The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-05

money power. They once were the monop-
olists of cheap, underpaid labor. Their
rights under the fugitive slave law and in
the territories were arrogantly pressed to
the point when the sword was drawn and
millions of men took the field. Then
the section which had everything
III possession, and consequently everything
to lose and nothing to gain, lost its entire
substance in the struggle for the shadow
theory. The most bitter and implacable
supporters of slavery and of its extension
thirty years ago were in fact the most sue
cessful and efficient abolitionists of the
nineteenth century. They struck too for 1t,
and their blows came back to destroy them,
and so it will be with the purse-proud,
insolent, blind and misled taxeaters of the
present day. BY making no concession to
the overtaxed condition of the people, to
the overwhelming surplus in the treasury,
ana by refusing to permit single dollar of
reduction on the necessities of life; but, on
the contrary, insisting that whisky and
tobacco should go free, manufacturers have
done more to promote ideas of free trade in
this country in the last few months than
the eloquence and gifted tongues and pens
of Frank Hurd. Henry Watterson, David
A. Wells and all their confrers during as
many years.
TICKLING THE TICKET.
The speaker then paid his respects to the
republican ticket, declaring that "never
were candidates in their natures, education,
habits, occupations and associations more
absolutely representatives of their party's
declared policy than Benjamin Harrison
and Levi F. Morton" He dwelt upon the
part Gen. Harrison took in suppressing
the labor troubles of 1877, and inquired ''in
what respect does the career of Gen. Harri-
son appeal so strongly to the pride of In
dianianss | would not disparage his just
claims to the respect of his countrymen,
but whose duty is it to vote for him on
grounds of state pride. The republi-
can presidential candidate in the last
campaign brought an action of
slander against democratic newspaper of
indianapolis. 1t involved the most deli
cate matters Of domestic life, concerning
which | have never spoken, and never will
Cen Harrison was BlaineS leading lawyer,
and when be moved to dismiss the case
without bringing it to trial, he assigned as
a reason for doing so that it was such libel
on the state and on the court that Judge
Woods refused the paper containing it a
place on his files. In that paper it was in
substance alleged that a court presided over
by an intense republican Judge, with a re-
publican marshal and republican jury com
missioners, had become SO debauched
by the influences of political agita-
tion and by a recent democratic vic
tory, that citizen of Maine could not
secure a fair trial nor obtain justice in it.;
nor indeed, in any of the courts of Indiana.
| do not know whether this paper was
written by lawyer or client, nor does it
matter. The presentation of it for perma-
nent record was crime against the honor
of the state" lu concluding, Senator Voor-
hees recounted the historic part Gen
William Harrison took to secure the repeal
of the sixth article of the ordinance of 1857,
and thereby establishing slavery in the