Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-26
GENERAL SAMUEL F. CARY

GENERAL SAMUEL +. CAKE
 Addresses an Enthusiastic Audience at City Hall-He Explains the Principles of Democracy in Way That Cannot Be Misunderstood.
 Owing to the faulty advertising of the democratic call last evening and probably | by reasons of the other meetings in the l city, but a fair sized audience greeted the | speaker of the evening. Before the end ot
 the rally, however, the hall was filled with l the friends of democratic principles. | But few, if any, republicans accepted the l invitation to attend the meeting and pos
 sibly the truth and facts given out in the speech of the evening caused even those desirous of asking questions feeling of tiredness. Any one who listened to that declaration of democratic principles so truthfuly proven by facts. and dare assert
 the supremacy of the republican, party, Is
 either a bigoted politician or very lgno-
 rant man. The City band did escort duty
 and promptly at s o'clock General $. k. Cary the orator of the evening, preceded I by City Clerk kilduff, entered the hall.
 The venerable orators appearance was the
 signal for an outburst of applause, which
 subsided only when Mir kilduff stepped to
 the front of the platform and announced
 the preside 1t, vice presidents and secre
 taries C. I. Trcmaine was chose pres
 ident and taking his position called the
 meeting to order, and in a few remarks introduced the speaker, General $. F. Cary of Ohio. As General Cary stepped
 to the front he was greeted with deafcn- ing applause. Dressed in plain suit of
 home spun, without any desire of show, his grey locks rutf1ed without any attempt
 at order, General Cary appeared to be what his calling really is, farmer; man who
 makes no pretenses, and delivers his
 address with force of power which car
 ries conviction to his listeners. General
 Cary spoke as follows
 We owe our country the greatest of all
 honOrs. In view of the approaching cleo
 tion, you have gathered here from your dwellings, and I am here from my distant
 home to shed a ray of light on the politi-
 cal aspects of the times. 1 am always in
 terested in this old state of Connecticut.
 Here are buried my ancestors, and 1 feel as
 native of this state in addressing you. My fellow citizens, not a partisan do l , wish to give utterance to any VleWs but as a patriot. 1 don't care what ticket you vote.
 You should all guard this country in order
 to perpetuate civil and religious liberty. l
 wish 1 could induce you to take off the party harness. If you cant get 1t off, why , loosen it little 1 have often said 1 was
 born whig and would die one, but that party died and was buried, and 1 still sur vive A man will tell you he is not going to desert his party principles to accept the principles of another. am here d voter f for honest old Abe Lincoln. But the re-
 publican now Is not the same he was l then, unless he is alarming the same old , stocking until not a thread of the original
 remains. Every member of Lincoln>s cabi
 net died democrat with one exception
 Simon Cameron, who stuck to the repub r. lican party, but was kicked out of it fol
 T Int of ! tors in the house at that time, 1i turned l democrats You can't put collar on mt
 and call ms a democratic dog. 1 am my
 own dog. Many of us had hoped, and r amongst the number, that when slavery !, had been washed out by the blood of ou7 f ! patriots, nothing stood in the way of thi |. country's glory, but there is and l am go , ing to show you what if is. MT Blaine /, says-and 1 believe him or 1 would no f quote him for he does not always tell tn 3 truth-that there has been more wealtl n created in this country for the past tel l years than ever before. Who has thi :, wealth We are becoming a nation of mil . lionaireS and tramps, with the tramps Il q predominance. God has been gracious t }. the farmers and yet they d IS not get rich. am farme "a and know it. Of course there are eXceI ,r tions and some old chaps can get rich O q two nickles day, spend one and pocke < the other. What are the conditions of tn T, working classes: Some few have got " little sum. but 1 wager three-fOurhs c [: the laboring classes are so poor that n. they were sick month, they would hav ,s to depend on the charity of the world fC .d support There is something wrong her if where the few become rich and the man ,s become poor The bible says a man mus I work to eat. The republicans chang a, that doctrine and say man must work 1e make few rich and starve the many. S charge the republican party with all tn rs accumulation of wealth and keeping tn o- poor man poorer. At the time of the ws
 the duty on goods was 19 per cen
 When the war broke out the duty wf
 raised to f per cent. Over $200, ,000, ,0C
 was collected i'll this way. Everythin in was taxed. A mans income, the ne'
 essaries of life, the bankers salar, l. Everything and anything. When tf ed war was over an appeal was made to II of duce taxation. And how was it dom ot Every tax that benefited the rich WI or wiped d t-and every tax the poor ma of was paying was retained. Now, m IT. republican friends if there are any her
 you know this is true. Presidents Gran
 Arthur and Hayes urged upon congre
 the necessity of reducing the tariff on tl dc necessaries of life. MT Cleveland say or the same thing and he begs congress 3S reduce the tariff. And they charge th, al he is free trader for doing just what tl A,- republican party wanted to do. l wi
 show you the difference between the tw
 parties. The word tariff is derived fro1
 town named Tarifa on the coast we Gibraltar The authorities of the tow ne demanded a tax from the vessels passin eo the coast. They charge us wit ne being free traders. When a ls- ignorant man says that I pity him, b,
 when an intelligent man stands up on
 platform and makes that statement he li'
 and the lie ought to choke the scoundrel [ nt death. The democratic party says tax u us us people according to the necessities of u ITS government Care should be taken III foster American industries and not trust
 Now the republican party says tax or
 man to enrich another, tax one industry
 build up another. We must have custo1 Nlos ,.t,