New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-23
LURID FREE TRADE ORITORK.
Mr. wATTERSONS SPEECH BEFORE THE KEN
lucky DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.


MR. wATTERsON's SPEECH BEFORE THE KEN
lucky DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
FELLOW-DEMOCRAT- OF KENTUCKY: | con-
cratulate YOU congratulate yon upon the coming OF q
dav which brings to THIS assembly body OF clt1ons 50
enthusiastic AMI so united. cpigfdinatc you upon
the a-ceudaucy which You have achieved FOR kentucky
and fol yourselves the councils OF the Democratic
party OF the Ndilol Ihcic was llhe "ien htnliCAt
seemed % have lost her place In tn van ~ potcd ana
intellectual progress. lacScd b. internal dIssenslou-.
and divided aNlnt ourselves, though our scattered
forcc- taken cocct ely. outnumbrred IN proportion 10
popliol those of any other state IN the Union, We
f, Tor season INTO the he.pe-,ncss ana oDscuIIy OF
The rrar But. a. % impossible To- keep working man
on the ground, 30 Il is Impossible To keep heHthcAy an
rear. once moro ih' Democrats o the uoo.c GA
commonwealth stand as a uhi ana lh'F -tiAd ht tic
'front.' Iyen Virginia bed the movement tor jill
dependence; even dA Nas1ehus"tts irh tue movement
Tor TIA emancipation az slavery, dnr- Kentucky az ths
moment cad the csous ~ freedom. when are steadily
To- ,iar AID wrong Throughout that great parliament
clucd oy the uncoStItutlo"a' 'nI"'m'hl ny '"e re
publican majority Of measure mat should nav. been
wa krntuckIau who stood at te mead II the party OF
the people IN th" 0cuntc; d Wa 90 hcniuchIal VINO
uuu-c and To- KENTUCKY tAc pcop, Al Over the tuIOn
are to-day looking not mory Tor wise ana Gear key
urNf ton-rr-. or the propc. tucic t. cnutOuud the
,c'mos of mat robocr horde, when Tor twenty years
nl- ruled the ooun ~ "iih li- rods oi god ana ron
NlpoIy know. better than thc bounty bandits. who,
stuffed with pilSc aud covering VITA silt, YET clnY
firf Win the haze OF rats r-cd upon those who pro
& w, io,.cr T." -I1nit-uon,riy knows better than the
y,rv ,,or, o.iol- than ne old-nobody knows better
Inn M nm .tIr krr- nad lobby sharks the ecchcs VINO
have bc u for decades and VINO propose to bleed
liz forever nobody SuOWs better tutu these the iul
AMI plr, 0rt of the i.sIr wulcn, Ike the hand
yrfIu- ou tr N tO the realization O BE 'hazklr tue
KIM Is cmbld rl IN those hu. olc words "a tdrlH for
p, ,.,,. only" do not wonder that the Interpretation
fnr, eve them has something urd and dabOhc about
A. L. the mind ~ tlr thief about to have Il Op
truth must a.sumr dreadful aspect Win the
nloodstnncd Macbeth, MS nFst Impulse Is 10 e1c!1i,
kl al L. AL
nor morbid by long immunity u crime, what - there
str NO. OF startling ia mat simple phlasci Nothing.
absolutely nothing l,ls an axiom 81 civil liberty. 1t
nut another way oil saying 'equdi rights to all e1
cu-Nc Pit"'E's 20 n"nv, , i, ,a' 80 H.
nJ levied for the exclusive use ot the Government
and m A. no more revenue sha be- collected than l. r.
united to support the Government economically admin
stcrcd ina eay. when tue Cove nmrnt gets It's
vair hands enrich TIE few expense OF the many.
Nucrc Democrat, where ~ the honest man VINO u
urru,rrd 10 dispute The SCUM mess aud tue justice oil
l,l II is the pivot which AL equitable prlncl-
plr, OF taxation reyUyc and uuth II - embodied
utn hc law OF the land AZ a universally accepted legal
and moral proposition, shah nave no ecouOmic STA
bty any Iair adjustment OF the tax system under
which We live.
Nor ~ tus all II Is the docirina issue relating
directly vital and current questions OF government
when divides parties the United states Tue Repaid
lean party PrOectiOnis II IL 40 one and the same
time the father OF bounty aud the mother OF subsidy
the patron OF tine few, not inc servant OF c many 1t
looks Tor domination 90 organized wealth ana organ
zed pows. The democratic party ~ all the Republican,
party not. AS an oppoatioh II suc,reded
m ary.ug back the forces VI imperialism which
the Republican leaders had mss-ed for "a desperate
assault upon free system As Al opposition III sue
ceced rcscung tue south from the fate oil Ireland
and preserving 10 the country at large lis cly liberty
It's career Ia OppOsiupn 50 cmiuchtJ honorable ana
sucoc-su approaching Its close Its day OF negatives
In over cucrlOrth mission Will be TO propose, not
t. oppose, and when 1t returns To power II VIII come
m To carry out we-dcincd measures OF public policy
and II Will come In to stay. 10 you, fellow Democrats
of Kentucky, great snare OF the cedlt ana glory viii
be due anu TINS lie occasion rather Tor rejoicing
than for argument | again congratulate you.
few days ago one OF the great republican Journal
| Of NcWlork sand thai tLS would De kentucky 4
day to howl! Ny own opinion II that before the Work
OF this brought its logical concusOn the howl
ug VIII heard somewhere upon tue other side or the
line Lat b. marked In tuc calendar OF progress as
freedom. Let II stand rs gateway to
the era rcorE, which will witness, 1ong with the
crash SUBJ dlcs aud the smash or pagiy the resur
rrction of a National DEMOCRACY, enlightened Oy eX-
pcrience cl nstcned by adversely and aO.o to give tue
country IN which II trust, OF
pntroiic and wise administration or Its affairs Great
app ausc