Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-19
THE WESTERN CAMPAIGN.
Democracy Held to Its Principles
and Their Logical Results.
THE M'KINLEY LAW A SUCCESS
And the Excellent Fruits of Reciprocity
Even Now Apparent.
THE ENEMY WOULD OVERTHROW BOTH

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nois at high noon to-day by the drop of a
gavel which called to order the Republican
League of Illinois The feature of the day
was the reception and speech of Whitelaw
Reid, Republican candidate for the Vice
Presidency.
The officials of the league state that the
reception into the league last night of 800
new clubs organized since the last cam
paign, swells the total enrolment from
S6S to 1,16S clubs These clubs represent
an average membership of 100 young voters
each. To offset this league, the Democrats
of Illinois have recently organized the
Young Mems Hickory Club, an order which
is also said to show phenomenally rapid
growth.
The following is Mr.. Reid's speech, given
almost in full:
The League Organization Praised.
Among the surprises which this marvel
J Gus country presents to 6 citizen who has
been absent from it for few years. not the
least is this amazing League development
In the interval between one Presidential
campaign and another the land has been
covered with a network of 1900 clubs, with
an active membership of nearly 2,0o0, 900
young men. Two million young menl Who
can calculate-who can even estimate that
force in human affairs?
There is the hope OF the Republic. There
is the real defensive army or the country;
with its drill and its discipline; with its
unity OF belief, of purpose and of action;
with its alert, buoyant, courageous and con.
fident membership. Above all, 1t has its re-
cruiting stations, and it grows at q rate for
which there is in the history Of such organi-
zations no parallel.
hDdo oI,,,ad NIL y
true spirit Of Republicanism- Its tnspira.
tion is love of country rather than love of
office. 1t appeals to the social and refining
instincts. 1t utilizes the literary and edu-
enters. 1t avoids the spasmodic fever and
waste of the old political campaigns by
keeping up the work of education and re-
making the whole winter and spring and
summer the seedtime for our November
harvest 1t has the open-mindedness of
honest and generous youth. 1t welcomes
discussion. encourages campaign OF dis
cussion, and throws open wide its doors and
its platforms to those of opposite beliefs.
1t preserves the best traditions of the Re-
publican party and of the Republic by
bringing young men to the front
Tho Big Four Is All Right.
Ours has always been a young mans
party, but the generation that enlisted with
the Pathfinder and went through the red
sea with the Emancipator is passing away.
Inspired by their example, af1ame with
their spirit, ready in turn for equal RESPONSE
bllities on the grand er scale that heralds
the twentieth century, a new generation is
the promised land that lies before them.
A practical friend says he would like to
hear about some other New York men of
to-day, and asks what about the "Big Four?"
Well, bring you their greetings-united
and authorized greetings, too-the. greetings
of Hiscock and Warner Miller, OF Thomas
c. Platt and OF Chaun cey Depew, of Morton
and Horace Porter and Cornelius Bliss and |
Sherman Rogers, of our candidate Fassett |
and of our Chairman Brookfield and |
Hackett. with the assurance that while we |
estimate the hard struggle before US we be- |
lieve we have an organization and q situa- |
tion making our prospects for victory this |
fall fall in Now York as good as yours in Illinois;
no factions, excepting in the eager reports |
Of our friends, tho enemy. Our organiza-
tion is well advanced and the column is
moving. I
The enemy boast that, like themselves, We !
have laggards. L do not know it and do |
not believe it; but if we have, the thing
which has happened i to H iaggards sne bsfore. s@r
They will get left. The Republican work in
the State of New York is now SO advanced
that with the earn est and enthusiastic con-
tinuation till November Of the campaign al
ready begun. it is beyond the power of any
body in the enemy's rank, or in our own, to
defeat 1t.
Not Men but Principle the Issue.
lam not here to utter one word against
,he gentlemen whom the opposing party
presents for the popular suffrage. I come
rom the State of one of them, and am at
this moment guest in the State of the
other. 1t gives me pleasure to know that
both Of them are tried, able and sincere
non: too sincere and too honorable to take
nomination without incurring its full |
party obligations OR to stand on platform
rine. To that doctrine, gentlemen, it will
,e your privilege and your opportunity to
lold them. On that doctrine your campaign
will be fought and won.
We do not need to turn our faces, even in
to the past. We may leave out
# the discussion the whole history OF the
Republican party, which is through 80 years
he history Of the most glorious and most
prosperous period OF the Republic. We may
ven overlook the record Of the Democratic
'arty for the same time-a record which
riendly to mention. We need only fx
ttention upon the policy for the future they
ave at last openly and manfully avowed, |
o insure their renewed defeat
We may well thank them Tor the clearness
nd candor with which they have for once
tated their precise position on the tariff. |
e%snd its paneondisionai and Da and
epeal. Ask the business world which has
d1usted itself to the Mckinley bill, and is
citing on admirably under il. whether it
ANTS thati They are oppo.ed to any pro
eotive tariff Ask the country, which has
zen its grsa test prosperity under protective
ariffs. whether 1t wants such an absolute
sversal Of the national policy as thatf
Some Facts About the Tariff. ,
The Democrats declare the Mckinley bill
OF only unconstitutional, but "the culmi. 6
ating atrocity of class legislation" Well.
ou have seen how it works. In the estab-
shment OF new industries, in the new at
action for foreign capital, in the better
emand for your products, and even in the ]
rioes Of what you have TO buy. you can d,
its atrocity. But let me give you q few
Unpublished statements from an ofacial |;
'uroe in field have lately left. MI. Os- :
avre, has just written an analysis of the 6
ade from France to the United States pass
q through that port, which, as you know. | !
the chief port for general French expor. a
Over 65 per cent. he says, OF all merchan- \
ise exported from Havre to United States Il
rse o, G The values
Y the Mckinley tariff were over half the 8
,tal values exported, and nearly five-sixths =
ss' sSs sen.ss On .rGs' not
OF in competition with American labor or D
ulerican manufacturers. d
But these wicked Mckinley duties were y
,tually SO levied a. to discriminate Sasinst p
lr rivals in certain other articles 90 as to
'otect our own producers. Accordingly.
9 Democrstio platform denounces the No.
inley tariff as the eliminating atrocity OF
ass legislation, since it legislates for the d
'oducers at homo instead of the producers q,
,road. %
We have to thank the Democratic conyen. .
On for equal candor on another Important fl
after. They denounce the 'tshafn recf. N
octty" which our State Departments has "
ee busy introducing. y
Some Benefits Of sham Reciprocity. Il
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