The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-02-05
ACCEPTS THE TRUST
Senator Fairbanks Eloquent Address
to the General Assembly Of
( Indiana.
INSPIRING HISTORY OF INDIANA
Stimulates Our Pride And Challenges
Our Admiration---lndiana's Pride
: In the Nation.

Our Admiration---lndiana's Pride
/. In the Nation.
IN This, the Seat Of a Vast Empire, Is
the Storehouse Of the Nations Fur
ture Sire myth - American lnstitu-
tions Are Stronger Today Than
They Have Ever Been Before-The
Future Is Full Of Opportunity and
Full Of Hope.
The great victory Of Indiana Repub-
licanism in November last reached it's
most significant consummaiion il the
election of Senator Fairbanks for an
other term of six years. The address
Of Senator Fairbanks accepting the
trust thus imposed upon him, is one
which ought to be read by every Indi-
anian, regardless of party. 1t is
thoughtful, eloquent, and marked
throughout by deep patriotic feeling
transcending all merely partisan con-
siderations. Senator Fairbanks said:
Mr.. President, Mr.. Speaker and
Members of the General Assembly:
81 come to thank you and, through
you. to express my profound gratitude
to the people of Indiana for the great
honor of a second election to the
United States senate. The unanimous
expression of my party associates and
the manifestation of personal good
will by all parties, lend pleasure to
the acceptance of the high commission
of the state without which it would
possess no attraction. There is no
place. however exalted, which has
aught of honor in it. Honor abides
alone in the confidence and hearts Of
the people. M
Duty Regardless of Party.
Il accept the credentials which you
have so generously rendered, with an
undivided allegiance, and with a full
appreciation of the responsibility
which their acceptance imposes. They
devolve upon me duty to the people
Of the state and the country, without
regard to mere party Affiliations, and
1t is my purpose to serve them all to
the utmost of ms humble ability.
The vast majority of the questions
which engage the attention of those
who serve the people in the national
legislature do not sharply divide poll
tical parties.
1T is signal honor to be called to
represent Indiana in the senate of the
United States. Our state is one of
the best in the. Union. She has been
carved literally out of the wilderness
by as noble men and women as ever
founded commonwealth.
indiana's Inspiring History.
"Her history is the plain and inspir.
Ing story Of brave, energetic, liberty.
loving and cod-fearing people. II 10
. history which stimulates our pride
and challenges our admiration.
THE state, as we witness her today,
strong, splendid and full of the prom
Use of even greater. and better things,
is but comparatively young. She is
less than one century old, and now
holds within her borders nearly three
million of intelligent, prosperous and
happy people.
When We look upon the transform
alton of the forest and the swamp
during the brief period of her exist
ence, into well-cultivated fields, pros
porous villages and cities, we stand
amazed at the gigantic task which has
been wrought, and are filed with in
expressible admiration for and graf
itude to, those whose genius, sacrifice
and energy nave accomplished it.
BY Restless Energy.
"The result has not been achieved
by drones nor by ignorance, but ~
a high order of intelligence and by
restless energy; by men and women
who loved the state, who worshiped
at the sacred altar of the family fire
side, and who believed in the virtue
of Republican institutions and In the
saving grace of the Christian religion.
THE state has been builded to her
present proportions by those who had
an answering faith In her destiny,
and who wished that their children
should arise to still higher and better
conditions than they had attained.
Nature and man have confederated
to make Indiana what she is. She has
been lowered with an equable climate
with vast forests, with a prolific soil,
and with great mineral wealth. The
primeval forest did not invite repose.
1t had to be cleared and swamps had
to be drained before the farmer could
SOW and reap. Highways had to be
constructed through virgin territory,
to village, to market and to mill.
"All of this required reflection, toll,
patience, perseverance and frugality-
the fundamental prerequisites of en-.
during success Fortunate, indeed, the
state which has been erected upon
such q rugged foundation
"Our people are pervaded In the full
est and highest sense with the very
spirit and soul of democracy. They
are not the worshipers of wealth, nor
Of place. nor Of power.
Men are esteemed only because
they possess those qualities which are
essentially the fruit of the best civil
lization, and not because of their e.
tates. or station or ancestry. We
nave cosmopolitan 'pulafion.
Drawn From the Best Blood.
I'VE have drawn from the Puritan
Df New England and from the Cavalier