St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-16
IN Line FOR BATTLE.
Gov. Flower Sounds the Key
note at an Albany Mass
Meeting.
COCHRAN ALSO SPEAKS.
A Vigorous Opening Of the
Ohio Democratic Cam
paign.
COCHRAN ALSO SPEAKS.
WILSON PRODS PROTECTION.
A Scheme to Tax the Poor to
Enrich Wealthy Manu-
factuperS.

ALBANY, n. Y. Oct. t15.-The joint
mass meeting held tonight by the Hill
and Cleveland factions at Harmanus
Bleecker hall was one Of the most en-
thusiastc as well as important ana
significant Publications of the present
campaign. Mr.. Rosedale called the as
semblage to order and introduced Gov.
Flower, who was to preside for the re-
mainder of the evening. The governor
spoke in substance as follows:
Fellow Democrats: This is a time
when Democrats should stand up and
be counted, and if do not mistake the
feeling of the rank and file they are
In Line for Battle.
The governor paid glowing tribute
to Senator Hill as a statesman and
Democrat. Continuing, he said: 80 ur
enemies are boastful, but the plain is
sues of this campaign should certainly
give US the victory. This is the death
struggle with the party which
gave US the Mckinley bill in
1890. The people discarded those
theories of currency and tariffs in 1892
by the election of Mr.. Cleveland. and
those who inflicted the evils upon US
now ask restoration to power when the
country is just getting over the drunken
debauch in which they left it. They
raised the tariff so high the people of
the Old World had TO move their manu-
factories here OF their labor would
have starved at home. In their
train have come anarchists and COM
munists to disrupt the best government
ever devised by mankind. Our coun-
Try is getting over its depression, and
in another year we will be prosperous
as a nation, and OIL basis tt at will be
enduring. There is not line in the
Sherman silver law written in your in
terest. because any law which tends to
make the currency of the country un-
stable is not in the interest of labor or
capital. but to the hurt of both.
I'VE have revised the tarit fl. If we
are right in the steps we have taken
the people will demend a further eX-
tension of Democratic policy. We have
also repealed the force bill. There is
not Inc in the tariff bill which should
reduce the wages of workingmen one
cent lower than they were in 1892"
Hon. Bourke Cochran
was introduced by Gov. Flower. Tu.
multuouS applause. lasting for some
time. followed the name of the gentle
man. Congressman Cochran spoke as
follows: 1.-Two years ago l had the
honor to open the campaign which re-
suited in the election of Grover Cleve-
lard. Tonight 1 stand ready to give an
account of the manner in which the ad-
ministration of Grover Cleveland
has discharged its stewardship.
l believe that Americans cannot
be deceived; tha! they can discern be-
tween right and wrong. between sys-
TEN Of legislation which is for the good
OF the common people and that
which degrades them. The Democratic
government, not for twenty-four years
OF misgovernment; if the bad times
which have overtaken us be the out
come OF these years of Republican mis-
rule, believe that the people will be
able to trace the evil to its source.
the Democratic party has been bend
ing for two years over the PROSTATE
form of American industry. The party
led by my frieId Reed tells you other
wise. But will the people believe him
or them? No; their common sense tells
them better. We are a nation with
fields as fertile, and mines as rich as
they were thirty years ago. Yet our
mills are stopped, are factories closed
Why these hard times? If
they came not from God, they
came from man. Why. my friends. this
panic could not be caused by any legis-
lation which could be enacted in one or
two years. No, the legislation which
caused this was the outgrowth of
twenty years rule of the Republican
party. The commerce of the nation is
the commerce of the individual. For
the years of its rule, the Republican
party has advocated system of protec
ton. This, combined with debauched
currency, is the powerful factor
which has brought US our closed factor
les, unemployed thousands, our hard
times. If any man can show me how
protection protects the workingman, 7
will be the greatest of protectionists
There has never been supply iu this
Or III any other country that met every
demand. But what we want is that
supply which Will fill the demands
which are compatible with the economic
prosperity of our government. So-called
protection does not give US this. We
must have
Free Circulation of Money.
You have noticed that whenever the
slightest uncertainty has attached itself
to the currency of a country paralysis
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