Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1906 — INDIANA IN CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

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