The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-18
Marshall;ng Of the Forces for the
Great Political Struggle.
Hendricks Opens the Ball at Tole-
do, Closely Followed by
Logan.
SHARP WORK AHEAD.

dressed 300 People at the fair grounds yester-
day afternoon, the subject being, Importance
OF Agriculture and Mechanic Arts" In the
evening he spoke to a Democratic mass-mcct-
ing in the Fifth ward. An audience of 5000
was present. IN the course Of his speech he
.aid:
The Democrats declared in their platform
that the revenue must he reduced to the re-
q ulre:nents of the government, economically
What do you say to that!
Are you Democrat, granger or Indcpcnd-
eht; whatever may be your party relation.
what do you say to that? [App1ause]. Ii you
do not like that, don't vote with the Democ-
racy, 12r when the Democracy comes into
power | undertake to say that the machinery
vii De turned for awhie-backward, did say!
no, forward in favor OF REFORM reducing taxa
ton to the wants Of the government economi-
2aiiy administered. What are you going to
collect any more for? A voice: ''Stealing."]
why should we have extraordinary taxation
the condition Of war:
Passing from this subject, he said: The
Republicans, under the leadership of the
chicftains who are Mt their head. nave l.vN
abandoned substantially their friends, the
Germans, and are laying mold of my Irish
trends with zeal absolutely beautiful.
Cheers What has the German done that
he should be abandoned by the Republican
party thus: The only fault l know of the
German is that he says where he lived in
Germany beside the Rhine H.: had a right to
decide Tor himself what nc would cat and
drink, and whcIcwita he should be clothed.
M :a! say 'ou' my G"rEan friends: Is pro
hibtior right or wrong: \ voice: ''Wrong."]
Wrong: OF course it is In nv state our
Democracy have fought this battle well out
upon the idea that whether man shall take a
drink of nceror whisky it belongs to himself
The governor then recitcd at length the
koSzt. vase in the administration of Pierce,
and the Mc>wccncy case in 1851, when Blaine
was secretary Of state, as tending to show
Which party was the true friend of the foreign
born citizen. He closed with q strong appeal
to the Democrats to carry Ohio in October, as
that would decide the contest in November.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 1l.-Gcn. John A.
Logan was present this afternoon on the
grounds of the Interstate fair association and
made speech to an audience of 1000 or 100.
He spoke about half an hour upon the COM
mercial, manufacturing and agricultural in
tercsts of Ohio and their wonderful growth.
Gen. Logan spoke at the League park to-
night to one OF the largest audiences ever as
Stmblcd at political meeting in this city
Previous to this meeting there was a parade
of the Plumctl Knights and other Republican
organizations. numbering nearly LOCO torches,
GOV. ClaS. Foster was present and opened the
meeting with II brief speech. after which Gen.
Logan was introduced to the audience amid
great cheers.
Gen. Logan began by briefly reviewing the
HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC
PARTIES,
from 1860 down to the present time, claiming
that the only monument erected by the Dem
ocratic party liz this country had been its
course iii relation to free trade. II will not
say said he, that they are acting the part of
agents of the British government, but do say,
misguided though they are. that they performed
the same service for the British government
while they had the power in this country that
tn" lords of England would have performed if
they had seats iii the Congress Of the United
States of American [Applausc.] AS another
Democratic monument the speaker cited. he
mentioned slavery and its attendant evils. in
Guiding the war. The Democratic party of the
north and south had been a free trade party
After til: war, when reunited they continued
to be a free trade party a2d became one in all
things else.
In reply to a portion of Gov. Hendricks
speech last night, Gen. Logan said: ':Mr.
ed in the newspapers stated to his party that
the Republican party had been derelict in its
duty toward forci gncrS III our land. who had
been permitted to suffer because of failure on
the part OF the Republican party to perform
their duty. Now, am sorry that Nj. Hen
bricks made that statement. For forty Years.
as is well known to every reader of political
history in this country, and | speak of that
time, !rcausc of the fact that the Democratic
party controlled this government nearly all the
time, foreign governments. led by England
announced the doctrine that once !; citizen al
ways citizen. That
THE DOCTRINE OF EXPERIMENTATION
was not the correct doctrine: that citizen did
not thereby sever his allegiance from the
mother country, and if he returned to his na-
tive ia's! they had no control over him as Il cit
izcn Of their own government While the Dem
ocratic party stood in control OF this country
for the length Of time mentioned let my friend
Hendricks point out one single statute that
was enacted by the Democratic party declaring
that Il citizen OF the United States sho*ld be
protected, whether he was native Or foreign
bern when ne passed back to his native corlll-
try. Now tell y,u tonight it was left for the
+ F'lblican party in 1863, after the war had
concluded, to pass the law that citizen Of this
country foreign born should be protected on
his owl! mother soil in person and property the
same as if Ii: were Il liatiyc-born citizen, and
never was that doctrine cnllnciatcd in a statute
of this country by the Democratic party, nor
was it ever done until, as | said. the Republic
can party announced that doctrine, and it was
because of the fact that persons of foreign
birth who had taken the oath of allegiance 10
this country. returned to their former homes
and were impressed into the army. Now, then,
why should Gov. Hendricks say here last night
that the Republican party had failed to per
form its duty toward foreign-born citizens!
am sorry to have man running for the
high Office that he is make such a statement
when he must knaw that he can be contradict
ed by the very statutes on the books. and the
dates given, that the Republican party per-
formed an act that Il: claimed never was per
formed by them.
''Lct me return again to the fact passing
back 20 1860 and 1851, and spcakin of tic
Democratic party failing. to support the Re-
publican party i'll thu proper way in sustaining
the armies Of the United states. ! should
like to call your attention to the fact that
when the proclamation was issued slpDrcSSino
slavery in this country the Democratic party
everywhere opposed it in Congress- and out of
Congress, and no act has ever been passed yG;
III favor OF human freedom, and in favor of the
liberty that God inteaded man should enjoy by
the Democratic party in or out of Congress-. -
Applause.
The opposition of the Democratic party
toward the amendments to the constitution.
was further cite: in illustration.
In reply to til" statement by Gov Hendricks
in bis speech at the fair grounds yesterday as
Logan rccitcd the history Of these laws during
Buchanan's administration. Said he: The
HON; stead act was p;issctl-and it was left to
Republican Congress in the administration
OF President Lincoln-tO pass this bill, ard the
bill for lands given agricultural colleges was
signed by Abraham Lincoln.
Gen. Log III discussed at some length the
tariff plank in the platform, insisting that it
meant. free trade. notwithstanding some
Democrats claim to the contrary; but he said,
it was impossible to tell from the reading of the
instrument itself What it meant. and he would
propose to his friend, Gov Hendricks, that he
refer it to the supreme court of the United
States in order TO obtain a proper construction
OF the instrument. Laughter and applause I
Neither the letters OF the Democratic canCi.
dates for President or vice President interpret
cd it. We were then compelled to go back to
the history Of the party itself to know what it
meant. The party was free trade party be-
fore the war, and when the southern states Sc
coded and established their confederacy and the
confederate constitutions in section 5 it was
provided ''that no tariff should be levied to
foster industries and no bounty should be
had = In other words they declared in favor
OF free trade. and the moment they did that
they received the sympathy OF England; not
only the sympathy Dut the English furnished
them with munitions of war, arms and ships to
destroy this country. Why! Because the
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