The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-17
GLORY OF M'KINLEY'S POLICY
A LEPROUs PRESS THAT MAKES OUT
OUR SOLDIERS WEAKLINGS.
The Same That Called the President
u Traitor for Being Slow
to War.

tndt one man practically did all the speech
making did not in any respect detract from
the quality of the political entertainment
offered. Albert j. Beveridge was at his best
and literally carried the house by storm.
Time after time his auditors felt their emo
tons overpowering them as he alluded to
the valor of the soldiers in the present war
and the immense international possibilities
opening up before the Nation. Time after
time. when touching on the conduct of the
war and referring to the pessimists who
seek to throw discredit on the valor of the
troops and the loyalty of the administra-
tive officers of the government, the audience
would be swayed between tumultuous cheer
ing and the wiping of misty eyes. He spoke
of the sufferings of the American troops in
the Mexican and civil wars and compared
them to the discomforts of the soldiers in
the present war, and provoked thunderous
applause when he said. in speaking of the
men who criticise the Mckinley admins
tration for alleged incapacity: And these
are the pen who few months ago called
the Pres ent an apostate and traitor for
been the ratio of death in the immense
armies had he rushed into war when they
wanted him to-"
According to previous arrangements the
members of the Marion Club, to the number
of two hundred. assembled in front Of their
clubhouse on Meridian street and, armed
with torches and red lights, marched up to
the home of Mr.. Beveridge, where the ora
tor of the evening was placed in carriage
Immediately behind the band and surround
ed by fireworks of all descriptions Here
Col. Harry B. Smith joined the procession
and compelled to take his place among
the marshals in front Of the band. All along
the line of march cheers greeted the pro-
cession, which at times rendered the efforts
of the band futile.
Entering the hall Colonel Smith took the
lead and his appearance before the large
audience with the band playing STARS and
Stripes Forever behind him caused hur-
ricane of applause which literally shook the
building to it's foundations. Passing down
the full length of the hall the procession
marched upstairs to the gallery while a
committee escorted Mr.. Beverage to the
platform State Labor Commissioner Nc
Cormack presided and during temporary
cessation of shouts rose to introduce the
speaker At this moment, however, Gov
ernor and Mrs. Mount entered the hall and
this was the signal for renewed outbreak.
The Governor marched down the aisle smil-
ing in acknowledgment of the ovation
rendered him and took his seat among the
listeners on the floor. "a
MR. MCORMACK'S INTRODUCTION.
In introducing Mr.. Beyeridge Chairman
Mccormack said THE Republican party
confronts the issue of the present campaign
with no temerity. 1t has formulated ali the
principles which will be submitted to the
people at the coming election and will abide
by them. One peculiar feature of the Re-
publican party is that it has never yet
found it necessary to repudiate any of it's
old doctrines and principles. 1t has, how
ever, engrafted new ideas which have given
greater liberty and to a greater degree than
that experienced by men under any other
administration. 1t has its record behind 1t
and is not afraid to meet the issue with the
people. l take great pleasure in presenting
Mr.. Albert ]. Beveridge, who needs no intro
duction to an Indianapolis audience"
For fully two minutes Mr.. Beverage was
unable to speak because of the tremendous
applause which greeted him. He looked
first at the crowd on the stage and then at
the throng on the floor of the hall in help
lessness. until finally the tunult subsidized
and he began his address in a voice scarcely
above a whisper
MR.. BEVERIDGES SPEECH.
With his first gesture a complete silence
fell over the hall and with soft but clear
enunciation he began. his address, as fol-
lows:
Fellow-citizens-It is a noble land that
God has given us land that can feed and
clothe the world a land whose coast lines
would inclose half the countries of Europe:
Ian cot ika hoS 10 fxyO
imperial oceans of the globe; greater Eng
land with nober destiny. 1t is mighty
people that He has planted on this soil;
people sprung from the most masterful
blood of history; a people perpetually re-
vitalized by the virle workingfolk of all
the earth; people imperial by virtue of
their power, by right of their institutions,
by authority of their heaven-directed pur-
poses, the propagandists and not the msers
of liberty. 1t is glorious history our God
has bestowed upon His chosen people:
history whose keynote was struck by Lib
erty Bell; history heroic with faith in our
mission and our future; history OF states
men, who flung the boundaries of the Re-
public out into UNEMPLOYED lands and savage
wildernesses; history of soldiers, who car
ried the flag across blazing deserts and
through the ranks of hostile mountains,
tNSH " the SdleS Oh SUNSET, q llStOiy VI d
multiplying people. who oyerrun a continent
in half a century: history divinely logi-
cal, in the process of whose tremendous rea-
Soning we find ourselves to-day.
Therefore, in this campaign the question
Is larger than a party question. 1t Is an
American question. 1t is a world question.
Shall the American people continue their
resistless march toward the commercial SUI
premacy of the world? Shall free institu-
lions broaden their blessed reign as the
children of liberty wax in strength until the
empire of our principles is established over
the hearts of all mankind? Have we no
mission TO perform-no duty to discharge to
our fellowman? Has the Almighty Father
endowed us with gifts beyond our deserts,
and marked us as the people of His peculiar
favor, merely to rot in our own SeinSnneSS,
as men and nations must who take coward
deity-aS China has, as India has, as Egypt
has? Shall we be as the man who had one
talent and hid it, or as he who had ten tai
ents and used them until they grew to
riches? And shall we reap the reward that
waits on the discharge of our high duty as
cupy new markets for what our farmers
raise, new markets for what our factories
make, new markets for what our merchants
sell-aye, and please God, new markets for
what our ships shall carry2 Shall we avail
ourselves of new SourceS of supply OF what
we Go not raise or make. so that what are
luxuries to-day will be necessities to-mor-
row? Shall we conduct the mightiest COM
merce of history with the best money
known TO man, or shall we use the pauper
platform? Shall we be worthy of our mighty
past of progress, brushing aside, as We
have always done. the spider webs or tech
nicality. and march ever onward upon the
highway Of DEVELOPMENT. TO the doing OF real