Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-30
RICE & CO., SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.
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does nothing, and is nothing except an incum.
branCe on the nationul life OF our country.
Why should Virginians cling to this party
that appeals to nothing out the names of its
ancestors
Instead Of turning out rascsls the demo-
cratic administration has put in rascals Mr.
Cleveland, often no doubt misled and de.
ceivrd, has appointed more penten,iary and
jail birds in hi' eight months than were sr-
pointed 10 the whole twenty -four years OF re-
publican administration.
Mr. Hendricks charged that republicans had
boarded mp money in the treasury that b.
longed to the ueoplc. Have the democrats
paid oIt any OF this surpus2 Has any por-
tion Of it been applied to the payment of the
public debt! They said there was euougn OF
1t to buy two barrels o. -four tor every man,
woman and child in the [ nted States. Have
any Of yod received your barrel OF flour?
What public measure supported and adopted
by the republican party during the twenty
tour years OF its power do they take issue
upon? None whatever. They dare not con-
test with US o. any question OF the past.
What has Il ia party done since it came into
power What does it propose to do? Has
1t done anything to relieve the hard times,
to raise wages, to add to prices? Have they
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every measure has tended TO harden the times,
| to reduce wages and prices
John Roach, the ship. builder, has been
driven into bankruptcy and his workmen dis
charged, and the administration has operated
against American ship owners 1t has also
excluded the fractional silver from the count
| AS money has done all it could to depre-
! ciste silver in the market, and now openly
| opposes the coinage OF silver dollar that will
circulate side by side with the gold dollar.
NO burden OF the people has been lessened.
No measure has been adopted by this ad-
minstratiou for their benefit.
! The senator then Contrasted this with what
had been done by the republican party in the
last quarter OF century. II had established
the homestead law; ii had given the best
| currency that had ever been devised by man
it had gradually funded and paid the public
debt; it had established protective tariff
which has increased our manufactures from
eighteen hundred millions in 1860 to fifty
i've hundred millions in 1850. That has so
| diyersIhed our manufactures that nearly every
article of common use can now be made in
this country, and the burjen OF the tariff
falls almost exclusively upon articles OF lux
| ury, which do not enter into the cOnsuml-
ton OF the common people. nder this
benehccnt policy our country has advanced
in wealth and strength more rapidly than any
nation before in the history Of mankind
And the republican party now proposes to
continue the old policy tt protection an pub.
lie improvements to encourage manufactures
| in the south as well as in the north to de-
yelOp your resources and enable you to share
IN the benefits Of diversified industry. It
proposes, by wise, national election law for
the election OF presidential electors and mem
bers OF congress, to secure the people against
the evils which now threaten it, and may, If
not corrected, at any time involve US in civil
war. And it proposes 20 secure to you a
blmetaIc money OF both gold and silver
coined at their market value, 30 that the dol
lar Of one coin will be worth as much rs a
dollar OF the other in the markets Of the
world.
In closing, the senator made An effective
appeal to Vrginiens, Tor their own sake, to
support the republican party