The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27

white race predoninates which they cannot
by any possible means except by more
palpable fraud than they ever yet at
tempted control for Democracy
The cry of force bill in no wise intimi-
dates me. | would defy the opposition in
my State 10 discuss that proposition with
me upon the stump before any audience
which might gather The last so-called
election in North Carolina was conducted
IN many parts under police regulations
OF the most partisan and Objectionable
character and the force bill is already
there by the enactment of a Democratic
Legislature To my mind the man who
steals your ballot is no less a thief than
the man who steals your horse. and the Of
tense committed is rs propOrtionately great
er in the first instance as the value OF a
mans freedom is greater than that of a
chattel.
BUSINESS MEN IN ACCORD.
There is not a Southern business man.
L viii venture to say, who is not fully in
accord with the leading tenets of the Re-
publican faith and the general policy Of
our party, but intolerance. political subju-
cation, personal insults, business boycotts
and social ostracisn force them as matter
of self-preservation to remain neutral To
me this question is of vastly more i'm
portance than to you. 1 have seen the
sterile. East grow rich and powerful under
center with its vast wealth and teeming
millions the result of Republican ad
ministration; 1 have seen the vast prairies
Of the West populated-Widespread
plains blossom like the rose-under our pol
icy. / have seen every industry in this
land develop from infancy into great giants
OF strength and power, waste places made
alive, while my own section, the most Ia
vored of all, upon which nature bestowed
blessings with lavish hand, grope blindly
and doggedly in the shadow of the unfor-
tunate past and live only TO retard and hold
in allegiance the influences which sought to
make US prosperous and happy.
"A citizen dies; his coffin we order from
Grand Rapids; the screws which fasten 1t
together come from Pittsburg; the shoes
placed upon his feet come from Massachu-
sets; the clothes upon his person from
New York; the gloves upon his hands from
Connecticut; the socks upon his feet from
Fall River; the shirt upon his body from
New haven; the only thing that the South
has furnished is the dead body and the six
feet Of earth in which to place it. Sad
comment upon the wisdom of Democratic
craftsmanship from the fairest section of
our great land. As a Republican l protest
against this. In behalf Of the teening
thousands of poor in the South, in behalf
of our unemployed labor, in behalf of our
broad acres of cotton, our great agricul-
tura advantages | stand and plead for a
change of policy and pray the hand of God
TO stay the wild course of the vicious, de-
signing politician who repelS each succeed
ing day the friendly light which would
willingly cheer our way. Employ all of
our idle labor, manufacture our products
at home make the South what it was des-
tined to be-a manufacturing community
and the negro question will settle itself.
Mr.. POSTMASTER. in conclusion l desire
to say that / am proud of the history of
our party; / am proud OF its achievements;
L glory in its unconquerable progress It's
history is written in every institution OF
the land; it is engraven in the mind Of
every child that looks upon the star
spangled banner or hears Three Cheers for
the Red. White and Blue 1t is hallowed
by the memories of Lincoln, Grant. Sher-
man. Garfield. Blaine Harrison and McKin-
lev and the thousands OF others who have
lent their strength TO its success or died in
its service. The wisdom of its policy is
proclaimed by the screaming whistle, great
surging engines drawing trains and swift
flying commerce. L congratulate you upon
the fertile. soil of your great plains, the
sun-favOred. wind-swept plains. your great
commonwealth the enterprise of your citi-
zens your distinguished public servants,
your splendid city and magnificent club
with it's membership of princes of good fell
lows"