St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06


from Senator Davis. The applause and
general racket only increased when he
arose, manuscript in hand, to give them
the promised talk.
"The grand council of the Republican
party of Minnesota meets today" he
commenced, "under the most favorable
auspices. There is swelling tide of
sentiment and conviction throughout
the land which infallibly preSages the
waiting of the grand Old party into
great victory. Ever since that campaign
of misrepresentation and fraud of two
years ago this tide has been swelling.
The acts of the Republican party in the
Fifty-firSt congress have been indorSed.
Take the state of Ohio. There William
Mckinley, whose name is ineffaceably
inscribed on the tariff bill of two years
ago, after campaign in which that
measure was made the test, was elected
governor by a most triumphant ma
jOrity."
The Sherman silver bill was indorsed
because it made market for the Amer
lean product. and with the next breath
Senator Davis called for an "hOneSt
dollar.' The elections in Jersey City
and st. Paul were cited to show that
the Republicans are still ''in it," These
victories, he declared, renewed courage,
and were of great benefit. But the
Fifty-firSt congress, as Mr.. Davis
termed what is better and more COM
monty known in this section as the
"billion-dollar congress-" the senator
felt had to be defended, and he again
turned his attention to it. He declared
that during those two years the party
had redeemed every pledge. The work
OF Tom Reed in tyrannizing over the
house was eulogiZed. Those two years,
he declared were the only two in twenty
years when the Republicans had full
sway in the house, senate and pres
idencv. Mr.. Davis has evidently for
gotten the famous, or rather the in
famous Keifer congress which com
menced March 4, 1881, and which passed
a river and harbOr bill so large that the
people. in the election of 1882 turned all
the rascals out and gave the Democrats
the house by nearly 100 majority.
After this remarkable statement Sena-
tor Davis gave list of the great
measures" passed by the Fifty-first con-
greSs. The list is interesting. 1t fol-
lows:
Providing for the Columbian exposition.
Customs bill.
Sherman antitrust bill.
improvement of 500 canal.
Admitted states of Idaho and wyoming.
Sherman silver bill.
Retaliatory bill by which Germany, France
and England were forced $50 the senator
said) TO admit American pork and beef.
Anti-lottery bill.
Disability pensions bill.
Mckinley tariff bill.
Refunding the direct tax.
Circuit court bill.
Pauper immigration bill.
"All | can say is that this has been
brought to pass by the greatest admin
81, = INno lyr>n
in time of peace" he said, and then
"What act has been done that is wrong?
One thing has not been done, but L
hope it will be, and that the time will
come when every man, regardless OF
color, in this country will be able to
walk up to the polls and cast his vote
and have it counted. l am proud of
Benjamin Harrison, that great, grand,
unassuming and unselfish man."
The convention failed to applaud, al
though the senator gave the boys lots OF
time.
"Beside him stands another figure
peerless in American history-James
q. Blaine," he went on.
This took the crowd. All applauded,
and above the loudest cheers was heard
the voice of Col. "Bill' King, who was
standing on his seat and shouting like
a mad man. William HenneSSy EustiS
did his best, but he was not i'll it with
Col. King.
All the cabinet officers were eulO-
gized, Secretary Tracy and Jerry"
Rusk" coming in for special cOmmen-
dation. Jerry" he said, had been
looking out for the interests of the dear
farmers.
''The Democratic party for more than
fifty years." he SAID, has been party
of stolen goods and false pretenSes. and
is now executing sort OF skirt dance
before the American people. 1t stole
into the house of representatives two
years ago by the most indiScriminate
and encyclopedia lying ever known. It
promised to repeal the Mckinley bill,
but so far has not introduced a general
tariff measure"
And after this remarkable statement,
which all know to be literally true. the
Democracy having decided to attack the
measure by separate bills, Mr.. Davis
proceeded to state that the Democrats
had not dared to reimpose the duty on
sugar. None of them ever said they
would. What they did and do say is
that if the repeal of the sugar tax has
made sugar cheaper it is certainty that
the repeal of the tariff on other commo-
ditiew will make them cheaper.
''But there are only two questions in
the coming campaign" he continued.
"They are:
''First-The business intercourse be-
tween this and other cOuntaies and the
several parts of this country.
''SecOnd-The currency question"
"The protection of American industry
and labor" he said, ''has been part of
the Republican party from It's birth, and
when the party deserts that principle it
will go down. Upon this line all our
victories have been won, and, hope,
will make the next campaign i'll this
state on is. 1t is honest Republicanism,
and we never lost upon it."
Mr.. Davis told the delegates that free
trade had ruined the English farmer.