The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-29
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL THURSDAY MARCH 49, 1900

ing thus, Pericles tells US that the people
of Athens had reached the point where IL
was possible that the same person could
attend to his own private concerns ana 10
those of the public. and said he: We are
the only people who think him that does
not NEEDLE with state affairs not indolent-
but good for nothing.
"Our political indifference in municipal
affairs has resulted in permitting political
parties TO seize upon and eudeavor TO make
party issues of many things with when
parties, such. should have naught TO
do: and when such matters have Deen
dragged into the maddening swirl of party
politics, find aroused about purely ousi-
ness matters all of the Supplying and
maddening feeling engendered by party
strife. The effect may be illustrated by
story which / have seen somewhere of an
Irish Wing. who had been told by some
one of his party friends that certain
Wing met the Tory on the streets after
wards, and. with establishment. stopped
and said: 4 was told you were dead!
Well said the Tory; WY you see ,n., am n not
about that, said the Irish Wing. I'd soon
er believe the man that told me, than /
would you
CAUSE FOR CONGRATULATIONS.
but turning aside from such considera-
tons and looking at those gathered here,
and the conduct of him in whose honor we
convene let me say that, while most of us
earnestly believed with him and in his
work and in the indispensable necessity of
the thing accomplished to the welfare of
the country, yet apart from this. even
those who may not have agreed with him
and us, can find in the quality of his &C
lions grounds for congratulating him. For
it is true that it is not altogether and al
WAYS the cause which ennobles the contest:
it NAV be the spirit of the men in the
struggle. And here brave. unseifish. heroic
and disinterested quality OF conduct e1clts
the admiration of every generous man.
young Confederate general was galloping
across the field at Gettysburg, with shot
and she'll all around and death on every
side Suddenly he came in the red clover
uron the white, upturned face OF young
Federal officer He lay helpless. with the
Elaring burning beating down upon
him. The Confederate general dismounteo
and laid his handkerchief, as slight pro-
lection, over his face. The young off1cer.
thought to be dying, did not die, though
terribly mangled. 1t was General Barlow,
and he lived to be the warm friend of Gen
eral Gordon. who did the kindly act Ihere
are some fundamental things in which all
manly men can agree. During the late
civil war, at evening time when the Two
armies were not far apart, in northern Nlr-
ginia, a regimental band struck up Dixie
Quickly there was a response from a band
across the way with The Star-spangled
Banner The strife of martial airs hlled
the air. presently one began 10 play
Home, Sweet Home The other band
stopped and had naught to do but join.
and save as interrupted by the pathetic
music that was waited out on the moonllt
air. there was calm throughout the
armies resting from battle. 1t was in this
sense, take it. that the big-brained, large
hearted Garfield declared that the flowers
that bloom over the garden wall of party
politics are the sweetest and most fragrant
that bloom i'm the gardens of this world
ITO Mr. Hanna. in whose honor we meet
this evening. let me say that wish i could
utter some of the generous thoughts of APP
probation that throb in the hearts and
tremble about the lips of his friends in
vain endeavor to find apt words of speech.
Only hints and fragments of such can be
thrown out, but with these go, in silent
attendance those sentiments which II Is
hoped may help TO mold the fragments into
harmonious completeness-lke the fairies
in the story. who said to have woven
from the scattered threads of gold COM
plete and shining garment.