The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-11
FOR z CENT FARE.
Indiana Republicans Assemble
in State Convention.
Listen to Speeches and Agree
on Platform.
STAND BY THE TARIFF
Point With Pride to the Record
of the Party.
Endorse Roosevelt in Words of
Highest Praise.

Indianapolis. Ind, April 1.-THE
Republican state convention assem-
! bled today at Tomlinson hall to nomi-
nate state officers, with the exception
/ of candidates for governor. lieutenant
governor and reporter of the supreme
court.
Senators Beveridge and HemenWay
and Governor IIanly occupied seats on
the stage beside James P. Goodrich.
chairman of the state committee, who
called the convention to order and in
troduced Representative Abraham L.
Brick, of the Thirteenth congressional
district, as temporary chairman.
Senators Beveridge and Hemenway
made short addresses.
Beveridge Speaks.
Senator Beveridge said in part
THE Republican party has won all its
past victories as the champion OF pro-
gressive liberty. 1t must win It's 1u-
ture victories as the champion of pro-
gressive liberty 1t must always be
the here-and-nOw party, the up-to-
date party, the party of conservative
advance. A new era has opened upon
this world. For half a century we
have been answering the great ques-
tiOns which the welfare OF the Amer
lean people demanded and we an
:
turn to the new economic questions
questions which involve the righteous
ness of American business, 5uster
distribution of wealth by preventing
dishonest accumulation of gain
questions that look to the physical,
mental, moral upbuilding of all the
workers in factories and on farms
throughout the entire republic.
The Republican party is not the
enemy of wealth. It believes in prop
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it is also the friend of the people It
believes that the just rights of capital
and the real welfare of the people
are one and the same 1t believes
that all honest interests of the rev
are wrapped up in the prosperity of
party stands as q defender of all hon
est capital on the one hand, the pro-
tector of all peaceful labor on the
other-aye and therefore the Repub-
ilcan party is the enemy of those mod
ern Catalines who set at each others
throats the Iaborer and the man who
employs him.
"A class is swiftly forming who pro-
pose to solve the great social industrial
problems of the times by hasty, rad1-
| cal measures. Now and then even the
counsel of violence is heard This
group of extremists is already appro-
priating the name of the Democratic
party. Against them and their doc
trines the Republican party sets its
face like flint and for them and their
practices the Republican party has
hand of iron. We must be progressive,
we Republicans, but We must also be
+ conservative for the people demand
not only that our principles shall be
right, our purposes uplifting to the
I masses, but that our plans and poll
cies shall work out practical results
/ Radicalism is emotion at the boiling
point-conservat is merely COM
( mon sense at normal temperature.
The Platform.
The platform as agreed upon by
4 leaders of the party and by the resOlu-
tions committee, dwelt at length upon
state issues, indorsed President Roose-
Velt's administration, Vice President
/ Fairbanks conduct of his Office. the
! Indiana senators and representatives
and included the following planks:
I'VE favor the national regulation
/ of railroad rates in such manner as to
insure equality Of service TO all, upon
/ Just and reasonable terms. Such reg
ulation must be effected so as to ope-
rate justly upon the shippers, the
common carriers and the body of the
people.
I Republican doctrine of protection.
! Our commercial and industrial ex-
4 periences have fully yindicated the
( wisdom of this great economic policy.
And we adhere to the principle of pro-
!
is that schedules are to be changed
when experience shall suggest their
4 change. The Republican party, the
friend of the protective policy through
good and evil report, can be trusted to
make changes in tariff schedules
whenever more good than evil viii re-
suit.
I'VE recognize reciprocity as the
4 handmaiden of protection and favor
such reciprocal arrangements with
J of 79f5nnG will iFFTaz
eign trade without injury to American
4 industry.
I'VE favor the enactment of all laws
intended to protect the people against
the encroachments of combined capi-
tai. We realize that capital must
combine in a lawful way successfully
to conduct our modern industries and
commerce and we believe in protecting
it IN its legitimate functions.
Endorsement of Roosevelt.
1--WE endorse the action Of President
/ Roosevelt in rigidly enforcing the
antitrust laws placed upon the stat
ute books of the United States by the
/ Republican party.
The material moral and intellectual
progress of the people of Porto Rico
and the Philippines under American
administration is more rapid and sub
! stantial than that ever accomplished bv
] any people, under similar circuul-
/ stances The work of American school
tedciletS' OF Wnlcn indiana has furnish
/ ed far more than its quota is already
bearing fruit. and the people are also
learning modern methods of industry
and for the first time in their history
/ living under an orderly government Of
equal laws hnpartially enforced. while
/ their foreign commerce has increased
many fold.
I'VE heartily approve the efforts of
/ the Republican party in the cOnstruc-
I ton Of the Panama canal This work
\ of worldwide interest will in due time
be accomplished through the states
manship Of the Republican party