Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-15
A SPLENDID ADDRESS
De. tVered BY mr. EHeaIy, in tI,e DEM
seA asie State Convention OF iowa.

mittee recognized IN younger element Of IN,
party In Iowa. In II t11ere Is but little of per
sonal compliment 10 me but great deal Ii
the call and demand upon the young men oil
the party 10 go forth to do blttle under YOU
guidance and direction, in behalf Of good and
honest government
We hear your call now. and you will hear
our answer In November. The campaign
into which we are now eagerly and conf.
IDENTIFY entering IS destined 10 become memo
Fable in our political history.
There have been few scenes in all history
equal 10 the spectacle of the fathers engaged
IA government building. The stately edffice
OF which they laid the foundations is as yet
incomplete. That wing dedicated by a tacit
acknowledgement In the constitution, 10
slavery, has been razed TO the ground.
The great additions are the fruits of demo-
cratic wisdom and craftsmanship. Looking
back over her long and splendid record, de-
mocracy has faith In the permanency of free
institutions. She opposed Capitalization and
class legislation even in the days Of Hamilton
and Adams
The war Of 1912 marks the final overthrow
of English domination, and American citizen
ship then became an assured fact and not a
mere sentimental theory. The letters of
Marcy and the guns of Capt. Ingraham pro-
claimed the same doctrine when Austria has
tened TO release Martin KotZa, and today
what American heart does not beat high with
patriotic ferycr at the reading of the last
message of the president?
IL was a democrat who promulgated the
doctrine that the day for colonization In
North America had passed forever The
Louisiana and Gadsden purchases. acquired
under democratic administrations made us
In natural resources the richest nation i'm the
world.
IL WAS under democratic administrations
that we had naYies that swept the seas
Those were the days of Lawrence Perry
and Mritnnp1grFh a. nd mt aa IA. "a.
American farmer had 10 compete with the
producer of Europe and India and be com
PEELED 10 allow his rivals 10 carry his prod
ucts 10 market.
II WAS the by the Eternal, the union
must be preserved" Of the great hero OF the
democracy that crushed notification in
South Carolina. Applause. And at last,
when we we t'paltered in double sense
with wrong. when civil war proclaimed that
the battle was on and that slavery must die.
Hancock. McClellen. Slocum, Rosecrans and
Mcpherson rode shoulder TO shoulder with
Grant, Sheridan. sherman, Logan and Old
Pap Thomas, and 500 thousand more men,
enlisted In the union army than were votes
cast for Abraham Lincoln, and democratic
Missouri furnished more soldiers TO the
armies Of the Lord than republican Iowa,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada. California and
Oregon all combined. ICheers.
When the war was over. the bodies of dem
ccrats and republicans ''lay cold and moulding
under the same sod; In the same deep pit
their bodies were deposited, the green corn is
now springing from their commingled dust :the
dew falls from heaven on their union in the
grave, the benediction of the black man
rises TO heaven in gratitude and joy. and the
great God OF battles recognizes no party lines
In welcoming the heroes.
With the confidence born OF success that
has attended honest eDdeavor and patriotic
motives, the democratic party enters the
ideals. IL was an expression Of old Rise-up
William Allen that democracy demands moth
Ing but what she comedies, and comedies
nothing but what she demands. Loud APP
plause.
Proudly we go into this fight, headed by
brave, honest and determined man, whose de-
termination to do right according to the die
tates of his conscience and the obligations OF
his oath cannot be doubted by any honest
and fair-minded man. Yes, '.hc hath borne
his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in
his great ONCE" that the American people
will again ask President cleveland great
cheeringl 10 serve them, and he will do so as
faithful, as brayely and as thoroughly as
any man ever chosen president of the United
States. Renewed applause.
For the other place OF honor, with love and
affection we have called forth from his retire
mcnt the white-haircd tribune of the people,
who can set honor In one eye and death in
the other and look on both indirerently,"
Allen g. Thurman. Loud Applause.
DO you recall how. q few years Ago, when
Thurman retired from the senate, the repub-
licans told us that he was the ablest man in
his party, an honor TO this country. and wor-
thy OF the highest offices In the gift of the
peopley Today. headed by the present gov
ernor OF Ohio, they all turn in and call him
copperhead, and whyP Push them home and
they chivalrously tell you that his wife. fol-
lowing the promptings OF her heart and the
teachings OF Christianity, gave food and
nourtshmcnt TO some starving rebels confined
In the Ohio penltentiary as prisoners Of war.
III, gentlemen, the time has come when
Joseph II. Foraker can reverse the commands
given 20 us from on high, Love thineenemies,
and we shall be forbidden to give food to
those who hunger aud drink 20 those who
thirst, God help our people and curse our poll
itics.
The message of President Cleveland last
December and the passage of the Mills bill
pledge the democrats TO a reduction of our
eNurhitant taxation and an effort TO eQualize
the conditions of our producing and consum-
ing classes. Face to face with state OF
things in which all men agree there is some
thing radically wrong, you are asked to
adopt Que of two methods of reform: to In
crease the number Of articles on the free list
and to lessen the duties ON the neccssaries of
life, or to DO 'uncompromisingly in favor of
the system OF protection" TO such an extent
that you VIII accept the only SUBSTITUTE now
offered for the Mills bill, the abolition OF all
internal revenue taxes, thereby giving aid,
comfort and protection 60 the very robust
and vigorous republican infant industry,
delirium tremcns. Prolonged laughter and
cheers.
Tho American people, knowing their rights
and therefore feeling their wrongs, have suf-
fercd wrongs and with weary hearts, relying
on Providence and the genius of our institu-
tione, have patiently waited for the coming
of the hosts OF n triumphant democracy 20 re-
Ncve them from the burdens of taxation.
The democratic party, in dealing with the
tariff, surveying the past, provides for the
future and is not overcome by the dread OF
present defeat. There is everywhere appar-
ent desire to think and reason without the
controlling influence OF passion and preju-
dice. Tho period OF wild and untried ideas
that succeeds every civil war, and period OF
reconstruction, has passed away and
the democratic party is following
well beaten paths in the plat
form of principles enunciated at
st. Louis. II Is charged that the democratic
party Is u frcc-trade party The citizens OF
the republic In dealing with us will not take
the evidence ef interested witnesses and treat
their unsupported accusation as fact, The
democratic party believes and bonds itself to
the nation that the three sources of our
wealth and prosperity shall mot be disturbed
or injured, Manufacturers shall walt upon
auriCultura. npfirlltupa unDn manufacturers