The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-26
CARLISLE AND BLACKBURN.
A Grand Barbecue in Their Honor-No
Room for n Third Party.

Room for n Third Party.
CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 19.-There were
5000 people at the Erlanger barbecue,
eight miles south of here, to-day to see
Speaker Carlisle and Senator Blackburn
and hear them speak. They were mostly
from Carlisle's district. The barbecue
consisted of four carcasses of oxen, twen-
ty-four carcasses of sheep and no end of
chickens roasted; also, of 1000 gallons of
soup that had been cooking three DAYS
and 2,400 baskets of bread.
Senator Blackburn among other things
said that the destiny OF the nation must
be entrusted either to the democratic or
republican party; that there were no
three parties in the country; that the
country was broad and big, but it was not
big enough to furnish room for three par
ties. Neither a labor organization
nor a woman's suffrage organization, he
said, nor prohibition organization could
stand before an intelligent audience and
challenge their support, because the prop
osition was preposterous. He had been
informed by the press that in the Sixth
Kentucky congressional district the labor
party had recently placed in the
field candidate for congress. He did not
mean to quarrel with the members of that
thought them to be, but he asked them
the question; Suppose the ticket was
to win, what good would it
do? None. For it was not within
the compass of mortal power, supple
mented even by that of the devil, if the
Lord kept his hands of, for any third
party to control the house. The labor
representatives, If elected, would be mere
cyphers. Mr.. Carlisle was known to all.
He would not appeal for him.. be-
cause he would not insult his proud con-
stituency by even making an appeal for
him.
The question before the people, he con-
tinued, was the question OF federal taxa
ton. The tariff was higher to-day than it
was from 1861 to 1865, for during those
four years an army of 100000 had to be
maintained under arms. while to-day there
was not in the country an army capable of
whipping a handful of hand painted In
dams on the frontier.
Sixty per cent. of the whisky, 40 per
cent. of the tobacco raised in the country,
was raised in the state of which he was
proud to be an humble son. As a true
son OF Kentucky he but voiced the
sentiments of the people when ne
said he would rather see this stand
a tax on luxuries, rather than see the
necessities of the people 90 scott free.
The senator gave his hearers history of
the surplus and its accumulation. He
might not be able agree with Mr.. Cleve-
lands ideas of civil service reform, be-
cause he believed that all bad republicans
ought to be put out of Office, and with them
all good republicans, for plenty of good
democrats could be had to fill their place
better.
Speaker Carlisle was cheered when he
was introduced. The speaker did not add
much in his speech to what he had said in
his speech OF acceptance at the Coving-
ton convention of the day be-
fore, at which he had been
renominated for congress. He opened by
reinstatement of the history of both great
political parties, and the different stand
taken by each on the fundamental prin-
ciples of government. The great question
before the people, he said, was the ques-
ton of federal taxation. There were two
WAYS in which the revenue could be re-
duced; one was to take the taxes off the
people, and the other was to make
the duty on imports so high that
the products of foreign countries could
not come into the country, and thereby
prevent the raising OF revenue from this
source. The latter the republican plat
form advocated. The republican party,
said he, proposed to reduce the
tariff by checking the import
alton of goods, the like of which
could be produced here, but if that were
not sufficient they would repeal the entire
internal revenue tax rather than sur
render one part of what they called the
protective system.
The democratic party has never, Speaker
Carlisle continued, advocated free trade.
Notwithstanding that it had been as
serted by republicans that he and
his friends were il favor of direct
taxation he wished to have
it understood by the people
that he never was and never would be in
favor of direct taxation. [Applause.l If
the republican party succeeded in carry
ing out the policy outlined
in its platform then there
would no resort be left the
government but to collect its revenues by
direct taxation. If the collection of i'm
port taxes was done away with and the
internal revenue tax was repealed there
was but one resource and that was to tax
the peoples land and put a per
capita tax on the people, these two
methods, under decisions of the supreme
court, being the only means of direct tax
alton known to the constitution. If there
was any political party in favor of direct
taxation, it was the republican party.