Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1906 — Page 4

STATE LOVE FEAST

Indiana Republicans enthusiastically Great , the Readers et the , Party In This State. r TWAS h NOTABLE GATHERING 0- ", _ Nearly Every Office From the Vlop 1 » if President Down to Township Asses-,. '. *' ’ * . ' ' .'■ . . if- ;? ror Was Repreeented In fng, and a Spirit of Intense Earnest/iess, Dominated the Day’s Proceedings.— Vice Prejident Fairbanks Received the Acclaim Of His 1.. • ' Friends, With More Tn'an a Hint That They Would Like to See Him Called Up Highlcr. ; One of the Interesting and signify •Cant incidents of the iecent love feart of the Republicans of (Indian hold at the CTaypooi••TToTel In lndinevwv.'s was tfc.e exfiasshm x>t - faith .rn «t- v part of those present in the evce-il't'- t and expanding quaiiti’ *o f » presidentialboom’’, of Vice Pres d nJ. Charles Warren Fairbanks, tlon of this faith was-made by S'*ver .1 of the speakers of the day and the Scanner In which these expressions Were ,received was clear evidence of, Indiana's Interest In a proposition of •his sort ■ o ' 1 ■ ■

Senator BeverWge probably came aaore nearly than any in expressing the Indiana feeling when, after paying a graceful personal tribute to the vice president, the senior senator declared, still speaking of his former 4iatinguished colleague In the senate —“who has the enthusiastic support •f ns all, and around whose banner. If be wishes or will permit us, we will rally to a man, striving to win for him the supreme honor of our party’s nomination for the presidency at the next national , convention —we are proud of him.” Ot|ters gave expression to similar kindly sentiments. The meeting was •ailed to order by James P. Goodrich •f Winchester, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, who, without any preliminaries, introduced John C. Chaney, congressman from the Second district, as permanent chairman. Mr. Chaney spoke briefly and then introduced Vice President Fairbanks. Mr, Fairbanks had no set speech and made a few informal remarks. ”Jt has been.” be said, "with some difficulty that I have been able to Join with you in this love feast for a few moments this afternoon. • Your kindness has more, far more than repaid me for my coming. “I have been so accustomed during the last few years to attend those &n----nnal gatherings of the Republicans of Indiana that it is Impossible to resist the impulse to meet with you. 1 have not come with any set speech. Not •ne word I shall say to you has been committed to paper. I shall use only auch sentiments as the occasion shall Invite. "I have always been proud of Indiana. but never was I prouder of her than when she recorded her judgment In November last. The confidence •he expressed In the Republican cause waa emphatic. In all of her splendid history she had never spoken with auch distinct emphasis before. “It Is, my friends, a gratifying pleasure always to meet with the Republicans of Indiana. Never was it a greater privilege than now. •real Questions to Be Met. . “Your chairman has well said that •v victories, vast though they have keen, do not mark the end of our nehlsvemsnL Great questions have taxed our judgment and patriotism in tke past, aad questions vital to our •late and nation invite our deliberate Judgment In the future. I am no prophet, yet I have no hesitancy In prophesying that If Republicans are true to their best traditions, and are actuated by the spirit of unanimity they show today, the future will he more splendid than the past, t “The Republican party has deserved well because it has met its duty well. It has been a thinker upon tke great problems of state. It has the courage of its convictions, and it has determined it will promote the righteousness of our people. We are fortunate la being in control of national and felate affairs We have been having la control of the national and of the ktate administration executives who keow their duty and have the courage to execute 1L Indiana in the Congress. “We are to be oengratulatod on having In the senate of tke United States, nwer whose deliberations I have keen nailed by the partiality of my countrymen to preside. Senators Beveridge and Hemanway. It is my privilege to took upon no two better Republicans •r upright statesmen | “It Is a gratifying fact that tke people of Indians have sent to express their Judgment upon greet Republican Reticles eleven representatives wko •arvy the banner high and ever torton*# to those opposed to the pollutes as the Republican party. . *1 am not kero to disease ltepahll•en policies nor to eater into details mt Xpnhllsan edmlaistreUee It dooms d to me when «ke last groat Re- ■ oMmi campaign had eleoed. after I kadjaade my Urn t upseeh. that, okaaM wwill'be pnttygaaT* 1 *** ****** 4 mfth, Hr MmK. that yea Mm Jk ' - - ■ -

leeptrtfon from tke psrt eed go Ward shoulder I to) 'Shoulder In the achievement of victories for tbo honor and glory of our state and tor the honor had glory ox itta -Rag of ' the republic,” j , ■' ;

INDIANA IN CONGRESS

Junior Senator. Points t o Places t / ' tHeld by Hobhifer Delegation. ; ffenajjor Hemenway was warmly applauded when he was lntrbdulced by Chairman Chaney. Mr, Hemenway said I- ~ 1 "It Is a groat pleasure for me to meet the Republicans of the Btate at ! their biennial ffeast. Since our last love feast the Republican party | has been making history..' We have elected Roosevelt and Fairbanks by a majority so large that It was almost unanimous, and If a convention cf thfe different parties-were held today they ] ' would receive the indorsement of all I the conventions ..and we would avoid , the payment of the expense of an elec- ’ tion. The people as a whole approve ! the administration of Theodore Roose— I veil. q , .. . “Since our last love fexst our brilliant junior senator. Albert J. Beveridge, has become our senior senator, and I enjoy the 'honor of being the ’servant of the people of.the state as | your junior senator. -Since our last ‘ meeting v/e have Redeemed the Second and the Twelfth districts frotn Democratic representation, and Republicans now represent them in the congress of the United States. Since that time we have elected our state ticket, and In the ten years or more of continuous Republican rule in state and nation there have been wonderful changes. Our nation has become a loaner of I money instead of a borrower ;the factories that were closed have been opened; labor that was unemployed has been employed, wages have increased; the American people are a home-loving people, and homes have been constructed at a more rapid rate than ever before In our history, “This is not all the'result of accident but has been brought about by the policies and principles of the Republican party. We have- been especially fortunate in the selection of our governors during this time— Mount, Durbin and Hanly. .They have given the state a good administration and our state debt has almost disappeared; our public Institutions have been well conducted, and for good administration our state ranks with t_.e best states in the Union.

“Ten years ago, when our delegation went to congress we did not secure a single chairmanship upon any of the committees of congress. Now we have Watson, member of the ways and means and other Important committees, and whip of the house; Overstreet. chairman of the committee of postofflces and postroads, which carries the appropriation for all our great mail service; Charles B. Landis, chairman of printing and member of foreign relations; Brick, member of appropriations and second on territories; Crumpacker. chairman of the census and member of insular affairs; Holliday, member of military affairs, pensions and other important committees; Cromer, member of committee on agriculture, that carries the appropriation bill looking to the agricultural interests of the country; Fred Landis, member of committee on public buildings and grounds and other important committees; Foster, member of committee on Judiciary; Chaney, member of pensions and patents; Gilbert, member of revision of the laws, and arts and exposition. "Every committee save one that appropriates money to be expended by the government has silting at its table a member of the Indiana delegation. Every one of the leading committees of the house that frame legislation has the benefit of the Judgment of a member of our delegation. In my Judgment it is the best balanced state delegation In the Congress of the Upited States, and the speaker of the house of representatives has recognised their ability by placing them upon the committees that do the business of congress and control not only legislation but the appropriations that go to maintain our great government. Indiana has Just reason to be proud of its representation in the lower house of congress. “And let me Just for a moment offer a word of caution. We should keep in mind in this hour of our greatest success, with an overwhelming majority of Republican members in the congress of the United States, with the state administration under our control, that there goes with it great responsibility; that the people of the country are looking to us to mako good the pledges of the Republican party and give them clean, honest administration sad keep In mind that whatever may happen, good administration it not only beat for tho people, but la alao the beet politics, if in the coming campaign we can jo to the people and point to our record of duty woll performed, all pledges honestly kept. It la the beat eampeigh argument that ean be made and our success for the future will net be la danger “We should alao keep in mind that to succeed we mast have good organisation. and good organisation is that Ust that always stands for the sue cess of the party, that looks to the election of ear state and national tick et. to tho eleatten of our onngTassliuisl and eeuaty ticket. and we should ho extremely careful that la firing nor logo! supped to our pnrtlenlar favor Men urn do nothing that will sgjjgjOr tn eoe ad the nteon fMMdliMln! wtU endanger the slecdien «d oar stake

A CIVIC WARNING

’ * ' * 1 Governor Hanly Sounds a Note to , Which unpeople May Well. K 6iv Heed. RASCALITY ITM PUBLIC OFFICE The Tendency of the Times, Says Indiana's Virile Governor, Seems to • ••-t.-Have Bred a Desire for Peculation; 1 t • , for Plunder and for Graft, Both in Public and in Private Life The Crying Need of-the Time Is to Corj rect Such Evils arid the,Burden Lieaj --_i v _ ’ ■ l Upon a Righteous Civic Sense to Overcome This Apparent Tendency; At the recent love feast of the Republican party in Indiana, held at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Governor J. Frank Hanly sounded a warning and struck, a trumpet note calling the dominant party in Indiana to heed the demand of an awakened public con- ! science for only the best in govern--1 ment. That the recent disclosures in connection with the conduct of certain state offices offered the cue for this notable rallying cry Is undoubted, and all within the sound of the earnest chief executive’s voice recognized the intense conviction that actuated h;9 utterances. ' The attention that was given the governor's address in that typically representative meeting of the Republicans of Indiana was clear evidence that to the governor the party looked for an authoritative giving out in connection with certain recent matters of intimate state interest. His utterances on the subject of rascality in public office were .especially marked, and at the close of his remarkable address the great crowd literally rose at him, sustaining his expressed convictions on civic questions with the united applause of a party stirred to the depths. Governor Hanly spoke as follow's; For almost half a century the Republican party has been to the American people the most efficient means within their reach through which to express their convictions upon political questions, or to achieve resqjts in governmental affairs. They have used It as an instrument to accomplish great things in behalf of free institutions, in the development of the resources and of the commerce of the country, and in the" upbuilding of its citizenship. Through it their ideals have been realized and their hopes fulfilled. Its platforms have expressed their thought more nearly than the utterances of any other political party, and its deeds more nearly squared themselves with their purposes and their aspirations. Yesterday's Ideals Too Low for Today Thus much may be fairly said, and in the saying Of It and in the knowledge of its truthfulness when said, we may justly find cause for pride, for gratification and for congratulation. It may even be said that what it ha& been in the past is an earnest of what it Is be In the future. But we live in h progressive age. History fs being rapidly written. Conception of public obligation and of civic duty is constantly changing for lbs better. The Ideals of yesterday are too h>w for the Ideals of today. That the Republican party has done well in the past is not enough. It must do well in the present. The fact that our fathers did well in the past will be no defense for our failure now. Today, this hour, is being presented to us a supreme test of our right to continue to administer the government of the state and of the nation. By the results of that test 'we will stand or fall. By them we will deserve to stand or fall, according as they shall be. Present Power for People’s Welfare. If we fall we may not plead the glories of the past in extenuation. The greatness of other days will but emphasize the weakness of today and augment the shame of our failure. We I have no right to expect a further grant i of power from the people, except we use our present power for the welfare j of the people, and for their welfare now. During the last few years the times ; themselves seem to have been soms- [ what out of joint, and to have bred a desire for peculation, for plunder aad ; for graft, not In public life and In official place alone, but in the professions and In the business of the country as well. Industrial enterprise*, financial Institutions and the great innt School children 25 cts. Holders of season tickets have seats reserved. Season tickets now on sale at the Library and all the drug stores, They may also be obtained from members of the Library Hoard,

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fled with wrmgflofng. Dlssatlsfaetios' witk' *ln la the Laginning of repH&L ance, aad repentanco Is the beginning of reformation. That tome of ttfo representatives of our party should have become in*, ooulsted with the virus which affilct3 the times will not forfeit our right to administer the government eithief the state cr of the nation. If w§ do but possess the strength, the' moral fiber and the courage.to dispossess them of the commissions they have dishonored, The spectacle of a party beset by faithless servants is neither** new nor an unusual spectacle. But the spectacle of a party possessing both the courage and tRc ability to purga itself of faithlesg servants and to correct the wrongs they have; done the .public is both new and unusual, / That the Republican party has done and !s_ doing .botTf is the nation and in the the task, it wilL have, earned the pußllC gratinide hud a continuance of the public confidence, and will have given fresh and cogent evidence of Its right to govern. “Our Rascal” No Longer Tolerated. The time was when a man could be a rascal in p”hlic office if he were only “our rnsonl." Being “onr rascal;’ his errors were concealed, his crimes kept secf°t. or, if known, condoned. But that was the time of Gorman and Quay. Happily for the country, a better day has dawned, and I hope the day has tvholiy passed when the Republican party will either conceal or condone the wrongful acts of its own representatives. If a man betrays his trust, let him that moment cease to be ours, cease to stand for us, and Jet us cease to stand for him. —-

In this regard we are being challenged as never before in the history of the party. -The challenge comes to us from the people themselves, and their challenge must always be met. There must be no turning back; there must be no halting; there must be no wavering. It may be that crime and the betrayal of public trust have not increased or multiplied as greatly as we are prone to think. Exposures Due to Public iJonsclerice. I think perhaps that recent exposures are. due In part to an awakened public conscience, to new civic ideal 3, and to a new and higher conception of public duty and obligation. If I am correct in this and the Republican party, either of the state or of the nation, desires a continuance of its commission to administer government, it must present to the people now, as in the past, the most effective means by which they may accomplish their purpose and realize their aspirations. Anything short of this means abdication by us. The issue is sharply drawn. It is upon us. We eannot •scape it. You are the representatives of party of Indiana. It is your party. You are the jury. It Is for you to decide.

Source of Inspiration.

In accepting the chairmanship of the love feast, Congressmen Chaney spoke briefly, but to the point, “It is & source of congratulation,” said he, “that the entire body politic has caught the mighty inspiration and sings the universal song of prosperity. It is within the recollection of us all that this was not always so. We can yet stand prosperity and responsibility. The work of the Republican party, great and proud as It has been. Is mostly yet to be. The glory of America is the standard of all the tongues and kindreds of the earth. A ‘square deal’ is the motto of our domestic life. The past has taught its lesson; the present has Its duty and the future It 3 hope.”

Tribute to Roosevslt.

John L. Griffiths, consul general at Liverpool, was In fine humor for a speech. Mr. Griffiths said he was glad to meet his old political friends again. “It Is good,” he continued, “to be here and to fight oveb with you many of those memorable campaigns when we stood side by side for our American principles. Nothing Is more gratifying to me in IBagland than the high esteem in which our country is held. It is equally gratifying to know that next to King Edward the moet popular man in English minds Is Theodore Roosevelt. They believe in him there exactly as we believe In him hers. To me this has been an inspiration, for when I have mentioned him In the public halls where I hare spoken the response that his name evoked makes me feel for the moment as If I were back la Indiana. I want to say that 4,000 miles away from Indiana nothing will give me greeter pleasure than to know that our distinguished vice president has been chosen the standard bearer next campaign.”

Watson Expresses “Feelings.”

Representative "Jin” Watson mads on# of his characteristic addresses—brief and full of healthful humor and sound logic. The Sixth district orator proceeded ,to express his “feelUags.” and the crowd applauded then. (He arraigned the Demeeratto party la a war that seemed to suit his hearers. Mr. Watsoa took a ding at civil serrloe. "I am net here,” said he. "to sast slurs ea the civil serrtoe syeM, but I hope It will not ‘go to seed’ a the United States. I believe Ike Ime has oome when we ought to look roll to ear organisation and take ears tot the hoys la the wards and tana h ship*- That la say kind of kspahiltlyaaism. Let as net go fren this saeatig tiled wflh pisslnmin. hat let as n f» forth Wtth roar hapas. If the fteo it with oat any eatside Mslslaana hank Ood. we here the mm that at H ig ov

BRILLIANT ORATORY

Senator Beveridge Addj to His Ind* hnaj,aurels In Recent “Love f Feast” Address. A CONSECRATION TO HIGH IDEALS ' ' 1 ——- — ./ . V.’hile the Forces cf Capital and Labor /'Are Working Out Unheard-of Pros----parity for tb® Av.rriran People, the Forces of Righteousness Are Working Out Unheurb-cf, Upliftmerit of AmericafV' Character- Under the Leadership "of t*the First Figure in the Contemporaneous World.” The people of Indiana are continually finding new cause for the honest, prida they take In the name and in the achievements of the brilliant senior senator from this state, the gifted Albert S. Beveridge, and bis every public utterance is awaited with interest, its always thoughtfully considered message being received with the closest and most respectful attention. At the Meant Republican love feast held at Indianapolis, Senator Bever--1 Idge gave expression to some uplifting sentiments that may well be borne upon the consciousness of this people. In his address on that memorable occasion he said: Fellow Republicans: 't’hese are glorious days for Republican love feasts. For, more than to all other nations combined, these holidays bring happiness to the American people. The most fortunate man in all the world today is the man who can lift up his voice and cry, “I am an American citizen.” Free I nctitutions-Purify.

It is in the nature of prosperity to deteriorate character; It Is in the nature of wealth and power to generate corruption; but it Is in the nature of free institutions, thank God, to purify and cleans*. And so, while the forces of labor and capital are working out unheard-of prosperity for the American people, the forces of righteousness are working out unheard-of upliftment of American character. In the period of our richest material welfare as a nation we are experiencing, our noblest spiritual revival as a nation. At the moment of our greatest consequence In the councils of all the world we are entering upon a renaissance of public spirit that is making the civic life of the republic the purest in all the world. At the hour when we are strongest abroad we are becoming most upright at home. And thus we are reversing history and proving the prophecies of pessimism to be false. The First Figure in Leadership. And under whose leadership has coOtfe this new consecration of the Amerioan people to high Ideals? Whose voice for years has sounded the call to civic righteousness, in the beginning almost alone? Who first lit the sacred fire that today Is everywhere burning dishonesty out of American public life? I but voice the name upon your lips, as it Is in the hearts of the American people, when I say It Is he who wrought hls words into deeds; he who from the first moment of hls chief magistracy has whipped guilt from the service of the government and Insisted that Republicanism means honesty and honor; he who guarantees and gtres to all men that sum of human justice, a square deal; he who In creative statesmanship. as evidenced by lew* enacted and permanent policies announced, has made a record equalled by but one president In the history of the republic; ho, the first figure in the contemporaneous world, the president of the whole American people, Theodore Roosevelt.

Pride of Every American. Hls life and work are the pride of every American. In the field where American blood was flowing for liberty, and there compelling victory by hls yalor; he was in the council room of warring powers when humanity demanded that the struggle eease, and there compelling peace by kis kindly wlsdoA and the sheer might of kis amazing character. Interpreting the Monroe doetrlne as a living principle Instead of a lifeless reminiscence, giving to our foreign policy a dignity and force unequalled since the days of Washington and Jefferson, and recalling the high spirit of that hereto period. on the one hand, our president, on the other hand, exacts just dealing among ourselves at home, insists that men and corporations are equal before the law, and crowns his practical statesmanship by demanding that that law shell be right—that defective laws shall he made adequate, mistaken laws corrected and new statutes written for those new conditions that find no law to fit them. But through all aad above all ho preaches the saving power of that higher law which, working Itself out la individual conduct wo cell human character. Theodore Roosevelt wants good laws, hut he wants good men mors. He wants battleships, but he wants brave hearts M man them. He wants Amerioan prosperity to be the greatest in history, hut he wonts It won by the beet sad purest methods la history. Hs wants the American people to be the must powerful H nattsas, hut hs wants them to he the ascot righteous of asUeos. Ms para SETS.-iSiSMtS h nsflsa II It pato the whole World nafl

—r l 1 1 ■■ ' lose lte own soul?” ' From this devotion to high ideataj the Republican petty must never fall 1 away. Not always .can we navel mighty questions and tube# of dea- • tiny to champion. Not always cant we have such questions as sound money and the nation’s honor; not always can we have the brilllAnt conduct of! glorious war in a just cause;,.not always can we have expansion and tb* administration of civilization among alien people—not always can we have each master issues as these which move millions of men by the sheer power of sentiment and conviction. But always we can have ideals of national life at home and abroad. If always we canfiot have great days we can always have just days and righteous days. If we cannot always have the assistance of fate, we can always jiAave the spirit of the square deal, without which. after is worth the winning. Party Name Will Not Win. This 13 the spirit that must animate our party. We cannot win merely by wearing the name Republican. We can continue to win. In the absence of epochal issues, only by living up to the meaning of the word Republican. We must be as wise, as a party, as our great president is wise as a leader. All men must be made to feel that the Republican party stands for the welfare of the whole people; that the Republican party welcomes every upright citizen to Its ranks, and that every member of the Republican party . has equal rights and equal welcome to party councils with every other member. We must remember those great and simple truths in every phase of party management. Our organization must be as broad as the party Itself: Let us take care that we forfeit not the confidence of the people. For, after all, In the confidence of the people and there alone reside power and victory. Let us take wise and righteous counsel among ourselves and then march united to that success which undivided effort alone can bring. Let the harmony produced in the past by mutual forbearance and tolerance of one another’s honest views be continued by the same methods of good feeling and good senve. Let us each, keep clear of that lust of power whidlb,' in all human experience, has paralyzed the most carefully developed strength and blighted the most brilliant records

The senator said he was proud of the Republican party and of the splendid men the party has given to the service of the republic and state. His mention of Oliver P. Morton, Bertjamin Harrison, Albert G. Porter, James A. Mount was applauded. "And,” said the senator impressively, “we glory in the work of our living leaders. Our congressmen form a group of composite efficiency in the national house of representatives not surpassed now' nor in the history of the republic. Our Junior senator, wise, Indefatigable, devoted to the interests of the people and the country’s, welfare, deserves the high esteem in which we hold him, and our distinguished and renowned vice president, who presides with dignity, firmness. Justice and kindly grace over the greatest legislative body of the world, who has the enthusiastic support of us all, and around whose banner, if he wishes or will permit us, we will rally to a man striving to win for him the supreme honor of our party's nomination for the presidency at the next national convention —we are proud es him and of all the others we have Mat to the service et the nation. “Yes, we are proud of them alJ,’* continued the senator, "but we look with equal pride on those who now and in the past, conspicuously serve and have served the oonuaonwselth. What a remarkable company of governors we have given to Indiana—ftnv ter and Hovey and Chare and Mount —whose administration wen the admiration and gratitude of the people;' Winfield T. Durbin, who, when e great emergency challenged the supremacy of law and the dignity of the state, met it on the instant with a comrnge and wisdom that made the whole land ring with applauding praise; and our present gallant chief executive, J. Frank Hanly, whose administration is distinguished by rigid enforcement of the law in spirit and in letter, and la one of the moat sternly vigorous In the whole history es the commonwealth—lndiana has produced no stronger men, no mere unselfish and devoted servants of the state than those superb chief magistrates. "And now, fellow-RepubHeans.” exclaimed Senator Beveridge. looking about the room, "let the record of each brilliant leader be the common glory of our party over which every Republican may rejoice. Let Mtftehness and its counsels of destruction find no place among us. Let our service to eur party be Inspired by ear devotion to the nation and our putr spirit be akin to that of an army marching to war In n righteous setae —no single soldier thinking es himself, but only of the army's oesusm victory, that the oases ter which It flghte may be triumphant and established. And let us newer forget that that cause is the good es the Amerleen people. i - “The American people? Am leug as we are tree to them they will be true to ua, tor the people newer betrmjr those who serve them with stugli hispfsd devotion. And we will be true to these. The welters es the Immtata tel—, the osgslag es the Mpsllh. Shu bener. pewer and fleer wt Ihf.tetten —to these high purpenee the Bb> puhWneu parishes, under the lanftr- . - 1 ■■■■