The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-31
CALLS 1T A LIE.
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have made the most disconnected and
creduous.
These forces and conditions have
for years. with greater or less dis
Effectiveness, lowered about
tional life, lacking effective organization
and concentration, neglected by those who
deprecated their existence. and UNDECIDED
even by those who partially appreciated
their dangerous tendency
I'm the meantime there has lain in wait
behind them all an impatient power ready
to marshal them In effective activity when
depression. misfortune, neglect and pas
sion had done their work.
This power born of sordid greed and
maintained by selfish interest and parti-
san ambition, has at last assumed COM
mand, and has largely recruited its wait
ing forces by infiamng those inclined to
be avenged. by encouraging the restless
and turbulent with hints of greater license
and by offering to the poor as a smooth
road TO wealth, and TO those In debt as
plan for easy payment, and to those who
from any cause of unfortunate and dis
couraged as a remedy for all their Ills,
the free. unlimited and independent coin
age OF silver at the ratio of 16 to !, with
deprecated currency and cheap money.
1T was rude awakening for the negli-
gent and oyerconfident and a day of ter
ror for sober and patriotic men, when the
bold promoters of this reckless crusade
captured the organization of a powerful
political party, and. Selling its banners,
shouted defiance TO the astonished con-
Hosts of honest men, in blind loyalty
gathered behind the party flag they had
been accustomed to follow, failing to dis
cover that their party legends had been
effaced.
PERIL OF THE NATION.
None can forget the doubt and fear of
that boisterous and passionate campaign
when the fate OF the Nation seemed In the
balance. The danger of the situation arose
from the hasty impulse of those whose mis-
fortunes had been cruelty played upon, and
from the enthusiasm of unquestioning
thoughtless party fealty.
1.-THE deiverance came through the action
of those who saw the trick and loved the
principles Of their party too we'll to follow
its stolen banners in an attack upon those
national safeguards, which party as we'll as
patriotism should at all times defend
In the meantime the allied forces of
calamity, encouraged by these malign con-
ditions, are still active and aggressive.
They confidently speak of the encounter In
which they failed of success as only the
first battle and gladly hail every untoward
incident and every added pretext for pas
sion and resentment new and welcome
allies in the continuance of their crusade
They are willfully wicked and stupid
who believe that disaster waits upon the
ascendancy of those forces, and yet turn
away from the plain evidence of their dam
each other and with ourselves.
If there are any among us who, though
not actually and actively interested in the
cause of free silver and it's accompanying
vagaries can look with complacency upon
their growth and triumph. or If there are
any who. not fearing individual loss, are
needless of the honor and glory of their
country, OF if there are those whose child
like and simple faith in their country's re-
sources, blinds them to all public danger,
inaction and neglect on their part may be
accounted for If not excused.
But nothing can explain or excuse mac
ton on the part OF those who can make no
compromise with the advocates of unsound
money, or who love their country's honor
more than self-advantage, or who are con-
WINGED that an unstable and unsafe cur
rency inevitably BODIES the greatest depth
or loss and misfortune TO all the people Of
CANNOT DODGE DUTY.
these should not delude themselves. The
peril they dread is directly impending.
~ began by saying that this was an as
semblage for patriotic purposes. 1 hope
my sympathy. with its high aims and dis
interested efforts, will not be suspected,
when / confess that / have brought here
a sturdy partisanship and a devoted at
tachment TO the principles of true Democ-
racy.
II should, however. not be here to make
this declaration IL by partisanship l meant
adherence TO party organization merely
for the purpose of comprising government
control and distribution OF the spoils of
party victory among greedy claimants.
THE partisanship / mention means the
support Of certain principles and theories
OF government. and a cooperation arid
association in political effort and activity
with others who believed I'm the Same
theories and principles. for the purpose of
accomplishing their practical application
and enforcement
"Out of such an association grow party
discipline and organization. They are nee
essary and useful as the servants of poli-
teal principle but should never be it's I'M
questioned masters.
THE limits OF their proper operation
are easily fixed. and IL is an impeachment
of the intelligence of the members of any
political association 10 say that party
management and discipline should at all
times command implic obedience even
when such obedience leads To the aban-