Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-01-12
Crows Speech at Harrisburg.

| When Galusha A. Grow was escoIteu w
the platf orm of the hall in Harrisburg, last
| Wednesday, where sat the convention that
| had Just nominated him for Congressman
| at Large, he sp oke as follows
| Gentlemen, accept my double thanks,
| First, for the kindness implied in your cor
dial greeting to me, and, next, for the
unanimous vote by which you have rendered
me the nomination. Rest assured that
they will ever be among the cherished
memories OF life.
| sFor the first time since 1856 the Demo
cratic party has been intrusted with the
| power of government by the people, ana
| it seems to be beginning now just where IL
ended then. This generation has no
knowledge by experience of what Demo
cratic administration of the government Is.
The Democratic party in power is a stand
| ing menace to business. Why, the mere
threat contained in its platform has COM
pletely paralyzed the business of the coun-
try. Never in our history have our indus
tries been SO prostrated. nor so many peo-
pie thrown into enforced idleness as we
find to-day after less than one year OF Dem
ocratic rule.
'In 1892, under the wise and patriotic
Republican administration, the country
Tad reached it's highest degree of prosperi-
ty it had ever known. Every branch OF
business in every part of the land was pros
porous, and there was work Tor every man
who wanted it at the highest rate of wages
that has ever been paid, except in times of
war.
| cat such time the people were called
upon to elect President and Congress,
and with that reckless spirit of change
which sometimes sways the unthinking
masses, the majority sowed the wind and
the business of the country is now waiting
for the harvest We are told by the Dem
ocrats that the present condition of affairs
is a legacy from the Republican party.
That is too thin veil to cover their in
competency. and it is not true. The Re-
publican party in Its thirty three years OF
power has left legacies of which we may
all feel proud. The first one is union
free and country saved. Second, cir
culating medium of gold, silver and paper,
interchangeable one into the other, and
every dollar as good in any foreign coun-
tty as it is at home. We have also left as
a legacy banking system under which no
bill holder ever lost a dollar. But the
Democratic party proposes to replace this
with the old red dog and shinplaster State
banking system. Another legacy of the
Republican party is a revenue system OF
protection under which the industries
, of the country have grown
from sixteen thousand millions of dollars
in 1860, to sixty three thousand millions in
1890. Under this system of protection the
Government has been provided with reye-
nue. to meet all its current expenses, over
: So, 900, 900, 900 of the war debt has been
wiped out; it has enabled US to provide the
heroes who risked their lives for the Union
, with liberal and just pensions, and has pro-
tected the workingman from competition
with the underpaid workmen of Europe.
1.-THE Democratic party proposes to sup
plant this system by tariff which its ad-
vocates admit will not raise sufficient rev.
enue to meet the expenes Of the govern
ment. 1t is neither protective nor rev.
enue tariff, but suggests one of those hy-
brids, which in nature, has not power to
perpetuate itself They will neither ra Use
revenue for the government nor protection
FOR the industries of the country. What
k ind of craftsmanship is thatl
alt took hundred years for the Demo
Gratis to find out that a protective tariff
was unconstitutional. From Washington
to Cleveland nearly every president bad
signeo tariff bills and the Supreme Court
has pronounced them constitutional, but
now the Democrats have just found it is
unconstitutional. 1t takes them about
, that long to find out anything new. They
were even q number Of years behind the
Southern Democrats, who Incorporated
5 free trade in the Confederate Constitution.
, The Southern Statesg great trinity of prin-
ciples were slavery, secession and free
trade, The first two sleep the sleep that
0 knows no waking and the other will join
{ them as soon as the people prepare the
sepulchre in which it is TO be buried"
Mr.. Grow went on to discuss the tariff at
some length He concluded his speech
8 with q severe arraignment OF President
n Cleveland aud Secretary Gresham for their
un- American and unconstitutional action
in the Hawaiian matter. He said their
: policy had been fifty termed the ''pclicy of
Q infamy" and added the American people
i owe it Ia themselves to make this act s.
odious that it viii stand out alone III histo-
nv as the only attempt that was ever made
Q by President TO override the Constitution
o n order y set Up a monarchy.