St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-19

! president and house would be controlled by
the solid south, will not divert peoples at
tention. That bugbear no longer scares
Judge Price, in his speech accepting his re-
nomination as the Republican candidate fol-
member of congress, said, in speaking OF
the Republican party: ''It may have had
nay has, bad men in its ranks; still it Is the
party of freedom and equal rights" The
fault that the people are finding with the Re-
| publican party is not that it has bad men in
its ranks GALL parties have them) but that II
selects bad men as its leaders. The people
have seen Democratic houses elect as speak
ers three able and honest men, Kerr, Ran
! dali and Carlisle, against whose integrity
except Kerr's, not word was ever lisped
And in this case they saw him rise in his
place in the house to question of privilege
and demand that the charge be referred for
investigation to a committee of his political
enemies, and they saw the house
unanimously aequit him of every
wrong doing. The people have seen the last
three Republican speakers of the house dis
grace the positions they held by their dis
honesty or incompetency. That Colfax and
keifer did SO disgrace their places is almost
universally admitted by Republicans, and
that Blaine did his would be admitted were
he not the Republican candidate for presi-
dent, and the necessities OF the campaign
demanding denial. Before his nomina-
ton for the presidency, the charges now
made against him by the Independents and
Democrats were admitted by many who now
support him. The question of the campaign,
in my opinion, is whether or not the people
of this country will. by their votes, say to
their public men what the father of the
story, said to his son: sect money,-hon-
estly, if you can,-but get money"
One of the new problems which demands
the attention of the political parties is how to
prevent the accumulation in the treasury of
the taxes now collected from the people. As
to that question l will clearly define my posi-
ton so that no voter who considers that the
paramount question of the campaign can be
deceived into voting for or against
me under a misrepresentation. l am
in favor of reducing the import taxes
to the lowest point consistent with raising
! the necessary revenue for carrying on the
government. With an Overlooking treasury,
l am not in favor of continuing the war
taxes on the necessaries of life. With
wheat to-day only IS cents bushel in Mil
waukee, do not believe in collecting a tax
OF IS per cent. on salt, of so to 80 per cent.
on iron, of 80 to 125 per cent on oil, of 60
to 228 per cent. on paint, of 76 per cent. on
spool thread, of lis per cent. on starch, of
90 to 40 per cent. on sugar and molasses, of
of rs to 100 per cent. on blankets and of 90
to 80 per cent. on flannel For the benefit
of the farmers of this country, whose pro-
ducts have to compete for market with the
products of the whole world, l am in favor
of reducing these taxes. And more than all
for the sake of the tens of thousands of la
borers in our manufacturing districts, who
with the winter before them, are out of en-
plOyment. For If we viii but look about US
we will see that these taxes msnamed ''pro-
lection to American industry do not pro-
tect. l would reduce these tariff taxes so
that the markets of the world might be
opened to our products. For We can not sell
if we will not buy.
Another question which in this campaign
has assumed great prominence and on which
| wish to define my position so that there
may be no misapprehension as to where l
stand, is the prohibition law of the manufac-
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. Knowing and approaching, /
think as well as any man can, the evils re-
sulting from the excessive drinking of intox-
icating liquors, and by precept and example
discOuraging their use at all as a beverage, /
do not believe In the prohibition by law of
their manufacture and sale. / am willing
that my ncighbor shall have the same liberty
as to his habits that l ask for my own, pro-
viding that in the exercise of that liberty he
does not interfere with the rights of 9TH
ers.
l have thus briefly given my views on the
questions / consider at issue in this cam
paign, in the nation and in this congress
sional district. As | have said, as soon as
can arrange my business affairs l will go be-
fore the electors of the district and give my
reasons at length for the faith that is in me.
| will try to convince them that they should
vote for me for congress instead of for my
distinguished opponent, because he is in ia
vor of the continuance of war taxes on the
necessaries of life and l am not; because he
is in favor of absolute prohibition by law OF
the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage and / am not. In a
word, because he, if elected, will vote for
what is called protection and for prohibition
both, and above all l will try to convince
the voters OF the district that they can best
get the honest and pure administration of
the government they desire, by voting for
the Democratic electors for president and
vice president And if when the polls are
closed the election of Grover Cleveland and
Thos. A. Hendricks shall be assured, what
ever tue result rs 10 Myself snaIl DC con-
tent If defeated, l will go in and out
among the people of this city as 1 have for
nine years past attending to the interests of
my clients as best can and dispensing JUS
tice with an even hand. But should / be
elected, l will promise the people of the dis
trict that they will have a representative,
who, with all his ability, will look after their
interests, rather than his own, and as honest
Dick Yates once said of himself, will return
to them with hands that are clean.