The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-08-24
whlteIaw Reds strong Speech.

the spirit Of Repubiicanism. Its inspiration
Is love Of country rather than love Of Office.
Il has The open-mindedness Of honest and
generous youth; it welcomes discussion,
encourages a campaign of discussion and
throws wide open its doors and its platform
to those Of opposite beliefs.
a practical friend says be would Ike to
hear about some New York men of to-day
and asks what about the big four? Well, /
will bring you their greeiings-united and
author zed gret ting, too-the gre ungs OF
Hisoock and Warner Miller, OF Thomas c.
Platt and Of Cbaunoey Depew, OF Morton
and Horace Porter. and Cornelius Bliss and
Sherman Rogers, and of our candidate Fas-
sett, and Of our chairmen, BrOOkheld and
Hackeit; with the assurance that while We
do not undervalue our opponents or under
estimate the hard struggle before US, we be-
heye we have an organization and a situa
ton making our prospects for victory this
fall as good as yours in Illinois. We have
no quarrels, but healthy ones, and no fac
tions-exeepting in the eager reports OF our
friends, the enemy. Our organi zation is
well advanced, and the column is moving.
The enemy boast that, like themselves, We
have laggards. dot know IT and do not
believe it but If We have the thing which
will happen 10 them is the thing which has
happened 10 laggsrds before. They will get
left. The Republican work in the state Of
New York is now so advanced that, with
the earnest and enthusiastic continuation
until November Of the campaign already be-
gun. it is beyond the power Of anybody in
the enemy's ranks OF in our own TO defeat
it.
" But am not here TO make campaign
speech; neither am ] here to utter one word
against the gentlemen whom the opposing
party presents for the popular suffrage.
I'VE may well thank them for the clear
ness and candor with which they have for
once stated their precise position on the
tariff
They demand tariff for revenue only,
declare any other unconstitutional, and pro-
Ulallu this aihe fundamental principle of tho
Democratic party We are bound to take
them at their word bnt how that party has
changed.
To- day the Democratic party, to use the
current political slang turned down
Thomas Jefferson. Andrew Jackson and all
its old political leaders, repudiates ali Ike
their constitutional Interpretation, their po-
litical beliefs and their acts, announces in
stead identically the same doctrine with JEFF
ferson Davis and the confederate states, and
proposes that Grover Cleveland in your
name shall execute It. Ask the people if
they want that.
There is no conceivable doubt that the
Democratic party in national convention as
sembled, did want it. Their committee re-
ported something elsa mild suggestion
that at least the tariff might do little some
thing TO maintain American wages, but the
convention promptly threw that aside, took
the matter into its own hands, and framed
the declaratson as you find it now in their
PLATFORM tariff for revenue. Ask the
workingmen to contrast European with
American wages, and then tell you what
they think Of that.
81 The democrats declare the Mckinley
bill not only unconstitutional, but "the cul-
minating atrocity Of class legislation"
Well, you have seen how it works. In the
establishment Of new industries, in the new
attraction for foreign capital in the better
demand FOR your products and even in the
price Of what you have to buy, you can
measure the height and depth and breadth
Of iis atrociiy.
We have TO thank the democratic con-
vention for equal candor in other import
ant matters. They denounce the sham reci-
prociiy which our state department has
been 50 busy in introducing. Our sham re-
ciprociiy has been in effect but a short time.
with some OF the more important countries
only four months or less down TO the end of
the fiscal year on June 80; in most Of them
less than a year. Bat the increase in our ex-
ports to these countries in the articles affect
ed by our agreements down to June 80
was over ten million dollars. Ask the peo-
pie ifthey want 10 throw away policy that
in the first few months brings such results
because the democratic convention chooses
to call it a sham
Next to Wsshington's unconstitutional
tariff and this administration sham reci-
prociiy, comes Salmon P. Chase's national
banking system. That, too, must be abol-
ished, and SO the democratic platform de
clares for the renewal Of the widest banking
by the abolition of the long and wisely
maintained tax on state bank issues. Such
proposal calls for the return Of the good
old time when every farmer had to consult
a "Taompson's Bank Note Reporter before
be dared to take a one-dollar bill for more
than fifty cents.
" But for5ear. One might pursue such
themes till he drifed into a campaign
speech-and have told you I proposed to
make no campaign speeches this year.
Our enemies have made our campaign
for Us. Hold them to their own deliberate
ly avowed principles The democrats want
this country to have an immediate and an
absolute change. Let Us rise up and 20 for
ward. They have been blinded sgain by
their Own destruction, and are delivered in
to our hands"
Mr.. Reid was followed by Governor Ogels-
by and James F. Burke, president of the ma
tiOnal college league, who made stirring
speeches. The convention then adjourned
amid great applause