The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-10
Terre Haute and Vigo Republicans
Listen to Words of Cheer and
Counsel from State Leaders.
JOHN C. sCHANEY, OF SULLIVAN
RESPONDS FITTINGLY TO THE TOAST,
ORCHARD w. THOMPSON"
Attorney General Miller Speaks of
emission of Republican Party
Other Leading Features.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June 9.-The
Thompson Clubs annual banquet in observ-
ance of the birthday of the late Colonel
Richard w. Thompson, in whose honor the
club was named, was the most successful of
any of the several which have been given.
Arrangements had been made for 100 guests
but many more Terre Haute Republicans
would have been pleased at the last hour
to attend. The club officials had decided,
however, to avoid the embarrassment OF a
former occasion, when the sudden addition
or large number of banqueters at the last
hour was unpleasant. The club has been
taking on new life in the past few months
under the administration of President More
land and his associates.
From all accounts the factional deadline
which nearly caused the death of the club
has been obliterated Mr.. A. G. Cavins,
mittee deiivered the address CIV Of Welcome
at the banquet, and Mr.. George o. Dix
was POSTMASTER. The invocation was by
odist Church. The first toast was Richard
! w. Thompson" to which the Hon. John
c; CLANCY; of Sullivan. responded The
responded to the toast, 1.-The Republican
Party" The Rev. Joseph S. Jenckes who
had been law student in Colonel Thomp-
| sons office and afterward his partner, gave
| his personal recollections.
Mr.. CLANCY then spoke of Colonel Thomp-
| sons lifelong advocacy of the doctrines or
things needful for the prosperity and SOW
ereignty of the nation. AS could few other
men, he appreciated from personal knowl-
! ton. He was the son of a cavalier with
| the education of a Puritan, the associate Of
presidents, legislators, judges and diplo-
mats, always in touch with the progress
of the nation. Reared amidst slavery, he
| freed bondmen the next hour after they had
been decreed to him. In the prime of his
! life he became the advocate of mans hui
manity to man. Mr.. CLANCY reviewed
Colonel Thompson's efforts in behalf of
| educated citizenship, his practice of law,
his writings, and said that in his later
years he emerged from the best private
| library in the West to advocate the political
| doctrine that had blessed the country. AS
| provost marshal, Cabinet officer and emf
nent citizen he was "Uncle Dick every
where. His was the life of happy American
ism and he was a useful man because his
| principles are enduring. The purity of his
| life, the inerrancy of his counsels, will long
| have their effect on the people. Mr.. CLANCY
| told of the effect on his own life of seeing
| and hearing Colonel Thompson in 1872. when
| the colonel presided at a political meeting
| in Terre Haute addressed by Henry VIII
son, candidate for Vice President with
| MR. MILLER'S ADDRESS.
Attorney General Miller, in responding to
the toast. 1.-The Republican Party" spoke
| in part as follows:
ut is the mission of the Republican party
| to continue to advocate as its paramount
! Kinley, Prosperity at home and prestige
i abroad The Republican party means sue
cess; the Republican party has success be-
| cause il keeps pace with the natural move
ments of natural forces, and stands In har-
mony. with the industrial development Of
the Nation
1.-The Republican party believes that we
should carefully study the forces that have
| brought about Industrial progress, industri-
al cooperation and consolidation, in order
| to see If the acting forces cannot be used,
instead of abused. utilized, made produc-
tive, instead of destructive. The Republican
party proposes to regulate, but not to ami
hilate. The Republican party believes that
| movement means life, that stagnation
means death. The Republican party be-
lieves in the cooperation of individuals and
the cooperation of capital, and that to ar
rest either would be to arrest the wheels of
progress, to stay the march of cvilizatio
| to degenerate the community. We might as
| well endeavor to stay the formation of the
clouds the flowing of the streams as to at
tempt by any means, in any manner to
prevent the organization of industrial as
| soca tons to preserve aggregations of capt.
| tai, to any extent, that the ever-growing
trade of the world may demand. The nat
| ural law of CO. operation and combination
has visited labor as well as capital, and la
! Dor organizations exist and are in a posi-
ton to negotiate with capital to adjust diff
ferences. and under wise leadership. labor
unions and labor organizations will win the
respect of all.
1.-The Republican party declares against
any tariff that is conducive to monopoly;
but 1t does not propose to destroy industry.
Has the tariff been the cause Of trusts? 1t
has stimulated the building of factories and
mills and warmed industry into life. 1t has
made this country blossom like a rose
That is the answer. To fight trusts with
free trade is to conduct a campaign with a
smokeless chimney as the chief weapon OF
warfare, and whatever nation makes the
| attempt and whatever party advocates
such contest, Is sure to go down to defeat
and disaster.
laboring man has his battle ground, where
his rights are TO be maintained; that his
army is the great army of volunteers that
drilled, the best disciplined and the best
equipped army in the warld. The Republic
an party believes further that the battles
| fought by this army, properly organized,
| properly disciplined, properly led mean
greater equalization, greater fraternity and
means TO command respect everywhere
| 1.-The Republican party not only believes
in political and religious liberty, but il be-
! lieves in industrial liberty; it believes that
labor has right to organize, to make the
| laboring man more self-respecting place
labor in a position to divide with capital
! the wealth which their combinations pro-
duce: and the Republican party believes,
| still further, that capital has the right to
organize to do the commerce and business
Republican legislation has been passed
| against combinations for the monopoly of
trade. and kindred unlawful purposes Such
| combinations directly amenable to PEN
alties provided by Republican legislation,
| and a Republican administration has been
vigorous in the enforcement of these penal
| ties in our courts. No worthy business en-
| terprise is imperiled, but the theory of the
Republican party is that whatever will
work public harm should be restrained and
! that this restraint should be brought about
| without resorting to the Democratic plan of
| destroying all American industries through
/ tariff reform, otherwise. If further legis-
| lation should be found necessary the people
| of this country, as we'll as the people of the
world, can rely on the fact that the Re-
! publican party will enact such legislation
| and enforce it with equity and safety to all
| important interests.
1--WE are not a people to take backward
! steps Forward. always forward, has been
| across the Atlantic. marched forward from
| the coast to the mountains of the Allie
/ ghenies marched forward to the Mississippi
| river marched forward 10 the Rocky
/ mountains, marched forward TO the Pacific
! ocean, marched forward northward to the
| ends of the boundaries of Alaska. and again
| marched forward TO the Philippines and
wherever we have marched, wherever we
/ are found. have planted flag, we
/ have established our laws, we have pro-
| yided for education, We have established our
| civilization. we have dispensed the bless
| ings of progress. of free institutions and of
| liberty The Republican party says For
ward it is: onward il is and forward and
| onward il Will be forever.
! Among the guests from out OF town were:
| CONGRESSMAN Holiday. Mayor Moore Post
| master Falls and o. E Adams. of Brazil:
County Clerk Renick, Of Rockville. ]. ].
| Higgins, Peter Altman. DR.. Newhouse.
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