The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-26
The Governors Address.
Governor Mount said:

Great national epochs afford the oppor-
tunity for the development of great men.
God ordains the man for the performance
of His divine mission. Henry Watterson
says, Lincoln was diviney chosen for the
great crises precipitated by the civil war.
Grant came from obscurity to fame, and
was the mighty leader upon whose mill
tary genius the Nation relied. Not since
the perils of the civil war have such grave
responsibilities rested upon the Nations
chief executive as confronted William Nc
Kinley when he assumed the presidential
office. The acme of national prosperity
had been attained under the wise admin
Is tration of Indianas illustrious son, Gen.
eral Benjamin Harrison Our exports in
1892 had reached the climax. Bradstreet
and Dun commercial reports declared the
volume of business, the output of industry,
the employment of labor for the year 1892,
without a parallel The change to absolute
rule in the Nation, by the Democratic
party. was followed by distrust, discomfort
and disaster. The shrinkage of values cost
the country more in money than the war.
Confidence. the basic foundation of bus
mess, departed. The rule of the country
was changed from a debt-paying to a debt
making administration. The free silver fall
lacy was offered by the Democratic party
antdote for the ills that followed
the departure of confidence. The Repub-
lican party, on platform pleged to honest
money, offered William Mckinley as the
advance agent of prosperity. He prom
Used TO open the factories and shops to
labor, rather than the mints to free silver.
He was chosen President, and these prom
Uses are being fulfilled The fires of in
dustry have been rekindled, the ceaseless
whirr of wheels is again heard, and COM
merce has multiplied; the farmer again
joices and the laboring man is made happy.
Commerce has reached its highest point,
having passed the two billion mark. For
1898 and 1889 $500 900 more of exports than
the average annual export of Cleveand's
administration.
A VAIL OF SORROW.
Spanish cruelty and oppression caused
wall of sorrow among the Cuban recon-
centrados that was heard by the sympa-
thetic ear of freedom. President Mckinley
demonstrated against this cruelty, which
only produced intensified hate. The bat
tleship Maine was destroyed, American
patriotism was aroused War seemed i'm
minent. President Mckinley knew the hor-
rors of war. While he sought to avoid
bloodshed he was preparing for the con-
hict with the greatest possible speed and
consummate wisdom. The Democratic
party demanded the recognition of the
independence of Cuba. The President was
denounced for what they denominated his
vacillation. A free silver convention in
this city was addressed by a speaker who
denounced the President and called him
'Wabbly Willy sAmid the slang and vi
tuperation of sensational demagogues
Mckinley stood a tower OF strength, dig
nified. determined. unmoved by threat or
sheer. When the opportune moment game
he acted In one hundred days from the
issuing of his war proclamation. he had
raised, armed and equipped 100000 men. and.
with only a fraction of this army called
into active service. he defeated the armies
of Spain and destroyed her fleets. For
wise planning and swift execution. the
success of our army and navy in the
Spanish war is without parallel. In this
brief period the honor. dignity and mill
tary power of the United States was ex-
allied before the world The Kisses and
abuses of negative quantities in this coun-
try were put to shame by the praise of
our President from patriots at home and
by statesmen abroad. The men who were
the most clamorous for war were the first
to engender discomfort, and condemn the
results OF the war. The Democratic party
Is a negative party. 1t can obejct, but
not suggest: It can destroy, but not con-
struct Under President Mckinley our