St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-27
TOLD PLAIN TRUTHS.
Gen. Stevenson Addresses Brook.
Ign Democrats on the Issues
of the Campaign.
Republican Financiering Empties
the Treasury of the
Country.


meeting in the Academy of Music.
where Gen. Adlai E. Stevenson, the
vce-presidential candidate, and Con-
gresham Isadore Rayner, of Maryland.
spoke On the issues of the campaign.
over 1000 persons, many of them
ladies'. were crowded in the spacious
amphltieater. and nearly 800 prominent
Democratic citizens occupied seats on
the stage.
Gen. Stevenson received an ovation
as he stepped forward to deliver his
speech, the great audience rising to its
feet waving handkeI chiefs and wildly
cheering. MIR. Stevenson began by
quoting a eu.ogium of Grover Cleveland
uttered by the great Republican orator
of your state In introducing to New
York audience distinguished private
Citizen" and continued with review of
the confeSSedly honest administration
of Cleveland. which had gone into his
tory as able and economical.
''At the close of President Cieveland'S
administration" said he, 1.-The surplus
i'll the treasury, exclusive of the gold
reserve, was, in round numbers, $685.
100000 1t will be remembered that
during his administration an important
question was, What shall be done with
the surplus revenues? In view of the
fact that the annual revenues of the
government were then S100.000,000 in
excess of its expenditures, the question
was one of practical interest to the
American people.
"What is the condition which now
cGnfronts us at the end of three years
and a half of Republican administra-
ton? On the basis of revenues to the
government, as estimated for the pres
ent fiscal year. and of the liabilities of
the government OIL account of the an
nual and permanent appropriations for
the same period, there will be a deficit
of S52,000,000. Upon the assumption
that the law requiring S4S, 100000 for the
sinking fund to be complied with, there
is no escaping the deficiency l have
mentioned. The bankruptcy which
now threatens the treasury is the result
of the enactment of the Mckinley law,
and. second, the lavish appropriations
of the Fifty-first congress. The apprO-
priatlons of the last Republican con-
gress, which has gone into history as
the billion dollar congress, far exceed
ed that of any of its Democratic prede-
cessorS."
The speaker asserted that the treas
ury had always found its most faithful
guardians in the Democratic party.
Taking up the financial plank of the
voiced his sentiments, and. passing to
the tariff. denounced the Republican
system of protection to certain indus
tries, by which heavy tariff burdens
are laid upon the great mass of the peo-
pie tor the benefit of the favored indi-
vldualS who are fortunate enough to
receive its blessings.
The advocate of this unequaled and
unjust system of taxation" he said,
"have deluded the people with various
excuses for its existence. In the first
place. it was not tax but wonder
full discovery in political economy, by
which foreign governments were either
forced or deceived into paying our taxes
for us. This preteXt no longer deceiveS
the tax-burdened people. Claim every
thing was the demand which inaugu-
rated the Infamous political larceny of
1876.
"There has undoubtedly been won
derful increase III the material wealth
of the United States. But who has it?
The answer is found in unequal distrl-
button; i'll the accumulation of enOr-
nous private fortunes. the tendency to
pass legislation i'll exchange for political
favors, and utter disregard OF the rights
of tax-laden people"
The speaker then proceeded to give
his views Oh the force bill, and said that
the bill in stray lines and paragraphs
breathed distrust of the people. The
people, the source of all political power
under our constitution, have no voice in
the selection of those, who under this
bill, can sport at will with their dearest
rights.
This legislation, my fellow citizens.
is devised in the spirit of hate" He
commented upon the industrial condi-
ton of the South, and the probable eff
feet OF force bill as observed during
his recent tour through that country,
closing with the assertion that the in
terests of all the people are bound up in
the Democratic party and urging sup
port for the party's nominee.
Throughout his remarks Gen. Steven
son was repeatedly applauded, and every
mention of Cleveland's name was
greeted with deafening cheers.
Gen. Stevenson's letter of acceptance
will be made public this week. Prob
ably tomorrow. Gen. Stevenson is in
splendid health and spirits, and he is
confident of the result in November.