, 1890-10-30
COMPARING PARTIES
Senator Sherman Speaks at
Pittsburg,
WHAT THE TARIFF BILL WILL DO
Domestic Articles Will Be Cheap
Enough to Please All but
the Democrats.

NrTsBuRG, Oct. 25.-Four thousand
people gathered in the city hall tonight
to listen to an address by Senator John
Sherman on the issues of the campaign.
In his speech Senator Sherman said !;
There can really DO but two great par
ties. There are sometimes people who
think they are little better than their
nrighbors, and go oil to roost by them.
selves on some side issue, and cali them
selves third party. | have had more
experience in political life than some OF
my hearers. and never saw any good
come out Of third party yet. We arc
all Republicans or all Democrats. in the
general meaning OF the term, because we
are all in favor of the form of govern
ment in which all powers rest with tho
people. The form of these names does
not signify anything. We must judge
of parties precisely 40 We would judge OF
men, and, judged by this test, of the two
parties that now stand before the people
of the country, one is like heaven and
the other like hades. Laughter and
cheers.
In 1855 the people of the United States
trusted the republicans with their po-
litiCal power. Now, the first duty OF
this power was to appoint officers of
this great government oil ours; and that
mower, instead of being strength to
any party, Is q weakness, and upon that
bass nearly all public men who fall in
public life by the wayside fall by the
XtrC Sc of patronage.
say to you now, IL | had the power,
would not allow member of congress
to recommend any man for any office
whatever. lCheors
would take from your political
agents ull power that is invested In
them by common Gus om-not by laws.
would take from them all that power,
and | would not even allow member OF
congress to recommend postmasters, be-
cause it Is an element of weakness; 1t
weugens members of the house and sem
ate and II makes cause OF constant
trouble and quarrel, and ] think the
time Will soon come, and the republican
party will DO the agent in that great re-
form, when law will be passed separ-
atng entirely the appointing power
from the law-making lower.
After reviewing the stormy scenes in
the early part OF the session and the i'm
portunt measures passed after the rules
were adopted, and presenting strong
plea for the soldiers, Senator Sherman
took up tho Mckinley bill, II measure,
he saId, which makes free a greater
uUlOulN VI Nic biOubNAo VI loEVAbh touhs
tries III our own country than any tariff
bill of ancient or modern times. Refer
ring to the assertion of some democratic
orators that we can not produce sugar
the senator said: l am us positive as
am of my existence to-day that within
ten years from this time We will produce
every pound OF sugar that is used in this
country. We have put "a duty on tin
plate equal TO and little more than the
duty on sheet iron, and we will manu-
fACture in this country within five years
of tins time 10000 tons OF plate tin, and
We will make the tin cup So cheap that
nobody Will growl but the democrats.
In CONCLUSION, the senator said In
500, III the good old democratic times,
our currency was the incanest ever de-
vised by man, and would not pass from
one part of the country to another. Now
our money travels all over the world.
Then we were third-class power,
jeered and laughed at, AMI when the war
commenced, the last legacy of demo
cratic administration, kings and emper-
ors were watching for the falling to
pieces of this great republican
government, which was tottcr-
ing to its foundation, and the eyes
ul ali European countries were watching
the last days of the great utrepublic. Now
thank God and the Union soldiers,
thank the American people, this country
utOurs has risen far above and beyond
nll fears ofthis kind, and now the peoples
ol all these empires and kingdoms are
looking eagerly and anxiously for tho
good time coming when they can copy
our institutions and enjoy republic AS
we do III this country. Then the days
OF empires and kingdoms will have
passed and gone, and then governments
of the people, for the people and by the
people will inure forever upon earth.
~ lprDIOnpei applause.