, 1890-10-30


and for FREQ labor. At It's last session of
congress, there passed through the pres
ent house of represcn tatives bill max
ing eight hours days labor ON all gov
ernment work. Are the laborlng men
for that biil2 1fso, let them sustain the
Hon. John l.. Wilson, who voted for IT,.
The same house passed bill prohibit
ing tho use Of convict labor on the public
works or of imported contract labor
Do the laboring men of Spokane county
approve OF these measures? Ifso, let
them sustain Mr.. Wilson who voted Tor
them. VIII they refuse 10 vote for the
man who has been officially Endorsed by
the Columbia typographical union and
by union No. g, OF New York, tho largest
the shadow of Independence hall,
lands, free VS. schools. Tree men men
and free speech went forth enscribci
upon the banners of tile republican
party to cheer humanity oil over the
world to the day when thess labor bills
passed the federal house of representa-
tves, the republican party has accom-
plished all that has ever been accom-
plished for the American working men.
do not believe 1t possible to induce
them to support any ticket, no matter
under what delusive colors II may at
tempt to sail, which advocates free trade
puro and simple-frce trade which
means the flooding of American markets
with British goods-irec trade which
means the closing of American manu-
factories and the throwing out OF en-
ployment of the thousands who work in
them-free trade which means that the
farmer is no longer to find a market for
his products, but that as of old under
the democratic free trade policy of
"'55, the surplus corn OF Illinois and
Al N ab Is.h AL
as fuel for the want Of a purchaser.
Fellow citizens, | desire to call your
attention briefly to what the democrats
call the force bill. The last nationn, re-
publican platform declared In favor of
fair elections. 1t seems strange that In
free country such declaration should
be necessary, and yet the fact Is undis-
publican votes are suppressed at the
South. In 1872 the seven Southern
states Of Alabama, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, South Carolina, Louisiana, North
Carolina and Georgia cast 525 600 repub-
licen votes. Every one Of these states,
except Georgia. gave tho republican
ticket majority. How is it now?
What has become Of these republican
voters? Four years ago ten democrats
were elected to congress from Georgia,
aud all of them combined did not receive
$4,000 votes. The present delegation
upon tho floor OF congress from South
Carolinn--all dcmocrats-receiyed fewer
votes than were cast for one MEM
Der of congress in the little mining
bal lot, ut the South, has reached such
point that ii can only be regarded as u
national calamity.
What the democrats cali a force bill is
the federal election law, which has
passed the house of representatives, and
which provides that wherever Ut an
election for president, who executes the
law. for all the nation, or for mem Der
OF congress, who makes laws for all the
American people, 100 citizens in any
precinct shall say, in writing, that they
can not get their votes cast and counted
one time ana no more, q federal judge
shall appoint supervisors of election for
that precinct, taken from both political
parties, who shall see that every man
lawfully entitled to vote votes one
time, and that every vote cast shall be
counted as cast.
This bill does not apply to state or
county elections, but only to those cleo
tions in Which all the American people
are directly interested. This is the force
bill and this Is all there is oft. 1t is
the remedy proposed by the republican
party to prevent the suppression OF votes
where votes are suppressed. Does the
democratic party propose any other or
better remedy2 Or does IL prefer that
the evil continue, in order that II can
play the game OF national policy with
loaded dice-with dice upon which 1853
Southern democratic electoral votes will
always show up. Against this bill the
democratic speakers invoke what they
are pleased to, term home rule, which is
but new name for the dogma OF state
rights-a dogma that undertake to say
has never yet been invoked TO strengthen
the nation-a doctrine that has never
been called into play for any wise or
patriotic purpose from the day when it
was first invoked to prevent the forma-
tion of this Union, until the time when
it was invoked to destroy it.
] do not know whether this bill will
pass the senate and become q law, but |
predict that there will be found ulti-
matcly some way by which IL does not
require seven men in the state of Wash.
ington to equal one man in the state of
Georgia; some way by which one man
in tho state of Washington will be made
the equal, politically, OF any man any
where in America.
| shall not discuss the silver question,
which has been so ably presented by
Senator Allen. Ii is enough to say that
tho silver legislation, the tariff bill on
lead, and the farmers sch edule in the
tariff bill have added irlcaiculable mill
All the promises made in the national
republican platform two years ago have
been put into the law OF the nation in
spite OF the obstructive tn cities OF democ.
racy almost amounting to revolu tionary
methods.
We declared that the dependent and
maimed veterans of the war, their Wild
ows and orphans should never be COM
PEELED to rely upon private charity or
the aims houses of the country, and we
have added to the pension rolls go 600
nanes--names OF those who were wound
cI while following Grant and Sherman
and Sheridnn--or the names OF widows
and orphans of those dependent on dead
heroes. The glory of the republic can be
read in the pension legislation of the re-
publican party.
Much Is being said by tho democratic
speakers OF the want Of an American
navy and the people are beiIg deceived
by the statement that we once had
great navy, which has disappeared by
reason OF republican tadff law The
fact Is that in 1860 there was not single
iron ship in the American navy. We
wooden hulls, which would have been
useless in any contest, except against a
free trade people who had neither navy
nor manufactures. The republican
party has begun the work of creating
navy that shall DO an honor to the
nation and system of coast line de-
fenses tn at shall insure the safety of our
seaboard cities. As TO our merchant
marine, everybody knows how the
American flag disappea red from the
lseas. 1t Is only necessary to.consult The
og books of the confederate privatecrs-
Alabamas of the South-to
hanarna nf