Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-10
HENRY'S COMPLAINT.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SPEECH
At LOUISVILLE.
1t Makes Him Sigh to see That the
Hard-Headed Democracy Can.
not Understand
His Rough and Uncouth Language in His
Attempts to Promulgate the
Bourbon Doctrines.
Dynamiters Again Working in Chicago
Strange Suit For Damages-The
Coming Typographical Conyen-
ton in Kansas City,

! LOUISVILLE, June 9.-The Watterson
and Democratic clubs serepaded Mr.. Henry
WaUterson at his home in this city this
evening GU his return from ST. Louis He
spoke reviewing the work of the conven-
ton, the platform, the ticket and so on.
The following are the more notable pas
sages IN his remarks about the tariff and
the platform:
Il went to the st. Louis convention with
| the single purpose to uLge that the line of
| battle should be drawn on the message of
the president and the position of our
friends In congress. | met there a
| formidable array in favor of limiting our
plan or campaign to simple reaffi,tna-
ZION OF the platform of 1884, and a
general Endorsement of the administration.
!here was from first to last no other
issue raised. 1t is true that helped make
the platform of 1884. 1t Is true that I
spoke for it in the national convention of
that year. 1t is true that for four years
nave put upon it a construction which 7
| thought to be justified by the plain letter
OF its meaning. That it is also true that
the country accepted it as a straddle and
that this Interpretation had stereotyped
Itself upon the public mind. Merely to re-
iterate it, therefore, was to lose
all that we have since gained. to
traverse a policy which, in congress at
least, has brought us union where
there were only divisions; to surrender an
entrenched position and to fly the field in
the face of the enemy. / could not con-
sent to this. But 1t is not true that pro-
posed any advance. On the contrary T
agreed to take the platform submitted bv
Mr.. Scott and Mr.. German word for word.
If they would agree to strike out the first
clause, which. without any qualification
whatever reaffirmed the platform of 1884
There was no other difference between us
none at all, and whilst they made their ar
gument with extraordinary earnestness.
plausibility and power, | am bound To saw
they disclosed no spirit that was NOT
that of honest Democrats, seeking
the good of the country and the party. and
when we finally reached the conclusion
embodied by the platform as perfected
we stood as one man, and not as three
men. But, fellow citizens, to rescue them
from the perils that befeu poor Tray, and
the ascription SO dangerous in their part of
the country. of being caught in company
let me hasten to suggest that there may be
some break about my opinions and pas
sages. l have certainly done all could DO
to fix the attention of the people upon
the eXactions of a tariff, the most unscien
tifical laid in all the world. / have sought
to force upon the authors of the tariff
redemption of the pledges they made
when they enacted it, that it should NOT,
OutlaSt the eXegencieS that called it into
being. And it may be that in the conrse
of the agitation, l have not ALWAYS been
very squeamish about the terms used to
describe what the supreme court of the
United States itself has described as
'legalized robbery" But nowhere have /
proposed anything extreme or destructive.
[ am builder by preference conservatl We
by nature, and no more than the president
no more than Mr. Carlisle, no more than
my friends, German and Scott, would
proceed in the work of reform with any
rash precipitation. | am thesfriend. not
the enemy of manufacturers, of mining
and industrial development; of labor. in
the sense of honest work for honest wages.
and if the Democrats of New York. New
Jersey and Connecticut would take what
think from my own lips and not at q sec
ond hand, from lips puckered to lie for a
consideration, they would hear nothing to
brighten or to injure them. / want to re-
duce the war taxes and my objective point
is a revenue. In the nature of the
case we are bound to 90 slow Rome was
not built in day. The protective system
cannot be got rid of for years to come. The
Mills bill. which l support, is a protection.
not free trade measure. AS for free
be realized, if it ever be realized. until the
put themselves at the head
Of the movement and put it through The
menace, like the chimera of the rebel brig
adiers, is Pigment of sectional and parti
san manevolence, got up by the Republi- |
cans for campaign purposes.