Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-11-03
SOME PERTINENT POINTS.
Brief Synopsis Of = Speech Delivered
At NOv1nger.

lremarkS with Orlef review OF the
Republican party asserting that histo-
ry proves it to be the party IN favor OF
freedom, progress, education, improve
ment and equal rights of all classes,
colcrs and conditions that the increas-
ed wealth and the great development
of the country are due to its measures
that it saved the Union, freed the slave,
and inaugurated splendid system Of
finance which gives stable and safe
currency that it has reduced the pub
lie debt, lowered the rate of interest on
what is outstanding, and that it has
pensioned the Union soldis,s; in short,
that whatever has been demanded as
the years bad gone by, to make this
nation prosperous, powerful and mflu-
entail has been advocated and pressed
forward by the Republican party.
Passing then to the Democratic par
ty he characterized it as having been
for years simply opposing and reaction
ary, with no affirmative principle to
urge or suggest. 1t had been against
the many things advocated by the
republicans up to the time when they
became accomplished facts. 1t was
unfortunate, he said, for the democrats
that their controllers were on the wrong
side when the rebellion broke out; the
rank and file of the party in the North
were loyal, but the organization was in
the hands of men who had no sympathy
with the war for the Uuion. The par
ty had fearfully inconsistent record,
but had been slowly educated into IN
dorsing republican administrations and
principles. The highest encomium
that could be bestowed on the Repub-
lican party was found in that fact.
Democrats first opposed resumption
of specie payment; then proclaimed
themselves in favor otrepealing the law,
but finally declared they were in favor
of honest money-gold, silver and
paper convertible into coin on demand.
Even evidence gathered from Demo-
cratic platforms established that on
nearly every great question raised
since the Republicans came into power,
the former was wrong and the latter
right. AT every presidential election
the principles and policy of the Repub-
lican party had been indorsed and vim
dicated, that of the Democratic party
condemned by the public judgment.
1t had been said that the Democrats,
being out of power, had no chance to
show what they could and would do.
His advice to the people.
was to be careful that they
never got that chance. They had
possession of the lower House of Con-
gress during three Congresses, begin
ming with 1873 and of the Senate dur
ing one Congress and what great
measure could be pointed to as the re-
suit of their statesmanship7 They as
saulted what they called the war legfs-
latlon; Republican President stood
in the way and they undertook to starve
him into submission. Did they do
anything to reduce internal taxes, to
improve the tariff laws7
There was no substantial reduction
of taxes during the period Of their con-
troll. They refused for time the ap-
preparations for the ordinary expenses
of the government, only voting them
after Gripping the administration, inclu-
ding the courts. They prate about
high taxes IN every convention and ON
everv stump all over the land.
Why did they not reduce them when
they had the opportunity
The tariff laws need revision, why did
they not revise them2 Changes since
the close of the war make revision of
the custom laws necessary, and the Re-
publican party has set about the work.
Why don't the Democrats do some.
thing besides complains They are un-
fit to take charge of the affairs of the
nation. 1t has outgrown their ideas.
The Republican party favors a tar
iff not only for revenue, but to enable
the nation to be prepared for emergen-
cies, and policy that will preserve
the 100000 working people in the
country from competing with the old
world cheap labor. All cannot be far
mers; one enterprise must aid an
other. For his part he was for reduc-
ed and modified tariff. The Demo-
cratic record on the tariff question was
as follows: In 1870. 1--WE are in favor of
free trade on principle and We de-
1ounce protective tariff as not auth
orized under the Federal Constitu-
ion ;" in 1874 they said mo tariff ex-