Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1888-10-25
THURMAN ENCOURAGED.
He Believes Success Will Again Perch Up
on the Democratic Banner.

on the Democratic Banner.
BRAZIL. Ind, Oct. 23.-The big meet
ing at this place has the advantage of
splendid weather and the people We're on
hand to take advantage Of the chance to
see the 'Old Roman" A large and en-
thusiastic crowd welcomed the party at
the depot and the procession acted as es-
cort up town. The party was escorted
to the grove ty the uniformed clubs and
bands and found there eight or ten thou
sand people When the cheers and con-
fusion had subsidized Judge Thurman
sprke in substance as follows:
l feel greatly encouraged and fully be-
ieve that success will again perch on the
banner Of the Democratic party, and
that when the sun shall set on the next
election day it will be with a victory to
the Democratic party that will bring
blessings to the whole country at least
for four years more, if not for a genera
ton. My friends, did you ever hear any
thing more absurd than the talk Of
Democrats being the enemies Of the la
boring men of the country: Why, you
may collect together 200 voters of the
Democratic party anywhere in the Uni
ted States. from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and $50 will be laboring men. 1t
is so to-day; it always has been SO. 1t
necessarily ever must be so, for the Dem
ccratic party is founded on principle that
makes it necessarily the friend of the man
who fultills the Scriptural injunction to
earn his bread in the sweat of his face.
Now, my friends, the Democratic party,
composed as it is mainly OF labOrlng
men, are not set Of idiots. They have
succeeded enough, have learned enough,
have information enough, to find out
what is to their interest and pursue it.
And I think in the early days of next
November they will prove to our Repub-
lican opponents that Democratic labor
ing men are wise enough to vote the
right kind of ticket and for the right
kind of principles. Should the surplustax-
alton be removed, and 800, 900, ,0OO which
it needlessly brings into the United States
treasury annually, where it lies as idle as
ore in the mine before the laboring man
has come with his pick and shovel to
take it out, and be put in your pockets
or the pockets of people from whom it is
taken, you would serve to set every
wheel in the manufactures of this cOun-
try in motion; it would make every
make every manufacturer better able to
employ wage earners, and to pay them
well, and make every other man in busi-
ness in the country better off.
Iwant to say one word more to the Ia
boring men. You have certain rights.
1t is your duty to uphold them, but in
doing so it is also your duty not to resort
to violence where there is no necessity
for it. The cause of labor is the cause
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to resort to doubtful methods, it is not
necessary to resort to strikes and vio-
lence. Your moral force is so great, the
force of your votes is SO great, the ne
cessity of your labor is 80 great, that no
man can stand out against you. There
fore, I say, uphold your rights and be it
according to the laws of the land. Up
hold them, stand by them, preserve your
reasonable organizations. Don't let them
run wild, but at the anne time don't let
them get too cold.