Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1902 — Page 2

TUT. IXDTAXATOT-TS .TOURXAL. TIIUHSDAT, FEBURART 13, 1002.

the rlty of Washington than even in Richmond. Cut off from all communication, as they were, startled by all sorts of alarms, worried by a repr-rt that twelve thousand Confederates were advancing from Richmond, bent on razing the Capitol to the ground, he remained in outward appearance the most self-posse sed man in the capital, and calmly went about the reorganization of the government and the gathering of an army. He was eoual to every

task. In reading about all this. I can only , come to one conclusion, and that is God never intended the South to succeed, and lie ra!.ed up Lincoln to save the Republic In Its hour of peril. "We younger men almost envy you older Republicans because you lived in this time; you had the distinction of voting for him: of hearing him speak; of helping to hold lip his hands; of comir.s In contact with his wonderful personality; of bein Inspired by lils pure life. He was the peerless citizen of Ms age the greatest patriot since Washington. I know him only by history; I have no adequate words to tell what manner of man he was. but the more 1 study his life the less I wonder at the devotion to him of the older men of the Republican party, for he It was that put the finl-hing touch to the masterpiece of all their hopes. "He believed In the universal brotherhood of man. and when but a young man he made a trip down South, and while there saw husbands, wives and children foM on the block anil separated. Shocked and indignant, he exclaimed: 'If I fver get a chance to hit that institution. I'll hit it, find hit It hard!' And when he did get a chance he kept his word. He was a true man. Nothing is more awe-inspiring than n true man. We gaze at the great mountain, its top kis.elng the blue; we look at Niagara and marvel at its grandeur; we look at old ocean lashed to fury by the terrible gale, and we shrink at its awful power, and yet they are as nothing when compared to a true and noble man like Lincoln. The mountain. Niagara, old ocean rhall pass away, but the people will love Abraham Lincoln till resurrection's morn und his spirit will abide forever in the great, white city. "O young men. let us resolv to be true citizens like Lincoln and McKinley. Let cur goal be a more glorious Republic. They were faithful In every public trust. No man Is fit to hold an office unless he has the same high conceptions of his duty as they had. They were loyal to the fundamental principles of the Republican party, nut they were truer to tneir own country. Lt us never forget them or their glorious lives, and the Republican party, guided by leaders true, will lead this magnificent Republic along the Nation's highway to the highest and noble?t destiny." Slilnry A. l'owtcr Adilresm. Mr. Foster, whoe eloquence made a hit with the Heli-sates, spoke on "Some Phases of the Tast." After briefly reviewing a few of the events leading to the war of the rebellion arwl the outcome of that great conflict and. paying a magnificent tribute to the martyred Lincoln, Mr. Foster said: "It is not my purpose to attempt a political 8perh; I would not desecrate this tlay by such abuse. But I must connect by a link jMliticall history to present another phase. When specie payment was successfully resumed m lsT'J by a Republican administration, we know and realize the political opposition. Rut the people were to be trusted. Whin in ly.t the tumult of confusion took possession of the opposition to the gold standard, the Republican party did not hesitate to indorse the sturdy side of national honor in the preservation of the national credit. Again there was a division of conviction, but by the courage and determination of drover Cleveland and his administration, the credit of the country was sustained, and this stands and always will stand as an act of patriotism and heroism the plain act of a. president meeting his duty and having the courage to do it. 2fe performed this signal service in the lace of the opposition of his party. He was repudiated by the Cnicago convention and the divisions in the political party began. Thousands left the Republican party in the memorable contest that followed and Joined the opposition, but again the people -were to be trusted and thousands left the democratic party and joint 1 the ranks of Republicans to do battle for their convictions through the ballot box and like a wave of refreshing vigor in lb'.t'i the pto.ple rejoiced in the triumphant success that placed labor and capital upon the lirm foundation that a dollar shall always be 1 cents, whether paper, silver or gold, and crowned the act of national integrity ty the election of William McKinley. "My friends, 1 will nut attempt to tax 3ou patience much longer. It has ben said that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God.' Lootii.g back over the held of the past, we see . the strong hand of achievement through the possibilities of human administration. As Abraham Lincoln came to the country In its needs and carried the triumph of freedom to the bondman and Joined this Union Into a nation, so William McKinley, another man from the West, another of the nelf-made gUnta of patriotism in soul. In brain and devotion, cemented this nationality endurina;ly by the sublime courage of statesmanship. He diil many things. His greatest achievement was that he merited and received not only the confidence but as well the sincere affections of all the people. The shafts of malice and the abuse of partisans struck the bright shield of his integrity of character, and rebounded only to destroy the very power from which the thrust was made. He not alone brought confidence and rest and peace to a disturbed and distressed country, but he bound up the wounds of the oppressed and drove Spain and Spanish methods from this femlsphere. He knew no divisions in this Union, but he clothed with merited choice the men and the boys of the Confederate gray and the Union blue with equal authority, and made the stars and stripes the emblem of all an emblem of union as well as an emblem of liberty. He made it as well an emblem of mercy and the standard around which could rally the nations of the whole world, because Its bright folds carry security to all that is uplifting and high-minded und just and honorable. He was torn from this people before his work was tlnlshed, but again, in the providence of od, his successor is one that may be criticised, may bi censured, may be abused, but during his service in the past and his character In the present, wherever he has been placed, and I believe wherever he may be placed, there will never be a moment of doubt but what Theodore Roosevelt Is Irreproachable in character, honest, wise und patriotic in every detail of his duties, and is President of the Cnited States. "Such, my Iriends. is my effort to till my Tart before the Lincoln League of Indiana. The tribute I would pay I cannot express WEATHER FORECAST. rartly t lontlj- .TiuDnr nnl I'rolmMy the ame on Friday, WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-Forecast for Thursday and Friday. i For IIUnoiM and Indiana rartly cloudy on Thursday and probably on Friday; diminishing northwest winds. For Ohio Fair on Thursday and probably on Friday, except snow In northeast portion. Thursday; light to fresh northcast winds. Local Observations on Wednesday. üar. Ther. IUI. Wind. Weather. Pre 7 a.m. .30.1 IS 87 S'wcst. P't cl'dy. 0 04 7 p. m. .'). IS 00 N'west. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 22; minimum temperature, 15. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation Feb. 12: Temp. Pre. formal S2 0.13 Mean pj o.C4 Departure from normal i;j o.cj Departure since Feb. 1 201 1.3J Departure since Jan. 1 201 2.bi W. T. IJLYTIIE. Section Director. Wednesday's Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta. Ga J2 W 41 Bismarck. N. D ..2 IS K Ruffalo. N. Y 12 22 12 Calgary, N W. T 2S 18 Chicago. HI id 2d 24 Cairo. Ill 2S 3 34 Cheyenne. Wyo 3) 53 4S Cincinnati, O 20 r.) 24 Concordia. Kan 22 25 2; Davenport. la 2) 1; Des Moines. Ia 12 21 22 Galveston. Tex M C2 5s Helena. Mont 2S 40 34 Jacksonville, Fla ;i to 5 Little Rock, Ark 21 y) Marauette. Mich 20 22 22 Memphis, Tenn St 40 34 Nashvllie, Tern 22 4) 22 New Orleans. La 4S ts New York city ii 3) rt North Platte. Neb ....... a) 3) x Oklahoma. O. T 4 jja Oraaha. Neb H 2 4 PUttsburg. Pa 2J 24 "d Qu Appelle, N. W. T.... 2 20 14 Rapid City. S. I 22 31 30 Fait Lake City, Utah.... 4; 50 4.; St. Louis, Mo 22 34 20 St. Paul. Minn s FprlnKReld. Ill r gpringneld, Mo 21 34 22 Vlcksburg. Miss 41 C2 r,s Washington, D. C 24 23

except in thif imperfect way. May our country hold to the glorious words of Lincoln that 'right makt3 might." and th folds of our rl.ig shall never be furled while seventy million" of Americans can extend its shadow In the name of liberty. Justice and right. "In conclusion, let me say: The plain history of our country is mankind's most eloquent plea for an enduring republic. "In the deeds of American heroes is found v the bravest characters of all the world's brave men. "In tlie consummation of national achievement In the last fifty years, American manhood has changed the marching order of the columns of the world's powers until the vanguard of progress salutes the new century from underneath the radiant color$ of the fitar-spangled banner. "Tho American whose years have numbered half a century has beheld an epoch of progress In importance surpassing that of any like periol of time since the birth of our Saviour. "Ily the efforts for union and liberty the political fraternity of Republican faith feels the glory of all these achievements and the joy of patriotic pride that thrills Its heart to-day is akin to feeling the fresh, pure blood of stalwart manhood and not of the feeble warnings announcing decay and dissolution. "The arteries of commerce, the lungs of finance, the heart of industry are ail pulsing in perfect rhythm to a wholesome and vigorous and healthful system. "All that has been done has cost much effort. All that has been accomplished has resulted from unselfish devotion, and there is abundant evidence of much sacrifice. To sustain the national position will cost more of effort, more of devotion and more of sacrifice; but, with a country like our country, with a people like our people, with a womanhood like American womanhood, and a manhood like American manhood, with sons and daughters like our sons and daughters, with an ambition like the pure American ambition dedicated to liberty, Justice and equality before the law, under the law and by the law, with a God like our God, every citizen holding steadfast to an honest faith and his national instinct, this Union ani Its government as founded and fashioned by the wisdom and love of Abraham Lincoln and crowned by the love and wisdom of William McKinley, shall march on forever."

"The 'ev Emancipation." Gurley Rrewer, of Indianapolis, spoke on "The New Emancipation." saying In part: "It was reserved for the people of this generation to witness one of the grandest tragedies of time, one in which the actors numbered thirty millions, and In every scene there stood a silent figure, one without voice, save at the mercy seat. When the tragedy began he was a chattel bought and sold, and for a thousand miles the cannon thundered.- We all heard the shout of victory as it rocked the land from the lakes to the gulf. Our soldiery returned home with death-broken ranks and bulletridden flags. The boon held out was liberty to all the inhabitants of the land; the dissolution of caste; the ennoblement of labor; freedom with a better civilization; new ideas of the equality of man; new conceptions of the purposes of national existence; and new guarantees for the safety of human life. The negro emancipated but left without the rights of citizenship. What was needed in this hour of crisis? Political integrity yes. and something more. A stable government and a strong executive. Yes. and something more: Who under God must elevate the negro from chattelhood to manhood? The warrior with his garments rolled in blood? No. the man. Th politician with his petty schemes of personai aggrandizement? No. the man. The merchant swollen with the riches of every clime? No. the man. The scholar bending teneath the adornments of classic literature? No. the man. To whom was it left to utter the grandest cheer for liberty ever heard among mankind and confer upon the blackman his fu'd measure of citizenship? The answer comes quick and clear Abraham Lincoln. The negro emancipated from the faggot, thumbscrew and auction block. The twentieth century must give to civilization and the negro a new emancipation freedom from the anarchs of lynching and protection against the hand that touches with traud that sacred arc of the covenant the bollot box. "Shall we surrender the rights which God, Lincoln and the Union arms gave us? I had rather on this very spot yield my body to the inquisition fires and die amid all the woes which hell in all Its Ingenuity might contrive. I would rather rido the whirlwind or mount the redwing lightning:, leaping from the throne of the eternal than to surrender any of the rights that have come to me by the grace of God and the grand old Republican party. "Liberty is not an exclusive property; it is the property of all mankind, and if there needs be wrought a new emancipation among the darker races of other climts, the black man is wf.ling to extract gunpowder from the bowels of the earth; anvils out of bayonets, manufacture firearms In the shop; teach the manual of war; form the company into battalion; teach the battalion to maneuver on the field; draw forth the brigade and help the white man work out the great problem of free government and paint with your blood and mine amid the stars of old felory, K pluribus unum.' and there it will shine in the simplicity of its grandeur till the last slender ray descends from the galaxy of the heavens." Sennlor IJevorldffe's Letter. A feature of the afternoon meeting was the reading of a letter from Senator Beverldge and the announcement that a telegram of regrets has been received from Senator Fairbanks. Mr. Fairbanks expressed regret that It would bo impossible for him to be present on account of the press of Important business matters. He extended greetings to the Republicans present. Senator Beverldge's letter follows: "He on whose anniversary you mtct is an Inspiration to every Republican, to every American. And, after all, to be a Republican is to be an American. We are Republicans as Lincoln was, because that is the best way to bo an American. The power of our party consists in the fact that our polities have always consideredthe whole people of the Republic instead of sections, or classes, or factions. We have looked to the destiny of the Nation as a nation, as well as to the needa of each day and hour. "Our achievements In the past have been brilliant as they have been solid, and as lasting as they were glorious. Rut, large as the duties which we have discharged in the past have been, broader and profounder problems are face to face with us to-day. We will meet those duties, study and solve those problems In thu spirit of that great man who was the father of our party, Abraham Lincoln. With the tine enthusiasm of conviction, but with the tempered moderation of serious purpose, with patience and care and caution, and yet with fearlessness and thoroughness and high resolve, the Republicans of the Nation will press right onward to the doing of the Nation's work. If we do that work well, and we will; if we discharge those duties ably and with righteousness, and we will; if we make our measures lit the noble destiny of the American people, and we will, the American people will sustain us as they sustained Lincoln. For the American people are true to that man and that party who Is true to them. "I congratulate you upon the condition of the Republic, and therefore upon the prospects of our party. For whenever the Nation is well off, the party is well off it is only the opposition which fattens on national disaster. I regret more than 1 can tell you my inability to be with you. If I were there in person I should propose to you this sentiment: 'Abraham Lincoln, the Republican party, the American people these three; let no man speak the name of one without uttering in the same breath the names of the other two.' 'ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE." Members of the committee on resolutions, of which James S. Dodge Is chairman, met to-right and prepared a form of the resolutions which will be presented to-morrow. They eulogize the memory of Lincoln and McKinley, pay a tribute to the soldiers of the rebellion and the Spanish-American war, and commend the national and state administration and the senators and members of the lower House of Congress. AT TIIC HAXQUKT TADLE. Ilrllllnnt Galaxy of Orators and a Most Fnjoynble Occasion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Feb. 12. The banquet at the Terre Haute House to-night was what might be termed a brilliant social function, although the assemblage was strictly a man's affair. The banquet was held In the banquet hall on the second floor of the hotel. About 275 guests were present, fully a hundred representing Terre Uauto and Vigo count. The hall was brightly decorated with American flags; here and there were large pots of palms, and tho tables wero profuse with carnations; pictures of Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt adorned the walls. At the south end of the great hall hung a large silken banner of the Thompson Club, bearing In Its center the portrait of the late Colonel

Richard Thompson. At the other end was the emblem of the Rough Riders. A stringed orchestra in the gallery played while the guests dined. The dinner began about 8 o'clock. A. M. Hlgglns. of this city, presided as toastmaster. Many were disappointed that Representative Watson was not present. However, a telegram of greetings and good cheer was read from him. He was detained by the vote on the oleomargarine bill. The telegram follows: "I congratulate you upon the splendid record of the Lincoln League. It Is one of the main supports of our party in a pivotal State. I trust the meeting will enlarge and strengthen it. It is essential to the success of the Republican party, and that success is indispensable to the welfare of the country and the glory of the tlag. Uy upholding protection, maintaining a goM standard, perpetuating our supremacy in the Philippines, establishing Judicious reciprocal relations with Cuba, and disseminating the principles of liberty throughout our new possessions, we shall easily rrolong the Industrial primacy of our country and keep her proudly at the Iront among the nations of the earth and j-ow broadcast the seed of human equality." The following telegram was received from Senator Fairbanks to-night, and read at the banquet: "1 send greeting to the Lincoln League and sincere regret that I am unable to Join with you in paying tribute to the memory of our first martyred President. The Republican party had done well if it had done no more than to give Abraham Lincoln to history." It was regretted also that J. Frank Hanly, of Lafayette, could not be present, on account of Illness. He was to have responded to the toast "1901." The places of Mr. Hanly and Mr. Watson on the programme were filled by K. M. Bonnell, of Indianapolis, who gave some selections on the autoharp.

"American Possibilities." "American Possibilities" was discussed by Frank 13. Shutts, of Aurora. He said: "In America everything is possible. Personal achievement is unlimited, the capability of the community Is unbounded, the Nation's destiny is unshaped. The gateways of the world are open to the American citizen and anxious hands are beckoning. What do you desire most earnestly my American friend? Fame, wealth, the splendor of place, the thrill of power? They are all open to the humblest lad and the meanest born within the boundaries of the land. What do you ask for my friend? A nation's progress, a people's thrift, all the deathless glories of all the past duplicated and magnified in the rising glories of the day to come? America to-day. along every line, In every field, is the master mind of the world." Mr. Shutts then eloquently told of the rise, from humble beginnings, of Americans who became famous in politics, literature, war and industry. Continuing, he said: "We keep our faces turned into the past and reach the period of twenty years ago. Now in Indiana the 'Tale of the Christ has dazzled the literary intellect of the land, and Lew Wallace has made himself the lion of the period. Henry Ward Reecher is closing a long life, rich with well deserved honors, crowned by the slncerest tributes tnat come to man. Booker Washington, with kindling reputation, is teaching a night school in Hampden Institute and is making the first effort that was ever made to drag his people from the mire. William McKinley, in Congress, has commenced the long struggle for the protection of American industry and the prosperity of the American people, which continued until his eyes were closed. James Whltcomb Riley is publishing poems of merit in the Indianapolis Journal and people throughout the State are pondering his name. Thomas A. Edison, from the position of newsboy on a Detroit railroad, has accomplished the unthought of. the unrealized, in his manipulation of the sciences and had raised the question: Where will it all end? Where can it all end? "And so. to-night. I ask you to drink with me the possibilities of the American Nation and of every boy within its borders. 1 ask you to drink with me to the one hundred years and more of our Nation's glorious history; to the patriots who stood upon Jersey line and fought at Monmouth; to the volunteers who struggled on the wintry heights of Canada and on the plains of Mexico; to the half million boys in blue who, with triumphant progress, made freedom possible; to those who stormed the blockhouse at San Juan and humbled the bloody pride of Castile; I ask you to drink with me to our men of affairs, to those of business, to those of the professions, to those of the streets and of the shops, whoso brain and brawn have made it possible for America to be. I drink to our churches, with their olive branches of peace, the guardian angelr of the world; to our schools with their totrhes of knowledge, the monitors of the time; to our newspapers with their tongues of tiame, the critics of the period. I drink to our fair women and brave men. 1 drink to all the gentle memories of the past; to all the golden glory of the present; to all the songs of promise of the future. I drink to all we have been, all we are and all we hope to be." Mr. Hunt on 'Murcn A. Ilnnna." Union B. Hunt, secretary of state, responded to the toast, "Marcus A. Hanna." Speaking of Mr. Hanna's part in the last presidential campaign, Mr. Hunt said: "Many faint-hearted Republicans insisted that we had had 'too much Hanna, and that some other man should be made chairman of the national committee, but William McKinley knew Mark Hanna, and he knew that no other man in America was so well equipped as he to manage the organization of a great party, and Senator Hanna was again chosen to lead the forces of good government to victory. No sooner was this done than our political foes began a campaign of slander and abuse, but they pushed the matter too far, and in sheer self-defense Mark Hanna went before the public and became acquainted with the people and the people with him, and when they came to know him they loved and respected him. The Ohio man was Mr. Bryan's especial horror. The Nebraskan charged him with being a labor crusher and a heartless oppressor of the poor. Senator Hanna stood these charges for awhile, then buckled on his armor and went out to Nebraska, and when ho returned the political scalp of the 'boy orator was displayed among the trophies that ornamented the walls of his wigwam. Fearlessly he challenged Mr. Bryan and other Democratic slanderers to be specific in their charges as to his abuse of labor. He offered to pay them a reward and resign his seat in the Senate if they would attempt to prove tho truth of their assertions. But the charges were not made specific, and Mr. Hanna took a firmer hold than ever on the hearts of the people. No other man ever grew so rapidly in public favor as has Mr. Hanna during the past three years. Four years ago one would hardly have dared discuss him evenin a Republican meeting. To-day he has the respect and confidence of millions of his countrymen. "I have never had the honor of a close personal acquaintance with Mr. Hanna, but those who know him well tell me he Is a very manly man; that he Is one of the most approachable men In public life. The humblest citizen can talk with him at all times and places and on terms of perfect familiarity, and that he is the soul of frankness. With him there is never any attempt at evasion or equivocation. His methods are plain and simple and his manner direct. He has few of the ornamentations and embellishments of speech, but strikes straight out from the shoulder and always manages to -hit the mark. He has demonstrated his ability to handle great things and to handle them successfully. His career in the financial world shows that he is a remarkable financier. His interests have been wide and varied and they have been managed with rare skill and ability. He is not only a great manager of business affairs, but a great manager of men as well. "During the time when there was almost a revolution in the city of Cleveland among street car men. not a single man employed on his lines Joined the strike, and they did not join the strike because he was always fair with them. His declaration that he would rather bring about harmonious relations between labor and capital than be President of the United States is a sincere declaration, and the utterance of a man who has the courage of his convictions and who also has the ability to bring about this much to be desired consumation if that ability ia possessed by any living man. "But with all his ability and with all bis determination and with his great success in the management of men and affairs, the side of Mark Hanna's nature that touches most deeply the American people is the tender side revealed by his recently published articles on William McKinley. The friendship existing between our martyred President and Senator Hanna has become historic as the most remarkable friendship In the annals of American politics. No man ever had a truer or more unselfish friend than Willlam McKinley had in Senator Hanna, whom the American people have come to regard as a sincere patriot, animated solely by a desire to do that which is best for th people and ' the government, and whom they also admire as a sincere, unselfish and loyal-hearted friend." MutMon on The Varty Tlmt Ilnllda. ' Frederick E. Matson, of Indianapolis, a 7naibr ot the state Senate, discussed the

"Party that Builds." Ills address was a laudation of the Republican party and was heartily applauded. In the course of his response to the toast, he said: "The Republican party was born of a nation's great emergency and was baptized in blood to make a stable government. In the hour of impending ruin the Nation gathered her powers for a struggle which her own people and the world knew meant life or death to the Republic. A new party rose to power a party whose fundamental creed has been that where there is a will there is a way, where there Is a necessity there is a power, and where there is a worthy purpose the Constitution sanctions it. And so the Republican party was born. It was a party of builders and the builders went forth to build. The Union was in danger and the Republican party, with courage worthy of its purpose, determined to save the Union without measuring the cost or counting the sacrifice, and save the Union it did. "Rut the Republican party has not been a political organization merely, or it could never have accomplished these things. It is much more than a political party. It Is the naturally associated forces that make for civic righteousness; it is the harmonious blending of all the elements of progress; It is the Nation's vital forces made manifest. "Opposed to this party of constructive statesmanship has been the most fatuous band of political malcontents a vexed and suffering world ever looked upon. ? Without practical Judgment, without common sense, without the power of initiative, without a positive belief on any subject, when they have not been dangerous they have been ridiculous. They never had a policy that was not second-hand. In fifty years they have not shown enough constructive genius to build a political hencoop. Opposition has been their only creed, and weakness of the Constitution has been their favorite folly. A surplus is a personal affront, and the march of the flag is the very 'winter of their discontent.' "But the Republican party has not only furnished the principles and policies for fifty years of the Republic's hlston. it has also furnished the men. And what a splendiu palaxy of builders there has been. When in the mind of Providence the time had come to rid the land of slavery, when the Union was in danger, the country in distress, God raised up a man for the hour, and inspired him for his work. And Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! Lincoln the Republican! Uncoln the martyr! And when he fell, the party lost its greatest leader, the Nation lost its greatest man. "The years passed away, and another period dawned. The one success of the party of opposition had brought a reign of industrial terror, and in its pathway left the slime of anarchy and the mutterings of discontent. Industry was crying for new life and labor was pleading for another opportunity. The Nation longed for a new baptism in the love of country. Cuba was looking to America with hore and prayer. The child people of the Philippines were waiting for the gift of Anglo-Saxon liberty. The Republic was waiting to take her place among the nations of the earth. And when the hour was come, when His purpose was ready, God raised up another man, raised him from the people that he loved, placed the laurel on his brow, placed the scepter In his hand, and Inspired him for the work he had to do. And William McKinley also was a Republican. "Lincoln and McKinley. McKinley and Lincoln. Two kindred spirits from a higher world that sent them here to guide a party on its way, to lead a Nation to its destiny. How well they buildcd, how mightily they wrought, what noble monuments they left, a glorified Nation testifies and a mourning people pays its loving tribute."

Auditor Hart on "State Finances." The address of W. II. Hart, auditor of state, on "State Finances." was one of the most Interesting of the night. It reviewed the fiscal operations of the State and how they are conducted, besides giving a mass of statistics. "The cost of government in Indiana," he said, "is less than any other State I know of. There are fewer supernumeraries, sinecures and figureheads. The Republican party came practically Into power in Indiana, so far as business responsibility is concerned, in 1S'J5. Governor Matthews was not superseded until 187, but the Legislature and the fiscal management of the State wore Republican. The tax levy inherited from the Democrats was S2 cents on the $100. The Republican Legislature of 1S35 reduced the general fund levy 1 cent, the fctate school cents, making the levy 23t,i cents. The Republican Legislature of 1807 provided for an educational institutional tax of 1 2-3 cents on the $!nj for the three state colleges, instead of making annual appropriations, so that, indirectly, we are paying a school tax of 12 2-3 cents. The general expenses of the State are largely paid from the state and benevolent Institution levies of 14 cents on the ?lurt. The average tax for all purposes in Indiana is $1.4'i on the 1100. The rate in Cook county, Illinois, i3 $5.52. and but few counties in that State are less than $i on the $1'). This fearful condition is because of the assessments of values and of extravagance. The state tax levy for general fund, when the Democrats came into power in 1S31, was 12 cents on the $100. which their Legislature promptly Increased to IS cents on the $100. The Republican Legislature in 1S35 as promptly reduced It to 9 cents, which, with the benevolent Institution fund tax of 5 cents, increases it to 14 cents. "The state debt in 1S1U. when the Democrats took charge, was $S.S.Xrir.12; in lS'J.", when the Republicans came into power, it was $7,GlC15.12, a reduction of $l.C10,0o0. or $327.5! per year, and of this amount $723,000 was received from the government in payment of the direct war tax. The state debt on Oct. 31, 1'j1. after seven years of Republican administration, was $1,204,015.12, or a reduction of $3.320.000, or an average of $173.141 per year. This amount was further reduced Jan. 2. 1W2, $317.010, making the uebc to-night $3.S7,615.12. The annual interest has been reduced from $243,725 to $131,505. One million and eighty-live thousand dollars of 34 per cent, bonds cannot be paid until 1015, not having any option feature. The bonds owing Purdue and Indiana universities, amounting to $4S4.0O0, at 5 per cent., are perpetual. The balance of the debt, $-.313,0u0, is at the option of the State, and Governor Durbin will have the honor of paying every dollar of this during his administration. In addition to this splendid debt-paying record, there has been paid for new buildings and repairs to meet the rapidly growing demands of the penal, benevolent and reformatory institutions, $1,3j2.000, besides $125,uu0 to establish the State Soldiers' Home, and over $100,(XK) to complete the soldiers' monument, in addition to the largo incidental specific appropriations by each Legislature. The average yearly cost of maintenance of the state institutions has been $1.0t,0i0, and although the population of these institutions has increased in the case of the insane, 20 per cent. the average expense has been lessened. The IS'Jl report of the Board of State Charities says, 'If the per capita cost of maintaining tho state institutions in 1ÜW had been what it was in isai. It would have cost the State $540.5Cy.76 more. "It is a cause of sincere congratulation that Indiana has led the advance in the forward movement toward placing state Institutions on a business, humanitarian and nonpartisan plane. The soldier's orphan Is being educated and cared for; the needy veterans and their wives have a comfortable home In their declining years; the very best reformatory in the United States lias been established and every opportunity given those in the penal institutions for education and reform, based on their individual records. The best care and the best food is provided; economy, without parsimony or neglect, practiced; discipline and industry enforced. Competitive bids control all purchases; merit and competency determine tenure of employes, and strict fidelity to accountings required, not only in the inspection of supplies, but in the dally outgo for consumption. "Two bureaus have been added under the Republican administration; that of factory inspector and the labor commission. The former was extended by the Legislature of 1&01, so that now the laboring public are enjoying the State's care in the sanitary conditions, and other safeguards In factories, workshops and mines. Under the provisions of the child labor statute, children have been practically eliminated from factories, and under the compulsory education act, are in school. The work of the labor commission has been of Incalculable financial benefit to the State, besides bringing blessings to those that toil. Arbitration and the counsel of the State s representatives have easily taken the place of strikes, saving wages sacrificed in enforced idleness, and strengthening the mutual relations of labor and capital. The Increased expense In volved in extending the work of the Board of State Charities has saved the State hundreds of thousands of dollars, besides, in its humanitarian aspect, accomplishing results not measurable in a financial way. The dependent children and orphans' homes are cared for by state agents, and private homes secured for those left for public care and support. This financial saving to the counties Is a large item, but not comparable to the higher interests and destinies involved. The work in out-door poor relief has resulted in a reduction from $G3O,C0O. in isy5. to $210.000, in 1900, with no increase in want or suiTerlng. "Having lowered the tax levy, the Republican Legislature of 1KÜ promptly parsed the fee and salary act, which has resulted in an annual saving of many thousands of dollars to tho State and counties. One very practical example can be found In the insurance department. The collections U,st jtcr wer $277.000, which, under

the old law, would have paid the auditor $.1,700. or, practically, the entire four years salary under the present law. There has been collected in the insurance department finee l.'S, $1,33C,S22.S0. on which the present Republican law has saved the State in auditor's f ees $133,652. The receipts of this department pay the expenses of the department, and from the surplus every salary and expense account in the Statehouse, including

I the judiciary. The saving to the people by the heroic enforcement of the law against 'wild-cat' Insurance, debenture and bond Investment companies has been of incalculable value. The brood of debenture companies that, two years ago. were kept out of Indiana, with but little law and a 'stuffed club,' have proven thieving schemes in smooth disguise, and in a neighboring State the receiverships have so far disclosed a loss of over $1,,000 In the socalled investments made. "The county and township reform laws will forever Inure to the wisdom of the Republican Legislature. They will more than vindicate the claims for economy and a better system of local government. The action of Congress in approving the measures introduced by Senator Fairbanks and Congressman Hemenway will permit the government during the present year to approve of the State's claim of $713.000 growing out of civil war, financial advances to be paid, thus paying off just that much adeütjonal of our state debt. The property of the State much more than exceeds our debt, so that, practically, our assets now exceed our liabilities." "The Ilepubllcan Party." "The Republican Party" was the topic assigned to Frederick Landls. He said in part: "Fifty years ago a woman knelt at Bunker Hill as upon sacred soil. Upon her lips trembled a prayer; upon her cheek fell the African shadow; in her eye was the anguish of centuries. She was driven back to bondage in her tears. "Far to the west lived an American gentleman. His form was awkward, his face was plain, but in his heart was goid enough to make a thousand pagan gods. He spoke: 'This Nation cannot endure half slave, half free,' and as he spoke Fate stepped forth and clasped the hand of helplessness. "Then a political party was born born of impatience beyond the clouds. Justice was its father and mercy was its mother. It stood beneath a banner all of white, and upon that banner the world found the lilies of human liberty. The Republican party was God's answer to slavery and Abraham Lincoln was His' prophet! Grand men loved that party then we love it now. We love it for its stars and its scars its graves and its glories. We love it for its purple memories; for Harper's Ferry and immortal John Brown, for Chlckamauga and George JL Thomas, for Appomattox and Ulysses S. Grant. We love it for Andersonville prison and its glory-mantled martyrs who scorneM the arms cf treason and sought eternal sleep. We love it for those who lie in unknown graves this night tho missing children of fame for whom no arches rise, no tablets speak, but in whose common name common dust is precious. "We love this 'grand old party' because In the day of lower it redeemed the vow to valor given in the night of terror; because it made the Union soldier freedom's honored guest. We love It because it replied to repudiation: 'All Is heresy save honor, all is vanity save virtue, and our promise is as sacred as our fiag.' We love it because it touched the wheels of industry and they sped the myriad miles of prosperity triumphant, because, with head erect, the produest traveler on the highway of human progress, it lights the lamp of joy in the window of the poor, proclaiming proudly to humankind: 'J will care for America the world may care for itself.' We love it because wherever civilization leads it follows, and there it remains forever; because it has made the eagles of Washington nobler than tho eagles of Caesar and our fiag so grand the sky would be lonesome without it. "We love this party for pioneer eloquence and Richard W. Thompson, for Indiana and Oliver 1'. Moiton, for brilliant statesmanship and James G. Blaine, for sterling brain and Benjamin Harrison. "And yes, we love it for another's sake, whose memory stirs within a nation's heart sorrow's muilled drum-beat still. The mantle of Washington fell upon him; he raised his hand and the problems of the world obeyed him. The mantle of death fell upon him, and he met his God as a son meets his father. I saw him In his casket; upon his breast the Legion of Honor; past his ashes the legion of woe. Then from our lips with trembling hand history took his name, saying: 'The name of William McKinley belongs to me in trust for ages yet unborn.' " Lieutenant Governor Gilbert. Lieutenant Governor Newton W. Gilbert responded to the toast, "The Republican Press of Indiana." Recalling the days of the civil war. Mr. Gilbert told of the difficulties which Governor O. P. Morton en1 countered, how he was assailed and reviled by the "copperhead" press, and how. he overcame all opposition and steered the ship of state safely through the perils that besfit It. Continuing, he said: "Rut even a Morton must have failed had it not been for the Republican press, which sustained his every elfort. The yellow journal had not then attained the saffron hue of some which exist to-day, but then, as In the little war so recently fought, it denounced the coinmander-ln-chlef of the army and navy. Then, as now, it sowed seeds of discontent among our soldiers. Then, as now, it professed to believe the false tales of every enemy of- our flag rather than the statements of our officers and soldiers who were baring their breasts to the bullets of those same enemies. Then, as now, every measure for the maintenance of the supremacy of the flag and the prosperity of the people met its condemnation and ridicule. "The Republican party is composed of the progressive men of our country, who are young enough to live in the present and future and not in the past; of those who are animated by hope, and who believe In striving for better things; of those whose eyes are upon the stars and not upon the earth; of those who believe in the welfare of all the people, and lend no aid to the creation of classes in this land of opportunity; of those who favor the protection of American labor, the maintenance of an honest dollar, and equal opportunity for every man in our glorious sisterhood of States. It is made up of hopeful, strenuous, earnest men, who know that for more than a generation the development of our institutions has been dependent upon the success of the party of Abraham Lincoln; who know that the abandonment of the principles for which he gtood and the success of the party of opposition and discontent has speedily brought disaster. "You of the Republican press, are they who fought the battles of that party and of the people. When others doubt, you trust. When others falter and hesitate you lead the way. When new problems arise, as they always will when the march is forward, you seek the solution. No man among you preaches tho doctrine of discontent. You believe in the people, and the people believe in you. When our blood-bought banner was carried forth at the head of our blue-clad sons, amid the cheers and tears of millions, you gave encouragement to those who marched and to those who stayed. Antl since it has been planted upon many an Isle of the sea, filling millions of hearts with hope and carrying liberty to those who never knew its meaning, no word of yours has created discontent In the heart of one of its defenders, nor offered encouragement or cheer to any man who would assail it. "The Republican press has fought the battles of the Republican party since those early days when, conceived in the heart of God himself, it had Its birth. What a life that party has lived! Consecrated to liberty, it brought freedom to a racebrought it at a sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of treasure. Columbia's rivers ran red with 'the blood of her noblest sons, drawn forth by her own keen blade. The greatest war of all history was waged by the gentlest, kindliest, most tender-hearted man of the century, that our beloved country might indeed become the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.' The many problems of reconstruction were solved. The country was reunited. Constitutional amendments were adopted. Specie payments were resumed. The national debt was paid. Disabled and worthy soldiers were pensioned. Repudiation was trodden under foot. Protection was accorded to American industries and American labor. Our currency has been kept the beat in all the world. And to-day our fiag is flying and our institutions are finding lodgment in distant climes. The best soldier in all the world, the volunteer soldier of the United States-your son and your brother has carried 'Old Glory within the forbidden wfclls of the imperial city of the most ancient empire upon the globe; carried it there carried it everywhere not for conquest, not for gain, but that the blessed principle of liberty might be more widely understood. "The elory of these achievements Is largely that of the Republican press. Every step in this mightly advance has been contested. Th battle is still on. The party of opposition, the party of nerrai tlon. the party which contained every traducer or trie savior or our country, the party which opposed protection for our labor, the party which proposed to pay tho workingman and the husbandman in a depreciated dollar, the party which dis

covered a Washington in the Philippines, armed to the teeth to destroy our brave pons, and a Moses on the Platte, who esfayed to lead the people to the worship of a silver image this party yet attempts tu stay the progress cf the people,"

The Coming Campaign. Judge U. Z. Wiley, of the state Appellate Court, had for his theme "The Coming Campaign." He Eald: "We will enter on tue coming campaign with the prestige of four successive victories, won in an open field and honorable battle. We will have to our credit the wise, judicious and economical administration or our state government, under Republican control, since 15. which must commend itself to the public conscience and Judgment. We have behind us and with us the fplendid achievements of our party for nair a century, which has blazed the way ana brought our Nation to be the leader of ctilized powers the world over. "We have the glorious memory rr tne past as an inspiration for the present and as an Incentive for the future. V e hae 10 strengthen and buoy us up the thou.u that upon the triumph of the Republic n party and the supremacy of Rcpubllcar principles depend, in large measure, the continued prosperity, progress and development of our country. , "We enter the coming campaign crowned with the helmet of public confidence, wearing the breastplate of duty well done and with our loins girded by the sacred performance of every promii made to tne people. Yea, more than this; w are not unmindful of the fact thit we are the legatees of a princely inheritance, handd down to us by our great captains and leaders, who have guided our party and shaped the policies of the Nation during the most eventful years of our history. "To win future victories and maintain future supremacy, our party, in the future, as in the past, must keep close to the people, and heed the quickened conscience or the public. Our strength has been, not alone in the grandeur and glory of our principles, but in the fact also, that the people have been with us, and they have been with us because we have been right. To keep the people with us. therefore, wo must remain right. The ixepublican party has never had an inclination to go off after false prophets, nor to follow political 'wlll-o'-the-wisps Into dark and forbidden places. It has never become- hysterical, nor lost its equilibrium upon the suggestion of political chimeras. For more than forty years it has met in the cpen field its political opponents and driven them, in disorder and despair, from every fallacious and untenable position they have asserted. We have unhorsed the captain of their salvation and laid bare the political heresies which he championed. "It is Important that we return to the lower branch of the Congress at least nine Republican congressmen from this State, and to win one or two additional ones from Democratic districts, that we may do our whole part in perpetuating a Republican Congress that will be in accord with the administration, so there may be no let or hindrance in carrying forward the policy of our late martyred President, which has been so ably taken up and championed by our present chief magistrate. "It is important that we elect to the neat General Assembly of our State a majority of Republican members of both houses, to the end that we may return to the Senate of the United States our present able, wie. conservative and distinguished senior senator, Charles W. Fairbanks. The election of state senators is doubly important, for the reason that those who are elected in 11XTJ will have a voice In the election, of a United States senator in 1M, ana we should see to it. that we have such an overwhelming majority of the hold-over senators thüt there can be no doubt of the political conv plexlon of that body in V&j, and this will make certain the return to the United States Senate of our brilliant and commanding Junior senator, Albert J. Beveridge. "It Is also important we have a Republican Legislature, to the end that our penal, eleemosynary and educational institutions may be kept on the high plane upon which they have been placed. "It is further important that the administrative branch of the statu government be continued in Republican hands, so that wise, and economical, and business methods be perpetuated, and the State relieved of its burden of debt." "International Friendships.' John L. Griffiths, of Indianapolis, responded to the toast, "International Friendships," saying, In part: "Nothing Is more pathetic and tragic than isolation severance from our kind. Nothing is more burdensome and oppressive than enforced respect. The nation which has won the good will of other nations because it has dealt fairly with them, refraining from sinister and brutal practices and achieving its purposes in a frank, open, manly way, is a moral world power if its territory be only one hundred miles square and its population but a handful of people. Civilization has been defined as the art of living together. A state of peace is necessary for its highest expression and development. True progress is usually orderly, free from passion and wrath, and Is seldom tne offspring of war. The spread of democracy tends to the creation, propagation and perpetuation of international friendships. Most wars have been fought to gratify the whim or caprice of a ruler without any regard to the welfare of the people. When the nations of Kurope are democratized, as they will be sooner or later, and the masses are potential, courts of arbitration wni replace standing armies, swords will be turned into plowshares and men will dwell together in peace and amity. These words may seem to be the words of a visionary, spoken, as they are, while the two greatest Christian nations are engaged in war, but the words are, nevertheless, true, since the expansion of trade and commerce means the decline of militarism and the hastening of universal peace. The principle of federation is gradually extending its story. "How signally have we been benefited by international friendships in our three great wars. American Independence would have been greatly retarded had it not been for the goodly offices of France. Our civil war would certainly have been prolonged through the intervention of some of the European powers, if Russia had been unfriendly to our cause and had not sent a fleet to American waters 'showing who was our friend when the whole world was our foe.' The Spanish-American war would, perhaps, not have been ended while the critics were debating how it should be prosecuted unless England had shown that her sympathies were wholly with her kin across the sea. "The Geneva award, the Venezuelan commission and the conference at The Hague show how we are departing from tho old thought and practice of submitting all controversies between nations to the decision of the sword. "The coming visit of Prince Henry is evidence of the de-Fire of a great empire to rtrengthen its friendship with a great republic. It has even recently been suggested that a statue be erected to Washington in England in acknowledgment of the Justice of our war of independence. The sincere expressions of grief from King and Emperor and Czar when President McKinley was assassinated showed how closely tho nations are knit together. In the field of diplomacy this country has done more in a little over a century than all the nations did in all the preceding centuries to foster international frlenoshlps. "How fortunate America has been in the character of the statesmen who have represented It In the courts of Europe from the time of Franklin, and Jay, and Livingston, to that of Motley, and lwell. and Bayard, and Choate, and Charles Francis Adams, and Andrew D. White, and Horace Porter. They have been men of the ripest scholarship. the widest culture and the loftiest patriotism, combining a rare felicity of speech with a wondrous grace of manner and Infinite tact. "There has been a disposition in this country with our growing wealth and prosperity "to unduly vaunt oursflves, to swagger Just a little and serve notice on Europe that we are big enough to stand alone and wholly able to take care of ourselves. This is doubtless true, but how unnecessary and ungracious to act the braggart and bully. Instead of making friends with Ruitla and England and all the powers between. At this time, when we are adding to our domain, we should guard against the spirit of conquest, and adopt, as far as may be, the golden rule as our gulio in dealing with colonies and powers. If we do this we will follow the glorious example of Lincoln who went about his appointed task 'with malice toward none and charity for all," loving his neighbor even better than himself." Attorney General Tnjlor Addren. "The Party that Solves Great Problems" was responded to by William I.. Taylor, state attorney general. He reviewed the great questions which have arisen in the past forty years and how they wre nolved by Republican leaders. Coning; down to the present time Mr. Taylor said: "I cannot pass by the last great problem (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. COL. C.) To Care n Cold In One Day Take Laxative Brcmo Qulnme Tablets. All druggists refund th money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grov signature 1 00 eacJfc box. c

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