Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-10-22


It opposed every reform that has been
brOupht about in the civil service OF the
country during the last quarter OF
1t opposed the thirteenth, fourteenth,
and fifteenth amendments ana the en-
actmcnt of all laws providing for the
enforcement of these provisions or our
fundamental law.
It is dominated by the most danger,
Gus elements in the country, and should
it get possession of the Government 1t
would be controlled by the class OF men
who ran the Government machinery
under Buchanan. -.
It has repeatedly disturbed the bust
ness of the country by lmprudently
tinkering at the tariff laws.
It is the author OF the Morrison Iar-
Tiff bill, and made most desperate Ell
fort to force it through Congress.
tt is the financial agent of England
and other foreign Powers for the pur-
pose of disseminating free-trade liter
allure among the people and influencing
legislation in the interest OF foreign
capitalists.
It opposes the policy of protection to
American industry by judicious I'M
position of tariff duties upon imports:
1t has arrayed itself against the wool
interests, and if it gets the power to
execute what it has so desperately at
tempted it will bring ruin upon the
wool-growers.
1t is an enemy to labor and would
rob the son of toll of his God--glven
right to earn comfortable livelihood.
1t tries to rob the workingmen OF the
means by which he shelters, feeds,
clothes, and educates his children.
1t has declared war against the IN,
dustrial interests of the country, and
if successful our present prosperity
1t is the champion of free trade,
which would eventually lower tho
wOrkingmen of this country to the con-
dition Of the pauper laborers Of Eng
land.
1t has given aid and comfort to the
practice of polygamy in Utah and the
adjoining Territories.
1t tried to steal the State Government
of Maine.
It manufactured the tissue ballot"
system in the South.
1t has manufactured Democratic ma
| jorities by counting ballots contrary to
| the way they were cast.
1t undertook to defeat the express
will of the people of 1876 through brib-
cry and cipher dispatches.
! 1t undertook to wipe from the stat
books the Federal election laws,
Republicans enacted to protect the pur-
| ity of the ballot and secure honest cleo
| tiOns.
1T threatened to starve the Govern
ment if it did not succeed in repeating
the Federal election laws.
1t maliciously attempted to ruin the
| Christian statesman, James A. Gar
| field, by charging him with having I'M
properly accepted 1929.
It forged the Infamous Morey letter
| in 1880 and tried to deceive the people
into the belief that it was genuine:
1t has for years been engaged In a
mad effort to break down the character
of the great popular leader, James G..
Blaine, by the employment of foul and
vile calumny, SANDER, abuse, and bill
lingsgate.
sylvania by trying to force the passage
of unconstitutional Apportionment
bills.
It robbed the taxpayers of Pennsyl-
vania of over quarter million OF dol
lars in the uselessly prolonged session
of 1888.
1t opposes free speech by breaking up
Republican meetings in the South and
stoning Republican professions in the
North.
1t has been the tool of the corpora
tons and monopolies in New York by
aiding them in defeating the "Five-Cent
Fare bill" and other measures in the
interests of the people
1t is the tool Of that dangerous mon
opoly. 1.-The Standard Oil Company,
which bribed the Ohio Legislature to
defeat the Free Pipe Line bill"
It offers an insult to every pure WO-
man in our land by favoring the eleva-
ton of a man to the Presidency who is
admitted to be an adulterer.
| 1t insults the fathers and mothers OF
America by supporting man for Chief
Magistrate of the Republic who would
rob their daughters Of their virtue if
he could.
1t offers premium for RIGHTEOUSNESS
by nominating a man for PRESIDENT OF
the United States whom his own polit.
ical associates recognize as libertine
1t insults the memory of President
Lincoln by nominating for Vice-Presi.
dent the man who publicly denounced
Lincoln as "a smutty old tyrant."
1t cannot point to a single act it has
performed or even honestly urged in
Che interest of good government during
the last thirty years.
| 1t has the most disgraceful and the
blacklist record of all the political or.
CARNATIONS which have ever existed
among men.
There is not another civilized coun
try On this planet that would allow 9
party with such record to exist. Ii
the early days of the Republic an or:
| ganization with such tendencies would
not even have had a respectable follow
ing, and the idea of intrusting the
leaders of such an organization with
the management of the Government
would not for one single moment have
BEEN seriously entertained.