Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1906 — BRILLIANT ORATORY [ARTICLE]

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 ■■■■