Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1904 — The Youngest Member. [ARTICLE]

The Youngest Member.

Representative Frederick Landis of Logansport, the youngest member of the Indiana congressional delegation, said: “The time was when Massachusetts spoke for the nation and the voices of Webster and Sumner were political prophecy. The time is when Indiana speaks for the nation, and the uterances of Fairbanks and Beveridge are the advance sheets of political history. And Indiana speaks today for the party of human liberty and common sepse. And that party speaks for every policy that has made this country great and will tnake it greater. She speaks for our policy in the Philippines. She speaks for the oldfashioned policy of a protective tariff, the policy that has made us the factory of the world and the captain of the nations. This is the greatest love feast we have ever had. It is an index to the great majority which will be polled next November. We will begin this century right. Our platform is made and our success assured. This is the country and this is the time. A Canaan there was for the oppressed of old and here another has been founded, founded for the fleeing victims of later Egypts of oppression and beneath our flag they shall build the greatest nation of all time.” - A Note of Warning. Representative Elias S. Holliday of Brazil, the only vetgran of the civil war now in the Indiana delegation in congress, said: “Many grand things have happened in the history of the party, but I want to remind you of this fact, and that is, no matter how splendid our record is we will have to win upon what we are doing now. The mill will never grind with water that is past. Our record is grand, glorious, and will stand as long as we represent the best sense of the American people, and let me tell you, my friends, at this time, with these grand speeches ringing in your ears, we must prepare to face the enemy. There is not one state in the Union that eoul<L be carried by the Republican party with an unpopular candidate, or with an unpopular platform; there are ten states in the Union at this time that could be carried with any kind of a candidate, or any kind of a platform for the Democratic party. It is like a chess player sitting down to the board and taking off some of the men before commencing to play. It is not fair, but against this unfairness we appeal to the best interests of the American people. We don’t go to them and merely say, ‘We have done the work well in the past,’ but we must demonstrate the fact that we will do the work better than any other party can do this work." Some Closing Remarks. Former Mayor Charles A. Bookwaiter of Indianapolis, a man of whom the Republicans over the state heard so much during the recent campaign in this city, was called for and responded wittily with an appropriate story which set the audience laughing. Charles L. Henry of the Indianapolis Journal spoae very briefly In response to the call for a speech from him, "There Is no doubt," said he, "that we will enter upon a very important campaign, and are entering upon it at this meeting. I likewise have no doubt that we will enter it with good spirit and go on successfully. I indorse the sentiment of all that has been said here today, and, from the chairman of the Republican state committee to the precinct committeeman, we will make the organization in Indiana a perfect one, and one which will Insure spldndid success In the November election.” George Knox then arose and said: "I don’t believe that any campaign or any picture will have beauty and grandeur without having a background, and so, therefore, to add color to the I think we should hear from Brother Brewer." Gurley Brewer of Indianapolis was the last speaker of the afternoon, and the only colored man called upon. Mr. Brewer has done so much campaigning in Indiana that he Is well known to Republicans all over the state, and he was given a cordial welcome. In his brief speech he said: “The Southern question rises like Banquo’s ghost, it will never die. There is south of the Mason and Dixon line an elemnt which proposes to determine a citizen’s right to vote by the color of his skin. They have discovered that the white man Is different from that of the black man. They have suddenly discovered that the cuticle of the white man differs from the cuticle of the black man. They have further discovered that there are seven primary colors of the rainbow, and that this black man absorbs all of these colors and refuses to reflect any of their benefit on the Democratic party. "Now, gentlemen, I want to announce at this hour that I am for Theodore Roosevelt because he Is the representative of the greatest poltlcal organization that ever existed among men. He is the representative of that party which elected Abraham Lincoln president; he is the representative of that party which has followed that great apostle of industrial education, Booker T. Washington; he is the representative of that part/ that made it possible for a black volunteer to fight, his country’s battles for the first time as a citizen soldier. I am glad of the opportunity, Mr. Chairman, to the Republicans present for the elation they have extended me, and I again thank -them, I thrice thank them, and I want to advise you to get together and give the nation the frulta of another Republican victory, supthat lUua-

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