Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-11
THE CALIGRAr

brought their condition before the com.
mittee and had demanded not that II
should give them anything, but that
when taxing the Ie,ple, the tax
should be taken where it would hurt
them least. Was not that reasonable
demand? Did they think they
could get along without thai
He thought not. He objected
to the tariff plank in the platform of
the convention, that because il took
the committee thirty-six hours to
frame 1t, and If it took these able gem
tiemen so long to frame it and get it
In form, there must be some reason for
II; that if they could not find ont in
,hirty'six hours what they wanted,
now were his laboring men TO find out
what 1t meant. Laughter There
was radical difference between the
committee and himself. Tne very
aole chairman of the committee Mr..
MORRISON, thought there should be no
such thing, or could be no such thing.
as protection to American labor by
taxation. He, Butler, believed
that there should he protec-
tion' such fostering, such cherishing
protection, aud Mr.. Morrison c,uld
not yleld his conviction, and he But
Ter could not yield his, and therefore
the convention had to spend all this
une 10 say something that would
mean one thing one way and another
th,pg another way. Laughter He
asked the delegates to read that tariff
plank and see if they could find ont
exactly Whist it did mean. Did II
mean pro;ec ion? Col. Morrison was
L n0nESt tn hrtn.. 4
yet III was so twisted that IL might
mean protection. Laughter. the
Democracy had in it's platform m 1850
plank of tariff for revenue
and it become the hack
bone of the most gallant soln,ar
in the country Laughter. They had
tariff plank for pubic purro,es ex'
clusively. Where's the difference
Exclusively meant only exclusive
Laughter Passing to the currencv
question he said he affirmed the do,
Urine ef Andrew Jackson. that the GOV
eminent alone could issue money. and
he would rather be wrong with Iact-
son than be right with the committee
Laughter. He represented many
Hreenback men, good and true Graan
packers, like Allen G. Thurman and
,nese Ineh We're willing to come
10 the Democracy to stop corrupiion
and wrong in the government II tba
Democracy would have them. but bnu,
we're we're tney, with plank in the plat
,oiih .hat we are in favor of honest
money as ii the Greenbackers wsrs
not? Who was not in favor of HONEST
money? If there was sncb man
aeie 10! MN be put out. Laughter /
~ ne w ciVll service reform, he ventured
vehtion in favor of it, unless he NE
se,iooimaster. Laughter Ex-Secre-
ori.s, lshaletoh was the author of the
nas sna, civil service law, and he had
m rever oeeh heard of since. Laughter
nave passed civil service exsmina,i,"
,9r a 1900 clerkship. ILauehiar !
His early education had been ns,s,a",a
and in his will, written nv his on.
hand, he spelled clothes .c,oa,h o~n u
Laughter For himself Ia
wanted frequent changes in nf,,oa i IN
order to counterfeit the great tand. AZ
70 have aristocratic life In Office =,
want.a ~M . good thing. then he
ar !, ana a.; .ne people to have chance
w va. ~, ,a aha II IL was bad thing then il
H.. ~ tas ~ pu 10 "A DOOR fal. |
low. IN conclusion he said tho,
THIS convention told ,ha
working men and women of the conn
10y that they We're to be, he wonId na,
ssxy protected, but fostered and cher
,sned; then the Democratic marty
would sweep the country oiberw,Sss
they would remain in "ei tSsir
,whorksnops on election day AMI
lne Democrats would be agar
u 's theoretically he was n free.
We but practically when san on
~ OF revenue had to be raised an I'M
I tran mere could be no such thing as
iree Trade, and so long as some ;n
iustry must be fostered Am ,n
,an men and women shon,d
2e taken care Of. TAnnianSai
lie would call for q vn,.
y states on his substitute for ~. u.s
blank In the platform. w 'arih
Mr.. Converse next spoke in favor :,
ne adoption of the platform 'asor OF
'orled oy the majority of The COMMIT ~
sc; lie said there was much In Rn,
er's platform To ~ hut-
" could subscribe. T, h,cn
~, !, much 10 his tariff plank wh,ne e
y couid subscribe There was mnoh
lne plank embodied in the renor, ~
y, committee. The majority repori