Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-09-23
SOUND REPUBLICANEMI |
Expounded Last Evening by c. L..
Smith to a Large -
.-s
Audience.
D. F. REESE UNABLE TO SPEAK.
Two Local Democrats Badly Diseom.
Observation-Disclosures Between
Theory and Fact.

tended by a good sized audience,
which gave undivided attention to
the speaker of the evening, G. l..
Smith, Of Minneapolis. D. F. Reese,
of ST. Paul, who was announced to
address the meeting, was taken with
a sever indispition yesterday after
noon, and was feeling too unwell to
carry out his part OF the program.
At the close of Mr.. Smiths remarks
he appeared and spoke his regrets.
Mr.. Smith proved himself to be
thoroughly posted upon all matters
to the tariff, and matters
relating to the history of the two
parties. His remarks were delivered
in Il succient, terse and pointed man.
ner which carried convictions of their
truth with them as they were ut
tered. Towards the close
of his remarks an amusing
occurred by two
Democrats in the audience at
tempting to corner Mr.. Smith. They
in exposing their own
ignorance, aud one of them,
left the hall at the first OPP
portunity to hide his discomforture.
In the Introductory remarks Mr..
Smith stated that his experience had
been that, a political meeting al
ways failed to attract a large audi
euce when a county fair was in pro-
gress, or a ministral show was on
the boards. Both OF these counter
attractions were on last evening and
to his mind they were the cause OF
the hall not being as well filled as it
might have been.
He said that one OF the dangers
and misfortunes OF our country was
the Indifference displayed by the
average citizen upon the question OF
principles which We're constantly
arising. The best, and in fact only
way, to remedy this danger was for
every American citizen to be a poll
tician all the time, 3GJ days OF the
year. He had no use for the indiVid-
ual who was too good to take an
active part in politics. Those who
complained of the way the govern
ment was running should attend the
primaries and the polls; study the
questions at issue, and avail them
selves of the inalenable right of the
American citizen to cast a ballot.
The reckless expenditure of money
in the hands of unscrupulous persons
who were in positions OF power, was
one of the dangers which threatened
this country. The irresponsible
voting power which was swayed by
passion, sentiment or these same un-
scrupulOus persons, Was another
danger 1t was the duty of all, he
said, to study all these questions and
be prepared to bring order and JUS
tice out of this chaos Of wrong. But
a greater danger than these was the
Indifference of the average citizen to
his duties and obligations as a citi-
zen.
The speaker said he was an intense
Republican. He believed in the
truth and justice and principles OF
the grand old party. From the time
when he was small boy he had al
ways believed in the principles ad-
vanced 10y the party, and it was this
feeling which induced him and thous-
ands of Others to shoulder a L. .yket
before he was seventec.: years Of age
and respond to the call OF President
Lincoln. Loud cheers and applause
greeted the speaker at these patriotic
sentiments.
He was firm believer in organ
izing clubs and promulgating the
principles OF the parties to the young
men of the country. He was glad
that the Democratic party was
organizing clubs, and made the
assertion that if the truth was
taught regarding the origin of the
Democratic party, every one OF the
young men would vote the Republi-
can ticket This was an educational
campaign from the standpoint OF
both parties. He then recalled the
statements made by the Democratic
candidate for governor in his recent
speech and proved most conclusivcly
that impudence or ignorance could
he the only excuse for the assertion
that this country enjoyed an era
of exceptional prosperity during the
eleven years ending with 1857, when
the country was run by the party
which had as it's motto: '"Tariff for
Revenue only" Exactly the opposite
was the case, and it was during
these eleven years that a great
| financial crisis was threatened, and
the credit Of the country SO reduced
that it had to pay twelve per cent
on loans.
| One reason why he was a Republi-
can was because it was the only
party which dares to use the history
of the United States in it's campaign.
1t was charged against the party
that it was banked upon it's past
record, but would a merchantmen
be condemned if he went into busi-
ness in this city and referred to a
successful business career III some
other place? Or if a minister who
had attracted large audiences in
another city, should expect the same
results here? The Democratic
party never banked upon it's past
record because it had no record to
bank upon. 1t never referes to
what it has done but is always talk
ing about what it will do.
Mr.. Smith then referred to the cry
of tariff for revenue only and proved
that any such legislation would work
against laboring classes. Their
theory was alright, as a theory but
was knocked into acocked hat when
brought face to face with facts. He
illustrated this point by stating that
according to the theory of the Demo-
Gratis a member was absent if in his
seat in congress, and refused to vote
but the cold fact that Tom Reed,
in making him vote was the Republi-
can fact compared to the Democratic
theory and this fact had been sus-
tained by the supreme court of the
United States. -. .
In conclusion Mr.. Smith stated
that at the present time the common
labOrer could purchase more for his
weeks wages than ever before in the
history of the world. He said that
= since the matter of nationality had
been raised by the Democrats he
would not be surprised at any move
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