Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1914 — McCARDLE MADE A GREAT SPEECH TUESDAY [ARTICLE]

McCARDLE MADE A GREAT SPEECH TUESDAY

Indianapolis Grain Dealer Captured Brook Convention With True , Political Argument. Following the nominations at Brook Tuesday afternoon, Warren McCray, of Kentland, was made chairman of the meeting and introduced the first speaker, John W. MeCardle, of Indianapolis, who made one of the strongest republican talks ever heard in this district. Mr. MeCardle held has hearers spell-bound for over an hour and then they ufged him to go on, but the hour was growing late and others were to follow. Mr. MeCardle said that he 'had attended and spoke at republican' meetings since the first of the year and that every one was getting better. “Every day,” he said, “the boys are coming back to the faith. I am not talking because I am an office seeker; l am not. I am a grain man and that is just what I want to tell you about. I know the democratic editors say that I am a dead beat, that is all right. I might be a beat, but I am not dead and I want you to know it. They know it and will know more of it before the brisk November winds blow. As I said I aim a grain buyer. I (have spent the greater part of my life buying products from the farm. I would like to know, gentlemen, What the democrats at the Baltimore convention meant by jumping on you fellows. And you laboring men as well. Today you have an example Of what this new free country is doing for the farmer and the laborer. The mills are already shutting down and you farmers are meeting competition from Argentine with your com.

“Why, if I had a ten year old boy and he could'not write a better platform than the democrats did in 1912, I would disown him. You all know the doctrine and saying of that beloved and revered man, William McKinley, who When he was approached in the front yard of his home said, ‘’Open the mills, instead of the mints.” Following this statement, you elected him president and you had tor sixteen years the greatest prosperity the country ever knew. That was republican doctrine. “It is a fact that less than 2*4 per cent pt the grain raised in 1912 was shipped to foreign markets. Yet you farmer friends leeeived the best prices that were ever received.

"Your odngrssman, Mr. Peterson, voted for free trade; he voted tor the bill that threw down the barriers of protection to the American farmer, and he is not going back. You are going to send ‘in his stead, Senator Wood, of Lafayette, who will not be a mere messenger boy for the white housed. (Applause.) “Sixty days ago, wheat from India was offered tor sale in the New York market, In competition to the American raised wheat Argentine sent fifteen million bushels of 09m to this country to compete with the American raised corn and the market was paralyzed. That earn was offered at from 5 to 7 cents less on the bushel than American raised corn. It was raised on land worth sls to S2O an acre, and was selling in competition with the corn raised on $l5O and S2OO an acre land in this country. Argentine com, my farmer friends, is better com than that raised in this country. This is not hearsay. I have the statistics to prove it I refer you to your grand institution, Purdue university, and they will verify what I am telling you. “Today, in competition to the American farmer's wife, we are receiving butter from New Zealand, Siberia and Denmark. Eggs, butter, milk and cattle are on the free list Why, since the new free trade went into power, there has been imported Into this county 2,880,000 dozen eggs. Those come from the Chinese hens, and are selling from 5 to 7 cents lower a dozen than the American farm woman’s hens eggs. “Today in New York 350,000 men and 150,000 women are out of employment In the city of Indianapolis, a little nearer home, 10,000 men and 2,000 women are out of employment. It was not that way under republican rule. How do we account for it? By the free tirade policy of the present administration. t?‘ ' “In Indiana, in 1908, a misfit was elected governor by accident This same misfit is now vice president of the United States, by accident He said something a short time ago that I think you should know, if you don’t already. He said that in America 500,000 graduates were turned out of our colleges every year and that 400,000 of thqm were failures. This statement, ladies and gentlemen came from Thomas Marshall, the second in office In the United States, under the free trade poMey-