Morris tribune., 1888-10-10
Harrison and Morton
Real Republican Rally.
Telling Tariff Talk by Com
stock and Clapp.
Brief History of the Demo-
cratic and Republican
Parties.
Democracy, Slavery, and
Free Trade.
Republicanism, Freedom,
Education, Protection.


pose of listening to speeches by Hon.
S. G. Comstock and Attorney General
Clapp. The speakers were introduced
by E. J. Jones, president of the Logan
club.
HON. 8. G. COMsTOCK
was first introduced to the audience,
and in very calm, deliberate and can
did manner traced the history of the
Democratic party from its organiza-
ton down through it's different admin
istrations to that of Grover Cleveland.
He showed beyond question that up
to the time of the great rebellion the
Democratic party had been controlled
by the slave power of the solid south;
power which regarded labor an dis
graceful and the laborer a. belonging
to the lowest strata of society; apow.
or opposed to the education OF the
masses and aristocratic and tyranical
in all of it's tendencies; that it was
this power that made the Democratic
party responsible for the war and all
of the long train of woe, suffering
and death that followed, to say noth'
ing of the immense treasure drawn
from the pockets of the.people to pay
the expense of putting down that war.
brought on by the Democratic party
of the south for the preservation and
extension of slavery. Said Mr.. Com.
stock, some of the same men who
were leaders in the shareholders re-
bellion now occupy seats in congress
aud control the Democratic party to.
day. Yes, and of their thirty-seven
senators, over thirty of them took
part in the rebellion; and the seven
Democratic members of congress
from South Carolina did not receive
only about as many votes as were cast
for Knute Nelson in this Fifth cons
gressional district. 1t don't require
many votes to elect Democratic con-
gresham in the solid south, when the
"niggers" are counted out. These
solid south Democrats before the war
advocated that slavery and free trade
were the foundation upon which our
republic rested, and they still believe
that labor is degrading and slavish
and that there is no necessity of edu-
eating the laboring classes.
In tracing the history of the Repub-
lican party, Mr.. Comstock showed that
it had from its first organization, when
it declared it's determined opposition
to the extension of human slavery into
the territories of the United States,
been in favor of the education of the
people and the friend of the laboring
classes; that the tariff measures adj
vocated by the Republican party were
intended for the benefit of the work
ing men and working women, as well
as for the farmer and manufacturer.
There was an unbroken chain of ar
gument running all through his entire
speech, which showed conclusively
that the Republican is the progressive
end real reform party Of the country.
Mr.. C. was heartily applauded.
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLAPP
is natural orator, and has very
pleasing way of presenting his argu.
ments. There was no bitterness dis
played in his remarks last Saturday
evening, but the way he showed up
cleveland and reform" and the fraud
practiced upon the people in the prom
Uses of civil service reform by Cleve=
land in his first letter of acceptance,
as well as his protest against a second
term, must have convinced all fair
minded persons who listened to him
that the Democratic party could prom
Use more and perform less than any
other party ever organized.
| Rarely if ever have we heard the
tariff question presented in more
simple and comprehensive manner
than it was by the attorney general
The ridiculous position taken by Pres
ident Cleveland, that the duty on any
article was added to the cost of thai
article, was shown up and proven tx
be false in a manner that any schoo
boy could understand. OF cours'
there was no one present foolish
enough to claim that the duty on bar
ley, potatoes and hay was added to TIL
price of those articles when the farm
er sold them; neither would any on
pretend that it was added to the pric
of calico, when the duty was NOR
!, than the price ct which calico ia sell
J ing in this country. The Democrat
party should not complain of the ''wa
tariff" when it was the Democrat
party of the solid south and the DEN
ocratic copperheads of the north tina
brought on the war and made it net
essary to have war tariff. Mr.. Clap
quoted Washington, Adams. Webste
and Clay, and also those recognize
fathers Of Democracy, Jefferson. Jacl
son and Tilden, as advocates of pr
!. tective tariff and opposed to free trad
! while opposed to the views of thes
great statesmen In regard to the tari1
were such men as Mills, Carlisle an
Grover Cleveland, who have imbibe
4 their free trade ideas from South Ca
4 olina's great nullifer, John G. Ca
). houn, under whose lead South Carol
q ma proposed in 1882 to resist the &C
lection of duties on imported article
! But that grand old patriot, Andre
! Jackson, who was then presideI
crushed free trade and nullifcatit
q which would have led to secession
by sending Gen. Scott to Charlestt