, 1890-08-20

W mhke LUIS euOWluR-
Republicans are pretty strong in what
is called bluff. They tell the laboring
men that protection keeps up wages, that
the party is his friend and will protect
him, caring naught for Carnsgie aud
other millionaire manufacturers whose
establishments are protected by the tariff.
Ought tariff to increase wagesP Do not
demand and supply fix the value of ser
vices2 Cost of material and efficiency of
operatives are important factors. Wages
should be better under low tariff. Con-
sideung the expenses of living the work
men of free trade England are well paid
as those of protected America and much
better than those of protected Germany.
One other national question merits at
tention and the most serious considera-
ton. 1t is an action on the line of Re
publican pa%ternalism and distrust OF the
people. By a most shameful piece of
legislation known as the force bill this
party of false pretenses and bluff says to the
electors that they are incapable of con
Quoting their own congressional elections.
If the bill becomes a law the circuit
Judge. and all save one are Republicans,
will appoint a federal supervisor who will
have the absolute control and entire direc-
ton OF the election. They will preside
over the polls and count the votes aud
the victors will be announced by them re-
gardless of the actual results and without
right of appeal. This is simply infamous.
The Republican president and his con.
gress have said ito the saints belongs the
earth, and we are the saints"
This Republican party is an ~organiza-
ton Of false pretenses, In some states
this is a misdemeanor; In others a felony.
1t should be a felony in Wyoming.
1t is claimed by Republicans that to
them the women are indebted for suf-
frage. Such audacity is astounding.
They must think the country is without
history and the people without memory.
When children become SO ~unmannerly,
impudent and presumptious, we spank
them. The bill extending the right OF
suffrage to women was composed solely of
Democrats.
A constitutional convention was held in
this city a year ago. One of its members
was a gentleman who at Evanston last
evening whipped the famed Ajax OF
Wyoming. IF you had been there as l
was you would have thought that Geo.
W. Baxter was a Democrat" This gen.
tleman rose quietly in the constitutional
convention and caused to be placed in the
fundamental law of the state a clause
which guarantees to the women forever
equal and complete suffrage rights. The
gentlemen of the opposition should tell
the truth. This is more deception.
Judge Corn wished to treat tor a few
minutes OF a matter to a great extent of a
personal nature. He had been told that
the great Republican thunderer, the Sun,
of Cheyenne, had called the Democratic
state ticket a confederate ticket. Judge
Corn had not read the article. He was
unable to keep up with the sort OF litera-
ture now being dispensed by the Sun.
He had the honor TO have a place on the
confederate ticket.
The speaker did not especially pride
himself On his war record. When in 1861
the call came for volunteers he as a boy
enlisted in the Twentieth Kentucky
infantry of Union troops and in
due time marched from Nashville to
Pittsburg Landing. He soldiered not
quite a year. being sent home sick, but
during that time had opportunity to be-
come as thoroughly scared as the Oldest
veteran in the audience. At Pittsburg
Landing (Shiloh) the judge said the way
the confederates poured in shot and shell
made him think they had made a mistake
if he was a confederate. Maj. Frank
Wolcott, of Glenrock, was a boy in the
same regiment.
Il am a Democrat and was a soldier In
the Union army. All the great soldiers
were Democrats. Grant, Buell.. Thomas,
Hancock. Mcclellan, Joe Hooker, Sedg-
wick. Meade and Logan were all of the
faith. There were more Democrats in
the Union army than Republicans in the
entire country at that time. All our great
soldiers were Democrats" Madison and
Monroe we're Democrats fighting for the
country when the Republicans were pass
ing secession resolutions in convention
at Hartford in 1914. Democrats
carried on the war with Mexico
with opposition in power in con gress, and
when Tom Corwin expressed the fervent
wish that the American soldiers would be
slaughtered BY the Mexicans. The Re
publican congress refused to make appro-
priations to carry on the war, and it was
fought and inanciered by Democrats.
This was a time to which no Republican
refers with pride.
Judge Corn was frequently applauded,
and there was great cheering for several
minutes when he finished.
In presenting Col. Bryan, DR.. Cowhick
said with a few more Democrats on the
stage a G.. A. r. post could be started.
Col. Bryan made modest reference to
his candidacy for the supreme bench, and
then with the tact of one learned in the
law and adept in politics, arraigned the
Republican pretenders and placed the
Democracy in its proper light before the
people. He had been in politics a quar-
ter of a century. most Of the time in Iowa,
where he was superb leader of Democ-