The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-10-27

before hundreds of thousands of armed
men led by Grant, SO will the other
cOntederacy go down before millions OF
voters led by Cleveland. The one con-
test ended in restored union, the
other will end In equal rights, equal
privileges, equal burdens and equal
liberty for all Americans all over this
wide continent.
| do not know a thing that a western
farmer produces that is enhanced in
vaIuee by protection. | scarcely know
a thing that he buys that is not protect
ed. | do not know thing that the
northern confederate sells which he
sells for less by reason of protection.
do not know one of those confeder-
ates that ever divided his profits with
a laborer. never heard of one who
did not pay as little as he could TO his
wage earners. 1 hear that there are
seventy two millionaires in the first
pennsylvania county you strike when
you 60 east by way of Plttsburg. In
that same county there are tens OF
thousands of imported laborers brought
in to cut down the wages OF American
workmen. There il not millionaire
farmer in Illinois who made his money
out of the soilI Under protection
there never will be, nor one in Kansas,
nor i'll Missouri, nor Iowa, nor one in
the whole west. Farmers of Illinois,
mark this: The average Illinois farm
was bought at 81 per acre forty years
ago; then emigration, railroads, i'm
proved machinery and your own bone
and sinew brought that land in the
next twenty years up to $40, but in
the last twenty years, though you have
the two great markets of Chicago and
st. Louis at your doors, that farm has
not advanced in price nor paid fair
interest on its value. 1t is my honest
judgment that western land to-day
would sell for so per cent. more than it
does if the steel rails relaid upon it.,
and the houses, barnes and fences
rebuilt upon it, did not have to pay a
| tribute of countless millions to the iron
and lumber confederates.
/ am not only for Cleveland, but |
am for John M. Palmer for governor
of this great state. love Illinois. 1t
is my state. Next TO calling ourselves
Americans the proudest heritage /
know of is to own Illinois as birth
place. She is the imperial queen of
the west. She is rich in intellect, rich
in the patriotism and integrity of her
sons, rich in her boundless wealth.
She gave to the nation Lincoln and
Douglas and Grant. She sent to the
front quarter of a million of as brave
men as died at Thermopyle. She is
too great and too rich to leave the
vast affairs of her three millions ol
people in the continuous control of any
set of politicians, be they republicans
or democrats. l want a change;
want our state institutions overhauled
L accuse no man, but l want the
accounts examined. want to know
why our state taxes are enormous and
| want the investigation to be made by
men who did not impose or enjoy thu
taxes. know General Palmer. HI
is honest and brave. Illinois has ne
seen since Douglas died such canvas
| as he is making. John NJ. Palmer cal
neither be bought nor frightened. Ht
must be courageous aud beyond brlber,
else | cannot understand why peniten
} tiary commissioners, asylum trustee
and small army of state employe
who are suspected of having fOrme'
rings in every state institution, ar
flying up and down the prairies of ou
( commonwealth to compass his defeat
D | am not afraid of the Democrat
: party. | am not afraid of the repubii
a can party when its honest voice an
q conscience are not stifled by tradin
!. politicians. The masses of both partie
= can be trusted, else self government
= a failure. Each party has done gloriou
p things i'll the past, and each has blum
!. dered, but on the foremost issue of th
g hour the democratic party is righ1
n The democratic party led the couutr
g through a successful war with Englan
O in 1912 and through successful WI
II with Mexico in lS47. The republics
a party led the country safely throus
o the civil war in 1861. Under dem,
d cratic leadership we became might
Il republic. Under republican cOntr,
we solved many grave problems an
II became mightier than before. Fac
: party has given to the country mob
+ patriots and wise statesmen. abhc
g that slavish party spirit which shuts i
l. eyes to all good save its own party.
e am perfectly " illing to trust for swhi
k longer the destinies of this republic
=. the party that gave us Thomas Jeffe
son, and Andrew Jackson and Grow
? Cleveland. | am more than willing,
= an anxious, to trust the fate of Il
If laboring man and the farmer to tn
.e party whose strength to-day lies amoI
" poor men and not among those factor
d lords and protected mOnopolists wi
e have formed Oh our soil confedera,
+ rs dangerous as the one which we
N down i'll 1865,
W care nothing for the personal gai
| OF politics. have asked no person
Of hands. | have seen him, talked wi
him, admired his rugged honesty,
Is broad common sense, his consecrati'
Mt Of himse!: 10 duty. He believes
r God and believes in the people, and
,e believe as he does and believe in Cley
of land, too. He led his party to victo
II. with the grandsst motto that ever
IT leader wrote on his banner-Tell
,e truth lie would not lie to get t
Office; he will not lie to keep it.
W has torn away the veil and exposed t
y Inequalities and injustice of the pr
r. tective system, and, faithful TO
m motto, he told the truth. He came u
I'd not through luxury, but through q
th versity, to his high place, and he lear
is ed in his youth and knows far bett
n, than Gen. Harrison knows, the stru
so giles and the bitterness of lll-resuit
In toll. l utter not one word against Il
IN character or the intellectual fitness
t, Benjamin Harrison. He is hone
st but-so is William Vanderbilt. He
IN upright, but so is many an Engli
" duke. He is shrewd, but-so is u W,
le street banker. He is respectable, but
e. SO is the high. salaried manager of ma
a an eastern insurance company. He
Id able, else he would not have been
u many years the western representa-
,s in federal courts of the most powerf
I'D corporations. But want for preside
lr now i'm this contest with the millio
le aires man whose honesty, shire " dine
10 and sympathies are enlisted in behi
u of the poor, in behalf of the wag
ne Garner, i'll behalf of the farmer and II
I'd in behalf of the so-called legal rigt
lr of thousands of factory lords and kin.
j. do not for one moment doubt Or
es yer Cleveland's triumphant re- electio
Ills message stripping bare the iniqui
IS of protection was bugle call, q W
8. cry, that has stirred generous peol
a as never since Lincoln called for III
es to save the union. Millions OF Amer
t. cans who love freedom, fraternity al
err equality are responding to his summo
Id for help against the mighty, and t
,s uprising OF a iberty-loviug people
enbliu,a Wa orn ~, tho asbnlH n