The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-17

the senator-secretary Lamont on
the Situation.
ALBANY, y. Y, Oct. 15.-The joint
mass meeting held tonight by the Hill
and Cleveland factions at Harm1nus
Bleecher hall was one Of the most en-
thusiastic as well as important and signih-
cant Publications of the present campaign
Mr.. Rosedale called the assemblage to
order and introduced Governor Flower,
who was to preside for the remainder OF
the evening. The governor paid a tribute
to Senator Hill and continued:
"Our enemies are boastful. but the
plain issues Of this campaign should Ger
tainly give Us the victory. This IS
death struggle with the party which gave
us the Mckinley bill IN 1890. The people
discarded those theories Of currency and
tariff in 1892 by the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land 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 that
the people of the old world had 70 move
their manufactures here or their labor
would have starved at home. In their
nists to disrupt the best government ever
devised by mankind. Our country is get
ting over its depression and in another
year we will be prosperous as a nation
and on a basis that viii be enduring.
There is not a line in the Sherman silver
law written in your interest. because any
law which tends to make the currency
Of the country unstable is not in the in
terest Of labor or capital, but 10 hurt
both.
I'VE have revised the tariff. If we are
right in the steps we have taken the peo-
pie will demand a further extension Of
democratic policy. We have also repealed
the force bill There IS not line in the
tariff bill which should reduce the wages
Of workingmen one cent lower than they
were in 1892"
CocI<ran's Speech.
The Hon. Bourke Cochran was intro
duced by Governor Flower. Tumultuous
applause, lasting for some time followed
the name Of the gentleman. Congress
man Cochran spoke as follows:
Two years ago L had the honor to open
the campaign which resulted in the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland. Tonight | stand
ready to give an account Of the manner
in which the administration OF Grover
1 believe Americans cannot be deceived;
that they can discern between right and
wrong; between a system Of legislation
which Is for the good Of the common peo-
pie and Of that which desrades them.
THE democratic party is responsible
Tor two years Of government, not for
twenty years of misgOvernment; If the
bad times which have taken US be the
outcome Of three years Of republican mis-
rule believe that the people will be able
-, 70 f~-s
The democratic party has been bend
ing for two years over the PROSTATE form
of American industry. The party led by
my friend Reed tells you otherwise But
will the people believe him or them? No
Their common sense tells them better
We are a common nation, with fields as
fertile and mines as rich as they were
thirty years ago. Yet our mills are
stopped. our 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
legislation 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.
'Tne 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 a debauched currency is
the powerful factor which has brought
sands, our hard times. If any man can
show how projection protects the
workingna 1 will be the Creates Of pro
tectlOnists. There has never been a sup
ply in this or any other country that met
every demand. But what we want Is
that supply which viii ill the demands
which are compatible with the economic
prosperity of our government. So-called
protection does not give US this. We
must have a free circulation of money
Nar 1x~ha he
slightest uncertainty has attached itself
70 the currency Of a country PARALYSIS
resulted. And when the banks and man.
ufactories Of this country were struggling
through the dark cloud that hung over
them the plundering republicans turned
their backs on the treasury they had
looted. Talk TO me of prOtectioni
Protection from whom? Protection
from what? What country has our adj
Vantages, our people, our resources; what
country Is Germany seeking protection
from? What country does England wish
protection from If not this giant of the
West? The causes Of the strikes which
have shaken this country again and
again have been attributed to democratic
rule. But what are the real causes if not
the base system Of tariff taxation which
the republicans originated2
"Our country is not developed to its
fullest resources and never would be un-
der such a SO-called protective system of
restricted production. Whatever may be
the reason for the vote cast-persOnal
spite, vindictiveness or what-the inter
probation put upon the result by the peO-
pie Of this land viii be democratic JUS
tice against republican injustice and sDoli-
alton. If the republicans should
win this fall they will show a preference
for personal qualification rather than ma
tiOnal principles-they Will show that
they would rather knock a man down
than set a nation up. The good American
citizen, sitting quietly by his fireslde in
stead Of being on street corners Will make
up ten thousand fold in his vote for
David B. Hill over the cohorts of cor
ruption."
Congressman Cochran was loudly an
plauded at every point, especially the
names Of Cleveland, Flower and Hill.
Applause was tumultuous when the
speaker appealed for religious tolerance
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