Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-13
Speech of the Republican Can-
didate for Governor of
indiana.
The Policy and Principles of the Repub-
licaR Party ElOQuently and
Effectively Defended.
The Work and Purposes of the Tw'
Great Parties Forcibly
Contrasted.
How the Republican Tariff Laws Have
Increased Wealth and Increased
the Means of Living.
Richmond Qnd.l special

Mai. Calklns, Republican nominee Tor
Governor, opened the campaign at Parkers
Opera House in this city. The building
holds about $500, and it was crowded. A
procession escorted the Mayor and other
city officials to the opera house. A glee
club of sixty-four voices opened the meet
ing with campaign song. Hon. L. d.
Stubs, Chairman of the County Central
Committee, presided. He read dispatch
from Col. W. w. Dudley, Commissioner of
Pension and Ca1kins' competitor for the
nomination, expressing good wishes and
cordial support Mr. Calkins was intro
duced amid deafening applause. which con-
tinued for several minutes. When quiet
was restored the speaker spoke substantially
as follows:
frequently. The Republican party is engaged
to-day in an effort to the Industries and the
labor system of the country from utter ruin.
The Democratic party Is engaged in trying to
destroy both. In 1856 the Republican party OPP
posed the extension of slavery in 1860 it refused
TO allow the d1Smem berment OF the Union; In
1864 1t refused to submit to dishOnOrable peace:
in 1865 it insisted the adoption of the consti-
tutional amendments; in 1872 it repudiated in
sincerity; i'll 1915 it opposed sham reforms; and
in 1880 1t in favor of honest money, in all OF
which it was opposed by the Democratic party
So, to- day. the Democratic party is engaged in
an assault upon the industrial interests OF the
country in as fragrant and wicked manner as
1t was to those questions In each OF the periods
have named.
The Republican party found an empty treasu-
~, and now it has surplus of S400000,000 1t
found the credit of the nation so low that the
bonds or the nation sold at II per cent discount,
bearing high rate Of interest, and sale for
them at this ruinOus price, while now its bonds
bear Per cent interest and are at a premium
OF 20 per cent. 1t found an inCipient rebellion
which ripened into cyclone of war, which it
subGued and made the union of States indisso-
luble, It found 100000 of slaves working with
out pay, with the masters lash applied to bare
backs, and labor forced from servile hands. 1t
struck the shackles from their limbs and made
It found the mother of the slave children de-
nie6 the right of owning her own child. The
Republican party placed her guardianship above
that Of the master. 1t found fathers and hus-
bands unable to protect the virtue OF their
wives or daughters; it wrote manhood upon
their face, and placed in their hands the power
OF the law for their full protection. 1t found
slavery recognized in the Constitution, and it
blotted it out by the thirteenth amendment. 1t
found the mouths of witnesses closed in the
courts of justice, and 1t unlocked their tongues
and gave them the power tospeak by the four
teenth amendment.
1t found men born and reared in this country
derived of the right of suffrage, and placed the
ballot in their hands.
I find among the first enunciated principles of
the Democratic party, according to their Chicago
platform. q declaration that it is in favor of re-
ducing all Federal taxation to point so low
that the raised shall be exclusively for
public purposes, and shall not exceed the needs
of the Government economically administered.
The words used in this declaration are disin-
genous and crafty, but the Republicans are not
LETT alone to put an Interpretation upon them.
Upon that question the Republican party makes
issue with its adversary, and boldly and fear
lessly throws down the gage of battle and chai-
lenge5 them to discussion Of the questions
involved
The declaration IN favor of honest money
gold and silver coinage OF the Constitution, con-
yertible into circulating medium without loss
is a departure from recent Democratic policy
We can congratulate ourselves as Republicans
that we have converted the Democratic party
from the error of its ways on this subject, as on
many others of late years, and have brought
them back within constitutional bounds.
The declaration by the Democratic convention
relating 10 the question of sumptuary laws is
misleading and deceptive. The design of the
declaration was to capture the German vote of
the country, and in the word "sumptuary" they
seek to practice a deception both upon the
German voters and upon the honest temper
ance Democratic voters. 1t is hardly necessary
to remind the people that the Democratic party
have always enacted sumptuary laws when they
have been IN power IN this State. The control
of the liquor traffic by license is sumptuary
law | now warn the German voters of this
State that the Democratic party will make use
of them just so long as they find it to their ad-
vantage, and the moment that they find it con-
venient, after having used them for the purpose
of getting into power, to betray them, they will
not hesitate to do so. This has been the history
of the Democratic party IN its dealings with all
classes in the past.
The most singular declaration found in the
Democratic platform is in relation to the regard
which the Democratic party has for law But
when interpreted IN the light of the resolution
following its construction is not difficult It
first assures the capital of the country that the
Democratic party doesn't intend to play the
pirate and robber, and then it turns its face i'm
nediately toward the people and informs them
that the Democratic party intends to forfeit all
the railroad land grants for the purposes of
homesteads. 1t is the old game of talk with
double tongues to different classes.
The declaration by the Democratic party that
it is the duty OF the United States to protect it's
citizens at home and abroad, when compared
with its acts, is an anomaly. While the asser-
ton contains sentiment which should be car
T1oQ with ScruDQlOuS oYactneSE vet the
Democratic party have never attempted to pro-
tect the American citizen, either at home or
abroad, whereby his rights might be entirely Sc
cured to him. Such declaration by the Demo-
cratic party while it withhods appropriations to
build navy OF TO construct guns which are the
rights OF American citizens abroad, is simply
ridiculous. 49,
/ am at loss to know why the Democratic
party of to-day referred with pride to the &C
QUESTION of Louisiana Florida, and the Mexican
territories. The stab they gave the Republican
party for the acquisition of the territory of
Alaska is in harmony with Democratic thought
In the Democratic State and national plat
forms will be found vague illusions to civil
service reform Exactly what is intended can
not readily be understood. We know that they
are not in favor of the reform measures fnsti-
tuted by the Republicans. Mr. Hendricks re-
cent declaration. in his speech after the Dem
ocratic convention at Chicago dissipates all
uncertainty on that question. And even If his
utterances were less certain than they are, the
recent overthrow of that distinguished Dem
ocrat in Ohio, Senator Pendleton. leaves no
room for doubling that the Democratic party is
utterly opposed to civil-serViee reform such as
has been entered upon by Republican rule.
While 1t pretends TO love abstract virtue, the
Democfat1c party hates concrete reform 1t
Talsltes IN its platform; it attempts a straddle
On the tariff; it condones cipher dispatches,
nurses population, commits fraud on the L allot-
box, suporns witnesses, nurses forgery, dafles
the jury box, stains the judicial ermine, de-
grades the citizen. dishonors statesmen, and
disarns the patriot
It's dey1try is seen in the utterances of its last
platform. wherein it laues the last Legislature
For passing the metropolitan police bill, and yet
cries with loud voice for local self government
In pretending TO be the soldiers and sailors
friend. II makes an uncertain declaration as to
what soldiers II desires to pension By its ut
terancea. also in the State platform it CON
dennis the Chief Executive Of this State for the
appointment OF his party friends to the
control OF the chariJa bic. benevolent. and penal
.nsttCutions of the State, whereas his imnetIi-
ate predecessor had committed the exact nets
for which they assume to denounce the present
Executive And the Democratic Legislature in
violation Of all law ana ali the traditions of this
State, in addition to It's other crimes, sought to
ooeroe the Executive into the approval of meas
pres which did not meet his views by a threat to
withhold the annual appropriation bills unless
he should give his consent TO their nefarious
acts. al this the Democratic party, IN their
State platform, reatf1rm and approve.
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