are a campaigner and you feel
very, very bad, and think the sun is too
screening not Dy Gay ana the moon lOO
awfully full by night, don't vent your
gall-blasted nature innocent pub
lie, but HE yourself to a refrigerator and
there preserve your equilibrium or go to
Hot Springs and have it cooked out so 1t
will never trouble you again. Otherwise
your hearers will remember the maniac.
Political parties are not immutable, nor
is aught else in this wide world and there
fore do not waste any time proving that this
or that person or party is not just where
they used to be. If there were no changes
new platforms would not be needed. but no
party is willing to remain year after year
on its old one And you would probably
asked the suffrage of the people on a back
number platform. Did you ever think OF
that?
George Washington was at first willing
to make concessions to England, but
through the logic Of events he broke with
patriot until the end of the scrap. And so
in the history of great people there come
eraS in which men and parties shift their
positions as an army does its base In cam
paign, to meet new danger or cover some
point of attack.
ing with a swift. light-armored cruiser, but
that was no argument against monitors and
battle ships. He merely adapted himself to
the conditions when the bat flew out of
the bottle. lis ever thus in every walk OF
life. The Democrats have swallowed much
the Republicans have adopted the golden
rod as their badge, certain change on the
part Of both, but who will deny that the
country is the gamer by the shift? New
thought and new conditions have reunited
North and South. the whole world has been
brought into closer touch, and the bless
ings of God are showered on the children
Of M