The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-13
President and Cabinet Are Following
Avoiding EntangIing Alliances.
DEMOCRATS In DISTRESS
CAN FIND NO WEAK SPOT IN REPUB-
LICAN INTRENCHMENTs.
Our Commerce Increasing, Prosperity
IL Everywhere and No True Amer
lean II Opposing the War.

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COLUMBUS. O.. Sept. 12-Chairman Dick,
of the Republican state executive commit
tee, yesterday received long letter from
Hon. John Hay. secretary of state. express
ing regret at his inability to accept an In
vitation to attend the Republican campaign
opening, and. incidentally touching on the
issues of the Ohio campaign. The letter,
which is dated Newbury, N H.. Sept. H.
says:
Dear Mr. Dick-I am sorry that my en-
gagements are such as to render it impos-
sible for me to accept your kind invitation
TO be present at the opening of the Ohio
Republican campaign at Warren on Sept. 70.
I regret this the more as the occasion prom
ises to be one OF unusual interest. A stirring
campaign, and. doubt not, great victory
awaits you.
Our opponents this year are in an un-
fortunate position. They have lost, for all
practical purposes, their political stock In
trade OF recent years. Their money hobby
has collapsed under them. Their orators
still shout 16-to-1 from time to time. from
the force OF habit. but they are like wisdom
crying in the streets. in one respect at least,
because No man regardeth them With
our vaults full of gold; with sufficiency
of money TO meet the demands of volume
of business unprecedentedly vast and profit
able: with labor generally employed at fair
wages; with our commerce overspreading
the world: with every dollar the government
issues as good any other dollar; with
our finances as firm as rock and our credit
the best ever known, it is no time for
financial mountebanks to cry their nostrums
in the market place, with any chance OF
being heard
'It Is equally hopeless to try to resusci-
tate the corpse of free trade. The Dingley
tariff. the legitimate successor of the Nc
Kinley bill-that name Of good augury-has
justified itself by it's work. 1t is not only
true that our domestic trade has reached
proportions never before attained, but the
American policy OF protection-the policy Of
all our most illustrious statesmen, of WASH
ington and Hamilton. Lincoln. Grant and
McKinley-has been triumphantly vindicat-
ed by the proof that 1t is as efficacious In
extending. our foreign commerce in
fostering and stimulating our home in
dustries. Our exports of domestic manu-
features reached in this fiscal year the I'M
exampled total OF $500. COG. 600. an amount
more than two hundred millions in excess Of
our exports ten years ago. These figures
ring the knell of those specious arguments
| which have been the reliance Of our OPP
ponents for so many years, and which are
only fruitful in the years of leanness and
disaster.
TRUSTS AND THE WAR
What Is left then in the way Of a plat
form? The regulation OF trusts which the
Republicans can themselves manage. hav-
ing al the requisite experience both of leg
isistion and business; and finally, the war,
which. 1t seems, was too efficiently car
ried on and has been too beneficial TO the
Nation to suit the Democratic leaders. We
have been able to give in our time some
novel ideas to the rest of the world, and
none more novel than this. that a great
party should complain that the results Of
war were too advantageous. 1t will be
hard, however, 10 convince the bulk of our
people that we are the worse off, because
our flag has gained great honor, pos
sessions have been extended, our position
In the world increased and our opportunity
for work and usefulness enormously wild
ened through the fortunes of war and the
vaior of our soldiers and sailors.
Being in this desperate need of argu-
ments it is not strange that they should
have recourse to fiction. An attempt is made
In the Ohio Democratic platform to excite
against the present administration by ac-
cusing 1t OF an alliance with England The
people who make this charge know IL TO
be untrue: their making 1t is an insult to
the intelligence OF those whose votes they
seek by this gross Misrepresentation. But
as one OF their favorite methods of cam
paign Is 10 invent fiction too fantastic TO
contradict and then 10 assume II to be true
because IL has not been contradicted you
may permit me to take one moment TO dis
pose OF this ghost story. IL refers TO the
department with which am connected.
NO SECRET ALLIANCE.
There is no alliance with England. nor
with any other power under heaven. except
those known and published TO the world
the treaties OF ordinary International friend
ship for purposes of business and commerce.
No treaty other than these exists; none has
been suggested on either side: none Is In
contemplation II has never entered into the
mind OF the President, nor OF any member
Of the government. to forsake, under any
inducement. the wise precept and example
OF the fathers. which forbade changing al
liances with European powers.
II need not dwell upon this fact Even
the men who wrote the Ohio platform know
there Is no alliance. But they seek TO make
capital In this campaign out OF the undeni-
able fact that our relations with England
are more friendly and satisfactory than
they have ever been before. II is hard to
take such charge seriously: and IL II is
taken seriously. how can II be treated with
patience?
In the name OF common sense. let me
AK. what u the duty OF the government
u not to cultivate. wherever possible.
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