The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-05
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL IN RHODE ISLAND.

TEE HERALD has referred to the great
task the Democracy of Rhode Island mas
undertaken to carry that state in the cleo
ton this week, and the in terest that is felt
in the effort by their brethren throughout
the country. Some OF the most prominent
men Of the party are being heard on the
hustings. Last week addresses were de-
livered by ex-President CLEVELAND, ex-
Governor CAMPBELL, Of Ohio; Congress
man BRYAN, of Nebraska; TUCKER, of Vir-
GINA, and others to immense audiences
The telegraph gave our readers an account
OF Mr. CLEvELAND's reception and short
speech and the enthusiasm Astounding.
Governor CAMPBELL had a rousing recep-
ton likewise and was in his happiest vein.
Some Of his points were very taking. AS
he entered Providence he noticed little
list and big list of voters on the bill
boards, and a gentleman OH being asked
what they were, said in a shame-faced sort
OF way The little list is the list of prop
erty voters and the big list of registry vot-
ers.n Governor CAMPBELL made this q text
Tor comment, saying that in Republican
! government there should be but one list.
He thought the ghost of King CHARLES
was over the state yet, and the way to
brighten 1t of was in a big Democratic
victory. Butthe particular relic of English
history the people wanted TO get rid of was
the ghost of protective tariff upon which
they were running Great Britain in King
/ CHARLES day. Said the Governor:
Then they had wooden industry that was 60
ing down just as the wooden industry in Provi-
/ dence IS going down, under 4 protective tariff
! 30 they issued an edict with respect to the
wooden manufacturers and they decreed that
every corpse should be buried in a. wooden
shroud. II did not make any differences which
| direction the departed was TO go. A wooden
shroud might be superfuous in the place he
was starting for, but he had to wear it, In the
days OF MCKINLEY and ALDRlCH YOU cannot
bury your dead in wooden or silk or cotton or
anything that is made under COPS heavens
unless you pay duty to protect somebody else.
Governor CAMPBELL went on to say that
! BRAnsTREET reports more business failures
ID 1891, the first year of the MCKINLEY
tariff, than have ever occurred in any year
In the history of the country. He declared,
besides, that in the sixteen months that the
MCKINLEY bill has been operative not q
single working man has been benefited.
Then he referred to meeting he addressed
last fall in Akron, o., the head
quarters of the celebrated oatmeal
trust There was, ne said, a very large
audience composed almost exclusively OF
men who worked in protected industries.
| he invited those present who had had
their wages increased by the MCKINLEY bill
to stand up that they might be counted
Nobody stood up. He invited those who
had had their wages cut down once, twice
or three times to stand up, and the whole
audience arose. at looked said the
speaker, like a season of prayer in an old
fashioned Presbyterian church"
Gov. CAMPBELL is one of the best cam
paigners IN the United States, always
ready and quick at repartee. Whilst he
was speaking in Providence some one
shouted: Tell US how you licked 'em in
Ohio, to which he instantly reioined
II you win tell me how much money came
viii tell you how they licked me. Ny parting
words to you are suggested by that remark
Let the Republicans of the country, let the pro
tected interests that have been made rich ant
greatunder the MCKINLEY bill let them come Il
Rhode Island as they came to Ohio, but LEI
them suffer at the hands Of the Democracy O.
Rhode Island such a defeat as said at the out
set would be the forerunner Of the everlastins
destruction Of that party from the face of thu
earth.