Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-24
Annnsrna REoEPr1oN.

EEGWAGCW-SAkAEAmE Senator Frye was accorded rousing re-
 ception at the Hyperion last evening. When Chairman Daley called the meeting to order
 shortly after 8 o'clock there was not a vacant
 seat in the parquette or parquette circle. The stage was crowded with representative citi- gems, and few vacant seats only fringed the
 back of the upper gallery. It was most
 enthusiastic gathering, and when the distin- Ruished statesman made his first appearance upon the stage it was the signal for an out
 burst of overwhelming and prolonged ap- plause. The noise was tremendous and re-
 sounded until it made the building tremble the stage scenes growl.
 Mr. Daley was not long in getting down ! to business. He introduced General s. E.
 Merwin as president of the meeting in a few we'll chosen words. When the next 1ieuten- | ant governor stepped forward the greeting from the audience was 8 most cordial one and almost amounted to an ovation.
 Friends, ]" said General Merwin, ''I trust ! am not unmindful of your cordial greeting,
 but should be vain if accepted 1t as per I sonal. am but standard bearer in this great army of voters and two weeks from to- ! night will rejoice with you over victory. I am happy to preside, but cannot take long as l there is an eminent visitor to address us. You all know him and many of you have
 heard his voice here before. He comes to speak in behalf of the grand old party which \ is for freedom and for protection. It gives | me great pleasure to present the honorable \ gentleman from Maine, the Hon. WIZ Frye" \ The mention of the eminent senator's name
 sent the plaudits again echoing amid a members of the young Republicans seated at the right of the stage, after which | Senator Frye let go his guns of argument. "I think" said he, ttthat the election ! which is to take place fortnight from to- ! day involves in it's result .more of good or more of ill to the Republic than any that has I taken place since the close of the war. Sena- I tor Brown in making motion before the closing of Congress said, sThe Senate bill now \ goes forth to the American people. If their verdict sustains the Mills bill well and good, if not then the Senate bill becomes the law of the land.' The Mills bill is fearful stride towards free trade and the ultimate is free trade, but the Senate bill stands on the solid rock of protec- tion, and if adopted will undoubtedly be the law of the land for the next quarter of cen- tury.
 :tWe have selected our standard-bearers, and all are ready for the fray I know Mir. Harrison and know MT. Morton, and know \ them well. Harrison was one of the ablest men in the United States Senate. No nomi. \ nee ever in the history of the republic bore \ himself better. He was good soldier, is an honest citizen, and in private life bis habits are correct and in order. He is a faithful husband and loving father. What ask you \ moref MT. Morton was my seat mate for four years in Congress. He is no debater,
 but he is more than that-an honest man and
 a philanthropist. I also know both ME Cleveland and Mir. Thurman we'll Of Clevelands private life I have nothing \ to say. If knew his habits were as bad as bad could be, would not say it in this presence because he is our Press | ident. But of his kindly heart, his love for the soldier and his statesman-like economy | @ you all know. Naughter.) When the war broke out there was 8 boy in Ohio. His name \ was Francis Haldeman. He was twelve or thirteen years of age, full of pluck, fire and \ patriotism. He tried to enlist, but was re- | jeeted because of his youth But he bought \ Q knapsack. canteeD and Springfield rife, | and when the regiment went to the front he was in it's ranks. He was bugler for months and for months he fought. But boy like him must break down, and he did-down for | ever. They sent him home to his poor old heart broken mother, and for twenty-hve years his life has been spent in weariness and | suffering brought on by the terrible strain of the battlefield. He applied for no pension because he had never been mustered in. But three years ago friends thought the country with it's great big surplus that the Democrat II be willing to pay pension to the invalid of SIS month during the period he was in ser vice. A petition was sent to Congress. | think $246 was the total amount asked for
 the life and health of the fellow. Both houses passed the bill with great unanimity. It went to Cleveland six days before Congress adjourned; he pocketed it and it was ! vetoed and he saved this coun- | try with such an overhowing surplus $946. The first three years he was in office II l. AI,o,, lSz1,- \ ed in Artnur's administration. If Haldeman had been paid, it would have increased it | $246 more. But he is economical and the | sum was saved. Only think of it, shouldn't \ you think the brave soldiers would thirst for an opportunity to vote for Grover Cleveland. | Q4auohter.)
 ! sT know Allan G. Thurman and love him | well. He is @ good old man and think he is honest, but what dire necessity compels ! the Democratic party to tote him about to ! to save them. He is the tail to the kite. The speaker now vigorously turned his att II teution to the plank of wages vital to all ex \ cept salaried officers. The Republican party | mean protection to every American industry \ and workingmen, to every man, woman and child of whatever nationality. The Demo- crats indorse Cleveland and the mills bill. It is the same old fight, as in the times of | Tippecanoe. It was tariff then and is now. \ The South controlled the party then, and it's \ 15S votes that it can bribe, elect the Presi- \ dent of the United States. The Democrats | of Connecticut or New Jersey dare not stand \ up for free trade. It's the South, which has | been in favor of free trade for more than 50 \ years, and to increase Southern power wants | to break down the high wages of the North. \ What is Carlisle but rattle-headed free | traderi The Republicans in Congress twice | saved you from Morrison's 20 per cent. hori- | zental cut of the tariff. Our brave Presi- | dent has declared war against the tariff | Next the Democrats incubated the Mills bill. What is the Mills bi1ll They put vege- \ tables on it. Not person in the United States asked them to do it. Who didi Sir | Charles Tupper of Canada. What he has had put in would save Canada two million year, ! and do we want to save this for Canada? What did she do for our vesselss
 And how about brick3 We make millions here and pay good wages. Canada can make | them forty-hve per cent. cheaper and laud \ them in New York. The loss will fall upon \ in the wet clay, and the industry itself will sink with them. Workingmen, remember you can't strike one another but that you strike yourself.
 There are million men interested in wool | in the United States. We're the second wool growing nation in the world, Australia being | the first. She can send wool to New York sell it for ten cents pound, and make mon- ey. Gan any farmer in Connecticut or in the United States do it2 Not one. Then wool on the ice Ils5 means the rum or tne ln0ua- trg for us.
 Let's go sstep further. We have two kinds of duty-specifo and ad valorem. It isn't necessary to say that under sd valorem duty you are cheated out of two-thirds of your duty. The Senate committee investigated it, and found the undervaluation to be enormous. When you buy goods in Europe you get two bills and the smallest is what duty is paid on.
 Now, the Mills bill changes from specific
 to ad valorem in every chance it can. It is
 trick of free trade, and is to hoodwipk the
 American people. When Mir. Mills is in the
 south he says wool will go down ten cents,
 but when in the north he says it will be higher.
 Take cotton goods. There are five grades
 with specific duty on all but one. The
 Mills bill repeals these. It raises that on
 cheap goods and lowers that on fine goods.
 Take steel pens. The duty is ten cents on l
 gross. What does the Mills bill do2 It l
 repeals this and puts on duty of 35 per
 cent. ad valorem, of which you couldn't eol- l