Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
HONEST JOE LYMAN"
He Speaks to o Large Audience Of
his Constituents.
Hot Shot for the Party Of False
PretenSeS.


comforting to the minority portion
Of the audience.
Without stopping to discuss the
causes which gave the democratic
party control ofgovernmental affairs,
he proceeded to a consideration Of
the conduct Of chat party during the
past eighteen months, and directed
his remarks to the postal department
for the reason that it was most dl-
rectly connected with the interests
of the people. He conceded to
Grover Cleveland the questionable
honor Of having originated the term
and character of offensive "partisan-
ship" upon which so many honestre-
publican officials had been discharged
to make room for greedy but not less
offensive democrats. The wondetul
adaptability of Postmaster General
Villas in assisting the executive in
making this false plea cfctual was
noted; and he read Mr.. Villas secret
circular to congressman with his
very liberal Interpretation of the
term by which every postmaster
who had ever voted with his party
in 4 caucus might be displaced. All
this and much more i'll direct opposi-
ton to his adherence to civil service
reform. He only complained Of the
hyDocritical manner in which the
removals were made. From this
he proceeded to the many promises
Of reform the party had made and
AS often broken. In speaking Of
their false pretenses he referred to
the cry they raised in 81 that the
republican party was boarding $780,
100000 surplus in the public treas
airy (which he demonstrated in reality
to have been only about $500 ,ooo)
and while they had deemed this
wrong in republican times, the
amount had steadily increased with
out proper appropriations being
made.
The tariff issue he presented IN a
very ctfcctual though concise way.
The nation has developed its present
wealth under the system of protec-
ton. Immense manufacturing in
dustric5 are i'll prosperous and grow
ing condition under its influence,
and labor is in better condition than
in any nation under the sun. Only
about eight bushels of grain out Of
every hundred produced in this
country are consumed in other lands.
With free trade home industries
would be destroyed, the nation be-
essentially agricultural, the home
market among producers broken
and crops placed at the mercy OF
glutted markets. Under the pro-
tectiyc system nearly every citizen
is clothed in goods manufactured in
the United States and crops are sold
in the best markets Of the world.
The crying abuses practiccd by the
administration under the pretense OF
Jetfcrsonian simplicity were scored
with most telling effect upon the
soldier and his friends. Netoes of
Io2 special pension bills passed by
congress, after careful examination
Of claims arc not graceful under the
above prctcnse when $4,000 were
appropriated for posics for Inc White
House on the occasion of the presi-
dents marriage. He explained with
emphasis, a fact which democrats
vii! not hear, that special pension
acts by congress are permitted in
order that worthy soldiers or their
widows or orphaned children may
receive the pittance justly due them
when some link in the chain of their
evidence may be missing, owing to
the death of an officer or companion.
The black and heartless record OF
the administration in this particular
and which was endorsed by the
democrats of Iowa in convention,
should alone ALLEVIATE every soldier
vote in Iowa.
The presidents veto of the Des
MONIES river land bill also showed
him to be against the interests OF
the people and the tool OF the money
kings of Wall street. These
settlers came to congress with
petition that they might be
| allowed to appear in court and test
their title to the lands they have
improved. Congress passed the
bill and the president virtually said
congress was in the wrong when he
vetoed it. Likewise the appropria-
alton for public building at Sioux
City. The speaker thought Mr..
Cleveland must not have learned of
the change in Iowa since his youth
tul days in school when this section
only appeared on the map as por-
ton Of the great Western desert.
The absence of two months Of
the president and his cabinet from
the capital, the speaker thought
derelict to duty. From this charge
he excepted Mr.. Bayard, but consid-
ering the disgrace and humiliation
he and Scdgwick have hcaped upon
the nation, 1t would have been better
had he, too, been among the Adiron-
dacks.
The relations sustained by the
northern democracy to that Of the
south were most clearly set forth,
and demonstrated that the democrats
of the north are but the tools of the
southern wing. Of this not better
evidence is required than the fact
that of about fifty chairman of COM
mittees in the House only four are
northern democrats, the rest being
from the southern states which hold
balance Of power in these dem ocratic
times.
OF his own record in congress he
spoke only in regard to his vote on
bills to regulate Interstate commerce.
Without taking time to discuss the
relative merits of the (ullor, aud