, 1888-11-01
IN FIGHTING TRIM.
Thurman Gets Excited and
Talks About War.
THE CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL,
VESTS Letter---Powderiy on Protection -
Hili's Love for Clevciand---Ths
President In New York.

this place at 7:45 this morning in the rain.
People gathered at the depots In the
various towns through which the train
passed. At Troy and Wapakoneta brief
stops were made and short addresses In
light, humorous veins we're made by Thur.
man and Carlisle. They were heartily
| cheered. The train was greeted in this
| city by crowd OF over thousand, and
| the Judge and party we're taken at once to
dinner. In their speeches to-day Thurman
| and Carlisle both paid some attention to
the letter OF the British minister and that
which elected it. They claim the repub-
lican leaders know they are beaten and are
trying to distract the public mind from
the main issue OF the campaign, which is
the tariff. After dinner the Judge was
driven to the music hall where the after.
noon meeting was held. The hall was
packed to overlooking and the crowds
gave an enthusiastic greeting to the speak.
ers Of the day.
THE OPENING ADDRESS.
| Judge Thurman said he would not
speak on the tariff question, as Speaker
Carlisle would do that tonight. Further.
more, they had been talking on it in the
field and in congress for many months, and
he thought the democratic speakers had
victory on their side and that their oppo.
nents feel it to be so. IL they did not be-
| ltCNC tuut utBuultuO Ou tuIs Iut5JlOh was
on the democratic side, why in the world
| did they Try and insert another issue to
talk about? Why did they reject the
fisheries treaty and attempt to make out
| that the president had not stood In bold
and manly manner for the interests of the
| people? After reviewing the action of the
senate on the treaty, the judge said
They told the president in substance, by
refusing to ratify or mend the treaty, that
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warlike measures to vindicate American
rights. Well, the president took
them at their words. He
and said: "As you are in a fighting
mood"-.-I do not use his lanRu age, but
give the substance of it.-."As you won't
settle this matter peaceably so there may
be no blood shed; SO that there may be
good will and peace between us and the
other :nations. of earth as you insist that
we shall resort to power and to force, give
me power to offer retaliation. You speak
of retaliationr; you speak of war-like
measures; your speak OF vindicating
the rights of America by arms; give me
power to do what you declare is the true
policy of the United States" He sent the
message to congress. Forthwith the
democratic house of represen tatives passed
bill that gave to the president all the
power tudu COutu De usheu u retttldUe upon
Canada and Great Britain and to get our
rights if they could be got by force. That
bill passed the house of representatives
without single dissenting democratic |
vote. Now what became of the bill? 1t
went to the senate and instead of passing
it they sent it to their foreign committee |
on foreign affairs and there it sleeps the
sleep that knows no waking. Now. l want |
to know what kind of spectacle that is,
Nalh h,,A Al,,. saar laaI d
ers in the land on this subject of foreign |
affairs. They won't make a treaty; they |
won't back out and they won't fight
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Now, when they were well beaten on |
that subject there came up the Chinese |
question. The president mad made another |
treaty upon this question, and while they |
did not dare to neglect it as they had the !
which caused its rejection by the Chinese |
government they hoped the president
would be deprived Of the credit due him.
He thought with the other men in the
United States, and was one of them, and
was one of the first oI them, for | had !
expressed my opinions fully to my fellow
citizens in 1870 at Cincinnati, i've years
before the California legislature petltioned
congress upon the subject of Chinese
i saw uutu WudU euy W.
day, that the heather Chinee is not a
| welcome, not useful person in the United
States. [Great cheering.l | bad gone
through the Chinese quarters in San Fran
cisco; | had seen him there in all his
rags and all his filth; | had been
in his joss house, which they call
the temple; / had seen what he calls re-
liRion, and, so help me Ged, although ]
hope | am as charitable ana broad mind
| 4 l.. 1c k.,a
man ought to be, could not say in my
own conscience that this was good man
to bring into the United States. APP
plause. Very we'll, the democratic huuse
| of representatives was of that same opin-
| ion, and so they passed the bill to exclude
the Chinese from settlement in this coun-
try. That bill passed the house of repre-
sentatives on the very day it was intro
| duced, if my memory is not at fault. 1t
went to the senate and remained there
about six weeks. How long 1t took those
grave and reverenced senators to find out
whether or not this should become u mon
grel country laughter and applause], half
white and half heather Chinese. More
laughter. Very well, it passed. They
could not resist it. and 1t went to the pres
ident aud he signed the BILL and so his
enemies were again foiled in their attempt
to destroy him in the estimation of the
American people.
LORD sACKvILLE's LETTER.
Then, my friends, having failed in their
discussion of the tariff; having failed in
the row they raised about fisheries; having
failed In their attempt to destroy Cleve-
land with their opposition TO the Chinese
exclusion bill--in the days of the canvass,
some of the mean men of that party have
all at once discovered another mares nest,
which, they think, will hatch the offspring
that may destroy the democratic party"
Judge Thurman then referred to the cor
respondence between Murchison and Lord
| Sackville West and said. whether it is
| forgery or not don't know, but this ]