St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-06
Pertinent and Pointed Truths
Eloquentiy Laid Before
Badger Statesmen.
Cleveland's Regime Has
Wiped Out Many Hoary Leg
aeies of Federalism.
A Long Course Of National
Advancement and Pros
perity Just Begun.
Special to the Globe.

in Wisconsin tonight with speech at
West Side Turner hall. The Juneau,
Jefferson, and Jackson clubs. represent
ing the Democratic organizations of the
three divisions of the city, escorted him
to the hall where there was an audience
OF about 1900 persons. The members
Of the Ladies' Democratic club occupied
| seats on the stage, as did the leading
Democrats from various parts of the
state, in attendance upon the Demo-
cratic state convention.
After referring to the duty of the
voter and challenging criticism of Pres
ident Cleveland's administration, he
| said:
invite you to contrast the conditions, the
| principles and professions of the opposing
parties in this contest, and the promise of
| the future afforded by them, respectively.
| What is the Republican party OF to-day and
| where is it better or more worthy OF conf
denee than it was in 1884? 1t was in the be-
! litical party 1t found origin and
| quickening power in the high APP
| peal of justice and tenderness for
human brethren in oppression. and
lowing was we'll nigh tanatical. 1t was a
crusade against great national sin, as it fell
uUon the time appointed of heaven for the
| publication of the republic by fire. SO 1t
! rose TO rapid power, like the whirlwind, and
| like the whirlwind it swept It's course of
destructive, though wholesome violence.
Within decade, the evil which had engen-
dered its being was more than destroyed; 1t
was deracinated as by dynamite, and the
land was strewn with the mighty wreck,
where, in fantastic chaos, lay states, consti-
tutions, and people amid the
wIDE-FLUNG HAVOC OF WAR.
That was the logical period of the party's
existence. 1t stood upon or possessed no
doctrines OF government. no principles for
the guidance of the institutions OF freedom
in the repose of peace. 1t was not national
but sectional-aparty for civil war, not for
national fraternity. But the heart of a vic
torious people was in its grasp and the rage
of war was long unspent. The party re-
Iained unslackened control of all legislation
and taxation, with all their possibilities OF
fraudulent gain. 1t was the opportuni-
ty of opportunities for the political
freebooters. And never for one mo-
ment did they suspend their efforts nor spare
the exhausted people. Upon one pretext
and another. from almost the earliest grasp
of Republican dominion, corruption began
its work and schemes for dishonest enrich
ment of the few to prevail. II was i'll lS62
that pursuing the sentiment that national de-
Tense required transcontlnental highway,
the Pacific railroad legislation begun. ana Ill
1884 that with unrelentng ingenuity it was
so amended to diabolical perfection that the
government really built The roads, and gave
them, with land enough for an empire, to the
SUCCESSFUL CONSTRUCTORS
Then, also, the earliest act for laying taxes,
and afterward, with greed that heightened
with each new gluttony, every revenue meas
ure was prevented and distorted by ingenious
touches, imperceptible to any but the prac-
ticed eye, by which private tribute was eX-
tOrted from the people, five times greater
than the tax that went to the treasury. Then
ii was that the monStrous vampire hidden i'll
the tariff, which seductively fans with the
wings of protection the laborer whose
hearts blood it sucks, was begotten in sin to
rob the toiling producers in the fields
and forests of the wealth they Gre
ate. And when the war had ceased,
Il great people with its Golfers unlocked,
ana its resources exposed, lay before the
spoller, while III the exhaustion OF struggle
and the heat Of rage, national guardianship
was gone.
Then followed such a seizure of the ma
tional wealth by various devices, so rapa-
ciOus, so gigantic, soingenious in the methods
by which the grasp was laid, as has never
been exhibited in history. Nothing is com
parable to it but India under Warren Hast
ings. Other nations have been despoiled by
conuuerors, in the open force of unlicensed
conQuests; this people was robbed by the
| devilish manipulation of its own legislation
and emergencies of administration in the
hands of its supposed friends to
CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC CONTRACTS,
touching upon the partnership of Grant and
Ward; to custom house scandals, underyal-
uatons on imports, navy jobs and star route
| contracts and declared that these and other
| things of like character had driven the best
| men i'll the Republican party out of it, IN
stancing Sumner, Chase, Greeley, Trumbull
| and Beecher. These. he declared, had gone
into the Democratic party, and their places
| had been taken by those whom the Demo-
| cratic party could best afford to lose. He de-
clared that the only policy of the only branch
| of the government remaining Republican
since 1SS4-the senate-was com prsed i'll
| two words, obstruction and misrepresenta-
s 9n as poo o. e snd nsan cef the
tardy confirmation of Chief Justice
! Fuller the rejection of the fisheries treaty,
| and delay in passing the retaliation asked for
| by President cleveland. This proposed legis-
| lation, he declared, was calculated to 1nf1ict
| the heaviest damage on Canada, with the
| least hurt to this country The interests of
! Northern New England, he asserted, were
| not to be compared with those of the great
| West: besides, the trouble was all on New
| England's behalf The Republican party, he
! continued, has become the Bourbon party.
| Turning to the Democratic party, the speaker
| said that the challenge in the national Dem
| ocratlc platform of q scrutiny into the results
| of Democratic administration was safe one,
and continued as follows: q
If you turn to the department of state
| you find that everywhere the national dignity
| has been maintained, national rights care
| July dIu pIOGSSICNi aio IAAO AOPuOiAS
| in
PEACE AND GOOD WILL
with all the powers of the earth, save only
rs only Republican obstruction leaves US a
| needless hostility with our northern neigh
bors. If you take the treasury, its guardian
| ship of our financial interests commands
| respect on hand. You recall the dis
| turbed financial relations of 1884 and the
early part of 1885, and the painful appre-
| henson of impending disaster under which
the lamented Manning began his wise care Of
that department; how apprehension grad
ually changed to confidence; how then
| shrinking business put on Dold ana
enterprising face; how throughout
| every part of this land of our affairs have
| prospered. spoke few minutes since of
| the former practice of valuat1on of the
| goods of favored importers who made the
| Hproper reduction for political expenies," as
| a euphomistic senator has recently put. Note
| these figures and see if there be significance
| in them. The fiscal year ending June 30,
| 1885, which embraced the campaign of 1884,
| yielded customs revenue OF but SlS1 ,OOO,-
900, Sl4,00O,000 less than the previous year,
while during the first year of this administra-
ton they yielded S193, 900, 600, during the
second wear S217, 900, 900, and during the
| third $500 00,O0D Is there no significance
| of political methods in the sudden drop or
| $l4, 900, 900 in the value of imports during
the campaign year and the prompt restora-
ton in the following. Look at the internal
revenue for moment. The collections Tor
the fiscal year 1885, the last Republican
year, SIP, 000000; for 1886, Clevelnnd's
first year, Sll7, O00,0 900; 1887, $4,000
900; 1883, Sl25, 900, 600" In both these
departments the cost OF collection, he said,
had largely decreased under the present adj
| ministration. The secretary then compared
the naval administrations under the two
parties; the restoration of lands to the pub
fic domain, the removal of the cattlemen
from Oklahoma, He maintained that the
administration had treated the pension ques-
ton literally, saying: "Much has been said
of the private pension bills, ana much effort
to maintain theory Of
H.L-wILL TO SOLDIERS
on the presidents part because OF his
vetoes Yet, already more such bills have
passed into enactment law under him than
during the administration OF both Arthur
the number will be larger than during the
administration of Grant, Hayes and Arthur
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