, 1888-10-26
DEMOCRATIC DAY.
A Grand Demonstration at
Cincinnati.
Judge Thurman and Carlisle
Warmly Welcomed.
S~peechmaking in Exposition
Building.

SLNSINENAlli OOG. udy
at the exposition here was a perfect sue
cess. The weather was fine and the
crowds large. A great many visitors
called during the day and were received
in Judge Thurman's parlors. AT . o'clock
the party was driven about the town and
to the reviewing stand. The streets were
well filled with people and about the stand
the streets were packed. There were
eight divisions, composed of local and
visiting Democratic clubs, all of whom
shouted vigorously as they passed the
stand. 1t took exactly one hour for the
procession to pass the stand. Exposition
building was crowded and Music hall was
filled with upwards of 5000 people.
When Judge Thurman was introduced
he was enthusiastically cheered, He said
In substance:
Gentemen-We are in the midst of an
extraordinary campaign, the most extra
ordinary campaign l have ever gone
through, many as [ have taken part in
during my life. We are in a campaign in
which our adversaries have the boldness
and audacity to tell the people that the
way to make the people rich is to make
them pay more taxes than their govern
ment wants. Applause. That the way
to benefit the condition of man is to tax
him and everything which is necessary to
his existence and comfort as an American
citizen, and that is called protecting the
laboring man by robbing him of his earn
ings and verifying the old saying of rob-
bling Peter to pay Paul. Applause.
This is a deception and a delusion.
Here followed a lengthy analysis ofthe
relation of labor to capital and the relation
OF both to the country, in which the
speaker said there could not be a single
dollar addedto the wealth of the world ex-
cept by labor. Judge Thurman was then
interrupted by applause when he pro-
duced his bandana.
You cheer that old bandana," said he.
but | would like to know how in the
world | ever would have gotten that ban
dana for you to cheer if it had not been
for labor. Prolonged applause. Labor
made it. My labor enabled me TO obtain
money enough to buy it, and your labor
will make you wealth enough to live in
peace, in quiet and in comfort if you will
only understand what is your W best
interests"
He then went on to say that the annual
production of wealth in this world is
divided into three or four parts. One
part goes to capitalists who furnish money,
lends his money out at interest, and no.
body begrudges him his interest if he only
charges a reasonable interest Another
part goes to the manufacturer, the man
who carries on business, and he makes his
prOtit oc ranopnnanea C., L., l.ka- II L.
work and his skill, and nobody objects to
his having reasonable compensation. The
remaining part goes to the laborer to pay
for his wages, and if he gets fair wages,
honest wages, then he does not complain.
But if he does not get his fair share, if he
is oppressed, If he is tramplcd down under
foot, II his labor is exacted from HIM
without due compensation, then he is a
defrauded man and he ought to complain.
Some German in the audience, handing
Judge Thurman an old horse shoe, said:
Il picked it up during the time the pro
cession was. That means victory. 1t is
a horse shoe"
Judge Thurman thank you, sir. l
will take it home with me. | will nail it
on my door and keep these Republican
witches that preach protection to the ruin
of the poor man from entering my house
hold. [Great cheering.
A yoice-"Nail it on the white house
door" Laughter.
Judge Thurman her said Republican
orators had asserted that the Democrats
were the enemies of the laboring man,
and in this connection reiterated the state
ment frequently made by him that out of
every thousand voters in the Democratic
party nine hundred and ninety are labor.
ing men. Nearly all the happiness they
have on earth, said he, is derived from
Democratic principles which have shielded
them in their troubles in life and made
them contented and happy and prosperous
men. CONTINUED applause. Demo-
cratic principles gave them the right to
vote. Democracy sprang from the SEN
timent written by Thos. Jefferson, IAN
men are created free and equal"
The speaker defed any man living to
point out one single anelioration Of the
condition of the human race in Christen-
dom, one single improvement of the con-
dition of laboring men that had not been
the result of democratic principles. Why,
someone may say, here were the Southern
states that were Democratic and they had
negro slavery. Yes, but that sentence of
Thomas Jefferson's, "All men are created
free and equal, sprouted up and grew up
and in the end made slavery impossible in
any part of the territory of the United
States. More applause. Our Repub-
lican friends say to the negro that they
set him free. They set him free. They
would have been in slavery for ten cen
turtles to come if they depended On them
to set them free. [Great cheering.
Those words from Thomas Jefferson's