The record-union., 1892-11-04
UNCLE BILLY" WILLIAMS.
The Veteran Republican Campaigncr
at the 0pera-house.
lie Addresses a Large Throng on the
Issues of the Day-He Was
Humorous. Too.

publican campalgner, speak on the issues
of the day.
There was music and fireworks outside
the opera-house for awhile and then the
meeting began. A. J. Johnston, the
handsome Chairman of the County Cen
tral Committee, called the assemblage TO
order and announced the officers Of the
meeting as follows: President, Hon.
Charles T. Jones; e-Presidents-Ed
+. Taylor, W. H. Sherburn, c. II.
Holmes, ]. o. Funston, C. II. Wiley, w.
II. Jennings, 4. f. Wharton, T. II. Wal
lis, Ira ~ Robie, Scott Ennis, George
Chadderdon. F. Swain, Thomas Fraser.
F. Breck, 3. A. Johnson, II. F. G. Wulh,
]. O. Coleman, w. Duden, J. L. Robin
cite, r. Corsaw, Ed c. Roeder, William
NJ. Petrie, A. L. Hornlein, W. +. Bow
man; Secretaries-J. Q. Funston and W.
i. Jennings.
MR. WILLIAMS INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Jones, in taking the chair, thanked
the committee for the honor conferred
upon him, and then he proceeded to con-
gratulate the Republican party upon the
magnificent outlook in the present cam
paign. 1t had been a campaign of intel
Lgence, and he predicted that when the
Sun SCLS On lGAl ut5GstNs II MOi4tl SGL
on a great victory for the Republican
party and protection. MIR. Jones said he
would not take up much time, as dis
Inguished gentleman was to address
them. He then introduced UncIe Billy
Williams.
Mr.. Williams was received with loud
applause. Despite the fact that he is rs
years of age. he is hale and hearty, and a
clear and eloquent speaker-unusuaIly
so. He devoted himself principally to
the tariff last night and delved into sta
tistics to considerable extent. Speeches
OF this kind are usually dry, but - ncie
Billy" interwoVe his figures with so
many jokes and mirth-provoking anec-
dotes that his hearers were in constant
uproar.
MIR. Williams put his audience in a
good humOr right Oft, by telling the beau-
tlful story Of Adam and Eve in Eden be-
tore their downfall. Adam, he said, was
Democrat. He was not satisfied with
the beautiful farm and woman that God
had given him, but wanted change So
he opened up free trade in apples"
Now, thousands of years after, the Demo-
cratic party is still at it.
NOT VERY JEFFERsoNIAN.
1.-THE Democratic party said the
speaker, put upa platform which started
Off with declaration that the party WAS
still loyal to the principles laid down by
platform does not contain enough Jeiier-
sonian principles in its planks to make
an ordinary tOOthDlck. The Democratic
party is great on the Constitution, and |
have no doubt that when, on the day OF
Judgment, these Democratic politicians
are arraigned for their lies about the Me-
lNinley bill they will object and swear
that 1t is not constitutional
"Oncle Billy" took a swallow Of water
and then said he wanted TO talk a moment
to Democrats, if any were present, about
Steel rails. "In 1885," he said, I'VE made
no steel rails in this country. England
had monopoly and charged us from $50
to $50 a ton for them. \ man went over
TO England and bought the Bessemcr
patent. Then a Republican Congress nm
posed duty OF SIS ton on steel rails
II Democratic theories be true that S2S
would have been added to the $50 or $40, but
1t didn't work that way. Under the influ-
ence Of American competition. built up
through protection, we produced in 1880
2,500,VO0 tons of steel rails, which were
sold at S}5 ton.
WIRE NAILS.
''Now about those wire nails you
have heard about" continued the
speaker. 'Since protection has built
up the manufacture OF wire nails.
they cost s. 15 a keg less than the
duty. Now, you old Democrat, where
does the tariff come in? We made no
plate glass in this country in 1880. Some
men said, Give us a protective duty and
we will make plate glass it takes two
things to make glass-sulphur ana sand.
God Almighty hlled the mountains with
sulphur and the Republican party had
the sand. Glass we paid % cents square
foot for when England and France sup
pied us we get now for 30 cents.
''Those old Democrats told US that the
Mckinley bill would be great Chinese
wall shutting us out from foreign mar
ketS. Has 1t shut us out of the English
markets? Last year we shipped Sl7.495,-
O00 worth OF dressed meats and 81, ,075. 900
worth of live cattle to England. Our
sales OF wheat there were Sos, 900, 900, and
Of corn $4,000, 900. We sold them SG.0OO,-
900 worth of cheese. Grover Cleveland
and these other Democrats can't eat
American cheese. They want perfumed
cheese. We sold to England last year
S260,0 0C0 worth of farm products and
$l2,000,0 600 worth of manufactured prod
ucts."
THE POOR FARMER.
In answer to the Democratic howl of
"HOw about the poor farmer?" the speaker
declared that the American farmer was
the most Independent man in the world.
The declarations of the Democrats that
the farms were all loaded down with
mortgages would not be borne out by
the statistics. And is the farmer being
hurt by the Mckinley bill? No. Since
that bill went into force S34, ,701, 900 worth
OF American cattle were sold to England.
The Englishman for a year or more had
been eating American beef and 'cursing
the blarsted Mckinley BILL" The
farmer had been taught by the
Democrats to growl that he had to
support the Government but this
was only another spook story. "Mr.
w Neaver says the farmer pays 40 per cent
of the taxes" said Mir. Williams LET
us see. OF the money that you farmers
pay into the County Treasury not a dollar
goes to the Government. With the eX-
ceptiOn of 500, 100000 coming from the in
ternh revenue and other sources the
Governments revenue comes from the
tariff. Last year the tariff taxes on
wines, champagnes and brandies were
S9,065, 900. In Havana tobacco and cirars
they were Sl6,010,000. The farmers did
not pay that. They smoke cherooUs. ON
fine cloths 1t was 10000. 900, and not a
ward bought by laborer or mechanic
on fine dress goods and embroideries if
was SIG, 100000. The farmers didn't buv
that. 1t was the rich ladies in the East
who eat SO dinners ana have their hair
fricasseed. Ifyou farmers and laborers
paid half the tariff taxes you would pay
lust q5 cents year-and for what? For
the protection of the American flag and
the blessings of American citizenship.
THE GREATEST MARKET.
Let me tell You old Democrats some
thing else the Republican party has done
1t has built up 800, coo factories, the smoke
OF whose chirnneys ascends on high as
the incense of American labor. We have
built up the greatest market the world
has. The English manufacturer piles
goods in his warehouses higher and
higher. Who made those goods? Amer
lean workingmen? No. English labor
whose hs-a., Il fo1 1paF of hPaa6