The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-09-09
POLITICS AT THE EAST.
Governor Mckinley Speaks
in Maine.
He Addresses a Large Crowd
at Bangor.
The Democratic Party Handel
Without Gloves.
Governor Clsavss and Czar Reed Hold
Forth NJ Portland Senator
Mills on tho stump
in Texas.
By the Associated Press.

audience ever gathered in Dorchester
county at political meeting Assem- bled
in this town to listen to Governor Nc
Kinley Of Ohio. Long before the tms
advertised for the opening OF the meet
ing the hall was filled to suffocation.
Every seat was occupied and many were
obliged to stand up, and at least
thousand were turned nwsy. At least
$500 people heard the speech, which
plauss. showing that even In this quiet
campaign interest in national atfAira Il
strong in Eastern Maine. After maxi
in his speech in the city hall, Governor
Mckinley addressed an overflow meet.
ing at the Y. NJ. @. A. hall. At the city
hall meeting Congressman Boutelle pre-
sided and made q speech.
Governor Mckinley prefaced his ad-
dreas by warm tributes to James @.
Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin. The
Democratic president and Democratic
congress-" he said, shave been running
the government for 1S months, during
which time little else has been running.
Industry has practically been stopped.
Labor has found little employment.
and when employed. it has been at
greatly reduced wages. Both the gov
ernment and the people have beeu
draining their reserves, and both have
been running in debt. This govern
ment has suffered in its revenues and
the people in their incomes. The total
losses to the country in business, prop
erty and wages are beyond human cal
culatione. There has been no cessation
in the waste OF wealth and wages; no
contentment, brightness or hope has any
where appeared. The appeals to
charity have never been 10 numerous
and incessant, nor the necessity every
where 80 manifest. Congress has dissp-
pcinted the people, trified with the
sacred trust conaded to it, excited dis
trust and disgust among their con-
sttusntn and impaired their invest
ments. They have quarreled and
com promised and, upon THAR own
testimony, have been compromised.
The result OF their long wranglo is .
tariff law with which nobody 10 satis-
fed; a law which even those who made
it, apologize for; q law which the chair
man OF the ways and means committee
cratic side OF the house condemned
before its passage, affirming their inten. ,
tien, in the most solemn manner. not to
permit it to be enacted a law which the
factions of the Democratic party are
agreed ia the work OF q monstrous trust,
which Chairman Wilson confessed in
the house, amid the appliance OF his con-
federates, with deep chagrin, held con-
gress by the throat . law of which the
houss OF representatives was so thor
oughly ashamed that they had no
sooner passed it than they made hot
haste to seek its immediate amendment
by passing supplementary bills which
put sugar, coal, lead, iron and barbed
wire on the free list, under the threat
OF etil further similar assaults
on the much-disturbed and distressed
industries of the country, utterly heed
less OF the stupepdoua ruin they had
already wrought; o law which the presi-
dent condemned before its passage, and
from which, when passed, he withheld
his approval law which was charac-
terized before its passage by the great
est leader In the Democratic party, and
the senior sen ator from New York, ae o
violation OF Democratic pledges and
prlncipea,' and which was denounced
bv the official head of the government
as an act of party perfdy and party
dishonor;' that if the house should at
laet concur in it, they would not dare to
look the people of she country in the
face, and which the executive still con-
demns since their surrender as the very
communism of pelf.'
THE president, in his letter to Con-
gressional Catchings said Che Inil-
lions OF our countrymen who have fought
bravely and we'll for tariff reform. notac
ceptng this bill. should be expected to
continue this struggle, boldly chaileng-
ing to open warfare, and constantly
guarding against treschery and half
hsartedness in their camp while he pera
nitted the bill to become a law, lacking
the moral courage to veto it. III the
country were disposed to accept this bill
as final and could permanently adjust
business to it, the party in
pnwer would not have 1t 90. They have
so declared with boldness and unanim--
ity. This means unfortunatelv con-
slant agitation until the fourth day OF
March, 1896, at the least. and for two
years longer after that, unless the people
in the congressional elections thia wear
make the house Republican, in which
event no further wrecking of our in
dustries or interference with the labor
of our people can occur during the ad-
ministration o! Cleveland. What will
your verdict be?''
Governor Mckinley then gave a his
tory OF the new tariff legialation. He
said the bill as it passed the house wsuld
have created, according to the estimates
he Lad scen OF its revenue raising
power. a deficiency OF from $40 0.00J.0
to $50, 100000. The 'eslf-constituted
adjustment committee" OF the senate,
to which the bill was entrusted after il
came back from the senate finance CON-
mittee, was unknown to the constitu.
tion. unauthorized by the rules OF tho
senate or py party caucus, tradition or
customs. The manner OF the making os
the bill should condemn 1t.
1T was traded through, without Ie-