The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-09-24
THE IOWA CAMPAIGN.
General Wsav.r's Opening Speech 1t d
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GENERAL W0avcr's Opening Speech ut DA~
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Davenport special to Chicago Timesl
4 large audience gathered in the Turner
Hall to listen to the first Democratic speech
Of tho campaign. made by Gencr Weaver.
The speaker ii st alluded to fusion, and
said it was absolutely necessary 10 tnin o
victory at the polls. Mr.. Weaver laid that
he had come 10 Davenport to answer the
three questions rrcpounded by MIR. Lara
bee in his speech o. acce. 1910 =. -
1foines. The questions were: l. HIS the
Republican party cvcr been wrong on any
question? z. Can you point TO a siIg.e III
stance where the Republican party has
been wrong? 3. On tie other Land, can Won
point to single instance where the Demo-
cratic party was right! Mr.. Weaver said that
10 answer these questions it was only nec-
essary to lissect the Republican party
platform. In one Of the plaaks they de-
mand that thu pubic domain be only given
to settlers, and migrants to corporations
be refused. In their twenty -four years Of
tule:the Republican party has given most Of
the public domain to corpointions, the rest
they had leased to the cattle kings. In
Indian Territory they have fenced out
human beings and fenced in beasts. Was
the Republican party right in doing this2
Grover Cleveland, MS soon a. he was in-
eugurated, drove ont these cattle kings and
proposes to open il time these lands to
settlers. Was not The Democratic rarty
right in this? The Republican platform
asks for law against pooling
In the State, yet the Republican party had
voted, ~ did Mr.. Larrabce himself against
such bill. introduced in tn Legislature
Of 1878. The platform ASS for legiti.
mate screening for the protection Of coal
miners. Yet only at the last sess on OF tho
legislature Mr.. Larrabee, with the rest Of
the Republican party, voted against the
screening bill The platform asks for in.
discrimination in freight rates. In LISA .
republican Legislature defeated such Q
measure. The platform wants The Railroad
Commissioners elected by the people. Mr..
Larrbee. in 1881. voted against bill EN-.
bodying such sentiments Ill the State sen.
ate. Livery one of these measures the Re-
publican party now declares itself TO favor.
They opposed then short time
ago. Certainly, ii they were right then
they are wrong now. Their own platform
conyicts them. The 81 aker then referred
to Auditor Brown dismissal from Office at
the point Of the bayonet, and at this point
received many cheers from the audience.
He asserted that the Republicans were in-
dignant because Grover Cleveland had
driven out OF Office disal led Union soldiers
and placed in their stead rebels. Yet in
the face Of such an assertion. in Republii
can Iowa, with school house on every
hilltop" the Governor Of the State at tho
point of the bayonet had driven from Office
o one-armed soldier who had been elected
by the votes Of the people in a time Of pro-
found peace. Such assertions come til
poor grace from the Republican party. II
such a thing had happened in Mississippi
Il would have been her ;lded over Iowa from
conduct.