News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-25
RosweuG. Horr Speaks.

Ex-Conoressman r. G. Horr of
Michigan talked to the New York Re
publican Club the other night on pol
itics:-
The Tribune says that Mr.. Horr,
as an exponent of genuine Repubh-
can doctrine, proved a stunning sue
cess. easily keeping his audience cap
tive for an hour, while he poured sol
emn truths, sugar coated, INTO Their
willing ears. He greatly admired
Thomas b. Reed, because the Speaker |
weighs about 800 pounds, and is
mostly backbone, and he believes
that if Congress had had backbone
enough to pass the Mckinney bill hVe
or six months earlier, the result OF
the recent election would have been
vastly different He demolished Carl
Schurz for telling the Chamber OF
Commerce that he (Schurz) was
betteI Protectionist than Mckinley,
and made his hearers believe that
| Mr.. Schurz either did not read the
Mckinley bill or did not stoop to the
common, vulgar practice OF teillnS
the truth. These are some OF the
other things Mr.. Horr said;
IT confuses me to hear Democracy
and Reform used in the same cOnnec-
ton. When | think of reform my
mind somehow goes away back TO
Martin Luther, and when you come
to mix up Grover Cleveland and
Dave Hill with Martin Luther-well,
I'm a little bit bothered.
The distribution of patronage is a
weakening element in a party Just
coming into power. There are a
great many patriots in this country,
and we have as many as three, five or
ten after the same place. The man
who gets place renews his political
iotroIi ttu nj, Dut-rte f---- UrTsiS-sul.
don't get it say to themselves:
There must be something wrong
about the party I've been training
with. The stripes on the flag look
PLAIN enough to them, but the stars
grow dim.
The Democratic party was never
known to refuse an alliance with any
thing or anybody on this footstooI II
there was a chance to inJure the ne
publican party.
All we lacked was time-time TO get
the Mckinley bill before the country
and understood by the people =.
The doctrine of the Democratic .
party is that tariff duty should I
never be laid to benefit anybody IN {
the United States.
The Democratic flop on the reclp- I
rocity question was caused by IN
struction from abroad; England SAID
that reciprocity was as bad as pro- g
lection. I
The Committee on Ways and /
Means informed me that every item
in the Mckinley bill was subjected to :
the closest scrutiny, and that no tar o
if was laid in any case till the COM +
mittee had absolute proof that a !
duty was needed to pay the wages of :
the laborers employed. \
God save the party that reduces
the doctrine of Free Trade to prac-
tice.
Having been Inundated by the an I
that the intellect of the 1
country has always been on the side =
IF free trade, looked up the records :
% see what kind of a crowd | was :
raining with. The first man | .
stumbled on was George Washing :
on, who signed the first Protection !,
I'LL. Then | ran against Alexander :
hamilton, a Protectionist-all brain r
rom the ground up. Thomas Jeffer-
on, James Madison and both the
Adamses were Protectionists So !
vas that old Democrat for whom so !,
many men are voting still-Andrew .
Iackson, a Protectionist with back ;
zone. Silas Wright-no brains, ell =? :
had a notion he stood tolerably /
high. Daniel Webster-brains Henry 7
lay, Horace Greeley, who did more .
or the doctrine of protection than
my man that ever lived on this con-
inent; James fundamentally fills
.As brain part-Roscoe.C onkling-alI
ools, eh! Oliver z. Morton, Samuel1 \
J. Randall, L. 5. Grant, and last. but
not least, the grandest gift that God
has given to this world in 1900 years
Lincoln When / looked \
hese matters up felt that it was a !;
pretty good crowd to train with. :
Eight men are sitting in Congress +
o-day, and the votes in the eight "
districts they represent do not aggre n
ate the vote cast in one district in N
his state. They used to say down \
outh that one of them was as good p,
S five of us; now they try to make A
S believe that one of 'em is as good -
S eight of us. y
The duty of the Republicans for the r.
our is to stand up for their convic- +;
ions. f.