Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-04-13
The Truth Well Told.

Col w. P. Hepburn, of Iowa, IN o
speech delivered at the recent iowa
State Convention, draws the differ
ence between the two parties as iel-
lows:
1.-The principal objection which is
now urged against the Republican
party is in regard to its vitality; it
won't die. The enemy complains
that it has outlived its usefulness.
The platform which was made in this
hall three years ago announced thav
no issue is settled until it is settled
right. In his judgment no question
is settled right SO long as 10000 men
in Georgia elected ii men to Con
sress while it takes 32,700 votes IN
Iowa to elect the same number CT
men to Congress. So long as man
can serve in the Presidential chair no
longer than q dozen months ego who
wrote q letter to South Carolina com.
plimenting John G. Calhoun, things
are not settled right. So long as the
man who commended jeff. Davis to
the children of the country can be ap-
pointed to high Office, so long as
flag can be degraded to honor the
memory of a traitor like Jake Thomp-
son, things are not settled right.
1Cheers So long as Senator can
be taken by this administration and
placed in the cabinet and subsequent
ly put on the Supreme Bench, who
SAYS mo man can call in question the
patriotism of jeff Davis in my pres
ence,' things are not settled right.
These are questions now pressing
upon the people that no other patty
than the Republican party can make
right. There is q necessity for the
Republican party which dares to
grapple with these great questions SO
long as the anarchists are shouting
for diyision and destruction. Whist
party is the friend of Henry George !?
There is not man in the country
who follows the red flag, who does
not hope that victory will perch on
the Democratic party, as every
polvgamist in Utah wishes for it Do
you ever hear of the Democratic party
rebuking the ballot box suffers and
the Ku Klux of the South. Where
do you ever find the Democratic party
graphing with transportation ques-
tions; where will you find o Demo
crat, or where can you look with hope
to Democrats to meet the great ques-
ton of trust? Such questions are
for the Republican party to meet,
and it alone will undertake the work
Why is it that the Democratic party
is today unwilling that Dakota should
become State. having 100000 peo-
pie, a greater population than at least
three Democratic States? Because
they came with Republican form Of
government, and because it they did it
would be necessary to reform the map
of illiteracy of the United States
If you examine the maps Of illiteracy,
which are prepared so that you can
tell by the dark shadings whore the
most illiteracy comes. you will find
that the dark shadings are right
there Grover Cleveland got the ma
jorities which elected him. The real
trouble also in the tariff question is a
similar one. The Democratic party
will not dare to attack the sugar tariff,
| for it would lose them Louisiana and
seven slectoral votes They dare not
offend the South, yet they say they
are tariff reformers. But there is q
difference when the Republicans talk
about reforming the tariff. w hen
the Democrats reform the tariff they
propose to destroy tie protective prin-
ciple, which is the vitaiizing force Of
all the industries of the country,
while we believe in regarding the
principles of the present tariff and
Topping off the Inequalities. They
say we ought to feel as much for the
people across the ocesn, but somehow
we can't do it. We like one Of cur
own people here in America better
than one of those from across the
water. The Democratic reformer
says. let the foreigner with his cheap
labor in other countries staad on an
equality with the man who has been
long here and has built up this coun-
try. We prefer that wages should
be high here rather than they should
be high there. That is the difference
hatxyeen the two nartieS