Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-21
HOOSIERDOM.
he Bandana Hits the Hoo.
siers Hard.
THURMAN'S TRIUMPHAL TOUR
The Old Romans Last Appearance in
the Arena of Indiana-HOme-
ward Bound.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
BRAZIL, Ind, October 2O.-On arriving
here to-day Judge Thurman was driven
at once to the house of James M. Hos
kins, and together with Governor Gray
and Colonel Matson, reviewed the pro-
cession from the balcony. One feature
OF all the campaign professions in this
year, is the presence OF women and chill
dren, and they were out in force to-day.
Besides large number of neatly uni
| formed clubs composed of enthusiastic
voters, there were over thirty floats,
carrying numbers of pretty and prettily
bandana- uniformed maidens, who sang
and waved flags to the crowds that lined
the sidewalk. There were several thou
sand people in line, and over twenty
five thousand gathered on the streets
and waited at the grove for the exercises
to begin. After dinner at the Hoski:ls
mansion, the party was escorted to the
grove by uniformed clubs and bands and
found there eight or ten thousand people
who were enjoying the campaign music OF
the Attica and Brazil glee clubs. Previous
to the regular speech, George A. Bayard,
on behalf Of the Democratic ladies of
Brazil, presented Judge Thurman a
beautiful basket OF flowers, and the Judge
returned his sincere thanks to the ladies
for their kindness. Long and prolonged
cheers greeted the presence of Judge
| Thurman, whose voice showed no signs
of weariness from his other meetings of
the week. When the cheers and con-
fusion subsided, Judge Thurman spoke
in general as follows:
Beginning he commented personally
on the administration of Grover Cleve-
land and declared that if the people did
their duty, as he believed they would,
the fruits of the past four years would be
conserved for another four years, if not
a generation. He analyzed the produc-
tIons of wealth and it's economic relation
to the country. Referring to the capital
ist and middleman, he said that
next in order was the laboring man.
He must have his share of the wealth
produced, and if he does not get his hon
est share he is a defrauded man. Now,
he said, there is where the trouble comes.
That is where the trouble is in this tariff
system; while the profit of business may
be thirty, forty or fifty per cent, the
laborers do not get more than three or
four or five per cent of that profit; it is
the duty of the laboring man to protect
his interest and that of his wife and
children.
Now, my friends, he said. when we
say "reduce taxation" what do our Re-
publican orators tell us; what do they
tell you? Why, they have the audacity
to come before you and say that the
Democratic party is the enemy of the
laboring man; that all the Republicans
want high tariff for the benefit of the
laborIng man; OF benefting a man by
taxing him from the crown of his head
to the soles of his feet on everything he
wears. Laughter and applause. A
pretty way of benefting laboring man
by taxing him on every foot of lumber
that goes into his modest dwell
ing; tLat taxes him on every
foot of lumber that goes into
his barn or fence; that taxes him on
almost all the tools he uses in his trade
and utensils that goes into his cabin, and
takes everything that can be found to
levy tax upon That is a pretty way
OF aiding the laboring man. But, my
friends, did you hear anything more
absurd than the talk of the Democrats
being the enemies of the laboring men of
the country. L defy any man to point
out any single measure for the ameliora-
ton OF the laboring mans lot, in this
land or in any other land, that was not
the result OF the Democratic principles
which lie at the foundation of our party
Applause What gave you the right to
vote? Democratic principles did it,
What makes you the equal of any other
man? Democratic principles. What
gives your children as much chance of
promotion as any other mans children
What makes it possible for any one of
the little boys within the sound of nv
voice to become President of the United
States? What does that, but Democratic
principles? And yet to talk about the
Democrats being opposed to the laboring
men,
Now, my friepS,s, the Democratic
party, compoysd AZ S, mainly of labor
ing men, is not 4 soy of idlpts. They
have seen enough, have learned enough,
have information enough to find out what
is for their interests and to pursue it and
+! think in the early days of next Novem-
Der they will prove to our Republican
opponents that the Democratic laboring
men are wise enough to vote the right
kind of ticket and for the right kind of
principles. Applause
| You hear the Republican speaker get
up and say high tariff is necessary in
order to give high wages to the laboring
men. Why, my friends, the labor organ
izations of this country, some of them
may not be exactly right, some of them
may need amendments in their constitu-
tions and their mode Of procedure, but
the naked truth is. that the labor organ.
izations of the United States have done
more to secure good wages to the laboring
men of America than all the tariff laws
that ever were made, and that is the
truth about it.
The remainder of his speech was de-
voted to the tariff question, covering
much the same ground he has gone over
ia his other speeches during his trip
through Indiana. In conclusion he said
Should this surplus taxation be re-
moved and the 100000 which it
needlessly brings into the United States
treasury annually, where it lies as idle
as ore in the mine before the laboring
man has come with his pick and shovel
to take it out, and be put in your pockets
or in the pockets Of the people, from
which it is taken, it would serve to set
every wheel in the manufactures of this