Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — Page 7

FA RMERS CORNER

Pointe in Corn Growing. The art of raising corn is summed: up in Indiana Farmer: The cut of corn plants in a row distance part is shown for the purpose of impressing the reader with the importance.*)! ter methods of cultivation than those formerly pursued; in other words,-to show the necessity of shallow level cultivation after the Corn plapt is a few feet high. This country has the only productive and profitable corn belt in. the world. The dferald and increasing price of corn 'in/jthe last five years have raised the annual production'to about 2,000,000,D00’ bushels, and yet the average per acre for the whole country is only 24.2 bushels. It is a rather remarkable fact that on the poor soils of New aver; age production 1 per acre is largest. This is doubtless due to the fact that better fertilisation, cultivation and seed selection is practiced there. It is very well known that there Is great advantage in seed selection. Many Instances es this have shown that on the same quality of soils fifteen bushels per acre have been produced, mdre than where the work of selecting seed was neglected. Again, it has been rhown that / corn growing on lands the. previous year in-Wgnminous greatly increased in production.The best corn growers now begin* cultivation with weeders or before, or by the time, the cdrn begins to appear apove the -ground, this both for the purpose of destroying: the germinating weeds as well as to put the soil in better condition for corn growth. It is always irfiportarit that the ground be stirred after rains, where crust forms and starts rapid evaporation of the moisture. It is well settled' how that* a good dust mulch of two or three inches’ depth Is one of the things necessary in corn cultivation.' Formerly deep cultivation was practiced, but it is now seen that this was a mistake. When the crop is ’ three or four feet high the ground begins to mat with the fine fibrous roots which extend from row to row, as sho4vn in the cut. When six to eight feet high these fine root feeders of the, plant have made a complete mat between the rows. In deep cultivation, reaching down to five or six inches, these

BOOTS OF THE CORN.

line plant feeders are broken off, and growth toward maturity Is checked. Of course, new fibrous roots will form from those broken, but loss Is sustained and never fully recovered. It is the same when a calf or pig has its growth checked by starving for food; It can never fully recover tbe loss.

Keep Up the Milk Flow. Every dairyman knows that when a cow is allowed, through lack of succulent food, to fall off in her milk, it is impossible to again bring her back to the original flow, no matter how bountifully she is fed. Even if the food costs more than the milk during the summer drought, it is best to keep it up if it is intended to milk the cow through the fall and winter. To allow the milk yield to run down is to court a double loss. The loss of the milk is something, but if the milk is going to a creamery that is co-oper-ative in any phase the lessened supply from all the patrons will Increase proportionately the cost of making butter and thus force a further loss on the patron. Unfortunately on most of our farms it Is looked upon as the regular thing to have the cows fall off in their milk at this time of year, and nothing is done to prevent it. •This not doing anything is the hardest tiling to overcome when we are trying to induce the adoption of methods that will insure the continuation of the flow of milk during early summer through the hot weather. This is a hard period for our creamery men, but the loss always gets back to the fanners in the end. This should be remembered and measures taken to Insure different results.—St. Louis Republic.

Work Horse in Hot Weather. How many drivers are there who think that a horse would be more comfortable if his harness is taken off when he comes in hot, tired and sweaty from a forenoon's work? Just ns man likes to take off his hat, boots mid swanty stockings after a tramp behind the harrow, so the team Is refreshed by being unharnessed. A horse Is never so hot that a half-pall full of water will Injure him, nnd It Is a cruel custom to put the horse In a close stall without a sup, of water to cool ills parched mouth, while the driver goes to liquidate at the pump. It la considered unwise to allow a horse to

drftik a large quantity of water Just before, or Immediately fitter- eating. By giving them a pall'fuH of water on coining in from the field the horses will relish their hay, and. by tfiqtime'they are unharnessed another full may. be'glven and graia^fed. l Then, going to to drinkas much, as desli’fed- lAnd this will .be more nearly, the proffex? quantity .than if permitted to fill'uir wheh first'coining in it/om the field. A horsd is too valuable to neglect, and careful attention not Ohly pays in 'his increased usefulness, but an animal which etandS so high in the-seale-of-tntelligence is entitled to humane treatment-—Ex-change. . , ; . Making a Ga den Roller. - Get a-piece of two-foot earthenware tiling about fourteen inches in diame- . ter.anti AeLitofi a board,'as shown ifi the top picture. Place an Iron, rod , - _—* -fc • ■ X ~ , ■' - ■ •

GOOD GARDEN ROLLER.

exactly ; In; the tenter, passing "down* through About' an ifich and; projecting above the tiling about the same distance —that is, two. inches. Now fill,in the tiling to the top with cement and broken''rocks, the cement being two parts sand to one of dry cement Have the ends faced with'the clear mixture of sand and that is, with none of the broken rock appearing In view. Now arrange, a handle upon, the projecting iron bar in .the center, as shown-ln. the lower picture, Should the outer covering of tiling ever become broken by accident, there will still be left a fitffi*Toller df ee--ment that has hardened to rock-like consistency.

Poultry and Smalt Fruftn. The writer has been much interested in a fruit and poiiKTy farm whichbe has visited yearly for the last five years, and the results obtained on this farm have been such that they are worth attention here. The owner was over sixty years old when he took up this work. He had been a farmer all his life and had raised both fruit and poultry to a limited extent As he grew older the sons left the farm and it became too much of a burden. He sold it and bought ten acres on the outskirts of a city of 25,000 people. At the end of the first year from chicks raised and fowls bought he' bad ninety-four laying hens. One acre of strawberries was also in good condition for a first crop the following summer. At the end of five years he has nearly three hundred fowls and pullets for egg production, markets many broilers, roasters and fowls and has three acres In strawberries.' With the help- of one man all the work Is done and our friend Is making more actual money beyond the cost of his living than he had ever made on the farm of seventy acres and with a much smaller Investment. There are possibilities In this combination in many sections of the country, and they are well worth looking Into. Plenty of hard work in it, of course, and many disappointments, but under skilled management it will bring success. —Indianapolis News.

Farm Notes. Close inbreeding Is a short cut to temporary success. A poor appetite In an animal suggests some weakness. Hogs may be fed corn as soon as the grain begins to harden. All things considered, early plowing is best for fall wheat. A fattened old cow has a larger proportion of ’waste than a young animal. All animals require a variety In their food In order to make the best gains. Set the milk as quickly as possible after milking to get pfrfect rising of the cream. The temporary gate, or the makeshift fence, will often cause more trouble than making a good one. The housefly lives about ten days, during which time it can give at least a month of trouble to the housekeeper. Quantity in clover hay counts for loss than quality. Now Is the time to arrange for quality by cutting it in the right time. As many as a dozen farmers have found out that It does not pay to keep hogs and poultry in the same enclosure. It is to be hoped that more will learn this fact by another year, Many a man who does not have any confidence in himself or In God has Implicit confidence In an old, warped horseshoe. It is strange bow some people who are Intelligent will act The nil physiologist who claims the soil needs no fertility to keep It up, but that It produce* according to climatic and cultural conditions, has bit wld* the mark.

POLITICAL COMMENT

NewYork. Hill, August Belmont and the rest )Of them insisted on the nominatlonjof Judge Parker on the ground that he can carry' York*‘as\l'galiikt iWf. Roosevelt; that he is a ‘phenomenal volte-getter.’V'The only bit 4 df evidence’they’adduce is that'fri'lß97, the year after McKinlqy swept the State by 268,169 plift^iit Parfiei- was 'elected to ids present jjidieial position by. 60,889 plurality. Tills was the" only time Darker was a S.tjite candidate.. But there is a quite exceptlbMl' rea his Plurality that year. The frturqliUqs i ’ l the State of New .York. for have been: -1894 —Governor . *156.1U.8 Rep.. 1896 President Rep. 1897 Judge (Parker) 60.889 Dem. 1898— Governor 17,786 Rep. .I96o—President ... 143,606 Rep. But here-4s a table giving the total vote of t the Republican ahd Democratic jiarties for those years, Which shows on-Interesting fact; . , ~. Rep. Dem. ;lt»4t,.i. 073,818 517,710 1896..... 819,838 551,369 1897493,791 554,680 1898. 661,707 643.921 1900 ; 821,993 ■ .678,386 1902.t:' 6ff0;150 656,347 it jvlibbe noted that the Republican vote was 180,000 less in 1897’than in when Morton wjts elected Governor; it less.;tfian thq vote ’the'’next year, 1895,’ When-Roosevelt. ■ ' ' • --

UNFAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY THE SIMILARITY.

Was elected Governor. Judge Pucker s total vote In 1897 was only 37,060 larger than the Democratic vote in 1894, when David B. JUUI was defeated by 156,000, and, it was 90,000 less than the DeinocratFC "Vote in the election for Governor In 1898. These figures show an astonishing variation, which is explained as follows: There was but one office to be filled at the State election of 1897 —that of chief judge of the Court of Appeals. No State convention was held by either party, the candidates being r ained by the State committees. Hence there was little to stimulate political activity Mn the rural districts, and thousands of Republicans did not go to the polls. But there was a most exciting contest in the city of New York for Mayor. Gen. Tracy was the Republican candidate. Van Wyek the Tammany candidate, while Seth Low was named by the Citizens’ Union. The name of Judge Wallace, the Republican candidate for Court of Apeals, appeared on the regular party ticket, but it was not placed on the I.ow ticket. Parker's name was on the Van Wyck ticket The result was that while the total vote for Mayor was 487,400, the total rote for Judge was only 413,549. There were 73,851 voters, presumably supporters of Mr. lx)w, who did not Vote for any candidate for Judge, largely ' was printed on that ticket. Had Wallace's name appeared there, he would have defeated Parker by 13,000 plurality. With these facts given due weight, It is clear that the claim is absuvl that Parker showed phenomenal powers as a vote getter in the only State campaign in which he was a candidate. There is no reason to assume that he can carry his State against Roosevelt.— I'oledo Bladed

Tinkcra nnd Pluggere. The Democratic party, including Bryan, admits defeat until the next campaign on the Issue of honest money. So it is proposed to light this year on the issue of the tariff. Foreight years the Democratic paity has fought the honesty of the laborer's wages. Now the tight is against the sufficiency of the laborer’s work. The people resisted successfully in ISOtl and in 1900 the fifty-rent dollar in the pay envelope, and will Fesist as successfully half time Iti the works of industry. The Republican party and its candidates represent steady employment at American wages. That party and Its candidates will be victorious over the tariff tinkers as over the dollar pluggers.—Findlay (Ohio) Republican. Bryan's Revenge. The original tariff plank submitted to the Committee on Resolutions of Uie Democratic National Convention,

the one that Bryan knocked btit, read.- 5 ’ “We favor a wise,"’conservative and business-like revision and. a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and Tor the coinmoiP weal,.and not by the friends of its abuses, its extortions and its discriminations.” " - -In its place was adopted the mossback free trade Si'hich lia-f been in every Democratic platform’ for almost a century—that the tariff should be restored to h rtve'nue’Aiftstfiand, administered for revenue only. This is the same plank that has been voted -down by the American people repeatedly, and will be again; Darker’s friends wanted to straddle the tariff for the benefit of* the "East; but ■Bifyan, wouldn’t permit them. Evidently Bryan is open to the charge of conspiring at Wfnona (Minn./' Republican.' ' ' \ ', SPEECH BY,, FAIRBANKS.; ;<i A -Candidate far VLce President Makes First Public Address. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, Republican candidate, fdr Vic«--President, made his first campaign speech ,at White River Junction,, Vt.- The. Senator’’devoted jnost- of his speech to de- ? fending the Republican policies and T tb demonstrating that the administration of Roosevelt has been a.successful,.one. In the- course of Kis' speech .theDgnatpr »ai<v We have entered riffirti'a CftmpMgh far reaching . moment. we‘ are' to * determine the policies that shall J>e In force and ths

administration which shall be in power for four years to come. The candidates and platforms are before the people. The records of the parties are a part of our familiar history, aud we .should be able to judge What policies and what administration will •best advance our welfare. We should consider the questions before us and determine them In the light of the tireside' without passion and without prejudice. One of the uppermost questions is. Does the administration of President Roosevelt merit a vote of confidence? This question confronts us nt the threshold of the debate. The President up the duties of his office at a serious moment In the history of the republic. He assumed his great respouslbilftfes with a due appreciation of their gravity, and gave assurance to his countrymen that he would carry out the policies of his predecessor. The people were familiar with them. They were the policies of the Republican party. They had brought the country immeasurable prosperity, and they naturally desired their continuance. We may compare Democratic and Republican administrations with profit. Fortunately, we have before us the records of both parties during the last twelve years. Twelve years ago the country was in enjoyment of an unusual degree of prosperIn,the face of this, the Democratic party denounced "Republican prosperity as a fraud and robbery of the great majority of tlie people for the benefit of the few.” It was declared to be unconstitutional, and the repeal of the McKinley law was demanded. The people, in an unguarded moment, in the exercise of their sovereign rtglita’ tjoted out of power the Republican administration, and expressed their judgment in favor of a repeal* of the McKinley law. Democratic promise was accepted lu place of Republican fnlfilliiient. The four years KUceeeiiing General Harrison s defeat will not be soon forgotten t hey stand In sharp contrast with the years of Republican ndinlnistration, both before nnd after. They tvere four years of arrested development, of puidc, and distress without a parallel in American history. Jn 18!Mi the American people resolved to return to Republican administration and to Kvpubllcnti pollciuN. \\ ♦» <*ftinp Into power pledged to overthrow the Democratic tariff law and to ena««»iii lieu of It a genuine protective measure. President McKinley realizing full well the public needs, convened Congress as speedily ns possible after his Inauguration to curry out our pledge. Three years ago our groat nnd beloved leader in the national contest of ISM nnd limo fell at Ills post of duty. ! His suacessor has since then administered our national affairs with conspicuous ability. He has been an earnest student of tife country’s needs. He has been coiiHcientlmis and untlrl'iK in the discharge of his great responslbllltles. He has been inspired by but one purpose, and that lias been to do well the work committed to his hands. Judged bv nny test we mar apply, the administration of President itooseve'lt lias been eminently am-cessful. Tbe last throe years have been years of exceptional pros perity. .

Where the Benefit Goes. No, no! Burnt children dread the lire, and Democratic talk about a “robber tariff" in this year IIKM will not win Intelligent vote-. The people everywhere have learned from sad experience the truth of the statement.of James G. Blaine: “The benefit of protection goes lust pnd last to the men who earn their bread in the sweat of their faces."— Flushing (N. Y.) Times. Would Bring Calamity. A victory for Parker in ItXM would bring calamity quicker than It came In the Cleveland case, for Parker lacks Cleveland's ability, independence nnd sanity on the money issue, and he shares Cleveland's errors on the tariff. —St. Louis Globe- Democrat

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

r . - ■ R E CO R D O F. EVE N TSriD fi-T HE ■RASjT: WESK,.a7 Woman Finals Burglar in ,Hoq?e >Niite Him in Cellar t’onvict Cap-J After Florce'Batlie - Girf Picked v t!p by _ “s . *> - ■ jj ■ i . .When Mrs.* James Margin \j>f ter returtnied'from Cfiurch ou. ; a recent night she 'hetrfd ‘ a tioike' Ifi ' the • gitehftii ami sftr4- the I'ellur door raise'afcd a bnvgrf lar stick l feis- hfead »iitv- She Jumped, on the door ji nd, began sixigiyg the ‘“No, Never Along, Alone, No, Never Alpue.” : iks'*ffbe iia‘ng‘ : Hlie reached’'for■ a hatehety and ntdis,-- whiili Wefo Oil' a shelf, the door down anditheh’went foi; help. ■ The burglar jmnpedthrough a eaWan viindoW. Just -as' she goti out of the hpuse. aral vsraptd- • Capture Escaped Convict; J Patrick* CrdSkZ'S'vlib'was''one of Hie trio thft't escap«d- : fr-oUj'lhe'ofiicer» of the .Jeffersonvulo.v«efviw«toW' - leaping. through the train while being transferred from Je'ffersonvllle tb'’tlfA prihdnTfi' Michigan City In November,' T.M)2, ; has been'returned to .-prison.- and is now. attired in prison ga'rb.'’Croak-is a hardened criminal, having already served three prison terms. He was captured after a fierce battle near ' 'i'-.-.’ —- —: Cowcatcher Rescues Girl. Miss Desse .Busnprg had a perilotls ride on rof‘towcStcher of a fast tradi. She was out 'driving’•heter Wheeler When-a Nickel Plate.. train, struck tint carriage occupied by her and Misses Berflia and Goldie' Jbhhsoti. Tli’e' Beejc ' and Johnson gifts' wefce'prdbnMy "fifthßy -hurt, 5 hiU ,Miss Bushore escaped with odhjht being carried 1,090 feet on the 'Tiewciftelihr. The .lwtr»e>was killed aud the buggy wus dy-molidMld-i•! <!! ' . . . ,»i •- t !•■; rxsv.a.ti.ps '• Sweetheart Jail. , . , B. Thompson ainl.. C-, V- FfOj,b , ehafgej with horse sfeahHgj Oaifs, charged with grand lardfehy', And ’.To'shuA” Styer, eschpfed A sweetheart of Oaks is* ctihrged with hiving carried saws to cthe •prtsortcfs, who' sawed out a section »f window gsating, in. ;the second story, iA, -rope ■ was made of bed clothing and the outer wall was scaled. ... , . Ghohl'Ex'pires iWPrison. ’’’' " Hampton H. West, Aged GCFyeftrS, a confederate of Rufus Cantrell in the"no-‘ toriuusi.grave robberies at' Indianapolis, died in the State prison in Michigan City of tumor of the stomach. He was convicted-in June, 1.9(13, ■■ in Hamilton . county.,.of robbing graves- His body,was sent to Fisher's Switch for burial.

Two Killed by Liglitning. Orin Eniich and Onler Poor were killed and Arthur Conner, William White, John Schult* and Clayton Hatter were seriously injured by a bolt of'lightning which struck a ished in Knox under which a dozen farmers had sought refuge from a storm while working in a wheat .field.,,.. State News in Bv-ief. Horse thieves are continuing their work near Richmond. John Brennefl, 93, the oldest man In Daviess' county, is dead. Shirley is raising money for the town by starting a button boom. A new hospital, called Maple Wood, has been-opened st Kokomo. George Schmidt, 73, one of the pioneers of Allen county, is dead. Home light and water company will construct a plant at Bloomfield. Big plant for the Central car works will soon be begun at Vincennes. Thieves plundered the house of Dr. W. A. Jones, Fort Wayne, and secured $309 worth of valuables. A washwomen’s union for the maintenance of higher prices has been organized in Newcastle. ' Rev. David DeForest Burrell, Princeton, N. J., has been given a call to the Laporte Presbyterian church. A big meteor fell into the yard of W. D. Miller at Englefield. When the doctor picked it up it was still hot. The family of Greely Johnson. Frankfort, was poisoned by adulterated milk and their lives saved with difficulty. While eating dinner Richard Johnson, aged 54 years, a farmer of Hatfield, fell to the floor and died of heart ble.A junketing committee from the Marion CQuncil is investigating the advisability of establishing a market at Marlon. Several thousand miners in southern Indiana quit work on the false report of the death of John Boyle, their State president. Burglars at Washington tried to blow open the safe of City Treasurer Underdown. They wrecked the safe, but failed to get into it. John F. 1 Groenendyke, Hartford 'City, raised a sunflower, the stalk of which was 14 feet high. It was blown down by a recent storm. Thurlow Grimm, n former lawyer and society leader at Petersburg, was shot by Constable William France while resisting arrest. He will die. At the home of Rev. C. H. Wilson, Crawfordsville, a dangerous fire started and would have destroyed the reiudence had it not set off a box of cartridges at its inception. They gave the alarm and the fire was put out. Charles Carstenson of South Chicago, a 19-year-old reader of dime novels, was arrested in Hammond for stealing a horse. He rode the animal to Valparaiso, and thence to Hammond, where he tried to sell it. He was armed and hud burglar keys about him. Smith, aged 11 years, of Laporte, is in the custody of the federal authorities charged with violation of the postal laws. The boy is alleged to have written an obscene letter to an 8-year-old Ixniisville girl whose picture he raw in a magazine. Indiana middle-of-the-road Populists s>et in convention in Indianapolis and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Ix>roy Templeton; Lieutenant Governor, W. B. Gill; Secretary of State, O. P. Hanna; Auditor, Allen Jennings; Treaaurer, W. B. Wolff; Attorney General, 8. N. Holcomb.

OPENS INDIANA BATTLE.

Frank Hanjy JKvokeo Great EnthusG. . asm at Greencastle. t J. d-'Ritik Iliiniy, RepiiblicOir candidate for (Joven’uu-. opened the campaign in Indiana at Greencastle' with a sjiercli before the Putnam county convention. Mr. llan|y ; Hiss,gitain-a-ronsing receqitian. IFd generally ; ,and at greatJength i its iHYtniiia 1 issues. He eulogized' I’rcsisleiit Robseyeli arid Senator Fairbanks, .Lhe-.J'icii-presHli'ntial candidate, and lirraigiiedLCongressmeii Champ Clark and John Sharp Williams and Gov. Vardanian ofl’(Mississippi, whom he charges With- -iw attempt to make personalities the,iSa*»c oftlic ranifiaign. Mr.Jlanly hl>"ke A jff-p.nt ’a- f.dlow.i:’ Staiiilifig in the very .presence of the d’H'd.-.amld; ;fjiati<>n> grief nnd a ueople-'s-wunderfiia fear, 'Hifodore Ktsisovolt. iiplifti'dl hand, ■ iftaili* them ".this solflrnii pledge^the <’oy In- took upon himself the duties <i|t his high o'ffi. e: *li> tag .presence of (;<.<! and our lamentrd dead, I promise, so far as In inc Iles, to faithfully execute the policies of which lie has ‘ been ; tße ablest expomsit mid' which Arete tlib most cherished hopes of hlc life'• Tljut pledge so solemnly made, the I’les-lih-nt faithfully kept. He grasped the , wca leant that fell from the nerveless hands, of the great (lend President while they WM-e yet warm from Ids handclasp, .and,-with them 'he has waged stalwart, constant nnd victorious war. from tjien till this glad hour, in behalf of every policy for which he tn his life time had hoped or tolled or fought. He has rodeejged the bond nnd kept the faith. Indiana preannts for -the vice presidency a man equipped and qualified with every essential requirement, not only for that high' office, but for the greater and higher et'the presidency itself ICnlike the vice presidential candidate of the opposltloii: lie whs not born during the adinliilstrntkni'qf James Monroe: He is liot so old an edition jrs thnt. but he Is a better one. Ito lheS in the present rather than in the past. He is tin actual, breathing, living entity of the day, mill not a fading rendiiiseence of other times. JJis thought and mind are upon the thfi'igfc'That’aref rather thiin, ligpli those that'were. -Ge lo'iks Into .the future, and not liito the grave, fils 'lionHffiitlon" was "hot born of h dArlre on ,tbe part; of" the party nianagement to acquire from him the mcaiifi. of corrupting the frmtolil.se of his countrymen,-but of rs knotvleilgo of his worth ns a man and Wis solid nt la in mon ts its, a, statesman. In the Senate of the I'nlted States he lias , pitoven liinjsHf a worthy successor of Harri- , s<?.u aml.Morton. l|e was McKiulcy' r s friend and InTimii's confidant. , Ip Idin are juet airtl' blended the simple grace, the’courtly .Vhariii and the kindly iiature of Mie one. and tin: rugged ■ strength and sturdy coin'moii sense of the other. Born in Ohio, he ■has-Jlvwd aintipg its imtil 'ho Is; in fact, a Hoosier product, aut[ Is, as thoilglt lie Were to the manlier born. No better type of Indiana citizenship of this day and hour can be found. . , ' - Wise in counsel, conservative In action, in debate, dignified nnd kelf-pos-sessed, iiinhl turmoil and excitenwnt, he holds hire confidence of ;].ll the pyr>pte-»-the professional and the biisihess inmi. The rich, the poor, the laborer and the capitalist. We tender him to the nation with conscious p'rtde, knowing him as we do. ami believing, z as we do. -that his life is cit-aii and spotless, that his patriotism is uiidefiled, ’that his ability to serve the "crrtintry is great, mid that fils every impulse*ls' t'dgti and holy. , Appeal to Young VoterSj Knowing that the Issue involVes liig destiny, and therein - the fame and glory of the State, ive calk upon the ImJMMI young men in Indiana who for the first tlnie are about to i-xereise the priceless privllegfV of the ballot, to start right by accepting the doctrines (or which he stands mid by gnllstfbg under ills banner to thO erid that an answer -worthy the "houry the than ami till- opportunity. may be given by .our people in November. Tile achievements of the Republican party during tin- fifty years of its existence, and tlie forty years of its power, are the achievements of the American people. The record, of the mie is Uie .hietory -us-the other. The two are Inseparable. The hopes, tlie nsplrntions. the thoughts and Hie purposes of the American people iiate found expression and realization for half a century only through the declarations and acts of the Republican party. For forty years it lias hail the people's power of attorney. Acting under that high authority it lias Written statutes, rendered judicial ’decrees, solemnized treaties and made amendments to the constitution itself. These statutes, decrees, treaties arid rnnneditlcnta constitute the political and civil history of the republic for the time they cover. In them can be traced, year after year and decade after dwade, the growth, the development and the progress of the country, and in them the basic causes of the prosperity, the peace, tlie happiness and the everTm-reas- , Ing power of this proud people - can be found. In encli campaign the Republican party submits a record of things done, of Jaw’s enacted, of policies established; but with a single exception the Democracy has never been able to submit more than a program. No young man possessed of youth's high Impulse, of Its love of action and of achievement, of its "fever of reason” and impelling courage, can willingly consent to-an alliance with the Democracy. When we contemplate her as she has been for fifty years, as she is now, and as she will most likely be in the future, he will turn away, resolved to "break family traditions and to live in estr.-ingvinsiit from father and mother if need be rather than to wed with her. The young men of Indiana will not tarry with her in the cemetery of abandoned principles and dead issues when they can come with us and share in the glory of tilings accomplished. Here is a record of deeds done that uplift and thrill and Inspire. Here are memories that stir the blod and\ kindle ainldi tlon’s tire. Here is life. Here is action. Here«is achievement. Here tilings are done. Hero history Is made. Here is hope and faith and eoiisecration. Here, young men of Indiana, are lofty purpose mid high enterprise. worthy* your prowess arid your steel. Here Is opportunity. Here is rich reward. Here tile living are the history makers of the hour, in State and nation Here are Roosevelt, null Hay. and Root, and Taft, and Spooner, and I'ornker. and t'liiloin. and I'aiiiion. Here are l-'airbanks. and Beveridge, and Hemeuwny, anil Watson, ami I midis. and t’tumpaoker. mid Overstreet, and Brick, mid t’romer. and Holliday, and Chemiey, and Gilbert, irid Dillon. Here are Durbin, mid Storms, and Miller, mid Hunt, iiinl Harris, and Griffiths. These bld you come mid keep for you a generous welcome. Here the nssi inbled spirits of the immortals are those who have fought the tight -who wear the crown: those who freight for freedom on the gory fields of war: those who led the mmli* of the I'nion on Ailnl on sen: those who girided the ship of state between rebellion's sands nnd slioals; those who have led tlie nation In its upward inarch; those who have defended its credit, saved its honor, and made it great- the world's most imperial state. These, all these nre here. Here are Lincoln, nnd Ellswortli. and Suimior. iiml Phillips. Here nre Hlanton. mid Seward, and Stevens, nnd Yates, mid Morton. Here are Hayes, mid Arthur, ami Harrison mid Blaine. Here are Logan, the two Sherinnns. and Khcrfdnn and Grant. Here are Hannn, mid Garfield and McKinley. Here an- the victorious hosts who inarched with Lincoln in '(MI ami til; with Grant In '(>H mid '72; with Hayes In '7)>; with Garfield In ■*': with Hnrrison In 'KB. and with McKinley in 'IM nnd IIMW. Here are the marching, virile hosts—homogeneous. iiillltant and triumphant, eight millions strong, who nre to march with Riaiscvelt mid Fairbanks to victory In November. Young men of Indiana. th< «c. nil fhehe, do cull to you mid bl<l you come. The splr-" its of the dead mid the souls of the living cry out to you mid wait to give you welcome on this the half-century anniversary of the Republican party's birth. In the name of the glorious past, tbe splendid present anil the hopeful future they call to you mid await your coming. Think a mln- ■ ute, I conjure you, think a minute, and answer by your ballot in Novemls-r.

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