Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-14
SENATOR VOORHEES,.
His Recent Great Speech at Indssrap.
oils A Mastery Presentation Of khe
Issues of the Day.

His Recent Great Speech at IndssArap-
oils A Mastery Presentation Of khe
| Issues of the Day.
The following is brief telegrapnic
synopsis of Hon. Daniel w Voorhees,
recent speech at Indianapolis, in which
he sounded the keynote of the cam
paign in the State.
Ex-senator Mcdonald presided, and
on the stage were a number of the
prominent men of the party, not only
of local, but State conspicuousness, and
when the president of the meeting in
troduced Mr. VOORHEES, in the fewest
words possible, the orator of the even
ing received greeting which demon
strated how closely he has woven him.
self into the hearts of the people of In
diana It is conceded that the speech
is the ablest political effort of the Sem
ator in any campaign. Contrary to his
usual custom, it was prepared with
| care, as if the Senator had reason to
believe that it would be accepted as a
| keynote by the opposition. who would
carefully scan every sentence for the
purpose of criticism. Taken as an en-
tirety. it is a magnificent effort, and if
! there is Republican SO hopeful as to
draw comfort therefrom he will pass
among his fellows as a modern Mark
| Tapley.
| Senator Voorhees, was particularly
| happy in his review of civil service.
as practiced by Republicans during
| their long lease of political power, and
| he emphasized his argument bv copi-
Gus quotations from Hoar, of Massa-
| chusetts. and from other standard Re-
| puplicans like Sumner and Greeley,
| who were the first to raise their voices
! against the iniquity which had crept
| into their own party in their admins
| tratiOn of the spoils of office. In 1871
| there was an act authorizing a COM
| mission to promote the efficiency of the
| civil service, and it was approved by
| Grant, whom the Senator credited with
| an honest desire to do something in
| that direction, but it was starved to
death by the party in its infancy, and
General Cox, of Ohio, at that time a
| Cabinet officer, was made to feel the
| sting of the party lash when he lifted
his protest against the plundering of
the department employees in the name
of the party.
During his argument in this connec-
ton the Senator began with the retire
ment of Belknap. then a Cabinet Off
Ger, who resigned to avoid investiga-
ton, and he continued the review
through the iniquity which, made Hayes
President by the count in Louisiana
and Florida, and the rewards in the
way of offices that were parceled out to
every one connected with that business.
from John Sherman up or down. to
show that with them it was a snare
and a delusion, and that they invari-
ably rewarded party worker for his
services to the party and not because
of any special qualifications he had for
the duty and for the Office to which he
was assigned.
The Senator also reviewed the Re-
publican financial policy at consider
able length, showing that both silver and
greenbacks exist to-day as part of the
currency by express command of the
American people, irrespective to q
great extent of party affiliations. and
directly in spite of the persistent and
determined hostility of Republican
leaders and Republican Administra-
tons. The plea of the opposition that
the public lands be reserved for actual
settlers was another matter which he
exploded by reciting the enormous
grants which the Republican Con-
crosses had voted away to corpora
tons in nine years, in this way dis
posing of IA, 53S, 134 acres. while with
in two years of Democratic Admin
istration it has been ordered that
nearly 102, 100000 acres of land held
by railroad corporations shall be
thrown open to the people for homes
and farms.
He also investigated the labor cues
ton, citing the various enactments with
in the past year for the relief of the la
boring man. not the least of which are the
bills putting the seal of condemnation
on the use of convict labor by striking
from the appropriations every item for
the use of convict labor on public
buildings. and also prohibiting the i'm
portation of labor under contract to
compete with American workmen. It
was this latter bill which the Republic
ans managed to defeat.
The tariff question was also given
judicious attention. and his argument
was based on the broad axiom that all
taxation shall be limited to the require
ments of an economical government. |
and that the necessary reduction in |
taxation must be effected without de- |
privine American labor of the ability |
to successfully compete with foreign |
labor. In his judgment a tariff which |
raises sufficient amount of revenue, |
and no more, for honest government. |
and al the same time incidentally pro- |
tects the laboring classes, the manu- |
featuring interests and the agricultural |
and business pursuits of the country. |
will be of Democratic origin when it |
comes. and it will have the sanction of |
the most illustrious names in the history |
Of the Republic.
The question of pensions was also |
treated at length, with the sentiment |
that any man or men guilty of unfair |
ness, illiberality or bad faith toward |
the soldiers OF the war for the Union |
would be speedily and utterly over
whelmed by the excavations of the |
whole American people.
The work of the recent COMPRESSION |
al session was then reviewed, showing |
what had been accomplished for the |
soldiers, and the effort of the Repub- |
licans to belittle the administration of |
the Pension Department came in for
its full share of execration.
On the question of prohibition, taking
for his text: Where do the roads |
fork?" the Senator was particularly |
facetious in picturing the entan clements |
of the party whose leader in Maine was
for prohibition. while in this State the |
party was so barren of speech that it |
could not say whether it was for |
sumptuary legislation or against it, for |
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