Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-07
TAGGART LAUDS
7. M. G.. A. EFFORT
FOR YOUNG MEN
Senatorial Nominees Paper
Read at Meeting of
Bible Club.
VAN NUYs ALSO SPEAKS

continue to be constructive. Thomas Tag
CART. Democratic nominee for United
States senator, declared in a statement
at meeting of the Bible Investigation
Club at the Y. NJ. C. A, last night.
Mr.. Taggart had been invited to speak
at the meeting. but was unable to do so.
Frederick Van Nuys. United States dis
trict attorney, spoke at the meeting On
the League of Nations.
Mr.. Taggart's statement follows:
ut is disappointing to me that l can
not be present tonight to join you and
the young men Of the Y. NJ. C. A. at
dinner.
IT would like to have availed myself
of this opportunity to show my respect
for them and my kindly feeling for your
organization.
This is one organization in which 1
have, to your knowledge, long been in
- terested.
4 >believe the Y. NJ. c. a. to be one
of the really great institutions of this
country.
1T know of no other institution that
renders finer service to young men
than it does.
at helps to plant them upon a secure
their lives and when it is most important
that they get the right view of life.
1T persistently seeks to instill in
them a proper conception of what
their relation TO their associates and CO
laborers should be when they are called
upon to discharge their obligations to
the home and the public.
POINTS ATMOSPHERE
AS CHARACTER MOLD.
FURNISHING a lodging place at very
reasonable prices is but a small part Of
the valuable service it renders. The OPP
portunity 1t affords young men to meet
and mingle with one another in 2 clean
atmosphere is OF very great value to them
and in this meeting and mingling to-
gether they are afforded nany opportuni-
ties both to give and forgive.
Il think one Of the serious mistakes
man makes is to go around with a
chip on his shoulder, whenever he feels
that some one has done him wrong.
IF some one has in fact wronged him,
the best possible way for him to treat
such an individual is to lose no oppor-
-tunity to do him a favor
eff 1t be necessary to make some sac
rihce to do this. promptly make it.
Nothing makes a MIN big so fast as
to constantly sacrifice in the proper treat
ment of his fellowman, and especially Is
this true If his fellowman has forgotten
TO be a gentleman.
ct is probable that all I have said
thus far is inappropriate, considering the
occasion, but 1 have written thus be-
cause know how anxious you are to see
young men set started off right, and be-
cause, too, think / know something Of
the object of your institution.
If ] understood your invitation cor
rectly, the meeting to which you invited
me has been convened 10 hear political
questions discussed.
@I am indeed pleased to know the Y.
II. c. A. is not above giving attention TO
the subject of politics.
I'VE viii never have in this country
the sort Of government the people de-
serve to have until all the people show
a much greater activity and much high
er degree of intelligence in politics than
they do now.
Il know OF no single subject in which
all the people should take more interest
in this country than that of government
Government is Just what the people
make it. and they cannot make 1t what
It should be by giving only one day to
it in every two years.
ssIt is their duty to be interested in 1t
every day the year round and when they
are SO interested they will find 1t will
s6ill be far short Of the standard It should
measure up to.
URGES STUDY OF PRINCIPLES
OF INDIVIDUAL PARTIES.
''The people therefore should study
carefully the principles and policies OF
political parties and voters should sup
'Aport tbs party that gives the strongest
assurance of best serving the public.
"If my party cannot meet this stand
ard, I have no right as one OF It's can
didates to ask any one to support IT,
.sIf those present at your meeting to-
night will take the time to read the
achievements of the Democratic party
during the past seven years, and those
of the Republican party during the sixty
years Il was in power previous thereto
am willing to leave it to them to say,
on comparison, if the Republican party
does not belong In the kindergarten Class
ssIn making this statement, do not
wish TO be understood as intimating that
the Republican party has no creditable
accomplishments in its record, for 1t has.
aIt conducted the Civil War, with some
bIunders, Of course, but successfully
nevertheless and thereby rendered an i'm
perishable service to mankind.
and it gave to fame Abraham Lin
coin.
For all it has ever done for the pub
lie welfare, 1 want it to have fun credit
HBut when this Is given, lIS EeColu
grows very pale, when contrasted with
what the Democratic party did during
the past seven years.
sIf I were Just to name the subjects
it has legislated upon and the laws it
has executed during this period, this com
munication would be drawn out much
beyond what the prophecies of the coca
sion suggest.
But let me add that if the Democratic
party had nothing to its credit except It's
world war record and Woodrow wilson,
it's Immortality would be guaranteed.
aAs my party has had in the past. SO
IT now has a definite policy, and as IN
the mast under President Wilson, SO in
the future under Governor Cox, that pol
icy win be constructive.
4zEFFRs TO DEMOCRATIC
wORLP PEACE PLATFORM.
.sMy party believes there should be no
more wars and its candidate for Presi-
dent has a policy fully matured to fol-
low with the hope of preventing war,
Int I do notwant those present at
your dinner to forget that the Repub~
Iican candidate for President admits he
has no matured policy for the future, If
he sho, Id be elected.
"The whole world is anxiously waiting
to see what the policy OF this Govern
nent is going to be when the election
is over.
zone candidate has taken the world
into his confidence and laid his program
out to be read by all peoples.
"The other candidate does nto know