The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-13
.srhe Coming Campaign

Judge u. q. Wiley, of the state Appellate
Court, had for his theme The Coming
Campaign" He said:
I'VE will enter on Inc coming campaign
with the prestige OF four successive ~
tories, won in an open field and honoraDle
battle. We VIII have 10 our credll the WIS.,
judicious and economical administrator OF
our state government, unoer fNtpuoIiS1Ls,
control, since 1885, which must comm ., ~
itself 10 the public conscience anu JUS
ment We have behind US and with US the
splendid achievements OF our party lon L.. -
a century. which has blazed the way anu az
brought our Nation 10 be the leaoef VI CIV
1nzed powers the world over -. -.
we have the glorious memory -
past as an inspiration for the pIeSeht ", ~.
as an incentive for the future we nav -
strengthen and buoy US up the tno 1lA - -
that upon the triumph of the RepuoiiiiCA n
party and the supremacy or Repuohcah
principles depend, in large measure; tne
continued prosperity, progress anu uS'eA-
opment or our country.
I'VE enter the coming campaign crowned
with the helmet Of public commence, "eat
ing the breastplate OF duty Wen uone 60 CO.
with our loins girded by the sacred pei.
Torrance of every promise mace 70 lhe
people. Yea, more than this we are not ul
mindful OF the fact that we are tns iesa
tees Of a princely inheritance, HANDED down
TO US by our great captains and lea1s .I >
who have guided our party and shaped the
policies OF the Nation during the must
eventful years OF our history.
ITO win future victories and maintain
future supremacy, our party, In the iuluIo'
as in the past must keep close TO the peOS
pie, and heed the quickened cohSclSIo 80 Oa
the public. Our strength has been, not alone
In the grandeur and glory OF our principles,
but in the fact also. that the people nave
been with US, and they have been Win us
because we have been right To keep inc
people with us, therefore, we must remain
right. The Republican party has never hau
an inclination TO go off after false propnets,
nor to follow political will '-the-wisps
into dark and forbidden places. 1t has new
ct become hysterical, nor lost Its equlnprl-
um upon the suggestion OF political chime
ras. For more than forty years II mas met
in the open field its political opponents ana
driven them, in disorder and despair. from
every fallacious and untenable posltloh
they have asserted. We have immersed tne
captain of their salvation and laid bare the
political hereSieS which he champloned.
1T is important that we return 10 the
lower branch of the Congress at least nine
Republican congressman from this state,
and to win one or two additional ones from
Democratic districts, that we may 90 our
whole part in perpetuating a Republican
Congress that will be in accord with the
administration, so there may be no let OF
hindrance in carrying forward the poilcE
of our late martyred President, which mas
been so ably taken up and champloheu py
our present chief magistrate.
1T is important that We elect 10 the next
General Assembly of our State a majority
of Republican members of both houses 10
Of the United States our present able, WISE
conservative and distinguished senior SEN
ator, Charles w. Fairbanks. The electlon
of state senator's is doubly important for
the reason that those who are elActed IN
1902 will have a voice in the election OF a
United States senator in 1904, and we SHOULD
see to IL, that we have such an overwhelm-
ing majority of the hold-oyer senator's that
there can be no doubt OF the political CON-
plexion of that body in 1900, and this VIII
make certain the return to the United
States Senate of our brilliant and com
mandlng junior senator, Albert J. Bever-
idge.
'It is also important we have Repub-
lican Legislature, TO the end that our penal,
eleemosynary and educational institutions
may be kept on the high plane upon Whlch
they have been placed.
1T is further important that the admin
istrative branch or the state government
be continued in Republican hands, so that
wise, and economical, and business meth
DDS be perpetuated, and the State relieved
of its burden of debt"