Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-23
OUR YICE-PRESTDENT.
Gov. Hendricks Speaks at Chicago on
Invitation Of the Trade and
Labor Unions.
An Enthusiastic Reception "A Grand
TOrchhght Procession AN Flo
quent Speech,
A scathing Review of the Civil Ser
vice Reform Of she Republicans
The Tariff Reviewed.
rnn WINNING cANDIDArr.

unions. He arrived at Pullman this
morning. AT noon about 5000 work
men and residents of that suburb aud
the nelghboring towns OF
Kenslngton and Roseland ns-
sembled In front OF the hotel
and Gov. Hendricks addressed them
briefly from the balcony, This after
noon a committee of labor unions
went to Pullman and
ESCORTED HIM INTO TIM CITY,
arriving Mt $40. The time of his ar
rival was not generally known and
consequently there WAS no demonstra-
ton at the depot. With the commit-
tee he was driven to the hotel.
THE DEMONSTRATION.
About five thousand people ASSEM-
bled in Battery d armory in the even
! ing 60 listen TO the Democratic candi-
/ date for vice-president. The hall was
/ completely filled. Mr.. Hendricks was
received with marked demonstrations
/ Of applause, When the noise sub
! sided, aud after referring TO hi9 action
m congress in behalf OF the working
men, he took up the question OF civil
/ service reform as exemplihed In the
Republican party, The Republic
Z CANS llhN uNcu III power lpI
| twenty years, and in the face
Of u vigorous prescription II declared
| In its last platform In behalf of reform
| in the civil service.
| WHAT WAS MEANT by THIS REFORAi2
IL meant impartiality In appoint
n.ents, fidelity In service. IL forbade
the use of office to perpetuate power or
10 secure private gain. The Re
| publican party did not recognize
these principles. Ina the recent cleo
/ ton in Ohio the state was overrun
/ with federal ofilee-holders, many of
them not citizens OF the state; and
! federal officers, instead of serving the
government, were secretly plotting to
| continue themselves In power Gould
u party be trusted which would
conduct elections az they had been
conducted in Cincinnati? The people
demanded non-partlsaps at the polls
Instead OF that n vast number OF Re
publicanB was sent there armed, many
of them unfit persons for the positions
held by them.
pHE RESULT WAS RIOT AND BLOOD
sHRD.
Gould not Ohio conduct her election
to the right results without the inter
ference of the bureau officers from
Washington? 1t WAS the duty of the
government 10 see that the laws
were executed. They were violated
! At Cincinnati. In view OF
the dignity and fairness which
had characterized the present admins
tratiOn the Democracy looked hope
fully TO him in belief that he would
not allow this wrong TO be repeated.
] Applause
He then took up the tariff question.
/ He said that In the platform of the Re
| publicans promise was made to cor
rect the inequalities OF the taritl. This
admitted that the present taxation was
unequal and unjust because 1t levied
in excess of the needs. The speaker
said:
Nineteen years nave elapsed since
the civil war, yet the Republican party
In confesslng the inequality and IN
| Justice of It's taxation ut the end OF
that time, asks you TO continue IL Ia
power, and promises TO remedy these
evils.
WILL YOU TRUST IT2p
/ fCries OF mo nor The Republicans
were trying 10 make the people be-
lleve that Democracy, If 10 secured
power, would inaugurate free trade.
That abatement was not true. The
Democratic party was
I NOT IN FAVOR OF FREE TRADE
IL had always favored the raising Of
revenue for the government by means
of the tariff. What the party did
claim WAS that the amount OF tariff
being collected should be reduced. The
| Democratic point was that the tariff
should be reduced to the wants OF
the government economically admin
istered. In support OF this he had the
word of no less high an authority
than PreeidentArthur. The Republican
party was collecting SIS 900, 600 yearly
above the needs OF the government.
The points in the Democratic tariff
platform were:
First. taxation must be limited TO
the needs OF the government econom
ically administered,
Second, taxation must be for public
PURPOSES only.
Third, in changing the law, care
must be exercised not 10 lnjure the in
teTests OF labor and capital invested.
Fourth, In buying taxed articles
Of luxury must bear the highest and
articles Of necessity the lowest tax.
The speaker commented on these arti-
Giles one by one aud asked the assent
Of his audience 10 them, meeting with
an enthusiastic response Ia each In
stance
He next took up the tariff plank la
the Republican platform, and said
that In demanding the strengthening
OF the navy TO It's former force II made
, the demand OF itelf. When the last
Democratic secretary OF the navy left
, office. he left many Vessels tiy ing
! The American hag on the high peas.
The Republicans had appropriated
500 900 COO for lie navy but no navy
. was the result. He then related the
esse OF tile seizure Of the Austrian,
K0aka. and his subs, quent release
on demand Of the Democratic
Secretary Marcy, who sent an Amefi'
{ can lIlnI Of .znf n en- forfe the dnmAld