The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-27

BRILLIANT ADDRES!
(By Associated Press.)

of State John Hay addressed large
crowd of people at Carnegie hall
this evening. In part he said:
"This campaign will be memoir
able in our annals as one of the
quietest ever known. Rarely in our
recollection has there been so little
excitement, so light disturbance of
the orderly course Of affairs. Why
is it that these great assizes where
eighty millions Of people are to de-
eide in whose hands they are to
! place their interests for the next
four years should be approached
with SO little noise, with such unus-
ual calm? Why is it that the Amer
lean people are possessing their
souls in such repose?
"There is, I venture to say, no
explanation Of this state of feeling
except that the people Of this coun-
try have made up their minds that
there is to be for the present no
change in the principles and policies
that have proved SO successful in
the last eight years. They had re-
solved definitely and clearely in
1896 that their temporary alteration
from the policy when as long ago
as the time of Henry Clay was call
ed American system had not resulted
favorably. They intrusted William
Mckinley with tha task of bring
ing the country back to its old bear
ings, restoring the well-tried ways
of the national housekeeping He
showed himself worthy Of their coll-
fidence In four years the country
made great progress alon" It's reg
ular old fashioned lines of healthy
development, and in 1900 when he
gave an account of his stewardship
the people approved it and renewed
his term of Office. An unspeakable
crime snatched him away from his
glorious task and our loving con
fdence In the classic myth when 1
the golden bough was torn away, = Il
other Immediately appeared III ftss|
place. Theodore Roosevelt tx up
the burden our beloved Chief lait
down and with incompatible conr-
age and strength has carried it on.
With the work of both these faith
full servants the American people are
satisfied Believing and intending
that the work shall 60 on in the
hands and under the guidance which
has been found so efficient, they are
not wasting so much time as usual
from their private affairs to show
an interest which is too universal to
need much advertising.
"The country can not afford to
intrust its vast domestic interests to
those who denounce as extrava-
CANT and unconstitutional all money
spent for the "general welfare to
promote which was one Of the spe-
cial objects for which the constitu-
ton was brought into being. Do
we want to give our gallant little
army TO the care of those who think
it ought to be disbanded, OR our
navy-which under this administra-
ton has carried our flag into so
many distant seas, never on wall
ton errand of hostility. but always
as the friend of American commerce
and the protector Of eur citizens
do we want it handed over to the
r1en who say it ought to be thrown
to the scrap heap? Do we want the
Philippines abandoned to be the vica
tins of misrule at the hands of their |
own agitators. or the prey of any
covetous power that may wish to
enslave them for it's own profita Do
we want to sneak out of the Isthmus
of Panama, acknowledge we have no
right there. and basely surrender the
hope and the dream of centuries
And do we want to forsake and re-
pudiate the foreign policy of Me-
Kinley and Roosevelt, which was al
so the policy of Lincoln and Mon
roe. which had its august origin |
in the heart and brain of GEORGE
Washington. of treating all coun-
tries as friends. doing business with |
Ill the peoples of good will. meeting !
courtesy with courtesy and wrong
with firmness, being just to all ma |
lions and partial to none2 |;
These are not idle questions. Ey-I
cry one of them is directly involved
n the result of this election. On