The Dickinson press., 1888-10-27
.OLITICAL DISCOURSE.
:-i:.tne Talks to ChicagOurs,
Willie Thurman Entcrtnins
lErnZtl's Citizens.
The Fcmrer Arriagns the Democratic
Administration on Divers
Counts.
The Latter Sees Signs Of Victory for the
Democratic Party, and Conse-
Qucnt Good Government.

NiiNA'iO, OCl. SS.-OuG OF me luOSL
notable Republican demonstrations in the
campaign of 1883 occurred in Chicago
Saturday night. Mr.. Blaine was the
central figure. The occasion was his
first public appearance since the nations
al convention in the city where that
body had named a new candidate for the
party. y parade of about ten thousand
men waa reviewed by the famous leader
less than two squares from the auditor
iun. the place where his successor had
lcrn chosen ST. short Il time before. Mr..
Blaine spoke with his old time force, and
his remarks were received with great
enthusiasm.
ih" twenty-four years of Republican
rul" in the United States form an epoch
second only in Importance to those great
wears comprehended between the Dec
l@aration of Independence and the organi-
cation of the federal government. His
tory recognizes this by assigning to the
first president and chief actor in the later
period a rank second only in American
ton himself. The Republicans arraign
MIR. Cleveland for falling short of the
promises wherewith his administration
was inaugurated, and for disappointing
The Just 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 i'll 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 adj
ministration without charge and for
political reasons than by any three of his
predecessors in Office, v e though three
may he selected who Were eight years
each in the presidential chair.
Second. that the Republicans arraign
the president for having surrendered the
rights of the country in the fisheries of
the North American coast in a manner
dtrogatory to the dignity of the nation.
and in utter disregard of the rights of
the fishermen.
Third, the Republicans arraign MIR.
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 p~ittance voted to them
by the Republican senate and a 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 sutferingst the pres
ident has interposed his power to pre-
vent those creditors of the nation rcceiv-
ing their just dues.
Fourth, the Republican party arraign
the administration for having unjustly,
without precedent and for partisan rea-
sons, DISTINGUISHED 100, 900 American cit
liens in the territory of Dakota. 1t had
been the practice, Mr., Blaine said, to
promptly recognize the right of a terri
tory to statehood as o as sufficient
population had been attained to a repre-
Sentative in congress. But now. when
the electoral collegei is oclosely balanced
that the power of the solid South and
two or three Northern states to seize the
presidency may be disturbed if 700, 900
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 a larger wheat crop than any
II of the thirty-eight states of the
Union. She has within her borders q
larger mileage of railroad than any one
of the sixteen Southern states, except
Missouri and Texas: a larger mileage
than any one of the New England states,
and nearly as many as all New England
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 asthe
surplus in the treasury will allow. They
permitted bonds of the United States,
payable at par, to remain Oh interest
while the income of the government was
devoted to the creation of a surplus
which might be used to prejudice the
financial and industrial system hat had
steadily produced a condition of prosper
ity in the country. When the surplus
was thus designegly 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 a deliberate attempt to
destroy the protective system of this
country by using against it as an argu-
mcnt its tendency to produce a surplus
i'll the treasury, when not one dollar of
surplus would be there if the non had
been lawfully expended in reducing the
public debt. instead of being loaned out
to pet banks and for the benefit of politi-