St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-24
FOR THE OLD TICKET.
Tammany Hall Opens the Campaign
With a Ringing Boom for
Tilden and Reform.
Blackburn and Hurd Make Speeches and
Carlisle Sends Revenue Cutter
by Mail
A Crowd of Three Thousand People Gather
to Hear the Council of
Great Leaders.
special Telegram to the Globe.


Iammany hall. In point of intelligence it
would have compared with any, and that it
was an assured success was evident long be-
lore the hour for the meeting had arrived
NOT only were the leading local Democrats
present in large numbers, but it was also a
thoroughly representative meeting of the
thoughtful laboring men of all
grades and occupations, who had
come to listen to two of the
greatest speakers in the Democratic ranks
upon the subject of tariff reform. There
were fully 5000 persons who had arrived
byS O'Clock, inside the building, and they
stlil kept pouring in by hundreds.
Around the outside stands fully
o,oOo persons were congregated.
The Fourteenth street cars were blocked for
nearly an honr. q AS the cannon signaled
the hour OF the prominent members of
the party came on the platform, the orches-
ira played "Hail to the Chiefn The follow
ing gentlemen were among them: Ex-Lieut.
Gov. Dorsheimer, Senator j. G.. s. Blackburn,
OF Kentucky, and Congressman Frank Hurd,
OF Ohio, the two latter being the chief speak
ers of the evening. Gov Dorsheimer was
made chairman. When he got chance to
talk he said the Democratic campaign may
now be supposed to be open, and it would
only close when next November the an
nouncement of the election of Democratic
president and vice president would be in
order. Resolutions were then read and
adopted. They set forth Tammany's oppo-
sltlon to monopoly of all kinds, and
arraigned the Republican party for its land
grants, star route steals, treasury frauds,
protesting against the present tariff system
and setting forth the severest blow ever dealt
to the liberties of the American citizens and
the perpetuity of our republican insGtu-
tions was the theft of the presidency by the
Republican party in 1876. That fraud would
forever be stain on our history as a people.
1t can never be effaced, nor should it ever be
pardoned. 1t was deadly thrust aimed at
the life of the republic. An unconstitutional
commission created to override the will of the
people accomplished its purpose by a vote of
S to z.
Great applause followed the resolution,
| and three rousing cheers were given for Til
den and Hendricks, the old ticket Senator
j. c. s. Blackburn, of Kentucky, was greeted
with prolonged applause as he arose to
speak. Mr.. Blackburn spoke for over an
hour, and kept the audience wide awake. He
said that it was one of the wishes of his life
to stand on the platform of Tammany Hall,
the historic ground of an organization which
ha, battled for the right 100 years. He then
reviewed the merchant marine service, which
as far as the United States were concerned
was swept from the sea. The navigation
laws must be repealed. To-day the COM
merce on the sea of the country is despised
by the crumbling, effete and third
class dynasties of Europe. The
natural results of the third-class
policy of the party in power and their Chinese
wall of protection. We are paying over
$3.50, o,0OO,0 600 yearly for English bottoms to
carry our rich freights. We are, the speaker
continued, on the eve of a great
national contest, and the Democrats of New
York have not forgotten that they won
hard fought battle which was taken from
the hands of the American people by lot of
trlcksters and by the foulest, darkest and
most damning blot on the escutcheon of our
country. Great applause and more cheers
for Tilden prevented the speaker from pro-
ceeding for several minutes; even John
Kelly waved his white hat
I have denounced the fraud on the floor of
congress and those who were engaged in it
in stronger Language than I have used here
Tonight continued the speaker Samuel j.
Tilden carried the Democratic banner to
victory, and there is not an honest man to-
day who can or dare deny it. He received
majority of the popular vote and majority
of the electoral college, if it had been count
ed by honest men and not by knaves.
1t was the work of party, drunk with the
spoils OF office, who refused to lay down the
scepter, and who were not brave enough to
adopt the methods of the highwaymen, but
like sneak thieves, flched that which they
dared not claim or take. That wrong should
never be condoned, and time should merge
into eternity before it is forgotten. TGreat
applause].
When Senator Blackburn sat down, the
chair said: Ny fellow citizens, you will now
listen to an orator who never fails to win the
hearts and minds of those who hear him, I
have now the honor of introducing to YOU
Mr.. Frank Hurd, of Ohio''
MI. Lulu Wdo lCCClfco Will cQGcrS. He
made one Of his characteristic speeches. Dur
ing the course of his remarks the speaker
said: " deny the right of the government
to tax the working men to build up manufac-
turers in business into which they yolun
tarily entered. If can earn dollar should
have right to spend it to the best adyant-
age. That dollar is mine. 1 can buy a
hat from Frenchmen, for instance. for a
dollar, but the government says you shall
not buy your hat from the Frenchman for a
dollar, but from the man in Massachusetts
for two dollars. 1 must go back to my work
another day to earn what will satisfy
the Massachusetts halter. Let me
show you the gross robbery it is
of every man who is the father of a family.
The average is about S40O a year. This
amount mnst go away in the maintenance of
the family, put the tariff tax out of this
amounts to 500, or three months labor. If
there was no tariff, you would get the S4OO
the same as you do now, and not be Obliged to
have the 500 deducted. The people who
work in these productive industries are out
of employment about one-third of the time.
The Englishman gets 81 day. To put the
American on equality with him he should
have 50 day, but what is the facta He
only receives, according to the last
census, SLIP day. The wages
in free trade England are nearly twice as
good as in protective Germany. In the
United States, when we had a short expert
ence of free trade, the wages were so per
cent higher than at any other period.
The protection tariff increases the raw mater
al 10 ca q