The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-31

try, who are familiar with great national
questions, can you tell what will be the
main point i'm the Democratic platform
next year? Can anybody tell?
"Ah, but when we turn to the old Repub-
lican party there is no question where it is
going TO stand. We know in advance what
will contain, who it's leaders will be and it
will be just the same throughout the cam
paign, for this party of ours never lowers
it's flag and never turns its back in the face
OF an enemy.
COURAGEOUS THING.
'Tn 1892 we did what no administration had
ever done before just before a campaign.
We passed the Mckinley law just before
campaign came on. Then followed a cam
paign of Misrepresentation and fraud and
deceit all over the country, and we went
down. Some people advocated a change
Of issues, but the heart and the conscience
Of the party was true to the principle and in
the darkest hour our party has known since
the civil war we kept afloat the old banner
of protective policy and it has INDICATED
itself and has brought our country where it
is to-day. the marvel of civilization. We
need not be afraid of that doctrine.
Now, my fellow-citizens l am not here
to make speech. l don't like TO make a
speech to fellows who know just as much
about the thing / telling of do and
who have just as much love for the old
party as 1 have. And we all love the old
party and to-day engaged in advocat-
ing the same principles and espousing the
same policies as engaged the thought and
attention of Abraham Lincoln, of Ulysses
S. Grant, of Benjamin Harrison, of William
Mckinley and of all the noble dead who
have made this Republic what it is and
made 1t what 1T is in spite of the opposition
of the Democratic party.
Now, gentlemen, let us go out and carry
this enthusiasm We get here to-day to the
precincts of this State of ours Let us look
in old Hoosierdom. Let us go down to the
precincts and organize, and organize, and
organize, and fight the battles of this old
party of ours. Then, gentlemen, will
again vindicate the proud position Indiana
to-day occupies in the States of this Union
and keep to the front the great Republican
party and the grand old name OF Indiana"
FREDERICK lands.
Representative Frederick Lands, of Lo-
gansport. the youngest member of the In
diana congressional delegation, spoke as
follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Republicans:
The time was when Massachusetts spoke
for the Nation and the voices of Webster
and Sumner We're political prophecy. The
time is when Indiana speaks for the Ma
ton, and the utterances of Fairbanks and
Beveridge are the advance sheets of politi-
cal history. And Indiana speaks to-day for
the party of human liberty and common
sense. And that party speaks for every pol
icy that has made this country great and
will make ii greater. She speaks for our
policy in the Philippines, and, while she
does not favor governing people without
| the consent of the governed she does favor
| civilizing savages without the consent Of
! the civilized. Applause and laughter And
| TO the criticisms that the water cure has
| been cruel, she replies that in all of its
| horrors it will not compare with the soup
| cure administered by the Democratic party
| TO the people of this country from 1893 to
| 1896. She speaks for the Old-fashioned pol
| icy of protective tariff, the policy that
has made us the factory OF the world and
| the captain of the nations. And to the
| charge that here and there bad man, by
| a bad method. has gained something, she re-
| plies that she will, through legal channels
| punish the malefactors; but she will not en-
| ploy the Russian massacre method and an