The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-11-02
THE LOG CABIN AND THE banoAnA.
Labor Day at Indianapolis and Democrat
Day at Cincinnati.
LABOR DAY AT INDIANAPOLIS.

inuihuupOii5 pun Ou u IOlludy ulDtdE'
ance on the 25th in honor of the repub
lican workingmen's demonstration. The
demonstration in some of its features
was the most notable in the campaign,
though not the largest. The manage
ment of the affair wa entirely in the
hands of labor representatives, chief OF
whom were Charles FL. Litchman, ex.
secretary general of the Knights of La
Dor; Robert ID. Layton, Of Pittsburg;
Eccles Robinson, master workman OF
the brass workers assembly of Pitts
burg, assisted by John r. Rankin, Mar.
shal G. Woods, and other prominent Ia
Dor leaders. At the evening meeting
General Harrison made q brief speech,
saying:
l have seer during this busy summer
many earnest and demonstrative assem-
blages of my fellow citizens. L have
listened to many addresses full of the
kindest expressions toward me, person.
ally, but among them all none have been
more grateful to me, none have more
deeply touched me than this great as
semblage of w~orkingmen of Indiana and
these kind words which have been adj
dressed to me in your behalf. GGreat
cheering. There are reasons why this
should be SO, that will readily occur to
your minds, and to some of which Mr..
McDaniels has alluded. Early in this
campaign certain people, claiming to
speak for laboring men, but really in
the employ of the democratic cam
paiSn managers, promulgated through
fEan M rct %, rec onI Nv an-1- ,-,1
LEGATIONS that were not given open en-
managers, but were paid for by their
funds, and circulated under their aus
pices, O number OF false and scandalous
stories relating to my attitude toward
organized labor. The purpose of all
these stories was to poison the minds of
working men against the candidate of
the party that stands in this campaign
for the principle of protection to Ameri-
can labor. L nave only once in all the
addresses [ have made to my fellow cit
liens, alluded to these matters and scan
dalOus stories. But now, in the pres
ence of this great gathering of working
men, [ do pronounce them to be utterly
false. [Tumultuous cheering, waving
Of flags aud banners, continued for sew
eral minutes The story that I ever
said 81 q day was enough for a working
man, with all its Accomplishments and
appendages, Is not a perverslOn of any
thing [ ever said. 1t is q false creation.
Enthusiastic cheering. [ will not fol-
low i'll detail this long catalogue of cam
paign ISLANDERS, but will only add that it
is equally false that anywhere, or at any
time, L ever spoke disparagingly of my
fellow citizen of Irish nativity or de-
scent. Many of them are now enrolling
themselves on the side of the protection
of American labor. This created the
necessity of the story. GCheers. [
want to say again that those who pitch
the campaign upon so Iowa level greatly
underestimate the intelligence, sense
of decency and love of fair play of the
American people. Prolonged cheer
ing. | said to one of the first delega-
tons that visited me that this was
a contest of great principles; that
it would be fought out upon the high
planes of truth, and not in the swamps
of SANDER and defamation. Those who
will encamp their army in the swamp
will abandon victory to the army that is
or the heights. The republican party
stands to-day a bulwark of defense of
the wage-earners of this country against
the competition which may reduce
American wages even below the standard
they falsely impute to my suggestion.
There are two very plain facts that L
have often stated, and others more forci-
bly, than [, that seems to me should be
conclusive with the wage-earners of
America. The policy of the democratic
party-the revision of our tariff laws, as
indicated by the democratic party, a
revenue only tariff, or progressive free
Indictments q vast and sudden increase
of importations. Is there q man here so
dull as not to know that this means
diminished work in our American shops?
If some say that labor is not fully en-
fully employed when you have transfer
red one-third of the work done in our
shops to foreign work shops? If some
one tells me that labor is not sufficiently
rewarded here, does he hope to have its
rewards increased by striking down our
protective duties and compelling our
workmen to compete with the undergrad
labor of Europe? [Cheers. [ conclude
by saying that lesss work and lower
wages are an inevitable result of the
triumph of the principles advocated by
the democratic party.
And now, you will excuse further
speech from me. There are hsce several
distinguished advocates of republican
principles, you will be permitted to hear
nov [ understand that the Hon. Henry
w. Blair, the senator from the state of
New Hampshire, who has been so long
at the head of the committee on educa-
ton and labor in the United States SEN
ate, is tonight in the hall. You will
also be permitted to listen to the Hon.
William Mckinley, jr., of Ohio.
[Cheers.] Now, will you allow me
again to thank you, out of a full heart,
for this cordial tender of your conf.
dence and respect. I felt that in return
[ could not omit to say what 1 have
said, no because you needed to be as
sured of my friendliness, but in recog-
milton of the confidence that falsehood
and SANDER could not shake. L have
not thought it in good taste to make
many personal references to it in my
public addresses. If any one thinks it
necessary that a comparison should be
between the candidates of the
two great parties as to their friendliness
to the reforms demanded by organized
labor, l must leave others to make it.
[Great cheering.
DEMOCRATIC DAY AT CINCINNATI.
Democratic day at the exposition at
Cincinnati on the 25th was a success.
The weather was fine and the crowds
large. A great many visitors called dur
ing the day and were received in Judge
Thurman parlor. The exposition build
inss were crowded and Music hall was
filed with upwards of 5000 people,
when Judge Thurman was introduced.
BE was enthusiastically cheered. He
said in substance:
Gentlemen: We are in the midst of
an extraordinary camnaign-the most