Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-04
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
THE NEXT WcE-pResIoeNT SPEAKS
IN CHICAGO.
The Tariff Issue and the Force Bill
There Was a Federal surplus;
Whore Is That Surplus Now?
[By telegraph to the Dispatch. !

| Club, the leading Democratic organization
of Chicago, held great demonstration at
the Auditorium tonight 1t was the big
/ gest event of the kind which the club has
held in four years. The demand tor tickets
of admission was enormous and by noon
to-day the secretary of the club was COM
PEELED to refuse many applicants, as he had
already given out cards to as many as the
vast hall could accommodate.
/ Early in the evening detachments of the
! club membership were sent TO the hotels
! where the speakers of the evening were
! abiding. and with much music and enthu-
/ siasm, with many torches, and with
! lusty-lunged expressions of Democratic
! faith, escorted these speakers to the club
/ house. on Monroe street.
BIG PROCESSION.
| Here the club was gathered in force. and
with ranks strengthened by delegations
| from other Democratic organizations, the
line of march was taken up for the Audi
! tonum. The parade was large, fully H.
600 men being in line.
| In the Auditorium the stage. which was
tastefully decorated with flags and STRIPS
of bright-colored bunting, was crowded
| with representative Democrats of the city
and the State at large, while the hall In
| front of it was packed from the first floor
TO the roof with men loyal TO Cleveland
| and Stevenson.
| CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER CHAIRMAN.
At $3.50 o'clock Adlai I. Ewing, the next
president of the iroduois Club, introduced
! as chairman of the evening Congressman
/ William NJ. Springer who spoke at some
! length. mainly on the tariff ISSUE and then
! introduced Adlai Il. Stevenson, who was
! greeted with much applause as he advanced
| to the speakers desk.
MIR. sTEyENsoS's SPEECH.
He said, in substance, what follows:
st is provided IN the Federal Consti-
tuition that once every four years the SUI
preme power of this country shall be re-
| turned TO the people. 1t is now IN their
| hands. The administration of Grover
| Cleveland Icheers was pure and honest.
| During his term of office no additional
| burdens were laid upon the people for the
| benefit of the monopoists and railroad
| barons When he left the presidential
| chair he left behind him 500, 900. 900
| in the Treasury, and the question was,
! What shall be done with the surplus reVe-
nue.? We have now had three aId half
| wears of Republican rule, and the ques-
! ton IS, Where shall the money come from
! TO run the government? And this condi-
J tiou of things is due TO the working of the
| Mckinley bill and Republican rule.
The Democratic party realizes that
! sufficient money must be collected from
| import duties to pay tie expenses of the
| government, but when more than that Is
| collected II Is no less a robbery because it
is done under the name Of legislation.
! The Constitution says that when you have
collected sufficient sum of money to run
! the expenses of the government you have
| no right 20 touch another dollar of any
mans money TO make rich, one set of men
at the expense of others"
THE TARIFF ISSUE.
The speaker then referred briefly to the
| history of the low-tarif period of 1916.
| and then resumed:
The average increase of tariff taxes du-
| ring the early wears of the war was 80 per
cent. After the conclusion of the war
| tariff taxes were increased and have since
| been increased TO AZ per cent. Then the
| people declared that the time had come TO
repeal the war tariff. The Republican
party was pledged to remedy this evil, and
| kept its pledge by passing the Mckinley
| bill, which sent the tariff higher yet.
They tell you that this is for the benefit
of the laboring-man. They claimed that
vote for the Republican party meant "a
good bucket of bread and beef, but how
many months wa3 1t before they taxed the
poor bucket that held the bread and
beef2"
The Republican party has claimed that
high tariff meant hlgn wages. Now let
me ask you whether your wages have gone
up as that tariff has sailed skywardI"
Loud cries of No. No.
THE FORCE BILL.
Then passing from the tariff to the force
bill the speaker said The Republicans
have said that the force bill is a dead issue.
/ do not trust them. That bill proposes
to grant the power to Federal supervisors
TO depose your State officers at elections.
to invade the sanctlty of your homes and
if you refuse TO answer their questions you
are liable TO Indictment and imprison-
ment This bill was aimed at the
South. but holds good throughout
the country. and put in effect, 1t
calls forth 100000 Federal supervisors
to oversee the casting of your ballOts.
These are some of the issues upon which
you are to pass next Tuesday, and ask no.
body to stand with us for the sake Of
party. Let bIm stand 10y his own home
and freside and he must be with us. He
cannot be against u.s.
| John Z. Altgeld, the Democratic candi-
| date for Governor of Illinois. and several
local politicians also spoke.