Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-09-02

were passed to meet great emerge ncy
whichIhas ceased to exist.
How have they protected labor in
this country? By importing paupers from
Europe to take their places at starva-
tion prices, and taxing the Iaboring
man 20 per cent. on his clothes.
The increased population and the in
creased consumption increases the tax
paying power of the people and largely
increased receips for greatly decreased
necessities is the result. The system
itself is at war with every single priu-
ciple of equality and justice, and ought
to be speedily modified to suit the
changed condition of affairs.
Now, my friends, 1 have detained
you long enough, but must have O
word or two personal to myself You
have named me as your candidate for
Congress and my enemies charge that 1
am ambitious. Well, suppose / am.
Is not every man and,woman in this
free country ambitious in some direc-
ton. Some people are ambitious to do
one thing and some another. The To-
ledo Bee is ambitious to be the best
daily paper in Toledo, and its ambi-
ton has succeeded. The Cincinnati
Enquirer is ambitious to be the greatest
newspaper in the West, and that is
about so, too; am ambitious to serve
my countrymen in Congress, because 1
want Oklahoma opened up to settle
ment; because / want the taxes reduc-
ed and the burden of labor lightened;
because l want the public lands restored
| to the Government for free homes for
the people who have no homes; because
want the cattle monopolies broken up;
because don't want the farmers of my
district to make butter out of pure
| cream and sell it in competition with
poisonous stuff called butter, which
is some times made of soap grease.
Now am ambitious to go back to Con-
gress, and with your aid / am going.
Suppose have had three terms, will
that experience lessen my efficiency
there or my ability to serve you?
Did it hurt Garfield, Senator Cox,
Samuel J. Randall, VIM. B. Kelly, VIM.
B. Morrison, VIM. L. Holman or any
other public man to be experienced in
his business.
During the three terms have served
the people in Congress have you ever
heard of a corrupt act on my part?
Have grown rich on the salary? The
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is just about the size of my pile.
Now, my fellow-citizens, / have given
you but brief review of the political
situation as see it; have but briefly
alluded to the general policy of admin
istration and work of the last Congress.
That administration is but the work of
your own creation. 1t Is not partisan,
but business administration. Every
business man who does not want an Of
flee and can't get it, is satisfied with it.
Let us make 1t success, or rather
share in the glory and the success which
it is making, and will make for itself.
1t may be that the President does not
come up to the expectations of every
Democrat in his policy of removals
from Office, but he is trying to ap-
point good men and to do it safely and
prudently. So far he has succeeded ad-
mirably. Well, are we not all better
satisfied now than if Republican was
President? If we are not allowed to
have Democratic Postmasters in our
Conventions there is one consolation
for that, there are no Republican Post
masters to fight us, but few Republican
officers anywhere, for Jay Hubbell to
assess. For twenty-five years we had
no Democratic Postmasters or other
Federal officers to help US. We had
thousands of them to fight US though.
There will be no money from that source
to fight us with this year.
| The Republicans have plenty of mon
ey however left, from their long lease of
power and Star Route and other funds.
But they have not got the army and the
polls. They haven't got United States
Marshals at the polls. The country does
not swarm with Federal spies paid out of
the public treasury at your expense, to
hunt you down. We will not enforce
the power against our Republican
friends which they enforced against us
when they had it to enforce. Let every
man have his ballot free and pure with
; out intimidation, fear, or favor.
Let us show to the world that we are
not held together as party by the
cohesive power of public plunder;n
but the twenty-five years of defeat and
prescription were suffered and endured
and finally turned into triumph for
principle, for good government, for hon.
est purposes, for the good of all the peo-
pie. Forty years ago, during the panic
of 1887, when the old Federal party was
endeavoring to destroy home rule and
local self-government, that great leader
of our party came to the rescue-I mean
glorious old VIM. Allen, who saved us
again in 1873. In one of the greatest
speeches that ever fell from the lips of
any man he defined the principle ofour
great party. The defiition is as good
to-day as it was then. Here it is:
u Democracy is ia sentiment not to be
appalled. cOrruDted or COMPROMISED, 1t