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

The Youngest Member.
Logansport, the youngest member of
the Indiana congressional deleSal on,
said: "The time was when A.as.-.
chusetts spoke for the nation and the
voices of Webster and Sumner were
political prophecy. The time is when
Indiana speaks for the nation, and the
uterances of Fairbanks and Beveridge
are the advance sheets of political
history. And Indiana speaks today
for the party of human liberty and
common sense. And that party speaks
for every policy that has made this
country great and will make it great
er. She speaks for our policy in the
Philippines. She speaks for the old
fashioned policy of protective tariff,
the policy that, has made us the fac
tory of the world and the captain of
the nations. This is the greatest love
feast we have ever had. 1t is an index
to the great majority which will be
polled next November We will begin
made and our success assured. This
is the country and this is the time.
A Canaan there was for the oppressed
of old and here another has been
founded, founded for the fleeing vic
Tins of later Egypts of oppression and
beneath our flag they shall build the
greatest nation of all time"
A Note of Warning.
Representative Elias s. Holiday of
Brazil, the only veteran of the civil
war now in the Indiana delegation in
congress, said: Many grand things
have happened in the history of the
party, but l want to remind you of
this fact, and that is, no matter how
splendid our record is we will have to
win upon what we are doing now.
The mill will never grind with water
that is past Our record is grand,
glorious, and will stand as long as we
represent the best sense of the Ameri-
can people, and let me tell you, my
friends, at this time, with these grand
speeches ringing in your ears, we must
prepare to face the enemy. There is
not one state in the Union that could
be carried by the Republican party
with an unpopular candidate, or with
an unpopular platform; there are ten
states in the Union at this time that
could be carried with any kind of a
candidate, or any kind of a platform
for the Democratic party. 1t is like
a chess player sitting down to the
board and taking OF some of the men
before commencing to play 1t is not
fair, but against this unfairness we
appeal to the best interests of the
American people. We don't go to
them and merely say. We have done
the work well In the past but we must
demonstrate the fact that we will do
the work better than any other party
can do this work."
Some Closing Remarks.
Former Mayor Charles A. Bookwal.
ter Of Indianapolis. man of whom the
Republicans over the state heard so
much during the recent campaign in
this city, was called for and responded
which set the audience laughing.
Charles L. Henry of the Indianapolis
Journal spoke very briefly in response
to the call for speech from him.
There is no doubt" said he. chat We
will enter upon very important cam.
paign, and are entering upon it at this
meeting. | likewise have no doubt
that we will enter it with good spirit
and go on successfully. | indorse
the sentiment of all that has been
said here today, and. from the chair !
man of the Republican state commit
tee to the precinct committeeman. we
will make the organization in Indiana
a perfect one, and one which will in
sure splendid success in the Novem-
Der election"
George Knox then arose and said: |
"I don't believe that any campaign or |
any picture will have beauty and gran |
deur without having background,
and so, therefore, to add color to the |
occasion, think we should hear from
Brother Brewer"
Gurley Brewer of Indianapolis was |
the last speaker of the afternoon, and
the only colored man called upon. Mr..
Brewer has done so much campaign
ing in Indiana that he is well known
to Republicans all over the state, and
he was given a cordial welcome In |
his brief speech he said: "The South
ern question rises like Banquo's ghost.
It will never die. There is south OF
the Mason and Dixon line an elemnt
which proposes to determine a citi-
zen's right to vote by the color OF his
skin. They have discovered that the
white man is different from that of the
black man. They have suddenly DIS
covered that the cuticle Of the white
man differs from the cuticle of the
black man. They have further dis.
covered that there are seven primary
colors of the rainbow, and that this
black man absorbs all of these colors
and refuses to reflect any of their ben
efit on the Democratic party.
'sNow, gentlemen, l want to an
nounce at this hour that am for The
odore Roosevelt because he is the rep
of the greatest political
that ever existed among
men. He is the representative OF that
party which elected Abraham Lincoln
president; he is the representative OF