Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-05
sRCRETARIEs.

introduced Gen. K. s. Greeley as the presi-
 dent of the meeting. Gen. Greeley said: esteem it higA honor to preside at this
 meeting, and know that would fail of my duty if attempt to occupy the time with 6 speech. In @ month the voters of this ooun~ try will be called upon to decide the greatest question since the civil war. The Democrat ic party, through President Cleveland and the House of Representatives, espouses 8 causes looking toward free trade. The Re- publican party wants protection to the sys- tenn that has made our workmen better of than any other in the world,
 It needs no prophet to tell what the result will be if the Democratic system of free trade is established We have only to turn back to history to show what free trade did do under Democratic administrations. We had ruin and disaster, while under a protective system since 1861 we have prospered as no other nation on the globe has.
 "I turn now to a more pleasing duty. congratulate you on being here to listen to Q war veteran who has made 8 record for him. self second to none. have the pleasure of introducing to you Governor J. B. Foraker of Ohio"
 What applausei
 One could not hear himself speak, so deaf ening was the applause. As it died away a 1E08n waved, hats were thrown in the air the ladies waved their handkerchisfs and, in fact, the scene was one that surely must have been gratifying to the Republican managers. It was several minutes before Governor Foraker could speak.
 He completely captivated his audience, \ and the more he talked the more interesting he became. He began by speaking highly of Connecticut, and that if there was one thing he gloried in it was that Ohio was not only a
 sister of Connecticut, but a daughter. He was pleased to be assigned to Connecticut, as he had always had high regard for it's peo- pie and he wanted to see all he could of them
 'sOhio is looking toward Connecticut" he said, "to do her daty in electing Bulkeley aud Merwin (spplause) on the State ticket and for her to cast her electoral vote for Harrison and Morton. (Great cheering.) 'I dislike to indulge in personalities. Mir Brice, chairman of the Democratic National committee, announced that this was to be a campaign of intellect and not of islander. They said that they would stop lying about Harrison, and we agreed to stop telling the truth about Cleveland" Iaughter that broke forth several times.
 The speaker then passed to the tariff quss- ton and said it was the important question tion, :" he said, told as the country. We have disputed about the question of tariff and free trade ever since our government was established. We have had four periods of free trade and four of protection. Under free trade we had e specimen of Democratic prosperity, in other words, unusual depres- sion and taxation and bankruptcy. And un- der protection we have attained prosperity greater than any other nation in the world.
 (ApPlause.)
 this question of free trade would be revived again, would you! will tell you. Because free trade and tariff for revenue only was op-
 posed to the protective system, is one of the
 cardinal principles of the Democratic party.
 In 1882 John 0. Calhoun became the leader
 of the Democratic party of the South. They
 wanted slavery, notification, and free trade.
 The first two were shot dead, and we propose
 to shoot free trade to death on November
 9th. wild enthusiasm.)
 "Refect. Why did Mir. Calhoun want
 free trade2 At that time he knew the North
 and the South. The North was getting
 ahead of the South. It was evident that
 something should be done to give the South
 the control of the government. The South
 wanted ootten made king. They desired to
 make that the great product of America to
 enrich the South and to subordinate
 every other industry of the
 country. At that time manufacturing
 establishments were springing up in the
 North. The South didn't have to pay any,
 6n1ng Ior Gn0 laDor or pfOQuc1nR coLCOn, 16
 was only the food for the slaves that cost
 anything.
 ''Calhoun saw that under protection the
 North was developing all the industries. .amas-
 ing wealth and creating home market; and
 he saw that under free trade the factories of the North would be shut up and the home market gone. Therefore he saw that it would be policy for the South to make free trade cardinal principle so that the North could be crushed.
 ssIf that is free trade it ought to be enough to damn it. (Great spplause.v
 The speaker remarked that he had come out to this section to speak to the Democrats. The Republicans! were all right. He had 2 book entitled t'Cotton is King" written be- fore the war by Dr. Elliott, whom he said every Yale professor had heard of and who was one of the most accomplished men in Che South. In discussing the cotton ques. ton Dr. Elliott said that the reason the South insisted on free trade was because if 1t could be established, 1t would repress home mar. kets go that the slaves could be fed and