Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-20
TRUTHS eY TANNER.
1io Illinois statesman Trains Flo Gen on
the Deruocrucy.

the Democracy.
In speech at mass meeting OF Illi-
nois republicans a: Flora. Clay county.
Saturday. May .. Hon. John II. Tanner.
republican nominee for governor,
| spoke OF the good work of the party in
nation and state and fred some hot
shots into the democratic camp. He
said
National evils are the result OF political
mistakes and crimes. The reform of such
evils Ia a safe test by which the cause OF
good government may know it, friends.
mo political party that ever existed has
committed so many crimes against the
welfare OF those who gave Il power as
the deri ocratic party of the United States.
Again ami again the people have con-
doned the errors OF that party ard in
trusted Il with power. and again and again.
with the absolute certainty of death and
| taxes. IL has betrayed that trust.
For q consecutive years. from 1861 to
1856. the democratic party wandered p
| forlorn and hopeless exile. feeding upon
( political husks. with the curse OF n be-
trdycd and outraged people ringing I'm its
ears. But even the plain teachings or
adversely were lost upon that party. which
neither foresees the future nor interprets
| the past. and now again the party OF bour-
bonism seems about ready to stsrt upon
another long and comfortless walk In the
outer colo OF popular distrust.
-pn coming 10 power IN 1851 the reDnD-
! lican party found the nation burdencd with
n democratic debt. incurred. marx you. I'm
time OF profound peace by borrowing
money at the ruinous rate OF ten per cent.
interest.
I'm the midst OF the most distracting
national terror and alarm our country ever
saw, with American credit exha listed. con-
| fronted by the most disastrous and eN-
pensive war OF modern times-all being the
result OF democratic blCndcrs-the repub-
| lican party began it's salutary rile. II
righted and rescued the ship of state.
which the democrats had left stranded and
| deserted upon the rocks and shoals of
! slavery and secession The republican
party gave the country its first sound
money system Of national currency. The
state shinplastcr OF the democratic golden
age was cast into the waste basket, and
currency good enough for the soldier good
enough for the laborer. good enough for
the capitalist. and good enough for the
demands Of commerce was put into circu-
lntion.
IAN this was done I'm the midst OF a life
and death struggle to preserve the nations
very existence. 1t was done when every
European monarchy, except one. was OPEN
~ encouraging and secretly aiding tho re-
hellion. which they expected would rend
the nation and lay the free institutions OF
this country i'm ruins. 1t was done when
this nation hardly had the respect Of any
sovereign power IN the world and, worse
still, when II had, under democratic rule,
done nothing to deserve that respect.
Now, my friends. in these days OF peace.
when there is serious ami just apprehension
as TO the maintenance of sound money
I currency. will not the party that accom-
rlished all this be the one most likely to
solve the great problem with due regard to
! the true interests of the country? Now
! that our country, thanks to republican
state smanship, has taken first place
among nations: when the most powerful
are seeking alliance with us and the weak
invoking our protection, why cannot the
party that made and paid the money to
suppress rebellion, and afterwards put
every dollar of that money at par with
gold, be trusted to meet every financial
difficulty in time OF profound peace?
No one doubts what the republican
party VIII do. No one knows what the
democratic party will do. If international
considerations may enter into the final adj
tustmont OF our currency system, surely
those who In the fiery crucibIc of war made
American dollars which would pass cur
rent in the remotest islands of the sea can
be trusted to secure from the nations Of
the world such cooperation as may be
needed ct n time when all nations are in
/ terested in our prosperity and bound TO us
| by the ties of a common business interest.
IF, on the other hand. the time has
| come for an exclusively American system
/ OF finance the republican party will devise
\ IT invention be necessary: select. If adop-
! ton Is needed, that system which will best
meet the wants of the American people
| Whatever that system may be, rest as
! surcd, my friends, that all it's dollars will
| be exactly equal in value. each worth lCO
cents.
The republican party never did and
! never VIII stamp government lie upon
| Sold, upes' silver, or upon paper. 1t never
! did. and never VIII make one dollar with
! which TO cheat the orphan whose guardian
| mas loaned his funds, and another dollar
| Tor the millionaire to buy his luNuries in
! Europe: one dollar with which to pay the
helpless laborer his meager pittance, and
! another dollar for which the capitalist
| VIII stpulate in his leases and mortgages
! Every American dollar-whether present.
! ed by the bank president or the day labor
or: whether squandercd by the wealthy
! sojourner IN European capitals or doled out
| sorrowfully and sparinGIy for bread by
| the broken soldier. who draws his quarter
| ~ allowance. perhaps, from the very hand
| that drew the lanyard that made him a
| pensioner-must be the equal of every
other dollar on which the American eagle
| spreads his wings.
| we are for bimetallsm. but the biz
metallism we favor must be of that honest
! variety, which leaves the recipient abso-
| lutcly Indifferent as to what particular
statutory dollar his creditor lays in his
| palm.
Now. my friends. the republican party
| can be trusted to take care OF the curren-
| cy. Do you think 1t can be trusted to adj
| just the tariff? Did the republican party
! ever make a tarif schedule that anybody
! but democratic politician who wanted Of
| fec had any right TO complain OF? The
! American tariff is going TO be readjusted.
! y million democrats in the United States
are just now praying for a republican tar
| if. adjusted with 81 view of protection.
! The phrase. for revenue only has been
! dropped from the political dictionary.
! That phrase used to sound well. but what
fraud and cheat IL has proven in the
| dolcful realities Of democratic practice!
| IL was q pretty theory, no doubt for Mr.
! Wilson to teach In Virginia academy. but
| clothed with the grave responsibility OF
| legislatng for great and mighty people.
| what havoc he has wrought with his little
/ Virginia theory In the marts and work
! chops Of his country,
! In one particular, at least the situa ton
OF the democratic stump orator appeals to
! the sympathies OF the American people.
All rhe democratic tariff speeches will have
| To be rewritten. What c labor that will
| be- All those splendid efforts with which
they entertained US for 80 years must
go TO the ashpile. and democratic ingenuity
. VIII be taxed 20 the utmost, / fear. to find
| son ething new TO take their places
"fhe old, familiar cant phrases are NOW
| at discount The pat and beautiful little
demonstration which every democratic
| speaker had learned to say by rote. show
ing that the tariff IS tax and the con-
| sumner pays "a. has been caught out in a
cold rain and viii always hereafter an