The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-08-17
THE REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Synopsis of the Mastery Address by
Roswell G. Horr.
A Crowded and Enthusiastic Meet
ing.

TO come III from radius OF nity miles
and each town and country hamlet sent
its deiegation-small, indeed, because OF
the harvest work yet unfinished. Hon.
X. Il. lorr arrived on the afternoon
train from the south. No demonstration
was attempted previous to the meeting,
the leaders desiring to postpone the
parade, etc, to later date. The Ger
mania band, clad i'm their uniforms and
with the patriotic colors encircling their
hats, together with the campaign clubs,
escorted the speaker from the Mankato
House TO the Opera House and there
played fine selection. The building
was completely packed, nearly 1900 per
sons including Il very large number OF
ladies, being crowded within its doors.
The aisles were all filed and no stand
ing room was. left Manv were unable
to gain adlnittaBce at all. The entire
house within presented a grand and in
spring sight. During the day the stage,
boxes and front of the gallery had been
handsomely and lastly decorated with
flags and bunting, which We're effective
ly arranged and entirely changed the
appearance of the hall. Portraits Of
Harrison and Morton and Grant oc-
cupied prominent positions on the stage,
while the boxes were adorned with
blooming flowers that sent fragrence
throughout the building. The stage was
occupied by the Boys Harrison and
Morton club and by leading Republicans
of the city and vicinity. The members
of the boys club appeared for the first
time in their new uniforms and made a
slightly appearance and showed good dis
cipline. Both when the speaker enter
ed the hall and when he appeared on
the stage he was greeted with applause.
Hon. Ira Z. Shissler presided over the
meeting The glee club, assisted by +.
+. Bulls, of Eagle Lake, rendered 81
want no Bandana in Mine" in effective
STYLE. Mr.. Shissler then introduced
Hon. Roswell q. Horn in very neat
and complimentary manner. Mr.. Horr
is a short man with white beard and
hair and very pleasant face. He is an
entertaining speaker, full OF droli humor
and entirely free from anything border
ing on vulgarity in his remarks. lie
| kept the audience in roar of laughter
and applause a large part OF the time
and held their closest attention for an
| hour and a half. 1t was mastery adj
dress, full of wisdom and unanswerable
arguments. His statements were made
| in the kindest way and could give no
oiiense to a man of any party. He said,
in substance:
Having always voted for the Republican
| party he did not come To make any apologies
| for il, as he was never so proud OF II as now
He had always voted the Republican ticket
| and If there was one thing for which he thank
| cd his mother IL was tor her having had MIN
| born two years too late To vote for van Buren.
| The first words of the Republican platform
gave Il list of the great men OF the party, LIN,
| coin, Grant, Garfield, Logan ana Sheridan anu
Others. He liked To b-long to party that
! reyered its leaders and had them to revere.
| nf nlAIfOFm
| Brazil on the freedom of its slaves he liked
| To belong to a party that favored UNIVERSAL
! freedom. Cleveland, when he heard OF Braz-
| IFS action, cold blooded that he was, simply
| said We'll, hope the future will prove the
wisdom of the step" The Republican party
| does not believe in secession and does Delleve
/ in the free ballot.
How is il that it takes fourteen voters i'm the
| North to equal one in the SouthI We propose
! To keep up AN agitation until IL Is brought
that voters have equal influence in any part
of tlls the country.
We, the Republican party, believe IN pro-
tecting American industries, and in caring Tor
our own people before we help other nations.
England wants Cleveland elected because t
will give her a great market in this country.
When England wants a thing am opposed 10
il because England has always been selfish and
does not want us To adopt Tree TRADE poncy
unless il is To help her. My Irish friend, Eng
land has reduced your Island 10 ssarvat ION
thinks she can make you vote the way sne
wants But the Irish have got onto this now !!
lGreat applauSe.I
This taritf question is the great question of
the Gay The Democrats believe in tariff for
revenue only and what protection is granted
is merely incidental. The Repuoheans De
| their policy to levy duties ON articles pro-
duced in the United States To help build the IN
dustries up. The Democrats believe IN taxing
| the articles which are not produced IN this
| country, such as tea and coffee. Inc hepuDil-
| cans put salt, au American industry, In the
dutianle list; the Democrats would put u on
| Let 10
! industry up until the great law OF competition
| will bring down the prices more than in any
| other way. For instance, SAT- during the war
| was worth about s.. so a barrel In '6l sixty
| four cents were put on as tariff. Then they
| began TO make salt all over this country. III
| stead of increasing the price, as the Demo-
! craIs claim would be the effect, il gradually
| was brought down To 80 cents u barrel to-day,
barrel ana all, the barrel costing 20 cts. alone.
! I'm 1872 the tariff was reduced TO " cents. Inc
| tariff always builds up the industries ana re-
duces prices through natural competition ana
| American ingenuity, which would nave not
been brought into play but Tor TINS premium
! We nav our Iaboring men better wages than
! anywhere else on the earth. The stream OF
| navigation leads to this country, not away
| from il, because oil high wages in this coun-
| try. We intend To keep these wages up by u
| protective tariff. Yankee Ingenuity has
| cheapened fine home cutlery over what the
| Sheffield knives cost under Democratic free
| trade When was IA boy worked Tor % cts.
| a day and paid S2I for n suit OF clothes Now
| the same clothes can be had for less than half
| that Prints have been reduced IRON 10 or 10
cents to cents a yard by Yankee competition.
! 1 mad rather pay more, II necessary, for clothes
| made by well paid labor than by workmen paid
| starvation wages.
| how the tariff helps the laboring men and
| farmers, by making good market for their
| nroducts What we need is u greater DIVERSE
| ~ of industries and TO keep all the money pos
| s;;hIe i'm our own country tor our working peo-
ME l have statement in my pocket that our
ppstion has had nine times more internal COM
Lass 40
| nnmnerce OF ali the rest of the world put to-
| Seiher We have made ten per cent. more
| nnney than all the rest OF the word put To-
| UetheT. Why don't the South get rlcnt IT, Is
kken,,so they only raise cotton and sell II. They
| must raise IL and manufacture IL INTO articles.
| A diversity of industries Is neeoeu pSiore Peo-
pie can get rich. In this state oi mihne sas
| You must do something else than raise wheat
/ and sell it. You already have many industries
| and manufactures, but you must nave more
| You have the water power ana the materlals
| You should make your own paper on nave
| splendid iron mines and a grand soil. Really,
| do you suppose the Lord would nave maoe
| Minnesota IL he had known her people were
| going TO vote the Democratic ucketI lGreat
| applause and laughter He intended II Tor
| party thai knows how 10 take care OF II, ana q
| party that will build up great industries.
| am for the Republican party, wnch iaNofs
| building ND our own industries. The Demo
cratic party is for building up the industries Oh
| England A., ..,...o
| question the speaker said: Prohibltlonlsts, i
| practice, and have practiced, all the temper
ance YOU preach or have preached. snail al
WAYS practice all the temperance you ever can
nreach do not vote the Prohibition ticket
Tor several reasons. Either Harrison or Cleve-
land will be president for the next -FOUR years.
As temperance man i am lnteresteu III
which one IL shall be. There has not been
Temperance law passed in any State That ne
pubiicans did not support ana the pemocpass
1npose Another thing. Every Democrat
wants me to vote the prohibition ucket. II
they are so anxious for us to vote that !lcket
WHY don't they try itI They don't work IN the
Interest of temIerance. Gen. Fiske Is pure,
upright man, and have nothing to say against
him But how about BROOKS, my frouipltioh
friendf He says ~ was rebel ana seces-
sionist, but never GOT SO low as ~ Io
do with such a man. You Prohibitionlsts
were mostly us low as that yourselves, lor
YOU mostly come from the Republican party.
The Republican party Is In FAVOR OF neipinS
the old soldiers. How do you Democrats STAND
on that-now, mean. because away back you
were a little shaky. i can talk TO CieVeiaEu
about that because we both belonged 10 the
same brigade-the home guard. but we LOOK
nj the matter I'm u little different light Cleve
lands heart isn't quite right IN the soldier
business-as the battle nag episode showed,
and because he goes way arounu 10 get al op
poTtunity to keep the old soldiers from getting
their lust pensions. 1 would 20 way To
0et a chance to give the soldiers something.
The speaker showed uptbe heartless course OF
Cleveland in his pension Yetoes. we want 10
deal magnanimously with our noble OLD sol
dIcrs How much do the countries of the old
world pay for their standing armies? We have
only 20 600 i'm ours, and that Is enough, II we
take care of our old soldiers. Cleveland has
had four years TO ridicule and veto the de-
mands of justice to old soldiers, but In Noyem-
Der il will take the boys but one minute and a
quarter each 10 settle the score, and they will
do IL, too! (Applause).
The Republican platform has something to