The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-27
GATHERING OF EDITORS
HERE TO ATTEND MEETING OF THE
STATE ASSOCIATION.
The Annual Dinner and Reception
Took Place Last Night at
the DenisOn.

CURED at the Denison Hotel Governor and
! Mrs Mount and Senator and Mrs. Beveridge
| being the guests Of honor of about fifty
members of the association. Following the
dinner there was an informal reception in
the parIors lasting until midnight. The
business session of the meeting will be held
to-day. Officers are TO be elected and d
number of papers will be read. J. Fl. Ho-
gate editor of the Danville Republican,
and president of the associa ton, presided
over the dinner last night. After an enjoy
| able menu chairs were pushed back and Mr.
Hogate arose TO say brief word of greet
ing to the members present. He referred
briefly to the last campaign dwelling upon
the influence the newspap ers, had exerted
in a campaign where public speakers were
but coldly received. He spoke of the re-
! gard i'm which the Governor is held by the
press, and said that I'VE all like the Gov
ernor l take pleasure in presenting Gov
ernor Mount" The Governor was applaud
| ed as he arose and began:
| Il felicitate myself on the honor of being
! permitted once more to break bread with
you. | am glad to know how the Republican
| editors dwell together in unity and accord.
/ am minded to quote little Scripture. Be
hold how pleasant II is for brethren to dwell
together in unity. From my boyhood L
have had profound admiration for two class
es of men, that which yields the sword and
that which yields the quill. We used to de-
| bate on which was greater the pen or the
sword, and were forced to the conclusion
| that after all the answer to the question de-
| Ponds on whom it is that yields the sword
He spoke of the power of the press for
| good and the healthy influence the publicity
| it gives to public affairs has in the world.
| mo department Of government, said he,
SHOULD be exempt from the eyes of the
| reporter and editorial criticism, If that crit
| icism is just. There should be no censorship
of the press so long as it is conducted with
| out malice The defender of the people is
| the press. The high executive offices of the
State or general government, even the judi
| ciary, should not be exempt from deserved
criticism. The wise legislator will keep an
eye open to what the press says Public sem
| timent will be largely what you make it..
| How important it is that the press should
be unmuzzled and untrammeled. / would like
to see little greater spirit of independ-
ence / would like to see conditions under
which the Republican press, when officers
elected by the Republican party do wrong,
be the first TO critcise. Nor do / think the
Republican press should think it its duty
to cover up wrongdoing of Republicans in
office. When that time comes the people will
look up to the writer's and believe their ex-
posures of what wrongdoing has come with
in their knowledge
MR. HOGATE'S LITTLE JOKE.
In introducing Lieutenant Governor Hag-
| SdTu, MT. I1OSdtC Shiu blidl SOuIe Out lldu
handed him a note which he had unfortu-
nately lost, in which the writer said he
rarely had chancesto talk and would like
to have the opportunity at the dinner. When
he concluded: Gentlemen, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Haggard," there was laughter and APP
pause, the inference being that he was the
writer and wanted to be heard. Mr.. Hag-
gard faeetiously denied the charge 80 far
as having written note is concerned" He
did know of one man who had spoken
two years ago, whom he had heard again
last year and who wanted to be heard again,
his friend, Mr.. Baker. In a more serious
vein the lieutenant governor Endorsed what
| Governor Mount had said about independ-
ence. There was nothing of the mugWump in
him, he said, and, yet he was inclined to
When men come forward for office who are
known to be unfit he said the press ought
to have the courage to make the facts
| known. This sentiment was applauded.
M. w. Pershing, of the Upton Advocate
spoke of the things that 1.-The editors may dc
and do do" I'VE take liberties no other
| even crticise Governor, tell Congress to
| pass laws or to adjourn and go home, declare
war; fight out and win battle and arrange
peace treaties. We can go before the people
| and convince them that monetary system
on a basis of gold is the only safe system.
With all this power back of It. Mr.. Pershing
| urged, the duty the press has to perform is
in leading public sentiment, instead of fol-
lowing it.
Mount gracefully begged to be excused
when called on by the POSTMASTER, pleading
that he had come unprepared and not ex-
pecting to speak
CHARLES S. HERNLY INTRODUCED.
When Mr.. Hogate introduced Charles s.
Hernly, chairman of the Republican state
central committee, as a politician who
thinks that party pledges are not put into
platforms simply to be read, but to be en-
acted into laws afterward, there was a good
deal Of applause When Mr.. Hernly gravely
produced a manuscript, with the remark
that he had way of being honest and
| must admit that he had come prepared,
there was amused applause. Mr.. Hernly
said he had been asked to discuss the poll
tician in politics, and while not politician
himself he was I'm politics somewhat and
would undertake to discuss that question. In
part, Mr.. Hernly said
The politician is not only in politics, but
he Is everywhere, and is found in every vo-
cation. He comes from every walk in life,
but he is not ind9lent The lazy man has
above all things. be an organizer and he
must first be enabled to organize himself.
1t is most unfortunate predicament for a
man to be giant intellectually and know
no politics, if he seeks political honors. He
must study human nature and must be a
good judge of men; and he must be enabled
to select men who are best fitted for the
work in hand and must bring them together
and introduce them to each other; and he
and just how well they will be enabled TO
mingle with each other and be harmonious
in all of their actions; and he must know his
man absolutely. The politician will only
| thrive on candor, integrity and honor, and
he is not always out for an office. Politics
IS a business or profession, and is only a
stepping stone to some preferment or dis
tinction by way of an office. The founders
of the Republic were politicians. John
Adams, the father of the Revolution, a
member of the Continental Congress, and
Patrick Henry q member of the Virginia
sons in politics and captured the confidence
of the people by their first speeches at the
Continuing. he discussed the political char
acteristcs of some of the Nations great
statesmen Washington, with his great
dignity and purity of character, was a pol
ittcian He conquered by telling the truth.
That is the greatest force ever used by a
politician" Washington was an organizer;
he never surrendered. Mr.. Hernly said
further:
If Washington was the founder of the
Republic, the father of his country another
politician was the savior the immortal
mon people, who are always the bulwark
OF every government, whether a republic or
a monarchy; for 10 the morality, the indus
| try and patriotism of its common people
| every nation of modern times owes what
| ever of greatness it may possess. Lincoln,
| the great orator, debater, story teller be-
| ginning life on the frontier, in the prac-
| Legislature and of Congress, and later as
chief executive in the darkest hours of the
Republic, was a partisan, a politician, deal
ing with men and not policies, yet always
honest. straightforward, loving his country
| supremely. When he lived no public man of
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