Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-07

B%W q
he majesty of power in all departments
If our national government, either its
present platform is q false promise or as
much Of the constitution as renders posi-
bic any protective duties will be repealed,
state banks will again become operative
and free coinage will become an established |
fact.
The genius of republicanism is national |
the genius of party democracy |
national sdversity. [Applause.l
cLHvELAND's ALLEGED POPULARITY.
Speaker Paige devoted few minutes to
. consideration Of Mr.. Cleveland's So
called popularity, citing various we'll
known democratic evidences to the con-
trsry, mentioning national leaders of the
party who frowned upon Cleveland's
nomination; Hequoted Murphy on Cleve-
land, and then quoted Cochran on the
mugwumps.
"THE MUGwUMPs."
Cochran pays the mugwumps one of his
clever compliments, and says, 'the danger
ten thousand fold in advance of the crucial
test of the ballot box. I never knew a
mugwump follower; all the mugwumps
ever knew were leaders and officers"
There are democrats here in New Haven
who talk the same way about the presi-
dent of the Monticello club and they say,
''he became q president before he was
naturalized." As to the candidacy of Mr..
Cleveland, Mr.. Cochran continued: IT be-
lieve he 10 . very popular man; let me say
Of extraordinary popularity every day in
the year except one, and that is election
day. A popularity which might describe
as tumuituous, but not reducible to votes.
So it ia calculated to arouse enthusiasm
four months before election, and to pro-
duce disappointment four years after cleo
ton"
CLEVELAND AND THE TAMMANY TIGER.
When Mr.. Cleveland, at the Madison
Square garden, delivered his speech of ac
platform, jeff Davis and all, and in turn
was swallowed by the Tammany tiger, he
must have felt that the life of democratic
presidential candidate was not happy
one. As he reads the democratic guide
boards pointing toward Washington and
saw inscribed upon each one hatred for
himself and preditions of defeat, as he
bowed the servile knee to his party oppo-
nents, as he delivered his political fortune
into their hands, and as he was forced to
desert his New York mugwump constitu-
enoy that compelled his denomination. he
must have felt that even the presidency of
this great nation is hardly worth striving
for.
IN SPLENDID BATTLE ARRAY.
Gentlemen, congratulate you upon the
solid, splendid battle array of our party.
Every member of it Is united under the
great, broad banner of republicanism and
patriotism. We are willing. courageous
soldiers under the command of the victor
of 1888. As result of that victory the
people of this country, yes, the people Of
the world, know of our great standard
bearer [applause] and his discrimination
that the flag of this country shall rank the
! flag of every other country, whether it be
small or great, Chill, Canada or England;
that he represents the American idea of
protection and reciprocity, of a navy, OF
| sound currency, of progress, of freedom,
nsarly past the Office of president of the
United States has been administered with
fearlessness and integrity and the highest
ability by our chosen leader and president
Benjamin Harrison.
Our candidate for vice president is
neither unknown nor untried. He came
from that productive field of prominent
national characters, Ohio. AS the editor
of that staunch exponent Of republicanism
the New York Tribune, and az thu
courteous, able and popular minister from
tinually been onward and upward, ant
soon, az the second officer in rank in tn
United States, we will greet our fellow re
, publican, Whitelaw Reid. Applause.
"ABANDoNED FARM sPAsMs'
! @e
received consideration. "Our opponents,
he said, occasionally have abandoned farm
spasms and they declare it is all on accoun
| of the tariff from chilblains to Canad
thistles." The real trouble about the farm
was the superior attractions of the cities
| Thousands for instance of our ablest bust
ness men were born and raised in tn
: country. Mr.. Paige arraigned tabl
of figures used by democrats regarding
prices of farmers commodities and oh
: served "that of the twenty articles quoted
3 now for the farmers benefit as compare
| with thirty three years ago."
BETTER FOR THE FARMERS.
. In the list quoted certain articles nee
: special comment. Sugar owes it's fa
largely to the recent tariff change. As
farm TOOLS" the actual economy to tn
farmer, great as it is, is larger than az
pears from the figures, owing to the adoI
ton of moving machines, and to some 81
8 tent cultivators, in place of the acythe an
d hoo. Out of the twenty articles of far,
8 produce fifteen were worth in '91 Al pr
I cent. moro than in '5S; four articles wei
81 per cent. less, and one remained tt
same. Out Of the twenty articles to
T. nearly "a per cent less in 81 than in q
l forp bod inoroooa1 oopr OVID y
l. change in two. Therefore out of twent
l. items the farmer now takes the benefit
fourteen as compared with '5S, while on
v four stand against him. On the avera,
J. he gets far more for the twenty articl
l. cited than he did third of a century ag
B. and pays decidedly lees for what he pu
T. ehases.
a. "Thsre has not been a decrease, but
n great increase in the total value of far
j. lands aud farming, We export more nc
n in . single year than we did in peri
ia from the time of the presidency of Was
ington to the Inauguration of Lincol
- Since 1860 the value of farm lands in tt
o. country has increased 81 per cent. and o
m agricultural wealth has increased 113 p
e. cent"
a. TOBACCO.
as Do the tobacco farmers see any tax
the duty on Sumatra tobacco They 6
now getI1DS on al average IroIn IL TO
cents per pound more for their tobac
On than before the passage of the Nc Kinl
40 bill. Do they objeot2 Do they want t
III duty taken from tobacco?
1t Why, even the esteemed Hartford Tin
ce says the tobacco duty is all right If t
Cd tobacco duty is all right, 80 are the ott
a. protective duties.
~ THE LATE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS-
d, Then about the "billion- dollar congress.
le. Speaker Paige made appropriate rsferer
to the work of the late democratic &C
W. gross.
IA Our state issues and the legislative &C
dc troversy of the last twenty months las
m received little attention in Mr.. Paig
he speech.
n Speaker Paige made scathing arraie
81 ment of the democratic party for its coul
~ in this controversy. The history of t
in complications was clearly and distinc
on reviewed. In conclusion he said:
ed As n matter of law, I believe
liz courts have beea hearing the Sanger a
e. Phslan suits on the ground 'that no f
ne grant wrong Is without a remedy" If I
.ee general assembly fails in the matter of
ial claring state officers elected, or is una1
ed to act, the courts can. It must also
ut conceded that no candidate received q n
,se jority of all the legal votes for governt