River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-30

and give efficient aid to prosecute the pur
poses of the conspiracy. They formulated
a plan He was first 10 crack the free trade
whip. He was to lead OF with message
attacking the protective policy Carlisle,
the frce-trade Speaker, was to appoint a
Southern free-trade Ways and Means
Committee. They were TO formulate a
bill in the interest Of free trade and pass
it, if possible; but if they could not pass it.
they could at least commit the party 10 its
support, fight this battle on the issue so
raised. and then make the bill law in the
next Congress So far the plan has been
strictly adhered to.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
Let me say to all who want to know who
Harrison is. think of the Republican
party. Think of its patriotism, its hero
ism, its sacrifices think Of its humanity,
its morality, and its matehless statesman
ship Think of its great leaders-of Lin
coin, Seward, Chase, Sumner, Morton,
Thaddeus Stevens, Grant, Garfield and
Blaine Recall Their exalted characters,
their learning, their culture and refno-
ment, their great powers OF intellect, their
I love of liberty, and their zeal Tor human
/ equality. Remember what they and their
party have done 10 preserve National
unity, maintain inviolate our National
/ honor, and to promote human welfare.
1 Fill your mind with this splendid chapter
/ of our history. and then conceive of a man
who has been one Of the prominent con-
| trolling ia tors aud chief inspirations in
it all, and you have Benjamin Harrison.
/ Such a man needs no other or further
eulogv; for when YOU say Of him that he is
typical of all the broad humanity, noble
| generosity. devoted Christianity, unfiinch-
| ing patriotism, soidierly heroism and I'M
exampled magnanimity that the Republic
an party has displayed, you have accorded
/ him the highest virtues he can POSSIBLY
possess. All this can be said OF Benjamin
| Harrison truthfully and without exaggera-
| ton That's the kind of 'bigotn he is.
] But what kind of "bigot' is Grover
\ Cleveland. Paint his party and you have
him, too He is Democrat; was born
I Democrat he will die a Democrat. He
was a Democrat when Democracy meant
/ human slavery. He was Democrat when
/ Democracy meant, in the language Of
Judge fancy, that a black man had no
rights which a white NAL was bound 70 re-
/ spect" He was a Democrat when De
mocracy meant the slave pen, the whip
| ping-post and the auction blocks He is
| Democrat who is without any part what
ever in any of the glorious ach evements
I of his day and generation The Union
was saved without him Our armies
were raised without him. Our battles were
| fought without him Slavery was abol-
/ ished without him. Secession was shot to
death without him Suffrage was made
universal without him. The grand systems
of finances that have made our country the
wonder and the admiration of the world
were all conceived and executed without
| him. Recall, if you can. the worst days
and the lowest depths and most infamous
practices of Democracy, and then paint
you "a mau who has lived through it all,
been part Of it all, and in sympathy with il
all, and you have Grover Cleveland as he
entered upon his Administration. From
then until now he has been himself the
Democratic party He has ruled it with
IA rod of iron lie has led it whittier he
would. He has not allowed it to have any
! win inconsistent with his own.
Cleveland has done more to stir up a
spirit of sectioualism than any other man
who has figured in the politics of this
| country since Appomattox. Every body
had settled down to the conclusion that the
| Union side had triumphed and that the
war was settled according to the terms
prescribed in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments, and that
| these provisions must be, in good faith
accepted and upheld. But how stands the
case to-day. Let me answer by reading
you a few extracts from recent utterances
of representative Southern men. They
show clearly that the mind of that people
has been turned back to where it was dur
ing the war with respect to the right Of
the doctrine of secession, and that we are
to have another spell of the Haunting of
that heresy in our faces. But consider
further how there is no longer denial or
apology for multiplying and trampl ng
under foot the constitutional amendments
comforting suffrage on black men. For
years, ever since 1875, this work has been
going on, but not until Cleveland's Ad-
ministration has there been an open
avowal and attempted justification OF it,
In the language of Senator Voorhees,, let
us hope and pray that God Almighty may
avert such calamity to this land as the
re election of Grover Cleveland.