The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-11
CLEVELAND AND REFORM
THE TICKET AND PLATFORM OF The
COAST DEMOCRATS.
Tariff Reform IL More Necessary to Them
Than Free silver Coinage and They RecoE-
nfze the Faet-John p. Irish Talks OF TN .
Democratic Situation in the Far West.

LOBOf"td, ana now secretary ana IreasurcE
of the board OF Yosemite Valley and Big
Tree Grove commissioners.
Mr.. Irish came here from Iowa several
years ago and Immediately took place
in the front rank OF the democrats of the
Pacific coast. He is one OF the ablest
stump speakers in the Union, and has
done excellent service In all the exciting
political campaigns for the past twenty
years. He ran for governor OF Iowa in
the old DAYS when it was merely form to
I'LL out ticket
Mr.. Irish keeps himself thoroughly in
formed of the condition of public senti-
ment on the Pacific coast lie does this
both by correspondence and travel. and
by his large acquaintance with men west OF
the Missouri river. He is everywhere
known as a stanch friend of Mr.. Cleveland.
and readily consented to give his views
upon the condition of sentiment here
relating to that gentleman, as we'll as upon
the silver question as it affects the politics
OF the Pacific coast
The states west OF the Missouri river,
said Mr.. Irish, are supposed TO make sil-
yer, free silver, silver coined at the mints,
1t statutory ratio widely disjointed from
The actual ratio with gold. sole and guild
ing and controlling issue in their politics.
The cultivation OF this suppasition in the
East has been the special task of the west
srn wing OF republican prOtectionists.
They have held out false lights to lure the
democracy, and that their imposition has
90 nearly succeeded is one OF the maryels
Df these DAYS.
These western states are squeezed to
death by protection. Their resources are
drained by il. Their agricultural great
ness has departed. Their crops. year after
year, have cost more to produce than they
have brought in the market at the farm
price.
While this was the case, while wheat
was the lowest it has been since 1900, the
silver wing OF the protection party bruised
the defenseless air with the outcry that
the value of the silver rupee OF India and
a bushel of wheat were always inter
changeable, and that therefore low silver
produced low priced wheat. But famine
fell upon the fields OF Europe last year
and wheat went UP while silver went
down. An enormous aggregate OF money
came TO Us for our food product surplus
Of 1891, required by the millions OF con-
sumers in Europe But where is that
money? 1t should have fabricated trade
from ocean to ocean, but IL has NOT. Here
on the Pacific as Wonder on the Atlantic,
and in the vast Mediterranean region be-
tween. the mournful cry is the same, de-
pressed business, money not in circula-
ton. no great enterprises IN action. and
hard times The great national sponge,
called the Mckinley bill, has absorbed Tor
he benefit OF few the property won by
ihe toll of the many, and the silver ring
cries in chorus that the resulting strin-
gency is caused by lack OF free unlimited,
independent coinage of that metal.
Il notice, however. that they have
dropped their rupee and wheat argument
md now are poisoning the South with
financial heresies, using the low price of
cotton as the means OF promoting their
ielusiOns. II is an economic fact that
everybody in the South should have sense
enough 10 remember, that when wheat is
nigh, cotton Is low. Last years wheat was
nigh and last years cotton was low. Food
md drink are the prime necessities of
nan Clothing is secondary. Foreign
crop failure and famine raised wheat, and
the people filed their bellies at the ex-
much to 90 with il az the moons OF Jupi-
.er with the teething of hippopotauus
in the Nile. The whole truth - that Mr.
Cleveland has put the system OF protective
spO.iation in peril. lie destroyed section
alsm upon which the protectionists had
80 long relied, and which they put in focus
whenever they were in danger, and they
have invented the silver question to take
its place, to divide the democrats, defeat
Cleveland, and continue the system Of
plumber which enriches a few at the cost
Of the many.
Here IN the West there are no demo
Gratis in the silver camp except such as
desire the defeat OF Cleveland / am safe
in saying that 80 per cent OF the party de-
mand his nomination. They demand
more than that. They want him nomi-
mated by convention OF his friends who
will organize the party aud constitute the
oational committee 10 elect him.
There has always been a suspicion
here that in 1855 the committee was or
gained 10 defeat him. There were queer
things done and said AZ the headquarters
in New York, and therefrom radlated the
chill that went 10 the party's marrow. Mr..
Cleveland's ideal leadership has put hope
IN the heart, ana his heroic self sacrifice
has put courage ia the conduct OF the
party in the states where we must win
and hold public favor If we expect ever 10
be again genuinely national party. We
cannot 20 on tied to the South and New
York. From that bondage be has given
"a the first promise OF delivery, and
already Wisconsin. Michigan, Iowa and
Illinois lift up their faces.
"He stands today the first and foremost
American in the hearts OF his country
men. True, some politicians are striving
by toll and craft 10 reach the honors which
the people desire 70 bestow on him. So
Aaron Burr and George Clinton toiled and
intrigued for the presidency, but the peo-
pie turned away from the politicians and
called to their service jefferson, the states
man.
eff nominated. Mr. Cleveland will be
elected, and then this republican castle of
selfshDess will crumble and fall. The
greeds and grumbles Of the past will
evaporate, and the real republic will come
again.
The accumulation OF wealth in the
hands OF the few. the boosted material
prosperity which Is around US. but not
shared by the masses. are the signs which
have gone before the fall of other nations.
The people need northumberland and
more liberty in it's largest sense. All
things needful are promised in the ideal
policy OF Mr.CleveIand; then let the party
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