Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-09-19
MCKINLEY In MAINE.
Comment of Democratic Leaders
on the Tariff Recalled.
Synopsis Of His Speech-An Immense
Audience Present.

The greatest audience ever gathered
indoors to hear political speech in
Bangor, assembled in the City Hall to
listen to Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio. Long
before the advertised time for the open
ing, the hall was filled to suffocation.
Every seat was occupied and hundreds
were obliged to stand and at least
thousand were turned away. Fully
. 800 people heard the speech, which
was received with manifestations of
showing that even in this
quiet campaign interest in national af-
fairs is strong in Eastern Maine.
Gov. Mckinley prefaced his address
by warm tributes to James G. Blaine
and Hannibal Hamlin. The Demo-
cratic President and Democratic Con-
gress, he said, have been running the
Government for eighteen months, dur
ing which time little else has been run
ming. Industry has been prac tically
stopped. Labor has found little en-
ployment, and when employed it has
been at greatly reduced wages. Both
Government and people have been
draining their reserves, and both have
been running in debt. The Govern,
ment has suffered in its revenues. and
the people in-their incomes. The total
loss to the country in business pros
perity and wages are beyond human
calculation. There has been no ces-
sation in the waste of wealth and
wages, no contentment, brightness
or lhope has anywhere appeared.
The appeals to charity have never been
SO numerous and -incessant, nor their
necessity everywhere so manifest Con-
gress has disappointed the people,
trified with the sacred trust confded
to it, excited distrust among their con-
stituents and impaired their invest
ments.
Pledged, If platforms mean any
thing, to overthrow our long continued
policy of protection, they have quar-
relied and compromised, and upon
thsir own testimony have been COM
promised. The result of their long
wrangle Is tariff law with which
nobody is satisfied; law which even
those who made it apologize for; law
which the Chairman on Ways and
Means, and almsot the entire Demo
cratic side Of the House, condemned
by yea and nay vote only few days
before its passage, affirming their in
tention in the most solemn manner,
MOTTO permit it to be enacted; law
which all factions of the Democratic
party are agreed is the work of O mon
strous trust, which Chairman Wilson
confessed in the House, amid the APP
plause of his confederates with deep
chagrin, "held Congress by the throat"
law of which the members of the
House of Representatives were so
thoroughly ashamed that they had no
sooner passed it then they made haste
to seek its amendment by passing sup.
Elementary bills which put their tar
itfed sugar, coal, lead, iron and bar bed
wire on the free list, under threat of
still further similar assaults on the
much disturbed and distressed indus
tries of the country, utterly needless of
the stupendous ruin they had already
wrought; law which the President
condemned before its passage, and
from which, when passed, he withheld
his approval, law which was char
acterized before its passage by the
greatest leaders in the Democratic
party, the senior Senator from New
York, as a violation of Democratic
pledges and principles" and which
was denounced by the official head of
the Government as such an act of
''party perfidy and party dishonor, "
that if the House should at last concur
in it, they would not dare to look the
people of the country in the face. and
which the executive still condemns
since their surrender, as the very
communism of pelf."
The President, in his letter to Con
gresham Catchings, of Mississippi,
saws: "The millions of our country.
men who have fought bravely and well
for tariff reform mot accepting this
billy should be exhorted to continue
the struggle, boldly challenging to
open warfare, and constantly guarding
against treachery and half heartedness
in their camp" and who, while he
permitted the bill to become law
lacking the moral courage to veto it.
II the country was disposed to accept
this bill as final and could permanent
ly adjust business to it, the party in
power would not have it so. They have
so declared with boldness and una
nihity. This means, unfortunately
a constant agitation until March A
1895. at the least, and for two yeari
longer after that unless the people
Congressional elections this year make
the House Republican, in which even
no further wfecking of our industries
or interference with the labor of ou
people can occur during the admins
tration of President Cleveland. Wha
will your verdict beY II III Wb
Gov. Mckinley then gave histor!
of the new tariff legislation. He sale
| the bill. as it passed the House, would