St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-26
Benny Talks Through It at
q Lively Rate at In
dianapolis.
CRITICISES THE NEW TARIFF
And Gets In a Little ReciprO.
city on Taffy with
Mckinley.
M'KINLEY TALKS OF TRUSTS.
He Is Horrified at Democratic
"Fostering of the Sugar
Combine"

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 25. The
formalitieS of opening the Republican
campaign in Indiana were gone through
with here today. Upon Gov. Mckinley,
of Ohio. devolved the duty of making
the declaration of war upon the Democ-
racy of Hoosierdom. President Harri-
son. in ten-mlnutes speech of intro
ductiOn, presented Ohio's governor to
the thousands that packed Tomlinson's
hall to the walls. Mr.. Harrison said:
My Fellow Citizens: The delightful
duty has been assigned me by the state
central committee of the Republican
party of Indiana to preside over this
great meeting. l am to be its chairman.
not its speaker, and l congratulate you
on that fact. [Laughter.] brought the
distinguished gentleman to whom you
are to listen to this hall this atte rnoon
without sending any courier in advance
to ask whether there were enough people
here for him to speak to. [Cheers /
notice in the audience here today, with
great satisfaction, the presence
of many of our older fellow citi-
Zens. The old men are fond Of
talking of the ''good old times" but the
times to which they look back with so
much delight are gloritied in the fact
that the process of nature and of prov
idence have covered the things that
were hard and brought out In the
memory those things that were sweet,
and pleasant. But the good times which
l have in mind were not good old times,
but very young good times. Applause |
So young that only the unweaned babes
have no memory of them. Only two
years ago this country was not only the
most prosperous country in the world
for that ii had been betOre-Dut it stood
upon the highest pinnacle of prosperity
that it had ever before attained.
[Cheers. This is not the verdict of
politicians; it is the verdict of the com
mercial reporter; it is the expressed
opinion of those men who make
profession of study of the
question. The last two years have been
years of distress and disaster The
losses of them defy skillful calculation.
1t has been said. aud [ think not with
out reason, that they exceed the cost of
the great civil war. These losses have
not been class losses, they have been
distributed. The holder of stocks and
and so has the farmer; and the working.
man has found his wages shrinking.
There has been a general partcipa-
ton in the calamities OF the past two
years as thert was general participa-
tlou iD the prosperity of the preceding
years. Applause. The great national
losses. like those of the civil war, have
sometimes their compensations. Great
as was the cost of the war for the Union,
we feel that it was adequately compen-
sated in the added glory that was
given to the flag. and in
the added security that was
given to our civil institutions and the
unity of the nation. [CheerS.l But the
losses of the last two years have no
such compensation though. There is
no good 10 be gotten out of them laugh
teri except for guidance. They seem to
have been of retributive nature. like
the swamp into which a traveller has
unwarily driven that has no ameliorat-
ing suggestion, except as they teach
him 10 keep on the foot hills and on the
roads that are on the hill tops. Our
people seem to be inclined to make the
most than can be made out of these
years of disaster. We are told that the
rich were getting richer and the poor
poorer, and so to cure that imaginary ill
time when everybody is getting
poorer. Great applause l think that
L remember time when heard of an
inscription on tombstone that ran
something like this: II was we'll; l
thought to do better; | took medicine,
and here l lle." Laughter and.ap-
plause.] Our Democratic friends have
Passed a Tariff Bill
that is approved-so far as 7 can learn
by six Democratic senators and by no
body else. Laughter. We hear of a lit
tie coterie OF senators whose names l
could not mentien perhaps, for they
have not been well Identified. but their
number has generally been fixed at a
round half-dozen, who decided what
pleased With it and nobody else. IAp-
plause. Mr.. Cleveland has repudiated
it, and has declared that it involves
''pertidy and dishopor:' that it was so
shameful in its character and in the in
tiuence that produced it that he would
not even put his name to it.. All of the
leading Democratic papers in the coun-
try have condemned it-both of the old
stalwart variety and of the mugwump
variety.
The Democratic chairman of the WAYS
ard means committee has condemned
it, and the entire Democratic majority
in the house of representatives. Now
that is great misfortune. 1t Is mis-
fortune that the Democratic party was
not able to evolve tariff bill that that
party would accept as q settlement of
the tariff question. But it is not ac-
cepted as a settlement. In the very
nature of things bill thus passed aud
thus characterized cannot be settle
ment, and already we have the sprocla-
nation from Mr.. Cleveland and from
Mr.. Wilson that this is only the begin
ming of the crusade against American
industries; that the war is to go on.
Now, that is great misfortune. If we
could have been told by our Democratic
friends that we we're at the bottom of
well, dark, damp and dismal as it is, we
would have begun to look up to see
whether we could not find some star of
hope; we would have begun to anoint
our bruises and try to build some scaf-
fold by which we might climb out.
But we are told that there are lower
depths yet in store for us, and so this
country is to be held in a state of sus.
peDse upon this questions. 1t can be
ended in just one way, and that is by
overwhelming Republican, victories in
November. Great app!auss.1 ss
When New York gives Levi p Nor.
ton $4,000 majority Iapplansel1 and
Indiana her state ticket 25,uOo lap.
plausel, and Illinois and those states
that have wavered. fall again into line
and The next congress is Republican,,
there will be assurance that we have