Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — SENATOR TURPIE’S SPEECH BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION, [ARTICLE]

SENATOR TURPIE’S SPEECH BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION,

AT INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, April 21, 1892. In assuming the duties as chairman of the convention, Senator Turpie spoke as follows: My Fellow Citizens—The time is earnest. The <.uties of the day, of the hour, are grave, serious and important.— This convention has convened, not only to nominate* candidates for the various state offices to be filled by election in ' ovember next, but also as the representatives of the doctrine, principles and policy of the democratic party, and to take such action as may bi most conducive to those interests and|to public welfare. This convention, therefore, among other things, means the absolute freedom and equality of elections} in the several states. It means the condemnation and overthrow of all force bills and federal returning boar is. It signifies the perpetual establishment of elections 'by the people and for the people” as t e chiefest arts and parts of political liberty; and we may note how,since the cefeat of that nefarious measuse, there has been a cessation of all sectional strife and racial hatreds. The southern outrage, formerly daily manufactured, has ceased also to be a commodity in the market. Quiet and tranquility have followed the defeat of sectional fanaticism; peace—domestic peace—has since flowed in upon us like a river, has visited all our borders with its most gra cious benediction.} The convention also means the reduction of the rates of tariff taxation and the readjustment of those rates so that the inblic burden shall not re t, in the first instance upon the daily necessities of men, but in some degree upon their yealth and their ability to pay and bear them.— It means that the laborer, the miner, the mechanic shall be entitled to hold and enjoy his earnings, and that no law shall compel him to divide these without return among the ruthless banditti of the tariff trusts and combinations. It means that the farmer, who has or years tilled and plowed his -wn acres, shall no longer be a renter, paying a share of his crop as compulsory tribute to the protected monc« polist. The proposition that all the iand and labor of the country shall be taxed for the special benefit of a comparatively small portion of capital, which has bv a correct alliance with ceitain political agencies, obtained full use of the taxing power of the government, and proposes to er. rich itself by the pillage of all men and women in the country engaged in other trades and vocations, is one from which justice and reason alike recoil, and which the great constituencies of the country, bv a firm and immutable decree, as long ago as November, 1390, determined to expunge from national legislation. This great assemblage,"to-day has another significance. It denotes the decrease of public expenditures, the political death and burial of all advocates and supporters of that mammoth extravagance, the bll - lion appropriation bill, and especially it indicates the obsequies of that ve y demure and reticent billionist who resides at present in the executive mansion at

an ? ho Bi(?ned and appro v. ed that bill, and without whose nair>A ««« signature this enormous ’ draft upon the P^P 19 ’ never have beJn naid, made orpresented. The billionists “ URt perish together.-’-They have forgotten the tax-payers' the tax-payers will remember them in iud“ ment, wHhout mercy. And bec iuse’we favor the return of the administration of im e v R andX en h tO b tl, , e ? ineof omy and the highest integrity, we shall M° re ° f ‘ he publio funds ’eft to exThi« c.Anv eß9 / ry|ObjeCt s purposes. .3. V Z>®> ntlon meam that the pensions of soldiers and sailors, the r wij B ii a k d or P hßn ,B'in 8 ' in the war for the Union P ro “P tl y Punctually paid, as allowed by law. The army pensions shall be generously provided for. but the tariff pensions, the tariff bounties, subs dits and monopolies, shall be rejected-finallv and absolutely repealed. J

m ™ e f. esh ’ “<* ‘be Wood, and embodicompletes* Personification of the errors, falsehoods nnd fallacies of the republican partv is now an incumbent of the presidential chair. At the o?e n ±of the present session last December he sent ® t 0 the peOple through their repr *’®“‘“? ves “ congress assembled. This 8 sent in a period of much depression, when thousands of workmen were waiting for an increase of wagesT as fe r ? Uw d wh f en r H? P T® ge of the McKinley law, when other thousands were waiting, and are waiting yet, in vain for work aICo m i± yment “, ny wage8 ' which had promised as the result of that measure. It was a period also of great S B X° U ™ the pric ® of agricultural ar Th 4 grea l Bta P leß of the f armmVh h i"’ g !J in wheat, were at prices much below those obtained years ago lefore the adoption of what is known as the protective tarifi policy. Yet in this SannT’ % d6liTered Under SUCh cLcum! stances, there is no mention of wages for wort” 0 ° tfM >° f additi °nal advantages Of th A h, V em Pioyment: nothing is siid of the broken pledges and violated nro wwe’r Un There h a iCh hi " par , ty had obtaFned ances in th« r V” Very vo,nmin ous uttersea and B.L^ e da age th«r Ceming Bering knco ■‘“j. .aa. there are some verb°®® and mißt y Prod ctions, mysterious Prophecies about the benefits to be conthat hIS po J tion of mankind by m£.call7a ttenuated “Pd shadowv sham miscalled reciprocity. Really, to read that X BS n g ® ? re f U v y ’ one would think no mltho P d of °° f he ? nited States bad frnm ik of escape, of refuge or release ® xacflons cn d extortions of Mc±tev xcept in 80me favor w ich sham hv ?^°w n them and conferred upon ton^i b 7A he SpeClal graCe of the BrazildiHomAti ?’ ° ther good hearted £ LiiX t 8 ° f the forei g n powers But it will be seen next November by many X erab ? proofs th «t the people have Uiemeansof escape in their hands. They L®"® 88 I , Ct * t 0 B i nßt aild e( l nal method of federal taxation. They will find a more excellent way out of this in°PPre ‘ ion than is dreamed of in the riddles or bubbles of diplomacy. xes, the president sent such a message to the people last December, and in ovember ensuing the people will send a message to the president. It will be the same message as was sent to another ruler m another age: ’You have been weighed weighed in the balance and are found wanting.” Axx the precious stones, except epel, can be quite suooeeef ally imitated.