Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — LANDIS’S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. [ARTICLE]

LANDIS’S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

The following is the full text of Mr. Landis’s letter, accepting the nomination of the Hammond convention as published last Wednesday: To A. F. Knotts, chairman and othi rs: Gentlemen:—Your letter notifying me of my nomination for Representative in Congress, by the Republican convention of the Tenth Indiana District, which convened in Hammond, the 24th ult., has been received.

After mature deliberation, after carefully weighing all the circunu stances and incidents connected with the convention, and the canvass preceding, I now write you to inform you of my acceptance of the same. That there was the least discord in the work of the Hammond convention, ne one regrets more than I. I still think, had my proposition, thrice made on the day of the convention, to adjourn the convention, with a recommendation that the matter of the selection of a congressional candidate be left to a votejpf the republicans of the district in the various precincts, uncer the Australian system, would have been wise, and would have protected the party against any possible friction; but the proposition was rejected, and the convention proceeded and made a nomination.

In the coming campaign I shall give the party in this district the best service at my command. I am a republican because I have never known how to be anything else. The great principles of the party sank into my heart and mind with the stories of the sacrifice, suffering and death that came from the fields where my father was fighting for the flag, and I rejoice at the vindication of these principles, most ; signal when the goven ment is at the apparent mercy of Democracy. The matchless advancement of the nation from Lincoln to Harrison, was made in the face of the furious opposition of the leaders of the democratic party. These leaders have achieved some notoriety as opposers. They have achieved no fame as builders or promoters. The oft repeated charge of these leaders that the republican party had systematically legislated in the interest of the few as against the many, at last took root, and the result of the November election of 1892, was an emphatic declaration in favor' of democratic policies. What these democratic policies are we can only guess by Democratic promises, for they are not tangible as enactments, are without form and void, while darkness, distress, idleness and bankruptcy, stand in their stead. No fair-minded man can question for a jnoment that the presentcondition of the country is the direct fruit of these Democratic promises, and the threat to keep them. Tricked by these leaders, who now stand helpless, by reason of their own incompetency, the great body of the Democratic party, if not eger to actively assist are certainly most willing to acquiesce in a restoration of the happy conditions that existed under Republican rule. The mass of the people have lost patience with the Democratic party, and this fact will be emphasized at the coming election. These people have learned that finely spun theories do not turn the wheels of factories, and they have grown hungry and weary waiting for the discovery of the “markets of the world” of which they have heard so much and seen so little. Their creed henceforth will be simple and sensible. It will be the creed of the Republican party, embodying the doctrine of protection, reciprocity, honest money, work and wages for all, and condemning mercilessly that system of government spies, which has been organized by the present to track the footsteps of the soldiers who preserved the nation. 1 shall work earnestly and honestly to be elected to the end that a republican shall represent this district in the next Congress. Very Truly Yours, Charles B. Landis, Delphi, Ind., 18, 1894. «