The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-22

let them come in competition with II, but not
! until then Go to the old country yourself and
see them there. In passing through Ireland
| | recollect once of seeing a man digging deep
into the ground that ! thought he certainly must
be digging the foundation for a house, and when
L got up closer | found he was following the
trunk of a stump, struggling deep down into the
earth to get little pittanee of wood to cook the
| praties' for his almost starving wife and
children. Go to the magnificent elty of Glasgow,
with IT'S h1gh and line buildings, broad streets,
| and where will you see more ragged, detected
and miserable women walking the streets than
you will see there, reduced to poverty because
! the wages that the husband receives utterly
| inadequate to support them as they ought to be.
Go over into Belgium, one of the thriftiest
! countries on the globe and there you will find
| those people; contented they are hard work
ing, economical and thrifty as they are, there is
| no outlook for them beyond their present
| situation. The man who is a gardener to-
| day. his and grand Sons
gardeners after hill. If the father is a bod-ear-
rler, his sons and grandsons are hod- carIIers;
! they have been and will he, for generations and
| generations. Go down through southern
| Europe: go into Germany, that great empire,
and Austria; who do you find out in the fields at
work there9 The women. You find women in
the eorn-feld, you find the women gathering the
! hay yon find the women guiding the wagon, and
| the able bodied and strong and young men of
those countries are in the army, protecting them
| from the other empires that are close at hand
Go down into sunny Italy, and look into that
| classic city OF Rome, and see the miserable beg
| gars there, exhibiting their CHASTITY wounds and
| sores and appealing to you for something to
! eat TO into the lively city of Venice and as
You lay back comfortably in your gondola
! sail nicely and hstlessly through
the canal listening to the sweet strains of beau
! tiful music, and pass from that eneh anting
| scene into the manufactures there, and the
women and the children, with pallid faces and
lnfamed eyes. making mosaic for pittance ut
| tery inadequate to keep soul and body together
That is what you would be reduced to here if it
were not for the protecting power of the Repub-
| lican party, that has always been alive to the
| real wants of the people, following the people,
! lifting up the people. and caring for the people
| What man is there that has doubt what will
| take place if Mr. Blaine is elected There is
not one single solitary man upon the stump,
! from Mr.. Blaine to me, the highest to the low
| est there is not candidate for Congress. the
| platform that we adopted Mr. Blaine's letter of
acceptance and all of his speeches, but tells the
same story of protecting the American laborer
| IL 1t Is a German that comes here and swears al
| legiance to this country if it is Irishman a
| Frenchman, Immediately he becomes natural
| lied, then he is my brother, then he is my com
panion and my friend; but long as he holds his
| allegiance to any other country, whether is is
| the English government or the German gov
| eminent, and attempts to bring their labor into
competition with ours. I but reflect the senti-
| ments OF Mr.. Blaine, our great leader, when
| say that / am for America against the world
! tCheers and great applause England may
| take care of her people as best she may, but
America will care for Americans, and let Eng
| land and Germany care for their own. The
reason the old countries are all in favor.of Mr..
| Cleveland is because they know that if Mr..
| Blaine is elected President article that we
| want to sell in South America will not go
! there by way of Liverpool; and among other
| things because they know that when any
! adopted citizen of this country, be he a native
! of any foreign power be he German, Irishman
| Italian or FIenchman, goes to the old country
on a visit either on business or for pleasure the
folds of that flag are around him, and fifty five
| millions of people are here to protect him.
| There will be no mistake about that and they
! know that there will be no mistake about it.
/ The mission of the Republican party is to pro-
tect the industries of America and to protect the
| lives Of American citizens as the Republican
| party has always done.
Col Thompson who addressed you so elo-
| quently a few minutes ago, asked you this ques-
| ton ibid you ever stop to think of that 1873
electoral votes that are given to the Democratic
| party by the South without a question: WHY
| is it that you do not find the Democratic speak
| ers and the Democratic newspapers OF the
| South asking their people to vote for the Demo
cratic ticket Why is it that 1853 electoral votes
| are given up to Cleveland without wordl 1t is
| simply because they have no trouble in controll-
| ing that vote. AMI how do they hold
| it, By fraud and treachery. l speak of only
what know. You say you are not afraid of the
| Democratic reporters coming into your State. ]
| hope you not afraid but warn you Repub-
| hcans, to look after it we'll Look at the men
| that went to Cincinnati and voted in that Ohio
election; some of them will not be here to vote,
! in this election, the Democratic ticket ZAP
| plauss There is a gang from my own town in
| Jail in Cincinnati and hope they will work it
out of them, Applause The rif-raff of the
town, the rabble went into Cincinnati and prac-
ticed the same fraud that they have pHactieed in
| the Southern States 1 havO recoiee-
ton, in fact, now of Democratic
paper in the town of Lexington stat
had appointed 100 extra policemen, and among
them, this same Democratic paper said, were
murderers, men from the penitentiary, and men
pardoned out of the jailS and prisons. to act as
police to bulldoze and browbeat the Republicans
at the polls / am speaking of what know, not
of what 1 have heard A Republican town and
| county that always gives Republican majority
for the presidential candidates is made to go in
a local election, 1000 Democratic, and it could
just as easily go 1900 Democratic by the same
means Look to it. my friends of Indiana that
you do not have the same thing practiced upon
you
l know there have been some Republicans that
say it will ehasten the Republican party now
and in four years they will put the Republican
party back into power; but my friends, beware
of that You let the Democratic party get into
power once, and you will find the way they
hold the South, they will hold the North, and
it will take bloodier war than our late civil
war to get them out of power again. Stand to
your coors, and see that you treat them in this
election just exactly in the war. There is no
rebel that does not say now, Thank God for
your victory They do not want the gov
eminent dsmembered. Do them the
same way in this election, and give them a
spanking again and bury them deep, face down
wards, that they may be looking directly towards
home. [Great applause Keep them out of pow
err and leave the government in the hands of
those who maintained Its integrity and honor
When Cleveland comes into power, if such an
infection should come upon us-and God Al
mighty in his mercy divert it-should he be
elected from whence will he get his advisers;
his members of the Cabinet and ministers
abroad He is bound to 90 where the Demo
cratic party is and it is in the Southern States
and in the heads of rebel men. He is bound to
turn to them. Federal soldiers how
would yeu like to have a rebel general sitting in
the pension office and determining whether on
should have pension, a rebel soldier saying
whether your wife or children should have