The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-09-13

reply to a portion OF G0v. Logan
aneach last night, Genera A ~ %n
spid: .Mr. Hendricks last nlgn', IL w.
;s sac CORRECTLY reported in the hem mat
norora stated to his audience Inat
fhe rennbIican party had been 9erei as
-; :ni ;+s fmtv toward foreigners IN this
innS who had been permitted TO SUI.
fa, rI hecause of the failure on the part
If the republican party 10 Pel1I ~.
their duty. Now l am sorry tnat M ~
Hendricks made that remark. fol ~
uears "a is we'll known by. every
reader Of political history III +;m n.o
country, and l speak OF thaI ,o1,o,
because of the fact that the uelno-
cratic party controlled the govern.
ment nearly all that time, Iore!g,i
Governments led b y England an
Honnced the doctrine that once a ciCi-
zen always a citizen. That doctrine
Of self e%xpatriatiOn was not a correct
doctrine: that the citizen did noI
thereby sever his allegiance from tne
mOther country, and ii he returned
to his native land there they had con-
troll of him as a citizen OF their own
government. While the dem0cratlc
party stood in control OF this country
for the length of time 1 have men
toned. let my friend Hendricks POM
out one single statute that was enact
ed by the democratic party declarlhg
that a citizen of the United States
should be protected, whether ne was
native or foreign born, when ne
passed back to his native country.
"Now l tell you tonight that 1t was
left for the republican party, in 1868,
after the war had been concluded, TO
pass a law that a citizen of this coun-
try, who is foreign born. should be
protected on his own mother soil IN
person and property the same as II ne
were a native born citizen, and never
was that doctrine enunciated in a
statute of this country by the demo-
cratic party, nor was it ever done I'M
til, as 1 said, the republican party
announced that doctrine; and 1t was
because of the fact that persons OF
foreign birth, who had taken the oath
OF allegiance to this country, returned
to their former homes and were I'M
pressed into the army.
Nov, then, why should Governor
say here last night that
the republican party had failed to
perform it's duty towards foreign born
.citizensp | am sorry to hear a man
running for the high office that he is,
make such a statement, when he must
know that he can be cOntradicted by
the very statutes in the books and the
dates given, and that the republican
party performed the very act that he
never was performed by
them. Let me return again to fact,
passing back to 1850 and 1861. and
speaking OF the democratic party fail
to support the republican party in
a proper way in sustaining the armies
the United States. l would like
TO call your attention to the fact that
when the proclamation was issued
,u%ppressing slavery in this country,
democratic party everywhere OPP
posed it, in congress and out OF con
yress, and no act has ever been passed
in favor of human freedom, and
favor of the liberty that God in
man should enjoy, by the dem
party, in or cut OF congress-
Applause.)
Logan discussed at some length the
ariff plank in the democratic plat
'Orm, insisting that it meant free
rade, and said: "When the south Sc
;eded and established the cOnfederacy,
n the confederate constitution, sec
ion 8, it was provided that no tariff
ihould be levied to foster industries, !
md no bounty should be paid. In
'ther words, they declared in favor |
# free trade, and the moment they
lid they received the sympathy of
England; not only the sym pathy of
hat country, but the English fur
lished them with the munitions Of
var, arms and ships to destroy this
Onntry. Why? Because eleven Sc
eding states would have been open
o her commerce and her manufac-
ures, and it was for that reason, in
ny judgment, that England lent her
Import to the great rebellion against
his country.
"The democratic platform of 1880
emanded a tariff for the expense of
he government only. No tariff for
Osterlng our industries, and the
latfOrm of 1884, demands a tariff
efficient only for the economical add
Illustration of the government.
hey mean the same thing; the only
being that one was a con-
and the other was a plat
)rm."
General Logan then proceeded to
lscuss the position of The republican
arty on the tariff in question and to
Re discussion of this question the
reater part of his speech was de-
0ted. He closed his speech with a
riei discussion of the political situa-
on at present in the Southern