The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-01-07

together. In the closing hours OF this
historic year they are firm and united,
an interpid force for good government.
We shall go into the coming 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.
I'VE have administered the affairs
Of the state in a splendid way. We
have given the people of Indiana a
splendid business administration, the
best in the history of the state. We
have given them economy and ef1ci-
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
debted for what we have accomplished
In state affairs to our splendid COVER
nor, and we are indebted not only 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.
at 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-
iightened judgment of the American
people. The course he has followed
with such signal ability he will con-
tinue to pursue He is thoroughly
consecrated to the public service; his
north star is the public interest.
81 cannot. fellow-citizens, allow the
occasion to pass without calling atten-
tion 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 a position
so influential in that august assembly
as we have today. Indiana has caught
the right spirit; she has come 10 know
what is the undeniable fact, that those
states have little influence In q nation
al congress which soon turn out Of
power the representatives they send
there. Those states most loyal I,
their representatives and who con-
tinue them longest in the public serv-
ice go forward and upwrrd to a coy
manding influence among the states
in our national legislature.
II 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
ceed himself in the senate of the
United States, where he has served
and is serving so admirably and so
well. He has well 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 organiza-
ton. And, fellow-citizens, In no state
in this Union is intelligent. clean and
aggressive organization more absolute
ly necessary to party success than in
the state of Indiana. l 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 place of Incompatible dificulty.
It requires genius and capacity of a
high order; 1t is an arduous and
sometimes a thankless task; and
here and now express to him. what is
in the hearts of every one here
Thanks, thanks, all honor to you"