The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-05
HILL ON THE TARIFF.
The New York Statesman Roundiy Roasis
shs Mckinley Law.

shs Mckinley Law.
Senator David Is Hill was warmly
received at the New York state demo-
cratic convention at Saratoga on Mon.
day. September -. by a host Of dem
ocrats- lie was elected temporary
chairman. and. on taking his seat. said:
The unterrined democracy % the Empire
sta'e assemble here to-day undlsmayed at tho
premature boasts and assumed confidence Of
our adversaries- We are not unaccu~tomed TO
their annual and moss-cOyered game OF polt-
tcal blum. although renewed this year with ex-
trAorcinary yehemence anu unbushing ef-
frontery. II vain boasts alone could bring
victory their battle Is indeed won before IL Is
actually commenced bu, we beg TO remind
them that there has not been a campaign in
this state during the last twelve years when
they did not assume IN August September
that they had carried IL. when IN truth and in
fact during that whole period. with single
exception. victory has perched upon our ban
ners the first Tuesday in November in each
year. We win our victories election days anj
not BY exuberant bravado In convention halls
Republican Heads Turned by Victory.
The unexpected victory NJ our opponents
last fall has turned their heads and rendered
them arrogant and op.nionated- They fail &c
recall the fact that the total vote polied was
nearly three hundred thousand short Of the
themselves did not anticipate and which their
surprised and astute leaders the mex; day after
election humOrOusly attributed u Divine Prov
idence and not 70 republican strength With
a united battery ana united vote New York
Is still a democratic state. ami u we are true
10 ourselves will this year resume her place IN
the democratic column
Our opponents. by the vigorous beating OF
political tom-toms and the insistence upon
petty and misleading localissucs seek 20 divert
the pubic attention from the uneny!abe rec
ord they made during their recent four years
control OF the federal government The peO-
pie. however. have not forgotten the fact that
II was a repu bllcan administration which In
tina, III fated year Of iss0 saddled the country
with unwise aud vicious legislation which has
since crippled It's prosperity endangered It's
finances and augmented It's public burdens.
People remember that the sherman bullion
purchase law was the product Of republican
statesmanship. against the enactment OF which
every democrat In congress voted. IL should 10
borne In mind that the financial panic was re-
publican panic In its inception. continuance
and disastrous effects 1t under a national
democratic administration that the Sherman
and federal election laws were repealed With
IN the first year Of our administration and at
the ensuing congressional elections the spec
tace will be witnessed for the frs. time in
twenty-four years OF state elections conducted
as they ought to be-withOut federal in-er.er-
ence, dictation or intimidation
scores the Mckinley Tariff.
The enactment OF the Mckinley tart law
was the eliminating atroeity o, republican
recklessness In legislation IL was the very
personircation Of protectlonism run mad IL
was the Inauguration OF a huge scheme 0; gov
ernmentai partisanship with private business
interests The reaction which followed in the
elections in the elections In the fall o. $50.
and was reiterated in the election Of isea. was
the natural and legitimate expression OF the
| popular Indignation az the party whieh had
basely surrendered TO the mercenaries within
It's own ranks and had bartered away the pub
! lie good for selfish greed We promised the
| people that II intrusted with power this vi
eious. un-American and Objectionable law
should he repealed. and rejoice to-day in
the fulrl;ment Of that pledge The Mckinley
/ Law has gone where the wood bine twtneth-
gone TO stay 10 be reenacted again BY
any political party
Without retractins a single word which
uttered IN the senate IN criticism OF the meas
ure while engaged in the effort to perfect II
| and render 1t more acceptable now that il has
| been passed and become . Law u must be con-
sidered rs . W hole. treated largely as Q party
measure and contrasted with the Mckinley
| law. Cninfuenced by any personal cisap-
pointmenis or any pride OF opinion / may be
| permitted to speak Of the measure as Il IS
nothing extenuate nor set down augh. in NAL
1
| truthfully be argued that Il Is . vast improve
ment over the Mckinley law. and will clearly
| demonstrate ifs superiority time rolls on
and the business in this country shall adjust
| itself TO its provisions II recognizes In part
1t least. the democratic doctrine Of free raw
| raw materials
Il. ma, be safely asserted tina, the new Law
| will not cripple nor embarras> a single indus
| try IA the land. nor throw out OF employment a
single workingman. nor unduly stimulate over
production on the one hand o. exorbitsnl
| importatons on the other
Fellow democrats % the Empire state aad
| OF the country the duty OF the hour is not
harsh criticism Of dem ocratic leaders or DEM
| ocratic measures. not mutual recrminations or
| conflicting councils but It IS . time for con-
| citation. for unity OF purpose. for aggressive
action. The control OF both Legislative depart
| ments OF the government IS at stake In the
| coming election. Interparty strife must now
cease and our attacks be reserved for the foes
who are already forming their lines OF battle
against us Democratic national and state adj
ministrations must alike he Loyalty supported
Praise for CIeveland's Administration.
The administration OF President Cleveland
has been clean-handed. economical. painstak-
| Ing and patriotic The various departments of
the national government has. been conducted
with success. and the democratic party a. a
whole is entitled TO the confidence o, the
masses OF the people whose int srests IL endeav-
ors faithfully TO serve The democratic party
stands in this state. rs II has ever stood. FOR
that religious liberty which Is guaranteed
them by our constitution. and l srraign the
republican party for Is covert sympathy with
and encouragement OF the proscriptise spirit
which attempts TO set up a religious text a
qualification for oficial preserment ia this
land OF the free. and which Is propagated
by certain political organization which de-
serves execration at the hands o. every fair
minded man but which the republican state
convention last week distinctly retu sed.
though earnestly urged. TO condemn
Very Trying