The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-09-28
NATIONAL ISSUES.
a MONSTER MEETING AND A GRAND
OVATION.
Ex-senator Spooner Opens the Campaign
I'm Milwaukee by a Magnifcient
Speech.

Turner Hall. The audience which greeted
the distinguished candidate tor governor,
was one of the largest and most enthusl-
astic ever seen in Milwaukee. Hundreds
who went to the hall hoping TO hear the
eloquent orator, were forced to leave, not
being able to gain admission on account OF
the vast throng.
The following are the remarks of Col
onel Spo0ner on national issues:
MIR. sPooNERs SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen i:
In my short and not very eventful public
life, you have made me well accustomed TO
warm and generous Milwaukee welcomes,
but upon my word the one which you ac-
cord me tonight abaShes me. L do not
take il rs a compliment to me, but l take
IL as q compliment TO the Republican party,
whose Standard-bearer for the state L
happen at this time 10 be; and for the
party and for myself as its representative,
i make graceful acknowledgment. L re-
greet 10 come before you tonight in an
environment which mas rendered il impos-
sible for me to prepare in an orderly way
what ought 10 be SAID TO such an audience;
but as / am to come again to milwaukee,
before this campaign ends, l am told, L
shall talk 10 you tonight in quiet, fair
way, ii L can. upon issues which divide
the parties III this campaign. say l shall
talk to you in q fair way, because long,
long ago ceased to talk either or issues or
men in an unfair way. Applause
When Garfield was despatched with mud
when in 1884 the mil of SANDER was set
up on the grave of James &. Blaine's
child applause. i vowed that whatever
the future might have tor me in the way of
campaign service, personal politics / was
forever done with. Great applause.l L
leave that to the tumble bugs of politics.
Laughter and applause.l
TIE ISSUE WELL DEFINED.
To my mind this is a crisis in the history
of this country, in the history of its people {:
il is not the first, of course, and doubtless
not the most important 1t was crisis
when our fathers won lis independence it
was a crisis when they ordained the Union
and formed the constitution it was q
crisis when Andrew Jackson crushed dis
sention In South Carolina it was q crisis
when under the leadership OF Lincoln and
Grant and Logan and Sherman and their
compatriots, including Benjamin Harrison
of Indiana great applause, the Union was
preserved, purified and made perpetual.
To-day the con iIct is no less bitter. The
issue is no less marked, and the result, 1t
seems to me, is of infinite importance to
this people.
States is challenged by the Democratic
party of the country to mortal combat
Under which flag ? You must take sides I;
you must MAJ shall under the flag of Wash
ingtOn. of Jefferson, of Adams, of Monroe,
of Jackson of Lincoln and the long line of
protection presidents. or you must take
your place under the tree trade flag which
is now flung to the breeze, undisguised by
the National Democratic party as it calls
itself. Applause.
You cannot remember any great item Of
public policy inaugurated and carried for
ward since 1860, tending to the upbuildmg
OF our people, TO the preservation of the
Union. restoration
the maintenance of our credit, that has not
been considered and denounced as uncon-
stitutiOnal by the Democratic party. lAp-
plausel They thought, you remember.
that II was unconstitutional To cOerce q
state. They were mistaken ABOUT that
They thought it was unconstitutional TO is
sue greenbacks they were mistaken about
that They thought 1t was llncOnstituti-
Cnal to suspend the writ of habeas corpus !;
they were mistaken about that They
thought il was unconstitutional for Abra-
ham Lincoln. God bless his memory for
ever great applauSel, to issue the enamel
patton proclamation. They were mistaken
about that Great applause They
thought the reconstruction acts were I'M
constitutional. and they were mistaken
about that. They thought Tom Reed was
unconstitutional, but they were mistaken
about that. Laughter and applause.I He
has just been reelected. Applause j
They thought the sugar bounty was uncOn-
stitutiOnal. and they were mistaken about
that. They thought reciprocity was un-
constitutional, and they were mistaken
about that. fApplause.l They thought
the gerrymander was constitutional. and
they were mistaken about that. Great
applause SO | have sort of lost faith in
the Democratic party as constitutional
expounder. Laughter and applause.l
! might If had time, and You the pa
thence, read what Thomas Jefferson said in
again, and again he declared it. in terms
that come ringing down the years as the
utterances OF q man who was q patriot.
The Democrats of to-day never weary of
talking of their loyalty to Thomas .Jetfer-
son. AS rode along from the planklntOn
house to this hail / saw q banner and upon
1t was Inscribed Jefferson club" Well.
the Democratic party on this question OF
protection Is loyal to jefferson, but it is
loyalty 10 Jefferson Davis, not TO Thomas
Jefferson. Applause.
A Voice. hat is right"
HAS INDICATED ITSELF.
Now / dare say here tonight that if ever
piece of legislation enacted by the con
gress of the United States has v!ndicateC
ITSELF 1t is the Mckinley law. Applause
You were told in 1890 that 1t would check
imports. You were told In 1890 that il
raised the average duty TO super cent. 1 OF
were told il raised the duty Tar above the
average duty during the days and years Of
the war. You were Jold that il wOulC
check our export trade, for people would
not buy of us IL we didn't buy of them
All these statements we're made in 1S9t
about the Mckinley law. Let me give you
only q little statistical information upon
that subject as IL comes to us to-day from
the Treasury department:
The balance OF trade in our favor, thai
is, the amount of money other nations paid
TO us over and above what we pai1 to them
was S160, 225,92l as against S56,47 ,y22 the
previous year. The free imports that came
In under this law were Sl6l, 1873, 523; the
dutiable imports, the taxed imports, 1915,
JS5,062. Fifty-tve per cent. of all the i'm
portatlons into the United States this yeal
came In free of duty, and Al per cent. anC
S7-1OO came in dutiaDle. Mr.. Carlisle estl
mated-and have no doubt he was homes,
In IL, for he Is fair man in debate, and q
very able man-that the average duty
unoer the Mckinley law would be go pei
cent when the truth is, as demonstrated
that the average duty applied to the free
and the dutiable list Is only 20 and frac
ton per cent. and the average duty ap
pied only TO the dutiable list is 40 pei
cent. Applause. Take either, and it Il
lower than any other tariff we have ever
had in the United States, including the
Walker tariff OF 1876. lApplause.
Now 1t has turned out, because a non