The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-16
SPEECH By WAYNE M'vEAGH.
He Attacks Republicans: With All the
Zeal of . New Convert.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15.-t5ne OF the larg-
est political meetings Of the campaign was
held tonight under the auspices of the
Young Mems Democratic Association of
this city, which invited Wagne MacVeagh,
formerly attorney general Inder Garfield,
to make an address. MaeVeagh was In
troduced by President Tho5npson, of the
association, and said in suhstance:
Up to the present time se had not felt
at liberty to vote for any klt Republican
candidates. In 1876 he believed that
Tilden was entitled to the: electoral vote
of Louisiana, but Precedent Grant.
Secretary Chandler, Secretary Cameron
and Gen. Sheridan, IN command
of the troops in the state, and Secretary
Robson, with gunboats in rs waters, were
deeply interested in the election. United
States Marshal Packard was seeking the
governorship with q hoss of deputies
at his command, and: yet when
the polls closed Tilden hsd 1900 more
votes than Hayes. He had objected to
this. He had watched 9th pain the
steady growth of the corrur. use of money
in politics. He was convinced that unless
the Republican party Was checked it
would make the poor poorer and the rich
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patriotic. There is too MECH truth, he
said, in the rumors of the esction of 1883.
There is no way of accounting for the action
of the Republican party for che last four
years other than the bargain and sale of
legislation. He did not see Cow any man
in his right senses thought it:wise to intlict
upon the poor the awful burdens of
the Mckinley bill, or deba,s,h the voters
by offering them pensions, sr impoverish
the taxpayer by buying masses of silver
for which there is no use, or i1asult a small,
weak sister republic like Ch5e by sending
such a diplomat as PatrFe.k Egan, or
threaten her with war without waiting to
translate her apology.
On the tariff question MacVeagh said
less than II per cent. of ths laborers of
Pennsylvania could secure employment in
the protected industries, while the
other So per cent. had to pay
bounty on almost evers thing they
eat or wear. Owing 10 cthe cordage
trust and similar evils, tne American
farmer each year found hi.nself poorer,
until in Ohio and Pennsylvafia land was
worth less than half what E was twenty
years ago. The laboring man as obliged to
pay artificial prices for sugar IN account of
our trusts, kept alive by tie Mckinley
bill, and what was true of tae Mckinley
bill and the great group zof gigantic
monopolists was also true of reckless pen
sion legislation. The speake1 did not OBJ
Ject to just pensions.
He said that it was knowre that in the
present year silver was mzned in vast
quantities, at cost of 33 cen.s an ounce.
and sold to the government for over 20
cents, so it was probable Our silver dollar
was not worth over 80 cents. IT was only a
question OF time, he declared, when we
would be reduced to a silver c>;rrency. In
closing, the speaker said he would rather
place money in the hands of . burglar to
bribe a watchman to rob a bask than con-
tribute money 10 be placed IN the hands
OF Quay, Martin or Hacke;t t, be used in
uolitics