Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — THE CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

THE CAMPAIGN.

The Enemy Is On the Run Before the Fight Has Well Begun. An Unprecedented Triumph. Indianapolis Journal The overturns in Indiana, Tuesday, have nowhere a parallel this year of Democratic reverses except in New Jersey. More than sixty cities. usually more than half Democratic, held elections Tuesday, and not over a half dozen of them show Democratic ascendency. Local issues and controversies entered into some of the contests, but these usually affect one party as much as the other; but on Tuesday it was the Democratic policy which" has paralyzed business, destroyed employment and brought loss or want to paany thousands that the people were determined to condemn and they did it. As a whole, the Demoeracy has gone down in Indiana as a party has hever been submerged in this State. {lities which have never had Repubican Mayors elected them on Tuesday. Cities which for a generation have had a succession of Democratic councils broke that succession this year. Every Democratic Senator or {Representative living in a city voting on Tuesday, received a special stroke; but the protest of Senator Voorhees’s city was the loudest and most angry. , Victory involves responsibility, jf n power in most of the cities of Indiana, the Republicans elected and those who have influence should see

that the people are given intelligent and clean administrations. The offices are few. and but few people £an be rewarded by their bestowal, jbut there is not a citizen so humble .that a judicious management of municipal affairs and an intelligent enforcement of the laws and ordinances will not be to his advantage. No city can long be prosperous with a defective and wasteful management of municipal affairs. In no other way can the Republicans in cities retain the advantage which they gained in Tuesday’s elections. We now have throughout Indiana the long sought but never hitherto attained opportunity of proving the superiority of the Republican party for the management of local affairs. Let us make the most of it and thus perpetuate party ascendency. At the same time let us seize upon the opportunities offered by these inspir in gvic tor ies to Strengthen our lines for the- contests of November. Senator Turpie’s Strange Speech. Chicago Inter-Ocean. It is long since an exhibition so derogatoryto its dignity was made in the Senate of the United States as that in which Mr. Turpie was the principal performer. It is strange that the presiding officer did not call the Senator from Indiana to order before he had eructated the most offensive part of his matter Mr. Turpie is a very scholarly and very ro i_ cluse person, and under normal conditions is gentlemanly in debate, though always needlessly satirical intone. It would have been charitable toward him to have checked his utterance as soon as it became apparent, as it did in the very' exordium of his speech, that he was in in abnormal condition. Senator Aldrich, pgainst whom Senator Turpie’s violent diatribe was leveled, closed the debate “by a dignified exculpation of the Demo--cratic majority in the chamber from ipproval of the unseemly violence of the gentleman from Indiana. "He speaks for himself alone," said the gentleman froln Rhode Island, "and under other circumstances and conditions I do not believe that he would have made, the speech that he has made." It is a charitable conclusion. Senator Turpie should prove that it is a just one by a voluntary apology to the Senate he has insulted. We say the Senate because his Offense was against the dignity of the whole body. No individual Senator can consider himself insulted by such a speech made under such circumstances. A Vote on the Main Question. The Republican convention, acted

wisely in making the issues affecting the industrial and business situation the only ones in its platform and ia its canvass. They affect the wellbeing of all the people, and are, therefore, the most important. They are the issues which the people are all interested in. and which should be considered by themselves and

without distracting adjuncts. The Republican convention representing the party has put itself in a position to demand the support of every voter in Indiana who believes or suspects that the present conditions are due to the tariff policy of the Cleveland administration. There was universal prosperity when Mr. Cleveland came and announced his policy; there i§ depression and distress throughout the country now because of the fear of the Cleveland policy. In view of these facts, the Republican party in Indiana has placed itself where it can ask with assurance the support of every man who desires to put an end to the disastrous policy of Clevelandism by the result of the election of November, 1894. It is right to make this issue, the main feature of the campaign, for the reason that no issue or demands for legislation in other directions can be taken ud with success while

business depression deprives all wage earners either of full employment or of fair wages and production affords no profit. The general condition of prosperity is the only one in which the people are prepared to give proper attention to plans and policies for the improvement of society. Moreover, these seasons of i depression are seasons of demorali- ; zation, as intelligent people must i realize who read of Coxeyism. Men without employment who see the comforts of themselves and families depart are tempted to lawlessness. ‘ The conditions which compel an in- -■ dustrions man to wear a ragged coat j who wears a good one when he has ! employment are demoralizing from amoral point of view, because men suffer in self-respect and lose courage. Consequently, to change the conditions so that the industries of the country will revive and give emI ployment and wages is to put an end Ito the demoralization we now see about us, and is the highest moral duty a party organization can undertake. If there are good men who cannot join the Republicans of Indiana in this work because their personal views and convictions of what are essential are not made a prominent feature of the Republican platform, y they must go their way and become the allies of Clevelandism and the party which is responsible for presI ent conditions. The one issue which | overshadows all others is involved in i the question: “Shall the tariff policy i of Cleveland and the solid South be • adopted?’’ The Republicans of InI diana invoke the aid and the votes i of all men who believe that it should I not, and when they ask the support ; of all men who are hostile to that I which is the first step to free trade, , they do not propose to ask such men * to commit themselves to the approval or disapproval of any other i theory or policy.