The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-07
HIS RESPECTS TO BRYAN
MIR. BARCUS PAYS THEM IN A VERY
VIGOROUS SPEECH.
Great Rally of Republicans at Terre
Haute-Pungent Comparison of
the Records of the Parties.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 6.-The Re-
publicans of Terre Haute opened the cam
paign tonight with a meeting at the Grand
Opera House under the auspices of the
Rough Riders. the new Republican club.
The Rough Riders paraded to the Opera
House. There also was a fairly good turn
out of members of the Thompson Club.
Despite the excessive heat there was a
large audience present when Mr.. Barcus
was introduced. There has been a good deal
of interest in him personally because of the
remarkable race he made for the nomina-
ton for representative in Congress, two
months ago. No one had ever heard him
make a speech, but when he had concluded
tonight there was most hearty applause.
During the speech too. there was frequent
applause.
Mr.. Barcus referred to the fact that the
world has always admired a hero and
described Roosevelt as one who was COM
fortably ensconced in an honorable federal
position and filled with domestic affection
and yet from his condition of security,
ease and comfort he sailed from the harbor
of safety into a rough, untried sea-"
But we are not at war;" said Mr.. Bar
Gus, This organization is not enlisting for
the bivouac of the battlefield, nor to initiate
the war heroism of our patron saint. Ours
must be a conquest of peace. We are to
reward our military heroes and avail our
selves of their patriotic service in civil life.
The civil list in America has honored itself
by honor.ng many soldiers. Every Presi-
dent elected since the war of the rebellion
was a soldier with one exception. Grant.
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and Mckinley
have all received the patriots ballots after
daring the rebels bullets.
History will repeat itself in respect to
its heroes this fall, as it has repeated itself
in the selection of candidateS-Mckinley
and Roosevelt recorded in favor of the
best interests of the government, each
crowned with the laurels of war heroism:
Bryan and Stevenson both claiming that
the wal has been "a failure, and both re-
corded against those fundamental prin-
Ciples by which the Nation. has developed,
and by which its people have become pros
porous and happy. TIL candidate for Presi-
dent on the Democratic ticket has admon-
ished US to remember that we are Ameri-
cans; his party met on the Fourth of July
and adopted for its platform the Declara-
ton of independence and the Constitution
Of the United States. In 1880 a band of
malcontents. calling themselves the Con-
stitutional Union party, adopted the Con-
stitution of the United States as its plat
form and nominated Mr.. Bell for Presi-
dent and everybody who did not subscribe
10 their ldltn was OppOSeQ 10 the consul
tuition, according to their creed.
The Democratic party has busted itself
from the beginning with fault finding and
obstruction. 1t is a party of extreme radi-
Gratis cry for an experiment I'm finance
which Is the extreme of radicalism, and
they urge us to stay near our shores, which
is an extreme of conservatism. In their
first written platform i'm 1910 they declared
that the general system of internal i'm
provements was Unconstitutional; con-
tended for unmolested security of slavery,
and then, as if to vie with a convention
of humorists, they sOlemnly reaffirmed
their faith in the Declaration of Independ-
ence wherein it is declared that ALI men
are created equal and that governments
derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed-slavery n equality IN
the same platform; slavery and consent
of the governed in the same declaration.
This platform of 1910 was reaffirmed in 1874
and in 1S4S. and with slight addition
and unimportant alterations successfully
adopted in their quadrennial conventions.
In 1855 they added that the preservation
Of the Union under the Constitution is the
paramount issue and then. thinking that
they had successfully drawn the at
paramount issue and away from
the vital ISSUE they proceeded to do what
they could to destroy the Union under the
Constitution. In 1850 they declared for
the acquisition of Cuba the slave interests
thought they needed Cuba at that time.
In the new platform of 1864 the war was
utCldicQ " NC Il ldlluIt. lHt lTTeSOlute
purpose and inconsistent doctrines of the
Democratic party have compelled them to
make repeated changes in their platforms
since 1864. while the Republican party is
able to stand on its entire record and point
with pride to every proposition in every
platform since that time"
In closing Mr.. Barcus said: Jefferson
was a doctrinaire, Bryan is a dogmatist:
Jefferson a thinker, Bryan a theorist; JEFF
ferson a truth seeker, Bryan a truth manu-
facturer; Jefferson warped his w views
to conform to an actual law, Bryan I'M
consciously warps the natural laws TO con-
form to his views; Jefferson was COM
promising, Bryan is cbstinate; Jefferson
reluctantly took pay for serving as Pres
ident, Bryan cheerfully takes pay for his
political talks; Jefferson was original and
constructive, Bryan is initiative and de-
structive; Jefferson is dead physically. but
a living political force. Bryan is living
physically, but dead as a political force"
E.. s.. Holiday. of Brazil, candidate for
representative in Congress, followed Mr..
Barcus briefly and as he. too. had been
heard by but few Terre Haute people there
was interest in him as a public speaker.
He soon had the audience with him when
he said the Republican party accepted the
challenge TO meet the issue of imperialism.
IL that meant to stand by the sailors and
soldiers who stood by the flag wherever II
fioated.
Representative Faris closed the meeting
with a few words.