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R. G. STILWELL, J coo,,,.
VIM. B, WALSH, "'' w.
SAMUEL STARKWEATHER.
COL. STARKWEATHER'S REPLY.
New York, July 14th, 1914.

NEW L'hN' July Ifu4, lO5f'
Gentlemen, | am honored by your letter
of the 10th inst. in behalf Of the Ashland
Association Of the 10th Ward of ibis city,
rendering me their thanks for my humble
effort on the preceding evening, and ap-
prisnC me that am elected an honorary
member Of the Association. This mark Of
regard, coming as it does from so respecta-
bic a body Of my fellow citizens, is, beg
your Association to believe, highly and du-
ly appreciated; and in return | desire, thro'
you, to tender my cordial acknowledge
ments. Allow me also to say, that was
much gratihed with the kind and indul.
gent manner with which my wholly un-
prepared remarks were received, and par
ticularly SO as your hearty appreciation bore
with it the satisfactory assurance to my
mind, that the principles that felt bound
there to put forth would be responded to
by the great body of the Wing party ofthe
State. As these principles cannot be too
often repeated, | will here take the liberty
of referring again, to the more prominent
of them. We resist the annexation Of
Texas TO our Union; we contend for Ia
riff rendered protective by its adjustment
to the full extent OF the act Of 1912, and
with which and nothing else we are salts
fed; we contend that our President shall
be elected for only one term: We insist on
the Government providing for the coun-
try sound national currency. We de-
nana a distribution Of the proceeds Of the
Public Lands; aud a modification OF the
Veto power, the only remaining preroga-
tive Of royalty which doform3 our Consli-
tuition. We ask the extension of rea-
sonabe Hberality towards, aud a parental
care for the Improvement Of our harbOls,
rivers, great national ways, and other I'M
provements OF o similar character and Of
general interest, calculated to provide for
defence against a foreign enemy and to
bind together and secure the integrity and
harmony of the Union. We demand an
economical administration Of the Govern
ment, respect for the laws, and a whole
some and faithful administration Of the
same; and we object to appointing to Of
fee members OF Congress, and men in
mower, a practice which tends to corrupt
the very foundation of the Government.
These are the leading features Of our creed,
the same the Whig party submitted to the
people in 1910, and which then proved so
signaIy triumphant. They are still our
abiding faith; and let us not be deceived,
if our opponents succeed, these great fun
damental doctrines on which rest the in
tegrity of the Union and its honor and
prosperity will one and all, be repudiated
So | contended before your Association
and so still insist.
In case Of their success, what have we to
expect other than the odious Sub-Treasu-
nv, with all its tram of evils, giving to IT,
100000 of people, after deducting for the
necessary use of the Post Office, the Land
Offices, the Customs, and officers and de.
pendants upon the Treasury, less than
S6O, O,O0O,0 900, or about So so per head
with which to sustain business demand
ing twenty times that amount, thus para
living the enterprise and energy of ou1
people, and again uamping their pros
peritv in the dust! The Tariff, which
keeps alloat our ships, gives employment
10 our seamen, feeds and clothes our valua'
hle and enterprisng mechanics and ope
ratives, and educate5 their children, by
keeping together large masses to eat up
and consume the productions of cur fertile
felds-thus creating a domestic market
without which importations would cease
for wantof ability in the producer to pur
chaso-wJl be repeated. So it hath beer
decreed, so it hath been proclaimed II
Congress, and so James K. Polk hatf
preachel up to this day. lie has said the
Tariff of l842 must aud shall be repealed
thoagh he is willing to give the country
I'M the protection they can find, i aay, il
limiting the maximum Of duties to 90 pc.
cent which he and al men know will at
ford no encouragement Or protection what
ever where protection is most needed. /
they succeed the Land RiIl--a cOasi'men
mart Of the Tariff, and through which the
fruits of the soil and the labor OF mon
baols fad that iacideatnI protection 70
which the Whig party have cOntended-
,ojil hc re eaied The decree went fnrtl
lolg siace, in q series Of speeches delivere
Ty fames K. Po'k, that this law should h
hiotted from the statute book ifhe had tn
power,