Telegram-herald., 1891-10-25
TEARS WERE NOT SHED
But the Democrats Felt Awful Sad
Last Night.
ACNILLEy PANIED IEEy DEEPLY
with His LAbered Attempts Te BE Fansy
At the Expen.e Of faess-wtaSns
Added 10 the MoarEfuissss and
lapIe Declined 20 Weep.

half the crowd Sha1 turned out TO
the republican rally last Tuesday even
ing. Many OF the audience were ladies.
About oue hundred and Iifty chairs
were arranged On the rlatiorm, osten-
| sbly for the ehiels oi the democracy,
bat they looked pretty lonely, only
about twenty OF item being oocu-
p.ed. There VIZ. not .unch enthusiasm
exhibited, and many times the aaai-
ellce failed 10 applaud at the proper
time.
DIR. q. X. johnson was chairman oil
the meeting, and said In his introdoe-
| ton speech that il was always a
pleasure meet the assembled democ-
racy. I'VE stand against all class leg
! isia ton and stand for commercial free
dom and untrammelied business said
the doctor. He then rebearaed every
thing that Was ever said or written
complimentary to Andrew Jackson
and introduced Congressman Benton
NcAIillen as "a man from the same
state that produced Andrew Jackson
M NcNilIen Is heavy built man
| Of very pleasant features lie lan@hs
easily. and often. Indeed he laughed
rather more often than his audience
| He does not speak quite 50 easily
ana .ISer stopping on one or two
occasions to look closely at his paper
he assured the ladies that his
close inspection was not due TO n
necessity for glasses, but rather 10 a
huskiness of voice. The lack oi en-
thusjasm in the audience was evil
IDENTIFY n source OF annoyance to him.
| for very often It was plainly To be
| seen that he expected burst o.
applause after some sentence-bnt IL
| didn't come and the pause was pam
| ful. Even il IL did come, IL was q
| lit tie late at times.
Mr.. NcMillen said: 81 appear be-
fore Won tonight with mingled feel
| inrs of gladness and sadness. ! am
| glad to meet again my Old friends =.
c. Comstock. your distinguished gov
ernor and Congressman Yaple. but
| / come to find one chair vacant
vacated by that DISTINGUISHED states
man, nv dear friend, NJ. III. Ford. j
come to discuss before you the most
| important question that was ever pre-
sented to man: How to govern man.
and still 10 keep him free. But there
| i a disposition on the part OF the few
| to over legisiate, to govern the many.
The principles OF the democratic plat
| form as laid down in Jefferson : i'fst
| inaugural address, were repeated Tor
the benefit OF the young men oi the
| audience
The speaker hastened to say that
he believed that the masses oi al
political parties are honest; taey have
no interest but to leave 90 their child
rem n good government, but were IL
not for the democracy every thing
| would go to ruin.
..Democracy does not take from the
| lie of the laborer the bread he mas
| earned"
When the 51st congress convened,
| n general line OF policy had existed Tor
| n hundred years. The first thing ii did
was to overthrow every precedent thai
| had been established.
| The question OF taxation Is going "a
stay right here until il is fixed on q
| lust basis. But the claim was made
| by congress that their legislation was
| in favor OF the working man.
When the tax on imported goods
was first levied no man supposed il
was to he n permanent rate. The
| internal revenue tax was repealed al
| last, but the manufacturers tax was
| forgotten In some way
| Mr.. Mcmillan here produced tent
census report, and proceeded TO read
| statistics which contrasted the per
| centagc paid for labor with the rat'
| Of tariff under the present law. and
| then continued in TRADE against the
".nfamous false pretense known az th'
| Mckinley bill
The speaker called on any laborins
man i'm The audience who had had hii
| wages raised under Il Ncsiniey bii
TO staai. and one man in me gallorl
| called Cant do IT," Mr. Mcmillan
| waited for more vehcmence, but Il
| didn't come.
The free list Of the Mckinley hil
was made the subject of much sarcasm
| and the opportunity was taken tS
excite the risibiiiiies OF the audience 10y
coarse ridicule. Eggs are taxed while
| food for hogs comes in Free said hr
| Mcmillan about the tariff or acorns
| a voice: Rats Leeches come h
free of course" "Joss-stlcks free. ans
| bibles taxed - per cent How's that
| for the Chinese and the American
]
| "Sauer-kraut free. and cabhages tax
| cd II moves n man almost TO pro
fanitv in spite Of the bible iHiHn tloi
90 notice the pcculiarities OF this bill
Somebody sighed)
II Is because of the Organization O
labori8E men that wages are bottcl
and the credit shouldt given 20 then
rather than TO the law. NO applause.
The democratic party has been th'
friend oi the laboring man from IT..
very incipiency. Very stilib
| stand here for the broad democrafi, /,
/ platform that one man shonld not ,,
taxed 60 make another mans business
pay. {Not an audible voice.
Here occasion was taken hv shs
/ speaker To make a few grimaces ans
| criticisms upon Mr. Burrows speecl
oi last Tuesday evening. II was ea1iff
I peculiar one. '.He spent oDe4fhir5 O
/ HIS time advocating protcetfon. one
/ third advocating free-traSe. and tn
other third on the silver question
republican would rather discuss fb'
incaasi.~serat theory q the creation
4 rather than. the tariff. When thes
discuss the silver geestion wifi don
they tell You that Pres. Hayes ve4oet
TIN aiii by which we are now cire ulAf
lna over 800 millions - dollars ssoue
1 holy Rneeresf
Bof leo Yesrs yea hswe had ths
/ prixilaDe ~ taxing Yourselves thrtsseh
/ year refsresenfss1v bat fh1e hfii takes
asay fhe rieht from yea ana voar
representative - irnpp~e texrs Ar.l
pats il into tae power ~ ore asH