Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-19
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.


Mems Republican League Of Illinois.
| HE TELLS THEM THE VALUE OF THE WORK OF
/ YOUNG MEN IN THE cASvAss-rHE REPUBLI-
CAN PARTY HARMONIOUS IN NEW YORK AND
THE OUTLOOK FOR VICTORY BRIaHr.
Mr. Whitelaw Reid the republican candidate
for Vice President, addressed the convention Of
the Young Mems Republican League at SPRING
field, ILL.,, last evening. He spoke at some
length on the subject Of the activity Of young
men in politics, and said that the earnest and
effective work being done by young republicans
was cheering to the republican party and for
the good of the country.
No patriot can fail, i" he said, to rejoice ut
your political activity. 1t is or should be one
OF the purest and best forms Of manly endeavor.
Next to the service Of God, the service
OF the people--that is to cay, the work Of
politics-is the highest Of human interests and
the noblest Of human occupations.
THE FORCE OF YOUNG MEN,
Among the surprises which this marvellous
country presents to citizen who has been
absent from 1t for few years not the least is
this amazing league development In the
Interval between one presidential campaign and
another the land has been covered with a net
work Of II 900 clubs. with an active member
ship Of nearly 100000 young men. Two
million young men. Who can calculate-who
can even estimate that force in human affairs!
There is the hope of the republic. There is
the real defensive army of the country; with its
drill and its discipline with its unity Of belief of
purpose and OF action; with its alert buoyant,
courageous and confident membership. Above
all 1t has Its recruiting stations; and it grows at
rate for which there is, in the history of such
organizations, no parallel.
Your league methods are imbued with the
true spirit of republicanism. Its inspiration is
love OF country rather than love of office. 1t
appeals to the social and refining instincts. 1t
utll1zes the literary and educational aspirations
OF every community it enters. 1t avoids the
spasmodic fever and waste Of the old political
campaigns by keeping up the work of education
and recruiting throughout the year, and thus
making the whole winter and spring and sum-
mer and seedtime for the November harvest.
BRIGHT OUTLOOK IN NEW YORK.
Speaking Of the Now York contingent, he
said:
A practical friend says no would like to hear
also about some other New York men Of today
and asks what about the Big Four? Well,
bring you their greetings-united and author
lied greetings. too-the greetings Of Hiscock
and Warner Miller, Of Thomas c. Plat and
Chauncey Depew, Of Morton and Horace Por-
ter and Cornelius Bliss and Sherman Rogers, Of
our candidate Fassett and Of our Chairmen
while We do not undervalue our opponents or
underestimate the hard struggle before us, we
belleve We have an organization and situation
making our prospects for victory this fall in New
York a. good as yours in Illinois. We have no
quarrels but healthy ones and no factions-ex-
cepting in the eager reports Of our friends the
enemy. Our organization is well advanced and
the column is moving. The enemy boasts that
like themselves, we have laggards. 1 do not
know 1t and do not believe it; but if we have
the thing which will happen to them is the thing
which has happened to laggards 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 till No.
vsmber of the campaign already begun, it is
beyond the power of anybody in the enemy's
ranks or in our own to defeat it.
But l am not here to make a campaign
speech Indeed l have no purpose and there is
no need for me to attempt that work at all dur
ing this contest. / had originally planned to
come west at this time merely on a family err
rand; but l thank you for the opportunity to
publican revival in the state which led the ma
tion to its first republican victory, and within
the radiance Of the tomb which glorifies this
city and is shrine, like Mount Vernon for all
Americans and for the lovers of liberty through
out the world.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Neither am here to utter one word against
the gentlemen whom the opposing party pre-
sents for the popular suffrage. l come from
the state Of one Of them. and am. at this mo-
ment, q guest in the state Of the other 1t gives
pleasure to know that both Of them are tried,
able and sincere men; too sincere and too
honorable to take a nomination without incur
ring its full party obligations, or to stand on a
platform without accepting and maintaining its
doctrine.
To that doctrine, gentlemen, it will be your
nrl md vn,1Vp % Ill Al
on that doctrine your campaign will be fought
and won.
They demand a tariff for revenue only, de-
clare any other unconstitutional, and proclaim
this 'the fundamental principle Of the demo-
cratic party" We are bound to take them at
their word but how that party has changed
Today the democratic party, to use the current
political slang, turns down. Thomas Jeffer-
son. Andrew jackson and all its old leaders, re-
pudiates alike their constitutional interpreta-
ton, their political belief and their acts, an
nounces instead identically the same doctrine
with Jefferson Davis and the confederate states
and proposes that Grover Cleveland in your
name shall execute it. Ask the people if they
want that!
WORKINGS OF THE MKINLEY BILL.
He asked his hearers to contrast the actual
workings Of the Mckinley bill with what the
democrats said about it
The values Of exports on which the duty
had been reduced by the Mckinley tariff, he
said. were over half the total values exported,
and nearly fve-sixths of this reduction was on
articles not produced in the United States and
therefore not in competition with American
labor or American manufacturers.
But these wicked Mckinley duties were
actually SO levied to discriminate against our
rivals in certain other articles SO as to protect
our own producers. Accordingly the demo-
cratic platform denounces the Mckinley tariff
as the eliminating atrocity Of class legislation.
since it legislates for the producers at home
instead Of the producers abroad. Ask the peo-
pie what they think about that.
WHAT RECIPROCITY HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Speaking Of the democratic denunciation of
reciprocity as a sham, he said:
Our sham reciprocity has been in effect but
| q 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 year. But the increase in our
exports to those countries in the articles affected
by our agreements down to June 80, was over
| $40, lis ,000 In some Of the countries the in
crease was over 500 per cent; and the articles
affected were largely agricultural--corn, wheat,
| -four, pork, butter etc. In other countries the
increase extended also to our cotton, iron and
! wooden manufacturer. Ask the people il they
| want to throw awny q policy that in the first
| few months brings such results. because the
| democratic convention chooses to call it o
| sham.
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