But our immediate business is the choice of a ticket behind which the Hoosier Democracy will move on to victory in November like an army with banners.

(Cheers.) There have been intimations in the camp of our enemy that the party is threatened with schism and menaced by factional wars; but I declare my conviction that the party is more harmonious and more truly devoted to high ideals to-day than at any time since the grand old name of Democrat became potent upon Hoosier soil.

And what have we to do with leaders?
Men come and men go, but principles alone are eternal and live forever.
The great task of our party must be to bring the government back to the people.

(Scattering applause.) But the choice of an invulnerable state ticket at this convention is our business and our only business.

As for Indiana's two seats in the national Senate which we shall soon wrest from our adversaries, in due season we shall fill them with tried men and true.