Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1904-01-02

Fairbanks said: CT have been regular
attendant ct these meetings of the rep
resentatives of the great Republican,
party in the state of Indiana for many
years past and can bear testimony to
that which you can all bear witness,
| that in all of the years back of US there
never was gathered together such a
magnificent audience as this today
1t is full of significance, and it Ia -
necessary for me to interpret to you
what that significance is. The distin-
guished governor intimatsd that we
must settle all differences. l almost
always agree with hir2. but I do not
precisely agree with him in that ut
| terance, for, knowing the Republicans
of Indiana as do, l know that
they have no differences, they are
together In the closing hours OF this
historic year they are firm and united,
an intrepid force for good government.
We shall go into the CONG contest
with no apologies upon our lips. We
will go appealing to the enlightened
judgment OF the people of Indiana
upon a record of illustrious deed ac-
complished in the interest of the state
and in the interest of our common
country.
1--WE have administered the affairs
of the state in a splendid way. We
have given the people of Indiana
splendid business administration, the
best in the history of the state We
have given them economy and efici-
ency in the public service. The Re
publican party is successful because
it carries business principles into the
management of the business interests
Of the people. We are greatly in
debred for what we have accom- Dlished
in state affairs to our splendid cover
nor and we are indebted not Gully to
him but to the state officers elected by
the Republican party who stand with
him in the execution of the laws of
the state.
'sIt is the supreme duty of party in
trusted with power to see that the
public service is made clean. Our
great, our brave our Incompatible
president, Theodore Roosevelt. by his
conservation to the public interests,
challenges the admiration of the en-
tire civilized world. He has been con-
fronted with great emergencies, such
as have come to few WHO have Occu-
pied that exalted Office. He has met
those exigencies with one supreme,
one exalted ambition. and that is to
raise our country higher and higher
in the esteem of the world. He has
advanced prosperity at home and in
creased the prestige of our nation in
all of the nations of the earth-pros-
perity at home and unparalleled pres
tige abroad. My countrymen, that is
a record. upon which we may appeal
successfully to the deliberate. the en-
lightened judgment of the American
people. The course he has followed
with such signal ability he will con
tinue to pursue. He is thoroughly
conseerated to the public service; his
north star is the public interest
81 cannot, fellow-citizens, allow the
occasion to pass without calling atten-
ton to our representation in the ma
tional house of representatives We
never were better represented in the
lower house of congress than we are
today We have never had position
so influential in that august assembly
as we have today Indiana has caught
what is the undeniable fact. that those
states have little influence. in a nation
al congress which soon turn out Of
power the representatives they send
there. Those states most loyal u
their representatives and who con
tinue them longest in the public serv-
ice go forward and upward to a con
handing influence among the states
in our national legislature
s'I trust and believe, and it gives me
infinite pleasure here to bear witness
to the fact, that my honorable col
league Senator Beveridge will sue
| coed himself in the senate of the
United States. where he has served
and is serving SO admirably and so
well. re has we'll served the state
and it is now the states opportunity
to commit to his keeping once more
her high commission in the highest
| Legislative assembly in the world No
party, no matter how great and splen-
| did it IS, can win a political contest
without leadership, without organize
| tion. And. felloW-citizens, in no state
| in this Union is intelligent, clean and
| aggressive organization more absolute
| 1y necessary to party success than in
! the state of Indiana. | am gratified
| to know that the Republicans Of Indi-
| ana with one accord have said that our
| leader in 1904 shall be James P. Good
! rich, chairman of the state committee.
1t is a place of Incompatible difficulty.
| 1t requires genius and capacity of
! high order; it is an arduous and
sometimes a thankless task; and I
here and now express to him what is
| in the hearts of every one here