The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-17

possible level without producing absolute stagna-
ton. Free circulation iseSsentia TO every CONNER
cial development
| ANY person who claims that the Democratic
party committed to free trade states that which
not true and If he be man of reasonable intelli-
genee he states that which he must know to be un-
true. Any man who states that the Democratic
party has any other policy than that of limiting the
revenues to the need of the Government misrepre-
sents the platform adopted at Chicago, and seeks to
achieve by falsehood rather than by truth
| (Applause.)
And so, my friends, you see we have little to
fear from the three questions which Mr. Blaine says
are the leading issnes ofthe canvass.
LOOK AT THE FORCE BILL
LET me call your attention to question which
oushines them all, rather oyershadows them all;
question more important to the people of this
country than any question which has been sub
mitted to them since the conclusion of the civil war
81 have not time discuss all the questions which
enter into the record of the Republican party for
the last four years, but will confne myself to a
very important question, the attempt of the Repub
can party obtain control of the elections in the
several States Mr. Harrison declares that he is per-
fecty willing accept nonpartisan board of con-
troll
Now, the Force bill covers great many things.
II is called the Federal Elections bill-a bill to pro-
mote free elections-and It has been given number
attractive titles in the hope of getting people to
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attempt to revive in this country the dispensing
power which had been taken by the Commons from
the English King. II is an attempt to create Fed
eral control of elections. do not believe that in
the history of the whole world representative gov
ernments were ever absolutely abolished by sud-
den declaration the part of the opposition that
they had outlived their usefulness and should be
overthrown. Their foundations have always been
sapped by specous expedients nominally conceived
in the interest of order and for the advance of the
/ people
WILL HAVE MORE TO SAY THAN THE PRESIDENT.
while Harrison may favor a non-partisan board,
, we have no evidence of change of heart of Henry
Cabot Lodge, Edmund B. Wright or George Hoar
and these three gentlemen will be in the Con-
gress. And if it be Republican they will have more
to say the subject of the Federal Elections bill
/ than Mr.. Harrison will have at the White House.
' (Applause)
: What is this Election bill Stripped of all its
= verbage 1t is this:-That the United States are to
e appoint in each State general Supervisor of Elec
ton; that the Supervisor has complete control over
Congressional elections in every district of the State
e He can employ many deputies as he chooses. He
search the houses before election if there
any fraudulent voters there concealed But the
real danger in this measure lies in the clause which
provides that after each election these Federal OFF,
would certify the return of the members elected
l. to the House of Representatives. 1t don't matter
who gets the votes. 1t don't matter who has FIVE
,e six or ten thousand majority The Federal Super
id visor fixes the identity of the individual who at
n tends before the Speakers desk to he sworn in on
AZ the day when Congress organizes
LOOK AT THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS FoE AN
In SwER.
re "You may say that perhaps the Republican party
re will be honest in the exercise of this power. Well,
o. gentlemen, do not believe that there ever yet has
w been given to any man set of men power TO op
press his fellow citizens for his benefit that the
n power has not been exercised and If you give the
ne Republican party power to perpeuate its own con-
x troll in the House of Representatives there is moth
IL ing in its history TO show that it would exercise that
a, power in a spirit of moderation. Look the history
of the Fiftyrst Congress to ascertain just how this
power would be exercised.
nd 81 am reminded of the experience of an English
II. gentleman travelling through France during the
n Empire He was in irst-class compartment and
&c had with him a French official who had several
e. registers and large The Englishman in
quired what they for and he said the registers
e. list of the voters. the to receive the
IS. ballots, He also had large bag with him and on
as being interrogated to what its replied,
ID Oh that is the majority daughter and applause
nj That is the Force bill in brief just it would be
in brief here Its results would be the emasculation
"A of representative government il would be the de-
or struction of representative government
its THREE CHEERS FOR BoURKE COCHRAN
ds Mr Harrison has much to say about the glory of
r. the American flag and its reappearance upon the
m If the Force bill found its way upon the
statute books the American flag as the flag of the
Mt free never ought to rise and fall in the free
winds heaven He talks this restoration of the
in American flag to the though it Re-
BY publican achievement Well gentlemen the meas
of which passed for the purpose of natural
I'd izing two foreign ships the condition of the
st building of two vessels of equal tonnage, which
well believe will result in great restoration of the
in American marine, was not the act of Benjamin
lis Harrison but it the act or it was proposed in
er Congress by one who took his Democratic nspra-
ion from this platform and who sat in that Congress
n elected by the Democracy of fTammany Hall. Great
er applause and Three cheers for Bourke Cochran.
I'd ~ only say this to show you the peculiar, shall
I'd low, false pretense with which the Republican
a. leaders attempt to conduct this canvass claim
ID merit for the introduction of that measure 1t
r. very simple thing. II was not Benjamin Har-
of rison Republican legislation that brought it
We about. Itwas the result of great development in
IL American ingenuity and in the ability of American
skill to outstrip the skill of all the world Let me
IL explain you how natural operate to sim-
A ulate industries in defiance of law. We have had
ne shipping laws,~ laws nominally in the interests
no of American shipping. the statute books for
D. many years and the Republican politicians and
n statesmen stood over them with flaming swords.
ch Yet this great American marine, this wonderful
ty merchant marine which was ours when the Repub-
lis can party into power had disappeared from
ne tue OCEAN a. cohpietei! as ii ,ne SEA ueep sAu
ch 0Pe anu ~ ~ M j.. - - ~ ~ - ~
nj uia'e II Oy lesisia'ion were q ialiure'
HEkALDEp As kLfubLlcAN AchiE
But IN the tulhess OIL tiine came Ine lh'enuon "i
lis steam Less ana less snips were Ouiil Aiu more
Of and more they came to be machines. The newest
nj specimens of marine architecture contained no
on yards at ALL simply STICKS III the place oi inc FORMER
ed masts They were propelled more ana more oy ma
lis chinery less and less by manual ski For years
ed the american locomotives hau oeei 'he pes iney
h. were the best not only in this country. but they