Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-31
THE REPUBLICANS.
Their Grand Rally at the
Pavilion.
FITCH'S CLAP TRAP GRAFTON.
He Assails All the Arguments
of the Democratic
Party.
THE REPUBLICANS.
FITCH'S CLAP TRAP GRAFTON.

Those who were present at the Repub-
lican rally at Hazards Pavilion last
night will not be likely to forget it very
soon. The building was crowded long
before the hour appointed for the open
ing of the exercises, and by the time s
O'Clock had arrived it was evident that
late comers would have to be contented
with standing room only" Mr.. Hazard
announced that Judge R. F. Carpenter
would act as President of the meeting,
assisted by the following Vice-Presidents
and Secretaries: w. F. Fitzgerald, John
Mansfield, f. j.. Gilmore, D. Gilbert
Dexter, George H. Bonebrake, II. T..
Hazard, H. G. Otis, w. S. Moore, J. W..
Mckinley, B. F. Talbot, Rev. g. H. An
derson, J. H. Book, H. H. Boyce, P. S.
Dorney, H. G. Register, H. u. Osborne,
f. A. Wood, r.. G. O. Benjamin, j. F.
Hogan, J. G. Downey, G. N. Earl, Pho
Pico, f. A. Gibson, G. Wiley Wells, Z.
Blennerhassett.
Secretaries-W. A. Spalding, E. R.
Cleveland, o. A. Stephens.
Judge Carpenter was introduced and
announced that he had been appointed
owing to the unavoidable absence of
Judge Anson Brunson.
MIR. FITCH's SPEECH.
NJ. Fitch said: II had rather receive
so magnificent a welcome as this from 80
magnificent an audience as this than
have been elected one of the famous
sixteen California statesmen who were
so victorious over the ills of life from San
Francisco to Chicago. The organ
zation of your clubs, the presence
here tonight of so many of the fairest
ladies of the fairest city OF the continent,
the interest taken in this meeting i'm
presses me that you are interested in the
contest that will reverse the defeat that
we received four years ago. Our oppon-
ents came into power with senses
sharpened by twenty.four years of official
famine they counted the cash in the Ma
tional Treasury but found no deficit, they
looked for Republican laws to repeal but
found none that could be so we'll treated.
The Republican rascals were replaced by
gentlemen some of whom did not show
up well under Pan electric lights. After
three years they found that their Buffalo
President had antagonized the West by
his opposition to silver coinage, the SOL
diers by his action regarding the battle
trophies, and the general public by his
work on the Canadian Fishery question.
suppose that the once potent cry of re-
form would now evoke peal of chestnut
bells and they cannot hope for any
good effects Of such an appeal now.
They find it necessary to present some
new issue and having no new one they
have resurrected dead one; having no
live leader they have materialized a
ghost. . He is the raincarnation of the
free trade fallacies which fifty years ago
were downed by Henry Clay. He makes
every Democrat boiler-plate production
uf every other Democrat; he pretends
devotion to the interests of labor, but his
real purpose is to introduce into the
homes OF American mechanics the gaunt
spectre OF famine that is lying in wait be-
hind the ambush of
| REVENUE REFORM.
This astral of Ananias says that the
Republican party is horde OF mercenary
fanatics that is engaged in the sole pur-
pose of increasing monopolies and trusts
This ghost of sultry antecedents and
sulphurous smell was evoked at free
trade seance presided over by Grover
Cleveland and it does not appear
that Richard Cobden's arguments have
gained either force or argument by the
medium. The revenue reformers of to-
day are allies of those who said they
would make America great nation by
secession of the States, of the inan-
ciers who wished to float the country
with promises not to pay, and of those
who permitted the black man to vote as
he pleased, and then counted the vote as
they pleased. They are doctors that re-
mind us of the description Of a duck
ranch, with here quack and there
quack and everywhere a quack." These
gentlemen now come blithely forward
with new nostrums by reducing the lab
orers expenses 81 week, and reducing
his wages So week. They say that this
reduction of the tariff will not effect the
workman's wages, but will fall altogether
ON the shoulders of the cap
italist. What shameless credul-
ity is this? Ask the Labor
Unions of America their opinion of this
Democratic doctrine; ask them if they
believe that wages will be high when the
products are low. They will tell you
that the contest between capital and
labor has been practically settled and
has been settled in the interests
of the working masses. They will
tell you that the relation between
wages and profits is as clearly compre'
hended by those who swing the ham
mers as by those rule the ledgers. They
, will tell you that if the doctrine of pro-
, lection is an injustice the American
laborer is it's principal beneficiary. and il
the doctrine with which Henry Clay
sixty-four years ago started the prosper.
ity of the Empire is a thief then
labor has its share of the plunder.
If protection does not help the laborel
who is benefited? Not the bankers, fol
the rate of interest would be the same
under protection as under free trade, no
the merchants, railroads, lawyers, doc
tors nor divines. The fact is that above
and beyond all advantages to capital ane
trusts, the doctrine of protection is to th'
, interest of the workingman. The Re
! publican party is fighting, not the cause
; of the capitalist, but of the plow, thu
loom and the anvil. Statistics show tina
capital involved in manufactures in thu
United States does not pay more than II
lper cent per annum, and that trusts wer'
established so as to save our great indus
tries from bankruptcy. If free trade i
adopted, you compel the American man
S ufacturer to fight with foreign rivals
! how can he sell as cheaply
. he cannot produce as cheaply. BriIn