The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-10-02
The big MEETING.
5000 Democrats
IL Co1HSl
The Greatest Political
Demonstration for
Years in the
Valley.
Ringing Speeches From the
Best Orators in the
Country.

The Democratic Mass Meetins
on last Monday was the largesl
political gathering in the Valley
since the Bill Allen meeting in
1878. The morning was very un
. propitious, and many farmers
from distance fearing a rainy
day. staidIat home. However, the
Heading Democrats from every
township and neighborhood were
present, as were many of the
most intelligent Republicans who
; are of the notion that a change is
needed in the administration of
. our public affairs.
The speakers arrived on the
down train from Columbus and
were met at the depot by the
Club and many of our citizens,
and escorted to the hotel with
music and flying banners.
THE SPEECHES.
Judge Fliesner, assisted by a
long list of Vice Presidents and
Secretaries, presided. Amid the
cheers of the crowd Re introduc-
ed Ex-Speaker Randall to the
meeting as gentleman who had
for twenty years been fighting in
Congress the battle of the Amer
ican wOrkingmen.
RANDALL's SPEECH.
Mr.. Randall spoke with great
power and effect. He pronounc-
ed the declartion in the Chicago
platform that tariff rates should |
be so levied that American work
ingmen should be protected
against the lower wages of the
pauper labor Of Europe, as the
grandest assertion of the rights of
honest labor ever made by any
party in any time.
He said capital and labor were
the right and left hands of wealth
and the profits of their joint ef-
forts should be divided fairly be-
tween them. Labor should have
its just proportion. if not a moi
ETY.. He further said that capital
was strong and powerful, and
could take care of itself, that la ,
Dor, being the weaker of the two,
needed more help from legisla- I
ton. And the Democratic party {
having always been the friend of
labor, pledged itself here and
now to en- courage, protect and &
advance the suffering interests of ,
the workingmen. {
He declared that there were to
lay $500, GOO, 900 of surplus in the a
Federal treasury. That this vast T
die capital was wrong done to a
The business interests of the coun- g
Try, because unneeded there a
And this was one of the reasons \
If the present industrial prostra- S
ion. He forcibly said that the |,
rue way to get rid of the surplus 1!
'evenues was to leave them in il
he pockets of the people. And VI
hat Blaine's methods of distri- &
,ution were bad and vicious.-I a
That if Blaine's proposition of I
annual distribution of federal d
evenues to the States was en- b
lorsed it would give to the State g
# Pennsylvania 100000; sim f
.ularIy just the amount of the
'ntire expenses of the State ad- a
ninistration. That this doctrine t.
would make the States the mere C
dependents of the Federal gov
rnment, destroy their self-reli-
nee and foster centralized pow
r, the bane and destroyer of our 81
yell balanced system of Repub- p
ican government.
ONGRESsMAN CoNvERsR's SPEECH.
Mr.. Converse spoke for one in
our and quarter, taking a wide
ange and covering the entire f.
ED. He especially drew atten II
on to the Federal Statute of
uly 4, 1864, passed by a Repub- .;
can Congress, which permitted ~
sgal contracts to be made for the r.
nportation of Ch. namen and -
ther foreign pauper labor, and
'hich gave exceptionally strin-
ent remedies to the employers He
nd contractors by liens for one ~
ear thereafter, upon the wages @
f the laborer, to the exclusion of
farmers, mechanics OF
nd tradesmen, who might give nc
lem credit.
He spoke of the irottenness of at
'e Federal Treasury, by showing
lat a committee of the Senate fo
I'd found 500 erasures and in va
rlineations in the books, and
s, 100000 of discovered pecula- pl,
3nS. re.
He exposed the Star Route
auds and demanded that the CO.
ne had now come to "open the fo,
'oks.'
He showed the incincerity of
e Republican party in its pro- an
ssions of relief and reform, and 20