Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-05-05
FOR CLEVELAND.
Indiana Democrats Want Him Re-
elected President.

Ex-Governor Gray Heartily Endorsed, But
Made Second Choice - Senator Turpie
on Current Issues = Republic
anism Roundiy Scored.
The democrats of Indiana met in
state convention at Indianapolis on
April 81, and nominated candidates for
a long list of state officers, and instruct
ed delegates to the national convention
at Chicago. Claude Matthews was
chosen on first ballot for gubernatorial
honOrs, and with him a strong judicial
ticket was named. The convention
was one of the most orderly. well-be-
haved, business-like and enthusiastic
that ever met in the state, and the tick
ct nominated is confessedly one of the
strongest that the democrats of Indi-
ana have ever submitted for the suf-
frages of the people. The differences
that have been manifest for several
days on account of the supposed con-
ficting claims of Gray and Cleveland
had no place in the deliberations of the
organized body, but appeared to have
vanished with the opening of the doors
of the convention hall. Many of the
contests were sharp and spirited, and
there were personal disappointments
over the results, but there was no acri-
mony and no resentment displayed
where the will of the party was made
manifest
The convention decided with roar
that all resolutions should be turned
in to the committee without being read
aloud, and, this done, the venerable
David Turpie was presented. When the
hearty greeting that was accorded him
had subsidized he delivered an address.
Among other things he said:
This convention means much more than the
selection of the different candidates for the
state offices to be filled next November. 1t Is
composed of the constituent elements of the
democracy of Indiana, assembled to take meas
urcs for the advancement of their cause and for
the public welfare. 1t means absolute freedom
and equality of elections in the several states It
means the defeat and overthrow of all force
bills and federal returning boards. 1t means
the perpetual establishment of elections by the
people and for the people as the chief art and
part of political liberty. And may note
now, since the defeat OF that nefariouS meas
ure, what a cessation there has been of mere
sectional strife and racial hatred. The south
ern outrage" formerly manufactured daily, has
ceased to be a commodity on the market. Quiet
and tranquility have followed the defeat of sec
tional fanaticism Peace-domeStic peace
has flowed in on US like river and has visited
all our borders with its most gracious benedic-
ton.
This convention means reduction Of the rates
of tariff taxation, the readjustment of those
rates so that the public burdens shall not be
placed merely upon mans daily necessities, but
in some degree upon their wealth and ability to
bear and to pay them. The proposition that all
land and labor of the country must be specially
taxed for the benefit of comparatively small
portion of its commodities, of what called
protected industries, this small portion being in
cOrrTlDt alliance with certain DOlitical agencies
OF the republican party and being vested with
the taxing power OF the government to enrich
themselves by forced levy and daily pillage of
all the men and women engaged in other trades
and vocations = this proposition is one from
which reason and justice alike recoil This is
policy which the voters of the United States
have as long ago as November, 1890, by a firm
and irnmutable decree, determined to erase and
expunge from national legislation.
Our presence here also implies the immediate
reduction of public expenditures: it signifies
the political death and burial OF all the support
erS and advocates Of that mammoth eXtrava-
CANA, the billion appropriation bill, and espe-
cialiy it indicates the early political obSequies
Of that very demure and reticent billoniSt who
has his lodgings at present in the white house,
who signed and approved that bill, without
whose name and signature this enormous draft
upon the moneys of the people could neither
have been made, paid nor presented.
return of the administration of the govern
ment TO the ancient line of wise and strict
oIny and the highest integrity in public eXpendi-
lures will give us the more abundant funds for
the purpose OF meeting the just and necessary
demands upon the national treasury Ard this
assembly, therefore, means that the pensions
due the soldiers and sailors in the se18Tice of
the United States their personal representatives
during the war for the union, shall be punctually
and promptly paid, as provided by law. The
army pensions shall be generously sustained
and approved. The tariff pensions, the tariff
bounties subsidies and monopolies must all go
upon the list of rejected claims-must bo totally
abolished and finally repealed.
The most complete personifcation, the verita-
bic flesh and blood embodiment of the fallacies
falsehoods and follies of republicanism is found
In the present occupant of the presidential chair
At the commencement of the present session
of congress the president sent message to the
people, through their representatives at that
time assembled. The period when the message
was sent was one of much depression. There
were thousands of laborers, MIXERS, mechanics
waiting and waiting in vain for the increase in
wages promised by the Mckinney bill. There
were other thousands waiting for work, for en-
ployment at any wages, promised after the pas
sage of the same measure. The great agricul-
turaI products--cotton, corn, wheat-were de-
pressed in prices and sustained nothing like the
values which they had before the adoption of
what is called the protective policy.
But in this message so delivered not a
word was said about the increase OF
wages; no suggestion was made with reference
10 additional chances for work and employment
There was q dead silence as to the depression
voluminous utterances concerning Behring sea
and Balmaceda. There were some very misty
predictions and mysterious prophecies about
the benefits to be conferred upon this portion
OF mankind following from that very attenuated
and shadowy hall of reciprocity. One would
think from reading the presidents message and
making q fair and full Interpretation of it-and
OF course would make no other-that the peo
pie OF the United States actually had no other
means of redress, of escape from the restric-
tons and exactions of McKinleyism than by the
special grace and favor OF some ambassador of
the treaty-making foreign powers; the minister
from Brazil, the Spanish cortes, the captain
general OF Cuba, the governor Of Porto Rico
these can change, alter and amend the tariff
rates in the Mckinley bill, but it is claimed that
the people Of the United States have no such
power.
II Will be shown in November next by many
infallible proofs that the voters of this country
have that power in their own hands They
VIII travel across lots to system0of Just and
equal taxation. They will make and find a
more excellent way than any that has been
dreamed of in the riddles or bubbles of din
lornaey. Yes, the president sent to the people a