Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-27
BEN. HARRISON.
All Eyes Turned Toward the
Great Convention.
Favorite Sens Receive Their Com
plimentary Votes Wisconsin
Delegates Desert Rusk
Rather Early.


upon the platform. He brought with
him two handsome oak gavels,
one of them merely polished
and intended for hard pound
ing. The other is more pre-
tentious affair, intended as gift to the
temporary chairman, is richly chased in
gold and has engraved upon it's several
gold bands, the names OF WASHINGTON,
Lafayette, Grant, Lincoln, Garfield and
Logan.
Precisely at 1881 the gavel of Chair
man Jones sounded deeply upon the
mahogany desk and the Republican
convention of 1883 was formally open
ed. The hum of conversation ceased
throughout the vast auditorium and
the buzz of expectation gave place to
an impressive silence as the chairman
introduced the Rev. Frank W. Gunsa-
lauss of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, Chicago, who opened the pro-
ceedings with prayer.
He thanked the Almighty for the
blessing of divine protection. He re-
turned the gratitude OF the nation for
the benefits granted to it by Provi-
dence. He returned thanks for the
history which came massed here, and
expressed a recognition of all
that God has done through
the great organization whose representa-
tives were here assembled. He prayed
that the convention might be dominat-
ed by lofty purposes in order that its
work might do much for the glory OF
God and of man. In an impressive
manner he invoked the Divine protec-
tion for the soldier, the captain of our
armies, who lay SO near to death.
Ln IF
Chirman Jones announced that the sec
rotary, Mr.. Fessenden, of the Nation
al Committee. would read the call
for the convention issued by the
National Committee. illusions in the
call to the position of the party upon the
tariff question, to the determination of
the party to have fair election, and
an honest count, and other salient
points were warmly applauded by the
convention.
Upon the conclusion of the reading
of the call, Chairman Jones stepped to
the front of the platform and spoke as
follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: The Re-
publican party may we'll be corgratu' ated
through its representatives here as embed, upon
the suspicious prospect that lies before 1t.
Wise and courageous action by this cJnyen-
ton will surely lead TO victory in the
campaign upon which we are about to enter
There can be no doubt as to which side the
great majority of votes will fall each party be
tried by its record; ii the grand achievements OF
the Republican party be appreciated, aud the
utter failure OF the Democratic party be under
stood.
The two parties are Numerically opposed to
each other One tavors progression; the Other,
retrogression. One lifts up the other casts down.
Thanks to Mr. Cleveland and his outhern allies,
the Democratic party has thrown off the dis
guise IN which it has heretofore fought Its battle
in the Northern states, and has boldly declared
for British fee trade and against
much adulations in certain sections of
this country and in al OF England which has,
from the beginning been hostile to the in
fallen heavily upon the ears of the patriotic por-
tion Of the Democratic party. However. we
must not expect that this is the end of dishonest
pretenses Deceit, fallaces and sophistry
will again be resorted to and practiced. There
fore, we should have a platform based upon true
Republican principles-free from equivocatiOn
or ambiguity. and should no innate candidates
who the embod meDt Of these principles.
The founders of this government saw that it
absolutely essential for self preservation hat
the original thirteen states should become unit
ed for the purpose of protection and defense
against alien acts ana influences as well as for
economical and effective government; One
eminent to provide for revenue and
| for the protection of the industrial
interests of the country. All of our early pres
| idents, from Washington to Jackson inclusive,
| advocated a tariff for revenue, and Tor prOtec-
ton. All of the great and patriotic statesmen of
| those days coincide in his policy. No man of
| note who was lover Of his country, down to
| Jackson's first term, entertained and expressed
| doubts as to the constitutionality or policy of
protecting the industries of the United States
against foreign comp eiltion.
The tariff question was not considered as one
| embracing solely or chiefly the manutactui ers'
| interests, but one viii broadly embraced the
social condition of the laboring classes, the mu
| tual interest of all home producers in the home
market, and of the countrys real independence.
The British, who shout free trade, pro-
| tected themselves AGAINST all competition until
| they we're masters Of the commercial world, and
| until they realized that the United States, with
| its great natural advantages and by moderate
| use of the same means, was becoming formld-
| able rival 1t was only when Great Britain per-
| ceiyed something of the future Of her American
| rival that she attempted to regain that control
| over this country by artlfice which she was un-
| able to hold or reclaim by force OF arms
| After relating the history ofthe alleged
alliance of the South with English man
ufacturers under the administrations of
Van Buren,, Polk. Pierce and Buchanan,
Chairman Jones continued:
The Republican party vanquished the Demo-
cratic party gsssea the homestead ala la. destroy
| credit redeemed the country ard started it anew
on the lines contemplated by the fathers. To-day
| we occupy much higher plane than any other
| people on the face of the globe.
The Republican party believes that it IL not
necessary or right that we should be reduced tc
| q common level with other nations; but that we
| should have the full benefit of all our natural
| advantages, and the full enjoyment of our giori-
Gus heritage. The logical consequences OF the
| theories of the Democratic party would have LETT
| this country with but q fringe OF population on
the waterways. Many of the leading bourbon
Democrats of to-day look upon the magnificent
| Developments and the grand Improvements Of
the nation, which are simply labor, genius and
MANAGEMENT crystallized. a rank unnatural
and unwholesome growth, and believe that we
ought TO go back Le the days of ignorance, sloth
and small things as quickly as possible.
Through the criminal FOLLY of certain professed
Republicans and by fraud and duplicity on the
part of the Democratic party. our honored and
| gallant standard bearers in 1884 were defeated
| Fortunately for The country we still have
the benefit of the wise laws passed
by the Republican party and still have major
ity in the Senate of the United States which
majority has prevented unwise legislation We
are again confronted with this same Democratic
party, the mother of all the evils from which
this country has suffered, asking for the power
control and direct its future course, and we find
that the same element which first led 1T astra.
by its malign influence, and dominated ii dOwI
to the grievous days of the rebellion, is again IL
full control of its affairs.
If q majority of the American voters favol
the giving away of the home market, in
comparably the best in the world
and the forcing of our people. now the
| most prosperous and inappy the face of thu
earth into competition with and down to leve
with the cheapest poorest and most miserable o.
our foreign rivals, the Democratic reactionar.