The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-31
SPIRIT OF THE MEETINGS
EX.GOyernOr Pitkins's Sharp Criticism
on the Presidents Ruinous Policy.
His Views on Topics Of Which Democrats
Like to Have Little Seid-The Successful
Noon-Day Gathering of Republicans

a large audience Assem- Died at Iomilnson haii
last night to hear the eloquent Ex-Governor Pit
kins, Of Louisiana, speak upon the issues OF the
campaign. He poured hot shot into the enemy
from beginning to end and was interrupted by
frequent applause. Touching the Northern
Democracy, he said:
Anne Boleyn, the second queen OF Henry
VIII, had a little sixth finger on her left band,
over which she wore a drapery of lace to hide
the abnormal member. The Northern Democ-
racy bears much of this relation to the strong
hand of the South, without which It would 90
imDotent to attempt any grasp upon national
power. The slnew, f0er and reach or arm are
Southern. One can thus better understand
that, while the Southern Democracy has ROBUST
means to cumpass power. the Northern Democ-
racy is chiefly endowed with a hereditary ifca
for power. In fine, Northern borrbonlsm Is
scarcely more than . swollen shirt on a clothes
line IN q November gust-mere wind ana gestic-
ulstion. A party that derives its economic poll
tics from a foreign government should not re-
sent the solicitous intermeddling of its minister.
Ii that government may command the proposed
use of American markets, why should not It's
minister command the mail bag to the same endi
He simply dipped his pen in the same ink-poe
from which Mr.. Cleveland wrote both his tariff
message and his affectation of q retaliatory tenn
per toward Canada. Loyal to his own country,
Lord West Is the only honest member on Amer
lean soil of the British partnership.
The speaker then, dwelling on protective
tariff as the stimulating force 10 domestic COM
petition, said foreign labor reaches an oceans
width beyond its belly 10 sell its product But,
he continued, the reEl campaign is in conduct
from the desk of Grover Cleveland; be forced
this tariff issue. The Roman Emperor Com
modus used to mantle himself In q lions skin,
swing a club in imitation of Hercules, smite
of the heads of statues and replace them with
semblances of his own, and in this busy, ag-
cressive and overweaning fashion, MIR. Cleve-
land has thrust forward his miserable Ignorance
and ambition as the measure or American duty.
He wallows filthy in patronage, and that 10
civil service reform; he is hopelessly lost with
out wanton Southern misuse or the electoral
power, aud that is a free, honest %election; he
seeks by devious practices in this election to
thwart the will OF certain Northern districts.
and that is exemplary noninterferencs; he would
commit TO foreign ha dds your labor and wages,
and that is his pious solicitude for the Ameri-
can workingman, who asks why the man who
raises sugar and rice may have 90 per cent. duty
in protection of the one and 1904 per cent. duty
in protection OF the other staple, while the man
whose product here is wool. lime, lumber, salt,
vegetables, and undresssd fax may have no
protection. but may as a special indulgence
mop his brow with a Thurman bandanna.
Neither q stomach belching nharisaisms and
borne like o bass-drum in the Democratic van,
nor o souorous old Roman nose. nor a staff from
which a reform flag has been riotously torn, can
conduct the opposition to triumph in this
yOo !" lOkA ~
maltreatmens of 1000 American fishermen in
gross contravention OF the comfy of nations,
Mexican Bullets in our face, Spanish shots at
our vessels, the Monroe doctrine yielded in
Central and South America, bono rule forbid
den in ten States and two Territories, o sea-
board without Notifications, and ignorance fest
ering in our body-politic, and yet no utterance
from the President cave a threat to our indus
tries and labored vetoes upon pension claims
that read so much like reports OF a hospital
steward that one might enormously suspect
that If never at the front OF an army, as was
Harrison, with sword, he had been in its rear
and combative with poultices and astrlngents
during our intestine troubles.
General Harrison, the speaker said. winning
distinction In the army, In the Senate, and az
the bar, denotes his mettle-hew will bring to the
great office q hand all palm for just conciliaticn,
and all knuckle for just defense Of every Amer
lean right.
The history of 1889 will disclose, not only In
Virginia but at the national Capital, a Harri
sons landing. The career OF the Democracy
had been. as the poet Pope said was his own, lone
long disease" Democratic reform is . con ven
lent tit. pan to hang on during a canvass, and
to invert for spoiis later.
Reform in Indiana prisons and ssylums hal
been energetic and strong in murderous brutal
~ and maggoty butter.
Reverting TO the message, the Ex-Governor
said: Despite the labor expended rpor it, the Pres
idents message remains the rawest material il
America. While food and clothing are cheaper
here, and of better quality, than any here in
Europe, and wages rate from 90 per cent to Ion
per cent. higher, the American people are no,
experimenting. Ten Texan Mills do not make
cent for any table, in or out OF their arithmetic
and Harrison and Hovev are two HIS not to b,
dropped in this British campaign. The speakel
closed with a glowing tribute TO General Hsrri
son as a soldier statesman. and the next Presi
liant