The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-09-16
JUDGE MURPHY, OF IOWA.
STRONG SPEECHES AT CLEVE-
LAND-CARR CLUB LAST NIGHT.

STRONG SPEECHES AT CLEVE- {
LAND-CARR CLUB LAST NIGHT.
Applause Amid strong !
and Able Democratic Addresses by
Good Democrats.
At the meeting of the Cleveland Carr
club last night at Stronach's auditorium,
Hon. ]. H. Murphy, ex Congressman
from Iowa, spoke to over eight hun ired
citizens on the political issues, being in
troduced by R H. Battle, Esq.
Judge Murphy said in the outset that
it mattered not of what political pro-
civities the hearers had assembled, they
were all friends of his, friends as Ameri-
can citizens; that he was proud of the
demonstration, proud of the attention
and interest. He refaarred to his trip to
North Carolina, and t. the "beautiful CITY
of Raleigh, the prettiest town in his esti
nation south of the Mason and
Dixon line. He reiterated the words of
the gentleman who introduced him-he
was an ironclad democrat of the bourbon
stripe. He proposed to state the truth
and state it in csndor-he loved candor.
he had voted democratic ticket,
straight and unscratched, for 35 years
and that course must have certainly been
stimulated by confidence in that party. |
He was proud to state that the creed of |
the democratic party as promulgated by
Thos. Jefferson, is 'The greatest good to
the greatest number" Who could ask |
for more2 Where is the Federal party
to day? Was it not buried in 1S242
Then came the Whig party; then the
''Know Nothing" and "Free Soil''
and then the republican. All had
died natural death, and the
latter, the republican, would be
buried on the evening of November 9Th
next. His reference here to Grover
Cleveland was loudly applauded. He
spoke, then, of the differences in the two
parties, the tariff, force bill, pensions, etc.,
and compared the candidates on the ma
tional tickets now posing for the suffrages
of the people. The republican party i'm
poverished the poor for the benefit of the
wealthy; the democratic party was in
favor of tariff for revenue only. He
spoke at length upon the extravaganza
of the republican party-the heavy tax
imposed upon the neCessaries of life to
support the benefciaries of the pension
steal, and made an imp pressive argument
against the republican administration on
this particular line.
On the force bill /, he said that he had trem-
bled as he stood in Congress and saw ahead
the possibility of such en- enactment; he
had seen, though a Westerner, the result
of carpet-bag, scalawag rule in the
| ho ~ i
remembered visit to the Louisiana leg
islature in 1859, when he halls were dis
) ordered, the members boisterous and
riotous and yet on the same day over
5000, 900 being appropriated for this and
for that. The picture points out but mildly
the meaning of the force bill enactment.
He appealed to the republican and third
party voters to study what would be the
results of such bill; he urged them to
revert to the adage, "Self preservation is
the first law of nature" and vote against
such possibility. He showed that the
republican party was committed to thu
. bill, and why vote for the thir6
party ticket meant vote for Har-
4 rison and lis force bill pet
He showed further that democratic sue
i cess was the only protection from this
: damnable scheme.
He compared the pension expenditure
of the past and present, pointing out tn
annual increase, and asked was it no
time to cry 'halt" when to-day the pen
|. sion steal aggregated larger amour
than the government revenues. H.
y asked if it was not a shame that the la
e boring men of the south have to put hand
n in pocket and pay to the cowardly pen
- sion thieves of the north He show e.
). how pensioners were made for part
i reasons-families committed to the re
70 publican party by being promised pen
} sion. He dealt strong blows to tn
N fraud, and declared that wha
is now needed is q man like Grove
Cleveland, who not only has tn
manhood to find the right, but the mora
courage to maintain it. President Hal
Of rison has never vetoed single pensio
m bill-never. Compare the record wit
v the administration of Cleveland. In r.
j. ference toCleveland, here, he said he kne
u him personally and had never seen ma
n have more prominently the three quail
ss ties for executive duties, honesty, econ'
q my, firmness, than he. He pictured the VI
rising of the people, from Maine
Florida, prior to the Chicago convention
all declaring, eve want him"-the O
flee, in this case, had sought the ma
nj His reference to Stevenson was intense
On eulogistic, and he said that no person in G
rn flee under the last democratic admin
Ali tration, was more respected than w
gu this man. About Harrison he said b.
en- little-his administration spoke loud
than words. he referred to his neighbor,
personal friend but political enemy
Gen. Weaver. He said, with thir
w. years experience, he knew him to be
TO- political prostitute, a 'lemagogue of t
[u- widest stripe. He had observed
ia every political step for thirty years al
at knew him to be member of every ord
at or creed, if it meant promotion for t
''great l am," Weaver. He had call
democrats traitors and copper heads
the Iowa stump years ago-going beyo
the bounds of political courtesy and
9.n' tacking the democratic voters personal
IL: ~ calling them villianous cut-throats a
Ills towards. The Judge read extracts frc
speeches he had made from time to til
in which these statements were MAJ
He then referred to him as greenback
tier when hereputed the republican argume
the he had made prior to that time.
next turned up as democrat. Sto
and voted for awhile the democra
6e- ticket. He then left that and becam