Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1886 — Page 2

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EIMHT SPEECH.

Hon. John E. Lamb at Bowling Hall Saturday Night.

An Immense and Enthusiastic Audience Greets the Blue-Ejed Boy.

A Masterly Speech From Him on the Political Issues of the Day.

Mr. Johnston Dissected in a Most Scientific Manner—Report of the Speech in Full.

SATURDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.

A Large Crowd and a Strong and Effective Speech. The meeting at Dowling Hall last Saturday night to greet Hon. John E. Lamb, the Democratic candidate for Congress, was a most triumphiant sac cess, the malicious, yet ridiculous and harmless falsehoods of the Terre Haute Express to the contrary notwithstanding. Long before the doors of the hall were thrown open to the public there was an immense crowd Siting patiently on the sidewalk for admittance, completely blocking up the thoroughfare, and when the doors were opened the rush was so great that it was feared some persons might sustain serious injury. During the afternoon a number of seats were brought up from Hulman Park and placed in the hall, thus adding largely to its seating capacity. Every beat on the lower floor was quickly taken and then the people who were still coming were compelled to have recourse to the gallery and fill up the aisles on the lower floor, in the meantime the procession which was to escort the speaker to the ball formed at Third and Ohio streets, and headed by the Ringgold band marched up to the Terre Haute House. There were perhaps two or three hundred persons in the escort and all of them wore neat blue badges on which was printed at' rooster with the word "Victory" over it. Along Wabash avenue while the procession was moving the scene was a very pretty one. Innumerable Eoman candles were discharged and red lire was burned on every square and from the windows of a number of business houses. The scene reminded one of the last presidential campaign. Cheers for Lamb were heard on all sides, coming as often from those on the sidewalks as from the ranks of those marching. Arriving at the Terre Haute House a turn was made and the escort again marched back to the hall. A carriage containing Mr. Lamb followed. Mr. Lamb was greeted with applause when he entered the hall, and when he stepped upon the stage there were loud cheers. The seats on the stage were taken up by the vicepresidents of the meeting, about one hundred in number. A handsome boquet rested ou the speaker's stand. Mr. Lamb looked the very picture of robust health and pnysicial energy when he was introduced to the audienoe by Mayor Jacob C. Kolsem, who was permanent chairman of the meeting. In the audience were a large number of ladies. This has been a feature of all of Mr. Lamb's meetings. The applause that followed Mr. Lamb in the course of his masterly speech—for, indeed, it was beyond doubt the strongest and most eloquent speech he has ever delivered at this, his home, and that is saying a great deal—was loud and enthusiastic and several times it was so great that he could not prooeed on account of it for eeveral moments. Particularly was this true when Mr. Lamb made some personal observations about himself and the kind of a campaign that is being made against him in the interests of James T. Johnston. But it was reserved for the chicken story to bring down the house, and the audience at once became uproarious. Mr. Lamb's references to Mr. Johnston's record were both happy and telling. His audienoe followed him closely and at its conclusion cheered him heartily. Many also went forward to grasp him by the hand. It was a

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W Scadder W Douglass Jos Strong Louis Grosse Jacob Schlotterbeck W Walker A Dunnigan Patrick Kinerk

Isaac Mitchell Edward Boland Martin Cassady

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and a splendid speech. The manner in which he showed up the falsehoods printed in the Express about his record in the Forty-eighth Congress was most effective and was loudly cheered, for Mr. Lamb backed up what he had to say by the Congressional Record. Mr. Lamb's speech in full is as follows:

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W 0 Patton Marx Myers Chas Brokaw Phillip Schloss Joseph Wildy Forest Kendall Isaac Beauchamp Prof Seller Oswald Bell Frank Peker Samuel Stevens John Scott Leslie Helmer Peter McKenua Ferdinand Feidler Henry Dtvey

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Andrew Griffins" JohnS Beach Geo W Carioo '1 _v Samuel Frank Wm A Atkins Herman Hulman Sidney Davis Cyrus MoNuti A Austin Theo8tahl

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A Fonts Prof Anton Shide Eugene Debs John Williams Geo A Schaal Dr Geo W Boyer Wm McHale Fred Gottschalk Jos Kung Henry O'Donnell

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James Sankey Prof Humpke Kimball Stephen Adair Xhos Glazebrook Thos Cookerly Samuel Cliver Samuel Barker Frederick Kickler John Hanlejjf

Fred Hertwlg THIHD WABD.

Chas A Wittig David Strause Moyer Fred Stineman James Nugent Patrick Joyce Eilert Harmes

Tracy Owens Max Dettlebach James Tolbert Herman Apman Wm Meistel Geo W Crapo A Wateob

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Julius Brittlebank Patrick Osborne Michael Burns Patrick Welch B.-

Sheppari Watson Wm Weldele Rudolph Sobmitz U'Patrick King

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Jos Frifez Thaddeus Houston JohnBrophey vr,John Sonnefie'd Patrick Casey James Sullivan i®' Dennis Horrigan

Fred Mullen Frank Fischer

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John Hirt James Grace Cornelius Harrington David Fitzgeralt John Hertwig ^,

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Gilbert Harrison-

George Klug Edward Gilbert Barney Dougherty John Grosse Tbos Boleman

MB. LAMB'S SPEECH.

MB. CHAIBMAN, FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS: On the 4th day of Marob, 1885, Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks [applause] were inaugurated President «and Vice-President of the United States. During the campaign which preceded their election we heard all sorts of prophecies of evil that was to follow in the wake of Democratic success. Those prophecies came from the Republican stump-speakers and from the Republican press of the country without limit. Despite those prophecies the Democratic party was successful at the polls and for the first time in twentyfive years succeeded in electing and inaugurating a Democratic president. [Applause.) The Republican party, grown mad with power—the party of Abraham Lincoln, of Chase and of Sumner—had fallen a prey to the Belknaps, the Robesons, the Keifers, the whiskey rings, the Credit Mobilier rings and corruption, and extravagance became the rule while honesty and economy was the exception. For these reasons, mainly, the people saw fit to change rulers, to place your government once more in the hands of the Democratic party and this year that party is at the bar of public opinion for your verdict at the polls.

Is there a human being in this audience tonight who is worse off because of the success of the Democratic party? [A voice in the audience, "No, No."] Not one unless perchance he be some man who has lost an office. [Laughter.] What is the condition of affairs? instead of the ruin, the bankruptcy and the distress that was predicted for the people of the country in case of Democratic success, what do we find tonight? The wages of labor are better, the interest upon money is lower, the pros-

signs of prosperity are brighter than they have been for

AN APPEAL TO SECTIONALISM. What does the Republican party offer to you? What does the Republican candidate offer the people this year in case you vote the Republican ticket? Have they anything to offer the laboring man Yes, promises that they never fulfill. Have they anything to offer the business man? No, nothing in the world except an appeal to the dead and buried issues of the past. I was up

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here in Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, yesterday and I saw there distributed upon the streets the last remnants of the "bloody shirt," a Republican campaign document with the rebel flag on it. I wonder if those people have failed to read, have failed to learu that today this country is more united, north airi south, east and west, than it has beeiPfor thirty years. [Applause. The capital of the north is seeking investment under the sunny skies of the south. Those men who are taking their money there for investment to develop the country, to build up manufactories, to carry with them prosperity and sunshine, are welcomed with open arms by the people of the south, who have learned that the greatest blessing that ever befell them was the abolition of human slavery. [Applause.]

THE PBOHIBITION QUESTION. This state of affairs being true, I say fhat the man who would dig up the dead and buried memories of the past in order to obtain votes in this contest in Indiana is not worthy of the confideDoe of anybody. [Applause.] What do they offer to the people of Indiana? Have you read the Republican state platform? Have you read the plank in the Republican state platform on the liquor question? 0'

If you haven't read it, don't It is worse than the 14—Id—15 puzzle that you saw around here a few years ago. It reads backwards just as well as forwards and you can begin in the middle and read both ways and you will know no more about it than if you never saw it. [Laughter.] It was written for the- 'had doi purpose of catching the Prohibition vote, the temperance vote on the one hand And the liberal vote upon the other. I have been tiding to describe that plank for a good while.

When I was in Parke county the other day, where I ate the chicken you remember, [laughter] I met an old temperance lady, a Quaker lady, and she told me that the Republican platform on the temperance question reminded her very much of an incident that happened to her son John, when he was a small boy. She said he was a sleepy-headed fellow and one morning she called him to get up. She told him to hurry and sret his clothes on or he would be late tor school. The little fellow was soared and hurried out of bed and in getting on his clothes in the hurry, he accidentally put on his pantaloons wrong side before. And the old lady said, "When I saw him at the door I could not tell for the life of me whether that child was coming in or going out" [Laughter.]

A GAME OF DECEPTION.

If there be a human being who oan tell whether the man who wrote that plank in the Republican platform was stalking in the front door of a temperance hall or out of the back door of a saloon I would like to see him. [Laughter.] It is the old game, my fellow citizens, of all things to all men in order that they may gain some. But Senator Harrison says to the Prohibitionist and he says to the liquor dealer, "Let us all

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[Applause, REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. I have here the Indianapolis Journal, the organ of the Republican party in Indiana—by the way, one of the ablest newspapers in that party—of the 7th day of September and in its news columns I find an article with this heading, "A Business Revival, More Activity and a Better Outlook than at any, Time for Five Years Past." ["That's so."] Can you believe your ears? This is the same newspaper that predicted nothing but distress and trouble in 1884 in case of Democratic supremacy. While the Republican party was in power its columns were filled with lists of failures and of bankruptcies. CJnder Democratic administration it is compelled to publish the fact that business is on the up grade, that there is greater confidence in business, in the laboring and in the producing masses of the people than there has been for many long years. [Applause.] 1 am not here tonight to claim that all this has been brought about by Democratic legislation, but I am here to say that in so far as the Democratic party has gone it has aided, as best it could, to bring about this condition of affairs.

together to the forks of the road." 0 you know where the forks of the road are? At Washington. "Put me back in the United States Senate for six years," says Senator Harrison, "and then you oan all go to—well, where ever you please." [Laughter.] I don't know whether these people will deceive anybody by this sort of hypocrisy or not. It is fair to presume that the intelligence of the people cannot be imposed upon in such a manner. ["That's what I say," interposed a voice from the crowd.

THIS CONGBESSIONAL DISTBICT. In this district, in your congressional district, the same policy which has actuated the Republican leaders at Indianapolis is being pursued by the Republican candidate for Congress and his henchmen in this campaign. In all the history of politics—and we have had a good deal of politics in this state— there has never been known such a political campaign as is being waged in this district now against me. Four years ago the Democratic party in this district honored me with the nomination for Congress. I was elected in the district which gave Garfield in 1880 2,600 majority. I went to Congress. I made my record and I came home to answer to you for my conduct. Upon the record which I made in the Fortyeighth Congress I was unanimously nominated by my party for re-election. I went into a joint discussion with my opponent, then Mr. Johnston, who £9 my opponent now. I went into joint discussion with him at his request After the oanvase of the district, which you people well remember, Mr. Johnston was elected by 150 majority in a district which gave Mr. Blaine, the Republican candidate for president, 1,663. He went to Congress he came home and found that the third time the Democracy of this district had unanimously tendered me the nomination. Mr. Johnston was nominated by his party. I wrote him a polite letter requesting him to go with me in

A JOINT CANVASS

of our district so that we might meet together face to face, in an open field, and discuss our records as citizens and as public officials. [Loud applause. What reply came from that candidate? He wrote me in effect that he could not go with me because, perchance, I was not a good nough man for him to associate with. [Laughter.] The man who had beaten me by a paltry 150 votes refused to go with me upon that ground. Now,

my friends, for a little while I want to show you the true reasons why he did not go with me. I know what was coming in this campaign. I knew it was to be a campaign of misrepresentation, of falsehood and of slander,and I intended, if possible, to compel these people, whoe* spokesman Mr. Johnston is, to meet me in an open field, in broad daylight and not skulk aod slander behind my baok. Some of them are issuing challenges to me now. In reply to that I have only to say that I have challenged the master and I am not seeking the henchman. [Loud applause.]

MB. JOHNSTON'S RECORD.

Let us see for a little while let us compare records. Two years ago when we met in joint discussion down near the Terre Haute House there were but two votes that I gave as a member of Congress that Mr. Johnston criticised. I am speaking now to the people who were present then. What were they? The first was my vote to pension the soldiers of the Mexican war. Because I voted to giv^ a small pension to those few remaining survivors of the Mexican war, Mr. Johnston denounced me all over this district And when he finished his den right han hand

tions he always held up his .and said "he hoped his right be paralyzed if he would )h a vote as that" He went and when he got there he

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found thet same bill, line for line and section for section, upon the calendar. And how doyou good people suppose he vot

He voted for it, just as I and I suppose that his right

arm is Mralyzed and that is the reason that he Ifius as yet failed to answer the Prohibition candidate, who challenged him for joint discussion. [Laughter.]

JUDOS MB. JOHNSTON BACKWARDS. 1 speak of this now in order to show you people that you can not tell anything ab$Qt what the Republican.candidate is for by what he says he is for, unless youguess it backwards and then you havclk't a sure thing. [Laughter.] Strange §B it may appear to you, after all this denunciation of my vote on the Mexican -pension bill, while I was in Montgomery county the other day I was handed $ copy oPthe Terre Haute Express, anewspaper which assumes some respectability, at least, to tell the truth, and I found in its editorial column this: "In the 0tvHall Mr. Lamb stood I up before the Mexican Veteran Association and pledged himself to do all in his power for Mead pa yet when the motion was made 16 postpone the consideration of the Mexican pensida bill Mr. Lamb was recorded as "not voting.'

You have heard of the 109 roll calls that I missed as your member of Congress—109 lies, my fellow citizens, [loud applause] aDd here (holding up the Terre Haute Express) is number one. I will not give you 109 because if I did you wouldn't live until morning. [Laughter] Here is another: "In the 48th Congress Lamb was recorded as not voting on the oleomargarine bill."

The fellow who wrote that knew there never was a roll call on such a bill while I was in Congress. That bill passed the last Congress, the 49th, and Mr. Johnston's name is recorded in the roll call and yet this is one of the 109 roll calls that I missed while your member of Congrees. Was there ever anything like it?

THE CHICKEN CHABGE.

In this campaign I have been accused of nearly every offense in the calendar, from trying to collect an honest debt down to eating chicken with my fingers. [Groat laughter.] Here is another copy of the Terre Haute Express, a copy of last Sunday morning a week ago. They are not satisfied with lying all the week, but they take the Lord's day as well. I find in this copy of the Express a dispatch headed "Straight Goods—Lamb as a Chicken Eater—A Breach of Etiquette that Disgusted a Refined Woma and then they say I took a chicken bone in my fingers and ate it without putting a fork in it. Then they say this chioken tale is "straight goods"—the first chicken tale you ever heard of that was "straight" by the way. [Laughter.] "This chicken tale is straight goods and comes from one who will prove it." Remember, if I deny it they will prove it! Don't you think I had better plead guilty at once? "The lady waiting on the table was simply terror-stricken and not used to such ungentlemanly .rays." To the ladies here I want to say that I have received a letter from the lady referred to during the past week and she has fully recovered from the shock. [Laughter.] "In the neighborhood the people have been informed of the case and many say that they cannot support a man of such caliber." A fitting climax to the stupendous falsehoods that these slanderers have circulated throughout this district in the anonymous circulars and through the columns of the presumably respectable paper! Now there is chicken in that [Laughter.]

HIS VOTE ON THE SILVER DOLLAR. I come back to the Terre Haute Express of September 22d and I will show you something now with meat in it* Again I read from the editorial columns: '•Lamb has considerable to say aboat the silver dollar and says he is in fovor of it, yet he is recorded as not voting when the bill for the snspension of silver coinage came up in the 48th Congress."

The silver question is a matter in which every man and woman within the sound of my voice is interested. When I was a member of the 48th Congress by your kindness and confidence, a motion was made to stop the coinage of

silver. On that motion the roll was called and here it is. Now, my friends, the accusation against me is that when the roll was called upon this important question I was absent and failed to vote, and the Terre Haute Express of September 22d«p rioted that story. Here is the roll call. There were 118 men who voted for that motion there were 152 who voted against it and there were 54 who failed to vote. My name ought to be in that list of 54 if these anonymous slanderers and the Terre Haute Express tell the truth. My friend^' it is not there. Where ie the name of your representative? Among those who stood by silver money and stood upon your side against the banks and the monied [interests of the country, in letters brOad enough, deep enough and plain enough for anybody who wants*' to see— "L—a—m—b." [Loud applause.] The man who wrote that editorial in the Terre Haute Express had that-record in his offioe and knew when he wrote the editorial that it was false. [Applause.] What do you think of the campaign by this time? Remember, my friends, I am not making assertions. I am simply producing records that is all.

ANOTHER OF THE SAME.

Again you have been told in this newspaper and anonymous circulars that I failed to vote on the Reagan in-ter-state commerce bill. One of the most important questions today in American politics is the question of cheap transportation for freights over the railroads of the country. Judge tteagan, of Texas, has been trying for ten years to pass a law which would prevent these railroad corporations from charging extortionate rates for shipping freights. When that bill was before the 48th Congress there never was such a contest The railroads of the country were upon one side and the people upon the other. When the roll was called upon that bill there were 161 men who voted for it there were 75 who voted against it, and there were 87 who failed to vote, and among those who voted for it is my name again. Remember now, upon your side and not upon the side of the railway corporations. [Loud applause.] My fnends, don't you find some reasons now for this unheard of campaign against me? Because I have not allowed the corporations to place their collar around my neck becnuse I have refused to bow my knee to the men who have gone mad with the craze for office [applause] I am to be slandered by the hired scribbler and the anonymous sneak who is afraid to sign what he writes.

LAbOB MEASUBE8.

received as I came upon the platform here tonight some questions to answer from men who are laboring men. They want to know something of my record upon the labor qu^tfion. I am here to answer every question that can be put to me. [Applaufp.] When I was your member of Congress I voted to establish a committee labor, the first labor committee that was ever established in your House of Representatives in the history of this government. [Applause.] I voted against the employment of convict labor to compete with the free labor of America. [Applause.] I voted against the importation of the Chinese rat-eaters from Asia to compete with the free labor of America. [Applause.] I voted in favor of the law to prevent the importing of pauper labor from Europe under the contract system. Every labor organization and laboring man in this district appealed to me by petition to vote for that measure and because I did it I am denounced by the anonymous slanderer as being the enemy of the Englishman and the German and the Irishman, who comes to this land to enjoy the blessings of liberty. Why, these people did not know that when the laboring men of the east would strike in the factories for higher wages, under thetibw, as it is now, the manufacturers of the east would send to Europe and have shipped over here hundreds and thousands of laborers under contract at fifty cents a day to take the place of poor men who were getting hardly $1.25 a day. I voted to make it a penal offense for men to do this thing against the interests of the laboring people of this country. [Applause.] And when I speak of the laboring people of this country I speak of the Englishman, I speak of the Irishman, I speak of the German, I speak of the honest man, come he from where he may, who comes to our shores to become un American citizen, enjoying the blessing of liberty and to be one of us. [Applause.]

JOHNSTON IN THE STATE SENATE. If there be a man in this audience or elsewhere who can put his finger upon a vote that I ever gave against the interests of labor, against the interest of the toiling millions of people, I will withdraw from the race for Congress. [Applause.] If, upon the other hand, by the record which I have produced here tonight, I have shown to you that I have stood upon your side, fought your battles, voted as you desired me to vote, I appeal to yon people to stand by me against the assaults of the annonymous slanderer. [Applausq.] I have gpne over this record hurriedly. There is another man who has a record. Let us look at that for a moment. I understand that my opponent is saying that I say in every speech that I make, that he is afraid to meet me in joint discussion. I do not say that, my friends. I will tell you what I do say. He is afraid to meet his own record in broad day light That is what he is afraid of. Let us see now. When Mr. Johnston was a mem­

ber of the State 8enate in 1875 he made a record there and I will call your attention to it for a moment. In one day he had the chance to show whether he was upon your side or upon the side of the corporations. Let us see where he stood. "Senate bill number 40—A bill to enable employees of railroad companies to collect compensation for labor performed." A bill to give the poor man a chance to collect his honegt wages. There were SB men who voted against that bill and among them Johnston of Parke and that is "our Jim." [Laughter.] "Senate bill number 69— A bill to compel railroad companies to fence their tracks,*' a bill which would compel ^iese railroads to build a fenoe at either side of their track to prevent your stock from being killed. There were 28 men who voted against that bill and among them is Johnston, of Parke, again. "Senate bill 205—A bill regulating railroad freights in the state. A bill which would compel

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to charge a uniform rate per mito for shipping freight. There were 23 men who voted to kill that bill among them John3ton, of Parke, bobs us serenely again. I will not say why Mr. Johnston made that record. There is not a man here, however, who could not guess in three guesses. I will tell you how I feel about it I feel a good deal like the old darkey who said about his darkey neighbor: "I wont say that Moses would steal, but if I was a chicken I would roost mighty high if Moeee was around." [Langhter.] Do you know what he says about this record now? Do you know what he is saying this year. He says now that Lamb is going over the district abusing him for the record he made '^rhen he was a boy." [Laughter.] He is pleading the baby act this year. [Laughter.] Nowr when you elected me to Congrees I was but 29 years of age, the youngest man perhaps that was ever elected to Congress from Indiana. I was three years younger than Johnston was when he made that record. But I am not here to plead the "baby act" I am responsible for every act as your public servant, and oil that I ask is a fair fight in an open field. [Loud applause and a voice in the crowd:

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him again."

No, I will not hit him again. If I had found upon investigation that Johnston. —when he went to Congrees—had re— formed,and had shown some disposition^ to stand upon your side I would let up and wcralcbx't say anything more about it, but I will show you that when he went to Washington he stood on the same side as he stood at Indianapolis in the State Senate.

JOHNSTON IN CONGBESS.

When he arrived there he found a bill offered by Col. Morrison, not the horizontal reduction bill, either, but a bill which proposed to revise and reduce the tariff duties which had been levied in a time of war to pay the extraordinary expenses of the war. Two years ago the Republican party at Chicago in its platform, as well as the Democratic party, promised the people that they, if successful, would revise the tariff and try to in some way reduce the burdens of taxation.' When Col. Morrison introduced a bill to make lumber free, to make salt free, to take 10 per cent off the duty on sugar, an average of 40 per cent off the duty on woolen goods, where did your representative stand who pretends to represent the laboring people of this district? He stood just where he had always stood upon questions where monopoly was arrayed upon the one hand and the interests of the people upon the other. Here is the roll call. There were 157 men who voted that the tariffs duties should remain as they are upon every necessary of life, when one of the great questions today in politics is, what shall be done with the surplus in your treasury? Among the 157 is James T. Johnston, the same James T. Johnston of Parke, who was in the State Senate.

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PENSION LEGISLATION.

Again, two years ago you were told that if the Democratic party was successful that the rebel debt would be paid, rebel claims would be paid, the slavee would be paid for and all pensions to Union soldiers would be stopped. You heard thai song from every stump. I don't know whether those people meant what they said or not. 1 will tell you what I do know. I know that although President Cleveland has been in the White House si nee the 4th day of March, 1885, that not a dollar of the rebel war debt has been paid, not a dollar has been paid for rebel claims, no slave has been paid for but $78,000,000, $7,000,000 more than were ever appropriated in the history of this government at one session of congress before were appropriated by the last congress to pay pensions to Union soldiers and Grover Cleveland signed the bill. [Applause.] I know more than that. Under Gen. Black, in the first year of his administration of the Pension Office more than 2J500 more certificates for pensions were issued to Union soldiers than were ever before issued in the history of this government in the same length of time. (Applause.) I know that President Cleveland has signed more private bills than were signed by Gen. Grant during his eight years of office. (Applause.) I know that President Cleveland has signed more private bills than were signed by Hayes during the four years that he served Tilden's term. (Applause.) And

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