The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-09-20
GOV. PORTER.
A Rousing Speech Before a Mass Meet.
ing In Indiana.

Liberty Qnd) Cor Chicago TribuneJ
Gov. Albert &. Porter addressed, tonight an
immense Republican mass meeting and deliv-
cred lengthy and able speech, most of which,
however, was taken up in discussing questions
relative to the State He presented a scathing
arraignment of the professions of the Demo-
cratic State Convention, v1ndicating Republican
management of public institutions, and com
mending some valuable suggestions to the com
ing Legislature. He showed that the Republi-
can party in Indiana deserved credit for taking
measures toward securing mechanics by first
lien upon work done for wages thereon per
formed. and he recalled in the same connection
that Grover Cleveland had vetoed mechanics
lien bill, and was fully sustained in il by his
party friends. The speaker suggested that as
the burden of taxation fell upon the farmers
and the owners of small homesteads it would be
well for experienced men chosen by the people
to meet In convention and discuss measures OF
reform.
Touching the general issues of the campaign
he said MY objection to the Democratic party
in recent years is that it is party without con-
victions 1t has had no settled belief upon any
public questions. 1t has repeatedly approved
and pledged itself not to disturb measures
achieved by the Republican party, against
which it had waged the tercest party warfare.
1t is always asking that its past may be for
gotten. Its enemy is memory. The first SEN
tence in its recent platform shows its soreness
about the past: The Democratic party of the
Union, through its representatives in national
convention assembled, recognize that as nations
grow older, new issues are born of time and
progress, and old issues perish. Why remind
perished? Banquo perished, but his ghost took
seat at the banquet table, and the Q. ost was
hundred times more narrowing thai Banquo
had ever been himself. That Is what is the
trouble 1t is these memories connected with
the old issues that will not down. that haunt
and poster the party. The Republican
party has ghosts of memory con-
nected with past issues that put it in
dread that the past will be referred TO. A vast
terrltOry-mother of many States-preserved
from the presence and taint of unrecompensed
labor; an enemy overcome by the sword Vet
more benefited by war than it had ever been by
peace, by being ridded of a destructive system
of labor and of having had opened to it, as by
doors flying wide apart, an enlightened system
OF free and diversified Industries national
credit, through the exercise of an undertaking
good faith, unexampled in the history of ma
dons; a currency, since the issuing of which
b1llholder has ever lost dollar; an arbitration
OF a great national dispute, through which, as
national redress for wron ngdoing, there was wrung
from the most warlike nation of Europe I'll, ,OOO.
900 of treasure; tariff system which. at the be
ginning of our great civil strife, by setting on
foot vast system of manufacturing industries,
spanned the darkest clouds of war with the rain
bow of promise. These past issues have left
no ghosts to terrify the Republicans. We never
beg that they shall not be remembered
The speech was received with great enthusi-
asm, particularly the closing tribute to the Re-
publican standard-bearer. If Mr.. Cleveland
cannot tell" said the speaker, where he stanQs
upon this great question, there is one man
whose trumpet has never given forth an uncer-
tain sound-its notes being ever clear and reso-
nant. You know very well whom | mean.
u.
ginning life in the humble occupation of a
schoolmaster he has, by the force of his talents,
by the strength and vigor of his character, by
his personal intrepdity, by his irresistible social
charms, by that combination of high and SYM
pathetic qualities which belongs to rare and fine
natures, made himself of the best known
and best beloved of all the public men in our
history. AS Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of his adopted State and Of
Congress, distinguished always for the fair
hess and unerring clearness of his decisions:
hs debater on the floor of each House. when
ever he entered the lists his plume shining in
front of the combat: a statesman, long
known for the surprising breadth and accuracy
of his political knowledge; as a writer, depict
ing the incidents and scenes of long public
life, in which he has borne most conspicuous
part, rich and perspicuous in style, copious and
accurate in information, just and generous to
every one with whom he has ever crossed a
sword; his home the abode of domestic bliss
and hospitality-its hospitable doors open alike
to friend and foe-the bitterest adversary in his
warm and JOYOUS presence forgetting his feud
and dissolving into kindness; citizen of the
United States. broad minded and Just toward
the whole world, vet his whole being pervadeo
and burning with the American instinct; SO
frank and open that he is transparent as the air
this is the man whose banner is in our front,
whose plume mods at the head of the cou mn,
and under whose leadership we expect to move
on to victory.