Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-30
O'DONOvAN ROSSA'S SCHEME.
Secretary Manning Returns to His
Duties-State and National
Politics.

which ne construed as compliment, not u
himself personally, but to the gal ant De
mocracy of the Empire State, Governo
Hill said that Pennsylvania and New Yorl
had stood shoulder to shoulder in our earl,
colonial history, in the war of the revo u
tion, and had alike
CONTRIBUTED MEN AND MONEY
During the late rebellion, to save the Union
Four years age both States alike weI,
scenes Of a peaceful political revolution
which resulted in the ascendancy of til,
Democratic party. Subsequently, Governo
Grover cleveland had been elected Presi
dent aud the speaker had been elected t.
the Goyernorship of New York.
He continued: II come here tonight t,
ask you to follow the example of New Yorl
and elect your Lieutenant Governor to the
Governorship of your State. That will bt
true civil service reform. There are man,
reasons why he should be elected, but ther,
is one which is sufficient for me,
HE is A TRUE DEMOCRAT.
You ask me upon this occasion to speak t,
you of the issues of the campaign. Yot
have been told of the predictions of our op
poneuts, made two years ago. They told u
that the Democratic party could not bt
trusted to control the government of thi
country. A year and half OF successful
administration has answered and refutet
that statement. They told us that the Dem
ocratic party ii it should attain power
would assume the rebel debt Not a single
dollar of confederate Indebtedness has beer
assumed or proposed to be assumed by any
body. They told the people, to frighter
them, that the
NATIONAL DEBT WOULD BE REPUDIATED.
But not dollar has been repudiatcd
Every dollar OF national Indebtedness that
has become due hiss been promptly met anC
paid. They told us that the interests of sol
diers in the matter of pensions would be
unsafe. The interests of pensioners have
never been SO well taken care OF as they
have been by the present administration
They told us that the industries of oul
country would be ruined, but we see evi
derces on every side of increasing pros
perity. 1t is fact today that times are
slowly but surely getting better.-a tribute
to the wisdom
OF THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.
Some allusion has been made to the fact Of
the visit to your State OF the distinguished
gentleman who halls from the state OF
Maine. Having succeeded in saving his
own State, after most terrible effort, he
comes to help the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania to save this close State. There is not
i'll my IN nd a better evidence that the State
Is not close, but that it is surely going for
the Democratic party. This distinguished
gentleman. whose words are entitled on all
occa. ions to careful consideration, stated
before an audience in Philadelphia, hat
the country was in danger because of the
Democratic policy. He spoke OF
THE MAGNIFICENT TIMES WE HAD
Under Republican rule. You would i'm.
agine from his statement that a few years
ago all workingmen were obtaining better
wages than now. You would imagine that
there were no hard times few years ago.
under Republican administration. Why,
he forgets; but we recollect that the last
great panic in this country occurred under
tnny aAr,,iv ptpoti int in
there was a Republican President, Re.
publican Senate and Republican House of
and at the very time that
JAMES G. BLAINE WAS SPEAKER
OF the House OF Representatives. Neither he
nor his party were able to give the country
good and prosperous times, although they
shaped all the legislation of the country at
that period. say that year and half Of
successful administration has demons strated
the wisdom OF the people of this country in
the administration of public af-
fairs and putting the Democracy in power:
We have not been able to accomDlish all
that we anticipated, but you must bear In
the Republican Senate of the United States
You must bear in mind that there was lit
tie use for the Democratic party in the
House of Representatives to frame measures
which were only TO be pigeOn-holed by the
Senate. The people of this
have no right to hold us entirely
for what has been done or
omitted to be done. If they will in the few
States in which elections are now to take
place so vote as to give us
CONTROL OF ALL THE DEPARTMENTS
OF the government. then we can properly be
nsa S f the s sna saws gentle
man who spoke in the city of Philadelphia.
land he makes the same speeches every.
where on the stump warned the country I
q great and impending danger. There al
ways seems to be great dans er to the coun-
try when Blaine takes the stump. There is
no crisis to be anticipated such as Blaine
imagines and predicts, l understand him
to say that he opposed any interference
with reference to the tariff. understand
the tariff. understand him to say that he
DID NOT WISH THE SUBJECT TOUCHED
In any manner, and the great issue that
he has presented to the people OF Pennsyl-
vania was that there must be no Legislation
upon this subj ct. lam notgoing to di cuss
this tariff question tonight. IL Is a subject
about which in its detail there may be diff
ferences, but in Maine there can be none.
simply call attention to the evidence that
Mr.. Blaine is n t sincere when he tells you
that no legislation is necessary whatever.
| say that when he makes that assertion to
the people of Pennsylvania, he does not
stand upon even the platform ,S aaop.e1 reud o.,
upon this subject in 1884. and in the plat
form adopted by their own convention the
party made use of these words
The Republican party pledges itself to
CORRECT THE INEQUALITIES OF THE TARIFF
and to reduce the surplus" Yet Mr.. Blaine
comes now before the people of this tariff
State. as it is supposed to be. and declares
He wants the present law maintained, in
qualities and all. As early as November,
1888, he wrote letter to Chas. +:
Smith and an editor OF one OF
his subject, he said: "This brings with it
.he necessity of reducing the national rev
snue. The present system of taxation is
yielding more than 500, 600, 900 beyond the
lmount required for the ordinary expenses
become an imperative duty" This was his
position taken deliberately in 1883 and this
IS one of the
LETTERS THAT WAS NOT BURNED.
Great merriment) We are willing to
stand upon that same position. We simply
In faoes OF t6at refoy@ e hsye
lot interfere with the wages OF a single la
boring man. On the contrary 1t Will pre-
serve and protect them. II will not destroy
| single industry In this country, butlt Will
ias also great sympathy for the colored
people OF the South. he tells us what DO
lot believe to be true and what no investi-
,ation had within the past two or three
iears has proven to be true, namely, that the
coLoRRD PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH
Are deprived of their political rights: What
peculiar information has he to which the
,ountry has not accessY l say there has
)een no complsint from the colored man
himself. / say there has not cen petit
ion OF any importance presented upon that
subject in the last two or three years IN
Congress from single Kepubli
san representative of the South,
they have representatives In the
Congress OF the United States. Pray
.ell us when and where was II that the col
pred people of the South, through their
set up auy such claim that
thew have not emf yed their political