Telegram-herald., 1891-10-21
As Enunciated by Messrs.
SEockbridge and Burrows.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
Was daniFsstcd ~ the sI.dge- q ammsr
Eiows Against Democratic False
hoods Were sent Home With
Ceiling Enset-Synepses
Of she speeches.

Thirty-three hundred persons gather
ed ia Hartman's Hall last night, and
with round after round OF applause
ftanRped the seal OF their approbatior
upop two OF the strongest political
SPECIFICS ever delivered in Grand Rap
ids These thirty-three hundred were
gathered from all the various walk.
aud ealIings of life, from the million
airel so whom politics is but a play
thing, TO the factory iaborer whe
would regard every penny OF unjust
taxation as 30 much bread snatehec
from the mouths of his little ones
There were white-haired men present
cho VIII east their last vote at the
election next November, and smooth
laced boys tust emerging into man
hooi 70 whom politics is something
10 be dreamed about as part OF thai
great unrcvcaled future Hundreds o)
ladies' testified. by their presence. tc
tbe immense Int. st which the intel
lgent woman OF tCday il taking In
politics. \ more intelligent, thought
ful appearing audiepce could not have
bee, seiected than this immense mass
OF enthusiasm that had gathered IA
listen 10 the irreiutable logic of the
stately senator from Kalamazoo, and
she brilliant oratory of the Michigan
Demosthenes who for years has stood
Ike some tall pine amidst the fierce
tempests of the House, and success
fully resisted the whirlwinds of demo
cratic doSmatismr
Promptly at eight O'Clock, the hon
ored guests escorted by the Hon. w.
T. Adams. the Hon. Roger Butterfield.
the Hon. c. Il. Belknap, and d. A. Blod-
Cett, Esq. took seats upon the plat
form. After the wildly enthusiastic
applause asd subsided Roger Butter
field stepped forward and introduced
fenator F. Il. Stockbridge OF Kalama-
roo, who adressed the audience as fol-
lows:
SIR. Chairman. Ladies and Gentle
men. and Fellow Republicans:
rarely speak in public. / have heard
o. men who We're born talking, and
who could talk as easily as they
could eat. But that is not so in my
Case. never undertake TO talk un-
iess I am forced into 1t. / came here
tonight TO make sure that my friend
burrows got here. I love TO take
him along because he never fails to
tnlk well: and / feared the demands
ore 80 great upon his time that he
susght get side-traeked somewhere II
id not come along 20 pilot him. SO
am here. I shall deta!n you but n
very few moments and then / shall
turn you over TO his tender mercy.
In this great, prosperous and grow
Ing city OF yours, the wonder oil Vest
ern Michigan at any rate, you have
practical illustration OF the policy OF
che republican party Nowhere il
'fhat policy better illustrated than in
your great prosperity and growth.
Your men OF means long ago started
these factories o. yours which send
their products not only through this
country. but throughout the world.
IND which were started in direct line
with the policy OF the republican
party. We go for manufacturing
every thing we can manufacture at
fone. and spend our money at home.
tapplause) and trade with each other.
Sow. here In Grand Rapids your fac
tories employ thousands nnd thou
SrDs's ct men. These men have got
20 have homes; they have all got TO
live. The merchant. the doctor. the
lawyer hope dou't make much out
of them. but they DO get n little some
tbing now and then from them-hut
plI your tradessnen are benefited.
Take your factories out of Grand
Eapif's> and who would want to buv
anv real estate herpe The policy ~
the republican partv is 70 encourage
manufacturing o. ell kind In thIs coun-
t-y: 90 protect everything we can
raise or produce. and those thIn2s
which are necessary 20 our comfort.
which we cannot produce. admit them
free of duty. (Applan~e.l Now. that Is
simply one OF the cardinal doctrines n
the republican party. Another one &,
20 give the people of the country. and
r. IN one 81 the highest duties OF
fhe government. TO provide ss'e
ard sufficient currsncy-an honest Vol
s1r. and not = seventv-six cent dollar
for the benefit of few producers of
srTver. In our silver states.
Now. mr. friends. the Democrats
party. ~ vou ali know. occupies the
very opposite OF thesr positions. They
ere for free coinage ~ silver. so that
the man who has seventv-siv dollars
IN silver. at the market price of the
world. can take IL ~ the mint ard get
one hundred dollars for r. The free
coinage Of silver II simply for ske bsnc-
rt ~ the man who produces the silver.
r,d AZ the cost ~ all thu rest Of as
Now. IN every important respect. cen
tisnen. the policy az the democrstic
psrtv l. radically opposed to that ~
the republican party. have been
fsusfiiar. 7 Was going 90 say. for forty
......~ r-,< ,4..xssf like "a talk about
h,tes 40 tar back: IL makes me feel =
ffsfls oI.f-bst For Forty years DO nor
tnov ~ any gaod piece 81 legislation
-racted hv the democratic party. do
oot know 81 one good thing they
ta~e sver done for this COUNTRY. fea
know. before 1850. when the repub
ican rsrtv canse into power. the tvs'ass
nv was Bankrupt. her bonds we're oF'iy
w-orfh aheut 50 epnts on ths dollar.
ak ard sevpn pg cent. bonds yoa had
~ mine. We t~pk control ~ The GOV
srumput thirty vrsvS aro. ard. - ~
al renember-I DO not Ike 90 als'1de