The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-09-20
SENATOR BAYARD IN RRooE1vU.

Ben Buffers organ--the New YORK
Sun of the 10th inst, gives synopsis
of the proceedings of the grand Cleve-
land meeting held in the Brooklyn IN.
Y Rink ON Monday evening. The re-
port says: "An audience that filled tie
Brooklyn Rink assembled Monday night
to hear Senator Bayard, Gov. Albeit OF
New Jersey, ard the other Democratic
speakers on the programme, An over.
how meeting went on outside. Fire.
WORKS aud brass band enlivened the
scene outdoors until o'clock, when they
went in and played patriotic airs in the
gallery during the forty minutes which
elapsed before the meeting opened
There were several hundred ladies 10 the
Rink. The stage was decorated with
large American flags, smaller clusters Of
American, German and Irish flags, aud
large Cleveland and Hendricks banner,
which stretched across the front of the
organ at the rear of the platform"
Senator Baynrd, of Delaware, being
introduced, said at the outset that he
should avold local questions, which he
thought II improper to introduce iuto IA
speech pruiessedly devoted to national
poll les His first point was protest
against raising an issue between the la.
boring men and the owners Of caultal
who employ them. lhls was false, un
Am rlcau, and wholly luddmissable issue
10 Ue raised. II sucn an issue We're made
ana sucn struggle preclpltated 1t must
end III there being a victor and van
pushed, ''and who" cried the Senator,
"~uuld Wish to see any portion uf tue
American peoDle VauquIshedP' The
speaker next. and with much earnestness
OF manner, discussed what be termed tue
''mercenary idea" III politics, aud which
he d. tned to be the idea that official
position was not a public tlust but a
position for private profit, He related
how once when he was boy he Was con-
Quoted by n plain private soldier as n
guide through the Government arsenal
at H1rpef's Ferry. He had often tried
IN vain to get u bullet perfectly roun d
to fit his rife, and when he saw the
beautiful machlne-made leaden sph, res
in the arsenal he lorged for one. He
said to the soldier:
Can have one of those bullets to
take homer
No, sir, SAID the soldier, drawing
himself up with military erectness; ;.'they
Rle Goyernmsut prop erly.'
"Ihat man." continued the speaker
"sounded the keynote in which the
powers aud tue dIstnhulion OF the prop.
AT
administered. Disregard OF this lublic
property leads TO the Wholesale abuses
and cOrrnptioRs which We see in the par.
~ now in power The speaker illus
trSied This by citing the use OF the Gov
ernment vessels Tor pleasure yachts, aud
OF the navel reviews got up as spectacle
for the idle aud luxurious He spoke Of
The Star route frauds. aud the prostitution
by Mr.. Blaine Of the Speakership to pro.
mote his own pecuuiary advantage, He
referred to the Mulligan episode as it ap
pc red upon the Congressional r. cord, Vt
ana said II any man could doubt, after
reading 1t. the guilt OF Mr.. Blaine, par.
ticnlarly in view Of the last fresh wave
OF overwhelming and damniug evidence,
he could not understand the processes OF
such mans mIud. He devoted mncl
tine TO the discussion OF the tariff qu, s.
ton, maintaining that the heavy duIie'
were the cause OF the depression in The
labor demand anu of the ruin of III,
American marine carrying trade. II,
closed his speech, which was nearly tbre,
hours in length. with mplimentary al
lusions to Cleveland.
Gov. Albeit was next introduced ant
devoted his time almost exclusively Il
the discussion of the last chapter of th,
Mulligan letters. He read the angry let
ter from Mr.. Fisher to Blaine with sar
castle emphasis and said any honest mar
wonld have bitterly resented 1t. Mr.
Blaine only replied with q meek note be
ginning My Dear Mr. Fisher" Th,
G vernon closed by eulogiziug Cleveland
and promising that New Jersey would &c
Democratic