Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-23
SENATOR GORMAN.
ne FRANKLY SAYS Ne MADE 4 MIS-
TAKE ABOUT cLsvELANo'
Tb,.ks Hes the Right Man Now-Ths
senator Predicts victory for
tho Democrats.

this campaign 1T ticnciHs ~
county. Md. on Thursday. This place
waa chosen because 1t Is the most central
no,n, In the county. twas the largest po-
i,tical gathering ever seen IN the county.
Ola men and young men came WIN tns,
wives and swsethearts. bringing weii-niiea
baskets and other necessities FOR = Gay :
frolic. Roast-bsefsn and bread, furnisneo os
the committee. ware piled high on ,ns III
blcs and were M FREQ as the air. me ,ooS
soon disappeared under the onsiaukn' "
the hungry Democrats. - a..
meeting and Joshua Lynch was secretary.
The vice presideuts were Augustus kucker.
Charles L. Montague, Oliver Amos, UeorRe
X. Kldrely, John s. Watkins, and william
/. Harding. Senator German was greeseu
II can scarcely realize" said senator
German (as reported in the Baltimore SUM-
(" that it Is now nearly quarter ot tst;ny
fury since first had the pleasure OF inning
mart i'm your deliberations ut this place.
ITO tell you that this Is an Important
election is 10 repent what you already
know. To say that the great penang
;ssue ia the tariff would be insulting your
intelligence. 10 say that the Republican
party has placed itself in the, nanus OF
corporate power and Is being directed oy
influences that threaten your hoerties II
10 tell an old story.
THE RIgHr MAN.
II say 10 you frankly that 1 thought
from the divisions in our party IN G venei
land If nominated. I said this freely IN
counsels with other members OF the party
and thought 1t would be wise for us 70 So
lect some other leader. ] now confess
that in this 1 was mistaken. we nase
named the right man, and evidences o,
this are coming in from all quarters, ana
the honest expression of the country VIII
ratify our selection In November.
There is more at stake In TINS c0nVese
than the success OF indiyiduaisi IneIe
are involved many things that, II Harrison
is elected. will fall upon US with the same
heavy oppression we encountered IN tae
bloody DAYS succeeding the civil war.
"Wben the campaign of 1884 was starred
aaid 10 the people in Maryland, fou
must help your brothers in weak states,
and noble response came. 1 am not IN ~
charge now. better man is IN controi Oh
the national committee, but you must ex-
tend to him the same encourageinehss you
did to me.
THE LEADING ISSUE.
1.-THE lending issue now before the
country IL the tariff. This Is n complex
snbiect. and one that il is impossible to
present properly IN all its details from
rostrum like this. The tariff is now so
fashioned as to take the substance or the
people and give II to the manufacturer,
and il is also used to create sugar boun-
ties. In this State. where you are strug-
Cling on your farms TOR livelihood. you
are laboring to pay bounty to the sugar
growers OF Louisiana. We ought to have
md
vould all get part of this plumber.
THE Democracy is anxiou. TO remedy
this tariff. but not. as the Republicans
charge, by destroying manufactures and
TO create free trade, by which statements
they have appealed to the passions and IN
terests of the North. When the Mills bill
was held up TO view as Democratic
measure no free trade was found In 1t. Mr..
Blaine raises the same old CRY OF free trade
again. but Mr.. Cleveland, who now has
the right to voice the sentiments OF our
party, saws we are not destructive party,
but that the Democracy stands to protect
the manufactures in common with all the
people. A.. .,;a .,
intent and history of the Democracy, and
that when any party put duty of 100 to
$50 per cent. on articles amply protected
by 20 and 80 per cent. 1t was robbery and
will provoke revolt that Will cause the
pendulum of honest opinion to swing to
our side, and this IS so.
DO not expect instantaneous relief
from Democratic success. These Republi..
cans are willy set and have so legislated
that the robbery must continue for many
years TO come. We will curtail as fast as
possible. and the Democratic party alone
is the party TO which you must look for re-
lief. The taxes you pay should always be
measured by the expenditures OF the
government. The Republicans have
so legislated that they take S5O0;00O,-
900 yearly for these expenditures. They
have increased the offices and run mp
the salary lists. We will cut them down
when we get into power. They have in
creased the expenditures for public build
inps, for the army and navy, all of which
should be reduced. They have given In
pensions S16O, OOO, 900 year. and they have
passed bill which makes it 5000, 0OO, 900
within two years. There is no relief from
this legislation till death relieves us OF the
old fellows who marched to the tune OF the
fife and the drum.
CRITICISED BY MuGwUMPS.
II always tell the truth to the people,
relying on their sound sense and good
Judgment, and / have never been de-
ceiyed. l and my fellow senators have
can legislation has shackled us and we
can see no chance of immediate relief.
made this statement publicly from my
seat in the Senate and said we could not
give the people relief until we had control
of all branches of the government. And
until that time pointed out how the gov
eminent expenditures must continue to be
excessive.
THAT statement was criticised and the
author roundly denounced by the Mug
wump press and even by some Democrats.
That criticism pleased me, for il make q
statement that does not occasion row
always fear that have said the wrong
thing.
II am satisfied that Grover Cleveland
is equal to the task of making the neces-
sary reduction. He will take the purse.
strings of the treasury in firm grasp and
serve notice to the jobbers that under
| Democratic rule the peoples money is