The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-13
Prominent Merchants, Manufacturers
and Others Gather for
JOIlificati ton.
DEBT TO ORGANIZED LABOR
THE NEW SENATOR ACKNOWLEDGES
HIS OBLIGATIONS THERE.
MOdestIy Refers to- His Duties at
Neutrality-suspicious. ReceP-
ton to Legislators.

The business men who contributed so much
to the election of Albert J. Beverage to the
senatorship yesterday afternoon met. and
with the qualification of success counted up
the results. The meeting took the form of
a mutual congratulation society, and it was
held where the movement first originated,
in the Century Club rooms As at the first
meeting, Mr.. d. NJ. Parry presided and
report of the actions of the members was
rendered to those by whom the authority.
to act was given. Congratulatory and
felicitous speeches were made by John II.
Holiday, T. c. Day, Edward Robinson, w
b. Wheelock George Gay and l. S. Gordon.
John Wmgate, who worked night and day
for Beverage was sent for and was COM
PEELED to make speech. BY this time
good feeling had grown to such an extent
that nothing but Mr.. Beveridge himself
could satisfy it, and a committee consisting
of Charles +. Coffin, John Fl. Holiday, c.
+. Smith and Clarence Kenyon was sent 10
invite Mr. Beveridge to visit the meeting.
Mr. Beveridge accepted the invitation and
his entrance was the signal for an outburst
of great enthusiasm. Mr.. Beveridge re-
sponded to the greeting follows:
MY Frends-In the senatorial campaign
so VIGOROUSLY concluded the two sources
of my greatest strength were the organized
business interests OF Indiana and the or
ganlzed labor of the State. Botn came to
my support voluntarily. Business men and
laboring men, as individuals and as or
CARNATIONS, fought for me as steadily, as
Naliantly as if they were lighting for them
selves. y our action was absolutely unin-
Spired by manipulation 1t was spontaneous.
When one OF your committees called upon
me to ask for my views as to your organ
lied work | was not personally acquainted
with half of its members.
And now that your work is crowned
with triumph, l desire to acknowledge my
obligation to you and each OF you and to
the vast and vital forces of the State which
you representatives, which, after all, con-
stitute its life and power, its greatness and
its glory. (Applause.) 1t is a pleasure to
be under obligations to such forces as yours
because it simply amounts to being under
obligation to public duty itself. For your
interests are the Republics interests Your
good is the peoples good Your prosperity
is possible only when all the land is blessed.
And 50 when you laid me under obliga-
tionS to your organization, you lald me
under obligations to patriotism. And such
an obligation is the highest inspiration a
public man can have. Such an inspiration,
thanks to you, is and ever shall be mine.
Great applauSe)
'"The most hopeful sign in America to-day
is the fact that the great business and labor
forces of our country are taking an interest
in practical politics. And when these forces
are full aroused nothing can withstand
them. The Liiputian considerations of
microscopic politics are no evenA. an OBJ
stacle to them. They write platforms They
they ought to do all this because they are
the real life of the land itself. So long as
they are faithful the Republic will endure
The moment their sense of public duty per-
1SheS, the Republic is stricken unto DEATH
You are taking an interest in politics,
not because of personalities, but of prin-
ciples. You expect the business of the land
to have the attention of the men you place
in the seats of power Great applause)
You demand that those whom you select as
your lawgiVers shall be laWgivers indeed.
You expect devotion to the welfare of the
country. There is only one machine in
politics worth the serious thought Of earn
est men, and that machine is the govern
ment of the American Republic. Great APP
plause)
These are the ideas with which your
presence fills me. Am 1 correct in inter-
preting your thought? If | am, l pledge to
you that / will devote the heart and es
Sence of my strength to carrying those
ideas into deeds. l only ask that you will
not expect too much-that you will be pa
tieAt with me. You have helped to send
me to the greatest chamber of statesman
ship in all the world-the Senate of the
United States. 1t is filled with experience,
ana ability, and dignity, and learning and
wealth and patriotism. / shall be a new
senator. 1t will require silence and patience
and industry and tact, as well as persist
ence and courage and speech, to achieve
the substantial results which you have a
right to expect Steadiness and judgment,
as we'll as energy and conviction, are neces-
sary. The trade winds and not the gales
fill all the sails of prosperous commerce.
(Applause.) And for all of this time is re-
quired-time. the only absolutely resistless
power on earth. And so / ask for your
patient consideration. l will do my best.
] will run the course you have given me TO
run | will fight the fight you have APP
pointed me to wage. And L will keep your
faith. Great applause.)
"All this l have said to you as man
who is soon to be a senator of the United
States to the men who helped to make him
such. And now one word, and only one,
as a man with a heart. to each of you, as
men with hearts: In the battle have
fought together / have learned to love each
one of you, and ! hope you love me, too,
and will always love me. And my earnest
prayer is that so long as all shall live 1
may deserve your affection" Great APP
Olause
The remainder of the meeting was devoted
to informal but none the less hearty con-
ssra t11la tin1ns and ccnnd witches