Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-10-28

CraJlc party on GnaG suD1ecG. NOCnluS
was more fitting in this event, of course,
than that he read the plank IN the plat
form adopted by the democrats at Chi
cago, which bears on this subject, and
the melancholy paragraph, which dwells
upon the protective policy of the repub-
licans as a fraud and a robbery was
again gone over. Mr.. O'Brien dwelt
upon the enormity Of the, ofense COM
mitted by republicans in their support
of this Infamous policy, and pronounced
it as utterly wrong, without license and
unconstitutional. To prove the latter
fact he quoted the extract from an
opinion of Chief Justice Miller, which
is familiar to everyone as a choice bit of
democratic campaign material. Judge
Cooley, also, came in for a quotation,
bearing upon the subject, and then Mr..
O'Brien proceeded to a comparison of
the several rates of tariff, under which
the government has been operated since
it's organization, laying particular stress
upon the low tariff of 1916.
Under this rule, said MI. O'Brien, the
country was exceptionally prosperous.
To prove this, he quoted that same time
honored paragraph from Blalne's
"Twenty Years in Congress-" which has
been quoted by democrats immemorable,
and which has so often been m%isrepre-
scented to mean an unimpeachable argu-
ment in favor of a tariff enacted with
sole regard to revenue, and with no con-
sideration for the protection of indus
tries of the country. Senator Sherman,
also, he quoted as saying that every
| advance toward a free exchange of CON-
modities meant an advance toward a
| higher civilization. Allison and Morton
were quoted as having advocated a re-
duction of tariff six or eight years ago,
as was also Senator Plum. He said that
the republican party had continually
defed the wishes of these leaders, in
persisting in the Enactment of high
tariff measures. That stamp and income
taxes had been taken off, and laid in
stead upon agricultural and manufac-
turing products, as in the Mckinley bill,
to the benefit of the "bloated monopo-
lists" and to the eternal disadvantage of
the "poor, poor farmer" and the top
pressed workingman."
ut was but natural" continued Mr..
O'Brien, in the course of his arguments,
"that the voters should protest against
such an iniquitous measure as this in
famous Mckinley bill" and as by the
ballot was their only redress, they de-
feated many of the republican nominees.
and returned an immense democratic
majority to the house of representatives.
The gist of his remarks at this juncture
was that the voters had risen right uI
on their fore feet and kicked the whole
Ubiquitous, infamous, rascally crowd out
of existence, That no advantage, no in
crease in wages had resulted from this
horrible measure, known as the Nc
Kinley bill that people were forced tc
sell their products in a free trade coun'
try at low prices, and then buy neces
saries of life in our own protected coun
try at high prices; that there vas nc
home market, and that, in order to over
come these difficulties and bring about {
proper condition of things, the ballots O
the people should be cast for tina
"apostle of REFORM" Grover Cleveland
Mr.. O'Brien didn't explain how thu
democrats could vote for Cleveland since
their electors had been pulled down, bu'
announced, calamitously, that the ma
!, jority of people, if closely questioned
, would admit that suthin' was RADICAL,
wrong, and that if they would vote &C
cording to the dictates Of their severa
consciences, and not be bound by part!
obligations, they would oon find a wa.
to remedy this wrong. And he con
cluded by remarking that while he coult
understand how a resident of Pennsyl
vania could be a protectionist, it wal
altogether without the bonds of his com
%prehension to see how a resident o.
North Dakota, or the agricultural north
west could be q believer in the same
doctrine. ,.'
MI. O'Brien devoted the greater por
ton of his time to the exposure o
republican iniquity, and failed to pre-
sent many arguments in behalf o
. democracy. The latter part of his ad
dress was rather of the impassionet
order, and was devoted to a review o
the many outrages perpetrated by repub
licans, and a synopsis of the good which
would be done by democrats when ono
they hold the reins of government.
! E. A. Williams then introduced
-r0 M. N. JOHNSON,
and when he arose, the audience wen
wild with applause. For several minute
Mr.. johnson was unable to make hin
self heard, and when the applause hat
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