Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-11
ADLAI STEVENSON In Thundering Tones Speaks
 for Democracy And the People-The Great Historic Party Has
 Kept Faith With the Millions Who En- trusted It With Power.
 The True Test Of the Value of the New Law Is by ContraSting It
Of the Value of the New Law Is by Contrasting It
 With the Old.

LINCOLN, H.. Oct. 10.-EXtensive prep arstions were made here for the reception of Vice. President Stevenson today. The democracy of Logan county decided upon this being the main rally of the campaign, and selected the county capitol as the place. The vice. president arrived Tuesday night, becoming the guest of a friend. The raw western winds this morning chilled democratic ardor and kept many from attending. Two hundred voters, with three brass bands, went to the stopping place of the vice. president at 10 o clock and escorted him to the principal hotel, where he held reception until 12 o'clock.
 The elaborate outdoor arrangements for the demonstration had to be abandoned at noon and friendly shelter at the hall sought, which only accommodated por- tion of the crowd of visitors, universally farmers.
 At 2 p. m. the vice-president was intro- duced by Dr. A. M. Miller. He was ac- corded a favorable reception, and spent an hour explaining and defending the wisdom of the Wilson bill and other measures of the administration. Tie following is the speech in full of the vice president:
 FELL ow CITlZ eNs: In the presidential contest of 1892 the battle was fought and won by the democratic party almost upon the single is ,ue of tariff reform. Upon the issue of reduced tariff taxation upon the necessaries of life, as against high protec- tionism, Mir. Cleveland was elected and the democracy restored to power. For the first time within a third of a century the demo- cratic party on March 4, 1893, controlled the presidency and botn houses of the con- gress. Und-r these conditions the clun- try had much to expect of the great historic party now restored to power. How has the party kept faith with the people? What steps have been taken along the pathway of tariff reiormY Has the democratic party but "kept the word ot promise to the ear and broken It to the hope;' or has it made an earnest fort to make good every prom ise made in it's platform and upon the hust- ings? This is the question now submitted to the peaceful arbitrament of the ballot.
 Give me your attention, my fellow citi- Zens, and shall endeavor to show that the democratic party has kept faith with those who intrusted 1t with power; that against monopolies fostered and strengthened by more than third of century of republi- can legislation, long strides have been taken along the line of true tariff reform.
 ltmust not be forgotten that at the close of President Cleveland's first term, on the 4h or March, 1889. the republicans came into power the peneficiaries of four years of wise and economical administration of the government. Business conditions were favorable, the country was prosperous, and the an nua revenues were little less than $1CO, ,0C0 ,0OO in excess of it's expenditures. 1he question, as you will remember, then was '.What shall we do with the sur pius?' All this was the result of the able and economical policy and methods of President Cleveland and his political assO- ciates in cabinet and in congress. Four years later, when the republicans retired from place anc power, they left no such vexatiuus question as "What shall be done with the surplus?' to torment the incom- ing democratic administration. Had the republican administration continued 8 month longer, the necessity for issuing bonds in order to meet the current ex- penses of the government would have been imperative. There could from it. As it was, the evil day was only tided over by postponing the pay meDt of matured government obligations. The present chairman of the committee of ways and means of the house of represent atives has publicly made the statement that the last republican secretary of the treasury stated to at committee just prior to the close of the Harrison administration that additional income of $50, 1000. .00U year was necessity.
 beg you to mark the contrast. The re- publican party at the Inauguration of Pres- ident Harrison was the heir to all that Cleveland and his party had achieved during four years of successful administra- tion. As have said, they found business conditions everywhere favorable, the treas ury'overfiowing,, the country prosperous. Four years later, on the 4th of March, 1893, the republican administration retired from power, leaving a depleted treasury, gov ernmental obligations undischarged, and the country upon the verge of bankruptcy.
 The all-important question now aries, what was the cause oi thisf Why surplus revenues aud business prosperity at the close oi the democratic administration, and @ bankrupt treasury aud the country stag gering upon the verge of financial ruin four years later, when the Harrison admin istration retired from powerf It was, my fellow citizens, the logical, the inevitable