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compared with the Republican work Of

compared with the Republican WORK OF
past years
The Senator concluded his speech by
the following glowing tribute to the
present Administrations:
And row. acknowledgements OF Indi.
ana, We enter this contest with high and
earnest convictions OF duty to our state
aud to our country. Indiana. with the
IN ghty development of her inexbaustible re-
sources and the establishment and growth OF
her glorious institutions of learning and OF
CHRISTIAN beneyolence. under the auspices OF
Democratic constitution. and for the most
part under Democratic State control. appeals
TO us TO be true 10 the broad and liberal prin-
cipies on which all her greatness is founded
Whatever else may happen, the Democratic
party owes II 10 its good name and splendid
record in Indiana. that the administration OF
the State shall not fall into the hands of those
who dstrust the people and who deny to 9TH
ers the same freedom and right they exercise
for themselves But in still broader sense
We are called on 10 exercise our rights and to
discharge our duties as citzeus. The admin
istration of the Federal Government by Gro
misrepresented and slandered by tho
Republican State convention. and by
the leaders of the Republican party
in Indiana No two minds. perhaps. ever
agreed IN every thing nor does IL follow that
4 d supporter OF an administration necessarily
concurs in all its official details but am here
tonight To declare. as far as my words WI
go, that the Admin stration of Grover CleSe-
lana s strong. clean faithful To public duty
! cratic party and by the country. What pub
lie interest has suffered at his handss What
public duty has been neglected. What pub
| lie trust has been betrayed, In the more
than electric light thrown upon every act OF
his Administration, and on every step of his
public life by the powerful aud sleepless
newspaper press of the United states, he
stands clear and above reproach in his great
| oitice senator Harrison had much TO say in
his recent speech in regard to Democratic
pledges which he alleged had not been full
I .n n
| tn. that the Democratic party in Congress
| has no power TO enact law. nor 10
| repeal bad law heretofore enacted,
| nor 10 appropriate dollar OF the pub
! lie money without the approval and the
| concurrence of a Republican majority In
the Senate. The Democratic party has not
bad the lAw-making power of this Govern
| ment, embracing, as IL does the leg sialive
and executive departments, n single day since
the 4th of March. 1851 Ever evil of legisla-
! ton which has afflicted the country iows
| from Republican responsibility. IL the SOL
| der failed TO get his arrears of pension II Is
| because the laws made by the Republican
| party did not grant them. IL he q not get mis-
! bounty, II Is because a Republican President
| vetoed The hil! granting it " the colored
| people were cheated out of their small hard
earnings aud saw ngs by the Freedmen's Blu
reau and bS the Freedmens Bank. IL is be-
cause Republican laws we're so made that the
thieves could break through and steal Sem
atOr Harrison seems entirely 10 forget the
responsibility OF his own party, shown
by the long and blotted records. while
ne teBtiueHily the democratic party
for what il has done and for what It has
failed TO do in the last eighteen
months, and during which time no enact
ment could Ice laid before the Democratic
Executive for his signature without having
first received the sanction of the Republican
| party in the Senate Ny colleague appears
10 complain of the amount of the spprOpr a.
tons made in the last session OF Congress.
and quotes an imposing array and "A specious
arrangement OF figures, recently made by
Senator Allison. OF Iowa Is IL not enough TO
! : hat nd il oh lfrrnan Of
| apprOpr ations in the Senate: that he re-
ported and voted for every appropriation
bill. and that senator Harrison voted with
him? On the question, however. whether ths
actual expenses of the Government have iu-
| creased or diminished under Ceyeland's Ad
| In nistrat.ou. j am content To rest the whole
case on the statement recently made b. John
| G.. Carlisle, the very able. cear-headed and
impartatminded Speaker of the House. He
| puts the total expenditures of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June o, ISIS, at
SI1 st5.sa5 less than those OF the preceding
year The Speaker goesinto details. but none
are needed in support of conclusion reached
! by him. The recent Democratic State conven-
| ton OF Indiana in avery comprehensive reso-
| luton, Endorsed the ability. the integrity and
the economy of the present Administration.
: Its ability is conceded by the people or ali
parties, aud its integrity has not been ques
toned. ana It's economy has been proven By
the record Mr.. Cleveland has broken nc
pledges II broken pledges. however, are the
theme for this canvass. i would inquire how
So, ,s az 20 ,S HS1
people of the country have been kept! Mr.
Cleveland appointed. during the last session
! of Congress, a well bred, intelligent educated
and very competent coiored man to an i'm
. ! portant Office in the District of Columbia. The
! Republican party has eight majority in the
| United states senate. and that body rejected
. Mr.. Matthews when his name came before II
for Register of Wills. The love of the Re
! publ can party for the cOlored citizen il
: ! based on the same condition as its love Tor
the former rebel OF the South-psrty service;
oniy that the rebel. when he belongs to the
: ! Repub can party. gets Offices in abundance,
I while the Colore,i man, whether Republican
or Democrat, IS left 10 feed on the crumbs
| wh Oh fail from the Republican table, OF
! more generally left without any thing at all
| MAY we not expect the support of all classes
who believe in an Administration which, un
| der the most irving rcum stances, has had
; the courage of its convictions. and has been
faithful TO all its pledges, either expressed or
impl ell:
The public debt is be ny paid more rap
| idly than the public creditors desire;
! the surplus in the trsasurr. 20 enormously
overState,i two ears ago by the Republican
. | candidate for Governor i being rapidly re-
duced. nOtw thstand ng the President with
held his signature to the Morr son resolution
: | eInaScu!ated and rendered worthless as /,
| was by the act on OF the Senate. There il q
! feeling of confidence in business circles. aud
gnS of returning activity and prosperity art
abroad in the land.
Let us Join vo'ces hands and hearts once
more in the cause Of good government Lei
| not Indiana falter now, and thereby open
breach through which the Republican party
| with its evil methods, its pernic. prin
ciples. and is rapacious hories may return
! to power lSSS Ind lana holds the key tC
) ! future Democratic national success, aud Il
the prolonged supremacy of a Democratic
Federal Administration. If voice which IL
Storm and disaster. as well as in sunshine an6
I victory, has alwavs been heard in the battlins
ranks of tBe Democratic party. VIII still III
listened to invoke a united harmonious ant
| determined effort at this time in behalf of tb'
present and the future welfare of the Aneri
can people. .
| The speech attracted number o
| representative Democrats from thu
State at large, all of whom reported t.
the chairman of the State Contra
: Committee fiattering condition of af
: fairs in their respective localities.