The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-11-03
A BIG MEETING.
ELOQUENT SPEECH BY THE VICE
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.

Ably vcntilated-stevenson Confers
with observation-disclosures of the Force
Bill Shown UP. Il <
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.--General Adlai
E. Stevenson, who arrived in this city
tonight, was very tired from his re-.
cent hard work in the campaign and
long railway journey and did not arise
very early this morning. The first
business of the day, after break fast,
was to spend nearly two hours in con-
sultation with ex.President Cleveland.
Among the subjects under discussion,
it is said, was General Stevenson's
forthcoming letter OF acceptance. The
General has not begun work on the let
ter yet.
The Democracy of Brooklyn turned
out in force tonight and held great
mass meeting in the Academy of Music,
where General Adlai T.. Stevenson, the
| Vice Presidential candidate, and Con-
gressman Isadore Raynor OF Maryland
spoke on the issues Of the campaign.
| Over 4 coo persons, many OF whom
were ladies, were crowded in the spac-
iouS Amphitheatre, and nearly 500 prom-
inent Democratic citizens occupied
seats Oh the stage. Among those were
| Hugh McLOuglin, the leader of the
| Kings County Democracy, Judge
Jacob New, Mayor David ~. Bouiy.
District Attorney James w. Ridge
way, j oseph &. ufndrix, Congressman
Thomas +. Magnus and Felix Camp
| bell.
| Thomas T.. PearsalI, chairman of the
committee Of arrangements. in calling
tho meeting to order, said that the De-
mocracy of Brooklyn was thoroughly
in earnest in their determination to
roll up All unprecedented majority on
| November s for the s. andard bearers of
the national Democracy.
lie then introduced as chairman of
| the meeting Mayor Boody. lie spoke
on the leading issues of the campaign
and then introduced in eulogistic terms
the orator OF the evening, Adlai StGv-
enS0n.
| General Stevenson received All OYa-
tion as he stepped forward to deliver
his speech, the great audience rising to
its feet, waving handkerchiels and
wildly cheering.
When quiet was restored Stevenson
spoke as follows:
On the 9th day OF October, 1890, the
great Republican orator Of Your State,
in introducing to New y ork audience
a distinguished private citizen, said:
"If am TO name the typical American,
the man who loves and believes in his
country beyond everything else; the
man who, determining once in what
direction his duty leads, can not he
swerved from the path. the man who
is dogpedly nersistent in what he be-
lievtS to be right, the man who thinks
not Of self, but of his country and its
needs, would name Grover Cleveland"
The man upon whom this splendid
eulOglum was pronounced by the great
est Of living Republicans has been pre-
sented by the national Democracy as
its candidate for the high Office of
President Of the United States.
Stevens on then proceeded to indicate
the reasons why the interests of the
country would be subServed by the cleo
tion Of Cleveland.
Dwelling upon the changed condition
Of the Treasury now from what 1t was
at the end Of Clevelaud'S administra,
ton, Stevenson said the bankruptcy
which now threatens the Treasury is
the result first, of the enactment of
the Mckinley tariff law, and second,
the lavish appropriations of the Fifty
first Congress. l need hardly remind
you that the Treasury OF the United
States has ever found its most faithful
guardians in the Dem5SIIiatie Dem1.5 Sid p2{{o,s 2}{{9e
The tribute of BlaWhe he ~ said aid tira1 tha1
leaders was fhc Treasury with mn. mns
JIlltasYng vigilance against every attempt
at extravaganza or corruption"
70 the plain and emphatic Seclara.
tion OF the Chicago platform, in favor
Of sound, honest money, subscribe
without qualification or reserve. A
safe circulating medium is absolutely
essential to the protection of the buSi.
ness interests Of our country and to
wage-earners. 1t is all important that
every dollar which finds It's way into
his pocket, whatever its form, should
be OF equal cXchangeable value and of
equal purchasing power. Personal in
tercOurse with many thousands of my
fellow citizens in many different States
and cities during the past three months
and careful observation and study of
their desires, condition and needs, very
emphatically confirmed my belief in
| the wisdom and patriotism of the the.
ory of tariff reform.
The Democratic party, standing on
the sure foundation of the Constitution.
denonnces Republican protection as
| fraud on the rights of the people; de-
nies the power of Congress to impose
tariff tax, except for revenue only
and demands that the limit of such
imposition shall be the necessities of an
honest administration of the govern
ment.
Opposed to this Is the new, startling
and lndetersible theory of protection
to certain industries by which heavy
tariff burdens are laid upon the great
mass of the people for the benefit of
favored individuals, who are fortunate
enough to receive its blessings.
THIS theory, put into practice by the
Republican party, eliminated in the
enactment Of the Mckinley tariff law
10y which heavy tariff duties are i'm.
posed upon some four thousand manu-
featured articles, many of which are
daily necessity in the home life of our
people. The advocates Of this unequal
and unjust system of taxation have de-
luded the people with various excuses
for its existence. In the first place, cit
was not tax" but wonderful discov.
cry in political economy by which for
eign governments were either forced
or deceived into paying our taxes for
us. This pretext no longer deceives
the tax burdened people.
Claim everything" was the demand