Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-26
NOT TO |NDORSE HIM
Indiana Republicans Will Obey
Wishes of Fairbanks.
BEVERIDGE'S ADDRESS
NE TERLY PRESENTATION OF
ADMINISTRATIONS RECORD.
Convention Opens in Indianapolis To-
day-Platform Will Indorss
Roosevelt Vigorously.

| called Tor the report of the committee on
permanent organization, chosen earlier in
the day. with members of the other COM
mlttees at district meetings of delegates.
| The convention will complete its work to-
morrow. after having nominated state
ticket, adopted a platform and named dele
gates and alternates at large to the ma
| ucpal republican convention and presi-
| Dental electors at large. The platform is
| being considered by the resolutions COM
niittee. which will report tomorrow. There
| viii be vigorous Endorsement of Pres
| dent Roosevelt's administration, and the
! delegates at large will be Senators Fair
banks and Beveridge. Gov Durbin and
State Chairman Goodrich will be instructed
I for him
The presidential electors at large agreed
| upon are: George A. Cunningham of
Evansville and Joseph D. Oliver of South
| Bend.
Temporary Chafrman's Address.
The following is the address of Repre-
sentative James E. Watson, who was made
| temporary chairman:
What will the issue be? Who knows?
| Isn't it true that the democratic party Is
| utterly without issue in this year of
| our Lord 1904? Without platform, with
| out principle, without an ISSUE without
a leader. Such is the present sad estate
| W. A
| that is the penalty it pays for always
| being wrong. That will disntegrate any
| institution on earth. Permanent organiza-
tion can be effected only by the standard
of the right.
THE democratic party dares not reaffirm
| single vital issue it has had in any plat
form in the last eight years. And when
| II holds convention 1t is its principal
business to dodge the issues and the cam
! didates 1t last had When il comes to write
platform the first thing 1t dlscards will
be the last thing 1T adopted.
Looking for Candidate.
ut will not dare to renominate the
| only man it has ever been able TO elect
President since the civil war 1t will
| not dare renominate the candidate 1t had
| In the last two presidential campaigns.
And it is now engaged in doing it's level
best to find some for a candidate
who has never expressed the faintest opti-
ion on any question that Is now or has
been before the people of this country for
the last quarter of a century.
! "An its past platforms dishonored by the
very men who adopted them. all It's past
leaders repudiated by the very men who
nominated them. 1t is adr--t as to issues
and is seeking some voicelesS hero to lead
| IL on to victory.
From having a candidate who did Moth
| ing but talk. IL is about to nominate
nan who never talks at all Who IS
Parker? Doubtless an upright man and An
honorable gentleman. But what does he
he free trader, tariff f-for-revenue advo-
| cate revisionist or high protectionist?
Stand on Financial Question.
How does he stand 10 to 1? 1t 10
said that he voted for ii. If so, did he be-
lieve in it? If he did, he ought not to be
President. If he did it without believing
in 1t, he ought not to be President.
Where is he on expansion? Does any
body know? What is his opinion on any
living question? Can anybody tell? Do
we propose to elevate a man to the loftest
station In the world that has no views on
any of the vital questions he will be called
at once to deal with?
He reminds me of a monograph into
which no sound has ever been uttered.
When you start the machine to grinding IL
gives off absolutely nothing. And yet, they
say he is eminently safe. deny it. Ii Is
a travesty on our government to so assert.
l deny that any idealess viewless, opinion
less man is to be trusted at all in that ex-
allied place.
1.-The mere fact that the democratic party
in sheer desperation is forced to take him
or do worse is no reason why our people
should accept its reason for so doing 1t
wants man without record. 1t knows
that If a democrat has a record at all. it
Is bad one and ii is. forced to take a
man without past; but the country can
and will be spared that infiiction.
Principles and Candidate Known.
Thank God, we are not so Impoverished.
We know what our principles are. We
know what our platform will be. We know
what candidate will nomipate. We are
not engaged In any device of now you see
it and now you don't with past problems.
There is not a man here today who would
be willing to change single plank in any
platform ever adopted by the republican
party in all the years of its history; in all
the years since the patriots of other days.
whose presence so inspires us here. were
aroused to heroic action.
Venerable fathers, you builded better
than you knew, for you planted your feet
on the enduring rock of human liberty. and,
with the accumulated results of fifty years
all about you, undreamed of then, are you
not today filled with pride because you aid
cd In the organization of party devoted to
the freedom of man and the fullest possible
development of our land"
Senator Beveridge's Address.
The following is the address of Senator
Beveridge. who was made permanent chair
man of the convention:
"Our theme is the American people Their
business prosperous, homes happy. prestige
high. relations cordial with every power.
They are the most hopeful human force the
twentieth century beholds The last eight
years will be known in history the be-
ginning of the American era How shall
the standard be maintained?
so far as government goes our record
and that of the. opposition answers that
question Craftsmanship cannot alone oop-
fer well-being a people; but lack OF it
may bring to naught every natural advanr
tage. The test OF craftsmanship Is resultR
Let others exploit theories-we stand upon
the facts.
I'VE have upheld the historic tariff sys-
tenn which Henry Clay named the Amer1-
can policy We win adjust schedules to
conditions as they change. maintaining al
ways the principle OF protection Business
il adjusted to 1t. Business never failed to
flourish under II. Business never failed to
decline without II. A policy which makes
good business II Is bad business to abandon.
Yet the opposition would destroy It Lat
the opposition explain-there stands the
fact.
Home Markets Preserved
Home markets have been preserved, and
at the same time foreign markets have