The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-06

VIII be the bright star of 1900. These sub
jects will be presented to you. gentlemen.
tonight by masters Of wit, wisdom and
our country. the banner loved at home
and known and respected throughout the
world
REPUBLICAN HISTORY.
George A. Cunningham, of Evansville.
chairman OF the First district Republican
committee. speaking to THE Republican
Party said: 1.-THE Republican party is
the greatest organized agency for the ad-
vancement OF civilization. universal free
dom and good government the world has
ever seen. IL has been the moving spirit
In the greatest half century OF the greatest
nation ever established by man. 1 say half
century. 1t has not quite rounded out the
fun period In years but I'm deeds the meas
ure Is full and overlooking. This, too, in
spite OF the fact that for four years of that
period the hand Of progress was stayed
by that great negative force OF the nine
teenth century known the Democratic
party. We have way of checking the
growth of trees and plants that become
too vigorous by looping on the branches.
We have ascertafned by sad experience
that the way to check the growth of the
country Is 10 make an application OF Demo-
cratic principles
but this Is a festive occasion where
bounteous plenty prevails, and will not
cast shadow on the sunshine that sur
rounds by going into the dark and
gloomy recesses of the last Democratic
administration. I know OF no subject more
in keeping with the well-clothed. well-fed,
cOntented, happy and prosperous looking
agsemblage i see before me than that you
have assigned to this evening. i can
not hope TO tell you anything new, but 10
all lovers of the flag Of freedom the history
and achievements of the Republican party
can never grow old.
He reviewed the history of the Repub-
lican party in the fields of war. civil and
foreign, national administration and inter-
national craftsmanship; drew lessons from
the lives and work Of the great Republican
leaders Of the past and present; pointed
out the problems and duties of to-day, de-
claring expansion to be a condition 10 be
met and not theory to be analysed, and
concluded as follows:
ssThe solution OF these new questions is
the problem of~the future. The voice of
free trade is drowned in the hum OF
millions Of busy spindles. Free silver is
advocated only as a matter OF form and
consistency. Nobody really believes in II.
We are in favor of the gold standard alb
soluteiy and without qualification because
IT is the highest and best standard of the
commercial world. These are really Ques-
feariessly and intelligently by the Repub-
llcan party. The question TO be determined
by the people at the coming election is
what party shall solve the questions of
the hour. Shall it be the party of Bryan
and Altgeld or shall IL be the party of Har-
rison and Mckinley? Shall 1t be the party
OF disunion and disaster shall 1t be the
party OF growth and expansion? The
answer to these questions shall bear no
uncertain sound. The people Of this coun-
try will not enter the twentieth century
depressed by the mournful sounds of the
dead march of Democracy. They Will en-
ter the golden age of the Nation full of
hope and of promise, keeping step to the
gladstone march of civilization, progress
and prosperity under the banner of the Re-
publican party and under the leadership
OF William Mckinley"
THE GREAT LIBERATOR.
j. Frank Hanly of Logansport, dis
cussed the life and position in history of
Abraham Lincoln, speaking substantially
as follows:
Few men survive the age in which they
live. The lives of countless millions OF the
race never rise above the dead level of the
commonplace. They are born; they live;
they die. and leave no visible impress on
the worlds affairs. The world never really
knows them. We may measure their influ-
ence on the weights and balances of
ciety only by weighing the aggregate in
ffuence OF their generation. Theirs is the
darkness of slumber and death, forever
sinking and sinking; but now and then. in
far distant ages and widely separated
epochs OF time, are born men or such
franscendent parts as to defy oblivion and
win Immortality. These men are the chill
dren Of Gods purpose. They were born
from the beginning OF the world Their
lives the embodiment of the longings
of the race; the elimination of its bright
est endeavor: the fruition of its best hope
The great man comes into the world with
a mission, and he must needs perform his
task The world may not receive him kind
~. 1t may mock him and at the first may
prosecute him: aye. and at the last. may
cruelty him. Like the Christ, he saves the
world by dying for it.
.Such a man was Abraham Lincoln and
such the place he fills in the worlds his
tory. Such his life and such his death. In
the future, whenever and wherever, In any
land or any age, men shall devote them
selves TO the good of their fellows or shall
deny themselves for the public veal, the
sweeten their cup of sacrifice and be TO
them an inspiration and a benediction.
BY his vicerious sacrifices he atoned for
$50 years of Anglo-Saxon wrongs; re-
deemed the Nation from a blighting curse
OF great sin: repaid the blood drawn by
the lash; led his people. North and South,
into holier ways: touched the better angels
of their nature and set their faces toward
iuster and increased beauty to the flag of
freedom: put new price on liberty and
made OF his own life a milestone in the
pathway of human progress"
THE MAN FOR THE HOUR
J. B. Wilson. of Bloomington. speaking to
the toast 1.-The President" said: "At all
stages of history there have appeared
minds so totally at variance with all that
surrounded them as to bring them into
general notice aud to make their names
and lives part of the recorded history
OF mankind. But there have also appeared
times when great moment and mighty
demands and ends have stood forth minds
so fitted to these great problems, demands
and ends that they have seemed more like