, 1890-08-20
GLORIOUS RALLY.
Last Evenings Popular Meeting at
the Opera House.
Intelligent Discussion of the Issues
of the Campaign.
The Principal Addresses by Judge
Corn anu Col. Bryan
Plain Talk on the Tariff, Force Bill
and Woman Suffrage.
The Manner of Men on the Demo
cratic State Ticket.
No Abusive Ranting, but lust Quiet,
Warm Roasting.
A Tremendous Audience, Excellent
Music and Beautiful Stage.

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by Judge Samuel T. Corn and Col. P.
Cad Bryan. The occasion was a Demo
cratic ratification meeting and rally. Rev.
j. Y. Cowhick was president of the
meeting. Music was furnished by the
Union Pacific band. The stage was beau
tifully decorated with national flags and
flowers.
The audience filed the lower house
completely, with about three hundred
standing and nearly all the seats ia the
gallery were occupied. The weather was
unpropitious, but an sstonishingly large
number of ladies were out. The o%rations
we're received with marked attention.
Judge w. L. Kuykendall, as the repre-
sentative of the Democratic state central
committee called the meeting to order.
He spoke earnestly of the importance of
the campaign and said it was the desire OF
the committee to conduct the battle on
well defined issues And to avoid the dis
graceful methods introduced already by
the Republicans. Nothing was to be
gained by personalities or petty chickering's,
but if the Democrats were forced to de-
fend themselves on this score they would
endeavor to give the opposition the very
best in the store. Judge Kuykendall
very neatly presented the chairman of the
evening.
President Cowhick pledged anew his
fealty to the party of intelligence. prog
ress and equal rights. The reverend gen.
tleman is one Of the staunchest party men
in the state and the sly digs OF the oppo-
sition directed at him fall short of the
mark. DR.. Cowhick summed up the tar
if question by the illustration of a father
with twelve boys forcing eleven of them
to devote most of their time and energy
to the grand mission of enriching the
twelfth. The chairman dealt hastily and
deity with national issues and local aues-
tons.
Judge Corn made one of the finest
political addresses ever heard here. He
is q polished orator whose skilllul massing
of facts and thorough solution of prob
lens carry conviction every time. He
tells the whole truth and tells it well in
choice language and with striking COM
parsons.
In opening Judge Corn said he felt that
the smiles of Providence were
upon the Democrats in this campaign. a
clergyman presided at this meeting and
at Evanston the Presbyterian and metho-
dist pastors, the Episcopal rector and the
Catholic priest were all dyed in-the-wool.
Jeffersonian Democrats and were praying
and watching and working.
From 1901 to 1860 the Democrats were
in power for fifty Of these years and under
direction Of leaders of the great, popular
party the country prospered and flourish
ed, During that period the Democracy
had a fair trial. 1t was faithful, to every
trust and proved itself equal to the wise
management of a country which had
grown from a little group of dependent
colonies to q ~populous and powerful
nation Of the earth.
Then as now the Democracy commended
that the people were the conservators, the
reservoir, the fountain head of power.
The people were accorded the fullest
measure Of liberty of thought and action
and the masses ruled, working out their
own destiny as they liked. They believed
in the constitution I'd it was written and
laws were enacted to carry out its provi-
sions for the good Of the entire people.
On the other hand, the Republican
party favored paternalism and centraliza-
ton, ~entrusting control of the country to
a few, silencing the voice Of the masses
and ignoring the will of the majority.
They insisted on the restriction Of trade
and commerce.
1t is said that only trained experts can
understand and intelliRently discuss the
tariff question. This is true to a degree
because it is SO intended. The Repub-
lican protectors OF monopoly desire to
keep the plain people in the dark. When
they place a special tax Of a certain sum
IN an article, and then tack on an ad
valorem duty the transaction is some
what mystifed. Then they measure
cloth by the pound, and the man unable
to reduce pounds to yards and learn the
ad valorem or cost abroad of an article,
can discover but little about the PROPOSE
ton. This complication is brought about
for a purpose and is puzzling, but every
one can comprehend fully the fact that a
tariff is a tax and that people are not en-
riched by taxation.
At this point Judge Corn said that he
desired to be understood when referring
to the Republican party as indicating the
great combine with headquarters at
Washington and not any mass OF people.
IF the people who follow this big trust
imagine for q moment they are the Re-
publican party thev are laboring under a
grand mistake. They only exhibit bad
Judgment in supporting the combine.
When James G. Blaine, a distinguished
statesman, canvassed the country in 1884
he Haunted figures which were repeated
and re-echoed by all the Republicans. He
took the Republican rule from 1870 to
1880 for example aud said that during
this time the money invested IN manufac-
tuning had increased 80 per cent. wages
% per cent, railways &c per cent and total
wealth 40 per cent The statis-
ticsN ~ accepted by Republicans
showed that from 1850 to 1850
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