Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-19
WHO PAYS THETAX
Governor Mckinley Answers
the Great Question
IN A BRILLIANT oRATloA
Before the Young collegiAns = Ann
Asbos-A Mastery Presensasioa =
the Tariff ossssisn.

iu8GHluCt1t t$4ltVA sck<4@4u4 8113 ~
the vast audience assembled " raIvr-
si,y hall At Ann Artor Tussday o>G&k
Governor Mckinley sald:
parties do mol make issues- 1oouno
make parties. We must 6rs( knou
what We think and heiieve. then thooo
who think and believe ~ wo DO wia
unite with ne IN party asoociation. a
common convection on pubic onoo-
tons leads 20 the formation Of polltiool
parties; . common purpose spr1ne1nG
from convection lnspifes party unity.
Political parties are necooooxy q
popular government. They have koou
with us from tie heglnning ann viii
remain while our form Of gosornmena
iasts. They are the agents OF popu)as
will. Party names may change. bue
under some title and deslenas50n ehe
came ideas and contentious appear -
DIVIDE them.
"No student of Americas politics O.
have failed TO note that the convictono
and sentiments which led to the orkan-
ration Of the earliest political partaoo.
In q great measure, still control and
dominate their successors. They carry
the marks of their birth and beginnsnG.
They are easily recognizable 40 rela161
to the ancestral parties from which
they sprang. The same splrit and pur-
pose dominate the republican and dem
ocrat parties today that shaped and
nodded their creation and The creataon
of those from which they epfang. The
same great fundamental differences d.
vide them: the great leading stzines
draw them. Two great idess cana<
with the creation of tie federal govern.
pent by the convention OF 1857. Onf
was the national idea. the other wos
the states rights idea. and from then
until now they have been fundamental
in the creeds of the two great parties.
The old leaders are then idols otllI. and
from them they draw insp,ration. Jof-
ferson and Calhoun. Jackson and tn
den a.e the names most beloved and
cherished by democrats evorywhere.
Hamilton and Webster. Clay and Lin.
coin, still inspire the highest and boo1
sentiments of the republican party, and
arc the silent but powerful leaders Of
republican thought today.
a Ltueai Dssossaast
"The whlg party sprang from Tie
federal party, which for dozen years
administered the general policy OF the
government, as IL 10 administered now.
The republican party ~ the iineal de-
scendant of the old whig party. and
included in its organization The liberty.
the anti-slavery and free-eoil partlGs.
The democratic party sprAng from the
antl-federal,st party. and WAS after
ward designated for = while as the
Democrat society," then a!ternatinx
between the nance republican and
democrat, finally adopting ~ present
name, which has long been accepted -
the national one.
"The two great parties Of today are
striving TO keep and MAINTAIN those
public policies and keep IN active play
those principles as cnunc.ated by their
political predecessors and iusueurated
by the party leaders of q former GEN
Grafton. Leaders have differed now
and then from party crecus, tut the
creeds have survived the Dissenting
leaders and the great parties still hive.
1he Demasd for Free Mes.
"Tne wilmont proviso of 1870, which
forbade the existence OF slavery IN any
part of the territory 90 he purchased by
the money appropriated IN the bill thea
unSer consideration. brought together
the lovers of liberty aud the opponents
OF the further extension Of slavery.
and was the origin and beginning Of =
powerful political organization. Ths
Issue was emphasized IN 1853 upon the
bull TO organize kansas and NebraskA
into one territory. when II Was pro-
posed that slavery was not prohibited in
those territories by virtue Of the Nle-
eouri compromise Of 1920. From tina
moment the adjustments and ccmpro-
misses were unavsiliDc. Freedom had
submitted too long 20 the encroach-
mcnts OF slavery, and would do % no
longer. Slavery wac no longer 10 ~
national and freedom sectional. There
after freedom was 10 be national and
Limitations set upon slavery. The de-
mand for free men. free thought. tree
speech and free homce rang though
the nation and stirred the conscienoea
Of the people from siumber and ,ndif-
ference 10 activity aud Aggression
The ifeue WAS no longer blinded or con-
cealed. ana therefore equalIzed the
political struggles which followed. Il
was still further emphasized 10 Is5q-e0.
when in the senate OF the United states
the question wac presented whether The
homestead oil Of the house should ~
totfrttEf w. vi VIC Hu8tF DtSt I0I W.
purchase OF Cuba. Here wae presentel
the question OF acquiring more terri
tory Tor the extension Of slavery. 0f
more tree homes FOR the American poo-
pie; and the eenate. dominates By The
democrat party, voted for slavery on1
against freedom. The exienelon q
siavefy wns 20 them more 20 l,e desired
thsn che dedication of the public DE-
main 10 freedom and free men.
R~passscas cs~d,nas Pr1sesp3~s.
'Literiy, Justice and equality are ~
cardinal principles Of the rspubIican
party, and represnt iss high purpooo
as dsstiuctivels - in 1856. when IN the
city of Philadelphia they we're TIE
bugle-cali and drum beat of itA blrfh
and beginning. In,ernal smproeo-
mente on land and xat<f afe - ooYtiy
= part of our political hand book - II
The daye when Hamilton and Clay q.
nonnced and enfUrred them as the
true national policy dictated t,y pafroi1r
lem and enlightened seIf-Iueefeet. No
tlonai authority within the oonetsto-
tion and opposition 10 tbe eupreusocy
OF the states over the federal Rovefn-
mebt--nsfionai ~ contradiel,nku,obe
frnm the states r5eflte--<taud forlh q
great ian5marks Of repubi,cnn de-
tf1De and poI,cs, and a losf fr5umpl,ed.
tsiumphsd af sn awful sacril5ce. epo5ed
by the lives of Fatrio0.
DeeeeYe<s - Ohstrp~ss~o>e>s