The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-28
THE CANVASS IN VIRGINIA.
Address by Senator Malone Bourbon MIS-
rule and Republican Prosperity.

WASHINGTON July Ex-senator Malone
opened the campaign last week in speech just
published He said:
'Your relations to the national government are of
prime Importance. The signs until lately have been
unpropitious You are greatly concerned IN having
friendly federal relations. Whether this friendllness
shall continue as now, it is for you to say. Upon
the Bourbon party rests the responsibility
for the sectionalism that has brought upon
you, citizens of Virginia, degree of decay and
retrogression. This is verified by the fact that our
State, the foremost, IS now the fifteenth IN
grade and population. Under Democracy you have
gone backwards. Now recur to the administration
Of your domestic affairs to attest the correctness OF
this declaratonY Shall remind you that during the
ten years the Democratic party controlled the state
they abored without result to settle vital question:
To settle that question not in accordance with your
rights and interests but at the dctations of and in
every legislative device employed to saddle upon
you and your children debt the principal OF which
was Sis, 900, 600 more than you honestly owed
The speaker briefly reviewed the condition OF
the State and its various interests prior TO 1879
and stated that the overthrow Of the party IN
1883 had been brought about not by the exercise
of judgment and sound discretion (ese why
were faithful agents turned out to make room
for those who had abused every trust confded to
them but by methods which, in his judgement,
were disgrace to the men who employed them.
Those methods, he said, eliminated in the pre-
determined massacre of your people. Inc
1dlS6 anu VICIOUS Oanflll6 clfCuidT WAS 0loOIlD
uted from Democratic headquarters and the mas
sacre was foretold as thing to happen, as the
final result of the methods used to overthrow the
| judgment of free people.
The speaker then referred to the last Legls
lature, and said that for himself he would cease
to have any selfrespect if he could find it posi-
BILE to vote the Bourbon ticket. He continued:
But there are other considerations which should
direct your political conduct If there is any one in
concers the people of Virginia it is the
interest of rrOtectiuQ mauufac
turing Industries, and promoting labor. need not
carry beyond the boundaries of this State to es
tablish the assertion. New England in respect
be compared to Virginia in natural advantages; yet
in New England you find happy prosperous peo-
pie, surrounded by churches, schools, and all
that go to make up refined and cultivated
society. In spite of its natural sterty Of soil agrl
culture is prosperous Whence come all these? From
manufactures and diversified industries What are
your interests2 What are the interests Of the valley
which not to be benefited by the tariff Mark the
results that have followed the enforcement of pro-
tective tariff by the Republican party In 1860 there
were 40 large manufactures; in 1880, 224 in 1860
our capital was 81 600 600 in 1880, $2,75O, 600
900; value of products in 1860, 81 $50, 900, 600;
in 1880, Sc, $50, 900. 000 amount paid to artisans
| 1880 $948, o0o,0 900, against 1879 900. 600 in
1850 o There were IN operation in AZ 1850 86o
miles. These are evidences Of progress under Re.
publicanism and they stand out in bold contrast to
the results of Democratic reign Every period in the
history of the under free trade has been
marked by depression and panics on the other hand
every interest has prospered under protection. How
has protection affected the farmerss In 1860 there
| were 1000 600, in 1880, LOCO 900. In 1860
there 163, 000,O 900 acres of improved land in
i 1880, 2S5, 600, 900. In 1860 there were employed
upon farms 3, $50 000 persons; in 1880, 1850 600
4 IN 1860 the value of farm products SIS, 800
j 100000; in 1880, $4,000 100000. Ask the
farmer where protection works injury to his interest
in any particular. If there is virtue in figures it is
proven that as manufacturers prosper so do the In
| terests of agriculture
1t will occur to every farmer that if he has de-
mand for all be raises he can find market for his
surplus. He at least railroad transportation
l Whatever he has to sell commands better price,
whilst everything that he buys can be got cheaper
! than under free trade. Who wants free trade? Not
the farmer mechanic. 1t is certainly not to their
interests. Under that policy the excess Of our i'm
ports from $50, 600 600 to $50 600, 600; under
protection the excess of exports is $780,
! 0000
England now urges you to adopt free trade. 1t is
only within the past forty that she favored
that policy Prior to that for 500 years she had been
\ the most pronounced Of protectionsts. Who can
contemplate the history Of Ireland Turkey,
4 or India without feeling contempt for
i Blitain9 The manufactures of Ireland have wasted
and gone to decay the result of the policy forced
/ upon her by England. To-day England strikes hands
with the Democratic party for free trade If there is
any one who will keep that company, don't want
| him to keep company with me. Who are the Repub-
hcan candidates, and what the platform Is there a
i sehool-boy who can't read the Republican platform
and tell what it means? As for the Democratic plat
form, am content to take Democratic Ben Butler $
/ analysis.
Don't allow yourselves to be deceived by clap-trap
The issue between free trade and protection The
way leads to freedom and prosperity the other to
/ degradation / do not hesitate to my individual
1 duty. For the future shall be found under the flag
Of protection and Repubhcanism In respect to these
measures, where will you find man more Distinctly
/ identified with both than candidate James G.
Blaine and John A. Logan history runs parallel to
that of Blaine.