Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-10-24
POLITICAL DISCOURSE.
. Blaine Talks to Chicagoans.
While Thurman Entertains
Braxii's Citizens.
The Femrer Arriagns the Democratic
Administration on Divers
Counts.
The Latter Sees Signs Of Victory for the
Democratic Party, and Cense-
eaent Good Government.

CHICAGO, Got. 22.-One of the most
notable Republican demonstrations in the
campaign of 1888 occurred in Chicago
Saturday night. Mr.. Blaine was the
central figure. The occasion was his
first public appearance since the nation
al convention in the city where that
body had named a new candidate for the
party. A parade of about ten thousand
men was reviewed by the famous leader
less than two squares from the auditor
ium, the place where his successor had
been chosen so short a time before. Mr..
Blaine spoke with his old time force, and
his remarks were received with great
enthusiasm.
The twenty-four years of Republican
rule in the United States form an epoch
second only in importance to those great
years comprehended between the Dec
1aration of Independence and the organi-
zation of the federal government. His
tory recognizes this by assigning to the
first president and chief actor in the later
period rank second only in American
craftsmanship and heroism to Washing
ton himself The Republicans arraign
Mr.. Cleveland for falling short of the
promises wherewith his administration
was inaugurated. and for disappointing
the lust expectations which his words
inspired. First, they arraign him for
his failure to improve the civil service,
as he had promised in every form of
words in which official pledges could be
expressed. Instead of reform there has
been constant deterioration. Instead of
curing the system of partisan removals
the president has developed it to such an
extent that more officials have been re-
moved from Office during the present ad-
ninistration without charge and for
political reasons than by any three of his
predecessors in Office, even though three
may be selected who were eight years
each in the presidential chair.
the president for having surrendered the
rights of the country in the fisheries of
the North American coast in manner
derogatory to the dignity of the nation.
and in utter disregard of the rights of
the fishermen.
Third, the Republicans arraign Mr..
Cleveland for his cruel disregard of the
rights of poor and needy soldiers, who
incurred their distress and poverty in the
service of the nation, and who, by the
interposition of the presidents veto, were
deprived of the pittance voted to them
by the Republican senate and Demo
cratic house. Not only has the president
vetoed the general bill passed for the re-
lief of all needy and dependent soldiers,
but in more than two hundred cases OF
peculiar and personal sufferings the pres
ident has interposed his power to pre-
vent these creditors of the nation receiv
ing their just dues.
Fourth, the Republican party arraign
the administration for having unjustly,
without precedent and for partisan rea-
SONS, disfranchised TOO, ,0e0 American cit
izens in the territory of Dakota. 1t had
been the practice, Mr., Blaine said, to
promptly recognize the right of terri
tory to statehood as soon as sufficient
population had been attained to repre-
sentative in congress. But now, when
the electoral college is so closely balanced
that the power of the solid South and
two or three Northern states to seize the
presidency may be disturbed If 700, 600
citizens of Dakota are admitted to their
rightful inheritance, the Democratic par
ty and the national administration make
a combination TO disfranchise that large
body of men. Dakota is so thoroughly a
state in all her equipments, in her power,
that this year she produces and sends to
market larger wheat crop than any
one of the thirty-eight states OF the
Union. She has within her borders
larger mileage of railroad than any one
of the sixteen Southern states, except
Missouri and Texas; larger mileage
than any one of the New England states,
oil Er10I
together, and more striking than all else
the population of Dakota is larger than
any of twelve states now in the Union,
as shown by the last federal census.
Fifth, the Republicans arraign Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration for
breaking down the useful policy of pay
ing off the national debt as rapidly as the
surplus in the treasury will allow. They
permitted bonds of the United States,
payable at par, to remain on interest
while the income of the government was
devoted to the creation of surplus
which might be used to prejudice the
financial and industrial system that had
steadily produced condition of prosper
ity in the country. When the surplus
was thus designeg1y enlarged the treasury
DEPARTMENT used it, for the first time
since Gen. jackson broke down the
old United States bank, for the purpose
of loans, under the name of deposits"
without interest to banking institutions.
Sixth, lastly, the Republicans arraign
the president for deliberate attempt to
destroy the protective system of this
country by using against it as an argu-
ment it's tendency to produce surplus
in the treasury, when not one dollar of
surplus would be there if the money had
been lawfully expended in reducing the
public debt, instead of being loaned out
to pet banks and for the benefit of politi-
cal favorites.
THURMAN ENCOURAGED.