The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-21
The Senior Senator Addresses n Mag
nificent Crowd and Arouses Them
to Patriotic Demonstrations.
BIG CLARK COUNTY MEETING
SENATOR FAIRBANKS ADDRESSES
THOUSANDS AT CHARLEsTOwN.
Will Cumback to Party Veterans
Speech by Gen. BIack-W. l.. Tay-
lor to Anderson Workmen.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

special 10 the lnOldndpoiis JOurnai.
SHERIDAN, Ind, Oct. Ex-senator ]. B.
Foraker made his first and only appear
ance i'm Indiana during this campaign to-
day and spoke at Sheridan in the after
roon. He came at the solicitation of Rep
resentative Lands and cancelled date in
his own State out of respect for the
brilliant Indiana congressman. Senator
Foraker and party travelled via the c., III.
& d. I'm a private car. and took special
train. reaching Sheridan over the Monon.
In his party were his son, Captain j. y.
Foraker, jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Roth
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewrence Maxwell, jr..
and daughter, all of Cincinnati Accom-
ranying him to Sheridan from indianapolis
II. Spooner, ex-Secretary of the Republican
State committee, and f. L. Neal and Editor
VIII III. Craig, of Nobesville
The train arrived at Sheridan at l o'clock.
Never I'm the history of the town was
there such a crowd to greet any man as
greeted Senator Foraker on this occasion.
1t was estimated at ten thousand people.
They came from all over Hamilton county
and from the counties of Boone. Clinton
and Upton. At noon a great parade took
place. participated in by a company of
Rough Riders and by delegations from all
the surrounding country. There was also
great degree of enthusiasm and deter
mination Old soldiers were largely I'm evil
dence and were wrought up to the highest
pitch of patriotism by the impassioned
eloquence of the distinguished Ohio sem
ator Everybody wore Lands buttons and
ribbons with the representatives. name
printed upon them. 1t was strictly Lands
day and showed that the soldiers, laborers
and farmers are IN favor or returning 10
Congress the brilliant young man from
Eelphi.
The meeting was held in a big tent
brought from Noblesville for the purpose
small portion of the great crowd could
get under it, Hundreds stood up around
the tent for two hours to hear the speech.
Chairman S. Nj. Smith. OF the Hamilton
county committee called the meeting to
order and introduced Representative Lam
dis as the chairman of the meeting. Mr.
Lands was given an ovation when he ap-
peared. He paid an eloquent tribute to
Senator Foraker and put the audience in
good humor by one of his happy. appro-
pirate speeches. Senator Foraker was at
his best and kept the crowd aroused dur
ing the whole OF his speech. He said that
the election of Mckinley was now assured
but i'm order that the administration of
Mckinley during his next term should
past three years, that it was of paramount
Importance that Congress be elected in
harmony with the President He said the
thirteen majority now In the House prob
ably could be wiped out by fraud and dis
reimbursement in the South and that 1T
was the patriotic duty of the North 20
make additional gains in that branch Of
Congress.
Senator Foraker said the paramount issue
was that of prosperity. He referred TO the
enormous increase in the wealth of the
country and to the fact that even old Eng
land, the great creditor nation OF the world,
had come to shores to borrow money.
He showed how ridiculous were the prophe
cies of Bryan i'm 1896, as evidenced by the
flood of prosperity that now blesses all
classes of the land. In speaking of trusts
and strikes he said that under Democratic
administrations nobody would trust any
body else and that strikes were always for
n lob: under Republican rule the strikes
were always to make better wage scale
and the laborers were always successful.
He believed the Republican party was
capable and patriotic enough to meet all
emergencies as they arose and would ham
die the trust question in a safe and busi-
nesslike way, as it had all the great and
difficult questions in the past.
In speaking Of the war with Spain Sem
ator Foraker admitted he was in favor of
war year before IL came, and that many
believed the President was too slow, but
all are agreed now that the President was
far-seeing, and that he was almighty
Sulc-loOtcu WAtu lic Niu Bet iito tiiC wal
The senator went into the history Of
American expansion, and plainly showed
that President Mckinley was following the
precedents of Jefferson, Monroe and Polk.
He emphasized the fact that the protective
tariff was at the bottom of our great pros
perity, and that the next great problem
was TO find a market for our goods. This,
he said. was i'm the Orient, and that the
possession of the Philippines opened the
gateway to that great world. The sena-
tors closing remarks were most eloquent
and animated. He denounced the Demo-
cratic party as incapable and unpatriotic.
and paid a glowing tribute to the match
less record of the Republican party.
The meeting at Sheridan will do much
good Mr.. Lands was delighted with the
showing and feels confident that he will be
reelected by an increased majority over
two years ago. when his plurality over
Cheadle was 1000.