The morning call., 1894-10-16
FOR A NIGHT IN ALBANY.
They Had a Most Enthusiastic
Time.
FLOWER AND COCHRAN SPOKE.
Laying All the Present Evils of the
Land to the Republican
Party.

ALBANY, n. Y, Oct I5.-The joint
mass-mee,ing held tonight by the Hill and
Cleveland factions was most enthusiast
tic jollification. Governor Flower was put
down for the main speech. speaking in
substance as follows:
"Fell0w-Democrats- is time when
Democrats should stand up and be counted
and if l do not mistake the feeling OF the
rank and file Is that they are in line for
battle"
The Governor warmly commended Sem
ator Hill as statesman and Democrat.
Continuing he said: ''This Is the death
struggle with the party that gave us the
Mckinley bill in 1890. Those who inflicted
our present evils upon US now ask restora-
ton to power when the country is just get
ting over the drunken debauch in which
they left it. Our country is getting over
it depression, and in another year we will
be prosperous as nation and on a basis
that will be enduring. There is not line
in the silver bill written IN your interests
because any law which tends to make the
currency of the country unstable is not in
the interest of labor or capital, but to the
hurt of both. We have revised the tariff,
and there is not line in it which will re-
duce the wages of workingmen one cent
lower than they were in 1892"
Hon. Bourke Cockrsn was introduced
by Governor Flower. Great applause,
lasting some time, followed the name of
the gentleman. Mr.. Cochran said:
1.-TWO years ago [ had the honor to open
the campaign which resulted in the cleo
ion of Grover Cleveland. Tonight l
topd raadv m Ut annonn+ of ha
in which the administration of Cleveland
has discharged his stewardship. | believe
that men cannot be deceived; that they
can discern between right and wrong be-
tween system Of legislation which is for
the good of the common people and of
that which degradeS them.
eff the bad times which have ovsrta ken
us be the outcome of twenty-four years of
Republican misrule, believe the people
will be able to trace the evil to Its source
The Democratic party has been bending
| for two years over the pIostrate form of
American industry. NV friend Reed will
tell you otherwise. but will people believe
him? No. their better sense will te II them
better. We are nation with fields as fer
tile and mines as rich as they were thirty
years ago. yet our mills are stopped,
our factories closed. Why these hard times
il they cams not from God? They came
from man. Why my friends, this
panic could not be caused by any legisla-
tion which could be enacted in one or two
years. No; the legislation which caused
this was the outgrowth of twenty odd
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
a system of protection. This, combined
with debauched currency, is the power
full factor which has brought US our closed
factories, oGr unemployed thousands, our
hard times. If any man can show me how
protection protects the workingman | will
be the greatest of prOtectionists. What we
want is supply which will I'll the demands
which are compatible with the economic
prosperity of our Government. The So
called protection does not give US this.
We must have a free circulation of money
You have noticed that whenever the slight
est uncertainty has attached itself to the
currency of a country paralysis resulted.
and when the banks and manufactures of
this country were struggling through the
dark cloud that hung over them the plum
dering Republicans turned their backs to
the treasury they had looted.
Talk to me of protection. Protection
from whom? Protection from what !?
What country Is seeking protection I?
What country does England seek pro,ec-
1ion from if not this giant of The West?
1.-The causes of the strikes which have
shaken this country have been attributed
to Democratic rule, but what are the
causes IL not the base system of tariff
taxation which the Republicans originated !?
Our country is not developed to its fullest
and will never be under such protective
system of restriction. Ii the Republicans
should win this they will show a prefer
ence for personal qualification rather than
national PRINCIPLES. They will show that
they would rather knock man down than
set a nation up"
Congressman Cochran was loudly ap.
plauded at every point aud especially at
the mention of the names Of Cleveland.
Flower and Hill. The applause was
tumuliuous when the speaker appealed for
religious federation,