The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-07-17

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Your palfnr says HAT ,ou w,,,, I c,,t
uoAii tstNit1ln.i $" siEat but Mat ,..il can
protect NorAlnginep. And s.Ji siA ,i.,.,
must not br eut down below llli N,H
! what are Sou going Ia do if yea d,t,i
j them down: 4ou can sav it,A. Asr, IL.
/ Your platform, that you will not diacrtlii
nate in favor OF the workngmell and
| women of this country, who ar,. lin. tr,,,.
Democracy of the country.
| Col. Morrison will tell You that he dnes
not believe that protecting labor is foster
ing and chershing labor. | do not use
The word protection, because [ do moi
want to 1annt u red flag to II bull. If he
does not belf9ve that, for more than tifty
years the Democratic party las told the
| worklngmen of the country. ever since
Andrew Jackson, III 1882, declared in
favor OF Il Judicious tariff. that q tariff did
afford protection to them, and they be-
lieye II. And they have taught it to their
children and their childrens children. and
they are to vote, not you. You cannot
unteach them that in single campaign.
unless you get the chairman of the sub.
committee who drew the platform. the
gentlemen froIH New York. TO 90 into
every school district in this country and
explain it. Laughter | speak in the
interest. therefore. OF the Democracy
l speak for your success, and it is for you
to say whether you viii grasp the success
when it is laid down to yonr hand. do
not intend to ask a vote upon any resUln :
ton but this tariff resolution, and shall
submit this tariff resolution as IN amend
ment instead of the resolution which you
have heard read. r-.a ..asci
1t was pressed through our committee
by the cry. "Oh, we must appeal from the
sub committee. | said, l will appeal to
the convention, for they have got to sus-
tam the Democracy of the country, and
therefore am here | desire to call your
attention to one or two other Of the planks
which will no. submit to the convention
for know you are anxious to get through
with your duties and go home. The first
want to call your attention to is the Diff
ference OF the plankS about thecurrency.
| affirm the doctrine of Andrew Jackson.
that the government alone can issue.
money, and | had rather be wrong with
Jackson than right with your committee.
Applause and laughter. I 4 s..l-s... 4. -
General Butler then proceeded to dis
cuss the currency question. and expressed
the views contained in his letter of accep-
lance OF the Greenback nominations Con-
tlnuing, he said: There is another
trouble. You START off in your platform at
one point and say you are in for an honest
civil service reform, Now, will venture
to say, there is not u man in this conVen-
tlon that Is IN favor of civil service re-
form unless he is a schoolmaster. [Cries
of Time" in the audience Que Of the
first statesmen of Ohio, one who would
have II right to have been brought here by
his delegation and before yOll for YOUR
SuffiageS as President, an able Il learned
man, got carried away by doctrineaires,
and started what is known as civil service
REFORM and it buried him so far out of
sight with the Ohio Democracy that. he
has never been heard of since. Laugh
ter. What is this civil service reform?
1t is to give the man preference who Shall
appear to have the most learning. zaW 1lA
lie signs paper containing questions,
and if he can answer the questions he is
said to be selected. Now what IWant is
the man from the people, earnest men of
capacity and integrity to have the office,
and You can not learn that by any school
house examination. Whose portrait is
this above my head? 1t is the portrait of
George Washington, and he could not have
passed an examination for clerkship in
the POst-Ofice Loud cries Of Time
from the audience. Give us rest. &c.;
cries from the delegates to s'go on ~ The
Chair finally succeed in obtaining order by
the vigorous use Of the gavel. Let me
repeat, George Washington could not have
passed civil service examination in the
Capital for 81 200 clerkshlp. His early
education was neglected. and in his will,
written by his own hand, he spells clothes
''cloathes. Therefore / have said that
the offices belonged to the people, and
there ought to be frequent change Of
office i'll order to look over the books and
see who are defaulting, and they want to
be all turned out, or else when you try to
punish them they will protect oneanother,
as they did i'll the Starroute trial.
Again, want frequent change in office
in order to counterfeit the great tendency
of these times to "a caste aristocraey of
life offices. If an Office is q good thing,
then want all the people to haYea chance
at il. Laughter fit is a bad thing, it
is too bad to put it on a poor fellow for his
life. Laughter 80 s;ss
In the closing moments of the time per-
mitted to me, | want to call your attention
back to the main thing, because all these
other matters are matters of very slight
consequence i'll the comparison. Bring
your minds once more back to this tariff
platform. eaf4 s.Ia.s
Tell them this tonight tell the work.
ingmen and women of this country to-
night, whether we will or will not protect
them-nO, not protect, but cherish and
foster, like mother her child the labor
lily lucIl etllu WOluel vi bIlS COullGFy. Tel
them that, and you will sweep the country.
Refuse to tell them that and they, sorrow
full that the Democratic party has de-
serted them, will go their way sadly to the
workshop and remain there on election
day.
Now my friends. | shall ask call of
the States upon the substitution of my
tariff plank for the tariff plank of the
platform. There are objections-there
are free-trade notions against protection.
Theoretically l am a free-trader myself.
Applause in the gallery and cries of
"Time," and considerable confusion.
The Chair raped vigorously, and when
order had been restored, General Butler
resumed as follows
But practically, while you have got to
raise two hundred millions year by custom
duties there is no such thing as free
trade. Therefore, so long as we raise this
money, so long see to it that you cherish
and foster in doing 1t American industry.
and take care of American men and
women laboring for their support. Then
let me say to you if you do that the De-
mocracy shall go on and the country prosper
under their rule from year to year, and
from Presidential election to Presidential
election, until the old times of Democracy
shall come back again, when they held the
country for generation or more. APP
plause and yells and cheers from the gal
laries. To-
.Ff Bmtlcr's Platform.
[The planzs of certain portions of platform
by General Benjamin +. Butler, of
the Committee Resolutions, were rejected
Other poi tions, such as the subject of the dis
position of internal revenue taxes to O pension
fund, the American foreign policy and the ap-
pontment of Federal officers in Territories
from the citizens thereof, were adopted by the
committee. ss....r... Iessi j., 49,.
I "Resolved, That no taxes, direct or Indirect
can be rlghtfully imposed upon the people, ex-
cept to meet the expenses of an economically
administered government. To bring taxation
down to this point is true administrative re-
form.
'Resotped. That the people will tolerate di-
rect taxation for the ordinary expenses of the
government only in case of dire necessity of
war. u4i f- 49, 1.
'ResotUed. therefore. That the revenue nee
essary for such expenses should be raised by
customs duties upon imports after the manner
of our fathers. t ~ -fAF Gfttiif
''Resolued, That in levying snch duties two
principles should be carefully observed First
That all materials used in the arts and man
ufactures, and the necessaries of life not pro
duced in this country shall come in free: and,
that all articles of luxury should be taxed as
high possible up to the collection point.
in imposing customs duties the
law must be carefully adjusted to promote
American enterprise and industries not create
and to cherish and foster Amer
lean labor.
Faithful industry is the basiS on which a.