The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-05
MR.. FORAKER AT TERRE HAuTE
BRILLIANT OHIoAN ADDRESSES AN
ENTHJsIAsTIC AUDIENCE.
Relations of the Tariff and the Trusts
Phases Of Indiana Politics.

stan Correspondence Of the Journal
CLINTON. Ind, Oct. 4-Senator Fair
banks wound up a weeks campaigning In
southern and western Indiana this afternoon
with a splendid address In the Clinton
Opera House. The senator came here from
Linton this morning. having addressed the
miners of Greene county last night. He was
met at Terre Haute by H. ". Nixon, of
Newport. chairman OF the Vermillion coun-
ty Republican committee. Mr.. Nixon pre-
sided at the meeting at 2 o'clock, and intro
duced Senator Fairbanks.
AT the depot, on his arrival here, the
senator was met by a reception committee
composed of Mayor d. c. Johnson, W. L.
Morey. John Hale. George Patterson. Frank
Michel. James Stogsdili, James Youmans
and James II. Wilson. A brass band COM
posed OF Italians, most of whom work in
the mines near Clinton, played IN front Of
the hotel where the senator took dinner,
and afterward played in front of the opera
house. Senator Fairbanks was introduced
TO number of Clinton citizens before
speaking. One of those presented to him
was Wilbur Daniel Johnson, the four-year-
old grandson of Mayor Johnson. The little
man was so pleased with the senator that
he insisted on presenting him with bright
red flower for his button-hole The senator
placed the flower on his coat and wore 1t
while he delivered his speech, to the great
delight of the little fellow
The Clinton meeting was one of the most
interesting held by Senator Fairbanks dur
ing the week. The stage was set for a par
Tor scene and looked very attractive. 1t was
decorated with flags, and a single portrait
OF the lamented Mckinley, draped In black,
stood on an easel at the left of the senator
as he spoke. Almost every vocation about
Clinton was represented in the audience
The miner was there with the farmer end
the business man. There were many young
men present and quite a number of we'll
dressed young women were in the audience.
The speech was one that would interest all,
and the audience gave Senator Fairbanks
the best OF attention. On the stage were a
number or elderly men who have gone
through many a campaign. and who indi-
Gated by their presence that they were pre-
pared 10 do some active work in the one
that Is now on Senator Fairbanks told one
CT two good stories in the course Of his
talk, f.nd was guilty of a neat bit of satire
st the expense of the Democracy. The op-
era house is near the railway station and a
lece motive whistle interrupted the senator.
We'll, ] did a good deal OF campaigning in
1886" he declared, but / do not remember
l was interrupted by a single whistle Of
Senator Fairbanks impressed on his hear
ers the thought that il Is at the ballot box
where the voter really has a chance to ex-
press himself with effect. His ideas along
this line were as follows:
II have sometimes thought some of us
p do not value enough the elective franchise:
that We are too Indifferent as to its exer-
else. What may say or what NAV think
upon political questions, and what you NAV
say and what you may think upon them is
OF no moment IL We do not vote upon them:
IL Is at the ballot box and there only that
We can give effective expression of our DO
litical convictions. 1t is there and there
only that the destiny of the Republic is
determined. We may debate questions in
public assemblages, We may consider them
around the family hearthstone but all this
Is futile IL our deliberate and mature judg-
ment Is not recorded at tine ballet box We
should not vote ballot to crafty prejudice
or hate, nor should we cast one out of
mere whim and caprice. We should vote as
a patriotic conscience shall dictate must
vote as viii best promote the interests of
my family. myself and my neighbors We
are inscparably bound together. We ALI
suffer alike under bad laws and bad ad-
mintstration; We all share in a measure
the blessings Of good policies and success
ful government. Party prejudices should
not bind US and blind US. Parties are neces-
sary but above them Is country III a
rarry does not advance the country's well
.ere and the prosperity of the people it
should not expect nor should IL receive our
vote Democratic leaoers have been un-
fortunate I'm their policies. Time has proved
90 nor in 1900, and they were never more
unworthy of our approval than they are
to-day. Let US take no step backward"
e. A c.