The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-30
REPUBLICAN, MEETING.

Address by General L. .Nutting-
Strong Points IN tavor Of the Re-
publican Party.
General L. Nutting, of Faribault,
addressed a political meeting at Miller
Hall, OH Monday evening last. The
Worthington Cornet Band furnished
music for the occasion, and the speak
er was introduced by Mr.. I. N. Safer,
Chairman of the meeting.
General Nutting reviewed the history
of the Republican party and showed
how the country was indebted to it for
the standing and the prosperity which
we enjoyed. First, the Republican par
ty had relieved us of'the incubus of
slavery. Secondly, the Republican
party had given the best SYSTEM
of currency we have ever had
lie said he remembered the days
of Democratic rule when the country
was flooded with bank notes and it was
said that a man must so to market
with basket full Of notes to buy what
he could carry home i'll his vest pocket.
Exchange was then high and men had
to keep on hand a wheel-barrow load OF
counterfeit detectors to find out what
notes were good. But under the pres
ent banking system no one could lose
his money, for the Government, backed
by forty millions Of people, was bound
to redeem every dollar. No financial
system could be bad when the notes of
the Government stood as high as gold
at the financial centres and the bonds
of the Government were in demand at
per cent. premium. Thirdly, the Re-
publican party had given the country
it's present wonderful Development
He could walk right up to the Union
Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroad
questions without whistling. He was
notafraid to meet these questions. i, No
other party that lever existed would
have dared to undertake ..sucll1. u -giant
enterprise--as::the Union Pacific, with a
rebellion OH its hands at the same time.
But the Republican party wrought the
miracle--of giving..uss this great trans
continental railroad and opening up
the great::interior to settlement.
The speaker alluded to the tariff
Mr.. Wilkinson had said that tie high
price Of nails, which. had gone up from
four to eight cents, was due to the tar
if. But the tariff Was only one cent,
so that the rise was mostly due to 9th.
err causes. Coffee and tea, the Republi-
CAL. party had made flee because these
were the DOR mans beverages, yet coffee
and tea had gone up Notwithstanding
the removal of:the tariff. 1t was not the
tariff, therefore, that caused the high
prices. We needed the tariff to devel.
ope Minnesota, manufactures. Here
the speaker showed that Minnesota had
water power equal to that of all New
England which needed developing
No State III the Union had such mag.
nificent water power and such Il vast
reach Of water communication as Min.
nesota. All this the Republican party
was working to develop while the
Democratic party was opposed to inter.
nal improvement.
Tie speaker then touched upon
Autobiography. lie had not yet found
Il man who could tell him what was
meant by this cry Of Anti-Monopoly.-
Donnelly was publishing a: paper with
that name which was so charged with
potasll-no, with lye,-that if we could
cover these prairics with copies and
have one good rain, they would kill
every grasshol per. This man who was
talking against monopoly had proposed
a plan in his paper for giving the Gran.
gers monopoly Of the wheat Of the
country; proposing a..gigantic monop.
oily in thetvery bread of life.
In conclusion, the speaker urged the
Importance of being at the polls on
Tuesday. The Generals conversation.
al style and pat way of saying things
pleased his audience and the effect pro.
duced was excellent. ::