The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-13

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 dence and to extend a helping hand to
 some unfortunate fellow being. You
 have respect for the man who can draw
 a check. especially if he draws it. but
 you agree with me that in a republic
 and in republican party there is no
 place for an aristocracy of wealth. l
 do not believe in a compulsory division
 of wealth. but I do believe that money
 is so good thing that opportunities Tor
 making it should be distributed as
 widely aa possible and not limited to
 the grasp of few. In the old days
 of high thought and simple living
 the good people of society formed but
 one class and in that unity there was
 power. When the cliques and sets,
 which infest society today, divide the church and emasculate the political club this republic will have reached the
 beginning of the end. In its social life, in Its appeal to and in its hold upon the masses, your club is an example for all the republican clubs of the nation. If they follow your example, the so- cialistic element, now growing at the polls, will never grow at the expense of our party.
 But political clubs, and even the state itself will pass away, and so they are only means to an end. You owe alle- glance to club and party and state only so far as they are faithful to perform their mission. In 1776 the state, as rep resented by George the Third, was a ty- rant and so your fathers instituted righteous and successful rebellion. In 1861 the state was beneficent and so the people rose in the majesty of their strength and upheld it against the gi- gantic wrong which attempted it's over- throw In 1854, in the repeal of the Mississippi compromise, a great party broke its faith and from one end of the north to the other was crushed by the indignant ballots of its own members. It was the sublime protest of the con- science of the individual against the perf1dy of party and the unrighteous- ness of law. In the memory of that grand uprising there is faith in the people and in the perpetuity of our in stitutions.
 One word more, Let every member of this club hold his conscience and manhood above every thing else. In his own political ambition and life let him set, high his standard of honor and truth. Let him demand that his club and his party shall do that which is just and right. In this way you will give success to your club, honor to your party and your best efforts for the glory and the endurance of the state.
 CONGRESSMAN LANDS.
 The next speaker introduced was Con- ;c af TvoIi whose toast was Abraham Lincoln. As he rose to speak he was given a rous- ing cheer in token of the kindly feel ing which Connecticut republicans have for those from Indiana. MT. Lam dis bowed his acknowledgements and said that if such enthusiasm was gen. erated by cold water, he would like to know what the gentlemen would have done if they had partaken of something stronger. He was introduced by Toast master Gaffey as '"The able and elo- quent gentleman from Indiana. Mr. Landis said that he was neither able nor eloquent, just a plain country news paper man, although he assisted MT. Mckinley, MT. Hanna and MT. Sperry of Connecticut in governing the coun- try. He then spoke of the length, breadth, thickness and vastness of re- publicanism.
 He said: We are having good times, the republican party stands for good times; we have good wages, the repub- lican party stands for good wages; we are selling abroad a billion dollars worth of goods more than we buy, the republican party stands for that; Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines have come to us, all this under the republi- can party; Spain has been whipped un- der the plan and policy of the man whose portrait hangs there (pointing to the portrait of President McKinleyD The smoke of animosity has been killed and it's carcass thrown over the back fence into the alley and the republican party stands for that. There are great | questions to be solved and the republi- l can party stands for the best answers | and the best solutions to all these prob- ! lens. There is not in this republic to- | night a single man who is idle unless | he desires to be idle. Out in my coun try jobs are hunting men, not men hunting jobs, and happiness, hope and | ambition are everywhere and people | everywhere are repeating with Slad &C., claim the name of that man there, Me 1 Kinley.
 MT. Landis said that when the war broke out with Spain and during it's MT. Mckinley was calm The president told him that he knew that we could whip Spain, but he knew also that complications would arise. "The Philippines fell to us, and there was the problem that he had foreseen. And now some who forced him into that war are calling to him to abandon the problem which we must assume and which we must solve. The Connecticut republicans and the h. diana republicans are in flavor of his the problem (cheers). I was in Cuba last winter and the day before I arrived there cablegram was receiv- ed at Havana stating that the United States was to turn Cuba over to the Cubans General Wood told me that that report created the greatest con- sternation in Cuba. The English, Aus trian and German consuls went to him and asked If the report was authentic. They told him that # it was they would cable at once for warships to protect the interests of their nations there. So 1t would have been in the Philippines,
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