Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-07-27

ing MN an increased majority from OF
county.
The following is a list of the delegates i
the several districts of the county
BEVERLEY MANOR DISTRICT.
Delegdtes-M F Gilkeson, NJ McAlear, J V
Todd, VIM A Burnett, S Brown and !
Fulcher.
MIDDLE RIVER DISTRICT.
DelegateS-E Butler Burke, P Orebaugh
Watts, S Fl Parkins, A A Hahn, DR. r
Davis
RIyERHEADs DISTRICT.
Greenville-Wm F Smith, Middlebrook-
W w Sproul, Newport-T NJ Smiley, Spots
wood-M T Mcclure. At Large-Wm P Mish
Col H ] Williams and F Gilkeson.
PASTURES DISTRICT.
Craigsville-J R Hidy; Alternate DR. D Bas
haw. Buffalo Gap-John Christian; Alter
nate D F Hoover. Deerfield-R A Dunlap
Alternate Guy. Churchville-W r Light
ner; Alternate NJ W Bucher
SOUTH RIVER DISTRICT.
Delegates-S H bold, D A Bell, C H Cochran
& Wright, G Julian Pratt, S NJ Donald, J .
Flavin and Harry Antrim.
Alternates-S NJ Shepherd, NJ l. Leonard
w Abney, J Templeton, w N Fishburne
VIM A Pratt, Lewis d urboro and w Church
man.
NORTH RIVER DISTRICT.
Delegates-T Hogshead, f Todd, R {
Blair, A P Dudley, j G IRVINE.
Ahernates-H B McFall, VIM II Flovd, II Y
Bell, Ed Crist and Geo B Dunlap.
On motion, the meeting adjourned. Capt
Jas. Bumgardner stated that Tucker would b.
Ie-nominated and reelected, which was greet
ed with great cheering. He said that thi,
was time when Democrats mast be elected
and gave several cogent reasons why it was
necessary, and among them the fact that the
question vi american freedom had to be set
tied by this election. The Democrats should
rally as one man to the support of Grover
Cleveland, loud applausel and the party
should be so solid that no prohibition or Third
party wedge could divide it. He then intro.
duced Hon. John C Tarsney, of Missouri
who had come here from Washington to adj
dress our people.
SPEECH OF HON. JOHN C. TARsNEY.
Though the weather was intensely warm,
Mr.. Tarsney spoke for nearly an hour and a
half holding the rapt attention of the audience
with a speech that was able, compact, and
and one of the most convincing
character in the exposition of the past and
present tariff laws and the contemplated fed
eral election law, Familiarity known as the
Force Bill
There are differences of opinion, and differ
ences in party affiliations. He hoped that, in
the solutions of the great questions
before us, Democrats would forget that they
are Democrats and Republicans forget that
they are Republicans, This is a commercial
and business age, and what is for the advan-
tagc of Democrat is likewise for the advan-
tage of a Republican. This is a very great
country and its administration costs great
deal of money-much more than in former
times. These vast sums of almost incalcula-
BILE amounts come from the pockets of the
people. The Federal government does uot get
it by levying direct tax upon its citizens, as
do the State and Municipal governments, and
making the burdens in proportion to the
ability to bear them; but in an indirect mode
in which the people are taxed and unequally
and unjustly taxed without knowing it, upon
the idea, as expressed by Shakespeare, that
if they do not know they are robbed, they are
not robbed at all. This great burden the peo-
pie have to bear-these vast sums come out of
their pockets.
In 1861, we were involved in a civil war,
spending million day. In that year we
had the Morrill, tariff tax, with the items in
creased in tax, and the number of taxed items
five thousand. Then this immense
tax was still further increased, and after that
came the Internal Revenue law by which
was taxed. This was right at that
time for the life of the nation was at stake.
When the expenses of the war ceased, these
taxes piled up great surplus sums in the treas
ury, where it was not needed-where it was
idle, and served no good purpose, but bad
one, as it was temptation to extravaganza
and corruption. The people felt the injustice
and wrong and protested. The Republicans
then took the tariff off some articles, but they
took them off of what bore upon the rich and
not upon the poor And since then they have
the tax on the articles which the
poor have to use and buy. Their first plea
was that they imposed these high tariff taxes
for the purpose of protecting infant industries.
Milton says that when, in the garden of Eden,
Satan sat squat like toad at the ear of Eve to
beguide her. Ithuriel touched him with his
spear when his true character was exposed; so
when the 1thuriel spear of Democracy touches
the protective policy of the Republicans its
false professions are exposed and its true char
acter, as an oppression is revealed. Why, this
infant which the people are taxed to support,
proves to be an old man with gray side-whis-
kers. When this exposition was made, they
changed their plea, and then said that their
purpose was to protect American laborers.
Has their policy benefited American labor
ers? If so, it should be apparent in their i'm
proved condition. Have the laborers been
made more prosperous? Since that policy has
been in operation, laborers have found it nee
essary to organize, as they never did before,
for the protection of themselves, and there
has been more dissatisfaction, riots lock-outs,
and strikes and conflicts even to bloodshed,
than ever existed before. How is American
labor protected at the very seat of the most
protected industries in Pennsylvania? Why,
the greater part of the laborers there are Hun
garians, Italians, Norwegians, &C., called
thither from the lowest strata of the European
to work in competition with
American laborers. This is the way they
protect American labor. In 1890 the people
arose in their majesty..and repudiated them
from California to Hellgate. When this false
pretense about labor became exposed, they
then said it was for the benefit of the farmer :.
How do they benefit the farmer? Why, by
putting tariff on the articles of which he has
surplus and wishes to sell and which we dc
not import. They put tariff on wheat, rye
straw, eggs, and fresh milk, and that's the
way the farmer is protected. Nobody is thus
protected except a few petty towns along &
narrow strip of territory along the Canada
border. In 1888, they said in their platform
that they would never give up any part Of
their protective system. And Blaine tele
graphed from;Florence that the slogan of the
canvass should be, "a home-market for home
productions" That means that we shoulc