Arizona republican., 1917-01-03

QlS or lndlafla. The speech NdS uS- livered at an Indiana society banquet | in Chicago, clipped from a newspaper | by Representative Longworth of Ohio, | and shown around the house until the clipping nearly fell to pieces. Then to make sure every member would see II ] Representative LongWorth interrupted the debate on the district bill so that the clerk would read it aloud and have in inserted in the Record.
 And Here's the Effort Here is the speech: Indiana has just finished a great campaign, and the result was due to diminished homicidal tendency among republicans and to the absence or so many democrats at Leavenworth,
 Tt was campaign of education, and the federal grand jury is now pre- pairing to issue the diplomas. In Washington the social season be- gins with congress, but with us 1t oe- gins with the grand Jury, ana thls august body opens automatically as the polls close.
 The people at home were resigned throughout the late contest. If the democrats won Marshall would be vice. president. and if the republicans won it would be Fairbanks.
 We were bound to lose, no matter l how it vent
 l | tivity: newly elected candidates ar" writing "reminiscences Of their child i hood and cigarette testimonials, de- featei candidates are withdra wing l from secret societies and entering the ! insurance business, graVel-road con | tractors, promoted by Anglo saxon unrest-and the dictogTaph-are nov | ing to the far west, party workers are closing cellar windows with the ! l,.st ga l lost election bets are dodging up ana down alleys; postoffice applicants are 1 sending petitions to congressmel and receiving garden seeds in reply, while multitudes from the land of my an- cestors are changing the names Of their children from Theodore s' Adolph'
 The whole contest was unsatisfac tory: whenever a man thought Of Hughes he was for Wilson. and when l ever he thought Of Wilson he was far 1 Hughes, asd SO the votes of states were cast fer ;hc gentleman whom the voters did not have in mind when they went to the polls.
 We of the e. o. p" were at q great disadvantage.
 It was charged that our nominees did not belong to the human race. and ! we were never quite able to supply ! 1 even with rhe assistance of John T. ! McCutcheon. by all odds. the most ef- | fective republican campaigner in the United States
 We were handicapped by another thing in the late fight; the masses could not be convinced that our lead CTS really were candidates for office. | Whole towns would come down to the railroad wards. where we had them on and hnn conclude that they must be on their way to a Dunkard conference some where.
 It was a great mistake to let any body see them
 Says Hughes Was Overtrained
 As in the case of that other great republican. James J. Jefferes Nil. Hughes was overtrained-and in both cases il occurred in California
 Looking backward, we now realize that the country would have been saved if we had just played croquet.
 Many were surprised when MT Wil- son received the votes of so many women. but that was only to be expec- ted. The women of the country arc very grateful to the president whoever he may happen to be; they realize that If men did not have him to abuse millions of them would beat their wivesi
 There is one thing. however. for which we may all rejOice--the people are thinking more than ever.
 God only knows what theyrs think ing about-but they are,
 Indiana is progressive on election day.
 She will not let any state go ! around her.
 And so she is for preparedness. | nf which Is necessary to prevent her be- ing pillaged by anybody except those whom she has elected for that pur- pose.
 She is not provincial. and she has no prejudice against foreign destroy CTS: she simply does not need them
 She has band of statesmen who are guaranteed to make any place re- Semble q Belgian cathedral Wltnlf forty eight hours.
 But while enthusiastically for pre- paredness," we cannot exactly agree as to it's habits and customs.
 Insist It Means Love
 The followers of Bryan insist that it means boundless love; they declare that we will never be absolutely safe till we have at least 20,000,000 trained Romeos.
 Then if the Japs should come, we | and utterly overwhelm them with q game of post office,"
 The adherents of the president are heroic they stand where Thomas stood at Chickamauga.
 They will consent to nothing less than universal penmanshipI
 The "Old Guard" of my altogether harmonious party would do nothing till danger stood at the door; 1t would just go on watering the stock till the invader appeared and then it would convene the national committee of l9ll and command it to throw the invader outi
 Since the passage of the corrupt practices act our prosperity has rested upon the farm It is the only thint which does rest upon the farm except the president of your society-Mr r George Ade.
 This gentleman has done a great thing for Indiana; he has developed her sense of humor till it is impossible to find anybody willing to serve on q governors staff.
 It is doubtful if the country could have survived the last four years without George Ade.
 When. President Wilson cold cream ed the dictionary and powdered it ant florida watered it and penciled its eye-lashes and taught it to 'walE Spanish and enter the parlor properly and bow and retire without turning it's back on any of the company" ol bringing it's hustle in contact with tho whatnot--it was at this critical period in our national life that the head o1 vour society became indispensable tt our very existoncei