The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20
FIRST SESSION.
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tCON1IODEO rItOlh LII AbLJ
to preserve the Union should be continued
or whether they should be abandoned and
other measures attempted. have questions
SO vital been presented to the American
people for settlement. Their decision must
determine the maintenance or the degrade
ton of both our national credit and our
national honor. A Democratic President
could paralyze the operation of the new
currency law as effectively as If it were
wiped from our statute books. A Demo-
cratic victory would infuse new life into
the Tagal instruction, cost us the lives of
thousands of our gallant army In the Phil
ippines, impair or destroy our prestige, If
not our power, in the islands. make us a
byword among the other great nations
of the world and obliterate our influence
in the settlement of the vital questions
certain to arise when China shall be opened
to foreign commerce
There is little room for fear. The farmer
and the artisan in their day of prosperity
still remember the impoverishment and
blight Of Democracy, and the Chicago plat
form has no allurements for them. Our
national honor is equally secure.
The American people are neither pol
troons nor Dessimists, and they will not
signalize the dawn of the new century by
the surrender of either convictions or ter
ritory. Every soldier back from the islands,,
and they are in almost every hamlet in
the land, returns an advocate of their re-
tention. Our dead are buried along the
sands of Luzon, and on its soil no foreign
flag shall ever salute the dawn.
WAY is NEW BUT NOT DARK. 81
Whatever may be in store for us in the
new and unbeaten track upon which we
arc entering, we shall not be found with
the unlit lamp and the ungrit loin." Our
way is new. but it is not dark. In the re-
adjustment of w~orld-conditions, where we
must take our place with the other great
nations of the earth, we shall move with
I,,& ro% xr;tI foo~ " -oor -.
to lift I'D men to better things, to bless
and not to destroy. The fathers of the
Republic accepted with courage such re-
sponsibilities as developed upon them.
The same heavens bend over us, and the
same power that shielded them will guard
and protect us, for what We seek is to build
still more firmly, always upon foundations
of probity and of virtue, the glorious edi-
flee of the Republic.
We stand at the dawn of the new GEN.
fury. Before it shall have reached it's me-
ridian the youngest here will have passed
beyond this life or beyond the sphere of
usefulness. New recruits will step into the
ranks as we fall out. This very year thou
sands of young men will for the first time
exercise the right of citizenship and cast
their ballots at the national election. The
safety of this Republic must ever rest in
the courage of young hearts and the vigor
cf a noble manhood" Youth is buoyant
and hopeful, no snarling criticism. or gospel
of a little America, or prophecy of de-
spair, will find response from hearts that
beat full and strong with courage and with
faith, and whose creed it is that
Gods i'm His heaven.
Ais right with the world"
Whatever else in the past has suffered
change or decay. the Republican party.
which for forty years has been identified
with everything ennobling and uplifting in
our history, was never as vital, as virile
and as vigorous as to-day. And the hertz
0Uo me- shall transmit IN the naU century,
to the coming generation and to their chill
dren, and TO their children's children. shall
be a record clean and untarnished, an. un-
Ouenchable faith IN free institutions, an I'M
alterable belief in the patriotism of the
people, and an undying love of liberty and
of country. -
HOW THE SPEECH WAS RECEIVED.
Senator wolcott- has a clear. resonant
voice, which penetrated to the furthest re-
cesses of the hall. He speaks. however,
with much rapidity. and this. perhaps,
somewhat spoiled the effect of his speech.
But the thousands before him were in thor
ough sympathy and he had no difficulty In
striking a responsive chord. When with
outstretched arm he predicted the triumph
ant election OF the Republican ticket in
November the audience surrendered, and
when he first mentioned President McKin-
ley's name he could not proceed for a
minute owing to the demonstration. AS he
rehearsed the history of the four years of
Republican administration, the prosperity
which had blessed IL. the victories II had
won, the glorious outcome of the Spanish
American war. the campaign of misrepre-
seutation in connection with the Philippines
which its enemies had inaugurated and
which il had met. the convention repeat
ediy broke into applause.
1t was a keynote speech, covering the
legislation which had been placed on the
statute books and Its deepest note was the
prosperity OF this country and the legisla-
ton which had made its continuation pos
sible If the present administration was con-
tinued In power. That was the theme to
which the demonstrations Of the conven-
ton chung. When he said that the old
issue OF the Democrats was dead and that
they were driven TO find new issues i'm a
war which they had been most anxious TO
p~recipitate. the convention arose and APP
plauded but the outburst was even great
er when he declared that the division
among the Republicans OF the East and
the West on the financial issue was a
thing of the past and that those who had
; left the party four years ago in the West