Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-04-20
Convention of Massa-
chusetts Republicans
Mr.. CLEVELAND CRITICIZED
Silver Question and Billion Dollar
Congress- Touched Upon.

Today in fremont Temple.
William {. Lowering presided He has
been a Massachusetts, man ever since
childhood. though he was born In Rhode
Island lie was In the Massachusetts sen.
ate in 1874 when Governors Washburn
and CASTOR, respectively, ruled the state.
In his senatorial service he was prominent
~ milling the cond-mnatory Sumner
resolutions. Among his prominent asso-
ciates were Hon. George b. Loring Gen
eral y T.. Banks, City Solicitor Bailey and
Others
Mr. Lowering Is descended of military
family, which was represented In the revo-
luton and the war of 1872 Still further
back. Joseph Lowering, from whom Mr..
Lowering is directly descended was an En-
glish officer under General Wolf at the
battle OF Quebec. Mr. Lowering himself
Was in the civil war, but was retired on nc.
connt of broken health.
lie Is about % years OF age. is n member
OF several oI rne prominent social clubs.
Following is Mr.. Lovering's
Address to the Convention.
Gentlemen of the Republican Convention:
We are hero 10 choose four delegates at Ia rge
TO the Republican national convention TO be
held IA Minneapolis. June :, and 10 make such
Al declaration Of the principles of our party as
are held by the Republicans OF this common
wealth. We approach the work with absolute
confidence that our purpose is honest, that
our cause is Just. and that II glorious triumph
awaits ~.
This Is a business mans campaign, and
every human being in this country engaged In
any occupation BY which he gains an honora-
be livelihood H. in this sense a business man
Most Of the quest ions growing out OF the war
have been settled. We are a. peace with the
world. The questions that confront US are
those that directly concern the everyday
business os life. Our mercantile, agricul-
tural, mining and manufacturing interests
are threatened. The issues OF tue campaign
inyoly. the financial solvency OF the country,
the prot.ct of our indus res and the well
fare OF al the people.
IL IL ~ obvious AS hardly To need stating
that when the business OF the country is good
and the people are occupied, the highest meas
ure Of happiness Is attained. When the busi-
ness Of the country lansuishes. credit halts,
when business stops, money ceases ito flow,
and the distress which follows reaches the ut
most bounds OF society. When privation and
starvation are reached, then the public peace
IL periled, aud the government Is shaken to its
foundations Society Is therefore more secure
when the laws OF the country maintain the
prosperity and stability of its business.
IL Is the business OF the government to pro-
vide currency that shall always be sound
and stable and of the highest standard known
ment TO foster the highest possible rate Of
wages for those who toll. Ii Is the business of
the government to exclude from the country
everybody and everything that tends to de-
grade and impoverish its people and TO lower
their social, moral and physical condition.
Forty per cent. of the inmates of all the in
sane asylums in New England
Are of Foreign Birth,
and 10 per cent more must be added to In
clude the inmates who are children Of foreign
parentage. Our almshouses and correctional
institutions are In no better condition.
While we welcome peaceful, self-respecting e
and self-supporting people, we feel the need of
legislation. which will more effectually shut
ont the lawless, degraded and diseased, who
become only a tax upon the country. This Is
n better country to live In than any country
on the face of the globe, and II is our task to
keep IL so.
These are some of the important questions
that demand our consideration in the coming
campaign: questions which intimately con-
cern the business men. The Republican party
makes and always has made the business Of
the country its great interest. Ever since Its
formation 1t has had to do with the most STIR
ring questions In the history OF our nation.
No one claims that all of the political virtue
is lodged in any one party, but this much can
he said Of the Republican party since its or
ganization, that whenever questions have
arisen involving the liberties of the people, the
purity of the ballot, the honor Of our country
and the integrity of its credit, it has been by
the prompt, decisive and patriotic action of
the Republican party that these questions
have been settlsd upon an honorable and salts
factory basis.
Gentlemen, s-ch h the work that our party
still has In hand.
The Tariff
has always beea in politics with more or less
prominence since the foundation Of the gov
xvns ia lasf war of Mr.
Cleveland's administration that IL was pro-
jected into q conspicuous position. II became
new and fresh issue born of Mr.. Clevelands s
p,litical necessities. He had nearly finished
an uneventual administration, made notorious
by an utter failure In his record OF civil ser.
vice reform. the one issue upon which, more
than any other, he had depended for his elec-
ton. Ne looked back upon his career and
saw that he had turned out more than four
hftAs OF the office-holders TO make place for
Democrats. that he had appointed to Office
l3 criminals, murderers and tools OF murder
ers, thieves. duelists, rioters,one who had been
imprisoned for six weeks by the very court
over which he was appointed the Judge.
Persons who had been indicted OF convicted
for frauds against the revenue were appointed
10 be officers OF the revenue service. Persons
were appointed pension agents who had been
indicted for violating pension laws. Persons
guilty % robbng the mails had been appointed
postmasters or shail agents. One, when ap-
pointed. W. In jail for robbing the very ONCE
10 which he was appointed. These were his
appointments. and many more, TO say nothing
" n long list of appointees who had been
guilty o. political offenses.
With this startling array OF violations OF
civil service reform, how could he ever expect
10 go through another campaign upon that Is
tue. Something must he done. some new issue
must be found and, casting about. he hit upon
the tarif and free wool In particular, and so
started the cry Of free WOOL The cry did not
go up from the people. not even the woolen
manufacturers started IL. IL was set up for
apuiely political purpose to break up, II pos
sible. the friendly political relations between
the wool growing states and the wooen manu-
featuring states.
The campaign % lsss was fought upon the
issue between proterlion and free trade, and
the people
Decided for Protection.
The fifty-hrst congress, obedient 20 the poo
pies mandate, passed an act reforming the
tariff strictly upon the lines of protection.
Mr.. Lowering stated that since the Nc.
kinley law had been In operation 70 per
cent. OF tue woolen manufacturers OF New
England had declared themselves satisfied
with it, results. The effect upon manu-.
featuring had been instantaneous, he said,
sId mil formerly compelled " stand