The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-20
Republican Ralley.

date for congress for the second Oregon
district addressed large meeting Of the
citizens OF the Dalles last night at the
court house. Mr.. Ellis was accompanied
by Judge F. A. Moore candidate for SUI
preme judge, Hon. H. E. Miller, OF
Grants Pass and Judge J. C. Moreland,
of Portland. He was introduced by Mr..
]. B. Huntington and spoke as follows
He was glad to have another opportun-
ity of getting acquainted with the peo-
pie OF The Dalles who had always treated
him with marked kindness, especially
so when he had, as on iormer occasions,
come before them to ask their suffrages.
He was not going to speak of the past
record of the republican party, 1t had
been, to large extent, the history of
the United States for. more than thirty
years and the newspapers of the country
which all read had placed his audience
in a'position to be as familiar with this
record as he was himself. He was not
not going to ask the support of the peo-
pie for the republican ticket because
of the party's record but on the
ground of the principles eaunci-.
ated in their platform. Four par
ties were before them asking their
suffrages.7 First, the republican party
of which he was proud to be a member !;
second, the democratic party, repre-
sented by his friend Slater, of Le Grande );
third, the peoples party represented by
his friend Luce from the John Day
country, and fourth. the prohibition
party, represented by Mr.. Bright of
Sherman county. The republican party
came before the people with a platform,
as we'll as record that no man need be
ashamed of. The .51st congress, in
which the republicans had majority,
passed the antitrust bill, the anti-lot-
terry bill, the dependant pension bill,
and last but not least, the Mckinley
bill. The democratic party had sue
ceeded by -falsehood and deception, in
obtaining a majority in the present con-
gress and now that they have been ut
work since last December what have
they accomplished2 They have been;
digging 80 ilong at a bill that contains
between 700 and 1000 items and yet
have actually attacked only about half a
dozen of them. The first of these was
the clause that related to pearl buttons.
The democratic party thought the duty
on pearl buttons was too high. Then they
attacked tin, because they had discovered
that the working mans dinner pail was
taxed 5-12 of cent. 1t was estimated
that the Mckinley bill saves annually
to each family lin the United States
about IS. Admitting that the laboring
man paid 5-I2 of, q cent. tax on his din
ner pail he was still $2.99-7-12 ahead.
The wool tariff. had been attacked. He
believed wool should be protected He
did not believe in tariff for revenue
only. He believed in tariff for actual
protection. not incidental. Democrats
wanted to place the farmers wool on the
free list and protect the manufacturer
cloth SO per, cent. Why should the
Rhode Island manufacturer be protected
and the wool grower of Oregon exposed
to competition from Australia and the
Argentine Republic2 Extracts from a
published letter of Mr.. Slater were read,
in which that gentleman took the ground
that this country does not need the rev.
enue from wool, it was more revenue
than it wants, and sdeclaiming against
the wool grower because he asks protec-
ton for his wool from government
that gives him free pasture for his sheep.
Mr.. Ellis held that the country needed a
large revenue for internal improvements.
He said the democratic party was not
alone in condemning the Mckinley bill.
Our British cousins were doing the
same thing. He read an extract from
the London Engineering Neus in which
the writer said that the Mckinley bill
was entirely satisfactory from an Ameri-
can point of view. It was doing the very
thing it was intended for, namely to
stimulate and build up American. indus
tries. The speaker hoped change would
be brought about by the restoration of
the democratic party to power, when the
''sting," the protection feature, would
be abolished. ssIt is for this reason" he
adds, that the hopes of the democratic
party are 30 largely shared by the Eng
1.lish people" The speaker said these
hopes would be crushed when Oregon
would be heard from ON the 9Th of June.
When the tariff is narrowed down to q
question as to our best interests, or those
of the people of England, it is easy to
make choice. If it were even question
that related to the interests OF Oregon
on one hand, and New. York on the other
he would decide in favor OF Oregon, first,
last and all the time. He was even in
favor of a law witha .'stingD in it. Eng
land never hesitated to citing this, or any