The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-16

The year 1887 was prosp rous, and the
president at its close proposed a radical
change in the industrial system which had
produced hat prosperity, and since that day
there has been reversal and confusion In the
m and manufactures of the United
States. The question before the American
people is whether he and his administration
81 !! he sustained in that movement. Voices,
IN no!"l Against him the Republican
party have nominated the.best Of tickets.
1hey have given you for president a man
Of experience, Of heroic record in the war,
Of purity Of character, a man Of great firm
ness, who can give this country an admins
tration worthy Of its best days. [Cheers. ]
And you have associated with him a man
whom l need not further describe to citizens
OF New York than to say his name is Levi
p. Morton, (chsers) a man Of most generous
character, Of the widest and most statesman
like views on the great questions.
OF the gentlemen against them l would say
nothing, but Of the candidate for vice presi-
dent l would say that in him I have a friend
Of many years. standing and l an a personal
admirer Of Judge Thurman. But / beg you
to observe that in a critical period Of this
country George M. Dallas destroyed the pro-
tective tariff Of 1S42. When the senate con-
venes on the 4th of March next 1t WI have
thirty-two senators from the solid Soupd, and
unless you make a change, six Democratic
senators from the North, and Mr.. Thurman
will be in q position to re-enact the role of
George NJ. Dallas forty-two years ago. The
moro able and amiable the man is the worse
will be his influence before the American
people.
~ have been in England for several months
and have discovered q great diversity Of
opinion upon almost every subject They
are divided upon what you arc pleased to
call the Irish question; upon the continuance
Of the house Of lords, and they are not abso-
lutely unanimous In the support Of the mon
archy. Laughter and applause.l But from
one end Of the kingdom to the other there IL
one unanimous concord Of opinion, be they
Tories, Wings, Liberals, Conservatives or
Radicals, and that is that the Honorable
Grover Cleveland embodies in his person the
free trade for the United States which they
like.
Now l have no objection to their right OF
opinion Qaughter), and IL l had 1t would
amount to nothing; nor do / intend to speak
with disrespect Of the English, for l have re-
ceived at their hands courtesies which I
would be but surly not to acknowledge be-
fore an American audience But there 10
here a question Of policy which is the prime
one. / am glad this meeting is called in the
name Of the laboring people, because this
question Is from beginning to end a question
Of labor. If you viii agree to live in as poor
a house and eat as poor food and receive as
your wages as little as the operatives Of
England receive, we can produce, as cheap
goods as the Democratic administration de-
sires to sell daughter), but IL you desire to
better your condition, you want the protec-
ton interests OF America maintained.
The wage workers OF Great Britain and
Ireland cannot draw upon savings as great
as lies to the credit Of the wage workers in
the small state of Massachusetts,. II you
turn the country into free trade channels
you can put our country in competition with
Great Britain, and La tho course Of five years
mako tho waas workers o. poor. Twin not