Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 3 January 1906 — Page 4

STATE LOYE FEAST

Indiana Republicans Enthusiastically republic."

Great the Leadars of the Party In Th.s State.

*TWA3 A NOTABLE GATHERING

"Nearly Every Ofrice From the Vice

President Down to Township Asses­

sor Was Represented in the Meeting, and a Spirit cf Intense Earn­

estness Dominated the Day's Pro­

ceedings.— Vice President t-air*

banks Received the Acclaim of His

Friends, With More Than a Hint

U"

Higher.

kindly sentiments. called to order by James P. Goodrich «f Winchester, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, who, •without any preliminaries, introduced •John C. Chaney. congressman from the Second district, as permanent chairman. Mr. Chaney spoke briefly and then introduced Vice President Fairbanks. Mr. Fairbanks had no set speech and made a few informal remarks. "It has been." he said, "with some difficulty that I have been able to join with you in this love feast for a few moments this afternoon. Your Idndness has more, far more than repaid me for my coming. "I have been so accustomed during the last few years to attend these anHual gatherings of the Republicans of Indiana that, it is impossible to resist the impulse to meet with you. I have not come with any set speech. Not one word I shall say to you has been committed to paper. I shall use only such sentiments as the occasion shall invite. "I have always been proud of Indiana, but never was I prouder of her •ban when she recorded her judgment in November last. The confidence she expressed in the Republican cause was emphatic. In all of her splendid history she had never spoken with €uch distinct emphasis before. "It is, my friends, a gratifying pleasure always to meet with the Republicans of Indiana. Never was it a •greater privilege than now. Great Questions to Be Met. "Your chairman has well said that our victories, vast though they have been, do not mark the end of our •achievement. Great questions have talced our judgment and patriotism in the past, and questions vital to our -fetate and nation invite our deliberate ^edgment in the future. I am no prophet, yet I have no hesitancy in prophesying that if Republicans are true to their best traditions, and are actuated by the spirit of unanimity they show today, the future will be more splendid than the past. "The Republican partj^ has deserved well because it has met its duty well. It has been a thinker upon the great problems of state. It has j.he courage of its convictions, and it has determined it will promote the righteousness of our people. We are fortunate In being in control of national and £tate affairs. We have been having Ih control of the national and of the •tate administration executives who •know their duty and have the courage to execute it.

ing a graceful personal tribute to the money instead of a borrower the facvice president, the senior senator de- tories that were closed have been clared. still speaking of his former opened labor that was unemployed distinguished colleague in the senate has been employed, wages have in —"who has the enthusiastic support creased the American people are a of us all. and around whose banner, home-loving people, end homes have if he wishes or will permit us, we been constructed at a more rapid rate will rally to a man. striving to win for than ever before ir. our hisror him the supreme honor nf our party's "This is not all r-ie rr^Hr nr—j nomination for the presidency at the dent but has been hro-eht about bj next national convention—we are the policies and principles of the Re proud of him.'

Indiana in the Congress. "We are to be congratulated on having in the senate of the United States, over whose deliberations I have been ealled by the partiality of my countrymen to preside, Senators Beveridge

Wid Hemenway. It is my privilege to

Inspiration from the past and go for ward shoulder to shoulder is th achievement of victories for the hoHoi and glory of our state and for the honor and glory oi the* flag of tht

INDIANA IN CONGRESS

Junior Senator Points to High Placet

,^-Held by Hoosier Delegation.

Senator Hemenway was warmly ap plauded when he was introduced by Chairman Chaney. Mr. Hemenv/aj said: "It is a great pleasure for me tc meet the Republicans of the state a1 their biennial love feast. Since oui last love feast the Republican partj has been making history. We have elected Roosevelt and Fairbanks by majority so large that it was almost unanimous. And if a convention of thf different parties were held today they would receive the indorsement of al'

That They Would Like to See Him j,e conventions and we would avoic .. ... the payment of the expense of an elec Called

One of the interesting and signifl- the administration of Theodore Roosecant incidents of the recent love feast velt. of the Republicans of Indian held at "Since our last love feast our bril the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis liant junior senator, Albert J. Bever was jLhe" expression of faith on the idge, has become our senior senator part of those present in the exceeding and I enjoy the honor of being the servant of the people of the state as your junior senator. Since our lasl meeting we have redeemed the Second

Vitality and expanding qualities of the presidential "boom" of Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks. Attestation of this faith was made by several and the Twelfth districts from DemoOf the speakers of the day and the manner in which these expressions

were received was clear evidence of of the United States. Since that time Indiana's interest in a proposition of this sort. •c Senator Beveridge probably came more nearly than any in expressing the Indiana feeling when, after pay-

t,on. The people as a whole approve

cratic representation, and Republicans now represent them in the congress

we have elected our state ticket, and in the ten years or more of continuous Republican rule in state and nation there have been wonderful changes Our nation has become a loaner ol

publican party. We have been espe

Others gave expression to similar cial'y fortunate in the selection oi The meeting was I

mir

governors during this time-

Mount, Durbin and Hanlv. They have given the state a good administrator and our state debt has almost disap peared our public institutions have been well conducted, and for good ad' ministration our state ranks,with the best states in the Union. "Ten years aco. when our delegation went to congress we did not secure a single chairmanship upon any of the committees of congress. How we have Watson, member of the vays and means p.nd other important committees. and whip of the house 0 .rerstreet, chairman of the committer ol postnffices find nnstro"»ds. which carries the appronrintion

olir

look upon no two better Republicans pledges honestly kept. It is the best •w upright statesmen. I campaign argument that can be made "It is a gratifying fact that, the peori^W*3.

pie of Indiana have sent to express,!.-tye

their judgment upon great Republicaij^^/r'^e should

for

all our g-eat

mail service: Charles B. Landis. chair man of printing and member of foreign relations Brick, member of ap propriations and second on territor'es Crumpacker, chairman of the census and member of insular affairs: Holli day. member of military affairs, pensions and other important committees Cromer, member of committee on agriculture, that carries the appropriation bill looking to the agricultural interests of the country Fred Landis. member of committee on public buildings and grounds and other important committees Foster, member of committee on judiciary Chanev member of pensions and patents Gilbert, member of revision of the laws and arts and exposition. "Every committee save one that ap propriates money to be expended by the government has sitting at its table a member of the Indiana delegation Every one of the leading committees of the house that frame legislation has the benefit of the judgment of a member of our delegation. In my judgment it is the best balanced state delegation in the Congress of the United States, and the speaker of the house of representatives has recog nized their ability by placing them upon the committees that do the business of congress and control not only legislation but the appropriations thai go to maintain our great government. Indiana has just reason to be proud of its representation in the lowei house of congress. "And let me just for a moment offer a word of caution. We should keep in mind in this hour of our greatest

sue

cess, with an overwhelming majority of Republican members in the congress of the United States, with the state administration under our control, that there goes with it great responsibility that the people of the country are looking to us to make good the pledges of the Republican party and give their clean, honest administration and keer in mind that whatever may happen good fidministration is not only besl for the people, but is also the best politics, if in the coming campaign we can go to the people and point tc

record of duty well performed, all

our success

for.the

in

danger.

future will not

a^so

policies eleven representatives who succeed we must have good organijarry the banner high and ever for-

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•ward to those opposed to the policies of the Republican party. "I am not here to discuss Republican policies nor to enter into details «f Republican administration. It seemed to. me when the last great Republican campaign had closed, after I had made my last speech, that, should

xati°n,

1 utter no speech, in the years that the election of a member of congress stretched before me, my average ®ne

arraiii h* nn»ttv irnnd endanger the election of our state "I wish, my friends, that you take

keep in mind that

anrl goQd organization is that

kind that always stands for the success of the party, that looks to the election of our state and national ticket, to the election of our congressional and county ticket, |ind we should be extremely careful £^a,t in giving our loyal silH^prt to our particular favor Ites we re nothing that will endanger

c'ose

and

county

districts, or that

tickets."

WARNING

Governor Hanly Sounds a Note to Which the People May Well

Give Heed.

RASCALITY IN PUBLIC OFFICE

The Tendency of the Times, Says In­

diana's Virile Governor, Seems to

Have Br^ a Decire for Peculation

for Plunder and for Graft, Both in

Public and in Private Life The

Crying Need of the Time Is to Cor­

rect Such Evils and the Burden Lies

Upon a Righteous Civic Sense to

Overcome This Apparent Tendency.

At the recent love least of the Republican party in Indiana, held at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Governor J. Frank Hanly sounded a warning and struck a trumpet note calling the dominant party in Indiana to heed the demand of an awakened public conscience for only the best in government. That the recent disclosures in connection with the conduct of certain state offices offered the cue for this notable rallying cry is undoubted, and all within the sound of the earnest chief executive's voice recognized the intense conviction that actuated his utterances.

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The attention that was given the governor's address in that typically representative meeting of the Republicans of Indiana was clear evidence that to the governor the party looked for an authoritative giving out in connection with certain recent matters of intimate state interest. His utterances on the subject of rascality in public office were especially marked, and at the close of his remarkable address the great crowd literally rose at him, sustaining his expressed convictions on civic questions with the united applause of a party stirred to the depths. Governor Hanly spoke as follows- °"*r

For almost" half a century the Re-' publican party has been to the American people the most efficient means within their reach through which to express their convictions upon political questions, or to achieve results in governmental affairs. They have used it as an instrument to accomplish great things in behalf of free institutions, in the development of the resources and of the commerce of the countrv. and in the upbuilding of its citizenship. Through it their ideals have been realized and their hopes fulfilled Its platforms have expressed their thought more nearly than the utterances of any other political party, and its deeds more nearly squared themselves with their purposes and their aspirations. 0 1"^Yesterday's Ideals Too Low for Today

Thus much may be fairly said, and in the saying of it and in the knowledge of its truthfulness when said, we may justly find cause for pride, for gratification and for congratulation. It may even be said that what it has been in the past is an earnest of what it is be in the future. But we live in a progressive age. History is being rapidly written. Conception of public obligation and of civic duty is constantly changing for the better. The ideals of yesterday are too low for the ideals of teday.

That the Republican party has done well in the past is not enough. It must do well in the present.

The fact that our fathers did well in the past will be no defense for our failure now. Today, this hour, is being presented to us a supreme test of our right to continue to administer the government of the state and of the nation. By the results of that test we will stand or fall. By them we will deserve to stand or fall, according as they shall be. Present Power for People's Welfare.'

If we fail we may not plead the glories of the past in extenuation. The greatness of other days will but emphasize the weakness of today and augment the shame of our failure. We have no right to expect a further grant of power from the people, except we use our present power for the welfare of the people, and for their welfare now.

During the last few years the times themselves seem to have been somewhat out of joint, and to have bred a desire for peculation, for plunder and for graft, not in public life and in official place alone, but in the professions and in the business of the country as well. Industrial enterprises, financial institutions and the great insurance companies of the country, 'all have felt the ravages of the disease and have suffered from its blight. It has been and is confined to no party, and to no section of the country. Dissatisfaction With Official Evil.

Under such circumstances it is not surprising that it has affected here and there representatives of the Republican party. Being the dominant party and quite generally in power throughout the country, it would have been passing strange, indeed, had it entirely escaped the contagion. That some of the men trusted by us and who hold our commissions have sinned is not alarming, unless we ourselves, knowing their sins, continue to he contented with them. There Is no hope for a corrupt and a Contented party, or a corrupt people when such party or such people become dissatis­

fied with wrongdoing. DlssatjjgPictfon with sin Is the beginning ofTrepentance, and repentance is the beginning of reformation.

That some of the representatives of our party should have become inoculated with the virus which afflicts the times will not forfeit our right to administer the government either of the state or of the nation, if we do but possess the strength, the moral fiber and the courage to dispossess them of the commissions they have dishonored. The spectacle of a party beset by faithless servants is neither a new nor a.n unusual spectacle. But the spectacle of a party possessing both the courage and the ability to purge itself of faithless servants and to correct the wrongs they have done the public is both new and unusual. That the Republican party has done and is doing both in the nation and in the state. If it succeeds and completes the task, it will have earned the public gratitude and a continuance of the public confidence, and will have given fresh and cogent evidence of its right to govern. "Our Rascal" No Longer Tolerated.

The time was when a man could be a rascal in public office if he were only "our rascal." Being "our rascal" his errors were concealed, his crimes kept secret, or, if known, condoned. But that was the time of Gorman and Quay. Happily for the country, a better day has dawned, and I hope the day has wholly passed when the Republican party will either conceal or condone the wrongful acts of its own representatives. If a man betrays his trust, let him that moment cease to be ours, cease to stand for us, and let us cease to stand for him.

In this regard we are being challenged as never before in the history of the party. The challenge comes to us from the people themselves, and their challenge must always be met. There must be no turning back there must be no halting: there must be no wavering. It may be that crime and the betrayal of public trust have not increased or multiplied as greatly as we are prone to think. Exposures Due to Public Conscience.

I think perhaps that recent exposures are due in part to an awakened public conscience, to new civic ideals, and to a new and higher conception of public duty and obligation. If I am correct in this and the Republican party, either of the state or of the nation, desires a continuance of its commission to administer government, it must present to the people now, as in the past, the most effective means by which they may accomplish their purpose and realize their aspirations. Anything short of this means abdication by us. The issue is sharply drawn. It is upon us. We cannot escape it. You are the representatives of the Republican party of Indiana. It is your party. You are the jury. It is for you to decide.

Source of Inspiration.

In accepting the chairmanship of the love feast, Congressmen Chaney spoke briefly, but to the point. "It is a source of congratulation," said he, "that the entire body politic has caught the mighty inspiration and sings the universal song of prosperity. It is within the recollection of us all that this was not always so. We can yet stand prosperity and responsibility. The work of the Republican party, great and proud as it has been, is mostly yet to be. The glory of America is the standard of all the tongues and kindreds of the earth. A 'square deal' is the motto of our domestic life. The past has taught its lesson the present has its duty and the future its hope."

Tribute to Roosevelt.

John L. Griffiths, consul general at Liverpool, was in fine humor for a speech. Mr. Griffiths said he was glad to meet his old political friends again. "It is good," he continued, "to be here and to fight nver with you many of those memorable campaigns when we stood side by side for our American principles. Nothing is more gratifying to me in England than the high esteem in which our country is held. It is equally gratifying to know that next to King Edward the most popular man in English minds is Theodore Roosevelt. They believe in him there exactly as we believe in him here. To me this has been an inspiration, for when I have mentioned him in the public halls where I have spoken the response that his name evoked makes me feel for the moment as if I were back in Indiana. I want to say that 4,000 miles away from Indiana nothirig will give me greater pleasure than to know that our distinguished vice president has been chosen the standard bearer next campaign."

Watson Expresses "Feelings." Representative "Jim" Watson made one of his characteristic addresses— brief and full of healthful humor and sound logic. The Sixth district orator proceeded to express his "feelings," and the crowd applauded them. He arraigned the Democratic party in a way that seemed to suit his hearers. Mr. Watson took a fling at civil service. "I am not? here," said he, "to cast slurs on the civil service system, but I hope it will not 'go to seed' in the United States. I believe the time has come when we ought to look well to our organization and take care of the boys in the wards and townships. That is my kind of Republicanism. Let us not go from this meeting filled with pessimism, but let u§ go forth with rosy hopes. If the Republican house needs cleaning we can do It without any outside assistance. Thank God, we have the man that can flo it."

BRILLIANT ORATORY

Senatcr Beveridge Adds to His Indiana Laurels In Recent''Love Feast" Address.

A CONSECRATION TO HIGH IDEALS

While the Forces of Capital and Labor

Are Working Out Unheard-of Pros­

perity for the American People, the

Forces of Righteousness Are Work­

ing Out Unheard-of Upliftment of

American Character Under the

Leadership cf "the First Figure in

the Contemporaneous World."

The people of Indiana are continually finding new cause for the honest pride they take in the name and in the achievements of the brilliant senior senator from this state, the gifted Albert J. Beveridge, and his every public utterance is awaited with interest, its always thoughtfully considered message being received with the closest and most respectful attention.

At the recent Republican love feast held at Indianapolis, Senator Beveridge gave expression to some uplifting sentiments that may well be borne upon the consciousness of this people. In his address on that memorable occasion he said:

Fellow Republicans: These are glorious days for Republican love feasts. For. more than to all other nations combined, these holidays bring happiness to the American people. The most fortunate man in all the world today is the man who can lift up his voice and cry, "I am an American citizen." Free Institutions Purify.

It is in the nature of prosperity to deteriorate character it is in the nature of wealth and power to generate corruption but it. is in the nature of free institutions, thank God. to purify and cleanse. And so, while the forces of labor and capital are working oiit unheard-of prosperity for the American people, the forces of righteousness are working out unheard-of upliftment of American character. In the period of our richest material welfare as a nation we are experiencing our noblest spiritual revival as a nation. At the moment of our greatest consequence in the councils of all the world we are entering upon a renaissance of public spirit that is making the civic life of the republic the purest in all the world. At the hour when we are strongest abroad we are becoming most upright at home. And thus we are reversing history and proving the prophecies of pessimism to be false. The First Figure in Leadership.

And under whose leadership has come this new consecration of the American people to high ideals? Whose

voice

novr t*

for years has sounded

the call to civic righteousness, in the beginning almost alone? Who first lit the sacred fire that today is everywhere burning dishonesty out of American public life? I but voice the name upon your lips, as it is in the hearts of the American people, when I say it is he who wrought his words into deeds: he who from tlje first, moment of his chief magistracy has whipped guilt from the service of the government and insisted that Republicanism means honesty and hono~: he who guarantees and gives to all men that sum of human justice, a square deal he who in creative statesmanship, as evidenced by laws enacted and permanent policies announced, has made a record equalled by but one president in the history of the republic he, the first figure in the contemporaneous world, the president of the whole American people, Theodore Roosevelt. Pride of Every American.

His life and work are the pride of every American. In the field where American blood was flowing for liberty, and there compelling victory by his valor he was in the council room of warring powers when humanity demanded that the struggle cease, and there compelling peace by his kindly wisdom and the sheer might of his amazing character. Interpreting the Monroe doctr'ne as a living principle instead of lifeless reminiscence, giving to our foreign policy a dignity and force unequalled since the days of Washington and Jefferson, and recalling the hich spirit of that heroic period. on the one hand, our president, on the other hand, exacts just dealing among ourselves at. home, insists thsi. all men and corporations equnl before the law. and hi-* nr^et:-^! statesmanship bv demanding that tnat law shall be right—that defective law. shall be made adequate, mistaken laws corrected and new -statutes written for thore new conditions that find

fit therv.

But through all and above all he preaches the saving power of that higher law which, working itself out in individual conduct we call human character. Theodore Roosevelt wants good laws, but he wants good' men more. He wants battleships, but he wants brave hearts to man them. He wants American prosperity to be the greatest in history, but he wants it won by the best and purest methods in history. He wants the American people to be the most powerful of nations, but he Wants them to be the most righteous of nations. He paraphrases for the republic the Master's saying for the individual and makes this his motto: "What shall It profit a nation if it gain the .whole woriji and

lose its own soul?" Fi\ this devotion to high Ideals the V-epublican party must never fall awaj\ Not always can we havemighty questions and issues of destiny to champion. Not always can we have such questions as sound money and the nation's honor not always can we have the brilliant conduct of glorious war in a just cause not always can we have expansion and the* administration of civilization among alien people—not always can we have such master issues as these which move millions of men by the sheer power of sentiment and conviction. But always we can have ideals of national life at home and abroad. If always we cannot have great days we can always have just days and righteous days. If we cannot always have the assistance of fate, we can always have the spirit of the square deal, without which, after all, no victory is worth the winning. Party Name Will Not Win.

This is the spirit that must animate our party. We cannot win merely by wearing the name Republican. We can continue to win, in the absence of epochal issues, only by living up to the meaning of the word Republican. We must be as wise, as a party, as: our great president is wise as a leader. All men must be made 10 feel that the Republican party stands for the welfare of the whole people that the Republican party welcomes every upright citizen to its ranks, and that: every member of the Republican party has equal rights and equal welcome to party councils with every other member.

We must remember those great and simple truths in every phase of partymanagement. Our organization musr be as broad as the party itself. Let us take care that we forfeit not theconfidence of the people. For, afttr all, in the confidence of the people and there alone reside power and victory. Let us take wise and righteous counsel among ourselves and then march united to that success which undivided effort alone can bring. Let the harmony produced in the past by mutual forbearance and tolerance of one another's honest, views be continued by the same methods of good feeling and good sense. Let us eachkeep clear of that lust of power which, in all human experience, has paralyzed the most carefully .developed strength and blighted the' most brilliant records.

The senator said he was proud of the Republican party and of the splendid men the party has given to the service of the republic and state. Hia mention of Oliver P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison, Albert G. Porter, James. A. Mount was applauded. "And," said the senator impressively, "we glory in the work of our living leaders. Our congressmen form a group of composite efficiency in thenational house of representatives not surpassed now nor in the history of the republic. Our junior senator, wise, indefatigable, devoted to the interests of the people and the country's, welfare, deserves the high esteem in which we hold him, and our distinguished and renowned vice president, who presides with dignity, firmness., justice and kindly grace over the greatest legislative body of the world,, who has the enthusiastic support of usall. and around whose banner, if h® wishes or will permit us, we will rally to a man striving to win for him the supreme honor of our party's nomination for the presidency at the next national convention—wo are proud of him and of all the others we have sent to the service of the nation. "Yes. we are proud of them all,'" continued the senator, "but we look with equal pride on those who now and in the past, conspicuously serve' and have served the commonwealth.. What a remarkable company of governors we have given to Indiana—Porter and Hovev and Chase and Mount: —whose administration won the admiration and gratitude of the people Winfield T. Durbin, who. when a great emergency challenged the supremacy of law and the dignity of the state, met it on the instant with a courageand wisdom that made the whole land ring with applauding praise and ourpresent gallant chief executive, J. Frank Hanly, whose administration is distinguished by rigid enforcement of' the law in spirit and in letter, and is one of the most sternly vigorous inthe whole history of the commonwealth—Indiana has produced no* stronger men, no more unselfish and devoted servants of the state than those superb chief magistrates. "And now. fellow-Republicans." exclaimed Senator Beveridge. looking about the room, "let the record or each brilliant leader be the common: glory of our party over which everjr Republican may rejoice. Let selfishness and its counsels of destruction find no place among us. Let our service to our party be ir^pired by ourdevotion to the ration and our party spirit be akin to that of an army marching to war in a righteous cause —no single soldier thinking of himself, but only of the army's common victory, that the cause for which it fights may be triumphant and established. And let us never forget that that cause is the good of the American people. "The American people! As long as we are true to them they will be true to us, for the people never betray those* who serve them with single-hearu devotion. And we will be true to them. The welfare of the American millions, the ongoing of the republic, the honor, power and glory of the nation—to these high purposes the Republican party has, under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, aoasft•rated itself anew."