Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-08-24

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palgn ammunition to which the Genera
was accustomed. AS for his speech
have not room for sketch of it. It was
| the same old story of attacking the Demo
cratic party as free traders and saying
nothing against the Republican party
When an approaching band of music an
nounced the coming of the regular orators
| of the day, the General closed and the
crowd surged over to the pagods. There
the programme was Allen an hour, Breck.
1nridge an hour. half hour each to reply
Breckenridge closing. Both county Chair.
men. II. V. Strayer of the Democrats and
D. S. Lewis of the Republicans, were on
the stand, as were Col. c. T. O'Ferrall
and ex Senator John F. Lewis.
SKETCH OF MIR. ALLEN IS SPEECH.
Mr.. Allen opened by calling on the band
to play that good old toon America. -
The band didn't know the ''good old
toon," and gave in place of it ''Dixie, -
with much spirit. The speaker laughed
and remarked that it was clearly case of
mistaken identity, at which there were
shouts of laughter, and the whole thing
started off in a good humor. He said he
knew he was at disadvantage with the
gentleman who had National fame for
eloquence, but they muslin It think every
thing man said was to be believed in,
just because it was eloquentlY said. He
said the question now at issue was bust
ness one and admitted of no sentimental
ism, and had no place for the "bloody
Shirt We are all Americans and trying
to determine what is best to be done for
America. The Republican party had
preserved the Union, had reduced the
enormous war debt by over half, and had
welcomed the Southern States back to the
Union. AS soon as it had been able to
do it, it had reduced the taxation by re-
mitting the Stamp tax, &C.. and now
stood pledged to take the duty off tobacco,
a pledge the Democratic party. also gave,
but hasn't kept in the Mills bill. TIE
Republicans don't propose to give free
whiskey as charged on them. 1t is the
Dem ocratic party which in the Mills bill,
relieves stills of certain capacity, from
government supervision, and thus gives
free whiskey. The Democracy in the
Mills bill are free traders in free raw ma
terial. They give free wool. You can't
reduce the wages of sheep, but you do,
by that bill reduce the wages of the men
employed in shearing them, and thus de-
grade labor.
They give free SALT Salt is now sold
in Michigan at 60c barrel, Of which zoe
is for the barrel, leaving the cost Of salt at
4Oc barrel of 200 pounds, and the aver
age man uses So pounds of salt year.
How much is he relieved?
Mr.. Allen here gave glowing descrip-
ton of how rich Michigan was and how
prosperous her farmers were, and all
through her manufactures and the home
market they afforded those farmers. Land
which sold In Rockingham for SIS an acre,
sold in Michigan for 800. Out of 494, 900
people engaged in labor in Virginia 254, 900
were engaged in farming. Up in Michi
gan out of $50 900 workers only 100000
were engaged in farming. The others
worked in Industries made by the tariff.
Mr.. Allen endorsed the Blair Bill.
MIR. BRECKENRIDGE IN REPLY
said that he would first correct an error
of Mr.. Allen. The Republican party had
not WELCOMED back the Southern States. F"
It had treaued them as another section OF
the country, and as military satrapies
and it had remained for Grover Cleveland
to give the country the first National,
unsectional administration. (This was
received with tremendous and continued
cheerlng.) The very fact mentioned by
Mr.. Allen, that to-day we are all Ameri-
cans and recognized as such, is solely due
to the twenty years struggle of the Democ-
racy (great applause.) 1t is Democratic
President who is the first President to
give the country non-sectlonal and
National administration (cheers.) 1t is
to the twenty years struggle of the Demo-
cratic party that is due the fact that to-
day we have so distinguished and able a
gentleman as MIR. Allen, of Michigan,
speaking here to-day, instead of the carpet
baggers of old (great cheering). 1t is to
Grover Cleveland it is due, that the same
speeches can be made to-day under the
shadow of Bunker Hill and in the little
church at Shiloh.
After this opening, Mr.. Breckenridge,
who is as familiar with the Mills bill as a
boy is with his primer, proceeded to the dis
cussion of it. He pulled out the Mills bill
and reading it, showed that Mr.. Allen
had altogether mlsconstrued and mis-
quoted it with reference to stills without
government supervision. He said be felt
sure Mr.. Allen had not read the bill.
The Mills bills, Mr.. Breckenridge said,
simply says in its meaning that the people
shall not be taxed for the benefit of any,
body except the government. No mans
money shall be taken out Of his pocket and
put into the pocket of any other man. His
earnings shall be his own.
Mr.. Allen argues for the Great System
of Protection, that it is bound up with
the life and prosperity of the people and it
cannot be touched. / have heard such
arguments before. 1 have heard them
thirty years ago IN the Slave State of Ken
lucky, in which 1 was reared. heard them
IN behalf of an institution which took the
earnings of one man and put them into
the pocket of another. So full of faith
were its supporters in that institution that
they said it was of Divine origin. But 1
have lived to go back to it after bloody
war and see that institution wiped away,
and learn that though it was eternal and
could never end, yet the nation is pros
pering without it. So it is with the Tariff
system under which the country has been
living for TWENTY-FIVE years. Its followers