Wichita eagle., 1888-09-22
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| Democratic party does not openly EN-
| ploy this man Streeter and send him out
TO make converts to the principles OF
that party. 1t is because the leapers oi
that party know that the farming people
of this country and the laboring people
OF this country Will not knowingly vote
| for party that has been in the past and
now Is controlled by the devotees OF hui
man slavery. 1t is because the leaders
of that party know that the laboring
man of this country will not knowingly
vote to degrade the labor of the free
north. When this man, therefore. labors
to draw from the Republican ranks the
| labor vote, he takes from the Re
publican column portion of its strength
and adds to the probabilities of Demo
cratic victory.
Every interest this man has that can
influence his Sordid mind leads him to
wish and hope for a reduction of the
wages of labor, He wishes that farms
should be mortgaged and sold at sheriff 5
sale so that he can buy them and thus
increase his land possessions. He is the
twin brother of ST. John. and they are
laboring together for the same cause and
TO accomplish the same results. bat
through different channels. Each OF
them labors and works TO secure the de-
feat and destruction of the Republican
party; each one of them is working III
the interest of the same master-the
Democratic party.
Strip these human coyotes of their
fieeces and by the light of the reasons
have given you, see if you cannot dis
cover the brand of their own and master.
Having brushed aside the rubbish, tine
fog and the midst let us proceed to a con-
sideration of the
VITAL ISSUES OF THE CONTEST,
bearing in mind all the while that
the Democratic party, its administration,
its methods and its purposes is on trial,
and here let me say that Grover Cleve-
land is what is left. and all that is left of
the Democratic party. Never in the
history of our country has there
been an administration that has
been SO completely personal. so alb
solutely tryannical, SO thoroughly
dictatorial as the one now on trial
Grover Cleveland, true to his tastes. his
instincts and his Sparcity of political
knowledge, has absorbed all of the vices
and none of the virtues of the old Demo-
cratic party. He has estranged every
leading Democrat that would not do his
bidding. He has used the great power
of his exalted position to accomplish his
purposes. Not content with this base
use of his honorable station, he has pros
tituted his office by repeated efforts to
control votes in the senate and house OF
representatives. | make no idle charges.
Isham q. Harris was and is a United
States senator from the state of Tennes-
see. In the Fory-ninth congress this
senator voted against recommendation
of the president. Shortly atterward Mir.
Harris went to the white house to urge
the appointment or certain person TO
an official position in West Tennessee.
The president said to him: ''Senator
Harris, you voted IN the senate contrary
to my wish and recommendation. How
can you come here and ask me to APP
point your friend TO this position!' MIR.
President, replied the gru1f but honest
Old senator, ''when | want your advice
as to how ] shall vote in the United
States senate l will call on you. Good
day. sir, and, turning on his heel left
the room. But the end of this
business has not Yet been reached.
Mr.. Harris term as senator expires the
4th of March next. The Legislature that
will elect his successor will be chosen
this fall. j. ID. c. Atkins, of Tennessee,
of unsavory Pan-ElectriC memory, WAS
Mr.. Clevelands commissioner of Indian
affairs. Months and months ago he an
nounced himself as a candidate for Sena-
tor Harris position, left his duties and
his office, went back to Tennessee, and
yl,Ila in ln1r,lny 6r-2 =
salary of $4,000 per annum, began his
canvass for the coveted place. He is
still engaged in that canvass. It is an
open secret in Washington that the
power of the administration has been
and Is being used TO nave Mr. Atkins
succeed Mr. Harris i'll the senate of the
United States.
l will call another witness. Henry +.
Lowering, a one-legged soldier from the
city of Lynn, in the state of Was5achu-
sets. He represented the Sixth district
in that state in the Forty-ninth congress.
He was a member of the committee on
invalid pensions, and although a Demo-
crat he ardently favored the passage Of
a bill through the senate and house Of
representatives in the Forty-ninth
congress to provide for the erection
of a public building at Lynn,
in his district, city of seventy
thousand people This bill for a public
building was in the hands Of the presi-
dent at the time the house voted 20 pass
the dependent pension bill over his veto.
Dir. Lowering, being an old soldier and
having left a leg upon the battlefield,
believed in the passage Of that depend
ent pension bill, notwithstanding the
veto, and he so voted. Within two days
from this act his bill for a public build
ing was returned from the president
with veto. although number OF like
bills for cities having a much less popu-
lation had. prior to that time, during the
session received the approval and sigma
ture Of the president.
/ will call another witness. ". II.
Sowden, of Allentown, Pa. He is the
in the FIftieth congress
from the Tenth district of Pennsylvania,
and is a Democrat of the Sam Randall
type. This representative secured the
passage of bill for public building at
which is one Of the large
cities in his district, and
which really was entitled to public
building if number of other points
uniform in population, in wealth and in
interest which had been provided for
were entitled to such favors. Every effort
was made 70 induce SIR. Sowden TO vote
for the Mills bill, but he refused to do 50.
The bin for this public building at his
place went TO the president and was re-
turned with a veto. All the power Of
the administration was brought 20 bear
in his district to defeat has denomination,
and he was defeated.
| might summon q number Of other