Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — DEMOCRATIC PERFIDY. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC PERFIDY.

Gov. McKinley’s Great Speech at Bangor, Me, The Dishonor and Disgrace of the Gorman Bill —A Scorching Review. A Bangor, Me., special to the Assoc ia ted Pi es. Sept. 8. says: Governor McKinley, of Ohio, delivered here this afternoon' what many believe to te the best speech of his life. Today the campaign in this State was closed preliminary to the election,. Monday, and the event was made the occasion of the greatest cutpouring at a political meeting in the b's lory of Di.rchester ccnnty. It was but a straw, perhaps, showing the way the wind is blowing, but the political leaders present declare it to be the forerunner of the largest Republican majority Maine has ever given. ! Long before the hour set for the meeting, the city hall was packed to suffocation. It would hold but 2,500 people, but these in their enthusiasm made up for their enforced lack of numbers. An overflow meeting was held at Y, M. C. A.,hall, at which Governor McKinley delivered an abridged edition of his city hall speech. Hundreds were obliged to stand in both places, but they forgot about their discomforts in their rapt attention to the speaker as he discussed, the National issues of the day. , Congressman Boutelle, who pre- j sided at the city hall meeting, intro- 1 duced the Ohio executive and pro- I tectionist leader in an eloquent ' manner. After paying glowing tributes to James G. Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin, Governor McKinley said: j “The Democratic President and Democratic CongrcsSs have been running the Government for eighteen months, during which time littl' else has been running. Industry ! has been practically stopped. Labor has found little employment, and when emoloyed it has been at great- i ly reduced wages. Both Govern- j tr-ent and people have been draining ‘ their reserves and both have teen ' running into debt. Tab Government has suffered in its revenues and the j people in their incomes.

The total losses to the country in business property and wages are beyond human calculation. There has been no cessation in the waste of wealth and wages. No contentment, brightness, or hope has anywhere appeared- The appeals to charity have never been so numerous , and incessant nor their necessity everywhere so iqanifest. Congress has disappointed the people, trifled with the sacred trust confided to it, exgated distrust and disgust among Constituents, and impaired their investments. 1 Pledged, if platforms mean any- | thing, to overthrow our long-contin- I ued policy of protection, the Demosrats have quarreled and compromised, and, upon their own t.esti- ’ tfiony, have baeii compromised. The i result of their long wrangle is a tar- { iff law with which nobody is satis- ' 3ed. I A law which even those who made it apologize for. A law which the chairman of the ways and means aneff almost, the entire Democratic side of the House condemned by a yea and nay vote only a few days before its passage, affirming their intention in the most j solemn manner not to permit it to be enacted. j A law which all factions of the Democratic party are agreed is the work of a monstrous trust, which Chairman Wilson confessed in the House, amid the applause of his confederates, with deep chagrin, “held j Congress by the throat.”' A law of which the House of Representatives was so thoroughly ashamed that it had no sooner passed it than it made hot haste to seek its immediate amendment by passin g su ppi emen tu ry bi lls wh iclr put their tariffed sugar, coal, lead, iron and barbed wire on the free list, under threats of still further similar assaults on the much disturbed and distressed industries of the country, utterly heedless of the stupendous ruin al ready wrough t . A law which the President condemned before its passage, and from which, when passed, he withheld his approval. A law which was characterized before its passage by the greatest leaders in the Democratic party, the senior Senator from New York, as a “violation of Democratic pledges and principles,” and which was denounced by the official head of the government as such an act of “party perfidy and party dishonor” that if the Hoose should at least concur in it “they would not dare to look the people of the country in the face,” and which the Executive still condemns since their surrender as the “Very' communism of pelf.” The President, in his letter to Congressman Catchings, of Mississippi, says: “The millions of our countrymen who have fought bravely and well for tariff reform (not accepting this bill) should be expected to continue this struggle, boldly challenging to open warfare and constantly guarding against treachery Und half heart cd boss in their camp." Still he permitted the bill to become a law, lacking the moral courage to veto it. If the country was disposed to accept this bill as final, and could permanently adjust business to it, the party’ in power would not have it so. It has so declared with boldness and unanimity. This means, unfortunately, a constant agitation

until March 4, 1895, at the least and for two -years longer after that unless the people in the congressional elections this year make the House Republican, in which event no further’ wrecking of our industries or interference with the labor of our people can occur during the administration of President Cleveland. What will your verdict be? • Governor McKinley then gave a history of the new tariff legislation. He said the bill, as it passed the House would have created, according to the estimates he had seen of its revenue raising power, a deficiency of from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. The “self-constituted adjustment committee” of the .Senate, to which the bill was intrusted after it came back from the Senate finance com--mittee, was unknown to the Constitution, unauthorized by the rules, o! the Senate or by party caucus, tradition or custom. The manner of the making of the bill should con; demn it. He then continued: It was traded through without regard to principle, public policy, public interest, or public morals. The adjusting committee went through the whole list of Senators very patiently, They gave Senator Murphy his duty on collars and cuffs. They gave the Senators irom Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia the duty on coal and iron ore. They gave the Senators from Louisiana and elsewhere, and the great sugar trust of the country, the duty-demanded on.sugar. They gave the Populists the income tax. They did not give to Senator Brice a protective tariff on wool for his Ohio constituents for the Senator did not demand it. He says he did not. He does not tell us what concessions were made to him nor by whom they were made, but the people of Ohio, looking upon their distressed industries, have fully deter-mined-'that not one them received consideration at his hands. 'lt gives some protection. It has some free trade in it here and soma there, but mostly hero in the North. There is a tariff on peanuts, but free t rade in cot ton ties; there is a tariff on sumac, btu free trade in wool; there is a tariff on mica, but.free trade in lumber. In every schedule there is the grossest exhibtion of sectionalism and unjust discrimination. Governor McKinley was especially severe in his characterization of the case of the Louisiana Representa- , tives who were promised protection ; for their sugar interests and then left out in the cold. He devoted considerable time to comparison of the tai iff bill of 1890 with the new law to the great disadvantage of the latter. The law of 1894, he said, had struck the farmer right and left. HednesrbeCTrShown no mercy whatever. The deadliest blaw is against the wool growers. The concluding portion of the address was an arraignment of the Democratic party for what were described as its false pretenses, for its ; treason to. pensioners of the Union 1 army and navy, and for its incapacity to conduct the affairs of the nation. i