Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-12

relieved freshet. The aisleg were densely packed and it was next to impossible to Long before the he'speaker of the evening arrived hundreds and hundreds were turned away. To one going up Chapel street at that hour would have been given the impression ttat . monster meeting was just over. After Mir. Depew had arrived hundreds took the places of those already turned away but were finally obliged to join the large army of the disappointed. Hundreds stayed around out
 side hoping thafthey would be able to secure admission later on. But they were disap-
 pointed, too. No larger political rally has
 been made at any political gathering this or
 any other season in this city. Altogether it spoke well for Chauncey's popularity. As soon as MT. Depew's face was seen upon i the stage the tremendous throng rose in 8 mass and cheered When he stood beneath the stars and stripes hats. canes and hand- kerchiefs were waved amid the cheers of his admirers.
 Gov. Henry B. Harrison introduced the speaker. Mr. Depew didn't stop to say much about how glad he was to once more stand before New Haven audience, but at once dove into the subject that he was to discuss. He said:
 "The intelligence of the American people is such that each one will vote for his own good, and vote cast on such principle of action is @ measure best for all. Our repub-
  and it's stockholders all have the same equal rights. Once year every corporation puts to test its administration, and it is the glory
 of the American republic that once in every
 four years our consolidated corporation is put
 to the test in its Presidential election. "While there have been many wise Presi dents, there have been some who were cther- wise. (Great lauRhter)
 "The President has more power than the highest man of any other country in the
 world. He has @ veto power, the only poten. { tate who holds such check. Seventy-fve times has this veto power been exercised by Presidents who have the respect of the coun- try. But we have reached period where a President (meaning Cleveland) uses this power three hundred times in three years. What think you of this?
 "When the House and Senate, after great
 consideration, passed measures for the benefit of the people this man had the great courage
 and monumental egotisn to say. You are
 fools; I am the only wise man, at the game time vstoing the measure"
 Mir. Depew spoke of the fact that every man who had ever had his hand on the lever
 that controls the government was an experi- enced and educated man excepting Cleveland. "He is distant from education in just that proportion as he is dangerous to every one of us, !" said the speaker. "The fact that he is
 honest but egotistio leaves the condition of
 the country to his whims"
 At this Juncture someone in the top gall lery shouted "Hurrah for Clevelandl"
 "Hurrah now," was the quick reply flung
 back by the speaker; ''the time is coming when you won't" (great laughter) "To-day we are in the midst of an un- necessary revolution on account of a uhim of the President by which he means to para lyze the industries of this country, simply because of President, not educated precip-
 Hates upon us one of the most important financial and economic questions we have had
 in quarter of 8 century. The coming No \ vember will settle the prosperity of the United States.
 "The President in 8 message has called a halt to our prosperity. He says: You are \ on the wrong road. I can point out another
 line of policy by which you can better your \ selves.'"
 MT. Depew spoke of two ideas which had gone hand in hand as twin principles. On
 one side the State was the dominating power, while on the other the States had the glo- \ rious power of grand governments power \ to develop and protect our industries, to
 have 8 country that would be self -sustaininp
 and independent of the world.
 \ "ln 17SS nine-tenths of our statesmen were of the school that wanted State rights
 they were the men who disbelieved in the power to protect American industries be- \ cause they were brought up iu
 allegiance to the colonies. When the
 country got in debt and was in it's worst con-
 dition, Washington, Jefferson, Adams and
 Madison called them of, and Webster and
 Bancroft said that the one great purpose oi \ reposing our rights in a central power was
 the ability we would have to impose duties
 for the prosperity of the country as a whole
 Then came the adoption of the idea of pro- ! lection and at once our country began to be
 nelf-sustsining. In 1852 the advocates of su. pTeme State rights almost caused e rebellion. \ In 1854 it broke out in Kansas and Nebraska and 8 rebellion was saved only by the elec- N tion of Buchanan. Absolute rebellion did break out in 1861, and the first thing these
 rebellious States declared for was absolute free trade. For five years we carried on that \ war with the one idea iR view of Union free dom for all and the vindication of the inter- ests of the States and the national sovereign
 ty.
 Mr. Depew referred tenderly to tine lives | that were lost in that struggle, and then told | of the bankruptcy from 1916 to 1894 and \ how in that latter year that eminent man Henry Clay came out with absolute pro- E tsctive measure, upon the adoption of which \ our industries again revived and became re- \ established in years time and there were ' everywhere the most superb results of that measure. Shortly sfterward Calhoun dfBw \ up bill which repealed the tariff. This followed by bankruptcy and great depression ' Of business.
 ssBut the people in the presidential election of 1541 said that they \ had had free trade long enough. Once again \ we will appeal to the constitution, and the country was swept by a political revolution such as was never had before by the election of sTippecanoe.' (Great applause.) Again came the resurrection of industries and the country was once more prosperous" He spoke of the civil war, when the South fought, among other things, for free trade. He said: ''It took Lincoln eight years to rid us of that obstruction. We have buried State rights so deep that we will never be troubled by that spectre again. And for go years the idea of protection has been the policy of this country, and it has never been shaken"
 The attention of the audience was called to the vast wealth that our country has amassed under protection. He said that Cleveland says that this is because of the indomitable power of our race. It has taken years to knock out these theories of schools "As Q student know what theory is, but Q man who holds to such theory as now put forth by the Democrats is either 6 mugWump in politics. or an infidel in religion. (Great ap- plause). The theory ot free trade will never be success as policy until Gabiel blows
 his trumpet. Qaughter.) Not until we are all white robed angels will we have free trade
 for the workingman. Naughter.) And when President Cleveland becomes the evangelist of free trade am led to wonder how he diff
 fers from Raphael and the old masters. IIaughter.V
 The speaker told story of colored boy,
 whose father died. His mother married
 again, and then she died. His stspfather
 married again, and when someone asked him if he would support them he said he supposed he would have to. "That boy was a victim of theory,n said MT. Depew.
 He then turned his attention to Cleveland again and said he was man of no experience
 I.anw ArrT KTnHn before elected President. "He only aots on such things as he understands, pension yetoes for instance, Qaughter) and appointing 8 postmaster after civil service reform rule. When he was told there was Q surplus in the treasury he asked, Has that ever occurred beforeF Qaughter.) Not when we have been in power, he was told Qaughter.'O
 Lamar, Garland and Endicott were spoken cf as ot the old school of free trade antesl