, 1888-10-30
A. C. Campbell Addresses the
People of Evanston.
Some of the Good Effects of CIeve-
lands Administration.
Free Wool will Stimulate Industry
in Wyoming.
Pauper Labor the Chief Thing on
the Republican Free List.
Why Democrats are Proud of Their
Standard Bearer.
S pecial Dispatch to the Leader.

Special Dispatch to the Leader.
EVANSTON, Oct. ga grand Demo
cratic rally was held here this evening at
the court house. There was a big attend
ance present and much enthusiasm was
displayed at the hits made by the various
speakers. The principal speech of the
evening was delivered by U. S. Atty.
Campbell, of Cheyenne. Following is a
synopsis of his remarks:
-Four years ago, dire were the pre-
dictions of our Republican friends of the
calamities that would follow in the wake
of Democratic national victory. The
manufacturers of the cast were informed
that the fires in their furnaces would be
chilled, their spindles and shuttles ST.
fenced; workshop and factory would be
closed and willing industry would give
place to enforced idleness. The farmers
of the west were told from every stump,
that Democratic success meant free trade,
that free trade meant the closing of every
manufacturing establishment in the
try, and that the consequence of this
would be the destruction of the home
market for their products which would
result In hopeless bankruptcy and utter
ruin to them. The freedmen of the
south were frightened into the belief that
Grover Cleveland's election meant their
re. enslavement; and into tie ears of the
entire north was dinned the CRY that Dem
ocratic victory meant the payment of the
rebel debt, the pensioning of the rebel
soldier.
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hen
bricks were elected and on the 4th Of
March 1885, peacefully inaugurated presi-
dent and vice president of the United
States. We have had almost four years
of Democratic rule, and since the days of
President Washington the nation has not
had four years of greater prosperity, four
years of greater business activity than the
four years last past.
THE FREEDMEN ARE Still FREE.
The rebel soldier has not been pen
stoned the rebel debt remains unpaid.
Forge and furnace, and factory, foundry,
workshop and mill, give the lie direct to
these malicious and pessimistic prophe-
cies, as they turn out their textiles and
fabrics in increased and multiplied a
ties. Not only have these predictions of
disaster been unfulflled, but positive and
lasting benefits have followed Democratic
ascendency. The first and the greatest of
these is national unity. The Republican
party from the close of the rebellion to
the Inauguration of Cleveland fomented
sectional discord and constantly stirred up
the bad passions of the war. To array
the North against the South, to embitter
the South against the North, to section
alize the nation seemed to be its policy
and its aim. The standard bearer of that
party in the last campaign started out to
make his fight on higher and nobler
issues, but when in the midst of the bat
tie he flung them aside, raised the banner
of sectionalism and under it fought until
his colors were struck by that captain who
has never lost a victory-Grover Cleve-
land. And as an evidence of what Mr..
Blaine's policy would have been had he
been elected, his speech made after his
defeat and while he was smarting under
defeat, furnishes the key note. Four
years more of a%ntagonism between the
North and South; four years more of Sec
tional discord and hate would have fol
lowwed the election of
JAMES G. BLAINE.
Under the administration of President
Cleveland millions of acres OF land grant
ed to corporations have been restored to
the people, and while a worthy settler
here and there. by an inadvertent and in
nocent noncompliance with the land laws
may have been injured by the enforce
ment of those laws, yet where one limo
cent man has suffered, fifty fraudulent
entries have been cancelled as the records
will show. That reform in the admins.
tration of the land laws was a prime ne.
cessity, nom will denv; but no reform has
ever been or ever can be successfully in.
augurated and carried out without engulf.
ing with the great mass of the guilty a few
innocent victims. Reform is like the
food in a mighty river, while it sweeps
from the banks all the corrupt and vitiat-
ing matter that has there gathered, the
food also carries with it much that is use.
full and beneficial to the soil. But in this
reform Grover Cleveland again empha-
sized his good sense and sound judgment,
a thing which seems never to desert him,
not even in his selection of a wife. When
his subordinate substituted a literal for a
substantial compliance with the land laws,
the subordinate was substituted and one
was appointed who was admonished by
the president to administer the laws as
construed by the courts. Tell me, my
honest Republican friend, have you any
complaint to enter against the present