The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-28

: islative portion Of the. record. William
5 B. Allison has helped to write
; It is In these records that you VII
/ fad the attestation of his worth
] | When he entered the congress he rec
ognized the perilS of the situation. A
continent at war, human liberty, mans
capacity Tor elf-g0Vernment, the Is
|, sues he knew that it was only by the
use Of all the resources of the nation
that success could be won. So we find
him in the legislature of that day aid
ing by marshaling the men and grant
ing the treasures of the nation with
unstinted hand to meet all the requiSi-
tions of the cOmmander-in-chief and
when peace was won we find him strik-
ing on TO pay to, so far as payment
can be made, the just claims of the
heroes, mutilated and war-Worn, who
by imperishable deeds had saved the
| state.
When he came into public life the
country was reaping the fruits that
followed that woeful experiment of the
| tariff of 1S4S, and the conditions had
not changed for the better from those
/ a little earlier described by President
Buchanan in his annual message when
he said: I'VE have possessed all the
elements of material wealth in rich
| abundance and yet Notwithstanding all
these advantages our country is at this
moment in a deplorable condition. In
the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all
productions of agriculture, and in all
! the elements of national wealth we find
our manufactures suspended, our pub
| lie works retarded, our private enter
prises abandoned and thousands of
useful laborers thrown out of en-
| plOyment. The revenue of the
| government, which is chiefly de-
rived from duties ON imports from
abroad, has been greatly reduced, and
under the circumstances loan may be
required before the close of your pres
emit session. But this, although deeply
TO be regretted, may prove to be only
Slight misfortune when compared with
the suffering and distress prevailing
among the people" This pic
ture of the languishing industries
would seem to be dark enough, but
the condition was aggravated by
the fact that the 800, 600 900 of gold
yielded by California had been sent
abroad to pay for the imported
necessaries of life that should have
been produced at home, and the coun-
try was thus without a currency. In
the protective legislation of that era
was laid the foundation of that growth
| in wealth and prosperity that is the
| wonder of the nations; believing to the
uttermost that the American citizen
who labors is entitled to better COM
pensation than was elsewhere paid the
laborer and believing that this people
ought to be independent of all markets
save our own for necessaries that we
could pDduce, he became a champion
for the protection of American labor
and American industries, he has been
| a constant unWavering friend of that
policy, the hope for that public quiet
and individual contentment that is
alone enjoyed where the industries of
nation are diversified and all the peo-
pie are satisfactorily employed and
that alone gives promise of stable gov
eminent. He stands on tho line of
tariff defense in the northwest and
| if you drive us from that line by your
/ nomination to-day, we go in utter
hopeless route, beaten by the strategy
of the campaign before the battle
opens.
to state in detail the important meas
ures to which he aided in giving form
to the constitutional amendments one
and all, he aided in framing the
currency legislation and those laws of
honor that preserved the national
credit. The resumption of specie pay,
ment the silver coinage act, the stop
page of Chinese importation and all
other legislative efforts approved by
lison's hand, his genius and his indus
try aided in securing to us. We of
Iowa know that in thus naming our
friend, we place him in generous rival
ry with the most illustrious names;
Sherman of ripe experience, SagaciOus
methods and honest purposes; Ben
Harrison the worthy son of an anceS-
try renowned for worth; Gresham, the
soldier, the statesman and the just
judge and varied has been the
character, but never varying
the pure quality of his ex-
tended service; Alger, who has no
enemies save his cOuntry'S enemies,
and wins the love of men whether he
leads them IN the fierce shock of battle
or guides them in the quiet walks of
peace; New Jerseys son, cultured, elo-
quent, wise, and how contentedly we
could all follow him as our leader;
Rusk, fearless in duty, the cl9mOr of
the mob has no fears for his infieXible
soul; and ingalls,, how the affections
of my old comrades flow toward him
as their champion, who never falterS
in his strife to secure redemption of
the pledges made to the boys who wore
the blue. The candidate / have
named we of iowa commend to you,
man of that calm pOise of mind whose
methods of judicious conservatism
and yet who has on all occasions the
courage to do the right, who eXcites no
anger and has no enemies, who is saga
cious, conservative and Versed in the
details of the public business, whose
integrity is above the reach of calumny,
who has the respect and confidence and
kindly regard of all who know him and
on whose candidacy all classes of rep
resentatives can unite and so uniting
he will lead a harmonious party to
satisfying victory. We cannot tell you
of all that would be done were he to
direct the administration of affairs,
but were he SO empowered, we could
| tell you some things that would not be
done by him. You would not find in
his letter of acceptance and able argu-
ment against the fitness of president
ial incumbent for a second term.
| followed by years of persistent and
/ unscrupulous effort to secure a second
/ term; you would not find in his official
utterances uncounted pledges for civil
| service reform and then long years of
/ consistent prostitution of the civil serv-
| ice to all the viler uses of partisanShip;
you would not find him striving to des-
troy the silver coinage of the nation,
nor to retire the greenbacks so dear to
the people, nor yet to strike down the
manufacturing interests of the country
on behalf of our old enemy and our
present commercial rival; you would
not ind him uSurplng the IuncGlonS OF
| a coordinate branch of the government
and hundreds of times the whIrling OF
the legislative will by reckless and
wanton use of the veto power that is
shameless in view of the traditions of
the republic; you would not find him
sneering at the old veterans nor heap
ing gratuitouS insults upon them, nor
yet belittling and minifying their SER
vices, nor refusing to permit a grateful
people to show their gratitude; you
would not find him filling the repre-
sentative places of honor abroad with
men who have no just conception of
what this government is, and who
know nothing of the indissoluble CO.
hesion of these states, and whose only
claim to recognition is to be found in
partisan service; you would not find
him returning rebel flags those hon.
, ored trophies of grand victories to
rebel archives; you would not find him
fal1arinF abOuk home rul0 in Ireland