Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-10-31
LAST NIGHTS MEETING.
Welesme George Baker, 81
Eufeka.

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music and q packed audience, vel
: coined George Baker, of Eureka
last evening at the Opera House
Elk Governor Kinkead was chosen
Chairman of the meeting.
The speaker was introduced t.
the audience and opened his re
. marks by abiding to his recent re
tirement from the democratic party
with whom he had affiliated tor oveI
twenty years.
| He stated that he had beer
schooled in democracy as theory,
aud had the greatest admiration 10,
its ancient leaders, Thomas Jeffer-
son, Andrew Jackson and other dis
tinguished statesmen whose names
adorn American history, and was
persuaded into the belief that the
examples of these men would be
exemplified upon a return Of that
party to power. He believed that
the democratic party was the friend
Of Neyada's paramount industry
silver minlng-and upon its access
ion to the control of the Govern
ment, it would set its face squarelv
against the enemies of that metal.
But alas how few of these expect
atoms have been realized. Indeed
Grover, the First, did not wait until
the inaugural ceremony was per-
formed, before he Tung the Death
knell to the miners of Nevada, and
in every act of his administration,
he has shown himself to be the open
notorious, persistent, out-sroken,
enemy OF the silver dollar, taking
the front rank amongst the expon-
ent of the bondholders of the world.
For this reason, together with the
efforts of the administration to
hoard up money in the public treas
ury at the expense of the public
service, to lensthen the hours of la
Dor and decrease the pay of the en-
ployes of the Government in subor-
dinate places, are amongst the reas-
ens which induced the speaker to |
sever his connection with the Dem
ocratic party.
He then took up the sub ject of I
the tariff, and dissected it with the
knife OF surgeon. He showed to
the satisfaction of his audience.
that every departure by any admin
istration from that principle of Gov
eminent which protected the hand
If toll, and sought its elevation
above the squallor and semi-slave
labor of the Old World, was inevl-
tably followed by disaster and dis
may amongst all classes of business
upon this side of the Atlantic. He
reviewed the assaults upon our in
dustrial systems in the past, which
orced the vicious compromise tariff
If 1888, and denounced with nm
'paring emphasis, As arch traitors
md enemies of their country, Cal
loun, McDuffis. Hayne and others,
through whose fundamentally the s
ariR was enacted. II
The speaker dwelt at Some length
,pon the perfdy of President Polk,
nd compared him to Grover Cleve-
and in securing his election under
alse pretenses, claiming to be q
in getting into Office
nd Immediately after his Inaugural
ion to join the free trade brigade Of
he South and plunge the country
alto universal bankruptcy and ruin
y the Walker Tariff act of 1846. !.
He showed that all these cru 9
AIDES against American industries !,
Tere tho outgrewth of the slave OIL 4
garchy of the South, and was the G.
of secession, which v
nally led to open rebellion in 1861, a
nd called attention to the state of O.
le country under the MAGNIFICENT ii
atesmanship OF the Democratic Il
arty at that time; viz: . bankrupt al
easury, national debt and civil ~
ar. He then paid a glowing trib- &C
10 to the immortal Lincoln, whose
18th to the White House was mem =. =,
ed BY the assassin, but under in