The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-02

government in the Spanish war: more than
5000 Indianans were recruited at Indian
apolis and Evansville for the United States
regular army since July l. 1885: the Indian
apolis pension Office is third in the United
states. / quote from an Indianapolis indie
pendent newspaper:
Indiana is now and always has been a
military State. 1t furnished TO Tame the
greatest war Governor the country ever
knew. Its heroes have distinguished them
selves IN every war from the revolution
down TO the present day 1t has erected TO
It's soldier dead the greatest monument IN
the country 1t reorganized. recruited,
drilled and perfected its militia regiments
and artillery companies for the Spanish
other State in the Union. The military
spirit pervades Indiana from end to end,
and yet Mr. Bryan and his followers an
nounce their intention TO make ''militar-
ism the issue in Indiana
The dominant sentiment of Indiana has
always been exerted in behalf OF loyalty
TO constitutional government and devo-
ton TO the flag. and a large majority OF
our people are now in favor of upholding
the administration of President Mckinley.
as they upheld Abraham Lincoln during a
period when he was being assailed AMI
traduced by emotional and shortsighted
partisans who were eventually compelled
TO confess their error. Not since the civil
war has any President been beset by so
many perpleXitieS as Major Mckinley. The
war with Spain was not of his choosing.
but when the clash of arms could no
longer be avoided ne accepted the newt
able with the steadfaSt resolution of one
born 10 command, and was largely instru-
mental in winning the speediest and COM
pletest victory over a foreign foe that has
ever been recorded in the annals of war
fare.
Complications growing out of the con-
quest of American arms in Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines are numerous and
perpleXing. but the adjustment thereof
may be safely intrusted to the admins
tration now in authority at Washington.
This Is time for right-t thinking people 20
quaint but true saying that 1t is danger
Gus To swap horses while crossing a
stream To do so at this juncture would
be to turn back the pages of history and
invite return TO conditions which existed
during the last Democratic national adj
ministration, when all our industries were
paralyzed. when labor was robbed of emf
ploynent and the specter of gloom was an
uncanny and unwelcome guest at nearly
every fireside throughout this present pros
porous and happy land. The Popocratic
cry of militarism is as devoid of substance
as midsummer nights dream.
THEN AND NOW.
-Four years ago Mr.. Bryan and his CO.
horts were rending the air with alarms,
the paramount issue then being the now
wholly discredited financial fantasy of
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G
to 1. They assumed to warn the people
that anything short of the adoption of that
pet theory would result in general disaster.
The people returned a verdict at the polls
against the adoption of debased cur
rency. Congress enacted a law making
gold the standard of our circulating me-
dunn, and following the inauguration of
William Mckinley this Nation has enjoyed
an era Of prosperity unprecedented. Let
every worhingman, every farmer. every
business man, reflect on conditions that
existed prior to the beginning OF the pres
ent administration and contrast them with
the conditions of to-day. Every pledge
made by the Republicans in 1896 has been
abundantly fulfilled; every promise made
by Bryan and his Popocratic followers has
been discredited and repudiated. They
abandoned the free-coinage infant before
it reached the tender age of four short
years, without explanation or apology, and
have invented new bugaboos, in the hope
of entrapping the unwary.
mo man of ordinary intelligence views
the much-mooted militarism or imperial
ism with as much earnestness or concern
as he does the periodical predictions of
Millerites with reference to the coming
OF the millennium. Nothing that Bryan or
any of his supporters have said or will say
will compare with the manly and patriotic
utterances of William Mckinley concern
ing the Spanish-American war and the
islands where the stars and stripes are now
supreme. Rejoicing we do over the vic
tories of war; says the President, let us
be careful in justice and right to gather
the triumphs of peace. The soldiers and
sailors have done their part citizens must
now do theirs And again he SAYS: There
are responsibilities born of duty that can
never be repudiated. Duty unperformed is
dshonor, and dishonor brings shame which
is heavier for a nation TO carry than any
burden which honor can impose.
The future of these new possessions is In
the keeping of Congress, and Congress is
the servant of the people. Let
nothing distract us; let no discordant voice
1ntrude to embaraSS us In the solution of
the mighty problems which involve such
vast consequences to ourselves and posteri-
ty. Let us remember that God bestows
supreme opportunity upon no nation which
is not ready to respond to the call of SUI
preme duty
These are the words of a patriot who
has demonstrated to the people of these
United States and the world that he
possesses the genius of statecraft which
enables him to rise to the requirements of
grave emergencies and the courage TO do
what his mind and conscience prompts him
to believe is right, unmindful of the carp
ings of captious critics The patriotic peo-
pie of this country will sustain him in the
determinatfea that there shall be no COM
promising and no backward step in the
policy pursued by his administra ton
Wherever Old Glory has been raised as
an emblem of American sovereignty there
American supremacy will prevail and COM
mand respect until every difference has
been adjusted and until every obligation
devolving upon this government has been
honorably discharged
CLOSING SENTIMENTS.
In closing his address Colonel Durbin
paid an eloquent tribute to the soldiers
who served in the civil and Spanish-Amer-
lean wars, which evoked a genuine ova-
tion.
At the conclusion of Colonel Durbin' s
speech M. M. Garland, ex-president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, was introduced His recep-
ton was cordial, and his remarks, peril
nent to the relations of workingmen and
the Republican party, were enthusiastically
approved
In closing his address Mr.. Garland told
a story which has been a secret OF or
ganized labor, but shows Colonel Durbin to
be one Of the stanchest friends of labor in
the State. When the big strike at the FL
wood tin-plate mills occurred, a few years
ago, Garland was president of the asso-
cation. He said it was a trying time and
one that demanded the counsel, advice and
! assistance of men not members of the
association, and without such timely aid
their cause would have been lost. But,
he added, 1--WE found such a man in him
whom you have honored with the nominal
ton for Governor of Indiana, Col. w. II.
Durbin, of this city, and it was largely
through his effort and advice and his level
head that We were able TO make such an
amicable adjustment of our differences
with the company"
That statement was greeted with round
after round of applause Late as the hour
Mr.. Henry, who finally responded in five
minute talk which proVed a firing cliroa v