Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIAHAPOLIS JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JULY

5. 1888.

factored articles whleb we can produee or manufacture, making Just discrimination in the mount of protection Awarded so as to preserve Ihe proper relation between cost of production and current price pretention monopoly or extortion, bat preserving the nigh standard of American wage. Third So adjust the tariff as to make Its bur does fall hoariest on lcznriea used by the rich, and lightest on the necessaries of lite use! alike by bom rieh and poor. No human being can trnthf oily aSm that tho 21 ills bill fulfills the requirements of these three proposition.' No Democratic tariff law ever has fulfilled them. None ever will, because the Decocratio party is hostile to tariff protection. Ilonest Elections. There is another issue of vital importance. It is the issue of 'a f ree ballot and & fair eount" A eountry is in a dangerous condition when the sources of power are po;soned by frand or controlled by violence and crime. Purity of the ballot-box is indispensable to tho life of the Republic Every intelligent man ic our country knows that there has no!t4 an honest election in seven of the Southern States since the "Mississippi plan" of the Democratic party was inaugurated in 1873Everybody snows that President Cleveland hold his See, not by honest election, but by virtue of frauds and crimes against the ballotbox in the Soutrern States, that smell to heaven. In some States tissne ballots are used or the ballots are counted for thus for whom they were not east In other States the whip, shotgun aod rifle are resorted to for suppressing votes by intimidating the colored voters. In 1872 the total vote of Alabama was 169.716, and the Republican party had a majority of 10,823. In 183 twelve yearslater the population bavin nearly donbled the total vote of Alabama was only 153,489, and the Democratic majority, as counted, wa 33.823 lc 1372 the toUl vote of Mississippi was 129.107. and the Republican majority was 34.723. In 1834 after twelve years of increase in populationthe total vote was onlv 120,019. and the Democratic majority, as counted, was 33.001. These facts need no message of a Democratic President as an interpretation. They are the results of Irani e, crimes and murders that would blacken the pages of the history of the. most barbaric savage tribe. By ballot-box stuffing, false counting and suppressing votes, by intimidation ana violence, the Democratic prty baa obtained and maintains power in the South, and, through the solid South, in the Nation. In the congressional election of 18S6 the entire vote polled in the six congressional districts of Mississippi was only 34.100 votes. The r.x Democratic members of Congress from Mississippi, now aiding in the attempt to pass the Mills bill, only received in the aggregate 27,717 votes, which is 16,173 votes less than the Votes east that same year in a single congressional district of Indiana. In the recent election in Louisiana it is perfectly evident that not less than 60,000 fraudulent votes were counted for the Democratic candidate for Governor. The Democratic majority, as counted for Nichols, is 89,336, which is CC.846 more than Cleveland entire vote in that Btate in 1S31 Cleveland received 62.510 votes in Louisiana in 1S34. At the recent election Nichols had connted out for him 130,746 votes. The entire vote or Louisiana in 1831 was 109,234 vote. Of these Blaine received 46.347, ' and Cleveland 62,540. In lfeSS the vote of Louisiana, as counted, was 164,100. Of these 47,300 were counted for Warmouth and 136,746 were counted for Nichols. In some parishes the Democratic majority exceeds the eutire number of voters, and is nearly equal to one-half of the population of the parish. Is the Republic safe in tie hands of a party that will perpetrate such frauds upon the ballotbox? The Democratic party does not want honest lections. It does not want the ballot-box protected by law. It does not believe in a free ballot and a fair count. Look through the statutes cf the several States and wherever you find laws carefully guarding the purity and freedom of elections, you will find that they have been enacted by Republican legislatures. But we are not confined to the South to find Democratic election frauds. Ohio Democrats have undertaken the Louisiana and South Carolina plan. Will the Democratic talley-sheet forgers of Ohio, who escaped the penitentiary for the time being by a hung jury, vote for Thurman, the hired attorney who prosecuted them most vigorously' Illinois has her contingent of Democratic election criminals in her penitentiary. And Indiana what shall I say to console the Indiana Democracy for the enforced retirement of two of its best beloved bosseshas added her chanter to the criminal history of tbe Democratic party. Coy and Bernhamer are honored names with a large number of Indiana Democrats. They were convictad of a felony a crime against a free ballot and a fair count And yet, it is reported that a leading Democrat cf Indiana said to Coy after his conviction, ''Never mind, Sim, if you do have to go to the penitentiary, remember that the Democratio farty of Indiana is at your back and will do ail t ean for you." Yes, that is it exactly. The Democratio leaders are at Coy's back with their faces toward the penitentiary door through which their idol ha gone before. The Democratio national convention did not venture to make any mention of honest elections in their present platform. To do so would have ben to invite reference to many recent crimes against the ballot-box which the Democratic party wishes to have torcot ten. There is no reason to hope for a pure ballot-box. a free ballot and an honest count from the Democratic party. Public Lands. The Administration of the laws relating to government lands, under Democratic rule, has been disgraceful and outrageous. Thousands cf worthy settlers have been robbed of their all and reduced to beggary by rulings and orders of the Land Department, made without authority and in violation of law. The Land Commissioner has repeatedly undertaken to repeal laws regularly passed by Congress. He stopped all entries in seven Territories, and in Colorado, Nevada, Kansas and Nebraska except for cash or script This was done in defiance of law, to aid the "ring" who held the script script advanced nearly 33 per cent Every Western settler was treated as a rogue and land thief, while the Southern States were omitted from. the iniquitous orders. Every Southern settler was rated as perfectly honest. In the West thousands of entries and pre-emptions have been set aside on ex parte hearings, without proof and without the shadow of right. These lawless proceedings have caused untold surferiog and loss to the hone&t settlers in the Territories and States of the West. The hocoateai law and other laws to induce f ettlement of the government land have been violated or wholly ignored. The Democratio Land Commissioner has proved that Democratic administration is a worse curse to our honest pioneer and frootiemen than grasshoppers .and locusts combined. By unlawful wrenching from honest settlers who were trying to build homes in the Western wilderness tbeir lands and all that they have done to improve them, the Democratic party claims to have reclaimed large smouuti of land. Ia nine cases out of ten the pretended reclamation has been hich-handel robbery of innocent, honest settlers. Some land grants to railroad companies have been declared forfeited, because the Ma-ls have not been built as prescribed in the laws making the grants. This is right, but wnat credit is due to the Democratic party! This is uo reclamation of land. The laws were plain, the Und did not vest in the companies under tho laws because they did not build the roads. The forfeittire was embodied in the laws. The granting of lands to aid in the construction of important lines of railroads began long ago. A Democratic Congress made the land grant to the Illinois Central 'Railroad Company. Another Democratic Congress cade the laui grant to the Wis consio Railroad Company. Io 1SCO the Republican partv declared in favor cf land grants to ail in the construction of railroads to the Pacific coast Tnat same year the Democratic party declared in favor of" the acquisition of Cuba, but was silent as to aiding in the construction of railroads to the Pacifiecoast In 13-54 Tnoraai-A. Hendricks, th?n United Staes Senator, vote! for the grant of 42,000.000 acre to the Northern Pacifte Railroad. Again, In 1SG7, he voted for the grant of 30,000,000 acres to the Soothern Pacifte Railroad. The hietory or our country, the marvelous growth of the Pacific States, the rapid settle xneot an l phenomenal development of the Territories through which the various Pacific railroads run. prove that the palicy of the Republican party was wis and good. For every a:ie of land granted to aid the budding of thete railroads hundreds of other acres have been made accessible to settlors, and have tcn doubled aud quadrupled lo market value. Since these railroads were made possible by the aid of lanl grants the policy of the Republietn party has been, and still is. to reserve all our remaining government lands for actual settlors. The Republican party has not ma is or sanctioned any land grants since 1S72.

State Isaiifii. Although the Republican State convention has tot yet met and issued its platform, there are tome State issues that are already clearly defined. Til apportionment act op 1SS5. One State issue is whether the honest voters 3f Indiana intend to permit the leaders of the Democratic party to disfranchise over 40,000 voters of the State for the avowed purpose of tonUauiog the Dexaotratia ptrty in pensr. By

the apportionment law of March 6, 1855, the State senatorial and representative districts are so formed as to give one Democratio voter in a Democratic county fully as much power in electing the State Legislature as two Republican voters hare in a Republican county. In many instances the disfranchisement is even worse than this. For example: Urown county, Democratio, with only 2,189 votes (the vote of 18 SI is used) is given twothirds of a State Senator, while Randolph connty. Republican, with 6,474 votes, is only given one-half of a State Senator. Marion county. Republican, with 29,096 votes, is only given tw and one-third State Senators, while Hancock county. Democratic, with only 4,245 votes, is given five-sixths of a State Sena

tor. Owen county. Democratio. with only 3.519 votes, has one member of the House of Repre sentative, while Lawrence county. Republican, with 3,1)87 votes, is only allowed one-third of one member of the House of Representatives. Tipton county. Democratic, with only 3,937 votes, is givei one Representative, while Randolph county. Republican, with 6,474 votes, ia only given one Representative. Illustrations might be multiplied, but these will serve to show the spirit and purpose of the law. It was designed to disfranchise Republic an voters ani give double and treble power to Democratio voters in electing State Legislatures and United States Senators. David Tnrpie now holds bis seat in the United States Senate by virtue of the disfranchisement of Republican voters by meant of this infamous, i r - l i : . V. . law. is is morally as znucn a crime bksiuii elective franchise as is tally-sheet forging. It is a plain violation of the letter and spirit of the State Constitution. Do honost Democrats desire to support the Democratic party in sueh dishonest and unworthy measures at thisl If they do, can they claim to be honest? DEMOCRATIC USURPATION OF OFFICE. The last Indiana Legislature was a disgrace to the State. It cost, the State $125,000 in money and won for it the contempt of every State in the Union. Its results were worse than worthless. When General Manson resigned the office of Lieutenant-governor the Democratio leaders procured from & Democratio Attorneygeneral au opinion that the office was vacant and could be filled by election. Following, that opinion the Democratio convention no minated Mr. Nelson for Lieutenant-governor. Afterward the Republican convention nominated Mr. Robertson for the same office. Notwithstanding the unjust apportionment law, the Republican party carried the State by a handsome majority and came within two of having a majority in the Legislature, in which the Democratic leaders, by means of their unjust law, fully expected to have a majority of not less than forty votes on joint ballot. Then the Democratic leaders began their conrsa of lawlessness. First they declared that there was no lawful election of Lieutenant-governor. When this question was settled against them by the conrts the Democratic members of the Legislature'formed themselves into a mob, and by acts of violence and utter deaance of law, usurped the office of Lieutenant-governor and deprivedfthe man duly elected and qualified from performing tho duties of his office. This high-handed crime, couple 1 with tally-sheet forging and other election frauds, shows up the Democratio leaders of Indiana in their true eolors. Will the honest voters of Indiana again Intrust their rights to the keeping of such a partjf THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. Another State issue should be a determination of the citizens of Indiana to rescue their benevolent institutions from the polluting clutch of Democracy. The investigations made and the testimony taken demonstrate the fact that the benevolent institutions of our State are being prostituted to the very lowest ends and purposes of party politics. Our asylums for the unfortunate are made party spoils, while their inmates are made the victims of the brutality and greed of small Democratic politicians. Sour bread, diseased meat, tainted butter, ancieot eggs and slop coffee are fd to those who, by their misfortune, are entitled to'tthe tenderest care, and whose guardianship and protection the State ought to regard a3 a most sacred trust. The Democratio Legislature of 1885 was forced to admit, and put the fact on record, that the Soldiers' Orphans' Home of Indiana had been turned into a den of inhuman cruelty, debauchery and filth by the Democratio officials in charge of it In 1831 a Democratic superintendent of this same institution was removed4 for fraud, filthineas, cruelty, recklessness and misappropriation of funds, as reported to the Legislature by a committee composed of Democrats and Republicans. Are the voters of Indiana willing to leave our benevolent institutions in the control of the Democratio party? TEMPERANCE QUESTION. The Democratio State convention once more brought to the front its grey-haired and thread bare resolution of undying hostility to "sumptuary laws." Truly interpreted, this resolution means "free whisky," and is an pen bid for the Liquor Lesgue vote. The Republican party is opposed to the domination of the Liquor League. It believes that the evils resulting from the liquor traffic should be rigidly repressed by law. it believes in local option and high license. It believes that when the traffio is permitted at all, it bhould be compelled, by high license, to compensate in some degree for the burdens it imposes on society, thereby relieving local taxation. Does the Democratic party so believe! Either the Democratic partv or the Republican party is going to control Indiana. Can our Prohibition friends afford to help the Democratic party and the Liquor League to control the State? Every Prohibitionist knows that every vote cast for the Prohibition ticket will be a vote cast in aid of the Democratic party. Will such votes ad vance the cause of temperance! Will they tend to purify politics! Will they advance morality and respeet for law? Is there not a heavy personal responsibility attached to every vote cast to perpetuate the rule of the Democratio party and its ally, the Liquor League! I do not admit that the temperance question is a national issue. It is eminently a question of local government and State regulation and control. Still, the Republican national convention, for the purpose of showing to the world that the Republican party is on the right side of every question that pertains to the elevation of society and the moral welfare of community, unanimously adopted the following resolution as part of the national platform: The first concern of a'l good government is the virtue ar.d sobriety of the peofle and the purity of their homes. The KDubl'ein party cordially sympath'ss with all wise and well-directed efforts for the prom tion of temperance and morality. There is one other State issue that must not be omitted. That issue is ' & a MATSON, DSMOCKATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. Years ago Mr. Matson was elected to Congress from a strongly Democratic district At succeeding elections his majority continued to diminish, until In 1836 he only had a majority of 532 votes in a district, the counties of which gave Mr. Cleveland a majority of 1,132 votes in 1S3L Fearing to hazard another race for Congress, he sought and obtained the nomination as candidate for Governor. As member and chairman of the'eommittee on pensions he has been for years preparing tor his present race. lie is now, as candidate for Governor, banking on the assumed political capital he thinks he has laid dd by reason of bis connection with the committee on pensions. The burden of his campaign will be to narrate his heroio struggles and incessant toil in behalf of Union soldiers, in the pension committe and on the floor of Congress. His theme will be the intense and constant love of the Democratic party for Union soldiers. lie will not deceive many soldiers with that pretence, lie. may forget to mention the nnmber of Union soldiers who have been turned out of office by the present administration, to make room for confederate soldiers now in office. If he does, ask him to give the exact number. Possibly be may forget to tell just how many hundred soldier pension bills President Cleveland has vetoed. If so, ask him for that number also: he certainly ought to know it exactly. He will hardly forget mention the number of Indiana soldiers for whom he claims to have procured pensions: that he counts his most valuable political asset. Is Mr. Matson a rriend of the laborer! When Tboebe, labor candidate, contested the election of Carlisle, from the Sixth Kentucky district, Mr. Matson voted to prevent Tboebe from introducing evidence out of which he had been tricked, and voted to seat Carlisle, although it is morally certain that Thoebe was legally elected, and ' was counted out in regular Southern style. When Lowry, Democrat, contested the seat of Captain V. bite, of the Twelfth Indiana distri;, who was elected by 2, S4 majority in a strong Democratic district, beevise he is a recognized friend of laborers and receive! the labor vote, Mr. Matson, in the face of overwhelming evidence, voted to unseat Captain White. His friendihip for the laborer seeks queer methods of manifestation. Is he the friend of Union soldiers and their widows and orphansl When President Cleveland vetoed the dependent pension bill, passed by the Forty ninth Congress. Mr. Matson made no earnest attempt to have the bill pifsed over the veto. On the contrary, he seems to have been well satisfied with the Presidents action. When President Cleveland sent to Congress vetoes of private pension bills by scores and hundreds, many of thericouched in sueh coarse, brutal and jeeringlanguage as to make the blood tins 1 ia the veins of every lover of his country, no indignant protest was uttered by Mr. Mat-

son. His voice was not heard in defense of maimed, broken and helpless soldiers, who were insulted and held up to ridicule by a heartless President, who seems to delight in venting his spleen against those who savei his conntry. The Grand Army of the Republic, at its National Encampment, drafted a pension bill satisfactory to it. and caused it to be presented to Congress. It finally came before the committee on pensions, of which Mr. Matson was chairman. Matson and his Democratic committeemen rejected the Grand Army bill, and have reported to. Congress a substitute for it, which in stupidity and utter heartlessness cannot be matched. The Grand Army bill asked tor $12 per month as the minimum pension for soldiers totally disabled. By Matsons substitute, as explained in his report, this provision is rejected, and in its stead a provision is made giving a totally disabled soldier such a pension par month as will equal 1 cent psr day for the time he was in actual service. Any school-boy can see at a glance that under this provision a soldier must have remained in actual service 1,200 daysover three and one-fourth years to entitle him to a pension of $12 per month. Everybody knows that the great mass of our soldiers served less than three years. Probably not one in ten could pet a pension of even $10 per month under this substitute of Matson's. Think for a moment of the enormity of this provision. If a soldier was disabled in the service, he needs support just the same whether he served three years or only three months. When he took bis gun and went to the front the government promised to care for him and hs family in case misfortune befell him. Now let us see bow Mr. Matson is in favor of keeping that promise. Suppose a soldier enlisted and served faithfully ninety days. On the ninetieth day he was disabled on ths battle-field. After a few weeks of suffering in the hospital be was discharged &ad sent home a broken man, incapacitated for labor; what support shall he receivsl The Grand Army only asked for him 812 per month. Matson save no; lie ought to have just 90 cents per month $10.80 per year for his support, and no more. That is Democratio love for Union soldiers. In his report in favor of this heartless provision, Matson said: "If one receives not enough, it ia because he did not serve long enough. For the remainder of the relief necessary to his support, be shall be allowed, es other citizens must, to accept the charity of the local authorities." That ij unadulterated Democratic love for the soldier. But this same Democratic substitute for tho Grand Army bill, has a provision even more cruel and revolting. Mr. Matson says in his report: "We havo reported a substitute for the third section of the Senate bill which adopts on behalf of the widows the same principle we have applied to the soldiers in the second section of the bill." Under this infamous provision the widow of a soldier who yielded ud his life for the defense of his country on the last day of his first month's service, would only receive for her support a pension of 30 cents per month $3. 60 per year. Is Mr. Matson truly a friend to Union soldiers! Immediately after his nomination as candidate for Governor, Mr. Matson hurried back to Congress, and very shortly, either with or without the consent of the other Democratic members of his committee, astounded Congress and the country by introducing, with a favorable report and recommendation, a bill to repeal the limitation and extend the time for the arrearages of pensions so as to give the benefit of the arrearages act to all claimants up to the present time. In bis report ir favor of the bill, Mr. Matson stated that it would only require the sum of $250,000,000 to carry out the provisions of the bill, and that it furnishes the best means of getting rid of the surplus. Mr. Walker, of Missouri, a member of the same committee, prepared a minority report against the bill, in which he stated that it would, if passed, require an expenditure of $500,000,000. and that it would add hundreds of millions of dollars to the burdens of taxation, besides exhausting the sur nlna.

From the hour it was introduced the Republicans in Congress have been tryiog to force it to a vote, while the Democrats have been resorting to all lawful, and even unlawful, parliamentary tactics to prevent this Matson bill from being considered. The maledictions heaped upon Matson by his Democratio colleagues are loud and deep. If this bill should become a law, instead of seeking to reduce the revenue bypassing the Mills free-trade bill, Congress would at once be required to devise ways, and means of largely increasing the revenue. No one believes Mr. Matson either desired or intended to have this bill pass. He did not introduce it for any such purpose. Ue would not vote for it if it should come to a vote. -It is the most stupendous, as well as the most corrupt bid for votes ever made by a candidate for office. It stamps Mr. Matson as a political trickster and demagogue unworthy of confidence. The unfortunate result will be that the jugglery of Mr. Matson will prevent the passage of any general pension law by the present Congress. The Candidates. Grover Cleveland is no longer an unknown man. The people now know him. Their verdict will be, "Weighed in the balance and found wanting." He Is a coarse, ignorant, uncultured man of strong natural abilities. While intensely selfish and obstinate in his purposes, he is utterly regardless of the feelings or rights of others. His own party neither loves nor respects him, but it fears him to the degree of abject subjection. No man ever wielded the party lash with as firm and free a hand as he does. Four years ago, in his letter of acceptance, he pledged himself to the one-term principle, and recommended such en amendment to the -Constitution as would render a President ineligible for re-election. This ye'r he has used the power and patronage of his high office, and all the machinery of the administration, to compass his re-nomination, more palpably and open than they have ever been used before for the same purpose. Every pledge upon which ho was elected has been disregarded, every promise he made has been broken. He has defied law and trample! upon that civil-service reform whose devotees forsook the Republican party and elected him as the special champion of that reform. He has made disgraceful appointments to office, and has retained appointees after ho knew them to be unworthy. His administration has not only been a grossly portisan administration but it has been an intensely Southern administration. We have seen strange sights within the last three years. We have seen the triumphal march of Jefferson Davis through the States that control the Democratic partv, proclaiming that the war of rebellion "was tna& war wnicn nnsuaniiy alone approves a holy war for defense." Wo have seen a Democratio President follow in the wake of Davis and receive from Davis's worship ers almost equal homage. Davis has received a silver crown; Cleveland as yet remains crownless. We have seen the United States flag lowered to half-mast in honor of a traitor who, in addition to his treason, pillaged trust funds committed to his keeping as an officer of the government, and with the stolen funds, fled to Canada, and from that cowardly retreat sought the destruction of our Northern cities by hiring incendiaries to burn them. We have seen our Nation brought into ridicule and contempt by a weak and cowardly foreign policy, by means of which oar citizens have suffered grieTous wrongs and cruelties without redress. We have sesn the administration and its followers persistently pressing forward a line of policy which, while it gives unbounded joy to England, paralyzes our business, jeopardizes our industries and threatens our prosperity. We have seen this Democratio President as a studied insult to our Union soldiers go on a fishing excursion on Decoration day our a tion's holiest holiday. We have seen this Democratic President issue an order fcr the surrender of rebel flsgs, capt nred by the Union army while it was r-scuiug the government from treason and rebellion. We have seen this Democratio President, with cruel jests and insulting innuendoes, veto Union soldier pension bills by the hundred. This is enough. Our couutry does cot want another Democratic administration. ALLEN' G. THURMAN. As far as ability, general information, culture and statesmanship is concerned the last end of the Democratic ticket is much larger than the first end. But in party affiliation and political principles the one is as bad as the other. Doth are hopelessly bad. Thurman is a Bourbon of Bourbons. During the war he was in close sympathy with Vallao ligham and other Northern rebels. He acted iu full accord with the worst element of the Democratic party. He was an obstructionist, throwing the entire weight of his influence against his conntry in its darkest bourofneel the prosecution of the war, tha Emancipation Proclamation, the financial measures to support the government, the reconstruction measures, tho constitutional amendments, the resumption of specie payments all met his determined opposition. He was nominated because be is au embodiment of the feelings, purposes and principles of Southern Democracy. CZU. BENJAMIN HARBISON. It is not necessary in this presence to pronounce aoy eulogy upon Gen. Benjamin Harrison. His life is an open book, without a blot on any page. His record as both soldier and statesman challenges the'closest scrutiny. We, his neighbors and personal friends, know his true worth, and from our hearts congratulate oar country upon his choice as standard-bearer

of the Republican party in this contest, which

is to oetermme so much f or weal or woe. . - In intellectual ability ho is the peer of any man in the illustrious line of Presidents. Forty-eight years ago our country elected his grandfather to the high'office for which he is to day our well-beloved candidate. The names Harrison and Indiana are eloselr interwoven in the history of our country. In November next Indiana will prove to the world that she is proud of the association, ov giving to the grandson of her first Territorial Governor, and the ninth rresiaent of the United States, such a rousing majority as will put Indiana out of the list of doubtful States. Master of the science of law, skilled in statesmanship, thoroughly conversant " with governmental affairs, our candidate is a man of stury courage, unyielding principle, ina hi. -ii .. . . . uexioie win, gpouess me ana inn or tne love or humanity and right. Upon the great questions of the present campaign, the honesty and purity of elections, and the protection of American laborers and Amer ican industries, be is in full accord and eympatny with the clear and ringing declarations of tne Republican tdatform. He believes in the United States of America as a Nation an in dissoluble Union of States. He believes in the protection and enforcement of every right of every citizen, whether foreign or native born, whether white or black. He believes in the de velopment, prosperity and independence of our Nation. With Gen. Benjamin Harrison's in auguration as President the long list of coarse and cruel vetoes of Union soldier pension bills will suddenly end. He believes in Union soldiers, and in keeping every promise made to them by the government. He is a manly man, in every respect fit to be President of this great Nation. LEVI P. MORTON. Lsvi.P. Morton is not an unknown man. He is essentially a man of the people a self-made man. As member of Congress from the Eleventh New York district, he proved himself thoroughly competent and trustworthy as a legislator. President Garfield appointed him minister to France. In that position be manifiested such marked ability as to bring bim at once into national prominence. New York knows him well and loves to do him honor. With euch a ticket, and in a contest tn support of principles of such magnitude and vital importance the Republican party appeals to the country with the utmost confidence. The Republican party is never so great at when it is engaged in battling for great principles. It was born of the irrepressible conflict between right and wrong, between freedom and slavery, between union and secession. Its great battles have been fonght and won for the integrity of the Union and the rights of man. The glory of its history is that under its protection the Nation was preserved from dismemberment and anarchv; shackles fell from the slave; labor was dignified; manhood was recognized; development and growth took the place of stagnation and decay, and prosperity and plenty took the place of poverty and want. The fight is on again. Great issues are at stake. A single word defines the position of the Republican party in this contest. Its watchword is still protection. The Republican party contends for protection of the ballot-box from fraud and crime; protection of the right of every voter to cast a free ballot and have it honestly counted; protection of the rights of every American citizen at home or abroad; protection from all infringements of the Monroe doctrine; protection of American homes; protection of American laborers; protection of American farmers; protection of American industries; protection of American markets; protection of American commerce; protection of American prosperity, and protection of Union soldiers. Omens of triumph are in the air. Oregon has spoken. Her vci:e rings out for protection. Let us take courage, and. with profound conviction that our cause is just, let us press sjead ily forward to victory. THE TARIFF AND "T RUSTS." The 'Trust" an Knclish Importation The Tariff Does Not Make Trusts. The men who have assumed the task of tearing down the barriers by whieh our markets are defended, and better returns for labor assured, seem determined to make the policy of protection odious by falsely charging it with responsibility for every unpopular condition which the business of the country experiences. Among the more recently discovered evils of a protective policy to which these free-trade advocates point is the alleged fostering of "trusts." But here, as elsewhere, facts are against them, as will bo seen by a glance at history past and present. "Trusts," of "pools." or combinations by. whatever tiame, are far from being modern contrivances for controlling prlces.and are by no means confined to the United States. In fact, the 'trust" of to-day is of English origin, and unfortunately for the free-trade advocate's purpose, did not come into prominence in England until 1848 two years after the adoption by that nation of hor existing free-trade policy. This combination was in the tin-mining district of Cornwall and Devonshire, and was intended to afloat the price of a metal on which there was no tariff. Coming down to the present, the great copper "trust," which recently succeeded in carrying up prices to an unprecedented figure, originated in France, where there are no copper mines to protect. England to-d3y has a coal-oil trust, though no oil wells, and no tariff on coal oiL Canada, like ourselves, has a sugar trust, while allowing sugar to enter hsr ports free of dutv. Here in the United States our most formidable trust" is the Standsrd Oil Company, with eoal oil on the free list. (It may be well to remember that the present Secretary of the Navy is a member of this Standard Oil combination ) Then, again, we have the coffee "trust," which has succeeded in materially increasing the price of coffee within the past year and a half, while every one who cares to inquire knows that coffee has been on the free list since 1873. In the face of facts like these it is daily charged that "trusts' inherited from England, and flourishing as never before under the present pro-British administration are an outgrowth of the American protective policy.. The same free-trade advocates, with unabashed inconsistency, charge -against a protective tariff that it materially increases the prices of protected products. This, if true, would operate to render combinations all the more difficult, by requiring increased capital for holding and arbitrarily forcing up the prices of commodities. The real truth is that all these commercial combinations, like those between railroad managers, are very little, if at all, a flee ted by customs laws; and the evils with which they threaten the country are to be averted by national and State legislation, rendering all combinations more difficult, and keeping every business anvenue open to nntrammeled competition. This appeal of freetrade advocates to the general prejudice against "trusts but betrays the absence of facts and arguments in snppoft of the nnpatriotio policy they have espoused, and will deceive none but the unthinking. Secretary Swank's Views. Secretary James M. Swank, of the American Iron and Steel Association, of Philadelphia, when asked bis ouinion, said: "The nomination of General Harrison is a very happy deliverance from the difficulties that surround tho Cfricago convention. A better choice could not hare been made; toe Republican party now has a nominee whose public and private character is without stain aod too high to be reached by any calumniating tongue. lie is as well qualified for the office as any man whose name was mentioned in connection with it. He goes before the American people with a good war record, a clean name for his six years' service as United States Senator, as a deep read and learned lawyer and as a protectionist in whom all have the most implicit confidence. "His popularity in Indiana is marvelous, and he will beyond a reasonable doubt carry his own State, and I firmly believe New York also. He will make a safe, cautious and successful President if elected, and there is now no reason to believe he will not be. The free-trade message of Cleveland and the indorsement of the Mills bill by the St. Louis convention are significant elements of weakness. Cleveland has no strength beyond that which bis position gives bim, while General Harrison is a complement of the grandest protection platform ever written. I look; for thousands of wool-growers whose interests have been attacked to cast their ballots for Harrison, and for the workmen who toil in the iroa miues and iron and steel-works, who have heretofore voted the Democratic ticket, to turn ia for Harrison and protection." Dropping the II." TtieCrltic. 1 am often amused at the ingenuity shown hy English people of a certain class in dropping and potting on the letter h. No one except those who come by it naturally can be sure of catching the trick. We all know that there are certain words that the h is added to and others that it is taken from. Egg, we know, becomes hegg, while hen becomes 'en. But there are instances where the troublesome aspirate is used correctly and incorrectly in the same sentence. For instance, an English servant that I have in mind will say that the children have beeu cat tating the hair for an 'our. Now here she adds it where it doesn't belong, yet drops it from a word that we all drop it from, and where she taicht therefore be expected to sound it." Nothing but inherited instinct, nothing but generations cf practice, could make one so perfect in wrongdoing. For example, who bnt one to the manner born could call a certain Western State Ho-i-ho, as this woman does? The first time I beard her roll this choice morsel from ber tongue, I thought she was trying to say "Hawaii."

BnTMEM MTMAL MUM

Adopted at Chicago, June 21, 1888. THE PREAMBLE. The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their delegates in national convention, pause on the threshold of their proceedings to honor the memory of their first great leader, the immortal champion of liberty and the rights of the people Abraham Lincoln and to cover also with wreaths of imperishable remembrance, and gratitude the heroio names of later leaders, who have been more recently called away from our councilsGrant, Garfield, Arthur, Logan, Conkling. May their memories be faithfully cherished. We also recall with our greetings and with prayer for his recovery the name of one of our living heroes, whoso memory will be treasured in the history both of Republicans and of the Republic the name of that noble soldier and favorite child of victory, Philip H. Sheridan. In the spirit of those great leaders, and of our own devotion to human liberty, and with that hostility to all forms of despotism and oppression which ia the fundamental idea of the Republican party, we send fraternal congratulations to our fellow-Americans of Brazil upon their great act of emancipation, which completed the abolition of slavery throughoat the two American continents. We earnestly hope that we may soon congratulate our fellow-citizens of Irish birth upon tho peaceful recovery of homo rule for Ireland. AN EQUAL BALLOT AND REPRESENTATION. We affirm our unswerving devotion to tho national Constitution, and to the indissoluble union of the States; to the autonomy reserved to the States under the Constitution; to the personal rights and liberties of citizens in all the States and Territories in the Union, and especially to the supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted. We hold the free and honest popular ballot, and the just and equal representation of all the people, to be the foundation of our republican government, and demand effective legislation to secure the integrity and purity of elections, which are the fountains of all public authority. We charge that the present administration, and the Democratic majority in Congress, owe their existence to the suppression of the ballot by a criminal nullification of the Constitution and laws of the United States. THE TARIFF AND REVENUE. We are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. We protest against its destruction proposed by the President and his party. They serve the interests of Europe; we will support the interests of America. We accept the issue and confidently appeal to the people for their judgment. The protective system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been followed by general disaster to all interests, except those of the usurer and the sheriff. We denounce the Mills bill as destructive to the general business, the labor and the farming interests of the country, and we heartily indorse the consistent and patriotic actions of the Republican Itepresentatives in Congress in opposing its passage. We condemn the proposition of the Democratic party to place wool on the free list, and we insist that the duties thereon shall be adjusted and maintained so as to furnish full and adequate protection to that industry. The Republican party would effect all needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the taxes on tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the tax upon spirits used in the arts and for mechanical purposes; and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which gives employment to our labor, and release from import duties those articles of foreign production (except luxuries) the like of which cannot be produced at home. If there shall still remain a larger revenue than is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the entire repeal of internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system at the joint behest of the whisky trusts and the agents of foreign manufacturers. SERVILE LABOR AND "TRUSTS." We declare our hostility to the introduction into this country of foreign contract labor, and of Chinese labor, alien to our civilization and our Constitution, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the existing laws against it, and favor such immediate legislation as will exclude such labor from our shores. We declare our opposition to all combinations of capital organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens, and we commend to Congress and the State Legislatures, in their respective jurisdictions, such legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market. We approve the legislation by Congress to prevent alike unjust burdens and unfair discriminations between the States. PUBLIC LANDS AND TERRITORIES. We reaffirm the policy of appropriating the public lands of the United States to be homesteads for American citizens and settler?, not aliens, which the Republican party established in 18G2, against the persistent opposition of the Democrats in Congress, and which has brought our great Western domain into such magnificent development The restoration of unearned land grants to the publio domain for the use of actual settlers,, which was begun under the administration of President Arthur, 6hould b) continued. We deny that the Democratic party has ever restored one acre to the people, but declare that by the joint action of Republicans and Democrats, about fifty millions of acres of unearned lands originally granted for the construction of railroads have been restored to the publio domain, in pursuance of the conditions inserted by the Republican party in the original grants. We charge the Democratic administration with failure to execute the laws securing to settlers titles to tbeir homesteads, and with using appropriations made for that purpose to harass innocent settlers with spies and prosecutions under false pretense of exposing frauds and vindicating the law. The government by Congress of the Territories is based upon necessity only, to the end that they may become States in the Union; therefore, whenever the conditions of population, material resources, public intelligence and morality are such as to secure a stable local government therein, the people of such Territories should be permitted, as a right inherent in tbem, to form for themselves constitutions and State governments and be admitted into the Union. Pending the preparation for statehood, ail officers thereof should be selected from the bona fide residents and citizens of the Territory wherein they are to serve. South Dakota should of right be immediately admitted as a State in the Union, under the Constitution framed and adopted by the people, and we heartily indorse the action of the Republican Senate in twice passing bills for her admission. The refusal of the Democratic House of Representatives, for partisan purposes, to favorably consider these bills, is a willful violation of the sacred American principle of local self-government, and merits the condemnation of all just men. The pending bills in the Senate for acts to enable the people of Washington, North Dakota and Montana Territories to form constitutions and establish State governments should bo passed without unnecessary delay. The Republican party pledges itself to do all in its power to facilitate the admission of the Territories of New Mexico, Wyoming. Idaho and Arizona to the enjoyment of self-government as States, such of them as are now qualified, as soon as possible, and the others as soon as they may become so. The political power of the Mormon Church in the Territories, as experienced in the past, is a menace to free institutions, too dangerous to be long suffered. Therefore, we pledge the Republican party to appropriate legislation asserting the sovereignty of the Nation in all Territories where the same is questioned, and in furtherance of that end to place upon the statute books legislation stringent enough to divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power, and thus stamp out the attendant wickedness of polygamy. MONEY, ONE CENT POSTAGE AND EDUCATION. The Republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver 4 money, and con

demns the policy of the Democratic administration in its efforts to demonetize silver. We demand the reduction of letter postage to 1 cent per ounce. In a republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign the people should possess intelligence. The free-school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free nation; therefore, the State or Nation, or both combined, should support free institutions of learning, sufficient to afford to ever child growing np in the land, the opportunity of a good common-school education. MERCHANT MARINE AND NAVAL DEFENSES. We earnestly recommend that prompt ac tion be taken by Congress in the enactment of such legislation as will best secure the rehabilitation of our American merchant marine, and wo protest against the paisage by Congress of a free-6hip bill, as calculated to work injustice to labor by lessening the wages of those engsged in preparing materials, as well as those directly employed in our ship-yards. We demand appropriations for the early rebuilding of our navy; for the construction of coast fortifications and mod ern ordnance, and other approved modern means of defense for the protection of our defenseless harbors and cities; for the payment of just pensions to our soldiers; for necessary works of national importance in the improvement of harbors and the channels of internal, coastwise and foreign commerce; for the encouragement of the shipping interests of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific States, as well as for the payment cf the maturing public debt. This policy will give employment to our labor, activity to our various industries, increase the security of our country, promote trade, open new and direct markets for our produce, and cheapen the cost cf transportation. We affirm this to be far better for our country than the Democratic policy of loaning the government money without interest to "pet banks." COWARDICE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The conduct of foreign affairs by the present administration has been distinguished by its inefficiency and its cowardice. Having withdrawn from the Senate all pending treaties effected by Republican administration for the removal of foreign burdens and restrictions upon our commerce, and for its extension into better markets, it has neither effected nor proposed any other in their stead. Piofessing adherence to the Monroe doctrine, it has seen with idle complacency the extension of foreign influence in Central America, and of foreign trade everywhere among our neighbors. It has refused to charter, sanction or encourage any American organization for constructing the Nicaragua canal, a work of vital importance to the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, and cf our national influence in Central and South America, and necessary for the development of trade with our Pacific territory, with South America and with the islands and further coasts of the Pacific ocean. We arraign the present Democratic administration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment of the fisheries question, and its pusillanimous surrender of the essential privileges to which our fishing vessels are entitled in Canadian ports under the treaty of 1818, the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1630, and the comity of nations, and which Canadian fishing vessels receive in the ports of the United States. Wa condemn the policy of the present administration and the Democratic majority in Congress toward our fisheries as unfriendly, and conspicuously unpatriotic, and as tending to destroy a valuable national industry, and an indispensable resource of defense "against a foreign enemy. The name of American applies alike to all citizens of the Republic, and imposes upon all alike the same obligations of obedience to the laws. At the same time that citizenship ia and must be the panoply and safeguard of him who wears it, and protect him, whethei high or low, rich or poor, in his civil rights. It should and must afford him protection at home, and follow and protect him abroad in whatever land he may be on a lawful errand. CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. The men who abandoned the Republican party in 18S4, and continue to adhere to the Democratio party, have deserted not only the cause of honest government, of sound finances, of freedom and purity of the ballot, but especially have deserted the cause of reform in

the civil service. We will not fail to keep our pledges because they have broken theirs, or because their candidate has broken his. We, therefore, repeat our declaration of 18S4, towit: "The reform of the civil service, auspiciously begun under the Republican administration, should be completed by the further extension of the reform system already established by law, to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purpose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legislation should be repealed, to the end that the danger to free institutions which lurk in the power of official patronage may be wisely and effectively avoided." PENSIONS TO DEFENDERS OF THE UNION. The gratitude of the Nation to the defenders of the Union cannot be measured by laws. The legislation by Congress should conform to the pledges made by a loyal people, and be so enlarged and extended as to provide against the possibility that any man who honorably wore the federal uniform shall become an inmate of an almshouse, or dependent upon private charity. In the presence of an overflowing treasury it would be a public scandal to do less for those whose valorous service preserved the government. We denounce the hostile spirit shown by President Cleveland in his numerous vetoes of measures fox pension relief, and the action of the Democratio House of Representatives in refusing even a consideration of general pension legislation. THE HOME, TEMPERANCE AND MORALITY. The first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people and the purity of their homes. The Republican party cordially sympathizes with all wise and welldirected efforts for the promotion of temperance and morality. In support of the principles herewith enunciated, we invite the co-operation of patriotic men of all parties, and especially of all 'workingmen, whose prosperity is seriously threatened by the free-trade policy of the present administration. SAD FACTS rOK FKEC-TItADKItS. A Dealer Shows How the MilKIilll Will Affect Trade In This Country. New York Mail and Exprens. "As a merchant. I can ee the injury threatened by the Mills bill," said a wU-known dealer the other day. 'Take for example, the article of stareh. There are 200 potato-starch factories in this conntry. They make about 12,000 tons, or 24.C00.000 pounds of starch yearly. With a duty of two cents a pound, theie factories have giTsn employment to a large number of parson, including laborers in the field and skilled workmen in the factories. These persons are wsll paid. Take off the duty and what is the re sal it German starch will be sent over to this eountry in abundauce. There the laborers in the fiold get a mark or about twenty-four cents a day, while the skilled workmen in t&e factories are eontent with three marks, or ' a little oTer seventy cents a day. Thus, you can readily se, the ccst of produeiogaod manufacturing starch in Germany is so small, compared to what is required here, that with the duty ofT this work in this country would be entirely stopped, as it would be impossible to compete with the imported starch. Owing to the recent failure of the potato erop and the high price of this Testable, it baa been as much as the factories could do to furnish starch low enough to keep out that produced ia Germany, eren with the dnty now imposed. In orJioary timss the American factories can make an excellent starch and sell a little below the price of the imported starch plus the duty. The tariff tiokers rarely take into consideration the difference in the rate of wages and the cost of lirice here and in the countries where similar articles are produced. The starch business is a laree and growing in dustry in New York State, and should it escape the elntehes of the tariff rneddl-rs, will na doubt increase to gigotle proportions.'' The following is said to be of bensSt for ingrowing toe nails. Ileal a small bit of tallow very hot in a spoon and pour it on the granulations. Pain aod tenderness are relieved at once, and if repeated frequently the edge of the na will be exposed in a few days and then ean be cut aws.