The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-23
BLAlNERUNNINGFORK KING
- HARRISON IS ONLY THE JUMPING
JACK OF THE "pNcRowNED."
The Real Candidate Is the Man from
Maine, the Champion of the Trusts
Should His Party Win, the Trusts
Would be Perpetuated.

This canvass differs in some respects
from any we have ever had, says the York
(Pa.) Gazette Heretofore il has been GUS
tomary for the two leading parties each to
present two candidates Tor the presidency
and the vice-presidency respectively. Now,
it will not be denied that the Democratic
party has placed before the people two
candidates of about as marked and acgress-
i've individuality as any since Andrew
Jackson. They are pair of Americans
whose greatness all men freely acknowledge
whether they agree with them or not No
other man in this world casts a shadow
long enough TO obscure either of them
from the eyes OF the American people.
When they are elected, as they unqucs-
tionably will be, it will be Cleveland and
Thurman who are elected and nobody
else. There will be no king" crowned
or uncrowned, hanging around to boss the
job.
The curious thing however, is on the
other side, with our friends, the Trust
party. They have three candidates in the
Ield--a circumstance never before known
in the United States. They have a re-
: spectacle kind OF a rich gentleman at the
tail OF the ticket whom Senator ingalls,
grossly described before the nomination as
fellow who could pick up contributions
from Wall street" A man by the name
Of Harrison is nominally the candidate OF
the trust ticket for President. He lives i'm
Indiana, and the workingmen out there
give bad accounts OF him, though he is
not much known to the rest Of the coun-
try. II elected, nobody appears TO know
what position he will be expected to ill in
the administration.
But the real candidate the man who is
after power for powers sake, is the man
from Maine, OF whom everybody has
heard, and heard altogether too much. 1t
Is unnecessary 10 remark that he is not run
ming for the presidency. lie has had
enough OF that. lie is running for king.
Harrison is but his jumping Jack. The
"uncrowned king" OF the Half Breeds, he
proposes TO be uncrowncd no longer, and he
also proposes TO extend his empire 70 ms TO
include the stalwart Republicans and the
rest OF us. II lac wins, what are we TO ex-
pect? We all know without much inquiry.
ii is the bOwstring aud the B0sphorus for
the Stawarts and the trusts for all of us.
With this prospect before him, why should
Mr. Morton continue 10 paw or even ito
iaise contributions from Wall street," He
paidin 1850, he paidand paid and paid, until
Indiana was bought outright and her pur-
chased vote given 10 Garfield But was
Garfield elected? Not at all-Blaine was
elected, and in a few months the Stall
warts, who had carried the election, were
sluirning, from the Penobscot TO the Pa
ciiic, under the heels OF the victorious
Hall breeds. Grant, Conkliug Logan,
what were they that they should he re-
glrdcd 10y the king OF the Half Breeds?
They are dead. Even Folgcr is dead UNI
der the two hundred thousand majority
piled upon him by the Hall Breeds, and
Morton might better be dead than foolish
IN spending his Stalwart money at the
neither end OF ticket with the king OF
the Half Breeds at the head. This "un-
crowned king comes over the water to
his home, intent upon completing, i'm the
name Of Harrison, the vengeance begun in
the name Of Garfield. And should he
ever reign, the survivors Of the Stalwarts
had best take to the swamps ut once, for
his sportive majesty will hunt them with
hound and horn until the last one OF them
is done for.
a king usually requires strong gov
eminent, and our "uncrowned King"
seeking the crown, is no exception to the
rule. His would be government Of
monopOliCs in the hands Of q few, and al
most every possible restriction upon the
labor and business Of the many. His ex.
pedicnt for the practical enslaycmcnt Of
the masses is the most perfect ever de-
vised. A prohibitory tariff combined
with great trusts, must give 10 the mo-
nopolists more or less absolute control OF
the American markets, enabling them TO |
raise the prices Of commodities, and 20 |
lower the wages Of labor 20 suit them |
selves. Shut in by a Chinese wall, we |
would become the victims Of the Chinese |
policy generally.
The irresponsible trust Is the most terri. |
bic device for fleeing end REFRESHING the |
people ever discovered by wit OF man. let |
Il b. once understood that the benefcia- |
lies OF a monopoly tariff, combined with |
trusts, have been able. by triling APP
preparation from the annual plumber Of |
the system, 10 purchase favorable judg. |
mcnt Of the people at the polk, aud the |
end is In sight. Mr.. Blaine, whose ac-
complishmenis, especially his mental agil- |
ity under difficulties, no one can deny, !
has kindly condcsccndcd 10 inform us that |
the question at this election is one "of |
Hbur from SKIN 10 core unu back 10 SKIN |
-agpin." We understood that very we'll |
before ho said IL. aud We understood fur |
Their that he, with his monopoly tariffs and |
trusts. was after the core for his tax-catcrs, |
generously leaving the skin TO be scram. |
BLEED for by the tax.carncrs. The core is |
here: Fifty millions Of people engaged In |
industries not subject 10 foreign competition |
arr made 10 pay nm annual bonus Of some |
thing like $1,000, 100000 TO the protected |
monopolsts, who, by means Of trusts raise |
prices, suspend production, or lower |
wages NJ their interests may require. That |
il the core, and Mr.. Elaine and the trusts |
take IL. The skin is high taxes; ncccssi- |
ties Of life artihcially enhanced; imported |
oontmc. labor in the protected industries, |
restricted markets for the natural and |
profitable products Of the country; a treas |
ury giuttcd with money, which ought 10 !
be- In use, and an enormously wealthy bus |
incss aris,ocmcy, running Mr.. Blaine for a
king on a platform fayoring prohibitory
tariffs aud the pcrpetuity Of trusts. This
Is the skin. Will the people accept it2