St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-05
Opening Of the National Cam
paign in the Hoosier
State.
Immense Mass Meeting of the
True Democracy at Terre
Haute.
Rousing Speech Delivered by
the Eloquent Daniel w.
Voorhees,.
Railroad Men Visit Indianap-
oils and Call on Gen.
Harrison.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 4.-The
Democracy of this city and vicinity held
a mass meeting tonight and Senator
Voorhees, made the opening speech of
the Democratic campaign in Indiana,
this being the senator's home. The
street procession was large and cred
table display, and the wigwam, where
the meeting was held, was crowded.
Senator Voorhees, was rendered an Ova-
ton on his appearance, the audience
rising and cheering several minutes.
On the platform were many Democrats
of state and local prominence. Sen
atOr Voorhees, address was listened to
with marked attention, and he was fire.
quently interrupted by rounds of ap-
plause. The most noticeable feature of
the senator's speech was his revival of
the greenback issue.
SENATOR voorhees, SPEECH.
propose to show that the history of
the Republican party on the subject of
taxation is the history of premeditated
crime against the laboring people Of
the United States. Every movement
in the machinery of government set in
motion by the Republican leaders and
managers has been to swell and
bloat the gains of the rich and tg in
prive labor of its honest reward and to
reduce the industrial classes on the
farms. in the workshop and in the mines,
to the estate and conditions of serfs.
paying tribute to their rapacious
masters. The Republican conspiracy
to faSten the
FANGS OF THE MONEY POWER
in the. struggling body of American
labor and to enable gigantic usury and
legaliZed robbery to suck the blood of
every American industry. took its
first great step when, in authoriz-
ing legal tender currency in 1862,
the greenback, the immortal and
glorious greenback, was Disseminated
markets of the world, by being made
nOn-receivable for duties and imports
and on interest on the bonded debt of
the United States. In all the annals of
nations, no financial measure was ever
MORE WILLFUILY WICKED
in conception or design, nor more far
reaching, oppressive and destructive to
the rights of labor in its results than
this.
The senator declared this act enabled
the "bullionist" of Wall street to realize
a profit in ''naked speculation" with the
bonds and currency of the nation, of
nearly $1,000, 100000. The laboring peo-
pie have been too patient, too fOrbear-
on the globe would have submitted, un-
less
RESTRAINED BY FORCE,
to the monstrous act of congress of
March, 1869. By one dishonest stroke
of a dishonest pen, guided and held by
the dishonest leaders of great party,
the debt which labor has to pay was
swollen 25 per cent.
The great bulk of our bonds, the five
twentieS, were payable in greenbackS,
and the authors of the act of March,
1869, knew it was false when they
dec Jared that they
WE'RE PAYABLE IN COIN.
The speaker quoted at length from the
speech of Senator Beck on this subject,
March 13, last: also quoted the letter
written by John Sherman in 1859, and
resurrected by Beck, wherein Sherman
said:
81 think the bondholder violates his
promise when he refuses to take the
same kind of money he paid for his
bonds"
Why, asked the speaker, should not
the greenback, with its glorious history,
and with all the crimes committed and
attempted against it by the leaders of
the Republican party, come to the front
at this time, and all times, when the in
terestS of the laboTing classes are under
consideration?
BRANDED AT ITS BIRTH
with the bar sinister as bastard in the
field of currency, perSiStentiy stigma
tiZed and caricatured as rag baby, born
in founding hospital without known
parentage; for years denounced as dis
honest money, fraud upon the buSi-
ness and commercial world, yetit stands
to-day in every state in the Union, with
its head as high and its purchasing
power as great as the brightest gold
that ever flashed from the
DEPTHS OF THE EARTH.
1t is true the Republican candidate
for president suggested in 1873 that an
idiot asylum ought to be erected for be-
levers in the greenback-for you, my
old greenback friend, and for me.
l believed in the greenback
then and do now, and l take my
place amongst you, under Gen. Har-
rison's sweeping, intolerant. brutal
criticism and denunciation. | did so
ten years ago, when he poured out his
scornful wrath upon us, and l was we'll
content with the result, when he en-
vassed the state in 1878, the candidate
of his party for the senate, as l did, as
the candidate of mine, and the
PEOPLE OF INDIANA DECIDED,
by more than $4,000 majority on the
popular vote for members of the legis-
lature, that he was nearer a financial
idiot than | was, and that [ should 60
back to Washington and leave him at
home.
Senator VOORHEES, then entered upon
the tariff issue, and recounted the his
tory of modern tariff legislation. No
relief, the speaker declared. was af. R
forded to labor by resort to a domestic
excise system; on the contrary. this
system was made the preteXt for still
further bold and flagitious encroach-
ments on the part of monopoly and
greed against the rights
OF THOSE WHO TOLL.
The two acts of congress of 1862 and
| 1864, by which protective duties were
made to ascend to a Pixies Peak alti-
| tude; were defended on the express
| ground that the manufacturer should
| be compensated for the amount
of surplus enough of the la
boring peoples money to pay
| down in cash, more than $500 for every
day since the birth of Christ. You want
| free salt, cheap nails, cheap farming
materials and cheap articles for
HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN USE.
Touching upon the Republican inter-
| nal revenue plank, Senator Voorhees,
| said:
sit is hard to speak in terms of mod
Grafton of this mOnstrous proposition. In
| this Christian land and age,smen some
! times spoken of as Christian, statesmen
! have nothing better than free whisky