Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — GOOD DOCTRINE. [ARTICLE]

GOOD DOCTRINE.

Inspiring Speeches l>> <sen. Haerteon and Ex-riov, Porter. Mari* •* th> K public »<• r*"® l ' vyrrk—Ttiw I#>iu<Htrney sh.iwu Ui> la It* True Color*. The speeches of Gen. Harrison. Gov. Porter and others, al Indianapolis last week,created great enthusiasm and were puDCturod with the applause of these wno heard them. Below we reproduce the speeches in full: ! GXK flAßßtsbx'S SPKKCU Mr. Ctu*irman and Fellow-citizens—-1 am a good deal under the weather this afternooD, and I Hunk' you will all agree that to be under this kind o weather is to be in rather a had fix; but 1 cannot refuse to respond in a few words to this hearty manifestion of your kindn ss, and to express my great interestjn.this assembly. In the most heated and interesting campaigns :Lrough which we Have gone in Tnd'atoi. und" can'paigns are always hot here. I have rarely, if ever, known a call to the State central committee for. a consultation of the Republican workers of the State to be so largely responded to as has been this call midway between cany paigtiK I take it to be indicative of something, and we need not search very lon .- or very far for that something. We have no candidates in the field. The purjioses of this assemblage are entirely and absolutely impersonahi. It has no rekith nro any man. It hae relation to principles and interests that lie at our I hearts, and it seems to me may augur from this early interest, this enthusiasm which is manifested here, that the next campaign in Indiana is to be waged with a thoroughness of organization, with an aggressiveness of debate that has never bei n excelled in any previous campaign.'' We give notice to our adversaries by this gathering, and by the resolutions which have been read, that the Republican party will be in the field-and not behind the breast works next year. I recently had occasion to remark in a neighboring county that same feeling which I eee here to-day. I have never seen it oefore at a period related as this is to' rhe actual work of the campaign, and I believe there is now a resolute and ironhearted determination in the Republic cans of Indiana to make tho tight of 1888 successful. I like a campaign where tim watch-words of principle stir men’s hearts rather than the name of a man. And what is it? that has waked us up so early? What is it that has kindled, not only interest but indignation, in the hearts of the Republicans of

Indiana? Things local aud things national have had their part. We fight not for oue principle, not for one cause, but for many tha 4 are wo-thily grouped and all of which .are in the Interests of the people cf this country, Your platform to-day well says, as I said in the opening speech of, the last campaign and repeated but recently at Danville, and shall continue to repeat, that the one overwhelming, towering, the first question of the day, is the restoration-of equal sufferage throughout this land. I have no heart, or little heart, for debate about politics that are to be settled by elections until I have first made sure that at those elections every man shall be allowed freely to vote his own sentiments and that every man’s vote shall count one. I would if I could, if crowding events would allow, postpone all other questions until this is settled, until we have a tribunal to which we may submit these disputed questions, organised on constitutional principles and exercising itself in Republican methods. I have wondered at the slackness of interest which in some recent campaigns has been felt on this subject. The other night I stood upon a platform where representatives of the Irish cause, Irish members of the English House of 0 >mmons, stood to talk about the wrongs of Ireland and the oppressions of the imperial government towards the Irish people; I felt my own beast kindling with interest as the story of Irish wrongs was told, and the thought came into my mind, how is it that we can be so stirred by this story of the wrongs of a people over the sea and yet be so dull to the admitted truth that here in States of our Union vo es are suppressed and that a minority rules the aflairs of states and exercises a control that turns the destiny of the Nation. I never have been ve r y timid about the bloody shirt

business, but if I needed ally justification to talk of these things, to lift up the old flag again in. honor, and to call upon the men wbbToliowed it in battle smoke and dyed-it with their blood to rally again about it, I could find it in those sceneh recently enacted in the South, when a United States Senator took hold of the staff of a rebel flag while the President of tne defunct Confederacy waved it over the heads of cheering men and kissed it' with his lips. What are we going to do about itT That is the taunting question that oom< s to us. Do about it I Without legislation, and there are several directions in which legislation may help to break this oppression, but without it, if the true men of the North had stood together with the fidelity of the days of ’65 and ’66 until this hour it would have been broken long-ago. If you will deprive those people of the full ‘usufruct’ of tbeir offenses you will discourage the crime; but if we could do nothing more, cannot we do what the Irish Representatives are doing: Resolve that ve will either make these people ashamed of what they are doing or we will make the world ashamed of them. A distinguished Southerher tells us that the explanation of the fact that an en tire congressional delegation from a giate is chosen by fewer votes than are given for a single Congressman in Indiana lies in the fact that the colored people down there take no interest in any question except the fence question. Let that freedom in the exercise of the ballot which we have here be given to them, and you will see how quick their interest in the fence question will enable them to toss these Democratic opW“ll, there is another large question, the question of the surplus I had a letter yesterday from a Republican friend who lives now at Noblesville, and who recalled himself to my mind as having once presided over a meeting that I addressed in Dearborn county, in the course of which he said: “It i<i a new thing for Democrats to be squealing about not knowing what to do with money.” I thought he putit very well. It is quite a new thing. As Fred Grant wl •* a. «nrnln.fl ift euA&itir VO; iifirullf 1 iH&p

a deficit;” but I do not deny that in ccqnection with this sin plus us about tine hundred millions a year there is danger; there are dangers of profligacy, of expenditure, and others, that require 1 us to address ourselves promptly and intelligently to the question of a reduce tion of dur revenue. I have said before, as your resolutions say, I would like to have that work done by the Republicans because. I would like to have it done with reference to some great questions connected with the use of revenue, about which I can not trust my Democratic friends. I would like to have our coast defenses made secure; I would like to hav<* dur navy made re- | spectable, so that an American naval ' officer, as he trod the deck of the ship 1 hearing the starry banner at its head in any port throughout. the world, and lookd about on her equipment and armament, might feel that she was a match for the proudest ship that walked the sea under any other flig. I would like to feel that, no third-rate power, aye any first rate power, could sail into our defenceless harbors and lay our great cities under tribute. I would like to .fegl triftt the j iib t <r lai ma of. the survivors > f t neUnioii army of the war were made ' secure and safe. Therefore. I have a I strong preference that this work of the reduction of our revenue, internal and external, shall be conducted by Republicans; and we have a chance next year, laboring as we do under the disadvantages of a most infamous apportion ment in combina'ion with other States to wrest from the Democracy the control of the House of Representatives, where all revenue measures must originate. If our Democratic friends in Congress insist upon methods tnat we cannot accept they must not blame us if legislation is deferred—the responsibility is theirs. Talk about Democrats reducing the revenue! Whv they have been in power ten years and more, in the body that must originate revenue bills, and they have accomplished nothing. I ask my querulous friends to hear it in mind that all the of the revenue that have been accomplished since the close of the war have been accomplished by Republican legislation, and you ean trust that parly still further to reduce it wisely. I expect I am a poor political economist. But when I hear men talking, now, like ex Senator McDonald, of the great benefit that is to come to our people when Democrats revise the tariff, especially in the,shape of a cheap coat, I fail to find myself completely in sym pathy with him. 1 think I saw, the other day, in one of our Indianapolis papers, a good overcoat advertised for $1.87 and itmust be a pretty mean man that wants to get one tor a dollar. The simple fact is, gentlemen, many tilings are nude and sold now too cheap for I Hold it to be true that whenever the market price is eo low that the man or the woman who makes it cannot get a.fair living out of the making of it, it is too low. < And I think our workingmen will wake up to the fact that reduction in their wages, which every candid ad vocate of free trade or reyenue reform admits, must come with the adoption of his theories. A reduction variously estimated at from 10 to 55 per cent, is poorly compensated by the the cheaper coat he is promised. Triis bull-in-the china shop sort of work that our Demo cratic friends want to make of the tariff

will not do. We have State issues of vital consequence. Why the very first I mention ed, that of equal suffrage, every man weighing the same amount in influence and political potency at the ballot-box, that is a live question in Indiana as well as in the South; and then the question of the reform of our benevolent institutions. I would make the hills and prairies of this State ring with the story of their shameful mismanagement next campaign, for it is the lowest touch of beastliness that r p oils politics has ever reached that the care of the insane should be made the mere occasion of party pecula'ion or speculation. And yet that is the ead story of Indiana to day. Let us go to the honest men and women of the State and appeal to them to lift these institutions out of the mire and degradation in which they are to day and set thfem up upon a plane of non-partisan, civil service reform. There are other questions oi local interest, but I wffl not discuss them to-day. I rejoice with you in the stern, high en -thuaiasm which- you have manifested here, and will, in closing simply turn your attention tq the fact that meetings like this and speeches like this, if nothing follows, are line that gas stand pipe, up north of our city that roars and lights up a little space, but does no work for good. If we can. send you home fro u* this happy gathering here at Indianapolis and make you think of these questions from day to day, organize your clubs, revive your committees.look into the question of emigration and immigration—for the time has come when Indiana is not simply engaged in the business of spilling R-publicans out West, but some are likely to be spilled in from the East—look after them;* look into all these questions which are changing the statutes of things in your neighborhood; make ad intelligent, candid, appeal to your Democratic friends, circulate good newspaper literature, set to work from this moment as if the campaign had opened now, determined without any regard to who shall be nominated either in Indianapolis or Chicago, that we will carry the State' next November. ADDRESS BT GOVBBNOX PORTER. Fellow-citiems—l have but one ob jection to the fine speech of General Harrison. lam a friend of order, and according to the declaration of my friend Mr. Huston, his speech was out of order. I did not know until I heard Mr. Halford read these resolutions ho* much I was in favor of protection. I had had a little suspicion of myself on the subject of a very high protective tariff, but I am now one of the greatest protectionists in the world. I did not know how much I -relieved in protection until I neard the resolutions. There is a glorious history of the Republican party contained in tbase resolutions which stirs the blood of all Republicans in the land. Twenty four Cleveland took up on himself the office of President oT the United States a war broke out, which all our Democratic friends said with perfect unanimity, except these that were helping to carry the flag, would involve the country in bankruptcy. The war Eighteen or ter-centennial administration of the Republican party, our Democratic friends declared to us all along during our administration that the Republicflp p—ty weald involve ths country

in bankruptcy, and now when they are preparing for another presidential eanvaas. what is the cry? Tfiat the K-pub-lican party left too great 4 a surplus. Was there ever in the history ot mankind a tribute to a party that has gone through such trials and struggles as the Republican party has, that we have left too much 6i a surplus instead of bankrup'ing our country? Now, my friends there is too much of a surplus, perhaps, and each party has said the surplus shall, be reduced. There are two surpltntes; there is a financial surplus and there is a political surplus. The political surplus is the Democratic party. Now the work ot -the Republicans is, by wise administration and prudent legislation, to wipe out both surpluses at once. It is too late in the afternoon, fellowcitizens, for ine to niase aspe>-ph to you, but I wish to say Something now 'hat is personal to myself. You are full of hope; and who doubts, when he sees the enthusiasm here to day, and the high resolution that we have voiced—wbo can doubt that the Republican party will sweep the Union? I have been wanting fur some time to make a declaration. I Should no’, have appeared upon this stand to day without Warren G. Sayre and Mr. Huston walking along with me, if I had a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. I am nol; I will not be; my name will not go before the convention. I turn over to the brave men who are willing to take up the banner of the party—the flag that I carried in the campaign of 1880, where, by your support, I was enabled to win a victory for us all. There is Robert 8. Robertson, cheated dot of the election of Lieutenant Governor; a Democratic Attorney General declaring that there was a vacancy in the office, the people voting upon the question, Democrats and Republicans alike. lam willing to ee him vindicated. We have a gallant man who presided over the House of Representatives at the last session of the Legislature. And as gamy a man as there is in lhe State of Indiana —a man oi the highest and most undoubted pluck, a man fitted for any position I would gladly place in bis hands, if the people chose to, the flag that should be borne in triumph in the ensuing campaign. There is Colonel Cmnback, who used to be better known in our organization than he is now; a gallant man and fine speaker, full of pluck and resolution; he is fit to bear your standard, too. And here is our chairman of tne Slate Central Committee, the gentleman who contributed so much to the success c f the campaign One year agoT I therefore feel I, ought to say, that at no time sinpe I went out of the offi -e of Governor, in 1885. have I ever said to any human being that I would be willing to again accept the nomination for Governor. My resolution ever since that hour has been not to be a candidate; but I bad withheld any. ex pression of it in order that I miuht, break rr.y silence at the right time, when the par:y was full of hope and of cheer and of confidence, and felt that victory was certain. And to-day many have spoken to me about the subject of mj sell being a candidate. People have written to me from all parts of the State, but J-bave kept silence. As

an honest man and a candid man I cannot keep silent one minute longer. I must say to these gentlemen that I have referred to tha: they have a clear field. But let me say one thing that when the fight comeson and when the contest thickens, my plume shall be in front, - Thete is no time for jealousies; there is ho time for bickerings; there is no time for heart burnings. Let every man feel that he is a candidate for the front, and let every man strive that he shall be the first who will scale the enemy’s intrenchments. I love the Republican party. Since 1856 there has been no contest in which I have not gladly borne her banners. I feel that to-day I have a right to be there and to fight in the ranks where I alw-ys would have chosen to have fought. I never received a nomination where I was a candi late for the nomination. I have fought for the good of the Republican party. And so, when the campaign shall come oh, I will take up her standard as I did in 1880. and I will have the same kin I of manners when I am not a candidate that I had when I was. I tt.ank you, for this most kind reception. The trains are ready to leave, and no doubt miny ol you are eager to depart.

Much Needed “Don’ts” lor Women. New York Graphic. If you are lantern-jawed don’t Wear a sailor bat. You are certain to want to, but take warning by the awful examples you see of doleful old girls that have yielded to the temptation. If people stare at you don’t plume yourself and simper; may be because yoirhave a paper pinned on your back or a streak of smut on your nose. Again, if you are stared at, don’t flounce and frown; it doesn’t do you any good and makes you conspicuous. Besides, you are probably imagining the attention anyway. Don't wear a bustle as big as a bay window unless you have some way to lash it securely to your spine and you are sure your spine is in the middle of you; a big bustle on the left hip is not fashionable, often as you see it. ; Don’t think all the men you know are in love with you, ana that only various secondary motives restrain most of them from declaring their passions. It is likely that very few of those that do declare it tell the truth. Don’t run down prettier women to men. Your motives are certain to be impugned. Don’t estimate yourself by the moat ex ravagant compliment paid you; remember you hear inevitably a great deal more from the people that admire you than frojn that perhaps equally large constituency that doesn’tShe.Helrt Him 1n...Brown—You’? a lucky dog, Robinson. So you married a girl worth 1500,000 in her own right? Robinson (rather more sadly than the circumstances seem to warrant) —Yea. Brown—You ought to put up the drinks. Robinson—All right, old man. Just wait while I run into the house and see if I can get a dolLa. „