The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
BIG INTERESTS AT STAKE
LOSS OF CITY MAY MEAN LOSS OF
COUNTY, STATE AND NATION
Republicans in Doubt Should Resolve
Doubt in Favor Of Party
An Enthusiastic Meeting.

battle cry for the closing days of the city
campaign last night in his speech in Tom
linson Hall. Rally round the colors! was
his tocsin, and the tremendous enthusiasm
which his speech aroused demonstrated be-
yond doubt that the Republicans of In
dianapolis will at the close of this memofa-
BILE campaign present a solid phalanx 10 the
common enemy and retain the stronghold
which is the key to the county, State and.
perhaps, the Nation.
The meeting was the largest and best
OF the campaign and the junior senator
was given a greeting and a hearing that
showed his popularity and the weight which
his fellow Republicans attach to his utter
ances. Every word of his address received
the closest attention and his appeal to
the distinguishing characteristic of all
Americans, their desire for fair play; his
dignified rebuke Of the traducers of the
mayor who have advanced accusations and
vilifcations without proof: his praise Of
Mr.. Bookwalters private and public life;
his defense of Indianapolis as city TO be
proud of. and his exposition OF the impor-
tance that attaches TO the result of the
city election. provoked repeated and pro-
longed applause. In conclusion Senator Bev-
out their differences within their own ranks
and that when in doubt they should re-
solve that doubt in favor of party.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE.
There have been larger crowds in Tom
linson Hall than the one of last night, al
though the occasions have been few and
far between, but there has been none more
enthusiastic, even in the heat of State and
national campaigns when the most vital
issues have been at stake. conserva-
tive estimate places the crowd at $500
when the assemblage was called TO order,
and it is certain that every seat in the hall
was occupied, and that between 500 and 600
men were standing. Every person in the
hail. even the women, of whom there was a
goodly number, seemed thoroughly in ac-
cord with the spirit o. the occasion, and
the sentiments of the speakers and spon-
taneous expressions of such feeling were
frequent and unmistakable.
1t was late when the meeting was called
TO order, due to the parade Of the Marion
Club, which escorted Senator Beveridge
from his residence on North Pennsylvania
street to the hall. The members Of the club
assembled at the clubhouse on North Meri-
dian street at 7:30. formed a line that COW
cred twelve squares, and included not less
than 1000 men, and marched up Meridian
and over TO the senator's home. Return
ing, the line passed over TO Illinois and
down that thoroughfare 10 Washington,
thence to Pennsylvania to Market and over
to the hall The entrance of the members
of the club, headed by band. was the sig
nal for the outburst of applause, which
was maintained until Senator Beveridge,
DIR. p. III. Jameson. Mayor Bookwaiter.
Chairman E. d. Logsdon and others made
their appearance on the stage, when the
demonstration swelled into a veritable ova-
tion. The crowd stood and cheered and
cheered again, and 1t required vigorous
pounding with the gavel to restore a SEM
blance of order.
Chairman Logsdon called the meeting to
order, and in few words presented DIR.
p. ii. Jameson, the permanent chairman.
Dr. Jemeson, who has been a Republican
of Republicans since the inception of the
party, was given rousing reception, and
his brief speech was an effective opening
of an effective meeting. He said:
DR. JAMESON'S REMARKS.
MY Friends and Fellow-citizens-I appear
before you in an unusual role. but whether
in the chair or upon the floor. am always
at home in a Republican meeting.
"At the inception of the Republican
party in June, 1854, / circulated and pro-
cured the names TO a call for State mass
meeting of the opponents of Stephen A.
Douglass's celebrated Nebraska bill. which
repealed the Missouri Compromise TO pave
the way for the entrance OF slavery into
Kansas. This measure startled the North
as never before, and was the beginning OF
the death struggle of slavery.
This meeting was largely attended, and
many of the best men of the State were
present, among whom We're Henry D Lane.
Oliver p Morton, George W. Julian, Cod
love 8 Orth, Judge Test. and Ovid Butler.
the writer of the call. From this meeting
sprang the Republican party, which was
organized soon after.
.'This party i'm 1861 came into power. and
was charged with the most stupendous work
of that age or any other. the saving OF the
Union and the abolition of slavery. / was
then a Republican. in the fifties, because
that party was the deadly weapon OF
slavery; in the sixties. because IL stood
for the maintenance or the American
union; later. in the seventies. eighties. nine
ties because IL In favor of protection
and high wages and for resumption, sound
money and honest payment OF the public
debt and. finally. because IL favored the
Jeffersonian doctrine OF territorial expan-
sion.
.sThe Republican party has always had
its malcontents. When that pure. honest.
intensely humane and magnificent man.
Abraham Lincoln. was near closing his first
term there the usual outcry about inn
becility, corruption and maladmlnlstrstion
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