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enact but the power to repeal. Therefore. MI
legislative power is lodged Tor two years In the
Legislature to be- elected on the 5th of Novem-
Der. This Legislature has. in addition to these
ordinary powers the duty Of ~electing n Senator
1891.
practically as heretofore; although there are
otller parties claiming tho attention OF tho peo-
Pile. tho practical contest is between tho two
parties that fought the battles of lust year and
Of many preceding years. One or tho other will
dominate. Both hHve met in convention and
nayn by resoluti on, expressed their views on
the discussion to two or three salient questions.
Our opponents in this State compliment Tho
lncntetl before. We have had control of the
political power of tho Statefor more than u third
OF a century, making its laws. administering
taxes, disbursed the revenues, built up our
State institutions of public nature, includ-
linz 1,ny0 e'. Luz dsa,,st eha5ita ans and Snaaao,}p penal nal =. and nd
md all of them, whether Us respects their
efficiency or their financial management. Is
not TO provoke one word of criticism in the
Platform of our opponents. Not only so. but
all these ire subjects of admiration and COM
mendation, far beyond our state, of those whose
plea sure il Is to critically observe the public
policies of tho State. SO they fail 10 ~criticise
1t single publ. measure on DIR stttuto-looks,
or a single subject of administrator OF our pub
lie n!fnirs. save only one-the legislation re-
srtcting The control of the liquor traffic. The
management of our affairs. with this exception,
IS lINuDrhtl MIA NUDTOtGu. 1neu WILL, YOU kSK,
ase tha noi.ts of difference and the topics to be
debated in this cainpaign? Directly only two
one national, tho thrift question md matters
collateral to it; tho other, the liquor question
and matters incidental to IL.
1 do rot mention the question of transporta-
ton. State and Interstate. rs upon this question
tho people without reference to party are prnc-
tiSaliy united. Yet this is ono of tho important
Questions affecting our national interests. and
sho:ld De carefully guarded and kept i'll the
public mind, nnl, thererore, 1 shnll not omit its
discussion in What i have to say. i have re-
tcrred 10 the election of a Senator. Our General
Government is SO organized us respects the
Se,ln'1. that under existing political conditions
the SeNIte is politically nearly evenly balanced.
The sixteen States lately known as slave States
send up an nnbroken Democratic representn.
tiOn. We hone for u chnllge in tile near future
IN this respect. 1t may not come as soon us we
hope. Until Il does come md parties are divided
in rhc Southern States upon issues other thun
those growing out OF slavery and the rebellion,
u loss 10 lie Republicans of ,l.ree or four Sena-
tors. even with tho iis,s States TO come in, the
power OF The Senate may pass into the laids of
tlis ]Dslnl<iasic party. believe tho best inter-
gs!s Of our country require the supremacy of liie
t:e,i OF The Democratic party in both houses
ald in the ndlniniAtration lucens thcoverthrow
81 onr protective system. which. has given us
the great prosperity We enjoy. We do not diff
len on tho question of reduction of taxation.
We all agree that our present. revenues are
too great for the needs Of the government.
We n!l agree that taxes should he reduced.
We I'LL hsfce thar the tariff should be revised,
or reformed, ii that is IL better word to use.
ne DIV tASt tINo IOtcIiISS hlOUIu Ue III.
!sipisiied. Tho Republican party urged this in
1855 and every year since. we haye not only
urged this year by year. hut We have shown
for not doing 1t rested Oh tho Democratic
party. Under our Constitution measures of
revenue. whether diminishing or increaaing
t%nNation, must originate in the Houee of Rep
lssentntivcs. The senate has no powes until
tie House acts and seuds u dill to The Senate.
Tie Democrats held tho majority in the House
from the 4th of March, 1875, up To the 4th of
March, 1852, except tho two years from March
4. 1851, to A!arcl !. 1882. Thus for fourteen
year,, with tho exception I hive stated, the
issino.r,tss had control of the only body Tint
could ju The first instance deal viii, that ques-
Mos. During all this time they criticised exist
chac,..c rhein. From 1881 To 1885,, wheli tho Re-
puDlicans had control. they did reduce tAxes
nnd revise the tariff. taking off nearly $4,000
900. which experience soon disclosed was not
o1ielif. But this effort aud action showed
Do.i, n disposition and The capacity to deal with
tho subjccs. Therefore the Democratic party,
through the House of Representatav yes, is re.
si'onsiblc for the existing excess of lyyenge,
aud il docs not lie in its pathway 10 ~ciiticiss
Organization OF the House this yenr shall dis
CLOSE a woit;ng Republican mniority, and ut
the cpd of this Congress the revenues IRE not
greatly reduced, t.nt party may be properly
Criticised.
In 1857, in December. President Cleveland
presented his message with 81 the arguments
FREQ trade. or II modification of our tariff laws
cal tho bnsis of u tariff fog revenue only. The
Ways md Means Committee OF the House pre-
scented n bill in accord with these views, and,
inter q long debate, it passed the House sub.
stIntinlly rs reported on tho 21st of July, after
Congress Ind been in session nearly eight
months. Although this was the usual time for
adjournment in II Presidential year, tho Senate
TOOK up that bill. considered it in committee,
sspor 1,a it s,i to the s. ssn ate an safa eop 3s,a # until
~stectinn. 1t took the bill up again iif,I,ediately
o.; ;ia r~enssembltng of Congress and soi.sid-
est III night and dnS, and passed Ii finally with
~ .t1.lCliGlnoIt in the nlttlivl of IL SNhStit1,fa NJ,
til us: of january, six weeks before tho final
sS l, of the 5s,., t';,sssh r.. Congress.
%ontinuou ..'fH Tho bill ills vent sna''H back af to
the House .in as,ple time to BIO considered an
cnces ts.twee1 the two houses or disclosing
that tiiesa differences are irreconcilable. The
House referred the bill again to the Committee
tho saentli of the Congress, GltA,,lgh the leaders
of the House We're informally told that the SEN
ats w .,ula yield SO :, as ,st to ssseS upon red,n Nc,
the Substitute of the Senate. Thus 1t will be
seen that n failnta to reduce revonSe and taxa
tiun during the laAt Congress is directly charga-
nola to the Democratic House. The senate
amendment reduced tue revenues at least $685.
uG,,0oo. and more than ss30,O0o,0D of this re-
duction ryas to he found fin tho House bill as
we'll but tho House would consent to no re-
duction that did not involve u serious impair
mont of most of our industries and the abso-
Lutte destruction of many OF them. No member
the relative merits of the two bills. An open
proposition was 1madc OF tho floor by tho Re-
Iullicans to bring the bill into the House SO
that M agreement could he reached. All these
oycrtures were rejected and The bill was locked
up in Tho COMMITTEES room 10 the end OF the Con-
grcss. So, 1 rcpea The responsibility of failure
rests upon the De,nGcrntic House of Representa-
tives, and it does not become the Democratic
party now to say tbs. Republicans share this
responsibility of excessive revenue. In the Con-
gross soon to commence the Republicans have a
majority, md If failure comes, that party cau
Justly Da charged Will such failure, unless tho
minority by dilatory tactics shall prevent legis-
In. ion. On this question the parties IRE in an
tnSonisin. The Republican pnrty believes thatit
is to tho true interest of NIL tho people of this
country, md of every part of it, to so levy and
adjust our import duties as TINT our own produc-
ers and laborers shall have an advantage over tho
producers and lai,orers Of other countries pro-
siucing tho like articles. Tho Democrats be-
1inve that those duties shall bc imposed for
sevcnue purposes only, mud thai all else shall be
uust sight of i'll nciec:ius articles upon which
aG,ies shall lie lowed and rnid. We believe
with the il hers that ono of the objects of this
di0yernMeN. should BIO to so ~legislate with
neferepoe to our industries as to promote and
f0stcr them aud not to cripple and destroy
them. THU year this question is forced into
with o Wow 10 show THAT l,lcauso W. aro chiefly
au agricultural Stete. our present system Is
mot ,only not beneficial to us but that it Is un-
ic.st.to us, because our farmers sell their pro.
1aatsior u price fixed In q cheap market OF free
i tyaie end buy what they consume In a dear
i aAr'yet.o OF protection. I deny this assumption.
W~liGr,Eoduct OF the farm has its price fixed
int = foreign mnrl;et? Cotton, 1t ia said, ia one.
I his product is in such universal demand that