The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-10-24


product, have got to cut down in his
wages from 20 to 30 or 40 per cent. to ena-
BILE me 10 compete with British and Do
minion labor and manufactures.
Said /, my friend are you going to
vote with the Democratic party, that will
drive you to that? And said he, ION the
whole don't think l will" Applause.
well" said l, III you so conclude, how
much more should every man in your en-
ploy conclude that" Why, the Repubi-
can party could stand any loss that falls
upon the lumbermen, upon capitalists, be-
cause that does not come so nigh mans
household and hearthstonc MS when II falls
upon the man who does the labor. And
us you come down to the laboring man, to
the same element that called into being the
Republican party, to this same great es.
tate that produced the Republican party,
then the result of free trade as opposed 10
protection becomes clearer, and the result
more and more disastrous. - Applause.
Now, more than that, there is not a city
in Michigan. whetherit be Detroit or Grand
Rapids, or Muskegon down the lake. or
the Saginaws, Bay City. Port Huron, Ian
sing Ionia, OF any place where is heard
the sound of the hammer and of the i'm
plements of human industry that is not af
fected by it. Protection benefits not only
the manufacturer, but the laborer and the
farmer within circuit of miles around.
There is not any acre of land within fifty
miles OF one of your great manufac-
turing centres that has not been ten times,
twenty times, fifty times, and some times
one hundred fold, now and then, in
creased in value by the manufactures
that are built up under the dispensation
that the Republican party gives to the peo-
pie. Applause. There is not product
of the farm, there is not bushel of wheat
or corn, pound of grapes or peck of
peaches, or anything that the soil produces
that is not increased in value by protec-
ton and the Republican doctrine; aud the
beauty of it all is, and that is the strength
of the Republican cause, that the farmer,
the merchant, the manufacturer the miner,
and the worker in the forge, in the shop
and everywhere, all participate alike.
Applause. That is Republication, my
friends; that is Republicanism. The Re
publican party is being understood this
year, my friends, as never before. Old is
sues are vanishing, as / said; they can not
be restored, and this ono living, overmas-
tering question is to-day being discussed at
our American firesides. Down in my own
State the people read the letters of the Re
publican candidates for President and Vice
President, and their doctrines become
household words, and for six weeks these
doctrines rung in the night air of the State,
and were discussed to the exclusion of ev-
cry other question, and at last the people
gave their verdict in 10000 majority for
Republicanism and protection. APP
pause Down in Ohio it crowded out
all other issues from the consideration,
81 snl. tl,.,,..
who had great moral questions ut heart
questions OF large concern TO the people.
questions that in due form and in due
time shonld be considered, but within the
furnace heat of the discussion of the con.
sideration that permeated and animated
Ohio, all these other considerations were
shriveled and burned TO dust and Republi-
canism and protection overwhelmed and
swept them all out Of human mind. APP
plause. And | mistake, my friends, if
Michigan don't repeat what has been the
voice of Maine and Ohio, mistake if this
State, the State that has produced in the
past the Chambers, the Waynes, the How
ards, and the other great men that have
lead the party, who in their day were true
to protection, don't stand to-day by the
doctrines and beliefs and inculcations of
the fathers. Applause. / am mistaken
if Michigan does not roll uD for the Re.
publican candidate for President and Vice
President $4,000 majority. Applause,
aud cries of YES, and 10000. Make it
as large a majority as you will; am will
ing if in addition to that you redeem the
State from the representation and misrep-
resentation Of the State to-day in the ma
tional House of representatives. Con.
tinued applause and shouts of 1--WE
will!"1
Ohio to my mind, has settled the Presi-
dental battle, and settled 1t right, and
don't want to see Mr.. Blaine in the Presi.
dental chair, cramped and confined and
thwarted. as was Gen. Grant in the last
years of his administration by Democratic
House Of Representatives. Cries of
Mort / don't want to see his admins
tration made nugatory. as was Mr. Hayes,
by the presence of hostile majority In
the popular branch of Congress. / don't
want to see Mr.. Blaine in the White House
trying to give form TO the doctrines of the
Republican sentiment and Republican pol
icy, detained, kept back, thwarted and
bsffled as has been President Arthur dur
ing the last year Of the Presidential Ad-
ministration. My friends, l want to say
that now. the verdict on the Presidential
election has been settled / want every
man 10 turn his heart and his mind to Sc
curing Representative, and majority OF
Republicans in the National House of Rep
resentatives with the great power that
dwells there. i know of no man whom
we can so i'll afford to lose and miss from
the battles and the council board in Wash
ington as your Hon. Representative, Mr..
Horn, whom have frequently met there.
[Great applause.
can see MIN now, when the old South
srn Democracy, when the old or new free
trade Democracy rallies in the House OF
Representatives upon some new issue that
touches the people upon the wrong side,
as they always are, can see my friend
Horn pouring hot shot into all their lines
and the dismay that is written on their
faces. [Great applause.
l can see his face on the popular forum
as he addresses the people of the United
States. Applause.] There is no man
that the Republicans of Maine in the bat
ties that we have been fighting for years
down there. the battles that have made
Maine the Belgium of America-there is