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and also. hope, under the evolutionary teach
ings of the times. to move on some new
grounds. On all the cardinal issues of re-
publlcan1sm-the rights of men, protection
| TO American worklngmen and American in
terests. reciprocity with non-competing nations
good and sufficient money and safe banking, op-
position to monopolies and trusts. just and
sympathetic care Of the Union soldiers, the re-
vlval OF the American merchant marine on all
| the seas, practical civil service reform the re.
striction OF vicious pauper and contract immi-
grafton. the Monroe doctrine and the NIcara-
qua canal the spirit of Americanism and re-
spect for the American flag everywhere, as an
nounced at Minneapolis, We stand for yet.
Applause
| THE NEGRO QUESTION.
First, in the future, as in the past, we stand
for human rights as the cardinal doctrine of
our faith. and also for the selfrespecting theory
that republicans have as many rights in this
republic as democrats. MIR. Henry watterson
says that this declaration is revival Of section
allsm and the renaissance OF the bloody shirt
The republican league comes on Ken
lucky ground, on which Henry Clay,
as early AS 1893, raised his voice for
human rights, and which was the
birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, to deny this
charge and to prove it false. We come to say
| that the negro question has become merged in
the larger one of the equal rights of all political
| parties. and also to say and prove that the re-
publican party is truer friend of all the vital
interests Of the south than the democratic
party.
I'VE come here not only to say this. but to
| prove it by the democratic party itself as a
witness. For that party has SO far surrendered
to the republican position on this question as
to admit that the negro now has the right to
vote and even to hold office. il he will only act
| with the democratic party. President Cleve-
| land appointed scores of black men to office
during his first term. A negro delegate from
Iowa was in the convention that nominated
Cleveland last year. Tammanv Hall in 1891
and 1892 and the democratic party in MANY
northern states had democratic clubs made up
| of negroes.
For several years the democratic party in
| South Carolina has elected negroes to the city
council of Charleston and to the legislature Of
| the state. negro democrat. elected the
| democratic ticket is member of the demo-
| cratic legislature in that state today, helping to
make laws for black people and white. In the
very campaign of last year. when the cry Of
| force bill and negro domination was being
made in the north to brighten northern mer-
chants about southern trade, the democratic
party itself was not only electing negroes as law
makers in South Carolina, but the negroes
| themselves were fighting for and voting for,
| actually saving the election OF the bour boa
democratic candidate for governor in South
Carolina.
when the democratic party thus accepts
| the negro voter and political ally and
! as man fit for office and law making how is
Mr.. Watterson any longer going to challenge
the right of the republican party to do the
same thing2
$50 we say to him and his party. in the
words Of Lincoln and Grant, that the cause Of
civil liberty itself is involved in this question
and that the contest must 60 on until at every
voting place in the land the rights OF every re-
publican shall be as fully admitted and as fully
| protected as the rights of every democrat"
| The speaker continued to deal with the negro
question at considerable length, declaring that
| there would be no peace until it was settled ac-
cording to the DEGREES of God and not the
prejudlces of men, and insisting that greater
injury Of the injustice toward the southern
negro fell on the laboring men Of northern
Cities who were menaced by the degraded and
cheap labor into which the democratic party
had forced and degraded the white man.
REPENTING VOTERS.
He then continued: I'm the national field
the republican party finds plain encouragement
in the present attitude of many Of the ele-
ments that helped TO elect Cleveland and free
trade and are now repenting of it. Many Of
the great capitalists in the money centers OPP
posed the republican party last year for the
first time, because they said its policies have
been too constructive and too creative and made
the country and all the people too prosperous.
They are not complaining OF that now. Tens
of thousands of workingmen left the republi-
can party under the delusion that free
trade would decrease their expenses Of
living, while the power of their trades unions
would keep up their wages. They do not like
the present prospects quarter OF q million
of Union soldiers. needy aud growing old. who
were made to believe that the democratic party
and the mugwumps had lost their hatred OF
them and would continue their pensions the
same as republicans, while free trade would
give them cheaper things, are learning already
the bitter results of their deusion in voting FOR
Cleveland All these men the republican party
will welcome home and defend. and to all
Union soldiers it will keep sacredly the COW
enants of Lincoln and Grant and die with them
or for them if need shall be.
THE MONEY QUESTION.
GAS to money and banking. the country will
depend upon the republican minority in Con-
gress for defense from threatened peril and
harm. Bimetallism will. of course, be main
tanned by the republicans and the sagacity of
the republican minority in Congress will
doubtless provide, with tine aid of conservative
democrats in that body. some provision in
substitution for the Sherman act, or in
supplement to it, securing the con-
tinued enlargement of the currency of the
country upon a safe basis, and in a manner
which will preserve continued parity in the
value OF coined gold and silver. Neither the
extreme eastern views that could force this
growing country to II gold basis, when in the
whole world not 800, 900 900 of gold is mined
yearly, the view that would make money
dearer and all other property cheaper. nor the
extreme demands of initiation or careless money
will solve the problem or save the country.
This is a silver-producing nation. and our
money should be Of gold and silver and paper,
every dollar of which should be good as the
other. and the volume of safe and sound money
made and kept sufficient for the demands of
our expanding nation. If, beyond this, our
banking system can be extended to the smaller
towns and communities, to give the SOL
vent farmer the ready benefit of his credit and
as low rate OF interest as the business man is
given, and if changes can be made in city bank
ing as to give the solvent workingman as low
a rate of interest business men have very
much of good will have been attained and very
much of the prejudice now existing against the
national banking system and the republican
party removed"
NEW DEPARTURES PROPOSED.
President GARRISON continued at extreme
length to refer to new grounds and new de-
partures' in which the republican party might
safely lead.
Among these he enumerated a one-term
presidency, new plan of civil service reform,
the election of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people. governmental control of
telegraph. courts of arbitration and concilia-
ton for the settlement of labor disputes. i'm
proved roads. and equal political rights for