The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-27

icsau III u filgiNS tone Dv Secreldfv fess-
enden, and the references to the tariff, to
the protection of American labor, to the
accumulation of the surplus, the demand
for free, honest ballot and fair count
and the question Of the admission to the
territories, were all lor.dly cheered espec-
tally that relating to the tariff.
CHAIRMAN JoNEs's SPEECH.
After the reading of the call for the
convention, Chairman Jones delivered
an address, which, on account of the buzz
and confusion, was heard with difficulty
He said
The Republican party may well be
congratulated, through its representatives
here assembled, upon the auspicious
prospect that lies before it. Wise and
courageous action by this convention viii
surely lead to victory in the campaign
upon which we are about to enter There
can be no doubt as to which side the
great majority of votes will fall, if each
party be tried by its record if the grand
achievements of the Republican party be
appreciated, and the utter failure of the
Democratic party be understood.
The two parties are Numerically OPP
posed TO each other One favors progress
sion the other retrogression. One lifts
up the other casts down. Thanks to
Mr.. Cleveland and his Southern allies,
the Democratic party has thrown off tie
disguise in which it has heretofore fought
its battles in the Northern States and has
boldly declared for British free trade,
and against American protection. This
action has caused much adulation in GER
tain sections of this country, and in all
England, which has from the beginning
been hostile to the industrial progress of
the United States but it has fallen heav-
lily upon the ears of the patriotic portion
of the Democratic party.
DECEITs AND PALACES.
However, We must not expect that this
is the end of dishonest pretenses. Deceit,
fallacies and sophistry will again be re-
sorted TO and practiced. Therefore, we
should have platform based upon true
Republican principles, free from equivo-
cation and ambiguity and should nomi-
nate candidates who are the embodiment
of these principles. The founders of this
Government saw that il was absolutely
essential for self-preservation that the
original thirteen states should be uni
ted for protection and defense against
alien acts and influences, as well as for
economical and effective Government.
One of the first acts of the Federal Gov
ernment was to provide for revenue and
for the protection of industrial interests
of the country.
All our early Presidents from Wash
ington 10 jackson inclusive, advocated
tariff for revenue and protection. All of
the grent statesmen of those days coin--
cided in the policy. No man of note,
who was lover of his country, down to
Jackson's first term, entertained and ex-
pressed doubts as TO the constitutionality
or policy of protecting the industries Of
the United States against foreign compe-
tition. The tariff question was not con-
sidered as embracing solely or chiefly
the manufacturers interest, but one
which broadly embraced the social con-
dition of the laboring classes, the mutu-
al interest Of all home producers in the
home market, and the country's real in
dependence.
The British, who now shout free trade,
protected themselves against all competi-
ton until they were masters of the COM
mercial world, and until they realized
that the United States with its great nat
ural advantages and by moderate use
of the same means, was becoming a
formidable rival. 1t was only when
Great Britain perceived something of the
furture of her American rival that she
attempted to regain that control over
this country by artifiee which she was
unable to hold or reclaim by force of
arms.
After relating the history of the alleg-
ed alliance of the South with English
manufacturers under the administrations
of Van Buren, Polk, Pierce and Buchan-
an, Chairman Jones continued
RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party vanquished the
Democratic party, passed the homestead
law, destroyed slavery, elevated the Mud
sills," restored credit, redeemed the coun-
try and started il anew on the lines con-
templated by the fathers. To-day we oc-
cupy a much higher plane than any 9TH
er people on the face of the globe. The
Republican party believes that it is not
necessary or right that we should be re-
duced to a common level with other ma
tions, but that we should have the full
benefit of all our natural advantages and
the full enjoyment of our glorious herit-
age The logical consequences of the
theories of the Democratic party would
have left this country with but a fringe
of population on the water ways. Many
of the leading Bourbon Democrats of to-
day look upon the magnificent develop
ments and the grand Improvements of
the nation, which are simply labor, ge-
MUS and management crystalized, as a
a -I,nla IA
and believe that we ought to go back to
the small days of ignorance, sloth and
small things as quickly as possible.
Through the criminal folly of certain
professed Republicans, and by fraud and
duplicity on the part of the Democratic
party. our honored and gallant standard
bearers in 1884 were defeated. Fortunate
ly for the country, we still have the BEN
eft of the wise laws passed by the Re-
publican party, and still have majority
of the Senate of the United States, which
majority has prevented unwise legisla-
ton. We are again confronted by the
Democratic party, the mother of all the
evils from which this country has suffer
ed, asking for the power TO control and
direct its future course, aud we find that
the same element which first led it astray
by its influence and dominated it down
to the perilous days of the rebellion is
again in full control of its affairs
If a majority of the American voters
favor the giving away of the home mar