Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-23
MONDAY EVENING. SEPT. %, 1896.
Mr.. GoRMAN's speech at Warfeld's
Grove is the most interesting event Of

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the campaign and will attract general
attention throughout the country. 1t
is indeed great speech, one worthy to
be read and pondered by every demo
crat in the land, for it not only throws
flood of light on existing political con-
ditions, but is mastery vindication f
the democratic party and its chosen
servants against gross calnmnies and
misrepre sensations. These calumnies
have not been uttered only by repuoii'
cans. They have come also from the
mugwump- boilers and recreant demo
Gratis, styling themselves Cleveland
men, "reformers" Independents" and
MANY other pet aliases which are the
convenient resort of men ready for
negro and republican embrace in order
to accomplish the purposes of personal
ambition and malice. To all of these
calumnies and falsehoods Mr.. German
makes most complete and crushing
answer by q simple statement Of the
known facts of our history. He leaves
his antagonists, both republicans and
their mugwump allies, nothing to stand
on and nothing to stand in save Pill
Tory of shame. The speech meets can
didly and fairly the issues of the past
three years. 1t is not necessary that
we should agree with all its positions.
On the money question and the
repeal of the Sherman act, Mr..
German, while in harmony with
the great body OF the Maryland demo
cracy and with the national admins
tration, differs with very many demo
Gratis in Virginia, the South and the
West. But this is not the question on
which his enemies in Maryland are as
sailing him. Theirs is general ar
raignment of Mr.. German, of the late
Maryland democratic convention and
of the democratic party in Congress,
who passed the tariff bill of August.
1894. Mr.. German is not candidate
for anything at this election, not even
for his seat in the Senate, but because
he supports the democratic candidate
for governor, democrat universally
conceded to be faithful, upright and
competent, that candidate is to be
stricken down and the State turned
over, governor, legislature and every
thing else bodily, to the republican
party and their darling negro allies.
Whether these boilers who ara to &C
complish this crime are provided for in
the political deal does not appear on the
face of the papers; but parties who are
cunning enough to cheat the State BY
paying only six or seven dollars of taxes
on million dollars worth of property
are generally smart enough to take care
of themselves in sub rosa transactions.
Dir. German shows the condition to
which thirty years of republican legis-
ton had brought the country in 1888,
factories closed, laborers thrown out OF
employment, the value of farm products
reduced below the cost of productions,
banks suspending and not even paying
their deposits, the Treasury bankrupted
and our export trade diminish
ed till the balance of trade
was against US and business of
all kinds stagnant. Mr.. Germans just
recital of this condition of affairs in the
spring and summer of 1898 ought to
close the mouths of hisrepublican critics.
He says that the Sherman act was re-
pealed in accordance with the public
sentiment and the demand of the Pres
ident. He might have added that Mr.
Carlisle favored compromise measure
supported by nearly all the democratic
Senators which the President, however,
repudiated at the last. On the subject
of the repeal of the Mckinley act and
the tariff legislations, Mr.. Germans
statement is full, strong and unanswer-
able. Mr.. German rightly states that
this act of McKinley's while robbing
the people did not yield adequate rev.
enue for the government. The demo-
Gratis in the two Houses, despite great
obstacles, and with bare party ma
jority of one in the Senate, equslized
taxation, reduced excessive burthens,
abolished favoritism to corporations
and individuals, took away the founda-
ton stone of the trusts which were
sucking the very life blood of the peo-
pie, and yet by the wise law provided
adequate revenue for the government
which the original House bill of Wilson
utterly failed to do. Mr.. German
well speaks of this tariff bill as the
most marvellous achievement secured
by the democratic members of the COM
mittee which had this legislation in
charge. It is to be regretted that the
President threw away the grand OPP
portunity of his life by not signing this
Senate tariff bill, which his own Score.
tary of the Treasury, Mr.. Carlisle, had
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