The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-10
IT WILL OPEN SEPT. 10
GEN. HARRISON WILL PARTICIPATE
IN REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.
Meeting of state Executive Committee
-sixty-Day Poll Now Under
Way Over the State.

The executive committee of the state CEN
trail committee had a meeting yesterday att
ernoon at which matters relative TO the
coming campaign were discussed. The cam
paign will be opened formally about Sept.
10 and will be participated in by General
Harrison Senator Fairbanks and Governor
Mount. The members of the committee pres
ent reported an encouraging state of affairs.
The sixty-day polls are now being taken
and the local committees are displaying
much energy in this work, which will be
completed by Sept. /. The returns that
reach the state tcommittee are very encour-
aging. There is no prediction as to what
the polls will disclose and none will be at
| tempted until the work of taking them is
completed, but it will leave nothing to wish
for if present conditions continue through
out.
II congratulate the Republicans through
out the State most heartily" said Chairman
Hernly yesterday afternoon, ION their re-
cent magnificent ard harmonious state con-
vention. The favorable report which comes
from every quarter Of the State over the re
suits, the ticket, the platform and the key
note speech by Senator Fairbanks, is very
surprising.
The Republicans are taking hold of poll
tics now and are not so wholly absorbed in
the war as they were month or two ago,
and l believe as the campaign progresses
the Republicans will warm up to their po-
litical obligations and that those twin
brothers-Generals Apathy and Overconfi-
dence-will find no camping ground in the
Republican party in Indiana this year.
The recent Republican victory in Oregon
Is very significant of the general trend of
the coming elections throughout the coun-
try, as that was certainly a great victory
for sound money and an honest dollar, and
is decisive against that favorite doctrine
of the Democrats the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of is to l. That
election means an unqualified Endorsement
of the ST. Louis platform and the glorious
administration of President Mckinley and
surely the people of Indiana will not let
an opportunity go by to be even more en-
phatic in their approval of the present con-
ditions of the country than were the people
of Oregon.
I'VE now have an opportunity for the
first time in thirty-five years to compare
Democratic administration with a Re-
publican administration, and a comparison
of the deeds and acts of the Republi San
administration-for. a year and a half that
certainly inure largely to the benefit of our
party
Two years ago our mills, factories COM
mercial and agricultural interests were
Frustrated and dead; to-day they are resur-
rected, and there is a general revival OF
all of our great interests and the promised
reward of prosperity is on every hand.
Il am very proud of the position taken
by the Republican party in it's utterances
on the money question in the platform
adopted at Its convention. l believe that
every Hoosier will congratulate himself
upon the fact that Indiana no longer fol-
lows in the wake of other States for politi-
cal doctrine, but that our proud old State
has the well-e armed distinction of being bold
and aggressive on all questions that are now
engrossing the minds of the people of the
whole country. The full understanding the
people have that in the hands of the Re-
publican party they can trust the honor. in
tegrity and best interests of this great State
and Nation aroused Republicans to such a
lively interest in the convention, and l pre-
dict now, since the ticket has beer named
there will be perfect harmony and good
feeling throughout the party and that ev-
cry Republican will be ready to take off his
coat and do all in his power to help win
grand and glorious victory. Our campaign
will be formally opened about Sept. 10, after
which time we will make the most aggres-
sive fight ever waged for the success of
our cause"