The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-09-06
Villas y0CALIZES.
Repu blieans Fit to Fight,
Not to Rule.
A LONG coRRurr CAREER.
yermert Gives Her Views On the
Tarir Question With Much EN-
phssis-ss.eoo Majerity-Conxen-
tions Of fMassaehusetts and wiscon-
sin Democrats. minnesota and Col
orsdo Republicans

Democratic campaign IN Wisconsin to-
night With a speech Al the West side
Turner hall. The Juneau, jefferson aad
Jackson clubs. representing the Demo-
cratic organizations Of the three divisions
of the city, escorted hiin TO the hall, whe-e
there was an andierce of about 1850 per
sons. He spoke a. follows.
After referring to the duty % voters sud
challenging criticism OF President Cleye-
lands administration. he said Il invite
you 10 contrast the conditions. principles
aud professions of she opposing parties in
this contest. and the promise Of the future
afforded b. them respectively. WHIST is
the Republican party of 10 day. and where
in Is il more worthy OF confidence than II
was in lSsle il was in the beginning more
a popular uprising than political party.
IL found its origin and aEickeaing power
in the high appeal of justice and tender
ness for human brethren ia oppression, ana
IN theis honest zeal Of deep conviction its
following was well-nigh fauatieaf Il was
a crusade against great national sin, ana
il fell upon the time appointed of heaven
for the publication of the republic By
warlike whirlwind. Il swept lis course Of
destruction, and, through wholesome yio-
lence, within a decade the evil which had
engeudered its being was moro than de-
stroyed and the land was strewn with
mighty wrecks where IN fantastic chaos
lay seals. constitutions and people amid
The widefiuBg havoc OF war
That vas the logical period OF fhe party's
existence. II stood upon or possessed no
doctrine Of government, no principles for
the guidance OF the institutions oi free
dom in the repose Of peace. II was not
national. but sectional: q party for civil
war. not for national fraternity. But the
heart OF yle.orioas people was in lis
grasp aad the rage OF war was long un-
spent IL was an opportunity Of 0ppOrtu-
mites for political frce-beoters, and never
for one momen; did they suspend their ef-
forts nor ever spare The exhausted people.
Upon one pretext or another, from almost
the earliest grasp OF Republican dominion,
corruption Degaa It's work, aud schemes
for the dishonest enrichment Of the few 20
prevail
twas in iS62 that, pursuing the sentl.
meut that the nation required trans
continental highway. Pacific railroad
legislation began, aad IN 1864 that was con
timed ia Enrelenting ingenuity, and 10
was 50 amended to diabolicai perfection
thst tue general .svernmenrbuiit roads
and gave them, with land enough for n
empire, Ia successful conspirators. Then
also came the earliest act for laying taxes.
and afterwards with greed that heightened
with each new glutt0ny. every honest reve-
nue measure was perverted and distorted
but the praetleed eye. by which a tribute
was extOrted from the people i've times
greater than the tax thai went to the treas
Urv.
Then It was that the,moastrous vampire
was hidden in the tariff which seductiveiy
fans, with the wings Of protection. the
laborcr whose hearts blood il sucks; which
vas herntten in sin 10 rob the toiilng pro-
ducers In the Geld and the forest OF the
wealth which they create. When the war
had ceased q great people with its Golfers
unlocked and lis resources exposed lay be-
fore the spsileF. while in the exhaustive
struggle and heat Of rage the natural
guardianship was gone. Thea followed
such q seizure Of national wealth by va
riGns devices, 50 rapacious, 50 gigantic, so
ingenious in the methods by which their
grasp was laid, as has never been eS-
hibiied in history Nothing is comparable
10 il but India under Warren Hastings.
''DfheT nations have been Gespoiled BY
oonquercFs 10 the open force o: uniiceneed
conquest. This people was robbed by the
devllIsh manipulation OF It's own legisla-
iion and administration in the hands OF its
supposed friends"
The secretary then referred 20 corruption
IN public contracts. touching upon the
partnership OF Grant 4 Ward; to the Gus
tom house scandals. under valuations on
imports; navy jobs aud star route contracts,
aud declared that these and other things
In the Republican party ont OF IT, sumner,
Chase. Greeley, trUmbull aud Beecher
lie declared that the only policy OF the
only branch Of tae government remaining
Republican slace 1881, the senate, was
com prised In tgO words, obstruction aud
misrepresentation as to everything for
general good. sad inStanced ihe iA-dy coal
nrmati1n 81 chief lusiice Fuller. the rs
lection uf ihe fisheries treaty and the calay
in passing t-e retaliation bill asked for D.
Prssidea; Cleveland.
Tuning 10 the Democratic iafty, the
speaker sGiel "in the department of state
sou And that everywhere the national
dignity has been maintained, national
rss shts protected, aud the republic ia peace
and goodwill with all tae powers pf the
cayth, save only as Republican obstruction
leaves us needless hostility with our
ury; SIS guardianship Of our financial In
tercsls commands respect on every hand;
collections nf the Internal revenue f0T tie
year iss5 fthe last Republican yearl were
sll2,0 ,0a0, for 1875, Cieseland's first ycaf,
SlI7.e1a ESQ: Issi7 Sila, 600 o0B; 1855 H. no0,
largely decreased under the present ad-
miai-tra'i0m. The secretary tnea com
pared tie naval administrations under The
two parties, the restoration of lands 10 the
public domain. the removal q carlcmen
from Oslahama.
bills. and much EFFORT % Taainigin the
theory OF iIl-Hili to solstisrs oa the Frcsi
dcnt's part. because % bis vctpes. Already
nu7r ~ SHca bills have passed into en-
acted laws rEdcr hiin thaa during the al
miDisratioas o. Arthur and Haycs, and
by fhc end q his term the nunlier siH be
larger Than during the administrations %
Grant. Hayes aaf Arthur tagetaer. An
other matter ts the credit 81 the admins
tration was the second emancipation OF thc
coiUrci iaag. His emancipation from lear
Of TIE DgGoera-ic party restored do.
minisn of peace and fraternity IN the
lard.
The speaker then took up the isvif ql.cs-
tiou, aud dweat np0u !; a. great length 70
show the dangers aud Injustice a. high
protective tariff, aai tbe advantages which
would accrue from reGuetiaa "a Import
charges. ~ the Was of enlarged trade ana
decreased cot 81 living. The argument
was made mainly frola the fer1ces' htaH8-
point
In closing he raid tTisa.e 30 TIE per
sauai character a Gen. Harrison. Rra elis-
gucutiv summarized the ira g of character
fer whs0h President Cleveland y censpic-
Huus