River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-30
FORAKER TALKS.
he Opens the Campaign for the Repub-
Iicans I'm Indiana with a Ringing Speech
at Richmond.

I Die luf some TO near NDIQ ht
when his name was mentioned at the be-
ginning of an introduction was so deafen-
4 ing that nothing was heard OF it, and when
il had subsidized the introducer provoked
I laugh by asking: did anybody get
/ away" Mr. Forakers speech, which
/ throughout met with frequent outbursts
/ Of applause was as follows
FELLOW CITIZENS OF INDIANA: You
have done q number of good things this
/ year. You have done good thing IN
making your nomination of your candi-
| date for Governor II is a great pleasure
/ TO me TO aid in the election of so gallant
1 a soldier, distinguished statesman, and
splendid a gentleman as General Hovey
/ II was nv fortune to be ons of his com
/ rades in Sherman's march TO the sea. He
/ was a terror to Democrats at that time
/ He will prove equally so now. But you
are TO be especially congratulated because,
/ in addition TO choosing such leader for
/ the party in the State, you have the dis
/ tinguished honor of giving a leader to the
/ Republicans of the whole country. We
are all in love with and proud Of General
/ Harrison. ohio, the State of his birth,
/ has peculiar pride in his distinguished
I success II is far more gratifying TO us
/ than can express TO witness the many
/ manifestations which you have given that
I NOu atiiNNAdtt Aht EAt0N A1AAcA thtAN AAha
/ been conferred upon you, and that you APP
/ preciate also the grave responsibilities
/ that rest upon you in consequence.
/ The contest involves more than the mere
preference of one man over another for
\ President If we would correctly measure
/ the results of the struggle in which we are
I engaged, we must not forget its effect upon
4 the Senate and the Supreme Court. Both
have been and still are Republican, but in
+ the Senate we have a bare majority Of two
/ votes, and after next March il will be
/ tie. Should Cleveland he reelected Thur
/ man would have the casting vote, and that
/ of itself would make the Senate Demo
cratic, but doubtless the same influence
1 would make it decisvely so. With Clcve
/ land reelected, and thus both vindicated
/ and encouraged, and with both the Senate
/ and House Democratic, there would be no
further hesitation, such as there has been
/ during this administration, about free
/ trade or any other kind of Democratic
/ legislation. They would hold the reins of
/ Government as 10 the executive and legis-
/ lative departments absolutely, and without
/ any power anywhere TO prevent or re
+ strain.
He would have another and most potent
/ encouragement in the Supreme Court. Our
political differences are largely based ON
! GlUtIGnb ohiuipu do 10 Aht ttAdNlphS VI tiA'
/ States to the general Government, the
/ validity of the war amendments, and the
/ reconstruction legislation. To say of a
/ man that he is Democrat is to say of him
4 that his views on these subjects are OPP
/ posed 10 those entertained by Republicans.
/ II does not change his views TO make him
/ a Judge. The Supreme Court is constant
| ~ passing upon questions involving con
struction of the Constitution, these amend
/ ments, and this legislation, and hence our
right to have care for the politics of the
/ Supreme Court. With only the same mum
I Der of changes during the next four years
/ that have occurred during the last four the
/ Court would be Democratic. 1t is not
reasonable to calculate upon any other re
/ suit Every man should understand, there
/ fore, that the contest in which we are en-
gagged involves not only the election of a
/ President, but also the Senate, the House
/ of Representatives and the Supreme Court
/ of the United States.
THE ISSUES.
Hence, | want to talk to you about the
/ issues that have been joined What are
] these issuesl They are, in the first place
whether we are to have a free ballot and
/ a fair count, and in the second place.
whether we are to continue the policy of a
/ protective tariff. The Republican party
holds the affirmative as to both these
propositions; the Democrats say no TO
10th. The question as to a free ballot and
a fair count comes first, both in order and
Importance. 1t goes before every other
question, for the simple reason that it goes
directly, and in vital way, to the founda-
tion idea Of our Government.
BY reason of the enfranchi sement of the
colored people the political power Of the
l Southern States in the matter of choosing
/ a President was increased to the extent of
thirty-eight Electoral votes. The people
these votes represent are Republicans
They were Republicans in 1884, but in 1854
Grover Cleveland got every one of them,
and he expects to get every one of them in
1855, and will if the shotgun and tissue
ballots hold out He doesn't expect TO get
them by argument by persuasion, by fair
ly and legitimately inducing them to agree
with him. but by fraud, by violence, by in
timidation, by suppression, by false count
ing and by false returns.
l will tell you what we are going TO do
/ about it. We are going to stop it; and
/ what is more, / think we shall be able TO
make the Democratic party help us stop il.
We have already stopped it in Ohio and
Indiana and Illinois. The perpetrators of
such outrages in these States are in the
penitentiary, and the party to which they
! 10
States, and we propose to keep it there,
not only in these States but in every other
State where we can get at it, until such
practices are abandoned, and if in the
! meantime we regain control of the Govern
ment, and they are too slow about coming
to their senses, we shall be found taking
such steps as may be necessary to reach
and punish and break up their iuiquity.
call attention to this matter for the pur-
pose of appealing to the loyal, patriotic,
I Union-loving and loving PEG
pie of Indiana to rise in their might and
rebuke the party that seeks and holds office
/ by such methods.
Let us make it distinctly understood that
so long as the Democratic party of the
country will allow the Democratic party of
Alabama or Georgia or any other State to
/ perpctrate such crimes against the ballot
il shall not be allowed to succeed or hold
Office in Indiana or New York, or any other
I Northern State where we can make an ap-
peal to public justice and obtain fair
ana honest response. If we can not punish
or stop Democratic frauds in Mississippi,
we can at least make the Democrats of
Indiana, Ohio and other States bear the
burden of the crime by keeping them out of
power until they will join with US, for
their own good as well as their country's.
in righting the wrong. One other idea
want to present in connection with il, and
that is, that in contending for free ballot
and a fair count at the South, we are not
fighting over again the war.
THE TARIFF
Now, ] want to talk about the tariff ques
ton. In political economy protection
means exactly what is meant by the term
in its ordinary use. Protecting home in
dustries and home labor is the same thing
in principle as protecting health, or life, or
property, We don't need protection now
for the same reason that our fathers need
ed it when the Government commenced.
but we need it just as much as they needed
it, They could not maintain their indus
tries without il; neither can we. But our
trouble, unlike theirs, is due to the differ
ence in wages paid here and abroad II
other countries paid as high wages as we
do we could have free trade and hold our
own markets aud take most Of theirs away
om them. But they do not pay the same
wages England pays better than any
other, but she pays from twenty-five TO
fiity per cent less than we do.
IL did not seem possible that we should
have 70 fight over again the merits of this
controversy. That We are doing so is due
to the fact tLat we have a President who
has reached only the theoretical stages in
his studies Of political economy. But he
knew enough to know he was at the head
of the Democratic party, and that he owed