The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-26
HARRISON'S HARP
AND DrHEwAaNlNe NOTES 4EsouNDs

Tho DyhamIts Declaration Of ChieasO'. Mayor thA
PAraiI1sd Those at the IroquOls Feast.
Carter Rsvises His Speech For the
"Prsla" "A False PrstsaIe Party.
Chicago Tribune Apra@.
The Tribune has already published ar
abstract Of Mr.. Carter. II. Harrison's dyna
mite harangue at the recent Iroquois ban
quet in this city, which so filled The
"bnves" with anger and disgust. Mr.. Har
rison has carefully written out a revised
edition OF hisspeech- -.theversion Of It which
he desires to so out before the country
We reproduce 1t below-only emitting the
injected portions about "oftice as public
trust" which he did not speak at the ban
quet and which are only idle platitudes al
best which nobody cares anything about:
Chairman Phelps-Mayor Harrison, hon
ored by 10000 majority to third term
proves himself worthy to respond to the
toast. A public office public trust"
MAYOR HARRisoN's RESPONSE.
Mayor Harrison responded as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN The
hour is so late that l think that my speech
will be made as many speeches are made
In Congress. It will be skeleton, which
I will fill up afterwards and beg leave TO
print. My friend, Mr.. Springer, says that
is always in order. The toast that you
have given me is one would like to have
spoken upon earlier in the evening, and
spoken upon it fully. 1t is to me more
important than tariff for revenue or any
other kind OF tariff. We have divisions in
the Democratic party on the tariff ques.
tion, II believes that the Office
holder should hold his Office in trust for
the people. We must hold fast to this
principle and make it one OF our cardinal
planks. 1t Is oi far more importance than
q free.trade plank, for say to-day you may
make your tariff for revenue only plank
in your next resolutions and you tviH split
the Democratic party. But II you take the
position that prOtectioais
nYDRA.HEADED MONSTER
that mut be stricken dOpn, you will not split
the Democratic party. ProiecIion'is not a
monaer; free trade is thing for the doc
trinaire. The times and country's finan-
cial condition are not yet ripe for It. The
people are not yet educated up 10 it. 1t
was good thing twenty odd years ago
when We held the power Of the Admistra-
tion in Washington. But take that as
your plank now and you do not win from The
Republican party one single one Of lis I'D.
herens. They stick to the party that gives
them patronage and gives them spoils. You
will drire thousands Of our own people from
our ranks, and you will probably have a
Presidential candidate writing letter at
the wrong moment that kills your platform.
The manufactures OF the country, the
business OF the country, is more or less
based upon the high protection tariff so
many years in vogue. To suddenly re.
duce the tariff to q purely revenue basis
would paral! zs many industries; would
produce crash. Our party would not
could not desire to bring about such
conditions. A purely revenue tariff
"a tariff for revenue only"-would tax
coffee, tea, and all other articles not pro.
duced in this country, and these articles
would be logically the first ones sought for
duties. Is the country ready for this ?
Are we as q party ready forit? Could we
hope 10 win the country on such pro.
gramme? think not. And yet this
would be the logical sequence of deter.
mination to have ~ tariff for revenue
only" II we are not ready for these results
then we are not ready for such a determi-
nation. 1--we are not ready for itthen we
mislead when we press the dogma. Here
in Chicago where 1900 Democrats voted
last week, not one In ten OF these Demo.
Gratis is really in favor oi such results, The
fact impels me to say what | do. My
silence would mislead other parts OF the
country, and might help to cause the
Democratic party 10 make mistake in
1854.
.rhis Government cannot stand while
25O00000 people considerit more import
ant who are to hold Office than the prin-
ciples on which the ofticeholder is to hold
oiiice-25, 100000 ia about the number at
tached TO one or the other, OF the parties.
! am belieter in free trade in the abstract.
You cannotget It, for as Mr.. Hurlbert says,
you must have vast revenue. Why, then,
talk OF q question that does not and cannot
come properly before the people, but will
simply split us, when you have living
issue before us said 10 have been enun.
ciated by q Democrat $40 the victors
belong the spoils." This Is Of far more i'm
portance, for tariff will make men pros.
porous or It will make men not prosperous,
hnt n annot deatrov the country 7 al ra