The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-10
COLONEL Grav,s Resnonse.

Scobey and spoke for an hour and a quarter.
He said that the question for the people to de-
eide was whether or not the Republican party
should be continued in power four years longer.
Mr.. CalSlns had denounced the discussion of
dead issues and had devoted much of his speech
to quoting Democratic opinions on the tariff.
These, the speaker said, did not necessarily rep
resent the sentiment of the whole party. He
did not object to any of the appropriation bills
to which reference had been made. They were
necessary for the expenses of the government,
and he did not want the revenues reduced in
that way. The Republican party had not made
the money of the country good everywhere 1t
was Republican Secretary of the Treasury
who wanted to retire the greenback, and it was
a Republican President who vetoed the bill to
remonetize silver, which the Democracy
favored. That was part of history. On the
tariff question, Mr.. Gray said that the Demo
cratic party had never favored free trade. There
were out two ways to support the government;
one by tariff, and the other by direct taxation,
and no man or party would dare to favor the
latter The present tariff was a war tariff, UNI
just and inequaltable. The two parties were
nearly on the same grounds as regards the tariff.
There was little difference between them. A
Democratic Congress made tariff laws sixty
years before the Republican party was born.
The President and Secretary Of the Treasury, in
their last messages, both favored a reduction of
the tariff.
Continuing, Governor Gray said: 1 want
to call your attention to another very notable
feature of my distinguished competitor in the in
terest of the laborng people of the country. You
will all remember that in 1877, when the manu-
features of the country were idle; when the
wages of railway employees were reduced to
starvation prices; when their families were suf-
fering for the necessities of life; when they were
congregated together in their sore Distress lift
ing up their voices for relief 1t was then that
the Republican party, proclaiming itself in favor
of strong government, in favor of increasing
the standing army, that question came up in the
House OF Representatives, find then that my
distinguished competitor stood with the Repub-
lican party for strong government and stand
ing army, and he made this speech in the House
of Representatives. l read from the Record:
Mr.. Calkins-I move to amend by striking out the
last word The gentleman from Texas, Mr. Schlecher
in giving his why the pending clause should be
stricken out has made the best argument in the world
why the army should be raised to 90, 900 instead of
10000 mon, and announce myself who is in
favor of raising the army to $4,000 men, because
believe that would be true economy. know of no
surer and better guard and protection than army
trained and disciplined. 1t is well known that if any
persons aggregate number of people would secure
success in any department of life, no matter what
they must be trained in their particular school de-
partment. The army be relied upon the army is
without sympathy on occasions of this kind say to
the gentlemen upon the other side, that during the
recent riots it concusvely shown by the gentle
men who hold political opinions different from those
held this side of the House that they believe that
the Nations only security that had at that time
was IN the army as was shown by the calls tor as
President of the United States.
My competitor favored q standing army; he
was afraid the militia might have sympathy
with the men whose hands have been hardened
like iron with their toll. He wanted an army
like the armies Of the old world, that shoot the
laba
shoot dogs. What does he meanl Why does he
want standing armyl Why, my friends if he
should become Governor, and you should hap
pen to strike for your rights, you need not be
and to see the glisten of bayonets of the regular
army, called out by him to suppress you and
your rights. Cheers and Kisses.
am in favor of paying every
dollar of the public debt and of pen
s;oning all the soldiers. l am proud to be
able to stand before you to-day and say that it
was the Democratic party that passed the bill
equalizing soldiers bounties, and a Republican
President vetoed it, They say that they are in
favor of protecting American labor, and oppose
the importation Of contract pauper labor from
Europe say that before the advent to power
of the Republican party the importation of pau
per labor in this country was unheard Of If
this present tariff taxation is in the interests of
the American laborer, l want my opponent to
tell you why the rolling-mill at Indianapolis is
idle 1 want him to Sell why the carworks at
Jeffersonville are SILENT want him to tell you
why $4,000 men are idle in Cincinnati to-day,
and why 1000 men are idle at Jeffersonville and
New Albany; why 5000 men in the Hooking val
ley are out of work; why 100000 men are idle
in Massachusetts; why $4,000 men are idle in
Michigan; why, out of 84S blast furnaces in the
United States. only 126 are in operation want
him to tell you why there are so many men
standing Idle on the street corners.
million and a half of men are idle in the
United States to-day. l wanth him to tell you why
poor men are suffering for the necessaries of
life if this tariff IS in the interest of the manu-
facturer or the laborer that is employed therein
The Republican speakers go up and down the
country proclaiming to the people that the Re
publican party is the friend of the laboring man.
If that is true, tell me why they nominated
man for President, who, while in Office twenty
years on a salary of S., 900 year, has accumu-
lated n fortune of S. 900, 600 or &c. 600 900; why
they have nominated a man who has constructed
palace at Washington costing nearly $3.50, 900,
and who had to send to Paris for materials for
his furniture, and sent TO France to make the