Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-09
CAMPAIGN CHAT.
The "Old Roman" Alias the
Egyptian Obelisk."
HE Is BY NO MEANS A MUMMY.
The Sage's Speech at Newark-Demo-
cratic Doctrine Good Enough
for Judge Greer.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
NEWARK, N. j., September 8.-Th'
Democracy Of Newark helda mass meet
ing tonight in the Bellevue avenue rink
at which Allen G. Thurman spoke. The
building which has standing capacity
of from 1000 to 5000 people was packee
to overfowing. On Judge Thurman's ar
rival on the platform, j. Watts Corney
Chairman, called the meeting to ordel
and introduced the Democratic candidate
for the Vice Presidency. The hearties
applause greeted his appearance. lie
spoke as follows:
THE EGYPTIAN oBELIsK.
Friends and FelloU Citizens-When
was born I was duly baptized into the
Christian faith by the name of Allen G
Thurman. Many years afterwards some
enthusiastic Democratic friends of mine
gave me new baptism and styled me
the "Old Roman" but my Republican
friends of the New York press would i'm
prove on that name, and this morning
baptized me as the Egyptian Obelisk. F"
have seen in the Place de la Concorde,
in Paris, an Egyptian obelisk said to be
more than four thousand years old.
If I can only live as long
as one of these oblisks l shall certainly
see all the enemies of Democracy buried
beneath centuries of dust. am engaged
in business too serious to be troubled
by quips, however sharp, and witticisms
however pungent. l come here to speak
to you, my friends, in New Jersey in a
serious, sober manners as to American
citizens, in year OF great moment to
you and to our country. l come here at
the request OF your central committee,
and l come willingly, because there is no
part of this whole continent in which l
would rather meet my Democratic
friends than in New Jersey. What was
done by our forefathers in the war that
achieved our independence, at Trenton,
at Princeton and at Monmouth? :? These
things are fresh in my recollection, and
as they made my youthful blood stir
within me, and thoroughly boil with de-
votion, to. day in this old "obelisk" the
recollection of them sets the heart in
motion. / am therefore glad to be with
you tonight.
THE GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Now, there are not few subjects
upon which 1 might address you
tonight There are several in my heart
that would like to speak to you about.
1 should like to speak to you of the his
tory of the great Democratic party. to
which 1 have belonged since my youth.
/ should like to speak to you OF that
party founded by Jefferson and consoli-
dated and maintained by Andrew Jack
son, and whose interest and welfare
have been so much promoted by Grover
Cleveland. l would like to remind you
that there is not one acre of
land now within the limits of the
United States, beyond the original
thirteen Colonies, that was not OBJ
tained by Democratic Administration.
l would like to remind you that the thir-
teen Colonies which achieved their in
dependence were comparatively narrow
strip OF land along the Atlantic shore, and
that now this Republic extends from
ocean to ocean, and is one of the largest,
and it is the most intelligent and most
powerful of all the nations on earth. l
would like to recall to your recollection
the fact that whenever a contest has
been between the rights of the people
and thcss who would control their rights,
the Democratic party has stood by the
people unfinchingly, determined and not
to be moved. would like to recall to
your memory such facts as these,
that the removal of the property
qualification and the religious test,
and all that impaired the great right
of the people to vote, was the result of
Democratic legislation, inaugurated by
the Democratic party. l would like to
call YOUR attention to the fact that when
the spirit of Know Nothingism arose in
this land and threatened to disfranchise
every foreign-born citizen and to put
down all the people of a particular
church, Democracy came to the rescue
of Liberty and Religion, and said: "This
shall not be-"
In the good old days of Democratic
ascendancy we had an economical gov
eminent, economically administered.
The expenses of General Jackson's ad-
ministration, for instance, in the course
of year did not exceed one-fourth OF
the expenses that have been entailed
on this country in any one year
since the close of the rebellion.
would like to further state that this
Democratic party is party that has
never laid down to die; that it is natural
ly the party Of free institutions, and that
just as long as freedom exists in America,
the Democratic party will exist. There
is no way of destroying it, except by
despotism, and as long as it exists
despotism is impossible: for that party
will not endure it.
THE CRY OF FREE TRADE.
Passing from general observations, al
low me to come to some of the issues
that are most sharply marked in this
campaign. Let me say something to you
upon the Tariff question, so-called.
Our opponents are endeavoring tc
alarm the country by the cry of Free
Trade. They must have poor opinion
of the peoples intelligence as to what
Free Trade is. Free Trade is the unre.
stricted intercourse. between Nations in
which there are no custom houses, nc
duties and no taxes paid on goods i'm.
ported for sale. You have an illustra
ton of Free Trade in the United States
There are tbirty.eight States in the
Union. Between these States there il
Free Trade. When goods are taken from
New Jersey from this great manufactur
ing and fourishing city of Newark into
New York, you pay no duties, and New
York pays no duties on them. If yor
take them to Maine or California it ii
exactly the same thing. Between these
thirty-eight States there is Free Trade