Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-13

desire that. bat somebody must be nom
mated for Vice President, TO run on the
ticket with the candidate for President,
and when the ticket Il presented 20 you
you are called upon 20 pass Judgment
upon Is IN respect 70 Its merits The
question IS: Will you sapport il aud IN
asking you that question | want to ask
yoa another: Do you not. all of you.
Democrats and Republicans, believe
thai the AT airs Of the Government have
been long enough IN the hands OF one
set of men? And do ven not all believe
that We have reached period where
there ooeht 10 be change? do not
That Is not NV idea IL man
mas done his duty well, and
faithfully il be has not Used the pow
the people If be has not used their
money TO corrupt elections; If be has
simply confined himself 20 the duties of
his office. | ara not clamoring for his
official blood. Bat, nv fellow citizens,
of the one hundred and twenty thou
sand that now fl efhcial positions in
this country. We have no right to sup
pose, from what has taken place. that
ICY aAC al bbScSSs AGC GUY
that we can do nov is 10 make change.
A month ago rybody Supposed that
all the EN- sloyees in the Bureau of Med
icine and Sargery were honest. and now,
at the very first examination, IL turns
oct that they are not. What Is the
remedy? Put them out and put hoxest
men in. We cannot do that If we leave
the President and heads of depart
- nd an 4
faith that this ticket will be elected. /
think | know something about Indiana.
We will probably stand here together,
won't We? and this banner of liberty, of
right, of Justice, of fair government,
that has been placed in the hands OF
Cleveland and Hendricks shall be car
ried and placed in glorious triumph on
the top of the National Capitol in No
vember next. Shall this be the peo-
Piles banner? You have no interest ex-
cept in good government, and think /
have none. | have lived in Indiana q
good while. | tried to secare your con-
tidence and preserve it, and all ask of
you ia your support, not for myself, but
for yourselves and your children and all
government Now / have spoken
longer than linton led. / know when
any of my Republican friends who are
intending to stand by their party still
longer shall see this numerous crowd
here tonight thsy will think the doom
of the fates has lme at last. Why, |
happened up the street few weeks ago.
Ii was Just after Blaine and Logan we're
nominated, and l saw a little gathering
of very honest and honorable people
hah oxvsn fhaFaaaluna axnaaAsneir
and very quiet, and General Harrison
was delivering them a speech about the
made at Chicago, and re-
and drop it right down amongst you
you would not notice it at all. What
does it mean Ii seems that the people
intend to have reform, and that 10 the
watchword that is written on every
the Democratic banner eight years ago,
bat reform WAS defeated by defeating
the right of the people to elect their
own rulers. and what is the oonse-
Quence There has been no reduction
of public expenditures, although the
war all the while is further and further
away from Us. Still the Republican
party makes no reduction in public ex-
We have good government Shall
We have cheap government ? Shall
we have lower taxes They
tell rs the government can be we'll car
ried on for 800, 10000 less than is now
collected from the public. II Cleveland
shall come into the Presidential office,
believe he will bring the expenditures
down to the last dollar that will support
the government, economically admins
tered, and then when he does that he
will have accomplished what General
Jackson said was the duty of any gov
eminent. A government has no right |
to collect dollar from the people ex- |
0 spt what is necessary to meet the pub |
lie service. What a government needs |
she has got to come to you or to me or |
10 all of as and make us pay for it, but |
when she gets all she needs for an eco
nor. ical administration she has not the |
right to take another sixpence out of |
bur private pockets, and that is all we
ask.