The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-24


deified Bryan and in 1890 they so covered
him with roses that we could not tell
whether he was deified or not. but they ran
him for the presidency anyhow. Laugh
teri Will they dc the same thing this
year in their platforms? And indOrse him
and his ideas and his principles and his
theories? What will they do? Do You
My fellow citizens. there is but one
party that has made possible the progress
Of the Republic, and that is the party of
and OF Theodore Roosevelt. prolonged
applause and cheering.l You cannot go
anywhere else to get ii. We know how 10
do it,. as Senator Beverage said Applause
and laughterl. not only how to do II. but
we are doing il, and this country is moving
forward still as ii has moved ever since
the old Republican party went TO the helm
of the ship.
HAND OF DEMOCRACY.
why, my felIow-citizens what great
law upon the statute books of the Nation
was written there by the hand of Democ-
racy? They have only had charge of this
country four short years. just four short
years in all branches of the government,
since 1860, and you know what they did in
those four snort years. Yes, it was a
mighty carnival of soup and rags. [Shouts
have that repeated and that is to go back
TO the party that did it. tRenewed laugh
ter. They have had charge OF this coun-
try but four years in forty. You know
what they did in those four years. What
else have they ever done-and yet look
at the unmatched and unparalleled prog
ress of the country in the last forty years!
Who made possible that progress? Who
wrote every law who formulated every
statute, who was responsible for every
theory and for every principle thai mas
made this country the mystery OF the ages
The Republican party. Can't we trust II
again? Are we not willing to stand by 1t
once more? [Cries of yes, yes.1 We all
are, and so are the boys you left at nome,
out in the fields and in the factories, and
all those men that you came here to repre-
sent-we are all going TO try 1T again In
November [applausel. and the Republican
party will move forward in the future just
ii has in the past to the glorificauon OF
our State and to the glorihcation of this
Nation that we love so well-establlshed
by Washington and maintained by Web
ster, perpetuated by Lincoln and Grant,
enlarged by Mckinley and glorified by
million heroes who have fought and suf-
fered and died upon a thousand crimson
fields of strife. / thank you"
MR. HEMENWAY SPEAKS.
When Mr.. Watson finished his stirring
address there were repeated calls for
Representative Lands, but Senator Beve-
ridge was not able to locate him, and at
once there were insstent demands for Mr..
Hemenway, of the First district. He was
for some little time before his words could
be heard. He said:
Gentlemen of the convention. it makes
me happy when 1 look over the faces in
this convention / have been sitting here
wondering how a Democrat could have
stood up and talked for an hour and half
to a convention like this. Why you would
have had doleful tale of woe from the
time he started until he ended. Upon the
other hand. in Republican convention
you hear nothing but talk of prosperity
and good times and what the Republican
party has done in the past and what it
proposes to do in the future. 1t is party
that always proposes things and always
does things [applausel while the Demo-
cratic party is party that always talks
distress and hard luck and they are hap
piest when the people are in their hardest
luck. [Laughter.l
You do not know and you cannot
member, you older gentlemen here, when
the Democratic party was as happy as 1t
was in 1896 when we had soup houses all
this United States and more distress
than we have had since the civil war. |
don't understand how the Democratic party
can go into this campaign and offer any
reason why you should vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. What are they going to say?
What are they going to point tL. to in the
Ocratic party has done and say, for this
reason vote our ticket this time. Not
single thing is there. Upon the other hand.
the Republican party can point to the rec
ord as our junior senator has pointed to
it to-day, that makes every of you
proud. You old gray-haired down there
that voted for Abraham Lincoln YOU are
proud of it and you proud of every
act Of the Republican party from that day
up to this blessed minute How about my
Democratic friend? Can he point back 20
the record of his party and say he is proud
of it? When you call his attention to the
record of Grover Cleveland, does he say
he is proud of it? No. no. He says: For
Gods sake don't mention him; he didn't
belong to us anyway. Yet in three cam
paigns they talked of him as glorious Gro
yer and did everything in their power to
elect him.
IF there is any man in this convention
or any man in the State of Indiana at this
time that can tell what the Democratic
party will try to spring an issue in the
next campaign, L have not found him.
How earth they go to the people
with their record compared with the
record of the Republican party and hone
for success in the next campaign / do not
understand. They cannot do it, The peo-
pie of this country understand their bust
ness too well. [Applause.l They know
too well the business capacity of the Re-
publican party; they know too we'll what
the Republican party has accomplished in
the Nation in the last five years; they
know too well what the Republican party
has accomplished in the State of Indiana
in the last two years, and | predict that we
will have such a Republican landslide in
the next campaign such as we have never
had before in the history of the Repub-
lican party
SPEECH OF FREDERICK K. lands.
AS Representative Hemenway was taking
his seat renewed calls for Representative
Overstreet and Fred Lands came from va
rious parts of the auditorium and Senator
Beverage announced that the champion of
sound money in the halls of the national
House OF Representatives would address
the convention. Mr. Overstreet had. how
ever, disappeared, and the attention of the
great assemblage was at once centered on
the youthful congressional aspirant from
Dogansport-Frederick K. Landis-who was
presented by Senator Beveridge with the
remark that he himself was very anxious
to hear the silver-tongued young orator
The applause that greeted Mr.. Lands was
so enthusiastic that it was some time be-
fore he could make himself heard The
him. as was evidenced by the eagerness
with which the entire audience leaned for
ward that they might not miss a single one
of his forceful periods. Mr.. Lands spoke
as follows:
MIR. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention-Man is the wisest of animals
except when he votes the Democratic
ticket. Laughter and applause / believe
in another party. i believe in the party of
liberty, protection, honesty, valOE common
sense, sunshine and human progress.
IGreat applause.l 1 believe in the party
of Abraham LincOln-that mystic minging
of star and clod whom sorrow made mer-
ciful and mercy made immortal To men
ton his name is ennObling and to emulate
his life is religion. Applause
Il believe in the party of Ulysses s.
Grant, the grandest knight who e'er on