The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-26

Third Parties Do No Good Patronage =
weakness-Tne Tariff.
PIrrsBURG. Oct. 25.-Four thousand peo-
pie gathered in the city hall tonight to
listen to an address by Senator John Sher-
man on the points OF the campaign In his
speech, Senator Sherman said:
There can really be but two great parties.
There are sometimes people who, thinking they
are little better than the : neighbon. 60 or to
rcost BY themselves on some side issue and call
themselves third party. have
had more experience in political
life than some Of my hearers. and I never
saw any good come ont of q third party yet.
We are all Republicans or all Democrats in the
general meaning OF the term. because we are
al In favor of form OF government in which
eli the powers rest with the people The form
Of these names does not signify anything We
must Judge of any party as We would judge of
men. and. judged by these tests, of the two
parties that now stand before the people of the
country one is like heaven, and the other like
hades- iLaughteE
In 1883 the people OF the United States trusted
the Republicans with their political power
Now the frss power was the power TO appoint
the officers OF this government OF ours and that
power. instead Of being q strength to any party
Is weakness and upon that basis nearly all
the pubic men who fab in public lie BY the
wsyside fal by the exercise of patronage. Issy
to you now that if had the
power l would not allow . member of
congress to recommend any one for any
office whatever. ICheers.l / would take from
your political agents al the power that il in.
vested in them by common custom, not by the
laws. / would take from them all that power,
and would not even allow q member of con.
gress to recommend postmasters. because it Is
an element of weakness II weakens the men,
hcpxr of n fna antS Sap ~ ND II ia q
of trouble and quarrel, and l think the time
viii soon come. and the Republican party wiz
be the agent ia that great reform, when Q Law
viii be passed separating entirely the appoint
ing power from the law-making power.
Alter reviewing the stormy scenes 1.-THE
early part of the past session. and the ini-
portant measures passed after the rules
were adopted, and presenting q strong plea
for the soldiers, the senator took up the
Mckinley bill, "a measure which makes
free greater amount of produce of foreign
countries in our own country than any
tariff bill of ancient or modern times" Re-
ferring TO the assertions Of some of the
Democratic orators that we cannot pro-
duce sugar, the senator said:
am ss positive a. am of my existence to-
day that within ten years from this time we
will produce every pound OF sugsr that Is used
III tuiu county. We nave put duty On IN
pate equal 70, and little more than the duty
on sheet iron. and We will manufacture In this
Country within ave years OF this time $50. 0.0Go
tons Of Tin plate, and We will make the tin cup
20 cheap thai nobody viii growl bat the Demo
Gratis
In conclusion the senator said:
In ls60. in the good old Democratic times, our
money was the meansst ever devised by man,
and would not pass from one part OF the coun-
Try 70 another Now, cur money travels ell over
tne world Then we were . thifd-ciass power.
feered and laughed n, and when the war con-
menced. the last legacy OF Democratic admin
istration, kings and emperors were Watching for
the decay aud falling TO pieces of this great Re-
publican sovernment which was tottering 70 its
foundations. The eyes OF aii the European
counties we're watching the last days OF the
great republic. Now. tnank God. and the Union
soldiers, thank the American people. this
country has risen tnx above and bsyond I'll