Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-06
NATIONAL ISSUES
A MONSTER MEETING AND A GRANT
OVATION.
Ex-senator SpoOner Opens the Campaign
in Milwaukee by a Magniieient
Speech.


campaign IN Milwaukee on Wednesday
evening, September IA. at the West Side
Turner Hall. The audience which greeted
the distinguished candidate TOR governor,
was one of the largest and most enthusl-
aStlc ever seen IN Milwaukee. Hundreds
who went to the hall hoping to hear the
eloquent orator, were forced to leave, not
being able to gain admission on account OF
the vast throng.
The following are the remarks of Col
onel SpoOner on national issues;
Mr.. sPooNERs SPEECH.
Mfr. Chairman, Ladies ana Gentlemen !:
In my short and not very eventful public
life you have made me well accustomed 10
warm and generous Milwaukee welcomes,
but upon my word the one which YOU ac-
cord me tonight abaSheS me. ! do not
take il as compliment TO me. but | take
it as a compliment 10 the Republican party,
whose standard-bearer for the state |
happen at this time TO be- and for the
party and for myself as its representative,
/ make graceful acknowledgment. | re-
greet 10 come before you tonight in an
environment which mas rendered it impoS-
sible for me to prepare in an orderly way
what ought 10 be sand to such an audience;
but as | am TO come again to Milwaukee
before this campaign ends, | am told, l
shall talk to you tonight in quiet, far
way, If | can, upon issues which divide
the parties IN this campaign. ! say | shall
talk to you in fair way, because long,
long ago | ceased to talk either OF issues or
men in an unfair way. Applause.
When Garfield was despatched with mud,
when in 1884 the mil of SANDER was set
up on the grave of James G.. BlaineS
child rapptauSe,l | vowed that whatever
the future might have tor me in the way of
campaign service, personal politics | was
forever done with lGreat applauSel L
leave that to the tumble bugs of politics.
Laughter and applausel
THE ISSUE WELL DEFINED.
To my mind this is crisis in the history
of this country, in the history of It's people {;
it is not the first, of course, and doubtless
not the most important. 1t was crisis
when our fathers won It's independence it
was crisis when they ordained the u mon
and formed the constitution it was a
crisis when Andrew jackson crushed dis
Sention In South Carolina it was crisis
when under the leadership of Lincoln and
Grant and Logan and Sherman and their
c0mpatriotS, including Benjamin Harrison
of Indiana great applause, the Union was
preserved, purified and made perpetual.
To-day the conflict is no less bitter. The
issue is no less marked, and the result, 1t
seems to me, is of Infinite importance to
this people.
The protective system of the United
States is challenged by the Democratic
party of the country to mortal combat.
Under which flag You must take sides :;
you must marshal under the flag of Wash
ington. of Jefferson, of Adams, of Monroe,
of jackson of Lincoln and the long line of
protection presidents, or you must take
your place under the tree trade flag which
is now flung to the breeze, undisguiSed by
the National Democratic party as it calls
itself. rApplauSe.l
You cannot remember any great item of
public policy inaugurated and carried for
ward since 1860, tending to the upbuildlng
of our people, to the preservation of the
Union, to the restoration of the state, to
the maintenance of our credit, that has not
been considered and denounced as uncon-
sttutional by the Democratic party. lAp-
plauSe.l They thought you remember,
that 1t WaS unconstitutional to coerce a
state. hey were mistaken ABOUT that.
They thought it was unconstitutional TO is
sue Sreenbacks, they were mistaken about
that. They thought 1t was unc0nStltutl-
onal to suspend the writ of habeaS corpus !;
they were mistaken about that They
thought II was unconstitutional for A bra
ham Lincoln, God bless his memory for
ever great applause, to issue the enamel
patton proclamation. They were mistaken
about that. Great applause They
thought the reconstruction acts were un-
constitutional and they were mistaken
about that. They thought Tom Reed was
unconstitutional. but thev were mistaken
about that. Laughter ana applausel lie
St.J
They thought the sugar bounty was uncOn-
stltutional, and they were mistaken about
that They thought reciprocity was UNI
CONSTITUTIONAL and they were mistaken
about that IApplauSe.l They thought
the gerry mander was constitutional. and
they were mistaken about that. Great
applause So have sort of lost faith in
the Democratic party as a constitutional
eXpOunder. Laughter and applause
might II had time, and you the pa
tience read W hat Thomas jefferson said in
favor OF the protective system. Again
again, and again he declared it, In terms
that come ringing down the years as the
utteranceS of man who was patriot.
The Democrats of to-day never weary of
talking of their 10y atty to Thomas jetfer-
son. AS rode along from the Planklnton
house to this hail | saw a banner and upon
it was Inscribed jefferson club" Well
the Democratic party on this question of
protection Is loyal to Jefferson, but il is
loyalty 10 Jefferson Davis, not to Thomas
Jefferson. Applause.
A Voice" That is right"
HAS INDICATED ITSELF.
Now dare say here tonight that if ever
piece of legislation enacted by the con-
gresS of the United states has indicated
Itself, 1t is the Mckinley law. Applause. !
You were tod in 1880 that 1t would check
imports You were told IN 1890 that il
were told il raised the duty far above the
average duty during the days and years of
the war You were told that il would
check our export trade, Tor people would
not buy of US II we didut buy of them.
All these statements were made in 1890
about the Mckinley law. Let me give you
only little statistical information upon
that subject as 1t comes TO US to-day from
the Treasury department:
The balance OF trade IN our favor, that
is, the amount of money other nations paid
to us over and above what we PAID to them
was $3.50, 225,g2l as against S56, 547 ,y22 the
previous year. he free imports that came
in under this law were Si6l,373, SO the
dutIabIe imports, the taxed imports, $780,
5o5.062. FiiLy-iNe per cent. OF all the inn
portatlonS INTO the Cnl.ed States this year
came ID tree of duty, ana Il per cent. and
61-100 came in dutiaOle. Mr.. Carlisle estI-
mated-and have no doubt ne was honest
in 1t, for he is IaIr man ~ debate, anu a
very able man-that the average duty
under the Mckinley law would be 90 per
cent when The truth IS. as demonstrated,
that the average UUty applied TO the free
and the dutIa'.ie .ist IS only ~ and frac-
ton per cent. and I'll. average duty APP