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by forming such alliance.
Mr.. Cassidy next took up the Republi-
can cry of tariff, and referred to the man.
ner in which employers 20 to their mep.
and tell them that this q bread and bntter
that if Hancock is elected
their shops and factories will be closed and
the men thrown out of employment. be.
cause the Democrats will adopt free trade
doctrines and foreign goods viii drive
American goods out of the markets. Now
look at Garfield's record ON this question
Because of his free trade votes in Congress
he was elected an honorary member Oi the
Golden club, FREQ trade club, to which
none but free-traders are ever elected.
and what IS the answer the Republicans
make? They say his election was
only compliment paid him by
the club. What? Compliment their
enemies; take to their bosom the
man that is injuring them! If it was a
mere compliment paid to Garfield why
don't Garfield produce the correspondence
between the club and himself? Hancock
never fails to produce letter when called
upon to do SO. Gariield's failure to pro-
duce the letters is evidence against him,
but there is still stronger evidence Of his
sympathies with the free traders; his
votes in Congress have ever been Oh the
side of free trade and against protection.
So well is this known that when he was
proposed as candidate for speaker of the
House VIM. D. Kelley, the father of the
prOtectiOnists of this state, refused to 60
into the Republican caucus that nominated
him and refused to vote for him when
nominated. Kelley and Russell Errett and
J. w. Killinger, the most prominent pro-
tectiOnists in Congress, signed protest
against him, denouncing him as 4 free
trader, and refused to vote for him even
after his party nominated him.
Again, there was an effort made to re-
model the present tariff: the protection
lists in Congress wanted to take of the
duties on tea, coffee, salt and other COM
mon necessaries of life and advance the
duties on manufactured articles Of various
kinds. Garfield voted against the PROPOSE
tion, and thus to compel the people to pay
tax for all of these necessaries to go into
their mouths. He also voted to reduce
the duty OH foreign coal and take off the
duty on foreign iron, SO that it could como
in competition with that manufactured in
Lancaster, Berks and other parts Of Penn
sylvania.
Mr.. Cassidy next compared the tariff
planks in the Democratic and Republican
platforms of 1872. 1876 and 1880, showing
that they were all essentially the same and
favored tariff for revenue, which must
necessarily afford incidental protection to
American manufacturers. He quoted at
some length from the New York Times, the
New York Erening Post and other free trade
Republican organs appealing to Repub-
lican speakers to stop cheating the people
by pretcnscs that the Republican party is
q protection party, whereas it is for FREQ
trade. Carl Schurz, who is now OH the
stump for Garfield, is an avOwcd free
trader, as are hosts Of other prominent
Republicans in and out Of Congress. The
present tariff is kept in force, not by the
Republicans, but by Democrats in tho
House and Senate. When the present
rates Of duty OH iron were being consider
ed the Pittsburgh iron masters made the
duties, and Fernando Wood and Samuel
j. Randall, Democrats, put them through
Congress in their present shape. Before
the Republicans talk Of tariff and claim
to be its peculiar champions, let them name
4 Pennsylvania Democratic congressman
within the past twenty years that has not
voted for it.
Mr.. Cassidy turned his attention to
the matter OF bulldOzinS" white men,
which is now favorite plan among Re-
publican employers. Their order to
their men is ''vOte this ticket or get out"
Tho poor man may feel like resentinS the
insult, but when he thinks of his wife and
his little ones dependent on him, he SUBJ
mits to the degradation, with feeling
that true manhood has been crushed ont
of him. There are, however, thanks to
the Democratic party, laws that will reach
and punish the employer who thus exercise
tyrannical rule over his men. There is
an act of Congress that makes it unlawful
and punishable by fine and Imprisonment
to attempt to coercc a voter, and he knew
there was at least one United States judge
Judge Butler, of Philadelphia-whO
would not fail to enforce the law and pro-
tect a free ballot, il case were brought
before him. The laws Of Pennsylvania
also make it an indictable Offense to at
tempt to intimidatc or cOerce voter, and
perhaps there are judges in this county
who will metc out Judgment to those who
attempt it.
The solid South was Mr.. Cassidy's next
theme. He said that while the Republ:
cans prOfessed to believe there was great
danger to be apprehended from a solid
South they are quite willing to have q
solid North, and are working vigorously to
secure it. Mr.. Cassidy declared that since
the carpet-baggers had been withdrawn
from the South, peace and prosperity have
their sway, and that there has
not been case Of outrage Or
disorder that has not been more
than equalled in Pennsylvania. There
has not been in the whole South, from
Mason anG Dixon's line to the Gulf and
the Rio Grande as disreputable an act as
was perpetrated in Philadelphia within
the past few days. Mr.. Cassidy narrated
the particulars Of the murtlcrOus assault
ON a Democratic landlord who had illnm
mated his house in compliment to the Re-
publicans who were parading. The house
was Quilted and the proprietor was almost
killed for no other reason than that some
one near the house had hurr:,hed for Han
attack upon Democratic pro-
for free thought, free speech
and free ballot.
AS to Republican consideration Of the
negro, there was nothing in it the negro
is of no account to them except so far as
they can control and use his vote. In
where colored men are num-
srous, what has the Republican party,
which is in power there, done for them .
What offices have been given them They
have been allowed to clean the spittoons,
three or four of them have been appointed
anitOrs and one or two clerks, and that is
Ill. He could tell these Republicans, who
falsely profess to champion the cause Of
he negro, that the chairman Of the Dem
,cratic campaign committee of Philadel-
Dhia has in his own employ greater