Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-09-14
Opens the Republican CAM
paign with a Speech
at Sigourney. ~
A Large Portion of it Devoted
to the Tariff and FL
nancial Issues.
Boies Criticised for Attempt
ing to Ignore National
Issues.

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actually here. They have come.
They have come with demoralized
I markets, with factories closed, with
! enforced idleness, with poverty, with
! starvation. They have come like the
cloudless days Of a rainless summer,
only to wIther and TO blight.
Don't you recognize them, my fellow
citizens You, my old friend that re-
| mem bers back 10 the days of 1850, 80
aud go, the same old democratic days?
Does anybody want Il certificate Of
/ ratification as to the nature of the
| disease that is alfiicting this country?
| or any documentary evidence as to the
fact that we have got this genuine
article known as 1.-THE good old demo.
cratic days" and got it bad
For the first time in thirty years the
democratic party is in absolute control
Of both the executive and legislative
branches of this great government.
The last democratic administration of
this government was prior to 1850.
Fortunate it is that we have documen-
tary evidence of the highest character
giving the conditions and peculiarities
of this disease known as "thc good old
democratic days" 1t is no less than
the message of President James Buc-
hanan in 1857, when as today, democ-
racy was in full control of all the
branches of this government.
"In the midst Of unsurpassed plenty
in all the productions and in all the
elements of national wealth, we find
our manufactures suspended: our pub
lie works retarded, our private enter
prises of different kinds abandoned and
thousands ofuseful laborers thrown out
Of employment and reduced to want.
The revenue of the government which
Is chiefly derived from duties on inn
ports from abroad, has been greatly re-
duced, while the appropriation made
by congress at its last session for the
current fiscal year, are very large in
amount.
Under these circumstances loan
may be required before the close of
your present session; but this, although
deeply to be regretted, would prove to
be only n slight misfortune when com.
pared with the suffering and distress
prevailing among the people. With
this the government cannot fail deeply
to sympathize, though it may be with
out the power to send relief"
Don't that describe our situation eX
actly? Don't that diagnose the case?
Don't we all know just what we have
got and got it bad, an aggravated, ma
lignant case of the good old demo-
cratic days.
President Cleveland discovered the
disease early in August and he pro-
uounces it genuine case. Hear what
he says:
The existence of an alarming and
extraordinary business situation, in.
volviug the welfare and prosperity of
all our people, has constrained me 20
cali together in extra session the rep. e.
Sentatives in congress, to the end that
through wise and patriotic exercise
of legislative duty with which they
solely are charged, present evils may
be mitigated and dangers threatening
the future may be averted."
Here we have the spectacle o. Mr..
Cleveland waving back the yellow flag
of danger and pestilence, back over
thirty years of republican prosperity,
back to the generation which lived un.
der the last democratic administration
of James buchanan, away back prior to
1860, before his SigiUL Qf distress is re
cogniZed and his disease is fully identi-
fed: and right in the midst of all this,
! the democratic party of lows get to-
gether and swear by all that is sacred
that they have had nothing whatever
| to do with it and are not responsible
| for getting it up.
Less than one year ago prosperity
abounded throughout our land, Jess
| than one year ago president Harrison
| in his message TO congress said:
SIN submitting my annual message
TO congress have great satisfaction in
being able to say that the general con.
| ditions affecting the commercial and in.
! dustrIal interests of the United States
arc in the highest degree favorable
A comparison of the existing condi-
/ tions with those OF the most favored,
in the history of the country WILL be.
lieve, show that so high a degree OF
| prosperity and so general diffusion
! of the comforts of life were never be-
fore enjoyed by our people,
You all remember the situation last
fall, money was abundant and at low
rates of interest everywhere. The
! balance of trade with foreign countries
| had been in our favor for years, more
than a hundred thousand new factories
| had been established throughout the
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| bill. Here in Iowa every town was
| raising money to secure the location
! Of one or more of these factories; every
! laboring man was having more work
| than he could do, and was getting on
| the average higher wages than ever
| before known in this country, The
markets were good for all kinds OF
farm products aud on the average.
| Il
making more money than they had
been for years.
Immense volumes of foreign capital
was coming to our country seeking in
vestments in American securities.
But what change. In less thar
six months the factories throughout
our land were closed up. The labor
ing man was out OF work entirely, OF
working for less wages. Markets fol
all kinds of agricultural products wer,
demoralized. American stocks and Sc
curities had deprecated in value NOR,
than billion Of dollars, while tn,
gold of foreign nations was shunninl
us, as humanity shuns the regions o
pestilence and famine.
And who is responsible for thi
mighty change. Lack of confidence OF
the part of capital undoubtedly playet
a conspicuous part. But why the Iacl
of confidence? Our laws were the sam
under which but few months befor
prosperity reigued everywhere. Laws
many of them which for years ha,
been upon our statute books and a
administered by the republican part
had brought 10 our land unbounde
prosperity and happiness. The chang
was only the change Of the bushes
managers of this government. Tn
republican party which had for thirt
years acted as general bushes
, manager of this government, o
vote of the stockholder
stepped down and out, and the ne,
business manager, the democrati
party, took charge of the affairs.
who then, was this lack of confidence
! Surely not in the laws, but in the ne,
business manager. The new bushes
manager had committed itself to ever
scheme and ism throughout the lengt
and breadth of our land, simply i
! order to get votes to put itself i
\ power. In its desperation for power
IL had led tie free silver men of the M