The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-05
SOMEBODY Is LYING.

Increase in the valuation of the
real and personal property OF
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SOMEBODY Is LYING
Then come the official reports from Massa-
chusetts New Jersey and elsewhere, showing
substantially, though In varying degrees. the
same rising tide of general prosperity. 1--WE
deny that there has been any Increase of pros
perity since the McRinly bill went into opera
tion." says Mr.. Cleveland's platform. "There
has been," says Mr.. Cleveland's Commissioner of
Labor Statistics. There has been," says his
Bank Commissioner. There has been." says
his Board OF Equalization. and the reports from
the officers IN other states confirm II ali. Well
may Mr.. Cleveland repeat TO his officials the
despairing exclamation of Balak. King of Moab.
to Baalam, the prophet: 81 took thee to curse
Israel, and, behold, thou hast blessed him alto
gether."
But we are sometimes told that all these ques-
tiOns about reversing the established currents or
our tariff, and trade, and currency, which mere
ly affects the business and we'll being OF every
citizen. are comparatively unimportant. and
that the only vital issue in this campaign is
whether the federal government shall he per-
mltted to regulate the election OF federal officers.
II IT Is. then. according to the Democratic plat
states is doomed 1t is difficult to believe that
our opponents expect to be taken seriously In
The real question involved is, shall every citi-
zen Of the United States lawfully entitled to
vote be permitted to vote, and TO have his vote
Democratic platform practically says no. Mr..
Cleveland IN this case has the courage frankly
to say that 10 his platform. Now.if this Demo
cratic opposition means nything Ii means the
nullificatiOn OF the fourteenth and fifteenth
articles OF the Constitution OF the United States
Is Massachusetts, ready for thatl There was
time when notification came naturally from the
Democratic part. but the sons OF the Massa-
chusetts men NO favored 1t have ever since
been walking backward, like the sons of Noah,
to cover the nakedness of their disgraced fathers
There Is another question OF real commanding
interest to the whole country, and especially the
seabOard. Shall We restore our merchant ma
rne and again possess the seasl The Repub-
ncan party says, enthusiastically. yes. and
points to the beginnings it has made II has
frapkly adopted the methods other nations have
found necessary, and has voted subsidies to our
ships carrying our mails. We have even invad-
fastest and largest ships in the world have been
secured for transatlantic line: four more are to
be constructed IN our shipyards as q beginning,
and even with these six we shall have a line
equal to the best that enters English ports.
That Is the Republican position on the subject.
What does the Democratic platform say about
about iti Nothing. What does Boston sayl
There is one partyin, this oanipaign. Mr.; Chair
country; that does not @ seek for caIamities and
does not read its own defeat in the general pros
perity. There Is one party that has nothing TO
conceal and says what It means. IL has NOM
inees who are not afraid OF its principles. Ii Is
not trying to succeed By getting one part of the
country TO vote for its platform and another
where for a protective tariff, and wants no mis-
take about that. 1t stands for honest money,
and wants no mistake about that 1t stands for
revived shipping. for American wages and for
America all the time. And. finally, Ii challenges
the verdict of the American people on the char
acter, ability and tho safe ana brilliantly sue
cessful administration of Benjamin Harrison.
GOVERNOR MKINLEY's SPEECH.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Reid's speech
Governor Mckinley was introduced. and
received an ovation as he rose to speak
He devoted the first part of his address to
q discussion of the old State bank system.
The Republican party. he said, stands
first for the protection and encour-
second. for honest currency. said the
speaker: Free trade shaves down the
wages of the laborer and pays him In a de-
preciated State currency. One reduces the
ment That is the Democratic platform OF
1892" he took issue with Mr. Hill
in the statement that protection
is unconstitutional. Said he: Il
know OF but ono Constitution
it violates. and that is the Constitution Of
the Confederate States. But We are not
living under that Constitution now." Mr..
Mckinley then passed to discussion of
the tariff and at lts. conclusion was fol-
lowed by Lieutenan- governor Halle and
dressed the meeting in Faneuil Hall. to
which place Messrs. Reid and Mckinley
were taken after their Music Hall speec hes.
AT Faneuil Hall there was another large
crowd that filed the hall and corridors TO
sufiocation, while the galleries contained
many ladies. Postmaster Thomas n. Hart
presided here, and in q short speech intro
duced Lieutenant governor Halle as the
first speaker. He said that national ad-
ministration has been on trial on IT'S merits.
and the time has arrived for the American
people to make uD their verdict
Hon. Roger Wolcott was next introduced.
He said that it 10 not by enthusiasm alone
the victory is to be won. but by the sober
judgment of grent industrial community,
which brings to the decision of these in
teresrs an educated intelligence perhaps
unequaied in the world. The issues pre-
sented to you In this campaign press close
ly on New England's interests and touch
vitality the wage-earners who derive from
them their means of livelihood.
When Mr. Reid appeared on the platform
he was greeted with deafening cheers. HIS
speech was much the same as that deliv-
cred in Music Hall. Governor Mckinley
came in for more applause when he was IN
troduced as the last speaker. He spoke al
most wholly on the tariff.