St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-02
HAULED OVER THE GOALS.
Attorney Leftwich Charges Upon Gen.
Sheridan.
SCORED SPEECH.
Some Conundrums That Ingersoll Sher-
idan Will Surely Fall Down
Before.

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methods of the Republican party.
That party's platform orators manifest
such an entire contempt for history that
it would be amusing if it were not dam
nable," remarked Attorney Thomas
j. Leftwich yesterday. with your
permission, and for the benefit of GLOBE
readers who have not tried to investi-
gate these questions, desire to offer
some suggestions in regard to Gen.
Sheridan's philippic,' and the bright
record of that heavenly band known as
the Republican party. Gen. Sheridan
says: Parties, like men, must be judged
by their record This is true, but there
is yet another element which enters
into the question, and that is the SINGER
ity of party's professions. The Re-
publican party has never formulated
platform of principles which did dot de-
clare for reduction of taxation. For
quarter of a century that policy has been
pledging itself to reduction of taxa
ton. Every Republican president that
ever got in the White house since the
war has recommended to congress re-
ductiOn of the peoples burdens. This
has been the great burden of their ap-
peals to the people for twenty years.
But the recent Chicago convention
strikes off the mask and openly tells a
taX-ridden people that it was never the
intention of the Republican party to
lessen the peoples burdens. parties,
like men, must be judged by their rec
ords." Yes. and the record of the Re-
publican party on this question of tariff
reform is record of
CONFESSED DUPLICITY.
What they have declared for during
period of twenty years they now openly
disavow and repudiate. The Chicago
convention declares against all tariff re-
duction, and yet Republican senate
to-day Sits.in solemn deliberation over
measure which shall accomplish just
that object against which that cOnven-
ton has declared in unmistakable
terms. Parties, like men. must be
judged by their records"
Where, in Gods name, does this party
stand? If they and their Republican
senate are in favor of such tariff reduc-
ton, their platform is. a lie. If they
are against tariff reductions their pro-
fessiOns for the last twenty years are
false and insincere.
But again; Gen. Sheridan says "The
Democrats say they ran the government
till 1861, and so they did, and what kind
of government did they give us? They
gave us government whose treasury
was bankrupt and over which two flags
waved in deadly strife" 1t is amazing
the contempt for common history evil
denced by some of those ''itinerant
patriots" who are mounted on public
platforms by political clubs to prevent
history and mislead the public mind.
Does Gen. Sheridan imagine for one
moment that the people can be fooled
by cheap platform pyrOtechnicS OF this
character? Whenever the Republican
party feels its grasp on the rein of gov
eminent lOOsening, they fall to their old
trick Of 1876 and go to tampering with
the returns. Nothing is safe and moth
ing inyiolable. They
PROFANE THE BALLOT
and seat in the presidential chair John
Sherman'S plant tool; documents are
tempered with, and history herself.
which is truth. is made the instrument
of deception. The credit of this gov
eminent was Improbable under DEM
ocratic rule, and no bond or other I'M
matured obligation of this government
ever sold at discount until the Repub-
lican party came into the control of ma
tional affairs in 1861, when per cent
twenty-year bonds of the government
sold at discount of Is per cent. Again,
Mr.. Sheridan says: ''Our Democratic
friends are always bowling about the
taxes, and the less taxes they have to
pay the more they howl" And then he
goes on to say that we have our navy
etc., to look after.
Gen. Sheridan is right; the Democracy
is bowling about the taxes, but the Re-
publican party having increased the
peoples burdens during period of
twenty-five years from an average of 25
to an average OF AZ per cent, we are not
'hoWling" about the "leSS" so much as
we are ''howling" and clamoring
against being robbed by war taxes in
time of peace. Now, about our navy.
We need money for the support of our
magnificent navy, says Gen. s. You
are right, general; we do need money
for our navy, and the first step taken in
this direction. the rehabilitation of our
navy, was taken by Democratic ad-
miniStratiOn.
Now, make this asseveration and /
challenge contradiction, for | have the
documents to prove my statement.
the Republican party expended of the
OUR ALLEGED NAVY.
Where it went God only knows, for
we have not to-day outside of the crafts
presented to the country by the adj
ministration of Mr.. Cleveland single
vessel that could stand a Chesapeake
bay squall. Our navy is pulling infant
to-day, though for twenty years it has
received yearly S20, 100000 of the peo-
pies money. and yet cheap politicians
at Harmonic hall raise their hand in
holy horror at an alleged increase of
national expenses during period of
nearly four years of So, 100000 Parties,
like men, must be judged by their
record.
And, with reference to the civil
service, | ask my Republican friends
this question: If the Republican party
is the party of civil service reform Gt so
declares, but it also declared for tariff re-
duction. and now says they lied about
it), why was it that Republican con-
gress refused to appropriate money for
the support of the civil service commits
sion authorized by the act of 1871? And
why was it, further, that when the
Democracy finally set that commission
on its legs out OF $50 pension examiners
149 were Republicans and Democrat?
What sort of a three-card monte
game has this Republican party been
playing? Now, it is impossible within
the limits of short communication to
call attention to all the misrepresenta-
tons in this speech of Gen. S., though |
should like to enter more into detail,
but | would like to call attention to one
more question suggested. He, Gen.
Sheridan, says: 1--WE want a Repub-
lican president to look after these cor
porations and trusts. The time has
come when we must
CALL A HALT
and regulate the powers of these corpo-
rate bodies. Another question is
that of immigration, which must be set
tied" Is that so. General? Have we
here divided household of faith?"
Jimmy Blaine saws in his recent speech