The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-09

The following is brief synopsis of
McComas' speech at Fros;bUg =
Zone week ago / was nominatd by
your representatives with a un'nimi.
ty that is inspiring. To-nigh am
here on short notice in the stronghold
of Republicanism. In this MAINTAIN
fastness, the party which in t56 was
dedicated to the principles that CAPT.
tai should not own labor hasin 1886
the overwhelming support of this
great wOrkingman's community. /
am proud that you have hre most
emphatically approved my course of
action, and bid me 60 on inyour SER
vice. have come to thank you from
the depths of grateful heartfor your
confidence and to renew my pledge
to the people and to their interests.
The greatest of all these interests in
country made up as our is, and
eyer must be, is the material inter-
ests, the interests of labor, rot only
because this includes the greatest
number. but because it is thu basis of
the prosperity of all the restbesides
for it is the framework Ofour gov
eminent as fashioned by ihe war.
That labor is dIgnified that labor is
strong ; that labor is virtuols. The
nation that would be exalted. virtu-
Gus and strong may measure its
strength by the number of free, of
happy, of prosperous laboring men
that are in its population. ] have
been taught from the experience Of
my youth have been guided by this
belief in Congress. and have felt that
the ideal glory of my country would
be when the multitude of honest and
thrifty workingmen, with the little
ones and the dear ones clustered at
the hearthfire, should hold title to
their own little homes on our soil,
while on the sea our flag should strike
to none other under the sun. Ap.
plause. Before ours there never
was a nation that began by saying.
political power shall be lodged where
the numbers are, where the lab0rers
are. And. built on these broad foun-
dations, taking its power from these
hopes, strengthened by these strong
hands, this government should ever
protect American labor from invasion
from foreign soil by just as high, just
as necessary duty, as it would pro.
tect our homes and our property from
evasion by armies and by fleets. Is
it not strange, therefore. that the ma.
jority in the House of Representa-.
tiyes refused to defend our coasts and
harb0rs from foreign invasion, al
though in some of the forts the old
iron guns can't be fired for fear of
shaking down the ramparts land trifle
with the efforts to build an American
navy to defend our citizens abroad
under the folds Of our flag. 1t is not
strange that with the same po icy of
indifference 10 invasions of our homes
and our soil by fleets and armies, the
same House stood together almost
soIidly for the Morrison tariff bill to
let in food of the loW-wage pro-
auctions of Europe to swamp our.
looms and fabrics, multiplying all the
while under system at home. If we
omit the presidential succession law
and the oleomargarine law, this ef-
fort to reduce tariff taxes, as they call
them, was the main effort Of the sea-
son. The Democratic caucus decided
to do it. All but few Democrats
from Maryland voted to do it. The
convention which nominated my
competitor, Colonel Baughman, re.
solved that its purpose was to nomi.
nate candidate to cooperate in these
commendable and laudable efforts to
reduce i: taxation. My colleagues,
Shaw, Compton and Gibson. who
voted to consider this bill, have been
renominated for so doing. and now
as the resolutions read Col. Baugh-
man is nominated TO cooperate with
them. The bill is still hanging over
the heads of the members in this
Congress. as in the last. If the con-
vention wrongly pledge Col. Baugh.
man he can say so. He should repu-
diate that platform and those who
made It,. The tariff was adjusted In