Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1894 — Page 2

THE INDIANA. STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER '26. 1 89 4.

as It Is always a pleasure, to recount the declarations and deed3 of the democratic party. The Land Qurttioa. Henry George has said that the land question is the "bottom question." How 6tand3 the democratic party on the land question? Before the republican rarty was borry the democratic party had secured for the great republic more land than It pressed when t;:e colonics were wTested from British rule. More land than when the constitution of the government was ratified. The land department of the govern ment gives the total amount of land and water of the republic at 4,000.000 fquare miles. One-half of this area Is 3.000,000 square miles. The democratic party secured for the republic 2.0S1.479 square miles of territory. r 84,479 square miles, more than one-half of the entire area of the republic, or 1,334.076.563 acres, nearly enough to supply 9.000.000 families with a farm of ISO acr?3 each. It requires an effort of the Imagination to grrasp :he sum total of the Immense denial n secured to the republic by the democratic party. My esteemed competitor, Mr. Owen, were he to contemplate for one moment the vastn S3 of the legacy secured to the republic by the democratic party, would experience a sense of dizziness. He would have unrolled before hm a panorama of enpire states, of such stupendous grandeur as would, were he not a republican, extort from him exclamations of patriotic pride and gratitude. What would he behold in the splendid procession of states secured to the republic by the democratic party? Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa and Minnesota west of the Mississippi. Nebraska.. Colorado. Oregon, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, "Wyoming, the Indian territories, Florida, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Texas. I do nit suppose that my distinguished competitor ever for one moment devoted a thou ."hi t the fu'oj?ct. It is to be questioned if he knew hov.' all the land west of the Mississippi was acquired. Republicans do not print, such small matters in their campaign books. But it must not be understood that the republican party Is without a land record. It has that sort of a record, and I refer to it for the satisfaction of my audience and for the information of my competitor, Mr. Owen. I think the republican party claims having added Alaska to the national domain, supposed to contain 573,l0 square miles of ice an! land, besides several square miles of Bering sea, costing: 57,200.0)0. It is to be questioned, however, if even Alaska is to 1 credited to the republican party, as It w.is acquired under the administration of An draw Johnson. But to deprive the republican party of the acquisition of Alaska would make the republican party destitute of land ns a Coxeylte, without so much as a cabbage patch to stand upon In all the wide domain of tliis republic not an Inch of sacred grass upon which to repose. A Land Record to De Aliameil Of. But the republican party has a land record beyond the acquisition of Alaska, for, of the land acquired by the democratic party, as 6con as it secured 'ontrol of the government. It proceeded to give away the national domain, and d'.J not stop until about 155.030.000 acres had been given, away, an area equal to 903,750 farm of ICO acres each. Kuch Is the land record of the republican party. And yet my friend, Mr. Owen, refers to the democratic party out of power at a "theory;" in power, as a "condition." I hiv n t the slightest objection to Mr. Uwcn's hypothesis. Thomas Jefferson had a "theory", of povtrnment. He was p excellence the fjuuder of the democratic party. Politics is said to be the "science of government." Theory 13 science as distinguished from art. It precedes conditions, the avant cjurier of "conditions." Tii? theory of Thomas Jefferson was that th:re should b? no established church in Amrica. 11.3 theory was that men should worship God according to the dlctit'S cf their own consciences. His theory was that nil mm ar? created equal; that there sh uld be no titled nobility; that mn, by virtue of their manhood, should have th? ballot; that there should be no class legislation. And these principle have b?en Intrrwoven Into the policy of the democratic party, and whn In power they have b?n enact?d into constitutions and statute? and are today ths sheet anchors of American liberty. They are th opposite cf republican theories and practices. An Irritating Pimple or n rentllcnce. The republican party out of power 13 an irritating pimple. In power, it Is a pestilence that walketh In darkness, a destruction that wast 3th at noon-day. The republican party cama Into power as a minority party, but It swept along, until in 1S72. when It was crowned with a popilir verdict of 727,075 votes over all opposition. Four years more sptd by, and the campaign of 1S7G Cime, when the American people by their votes decid-d that the republican p.rty in povr wis a pestilence. It had everything In government. The legislativ-, executive and the judicial branches of the government were all at Its command. The country was prostrate beneath its hof. The en?mies of the party, mure numerous than th lizards In th BiaU.c temple of the Sun, were still clamoring for blood and boodle. The republican party had demonstrated to the American people that it was a pestilence. At this junction the democraticparty, sixteen years out of power, but still maintaining its theory of government, off: red to the American people its champions cf democracy, Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks, illustrious names. whoe renown is as fadeless as the st trs, and when the votes were counted those champ:on3 of democratic theories of government hid swept away tht republican majority of 727,975, secured in 1872. and were elected by a popular majority of 2"0,93" votes. The voice cf the American people indorsed the democratic theory of government and decided that the republican pestilence should be abated. The llnyrs Fraud. Then earn? the coloesa!, continental, centennial fraud, by which It. B. Ilaye took the office belonging to Samuel J. Tilden, whici horrified the world, demonstrating that the republican party In power is a pestilence. Time speeds on. and in 1SS0 James A. Garfield, the victim of Conklin and Blaine's madness, a minority president, take3 the helm of state. Poor Garfield. Only kindly words should be spoken of him, a victim of republican pestilence. He was sa-rifieei to adjust republican boodle claims, "and rests well beneath his wll-'. irnxl monument. In 1SS1 the democratic party, cut of power a theory, an 1 in power a condition, eb-cted Grover Cleveland, president, and forever silenced the claims of James G. Blaine to the great office cf president. "Out of power," say3 my competitor, "the dfmoeratic party is a theory." and the election of Grover Cleveland demonstrated that the people. liked the "theory." Mr. Cleveland's first administration wis characterized by unflinching integrity. He would neither Eteal himself, nor allow others to steal. His unflinching rectitude was a matter of universal commendation by friend and foe alike. He reL?ted every V.andlshment which Intimated a raid on th people's money, 1k Id in trust for the nation's benefit. His theory of government was that honty is the best policy, and In power li9 demonstrated that theory and condition in democratic administration of the ovemment are interchangeable terms, meaiun? political soundness and welfare of all the people. But in 18S Gen. Harrison succeeded Mr. Cleveland, but not by the will of the people. Harrison received 5.430.879 votes and Cleveland 5.538,421 votes, or 98,541 more votes than Harrison. Here, again, the republican party In power proved itself a pestilence. When Cleveland retired from the

presidency to give place to Mr. Harrison, it Is an historical fact that he left the treasury of the nation with a hundred miillon dollars surplus, not counting th money on deposit for redemption of the national bank circulation, amounting to $55.000,000. Thl3 vast sum of $155.000,000, left in the treasury when Mr. Cleveland retired and Mr. Harrison was inaugurated, had been squandered by the Harrison administration, and the McKinley bill had cut off the revenues to such an extent that all the surplus was gone. s There was also in the federal treasury one hundred million dollars of gold, held a? a reserve for the redemption of outstanding paper issues at the time Mr. Cleveland gave way to Mr. Harrison. A Bankrupt Treasury. When Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated In March, 1893, he found the treasury bankrupt and drains were being made upon the gold reserve. This caused an issue of bonds for fifty millions of dollars to replenish this reserve and to be used in the payment of pensions and all other current expenditures. Again it Is seen that the republican party In power is a pestilence. In Harrison's administration there was one long, ceaseless riot In the expenditure of the people's money. The treasury was looted and a "billion-dollar congress." under the leadership of Thomas Ii. Reed, saddled upon a. tax-burdened land, obligations which constituted a monumental infamy. Again, in 1892. the people concluded to change the republican pestilence for democratic conditions, giving Mr. Cleveland 372.562 more votes than were reorded for Mr. Harrison (the vote being: For Cleveland. 5,551.143; for Harrison, 5.1T8.5S1: Cleveland's majority over Harrison. 372,562). Fellow-citizens, in what I have said the purpose has been to follow along the track of history; to demonstrate the ultimate verdict of the American people relating to their estimate of the republican party as compared to the democratic party. What was that verdict? Simply this: That the democratic party, whether a theory or a condition (and my honorable competitor may take hl3 choice) is vastly preferable to the republican party, the final verdict being to rescu the government by placing its executive and legislative departments in the hands of the democratic party, where it is today. I am aware thit much that I have said may be referred to as somewhat ancient history, but I am persuaded that, while the Fath;r of Waters rolls his floods to the sea the land record of the democratic party will challtnga the admiration! of the American people, and in showing to what hights of popular favor the republican party were when the cry was "Vote the way you shot," and to what depths of perfidy It descended to retain power against a nation's condemnation, I have recited facts of the highest concern now, when the republican party hopes here and there to obtain an office of some sort by wild and senseless defamation of the democratic party. . My distinguished competitor for the office of secretary of state some weeks ago opened his campaign at Peru, and It was reported that he opened It ander "auspicious clrcumstaneea." He had b?en weeks In training and had developed his intellectual muscle and brain power to such an extent that as the champion of hia party it was deemed Jus' the thing to escort him to the opera house with a brass band, playing, I conjecture, "Tra-la-la Boom-de-aye." When the campaign k over the. "auspicious . circumstances" end the "brass band" will have disappeared and my competitor will have ample leisure to recuperate his wasted energies and wonder "where he is af." I think I remember to have retd a gentle hint that it would be the part of wisdom for me to avoid my competitor's campaign and eye-opening address, because it was only one of a brood to be hatched as the campaign proceeded, and I may be charged with great temerity for alluding to it. but, having read the production, I experienced no great strain on my courage m any attempt I may mako to wrestle with it. I notice with complacency the opening sentence, as follows: "When a party comes to power in our country It repeals the laws to which it was opposed and coins its own principles Into statutes." Precisely. When the democratic party came Into power, on the 4th of Marth, 133, it proceeded to repeal the Sherman law, a statute so obnoxious that Mr. Sherman, its author, was ashamed of it. The Force Itlll. Then the democratic party proceeded in due form and with commendable alacrity to repeal the republican "force b'.!.," a measure designated by Its author to utterly destroy local self-government. It was a measure that centralized powei on election days in the hands of men, often the scum of the slums, armed them .vith clubs, swords, pistols, guns and bayonets, to over-awe the people at the polls, to Invade and strike down th" rights of the people, to please Fome despot whose purpose was to irrevocably destroy the sacred right of self-government. This statute (a relic of the methods that seated Hays) the democratic party, when the people placed it in power, repealed, and had the act been ihe only act of the lib jrty-loving and tyranny-hating democratic - party, U would have been enough to entitle it to the everlasting gratitude of the American people. My distinguished competitor, when he announced that partir? when they come into power proceed to coin their own principles into statutes, spoke truly of he democratic party, but not truly of the republican rarty, an organization which, when in power having no principles to coin into statutes, proceeds to coin its prejudices into statutes aad to glory In it3 shame. The democratic party, upon its accession to power, as I have shown, was confronted with a looted treasury. Harrison's administration left the government financially wrecked and stranded. The magnificent surplus of $155.0.0.00) left In the treasury by Cleveland had disappeared, whither and by what rou;e, into whose pockets, no one knows. The people contemplated the wreck in blank amazement. When the astounding perfidity of republican financiering became known: when the republican books were opened, and the extent of looting was in part comprehended, and the blow-holes, cracks, plug.3 and other Imperfections, as in Carnegie's steel-plate, -had been discovered, consternitlon, doubts and fears spread like forest fires, and the country felt the full force of the repub-

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And conditions In life, are liable at times, to need an Inxiaorutiujr Tonic: a Regulator of the natural, periodical function, and a Soothing and liraoing Nervine. For this purpose Dr. PisrcB's Faiorita Prescription is tbe ODly medicine so certain in Its curative action that it can be gvaranUt(L Your money is returned if it does not cure. In Maidenhood, Womanhood, and Motherhood, it invigorates and braces up the exhausted, run-down, overworked and delicate: allays and banishes all Nervous Wcaknc6s. Fits, Spasms, Hysteria, Chorea, or tt. Vitus's Dance; corrects all unnatural irregularities of monthly function and cures Periodical Pains, Wcakm-gsra, wearing uown sensations, lintkachu. Catarrhal Inflammation, Ulceration and kindred maladies. For those about to become mothers, it is a priceless boon, for it lessens the pains and perils of childbirth, shortens "labor" and the period of confinement. and promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. llcan pestilence. The people said: "The republican party has looted the treasury of $153,000,000. It has fastened upon the people the unspeakable outran of a billion, dollar congress. It has not only looted the treasury, but has aimed a deadly blow at the credit of the nation. The Infamous Sherman law Is steadily stealing away the gold reserve whl?h enables the government to maintain the partly of Its currency. It has enacted a tariff law spreading like a Chinese wall, shutting out imports and destroyIn? the revenues, and now the only thing left Is to hold on to what money we have on Jiand. 'every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. " As a result, the strong banks held on to th.dr cash, and the weak banks and those which had been manas-ed by scoundrel for years, were wrecked. Industries were paralyzed. Commercial houses tumbled down, ps if by the tramp of an earthquake, and the land was filled with idlers and armies of Cox?yites and "Wealers" wore seen tramping on to Washington, the forlorn and wretched victims of republican policy in government, for which policy 99 per cent, of thse poor unfortunates had been voting for thirty years. Rcpnbllrnns Iteaponalble for It All. It has been said, and truthfully said, "that not a mill has ceased from grinding; not a factory has stopped Its wheels; not i furnace has barked its fires; not a Coxey army has set out on Its march of woe; not a riot has been preeipitat- d; not a strike has been declared on; not a mortgage has been foreclosed on a farm; not a merchant has made an asssignment; not a railroad has gone into the hand of a receiver; not a man anywhere has been thrown riut of employment" monei of these thirds has happened that has not been due to republican policy and republican Law, and every one of them ha3 brought hope to the republican chieftains. We witness the appalling and unpatrloüc sight from day to day and week to week of the republican press and republican politicians exulting with Joy whenever the announcement was made that a business man or firm had failed or any Institution of capital had been forced into retirement. That tells the story. The legislation of the republican party and the looting of the treasury by the republican party, the billion boodle congress of the republican party, were the chief factors in bringing upon the country the calamities under which it groans, and under these calamities the republican marvagcra are now chuckling, because they think they are making it appear that the democratic party is responsible for them because it did not sooner wipe the McKinley tariff Iniquity from the. statute books of the nation. My esteemed friend, Mr. Owen, ventures the assertion that the bare fact that the democratic party wa3 in control of the government and possessed t)he power to enact its prlncilpes into law has been sufficient to reduce the Income of the wage worker 20 per cent. My friend se -ms to be a student of fiction rather than of fa.t. He makes bold assertion. He forpets that the McKinley bill provided protection to the iron industries; that one of lis p:-ts was Homestead, where Carrvie mide his millions, and that, while b ing the beneficiary of protection himself, he demand ?d that the wages of his men should be reduced, tnd, to carry out his scheme, provided appliances, first, to scald his men with hot water, to kill them with electricity and to murder them with guns in the hand3 of Plnkertns. The republican plutocr.it, now shown to be a republican thief, was the pet of the republican party, , nd he carried out the republican policy ..f birfch!? mn of honest wages and pocketing the boodle, and there Is not a protected republican industry in thti land the proprietor of which has not pufsu-d this same cut-throat pKcy towird the wage-worker when the opportunity offered. The only protection th was. worker had against the rapacity of the McKinley protected plutocrats was the workingmen's organizations. the trades unions of the country. The McKinley infamy protected th? coal barons, but the coal hirns. true to the republican policy, first imprt?d pauper 1 ibor to exile American labor from th? mines and reduce the wages of the victims of their perfidy until Pennsylvania, in. der republican protection, b-.-c.ame the center of degradation, poverty, squalor, starvation and beastly debasement, such as could be found in no other lind beneath th2 stars. TJie IMedKC Fnl filled. The democratic party in power decided to reform the tariff, ta abrogate the McKinley infamy, and this the democratic party has done. It has fulfilled its pledge to th2 people. My esteemed competitor, in opening hi3 mouth to open hi3 campaign, 13 so Inflamed with love for the McKinley monstrosity that his perceptions of truth and its opposite are so mixed that he is led to misstatements which entity him to admission t3 the Ananias club. He say3 th? democratic party has increased the duty on undershirts 'and drawers of th? laboring men. Uy reference to the democratic tariff law it 1? found in schedule "K," woolen goods, that all knit wearing apparel under the McKinley infamy was taxed an average ad valorem duty of 94.03 per cent, and under the democratic law 40 per cent., a reduction of 51.09 per cent. In making such a statement my competitor has no fear of any Ojd before his eyes, not even a Chinese jo?s. He does not seem to care a fig whether he ever get? into the Idiar'stlan heaven or remains out. lis wants to be secretary of state, and if h? can get in by th? undershirt route by misstating th? facti he can felicitate himself by quoting a republican proverb tiv.t "mendacity ha3 it3 victories as certain' a? vtraclty." The insurmountable difficulty in the way of republican stumpers is that th? McKinley bill 13 dead dead a3 a mummy and that putrefaction set in so quickly that the monstrosity cannot be embalmed. The thing has no redeeming features. It aroused universal detestation. It wa3 a robber tariff, a buncoing tariff. It robbed the poor and gave the proceeds to the rich. It is dead now. There ia no resurrection for it. And the republican stumpers. Including my distinaruished competitor, unwittingly are reciting the old song, "Hark from the Tomb3." My competitor in mournful numberä recites what the importer said about stocks and bankruptcy, a species of Mother Goo3e philosophy. He ought to have consulted Wanamiikcr, the great Philadelphia importer, who is astonishing the nation by his advertisiments. showing accruing blessings as the result of th death of the McKinley bill. , And. as Mr. Owen facetiously remarks. "Every citizen whose intelligence Is on speaking terms with .his mouth assents to the fact" that the death of the McKinley bill and the paseaga of the democratic tariff law are unspeakable blessingj to the country A Triumph for Tariff Reform. The trouble, with the republican stumpers, Including my distinguished competitor, la that the democratic con

gress was not sufficiently expeditious In killing the McKinley bill. In this I agree with them. Th people, by n tremendous majority, had tried and condemned the McKinley highway robber, their verdict was Death, and congress should have guillotined It at once, instead of torturing it to death. Devilfish though it wi3, every republican in congress pleaded for it and succeeded In prolonging It3 criminal existence The democrats, however, finally succeeded In sending it to the morgue. I confes3 that the democratic tariff lawcould have been mad? still better, but the fact that it is a vast Improvement upon the McKinley bill must be accepted as a splendid triumph for tariff reform, i The extent of thi3 reform is shows in the various schedules; there are 115 group-s of articles upon which the tax reduction i3 100 per cent.; there are seven groups of articles upon which the tax 13 reduced frcm 75 to 100 per cent.; there are 110 groups of articles upon wh!c2a the tax 13 reduced from 50 to 75 per cent; there are 358 groups of articles upon which the tax i3 reduced from 25 to 50 per cent., and 237 groups of articles upon which the tax Is reduced les3 than 35 per cent.; a total of 847 group3 of articles upon which the reduced taxation ranges at from less than 25 per cent, to 100 per cent.; besides, Soere are fifty-three groups of articles upon which the tax reduction range3 from 194 to 5C3.68 per cent. I desire to remind my distinguished competitor that the democratic reform tariff proposes to tax the incomes of the millionaires; the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts. the Huntingtons et al. Those plutocrats demand, and rightfully, the protection of the government, but howl like dervishes when asked to contribute their fair share for the support of the government. But under the democratic reform tariff they will pay something in the neighborhood of $30,000.000 from the hoarded wealth that the poor may be to that extent relieved of crushing burdens. It 13 another splendid exemplification of democratic policy to adjust taxation for the suiport of government upon lines of equal justice to all. I submit that this Is tariff reform. Every reduction of the tax lifts a burden from the shoulders of the people. It tells wdth commanding emphasis that the democratic party will not permit, if it Is possible to prevent, the republican outrage of taxing the poor for building colossal fortunes for the rich. I am by no mean? ainaware of thehullabaloo republican stumpers. Including my esteemed competitor, are making about the sugar trust schedule and the sugar schedule. I have no disposition to ignore the subject. Let me state thx case. Three Traitors. The senate of the United States is ecm posed of eishty-eifrht members. Of them forty-one are rated democrats, thirty-nine repubicans, and three populists. Of the forty-one democrats there are three who. In the supreme hour of trial, went over to the republicans, and by their treason prevented the full consummation of democratic hope. That Is the whole story in a nut shell the one thing and the only thing upon which the republican party hangs a hope of success. They quote ad nauseam the startling and stirring words of President Cleveland to demonstrate the perfidy of the men who, when the, .democratic party was ready to grasp tha full fruition of victory through their treason, like deadly blight, Intervened and blasted the patriotic aspirations of their party. Their fealty was fahe pretense. They had their price, have pocketed their boodle and each will receive the costly peltlngs of honest indignation from the democratic party. The democratic party is no more responsible for their treason than was George Washington responsible for the treason of Arnold, or the world's Redeemer was responsible for the treason of Judas Iseariot. Byron said that Freedom's battle, oft beg-un. Bequeathed from bleed: ng sire to son, Though baffled oft, j evxr won. The democratic party in contending for tariff reform was not defeated. Treason did not demoralize i's councils, did not stampede Its chivalrous representatives. Over all opposition, it carried through,' a reform tariff measure, monumental of it? fidelity to platform and pledges Their shibboleth, "Down with the McKinley robber tariff." "was heard always ringing clear above the din of battle, and down it came. The cry "Free raw materials" was never hu'hcd during all thtlong and weary contest, and whe.a the hammer fell eP'hty-n'.ne groups of articles have been transferred from the dutiable to the free list, including such articles as lumber, binding twine, salt, wool and hld. I have tiot the time nor am I inclined to discuss the Incalculable advantage to the people to be derived by free raw materials. I will, however, refer to a few of them. IlindiiiK Twine. Take, for Instance, the article of binding twine uspd by the farmers of the country, uir:t which the McKinley bill levied a practical prohibitory t?x of 6.47 per cent, al valorem. The Importations in 1?W amounted to 25.CS4 pounds, valued at ?3.S;:3. or 10.7 cents per pound. ThL P;.'o7 cpnts ws taxed 6.47. leaving the inurter 4. 32 c.itf? per pound for his time, less freight and commissions; leaving him, possibly, 4 cents a p und for hii time. The farmers of Indiana use. on an average, p.;und. of thl3 binding twine a year, for which they pay a:a a.rage of 10 eentj a pound, or $7lK0 'O a year. They ou?ht to purchase their twin? for 5 cents a pound, ""perhaps less, and now that the robber tax is abolished the farmers of Indiana ought to save in this U'-m of binding twine about $400,000 annually. I invite Mr. Owen to wrestle with the figures, and he is under "bindIn x" obligations to "twine"' around them and the plow boy to whom he allude-, ant the roaperboy, and the farmers' boys generally, and the fanner himself will help him "twine." I desire to mvite the attention cf my distinguished competitor to the subject of salt. Yea. Give Him More Suit. If he would take in more salt and less salts he would be more instructive. The UnPed States manufactures some salt, but not 'enough. Salt is a universal necessity, almost as essential as air oi water. To tax it is cruel, savage . To deny the people cheap salt is an infamy of immense proportions and aggregations. That is just what the republican party has been guilty of. It appears that in IS93there was imported into the United States 312.123,674 pounds of salt, valued at $512,594.87, upon which a tariff tax wa3 levied and collected of $301.933.60, or an average ad valorem duty cf 5S.73 per cent. This republican tariff tax was designed to rob the millions that the money might flow into the pocket3 of salt plutocrats. Salt is more important than sugar. Men can live without sugar; they perish without salt. The republican party weep3 copiously over sugar, but for salt there Is no brine in their eyes. The democratic party ha3 placed salt on the free list. It is a grand old party, the salt of the earth. Tt has all the preservative Qualities of salt. Free Lumber. I am greatly delighted with the democratic tariff because It has placed lumber on the free list. Considering - the Incalculable importance of lumber in the splendid march of our civilization In the building of cities and homes, and the ten thousand other things for which lumber is used, the statesmanship that rescued lumber from the grasp of ths barons of the forest and give free lumber to the people surpasses exaggeration. As I have glanced over the schedule, noted ' th3 spars, timbers, hewed and squared, the millions of feet of lumber, clap-boards, hubs, laths, pickets, sningle, etc., imported because required by the people to carry forward thiir enterprises, I have been amazed at the bdnd atupldlty of the .republican party in continuing the spoliation of the people, hav

ing taken from them in th? way of tariff tax in the year 1S93 $1.151.8S3. that lumber barons might increase their wealth at the expense of every man in the nation who used anything made of wood. " But the stupendous fraud no longer rxt!t an a r-.-'a "hn p - c-jjo he fu.l meaning of the relief from the lumöcr r .uu..., wn t.h Uit day tne democratic party cam? Into power. The more I examine the free list, enacted by the democratic party, the greater is my admiration cf it3 devotion to the welfare of th? p?opl?. Free Hides Mrnn Cbenper Shoei. Take, for instance, the item of hides, from which leather Is manufactured. Then consider the seventy millions of our people who must wear shoes. Free hides mean cheaper leather and cheaper shoes for the people. In 1893 we imported 6.494.611 pounds of hide, upon which the McKinley robber tariff Imposed a tax of $37.419. What cared the republican party for the necessities of the poor? Whether they were shod or went barefooted? It i3 changed now. Free hides secur? cheaper leather, and cheaper leather will enable our manufacturers not only to give the people cheaper shoes, but to compete with other nitions in the markets of the world. Free raw material, and therefore, cheaper raw material, is the supreme demand of the Industries of the country. Men of brains, broad-gauge men. free from partisan bigotry, comprehend. If the country is to be redeemed from the cur3 of McKinleyIsm and republic .n malfeasance in office, that taxation must b? reduced and that industries must be vitalized by giving minufactur.ng enterprises a chanc? to enter th? markets of the world with their wares. Hence the imperative demand for free wool. In 1593 we imported 173,633,441 pounds of wool, for which a tax wa3 levied and collected of $3,543,206. The importation demonstrated the fact that our woolen manufacturers required th? wool and, hid they been relieved of the tax, could have Increased their output, given employment to more persons and competed with other nations in foreign markets. I have ben. as I have glanced over the opening speech of my distinguished competitor, amused at his grasp of economical questions. His reference to favors shown the South in peanuts, etc., gives the measurement of his calibre. If he still hates the South and thinks he can win by the old-time squeak, h? should remember that the war has been over for the third of a century and that a McKinley boodle blost is not the sort of a note now required in Indiana. Difference of Opinion. Another thing that attracted my attention ia my distinguished competitor's declaration that three millions of idle men

In this country, as he estimates the num-1 ber, do not want cheap goods, cheap hides, cheap shoes and clothes, nor even cheap food. Wanamaker, Harrison's postm ister-general. dtffers with my distinguished competitor. Cheap goods, he says, are ju3t what the people want, not oniy th? idle, but those who ar? at work. And Wanamaker Is supplying the goods. My d.stinguished competitor seems to be of the opinion that the people of Indiana want cheap talk rather than cheap binding twine, salt, lumber and wool, and he 13 giving them that sort of free raw material which he spins out as If he were a spider constructing a net to catch flies. This is a greit country, but my distinguished competitor cannot se? it. There are seventy millions of people in the country, but my distinguished competitor, looking through hi3 McKinlsy spectacles, sees only those who have been protected by the McKinley robber tariff, and because th? McKinley devilfish is dead and its tentacles can no longer do any mischief he weeps over the corpse. He cannot see that the democratic tariff dates a new era in the commerce, trade and industry of the country. He looks at the southern peanut and will not bo comforted. The democratic Mordecal is in control of the government and republican Hamans are hanging by the neck on scaffolds they had erected for the benefit of the ilemocratic party. Everywhere throughout Indiana democratic hosts are falling Into line under the old banner and every day the clouds that for a time created despondency are disappearing and the skies are growing brighter. From every quarter of the state comes the cheering news of increasing enthusiasm in the ranks of the democratic party. And when election day comes, and the battle Is won, my friend, To.n Taggart, will wire over the country Perry's immortal dispatch, "We have me: the enemy and they are ours," or, "The enemy is dead," and the corpse, including my distinguished competitor, his b en handed over to the undertaker for burial. AN IMf Or.TAN F ARREST. Yonncr Ilofley the Counterfeiter of the Ttveiit j--I)llar Miinnlns Note. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 The arrest last ni-ht of A. F. IJclley, alias Waterman, at Ashley, 111., i3 regarded as a very important C2ptu;e by Chief of tht Secret Service Hazen. The plate wMch he count. rfei.ed (the twcuty-d llar Manning n ate) vets so well calculated to deceive that an Arkansas sheriff, wno mad" the first arrest in the case, sent to the treasury department a genuin note along with one of the counterfeit notes as samples of the counterfeits. The counterfeit had been made !e-s than two months and It is believed that not more than $4.01 were printed. Tne plate was made by a ph oto-engTavinsr process on copper. Young Hotley, wi.o did the work and who is only about twenty-five years old. It is believed, at one time was employed in the bureau of engraving and printing in this city. The Wilsons, who were arrtsted at Jonesboro. Ark.. who were "shoving" the counterfeits, are wealthy stave dealers. They advanced the money for the plant, it L alleged. Younr Ilofley came to grief through a woman. He was traced to Buffalo through h('r and captured on his return to Ashley by means of directions sent to the Buffalo postoffice about forwarding his mail. LOST HIS HAIR. Victim of n. Practical Joke Sues for $100,000. TRIMBLE, Tcnn.. S-pt. 20. Yesterday Jim Harber and others were sitting in front of Simpson's grocery, when Bob Jellow drew a 'sun glass from his pocket and focusscd its lense on Harbor's uncovered head. Th? glass did more than was expected. The concentrated rays d d not reach Harber's scalp, but suddenly his head was a mas3 of Uames, caused by the ignition of th? bay rum on his hiir, he having just come from the barber shop. When his head caught fire he Started to run, but Frank Gordon caught and held him while others extinguished the blaze with their hat3 and handkerchiefs, lie would doubtless ave killed the Jok.-r on the spot had he not ben restrained by friends. Today he brought suit against Jel.ow for $100,000. Physicians siy Harber's head will never be adorned with another suit of hair. Jellow 13 quite wealthy. Ilnll to the Chief." This is half the title of an old song. The balance is, "Who in triumph advances." The public, the prtess and the medical profess on chant this ref-ain as especially applicable to Hostctter's Stomach BUters, chief among American remedies and preventatives for malaria, constipation, dyspepsia, liver complant, nervousness, unquiet sleep, rheumatic twinges, and the troubles incident to advanced age. It Is also universally recognized as a reliable ton.c and appetizer. As a family medicine particularly pu table to emergences it has no equal. The nervous, the feeble seek its aid, and the happiest results folt low. The convalescent, the aired and the infirm, derive infin te benefit from its uss. Against the Influences cf impure air, bad water, unaccustomed food, overwork and exposure it is a genuin preventive.

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While Delegate Clark Was Making His Speech Concerning the Selection of United States Senators. AN INDIRECT CENSURE. Ohio Democrats for Popular Election of Senators. Tom Johnson's Speech a Quiet Thrust at Brice. The Platform Makes a. Demand for Tree Silver and Emphatically Inilornen President Cleveland' Administration A Minority Report Farorlnft Election of United State Senators by Direct Vote of the People Introduced by Frank Hard. "OLiUMBlfs, O., Sept. 19. The den"dtic state convention consumed about four hours today in making an important bit of history. The following ticket was nominated: Secretary of State Milton Turner of Guernsey. Judge of the Supreme Court James D. Erm?t-n of Hamilton. Member of the Board of Pulbic Works Harry B. Keffer of Tuscarawas. State Commissioner of Common Schools Dr. J. A. Leech of Franklin. Th? convention was f'.-w in convening, the all-nifrht Fusion of the committee on resolutions brins re?p"n5ible for the delay. The deroratior.s of the Grand opera house, where the convention was held, were rather m?ager, the pfincipi! display being- a picture of President Cleveland, with an artistic drapery of flags and bunting over the center of the stage. The entrance of Congressman Tom Johnson at the head of the Cuyahoga county delegatlon was the occasion of an outburst of applause that indicated he had many followers among the delegates. Senator Calvin S. Brice came upon the stage from a side entrance, and as soon as hl3 presence was discovered there was a round of applause, but it was not nearly so enthusiastic as that which greeted the free-trade congressman. There were a few fcattered hisses, but they were not so audible as to attract general attention, being drowned in tbe applause. The appearance of Congressman Outhwalte, who took a eat beside Senator Brice. was the occasion for an ovation, precipitated by local admirers. It was 19:43 when tho convention was called to order by Chairman C. D. Crltes of the fciate central committee. Itev S. P. Long, a Lutheran clergyman of this city. Invoked the divine blessing, departing from Üie usual custom by a severe criticism on the presumption of Col. Breckinridge of Kentucky to stand as a statesman and lawmaker. FRAXK HIRD'S SPEECH. SrtTS Free AVool Is the Iteleemlnsr Feature of the Tariff Hill. The Hon. Frank Hurd of Toledo was Introduced as temporary chairman and J. J. McXally of Youngstown as temporary secretary-. Mr. Hurd was received with an outburst of applause. His remarks on the new tariff law were loudly cheered and his denunciation of the A. P. A. wa3 fl33 loudly applauded. He said: "I congratulate you upon assembling In state convention in the first flush of the dawn of a new day of prosperity to the United States. Through Red seas th? business m;n, of this country have pasred, until hpe began to fail and tiespair had seized the managers of nearly every enterprise in the land. For more than twenty year3 tariff reform ?rs had predicted that such a condition must inevitably result frim protection. Restriction of the 'market resulted In over-production of domestic goods. Nor for this condition was the democratic party in any repeet responsible. Whatever disturbance comes throuah reforms must be chirged against ths wrong.s which make reforms necessary, and not against tha reforms themselves. The promise of burincf.s revival h3s come, partly because the element of uncertainty as to what the tariff rates would be has been rrmved. The new law 13 not likely to he modified for feme time by a general revision. But chiefly this result has been produced becau?e the new law is cheapening the exp?rses of living. It proclaims th3 doom of protection In the United States. "Local int?rest3. represented by congressmen who desire popularity with their constituents, often interpose to prevent necessary charges and to prolong a system whieh bestows local favors. These considerations all appeal to the practiral legislator ar.d make necessary, at the beginning of great reforms, a slowness of movement exasperating to the enthusiastic reformer?. For these reasons the new law may not have gone as far as many have wished it. but it goes a long way in the redemption of democratic pledges and reforming our tariff system. It reduces, on an average, the rares of the McKinley law SO per cent. But the chief merit Is to ba found in the fre? list. The people will be saved nearly $45.000.000 a year. The addition of wool to the free list make3 the law the most important statute enacted since the war." Mr. Hurd predicted higber prices f ir domestic wool to the farmer and cheap-er goods to the consumer. In this way free wool, Ire said, was destined to be the great educator of the people on the tariff Question, for very soon they will demand that other articles of foreign trade, so far a:3 it is practicable, shall be brought in free. Coming to the divisions in the party on the tariff question, Mr. Hurd said: "First and foremost, give credit to Grover Cleveland ar.d John O. Cirlisle. Free wool 13 worth more to tariff reform than all ether provisions of the law put together. To their credit. b3 it said, the Ohio democratic members in the house stood firm, every one voting for free wool. When by one word he could have defeated free wool, more credit is due to Senator Brice than to any other influence, or to all other Influences combined." The speaker counseled harmony and further effort to asrree. The different schedules, he said, would require further adjustment in tha interest of free trade. "The Chicago platform declares that protection is unconstitutional and robbery. If that declaration be true, our mission cannot be ended while a protective statute remains." Mr. Hurd closed by saying that he was opposed to the American protective association because it was a secret political society, and such, being organized on political line', are not constitutional, and are violative of the fundamental principle of the United States and the Ftate. "The A. P. A. gave Governor McKinley his majority of 82.000 and the lanre republican majority In Maine," he added. "'We must make It plain that no man can Ibe a democrat and an A. P. A. The Platform. After the report of the committee on permanent organization had been adopted making tha temporary organization per-

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Syiup of Fi;r i for tale by all drug" gists :n 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California I-'ig fyrup Co. only, vrhose name is printed on every package, also the name, fcfyrup of Figs, ünd beine well informed", you will not ccept anv substitute if odered. manent. G?n. E. B. Finley of Bucyrua, chairman of the committee on resolutions, read the report oftbat commltte. which i? as fo'.ows: . The pluf ji Tii praises the efficient, economical and h onest administration of President Cleveland, declares projection a fraud, and. while recoioiizing the benefit of th? reduction of duties on imports just made by congre?5, favors such furth r reduction as can be mad", to the end that purely protective duties be abolished. It declares that the McKinley law caused the buine.s depression, reduced the revenue and led to the necessity for issuing more government bonds. Business failures, strikte, low wag-s, low prices for farm products are enumerated as the result of the McKinley law. Under the new law business is declared to be reviving. "We dissent," siys one plank, "from the president s views on the construction and treatment of the silver question and believe that silver should be restored to the position it occupied as money prior to its demonetization by the republican party, and to that end we favor tbe unlimited free coinage of silver at th legal ratio of IS to 1, and with equal legal tender power." The platform denounces the last general assembly of Ohio, Governor Mo Klnley's administration and the American protective association. It favors liberal pensions, "corrupt practices" law, limiting amount f money to b expended by candidates and a law prohibiting free passes on railroads. The Minority Ileport. The planks Indorsing President Cleveland's administration and declaring- for free silver were each loudly cheered. When the applau-e had subsided the Hon. Tom Johnson submitted the followlnj minority report, signed by six members of the committee: "We favor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, and for the purpose of practically effecting that end, we hereby direct that the democratic state central committee. In issuing the call for the state convention for the nomination of state officers In the yir lS9i. include therein th? announcement that a candidate for United States senator will be named by said convention, who shall receive the support of the democratic members of the legislature thereafter to be elected." As this resoluotion had been discusred and defeated in the m?eting of the committee on resolutions a.s an anti-Briea measure there wa.s considerable demonstration among the Brice men when It was read in the convention. Mr. Johnson spoke bri'fly upon the minority r-p-rt. He said the election of senators by direct vote would bring them closer to the people and cited the case of Senator Palmer of Illinois, who was the lirst democratic senator elected In that state since th war. Clnrk faium nu I'pronr. John J. Clark of Mahoning county fcured the floor as soon as the applause following Mr. Johnson's speech had subsided and threw the convention Into an uproar by stating that worth and ability wtre no longer requ r d in the selection of United States senators, but the main, consideration was the length of the purse. Mingled hisses and applause almost drowned Lie speaker's voice, but at intervals his voice rr.g out clear and decisive. An effort to declar? him out of order was ruled out by Chnirman Hurd. The Hon. Jesse Lewis of Urbana asked the convention to defer the question of electing United States senators by vote of the people for one year, which r.-as met with cries of "No," "XV Ciies for Johnson brought the free trade congressman again to the front and he said he did not believe there was any o:ei?bn for th' ill-fiel'ng which srem d to exist. The Hon. Virgil P. Cline of Cleveland thought the picpl? should be a little nearer to the senate and there was nothing to prevent the people making their wants known to their representatives. James W. Seward came to th? front with an amendment to take the stir. out cf the minority report. This proposed to strike out all whih followed the simple declaration in favor of electing United States senators by d'rect vote. The amendnvnt was stro-gly opposed, but was aü'pted by a vote of 467 to 328. The minority nprt was then made a pTj of the majority report. The free Silver I'lnnU. The frA silver plank was also the source of contention. Seven members of the committee on resolutions, amin? them Tom L. Johnson, Virgil P. Cline, Frank Hurd and Congressman Tearson. submitted the fell owing minority report: "We believe in honest money, the coinage of gold and silver, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. We are opposed to free, unlimited and Independent coinage of silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1. We favor th? coir.ag: of silver under su"h l?glslatie re trictlons .-s will ma ntaln th? circulation of both gold and silver on a parity, and we reaffirm the doctrine cf the national d?mojratic platform of 1S92 upon the subject of currency and money." As the free silver question was switched into the discussion on the senatorial matter there was little diecusslon on It, the minority report being defeated by a vote of 4G8 to 319. The platform as amended was then adopted. Clilcnfro Rapidly i i-otv inn. ' It was generally believed thzt the' Immense number of new buildings erected at Chicago In 1891. '92 and 3. preparatory to the world'a fair, wSuld supply the wants of that city for at hast half a dozen years. 'But It appears that Chicago continues to Increase. During '.h first six months of the presemt year plans for 5,670 ns- buildings were filed and the estimated cost of them was $17,720,000. Hartfci t Times.