Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-16
WAYNE M'vEAGH SPEAKS,
An Ex-Republican's Strict
ures on the G.. 0. 2.
The Election of 1883 Carried
by Fraud.
A Sweeping Arrangement of the
Party Now in Power.
Blaino's Appeal to the Irish Vote in His
Speech at Ophir Farm-Incidents
in the Presid entia1
Campaign.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15.-One OF the
largest political meetings of the cam
paign was held tonight, under the
auspices of the Young Mems Democratic
association of this city, which invited
Wayne MacVeagh, formerly attorney
general under Garfield, to make an ad-
dress. MacVeagh was introduced by
President Thompson of the association.
MacVeagh said, in part, that up to
the present time he had not felt at lib
erty to vote for any but Republican can
didates. In 1875 he believed Tilden was
entitled to the electoral vote of Louisi-
ana, but President Grant, Secretary
Chandler, Secretary Cameron, and Gen
eral Sheridan, in command of the troops
in that state, and Secretary yRobineon, with
gun boats in it's waters, were deeply in
terested in the election. United States
Marshal Packard was seeking -she gov
ernorship with a host of deputies at his
command, and yet when the polls closed
Tilden had 1000 votes more than Hayes.
The speaker objected to this. He
watched with pain the steady growth OF
the corrupt use of money in politics.
He was convinced that unless the Re-
publican party was checked it would
make the poor poorer and the rich
richer, more corrupt, selfish and less
patriotic.
There wes too much truth, he said, in
the rumors that the election of 1883 was
bought. There was no way OF account
ing fol the action OF the Republican
party for the last fOnr years, other than
that of bargain and sale of legislation.
He did not see how any man in his
right senses thought it wise to infict
upon the poor the awful burdens of the
Mckinley bill, or debauch voters by
offering them pensions, or impoverish
the the taxpayer by buying masses of
silver, for which there was no use. or to
insult weak sister republic like Chile
by sending such diplomat as Patrick
Egan, or threaten her with war without
waiting to translate her apology.
On the tariff question McVeagh said
less than ID per cent of the laborera OF
Pennsylvania could secure employment
in the protected industries, while the
other So per cent had to pay bounty
on almost everything they eat or wear.
Owing to the cprdage trust and similar
evils, the American farmer each year
found himself poorer, until in Ohio and
Pennsy lvsnia land was worth less than
half it was 20 years ago. Laboring men
were obliged to pay artificial prices for
sugar, on account of the trust kept alive
by the Mckinley bill, and what was
true of the Mckinley bill and the great
group of gigantic monopolies was
alec true of the reckless pension
legislation of the Republican party.
The speaker did not object to just PEN
sions. He said it was known in the
present year, that silver was mined in
vast quantities at SO cents per ounce,
and sold to the government at over 70
cents. So it was probable that our sill
yer dollar is not worth over SO cents. 1t
was only question OF time, he declared,
when we would be reduced to silver cur
rency.
In closing, the speaker said he would
rather pay money into the hands of a
burglar to bribe watchman to rob a
bank, than to contribute money to be
placed in the hands of Quay, Martin or
Hackett to be used in politics.