Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1888 — Page 1

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 18S8. WHOLE NO. 1665 VOLXXXI1I--NO. 49.

PARTY WORKERS.

Sgnlficart Gxihtrre of Representative Bamcenti Frcm Every Qaarter of the S;itr. ill Teixner Kestirgp, Outside of Cimpiigu?, Eolipiid by the Magnifiaent Assemblage. Enthusiasm, Energy, Vigilance and Loyally Chirietsriz the Bj'i PrcceeJings. Phn ef Organization Adopted Taxi Pressgs in OTtrwhelmiES Victory. The Delegates, With One Accord, Daclars for Gray for tin Yica-Presidency, Acd, at the Sims Tun, G.ve the Adninistriticn Tnej Unajnlifisd Indorsement. Ix-Senitor McDonald Ducnsses ihs Msmge and Replies ta John 8hermip, b:li tie Chief Executive Deals in Fads led Flures of Poblio Impirt. Expression cf Preferences Touching ths Governorship Frcm Varices Counties. roll Reports of th Doings of the Confereace and the Monster mass Meetings held at Tomlinaon ilall. January 11, 1SSS. This will long be remembered aa a bright and glorious day in the history of Indiana Democracy. Not since the Presidential campaign of 1SS1 has a political gathering of equal magnitude or importance been seen. It was characterized not only by size but by enthusiasm and hearty gsod will. Republicans looked on appalled. They had not expected it; in fact, had predicted failure of the attempt to rally the Democrats of the State at this time. Contrasted with their convention a few weeks ago the Lincoln League affair the latter took the form of a town meeting. Brief y stated, the results Jo f yesterday's gathering show that a reasonablly early convention is desired; that Governor Gray is the choice of the masses of the party for Vice-President; that there will be a sharp straggle for the nomina tion for Governor, and last, bat by no means least, that by putting is operation the plan of organization mapped out by the Hendricks Club of this city, the grand est victory ever achieved by the gallant Democracy of Indiana will certainly be chronicled in November next. HEÄDEICKS CLUB CONFERENCE. Steps Toward the Thorough Organization f the Democracy Governor Gray Indorsed Masonic Hall never contained more peo pie than it did at 10:45 o'clock yesterday morning, when President Allen W. Con duitt, of the Hendricks Club, called the Etate conference of Democrats to order, Every seat was occupied and every foot of standing room, on the stage, ta the aisles and in the rear of the ball was taken. A tetter looking political assemblage was never seen, ivery face bore nnmiatac aoie signs oi intelligence and every delegate was well dressed, in die atiar prosperous times enjoyed under a Aemocrauc administration, vine per- . tonnel of the conference has not been eurpasted at any State Convention. Ko sooner bad order been obtained than the delegation from "Old Shelby," 500 as brave and true Democrats as enlisted under Jackson, marched in, escorted by tbe Shelbyviile Military Band, a handsomely uniformed organization, with Colonel Joseph McBride as marshal of the delegation. Governor Gray came at the head of the Shelby delegation, and was received with applause. He took a seat on the platform, but was called to nis office shortly aftervrard. A delegate from Marion County moved that the order of business as printed in the Eentlnel be adopted. Hon. Charles G. Offatt, of Greenfield, moved formend by directing the Committee on Resolutions to report at tbe conference Instead of at the Tomlinson Hall demonstration, for the reason that the conference wss stricUy a Democratic meeting, while the Tomlinson Hall affair would be la prcmisciu3 meeting, and coafaai&a might arise. This Amendment was accepted. The programme as otherwise mapped out was adopted. Secretary Arthcr V. Brown, of the Hendricas Club, as temporary secretary of the conference, called the roll of Congressional districts for members of the committees provided for In the order of business as adop'ed, with the following result. COMMITTEE OJf P.MiniOM. First District i. W. Shanklin, Jfsiiderbnrg County. Second District T. R Cobb, Kaox. Third Dlstrict-Frahk B. Burk, Floyd, Fourth 11 trict frank Galvin, Decatur. Fiftn District John K. Gordon, Puinau. filth District W. C. Kilgore, Delaware. Peventh District W, bcott Bay, Shelby. Kighth District-John C. Briggs, Sulliyafl. Ninth m?dh tor Johnson, Tippecanoe, i Tenta M.D. Faiisler, Caw. eievnuv-rj, U. JUdd, W abash.

Twelith-R. C. Bell. Allen. Thirteenth E. V. Bingham, St. Joseph. COMMITTEE OS PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. First Diftrlct-A. F. Howard, Spencer county. Stconfl District C. C. Doane, Dubois. Third District George W. Denbo, Harrison: Fourth District Warren Tebbs. Dearborn. Filth Distrirt w. c. Duncan, Brown. Sixth District Fcrd MilJer, Randolph. Seventh District George W: Hamm, Hancork: Eighth District W. H. G ilium. Parke.

Math District J . rarxer, npion. Tenth District J. Kopeike. Lake. Eleventh District Levi Mock, Wells. Twclftn District V. A. Faucett Lagrange. Thirteenth District-Harry Francis, LaPorte. COMMITTEE ON CXCB ORGANIZATION. First District Philip W. Frey, Vanderburg,. kcond-Andrew M. Sweeney, Dubois. Third Alex Davideon, Jackson. Fourth Stephen I rraMon, FrankliB. Fill h George W. Cooper, Bartholomew. Sixth-Joseph J. Forbes, Randolph. Sevnth Leon 0. Ballev, Mailon, Eighth J. M. HaskinR.'Clay. Ninth Martin A. Morrison, Clinton. Tcntn V. Zimmerman, Fulton. Kleventh-O. V. WhitelocK, Huntington. Twelfth -William II. Dales. DeKalb. Thirteenth- P. O. Jones, Marshall. The secretary also called the roll of counties for the purpose ol ascertaining the number of representatives present from each county, which showed that every county in the State was represented. The following was the result. Aflams.... 4 Allen .... 12 Bartholomew 25 Kenton 4 Blackford in Boone ... " roD . 3 Madison 40 .Marshall a Mrtin 5 Miami - 10 Monroe 13 Montgomery 23 IUUIKIU.M Newton Carroll (am Clark... ,.- 27 15 20 40 ... 6 ... 6 28 10 ... 11 . 3 ... 4 ... 4 Node.. Ohio..., (lay, Orange.. 1 Clinton.... (rau ford . lavitss.... Dearborn. IHcatur.... relaware.. I Kalb..... Owen . Parke....... Perry nite.. PorterPosey.... Pulaski. Dubois., Putnam. Elkhart Fayette...... Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton , iibson Grant Greene Hamilton-... Ii a n c c k Harrison RandolphRipley.. Rush .. 16 .... 8 ... l:J cott.. ... 11 Shelby 500 ... 15 epencer Starke Steuben St Joseph Sallivan. Switzerland ., Tippecanoe... Tipton , 4 .. 27 10 2.7" Hendricks 3 .. 20 29 Henry Howard...., i n ion .. 37 Vanderburg iluntiUKtos 6 v ermillion.. Vigo Wabash , Warren Warrick Wayne Washington Wells ., White Whitley Jackson 1 Jasper.... ....m. . 1 Jay 8 Jefierson 7 Jennings 9 Johnson 125 Knox 1 Kosciusko 3 Lagrange........ 4 Lake , 3 LaPorte 25 Lawrtnce 2 Total 1.675 Marion County not included in total. Chairman Conduitt remarked that Democrats should feel highly gratified that every county was bo fully represented. He thought it indicated that the Indiana Democracy was never in better shape for a National contest. The announcement of Shelby County's banner delegation was received with applause, and Ö storing reports from other counties also received cheers. Hon. Levi Mock, of Wells, who had been chosen Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization, reported as follows: Permanent Chairman Governor Isaac P. Gray. Secretary Richard O. Johnson, of Marion. Assistant Secretary Martin A. Morrison, of Frankfort. An Assistant Secretary from each Con gressional district was also announced as 101J0W8. First Distiict-Charles Leib, ol Spencer Conn ty Becond R. K. Purcell. Knox. Third James Applegate, Floyd. Fourth Mort Cornet, Ripiej. Fifth B. J. Peters, Monroe. 81xth J. J.Garrel), Randolph. Feventh Dr. Diven, Madison. Eighth-J. G. McNutt, Vigo. Ninth Mortin A.Morrison, Clin'.on. Tenth S. P. Corbov, Porter. Eleventh D. G. bturgis. Wells. Twelfth J. A. Barnes, DeKa'b. Thirteenth W. Arthur, Elkhart. The chair appointed United States Marshal Edward Hawkins and Mr. G. W. Gei ger a committee to wait upon the Govern or, apprise him of his selection and escort him to the halL While the conference was waiting for the Governor, the Shelbyville Military Band furnished some ex cellent music, after which the dele' gates expressed, by a standing vote, their thanks to the band for donating Its cervices to the cause of Democracy. When Governor Gray appeared at the hall entrance, he was greeted with tre mendous cheering, and the convention arose en masse to receive him. Upon reaching the platform be was introduced by Chairman Conduitt, and the applause was renewed. The Governor said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con ference! thank you most profoundly for the nonor you nave conierrea ny selecting me to preside over the deliberations of this great conference of leading Democrats, who are here from all parts of the State. I must say that I am highly gratified at the unity and enthusiasm wnicn you a:t displaying, ibe Democratic armor was never In belter condition, and its steel was never in tetter temper, and, after seeine this conlerence. I sm ready to predict that the Republican party is on its last legs, and that it is Donna u go aown next November as a party of the past. I want to thank yon again for this unsolicited honor you have bestowed upon me, and in conclusion I assure von that all that I am, and all there is of me. will be in the approacnirjg contest, aoing an mat i can in an honorable wsy toward carrying the Democratic parly to Tictory. This Is not tbe time for speech making, and I now declare this meeting open for the transaction of business. The committee on permanent organiza tion further reported that each county would have the same number of votes in the conference as It had in tbe last State convention. The entire report was adopt ed. The Chairman announced that the committee on Besolutions would meet at Kool 40, of the Grand Hotel: the Com mittee on Club Organization at the office of Hon. S. P. Sheerln, and the County central tammittees present at the Hen dricks Club rooms. It being noon, a motion to take a recess until 1 :Z0 o'clock prevailed. In the afternoon the delegates were somewhat slow to reassemble, and it was 2 o'clock before the chair called the meeting to order. The brass band heading the Shelby army came into the hall and played anumoeroi invigorating airs. At the opening theChair announced that the Hendricks club extended an invitation to the Hendricks club of Bheibv conntv. and all other Democratic organizations present, to attend the demonstration at -y if Tf.n .. .. luuiimauu Alan. no invitation was re ceived witn applause. rw ( aJ a a ice counues were men caned to report the committees of del crates Bcircieu lor me purposa 01 organizing County Hendricks Clubs. In each county selections had been made daring the noon recess and were as promptly reported. Five committeemen from each county were selected, all representative and capable men. Tbe committee on plan of club organization was not prepared to submit its report, which was next in order, and a postponement was granted. According to tbe order ol builness.aa amended in the morn

ing, the next matter was the report of the Committee on Resolutions. This committee was not ready to report, and postpone

ment was granted. Mr. Cooper, of Bartholomew, then taking advautae of the lull in the business, made a motion that it was the sense of the meeting that it favored the holding oi the State Nominat ing Convention on the first Wednesday in June, and that the recommendation to that effect be made to the State Central Committee. The speaker, in making. the motion, safd he supposed it would cauw commotion, and his statement waa eminently truthful. mate fcecator i. ts. McDonald, of Whitley, opposed the motion on the ground that it would be taking a step in the dark, and. that it was not wise to hold the State convention prior to tbe National one. It reply Mr. Cooper said that on the contrary the step was not one taken in the dark. The Democratic party was in the full broad light of day.and in view of the facts that the change of eTents demanded that Indiana be represented on the National ticket in the approachirg campaign, tLe State convention, to be able to indorse a candidate for tbe National conventions, suffrage should be held prior to the latter. The action of the convention would not be handicapping the State Committee in the least; on the con trary, ibe committee was the senti ment of the party and the convention beicg the voice of at least a great pirt of the people, it had a right to suggest matten to the committee. After some further remarks by Mr. Gordon, of Wayne, and Mr. Kelley, of DeKalb, the question on the motion was called for vociferously, and upon being put by the Chair, was almost unanimously adopted. Ex-Senator Leon O. Bailey then read the report of the Committee on Flan of Club Organization, which was as follows: PLAN OF CLUB ORGANIZATION. Mr. Chairman-Your committee on plan ol club organization would respectfully submit tne loiiowing report, it would recommend clubs should add to ariy local name which they may select the words "Hendricks League." Second The persons whose selection may be provided for by this conference on club Organization ihould meet in their mreciive cc unties, and, with the assistance of all Demon a ts who may desire to aid In the work, or who may be induced so to do, forthwith proceed to organize clubs in their several counties on the plan adopted by this conference, which clubs, so rapidly as they may be formed, shall select from their own number a committee whose especial duty it shall be to encouiage the further establishment of similar organizations at other points in their several counties, and so on until like clubs are created in evety town and township possible. Third W henever a club has organized, under the plan tubmitted.it stall be the dutyof the Secretary thereof, without delay, to send to the 8ecietary of the "Democratic State Central Commitiee" at Indianapolis, Ind.. and to the Chairman of their "Democratic County Central Committee,' a list of the names, with addresses and such other information as may be required concerning the members constituting the ciub. Buch Secretaries shall also report, as above, all additional names which may be added, from time to time, to their several clubs. It is recommended, by this conference, that the "Democratic State Central Committee" shall, so soon as practicable, prepare printed blankB, calling for all desired information, which 6hail be forwarded to the several local Clubs as rapidly as they may become organized. Your committee further recommends the adoption of the following Constitution and Eylaws for the government of local clubs: "We, tbe undersigned citizens, believing that the good of our country and the perpetuity of our American institutions will be best subserved by tbe more general advocacy of Democratic doctorine8 and the continuation of the Democratic pafty in power, have formed ourselves into a club, known as tbe 'Hendricks League,' which latter part of our name is adopted In honor of the late Thomas A. Hendricks. "The object of the clnb Is that we may form ourselves into a permanent organization lor the perpetuation of the principles of Democracy. ARTICLE r. "This club 6hall be known as ve Club of the 'Hendricks League.' "ARTICLE II. "The officers of the club shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer and an .Executive Committee. "ARTICEB III. "The President and Vice-President of said club shall constitute members of an Advisury Committee, wich committee shall be subject to the call of the State and Count Central Committees, for consultation, at such times and places as said committee shall designate. "Your committee further recommends that each local club shall adobt such further rules and by-laws as they may, severally, agree np-n. "Your committee further recommends that two thousand copies of this report be printed and placed in tbe hands of the several Committees on Clnb Organization, provided for by this conference, for their guidance in the work before them. "Respectfully submitted, "A. A Davipon "Chairman of Committee on Plan oi Club Organization." THE RESOLUTIONS. The chair then announced that the Committee on Resolutions was ready to report. and ex-Congressman Thomas F. Cobb arose and presented them. "The resolutions," he said, "are the unanimous sentiment of the committee, and will be, no douot, the unanimous sentiment of this convention." They were then submitted by him, and as each paragraph was read the air was rent with cheers, and hats and handkerchiefs were waved by nearly every one of tbe delegates. The 'applause was prolonged and vociferous when the association indorsing the candadacy of Governor Gray waa read, and it was several minutes before the enthusiasm could be controlled. The whole of the report was u follows: We hail with enthusiasm the brave and able leadership of Grover Cleveland, President of the United etates, and; heartily Indorse his administration of national aCairs. We welcome the message of the President as a courageous step towards the administration of the government, in harmony with the requirements of the mastes ol the people, and we urge upon Congress to carry out its recommendations. We declare that the so-called doctrine of "Protection to American Labor," as illustrated in our present tariff laws, is a fraud upon the laboring men of the country, especially, placing them largely in the power ot their employers and making them the victims of the oppressive power of coilosxal aggregations of capital, exerted in the interests of monopoly, and against the Interests of labor. Kesolved, That we appreciate and highly commend the administration of our S'ate affairs by Governor Isaac P. Gray, for its ability, its honesty and his hearty and earnest ef forts to impove the State government in all its branches; and we heartily commend him to tbe Democracy of the State of Indiana and the Nation for nomination lor the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Resolved, That we heartly Indorse the election of David Turpie to the United States Senate by the Democratic majority of the last Legislature, and other manly and determined resistance made against the organized conspiracy of a Republican minority to overturn constitutional, government and by fraud elect a United States Senator against the will of the people aa expressed at the ballot box. We denounce the partisan, inexcusable and revolutionary action oi the Redublican majority of tfce House in obstructing legislation, and thereby presenting the passage of appropriation bills and other necessary legislation, thereby cripjpirjg the administration of the tiiate's affairs and preventing the proper maintenance ol her various benevolent institutions. The Democratic party is corweious of the grat benefit conferred upon tbe country by the influx of intelligent hearts and strong arms from abroad. It has always warmly greeted and promoted the immigration of honest, respectable and Industrious aliens, and is yet lu favor of welcoming and kindly receiving these valuable elements of our population, which nave so hM-gelv contributed to the building up and development Cf our resources, and of exoiadicg

only notorionsly dishonest, disreputable and dangerous characters from the privileges of the American soil and citizenship. "As tbe Chairman of tbe meeting," said Mr. Cobb, "is deeply interested in one of theBe resolutions, I will ask the pardon of the meeting for putting the motion for their adoption myself ," This he did, and but one word was shouted, "Aye." Enthusiastic cheering for Governor Gray induced that gentleman to step to the front and say: Gentlemen, I give you my heartfelt thanks for the honor wbich your action has conferred on me. I don't want to make a speech njw, but I will promise you that, whether I am on or off the national ticket in the race this year, I will make no less than a hundred speeches for the success ol the Democratic party. If our Republican friends imagine that they can be confident of success on the strength of a lack of harmony in trie Democratic ranks, then they are badly mistaken, for tbe ranks of the party will move solidly towards a victory without the slightest disaffection. The following resolution, introduced by Mr. J. O. Henderson, of Kokomo, was adopted: Kesolvod, That the Hendricks Club of Indianapolis Is entitled to tbe gratitude of the Democracy of Indiana for 1's untiring efforts in makiDg this conference a glorious success, and for its activity and energv at all times displaTed in the promotion of Democratic principles. Thi9 closed the conference.

A ROVSING MASS MEETING. Mammoth Demonstration by Democrats of the Stat at Tomlinson Hall. The Demonstration at Tomlinson Hall last night was a magnificent success. Every seat in the mammoth auditorium was occupied, and the galleries were crowded. Quite a number of ladies were present. It was an audience composed of rep reeentatice Democrats, and their frequent outbursts of enthusiasm indicated that they are willing and valiant soldiers in the army of Democracy. The handsome hall was elegantly decorated for the occasion with the stars and stripes. A very large flag was suspended above the center of the staee, and, several feet further toward the audience, an archway was formed of three.' large nags, at the top of which was a splendid picture of President Cleveland. Below this, and resting on the Btage directly in front of the speakers' stand, was a fine portrait of the late Vice-President Hendricks in a hsndsome gilt frame. Streams of red, white and blue were hung all around the hall. The entire arrangement presented a pleasing and patriotic appearance. There was no unnecessary delay. At 8 o'clock the Vice-Presidents were seated upon the platform and all the local speakers were present. Mr. Allen W. Conduitt, President of the Hendricks Club, called the meeting to order, and at once introduced Hon. John W. Kern as the permanent presiding officer. Mr. Kern came forward and thanked the convention for the honor conferred, but he was so hoarse he could hardly speak, and he introduced Hon. Charles L. Jewett, of New Albany, who spoke lor him. Mr. Jewett said that Mr. kern was the permanent chairman of the meeting ; that he had been selected for the place because of his high order of ability and peculiar fitness, and because he had always proved faithful to every trust. EX-SrEAKEB JEWETT'S REMARKS. Continuing, Mr. Jewett said: "Since Mr. Kern Is so siUicted to-night that it is a matter of physical impossibility for him to make himself heard beyond the footlights, he asks that I speak for him, I deem the affliction not his, but yours, my fellow-citizens, that we are thus deprived of the pleasure of hearing him. But, as we are told that electricity may now be stored for future use, I feel that Providence now working always in the direction of Democratic success is tbU3 providently storing his maenetic speech, that later in the great contest now about to open it may issue forth to (Vsmay and confound our common enemy. If jour chosen chairman cauld spak for himself he would say in much choicer phrase than I can hope to employ that he congratulated you nil upon this most happy preliminary meeting of a most auspicious campaign, that to-day in this city there had assembled a representative body of earnest Democrats, intent only on the good of our party a term synonomous with the good of our countrj in which meeting no county, of ths ninety-two that go to make up this broad, brave State of Indiana, but was honestly represented. He would tell you that in all that convocation of Democrats to day, there was not found one who did not heartily approve and sustain the administration of that chosen leader of the party, so pure in his methods, so conservative in his acta, bo statesman-like in his policies and so matchless in his courage Giover Cleveland, President of the United State. lApplause, lasting for Beveral minutes. "He would tell you that the men who met to-day were one in opinion, as they were one in hope, that by reason of past performances, present position and future importance. Indiana should be allowed to name the man who should stand beside the President for the people's suffrage in November next; that.as one man, they had determined that the son of Indiana thus to be honored ought of right to be our present brave, intelligent and incorruptible, Governor Isaac P. Gray. Applause. "He would say to yon that since last you went to the polls and deposited your ballots for the election of State and legislative efheers, strange and startling things bed been attempted and defeated in our fair State; that when the people of Indiana, under the forms of law, had elected a Legislature containing a Democratic majority of two, the marnlots, braggarts and bullies, who now control the Republican party ot Indiana, openly declared that they would, by violent and unlawful methods overturn that majority and thwart the will of the people. Thus it came to pass that the right of selfgovernment and majority was threatened within the very temple consecrated to law and justice. He would tell you how, with courage and in a spirit of self sacrifice, the Democratic members of the last General Assembly mctacd defeated this infamous scheme. Now it was not worth while to argue as to the propriety of the action taken, or the lawfulness of the means employed when a ready proof of both could be found in subsequent events at the Nation's Capitol. There, in tbe Senatelof the United States, might be found a sufficient warrant for all that was done, for there, written apon the Senate roll of the Union stood the name of David Turpie as a Senator from Indiana. Applause. If the Chairman of this meeiixg could speak to you he would beg you now and hesceforth to order your political lives in comonance with that of the mighty man whose name all subordinate organizations of the party throughout tbe State have this day adopted. Henceforth let private ambition not run counter to party welfare for the sake of the dear one who never knew a personal ambition that was not allied and tubordlnated to the interest of his whole party. Let faction disappear before the magic of the name of that man who,

while he lived, made faction impossible in the Democratic party of Indiana. And in the contest now about to open, let each one of your hearts grow stouter and your arms grow stronger at the battle for the name and the principles, and against the enemies and detractors of our departed friend and leader, Thomas A. Hendricks." Long and continued applause. A JOIST MESSAGE FROM THE CAPITAL. The following telegram from the Indiana Senators and Kepresentatives in Congress was read and received with great applause: Washington. D C, January 11, 18SS. Eon. John W. Kern, President Mass Meeting Indiana Democracy: We each regret our Inability to be with yon to-day. Imperative duties here could only have prevented it. We congratulate our fellow Democrat of Indiana npon the promising political outlook. Our party lines were never better formed. Upon the main issue of a reform of the tariff we are a unit in agreeing that all o ber quest ons must be made to subs erve to that cud. That ia a contest between systems of taxation a tariff laid for revenue as against one laid for the enrichment of great monopolies. If it shall come to a question of reducing the revenue by either one or the other of thee methods, we pledge ourselves to stand by the true Democratic idea of a tariff for revenue, la'd as far as possible upon the luxuries of life, and feel prepared to go to the people in the coming campaign npon the Issue as admirably outlined in the President's recent message. We are glad to assure you that upon minor and collateral questions our party will be found united. Tbe administration of Grover Cleveland is a success, and the people are anxious to give it an emphatic indorsement. D. W. VOORHEES, D. Turpie, w. 8. Hoi.man, C. C. Matson, W. D. Byxcm, J. G. HOWABD, J. II, O'Neai.i, B. F. 8H1VELY, EDITOR WATTERSON BEG RETS. . Louibvillk, Ky., January 11. Leon O. Bailey Esq., Indianapolis, Ind.: I deeply regret that I cannot be with you tonight. My most earnest sympathy is with your movement, and i shall watch its development with every increasing interest in the coming political battle. Ieipect to see New York and Indiana again linked together and leading the Democratic column to victory. Hejjry Watterson.

a lettes from governor hill, State of New York, .Executive Chamber. Albany, December 2S, 1687. lDlctated.l Gentlemen: I received, some days ago, your most cordial letter, conveying to me, on behalf of the Hendricks Club, an invitation to attend a grand rally of the young Democracy of Indiana to be held at Indianapolis January 11, 188. I have delayed my reply in the hope that it would be possible for me to join with you in forwarding the admirable spirit of activity you evince in organizing for our next great political battle. The pretent is the time to form the lines and to occupy the higher ground. "In the time of peace prepare for war" is even better applied to political contests than to those to determine mere physical supremacy. It wouid Indeed give me much satisfaction to express in person some sentimmtsof this character to my personal and political friends in Indiana, but the Legislature of this State will be in session at tbe time of your celebration, and this, and other imperative engagements made for January, compel me to forego that satisfaction. With hearty appreciation of the courtesy extended, and trnstirC' that your meet'ng may be In every feature a complete success, I am, Very truly, yours, David B. Hill; MESSAGE FROM TAMM ANT'S LEADER. House of Representatives TJ. 8., " Washington, D. C, January 7, 1&6S. f My Dear Sir: l have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 4th inst., and to thank you for the compliment which you have conferred upon me by inviting me to address a mass-meeting called by the Hendricks Clnb at Indianapolis. I regret very much that It will be utterly impossible for me to make a journey to the West during tue present month, as my proiessionai engagements in New York are already so pressing that it is witn the utmost diiliculty I can pay any attention to my Congressional duties. I nm glad that ihe Hendricks Club is sensible of the feelirg which Tammany Hall has always entertained for tbe illustrious statesman whose name is borne by your organization. The bond which connected Mr. ileudrickswith the Tammany Democracy was the unswerving devotion to l is ynrty which he always Maintained in defeat, snd which he never forgot in success. I earrestJy hope that his memory will be treasured with equal aSection in New York and Indiana, and that the Democracy of these two Buttes will forever remain inspired bv his example, and bound together by the same political principles, and that for many years to come tbey w ill be permitted to rejoice at the triumph of their common political faith. I have the honor to be, Very sincerely jours, W, Boubke Cockran, Leon O. Bailey, Tsq., Indians pods, Ind. After reading the foregoing. Major Jewett, in behalf of Chairman Kern, proceeded to Eay: "The man who will now address you needs no introduction to the people of Indiana. His brave and kindly face is familiar to every one of you.' EX-SENATOR M'dOKALD Stepped forward and waa greeted with tremendous applause, which lasted for several minutes. When quiet was restored he spoke as follows: Gentlemen This timely meetfng'of the leading men of the Democratic party of Indiana cannot fall to have an Important bearing upon tbe politlial contests of the year, and the result of our deliberations is looked for with more than common Interest by the people of the whole country. The issues that are to enter into the political canvass ofU&äare already beginning to be clearly defined. The discussion of them In detail would require more time tban it would be proper for me to accupy on this occasion. Chief among them is the one the President in his late messase baa se clearly placed before the Congress of the United (states and the people. And it grows oat of the fact that there is a large and Increasing surplus of money in the treasury of the United Btates, arising from overtaxation. It is to tnis condition of our affairs and to the issues growing out of them that I will claim your attention for the brief timel shall address you to-night. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury made to the Congress now in session Informed the country that the national revenues for the f seal j ear ending June so, 1887, exceeded any present demand upon the Treasury by THE SUM OF 1103,000,000. and after deducting the amount to be placed to the credit of the sinking fund, there stiU remained the sum of $56,000,000 ot unemployed money; that the receipts for the present fiscal year ending on the 30th day of next June, received and estimated, would probably reach the sum of IllS.COO.OCO: deducting the sinking fund of Si7,0CO,C0O would leave 06.000,000 of unemployed money to be added to the amount already there of the last year's revenue, making the enormous sum of Jfl22,0C0,000 that must Lie idle in the Treasury out of circulation, contracting the currency, depleting the arteries of commerce and threatening a financial panlo, or be loaned to the banks without interest, or be Invested in conds, not now due or payable, at a premium on the bonds almost equal to the amount that would be due cf principal and Interest when the bonds shall become due. And, furthermore, the revenue laws which had caused these results were still on the statute book in full force, and would there remain, adding daily and hourly to this anomalous, oppressive and threatening condition of our financial affairs until Congress should modify or repeal them. THE DETERMINATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY To maintain the system of high tariffs and excessive taxation which the public necessities during the war period had enabled it to fasten upon the country, had, before the present time, given out clear premonitions of the danger we were approaching, and the President had not 'ailed in his annual messages to cail the attention of Congress to the necessity of providing nrnrier relief: but. as the revenue laws remalned unchanged , notwithstanding the Execu tive recommendations, on tne assembling of the present Congress, the President in plain and urmistataole terms placed the whole subject before it and relieved himself and his Administration from all responsibility for its continuance by pointing out in the clearest possible manner the wrong of overtaxation, the dangers to which it was leading, and the remedy which in his judrment it was the duty of Congress to apply. After stating the condition of the Treas

ury he turns to the subject of th9 reluctlon of the taxes, states briefly the sources from which our National revenues are derived: namely, from customs duties and our internal excise tax on whisky, malt liquors and tobacco, and recommends tnat täe necessaiy reduction be made on articles of prime necessity, and raw material taxed under the tariff law rather than npon the articles taxed under the internal revenue law, having due regard In tbe reductions to be made to THE INTEREST OF AMERICAN LAEOR. The people of the United States will read this message by their firesides this winter, and as they read it and ponder upon it, it will grow in favor. Thera is no part of it they will not understand. From its opening sentence to its close its language Is too plain, its illustrations are too clear to admit of misconstruction. It popularizes the whole subject, and manv who have heretofore thought and acted with the Republican party will rise from its perusal convinced ol the truth of its statements. As a Etate paper it will take rank with the best onr countiy has produced. Let me call your attention now to a few or the questions that arise out of the state of our afiairs which the mesiage brings so promlnentlv before the public. Even the moot maligant Republican partisan admits that ttie revenue must be reduced. The report ol the Secretary of the Treasurery and the FACTS STATED IN THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE disclose that the reduction can safely be made oi anywhere frcm t'5,C0C,l(0 to flOO.uoo.ooo annually. Tbe Treasury statistics show that the revenue for tbe last fiscal year deiivd from customs duties was in rouDd numbers S.'l.s.COOOO, and from internal taxes flU.OOj, 000. That the estimated revenue from customs far the present fiscal year, will be 8223,000 000, with a corresponding Increase from internal taxes. Suppose we say. for safety, that the reduction shall net exceed 175,000,000; if this should all be taken off of customs duties, it will stiU leave something over aiöC.COO.COO to be raised by the tariff tax. The ad valorem rate of last year's collections was something over 47 per cent, on dutiable goods that is, on the 450,000,000 on dutiable goods imported last year, there was collected in actual taxes tiis.cco.ooo, which, to be exact, is 47.13 per cent. If you collect 1150.000,000 off of the same amount of imports, the per cent, will be about 30 ad vaiorum. Now, if youjadjust this duty as the President suggests, so as to do no injury to American labor, it is as much ota buiden as the consumers of this country ought to be required to bear, and it would give all the protection that ought to be demanded. INCIDENTAL PROTECTION. Is a necessary consequence of the form of taxation by customs duties, and more than that, is class legislation in its worst form. The power to tax is one of the necessary powers of any government, but it is not without limit. It can only be rightfully exercised to tbe extent necessary td meet what are properly governmental expenses. The taxing power ia vested in the Congress of the United States by the Federal Constitution, in the loiiowing language: "The Congress stall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts snd excises." And the purpose for which this may be done is set foith In the following language: "To pay the public debts and to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." This is sometimes called the "general welfare clause."

and under it men have sought for a warrant to do almost anything that a majority in Congrets migbt desire. But no fair minded man, and certainly no Democrat, can iosist that money raised by taxing the whole people can be used for the special benefit ot certain classes, or that taxes can be laid under tbe pretense that it is for the "general we'fare of the United State when the object is not to raise revenue at . as ia the case with all protection tariff. In recommending a reduction of taxes ana suggesting that It should be chiefly made upoa enstoms duties, the President specified some of the articles oi prime necessity which be thought might be thereby cheapened to the people and others that, by taking off the governmental burthens, might benefit onr manufacturing interests, and for this he hss been asiled by the politicians and press of the Republican party with a malignity seldom known in party warfare. The most noted review or attempted review of the President's recommendations from a Republican standpoint that hss thus far appeared, is the care fully prepared speech of Senator Sherman, delivered in the Senate last week. Btnator Shernan is tbe undoubted parliamentary leader of the Republican party, and is a man of commanding ability, but he is sometimes a statesman, and more often a politician, and this lsst effort exhibits him in the latter charsctcr. It is SINGULARLY UNFAIR AND MISLEADING. But I shall not have time to more than briefly refer to some of Its salient points. It starts out by attempting to ridicule the idea that redund ant taxation is any special evil, and oharges the President witn disbeliet in the fears he has expressed because he did not call an extra session of CoDgress, admits JJcally that the taxes ought to be leduced, and with an air of sincerity exfireesfs his readiness, as a Senator, at any time n tbe pest to have united with tne House in ccnect ngthe "unjust inequalitiesof the tariff" if tbe House had only sent any kind of a revenue bill to the Senate for its action. And vet no man knows better than the distinguished Senator himself tfcat throughout tbe last congress a large majority of the Democrats of the Home, under tbe leanershlp of the Chairman of tbe Committee on Ways ana Means, aided by tbe Speaker, were unremltiing in their efforts to have the question of a reduction of the tariff considered, and that the whole political force of the Bepnblican party In the House, aided by a few Democrats, some of whom voted against consideration ia tbe belief that no favorable action would be taken in the Senate, and some, as representing what they regarded as the sentiment of their districts on the subject of protection, defeated the very action wbich tbe Senator now complains was not taken. I think it is fair to assure e that if Senator Sherman had expressed to his friends in the House the desire he now manifests he could have had the opportunity at any time during the last Congress to have redeemed tbe pledge his party had made at Chicago. But it Is evident he did not desire it. It is equally evident tb at he does not now believe there are any such unjust inequalities in the tariff of 13, as Is charged by the Republican Iplatloim, adopted at Chicago. On the contrary his speech is a bold defense of the principles and policies imbedded In that tariff. And even in its details he sees nothing to object to, and while he exprei ses his readiness to unite with tbe President in increasing the free list, be can think of nothing that ought to be on the free list that is not already there. He is quite willing to reduce any dnty that may be found to be too high, but can see no articles that will safely bear a reduction without injury to "domestic industry." I, too, believe in FOSTERING AND PROTECTING DOMESTIC INDUSTRY. But the Senator's methods and mine are very different. He believes in protection, so called, a system which necessarily limits the growth of cur manufacturing interests by confining them to a heme market, and by shutting ont foreign competition, enabling those who are engaged in any particular branch of business to limit the productions by combinations among themselves and raising the price upon the consumer. The Standard Oil monopoly is a striking illustration of this. Another striking example may be found under which many poor people are now sutTering, in a monopoly la coal. We have in the United States three-fourths of aU the coal treasures in the world, yet we have s protective tariff against the other fourth to shut out competition. It migbt be an interesting, and I know it would be a painful mission, to go through the bouses of tbe poor of Indianapolis, to see how many are shiveringwith cold because of tne high price of fuel caused by the out-put being limited by the grinding monopoly of this country aided by the so called pro tective system, cut noiwiinstanaing tne cavalier manner in which Senator Sherman is Inclined to treat the President's warning as to the probable result of CONTINUED OVERTAXATION. He finally admits that a reduction of taxes, or rather a reduction of revenue, is necessary, and the manner In which he proposes to accomplish it may be taken as containing tbe Republican plan as opposed to the President's recommendation. He would strike at the whole system of the Internal taxes, but especially the tobacco tax. And to do this he invites the aid of the traditional dlsllxe of the people to excise laws, well knowing, with constantly increasing expenditures, that a very high tariff will Le necessary it the internal tax laws ars repealed. But if the whole law cannot be repealed, and tobacco alone can be set free, he baa found one article on the dutiable list of imports upon which he il willing to make a reduction ol one half the present duty, not, however, with a view to reduce the burthens of taxation, but to Introduce his pet theories of protection in another form that Is, to pay out directly from the Treasury of the United fetates the amount of the reduction in bonnties. That I may not be accused of misrepresenting the distinguished Senator, I will quote from his speech as found in the ren. ord just what he says on this point It is as follows: "I believe in protecting aU home Industries w ithout respect to section, to place or manner of production, whether on the farm or ia tbe workshop; but if protection is not the object of the law and surplus revenue is the great

ev'l to be dealt with, why not give relief to out peop'ebya reduction of the tax on sugar; tha effort to produce sugar in this country In quan titles at all approaching the demand has failed, tbough protected by rates among the highest; imposed by oar tariff laws. Still, in view ot the hopeful prospects of producing sugar fro ex. beets and sorghum cane, as well as sugar cane' I would not cripple this industry by reducing protective duties except by giving the proauc ers of domestic eugar a bounty equal to the reduction of duty on tbe imported article." Just preceding this sentence quoted he ha I sugcested a reduction of one-half the present duty on sugar, which, according to his tables WOUld BEblCE THE RKVESVE t2S.fcW,000, 80 W& have the broad proposition to reduce the revenue $ia,20,0(X by taking off one-half the present duty on sugar and then to take an equal amon it out of the Ireasury to be paid in boantie to "producers of domestic sugar." I do not k.. that tnis ia much worse than the indirect bou ties which a protective system entails on er tax-payer, but I do know, or think I know, r it if this suggestion of Fenator Sherman's she-. Id be adopted, we should enter upon a sys--nx of bounties direct, under which the people ot the United States will soon be called upon to? bear a burtLcn of taxation more lntolertoiei than any known in any civilized quarter of tha globe. It is a favorite method of the Republican party" in deknse of their cherished doctrines of pro tection to charge any attempt made to reduear tariff taxes as an attack upon the labor lntereotsi of ibe country and as being hostile to the work ing claf-se$, when nothing could be more fore'sn to the truth. The Democratic party has alwayal been tbe friend to the laboring man. Its mottr has ever been "Kqual and exact justice to alC men; exclusive privileges to none." Andforj myielf. if 1 believe that either its'principlc 0C it practices were detrimental to the labor Inter ests of the country, I have independences enough to denounce It and leave it; but my judgment tells me the best way to build up anstrengthen the industries of the country Is tor open up anal extend the sphere of their operations, and to carry their products into nev markets. And the best guarantee to GOOD WAGES AND STEADY EMPLOYMENT Is to increase the demand for labor by giving; tbe products of labor tbe world for a market. This cannot be done under the so called protective system. Protected industries arc? "hot house plants," they have noa the roots or branches for a healthy audi, vigorous growth, and can only flourish in tha narrow limits and In the artificial soil in whici they have been planted. They do not becoma hardy by lapse of time, but require the constant: and increasing care of their protestors. It wii soon be one hundred years since the Government of the United States waa formed under the Federal Constitution, and soon after its form ttion a tariff law was passed, partly for revenuo and partly, as was said to protect our "infant industries." The highest rate of duty in that tariff did not exceed fifteen per cent., and tha average duty was only about seven per cent. And now, at the end ot a hundred years, these same "infant industries" it ia Claimed, cannot live without the protecting power of the tariff, with an average rate of duty of forty-seven peff cent, and running to over one hundred per. cent There must be SOMETHING RADICALLY WRONO In such a system. The advancement and weal tlx

of the country is measured not by what it produces and consumes, but the amount and value of its productions which are sent abroad foe others to consume. In looking into our reports of domestic merchandise, we find that ont of the f706,CGO,CCO sent abroad last year, lesslhaa nineteen per cent, of the amount was made up of domestic xr anufactures, while over eighty per tent, were products of the soil. And of tho meager smount of onr domestic manufactures which were able to enter a foreign market muds the largest portion was from toe shopsof one unprotected industries. In view of all these facts, would ft not be well to begin in a moderate degree, at least to adopt a different policy by taking off some of the burdens that add so muca to tbe cost of domestic manufactures in the shape of high tariffs on machinery -and implements of trade, upon tbe raw material used and npon the clothing which the workmen and their families must wear, and thus ine ae tbe pur chasing power of tbe wares received, so that, in time, and, I believe, In no far distant time, our country may become one of the great work shops of the world, nntil its products of manu factures sent abroad shall equal, if not surpass, our surplus products of the soil upon which we now almost wholly rely to maintain our foreign commerce. A few words In regard to tbe system of inter nal taxes, and especially to the tax on tobacco. With whatever prejudice we may look upon the system of excise taxes and I have felt them aa much as any one you may rest assured that the age has gone by when we can alone rely npon the tariff taxes for our national revenues. W hat it was comparitively easy to do when the amount of governmental expenditures for the whole yesr, as in 160, did not exceed SOO 000,000. cannot be aone in the year of lS8, when the smount disbursed for pensions alone exceeds $75,C00,0C0: and therefore, as the system of direct taxes provided in the Constitution is impracticable, the Internal EXCISE TAX HAS COME TO STAY, And as we emancipate our "domestic industries" from tbe hot house of protection and Elace them in the open air, where they will ave rcom to grow, our revenues from customs' duties will fall off and become less certain, and in the end our national revenues will have to mainly depend on internal taxes. In the meantime, if, when the proper reduction is made la our tariff tax. there is stilt more revenue Hkeiy to be raised than the actual wants of tbe Government require, I am very willing to see tha tax on tobacco reduced or wholly repealed ; not that I regard it as entitled to be classed with "tea coffee and sugar." nor that the Government should do anything to specially encourage its consumption, but because It la one of the products of our soil and enters largely Into domestic and foiefga trade, and should not bear any unnecessary burdens. I do not believe in taxes, except as a Government necessity, and would: gladiy abolish all, if the Government had other means of providing for its expenses less onerous to the people. As to the campaign of 1533, it is morally C ertain that the National Democratic Con vet tion will nominate Grover Cleveland without opposition and by accamation, and I believe he will be re-elected by a triumphant majority. His first nomination was an experiment; his second nomination will be on full information and approval. And on the record of his administration and the platform contained in his late message, no Democrat can doubt of success. And with success the future of the Democratic party is assured, for the Republican party w ill never be able to make another stand in a National contest Mr. McDonald's remarksfwere interrupted Eeveral times by cheering, and his speech was pronounced by many to have been one of tbe ablest ever delivered by that Democratic veteran. When the applause which ensued after the speech of Mr. McDonald had subsided, Mr. Jewett again came to the front and introduced the next speaker, by.'saying: "In the order of exercises the next speaker is our own Governor Gray." Tbe Governor was greeted with deafening shouts. When it became possible for him to be heard, he said: G0VEKK0R G RAT'S SrEECH. Gentlemen If there existed a doubt In tha mind ot any ore as to whether the Democracy of Indiana would be active and enthusiastic in ( tbe coming campaign, the meeting to-day at Masonic Mall, and this immense and enthusiastic audience here to-night have certainly dispelled such doubt, when taken into consideration that there is no ticket yet in the field, and that It will be nearly six months hence before the campaign will open, and consequently a time of no political excitement The assemblage of Democrats on this occasion, In point of numbers and enthusiasm, ;ii without a parallel in the political history of the State. It portends victory for the Democratic party, an.f means that Indiana, at the election, will ba placed where 6he politically belongs. In the column of Democratic States. The Republican party after the election will go down into history as a thing of the past It was conceived in great excitement and cam a into power amidst the clash of arms. It gained? great prestige by being in control of the gov ernment during the war. and carried the elec tions by Immense majorities. When the war? was over It became intolerant prescriptive andl corrupt and proved totally- incapable of adminlsteiing the government in a national tpirit The people saw under Republican rulo the most gigantic frauds and peculations Infest (ng nearly every department of the governmentr the revenues stolen; the public domain lavished; n private corporations, and under the pretext f protecting American industry, a system ot ariff taxation established that has built ur and festered monopolies, enhanced the price ot tbe necessaries of life, caused the importatioa cf contract pauper labor, destroyed the Navy., drove American commerce from the seas, and. wrings from the people to the detriment ot he laboring classes nearly one huni Continued oa Fourth Fage,

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