, 1898-11-07
SENATOR WARREN'S FLAT.
TERING RECEPTION AT
MAENERCHOR,
The Large Hall Filled to Its Utmost Ca
pacity and Large Numbers of People
Turned Away---The Senator Delivers a
Powerful and Convincing Addres, Pc
ceiving Hearty Applause.

employment the working men Of the
United States in order hat foreign ma
lions may prosper while W. perish"
With the exception of their attack
ing the tariff as they promised, tell
me of a single promise any late demo-
cratic administration, state or nation
al. has fulfilled. More than this, tell
me. please, one single law, state or
national, now o our statute books put
there by a decentralization admin
istration which has strengthened la
Dor, relieved distress. or brought a
higher degree of citizenship and sue
cess. Name one! Why. in fair Wyo-
ming a democratic administration made
no laws. They couldn't even elect a
democratic senator when they had a
majority of the legislature and the
governor.
On the other hand, how many great
and noble acts crowd into u minds
when contemplating the accomplish
ments Of the republican party.
1t struck the shackles of servitude
off four million bondsmen, and human
slavery, that humiliating. unclean fac
tor was forever eliminated from our
body polite. 1t maintained the in
tegrity Of the nation. preserved. all its
stars in the flag, added still more, and
granted equal suffrage to all.
HOMESTEAD AND SCHOOL LAWS.
1t gave you the homestead laws by
which every citizen or head of a family
was entitled to a free home from Uncle
Sans possessions. Also the preemp-
ton and timber culture laws.
The republican party gave you free
schools and thereby the ricn man,
though childless, is taxed upon all his
property to support the children, no
matter how many, of every poor man,
though his property may be nil and
he pays no taxes. Does this look as II
the grand old party is for the rich
against the poor as the other side
would have you believe?-the classes
against the masses? Let us see. Cor
poration property, every dollar Of it.,
taxed for schools. Think Of the count
less thousands of dollars paid annual
ly in Wyoming and elsewhere by the
railroads upon their lands, roads and
equipment for support of our public
schools that your children and mine
may graduate with sufficient educa-
ton to creditably enter any country.
society or business. Not a particle Of
difference, rich or poor, willing or I'M
willing. school money must come, and
all children must attend school.
But, says the carping Wyoming ia
nus. that was long & when the old
republican party was right, but now
it's wrong. 1t has degenerated. All,
since when did it change? Since when
any Of our great measures? They new"
err supported or applauded. They al
ways opposed. Take for instance the
HOMESTEAD law. They fought it bitterly
for years and years. Just as meanly
they opposed the Mckinley law, the
Dingley law. the late war revenue law
and others.
Referring to the important laws l
have quoted. if lone others had been
given life the everlasting gratitude Of
the nation would be due to the repub-
licans. but a long line of valued acts,
too numerous to mention, are standing
to the credit Of the republican party.
There is the Union Pacific railroad act,
Its building gave this city and many
others, a name and place on the map
of our country where just before there
had been recorded in books or maps
only the words. Great American Des-
ert." The opening Of this great trans
continental road developed all this
country and made the state of Wyo-
ming and indeed presence here to-
night possible. And. while passing,
let me remind you that a republican
administration COLLECTED OF the Union
Pacific every dollar Of it's indebted
ness, principal and interest, notwith-
standing a democratic administration
had proposed to settle at fifty or sixty
cents on the dollar.
TARIFF ENACT MENTs.
Coming to later dates, the great acts
rapidly multiply. We had the Mckfn-
ley protective tariff bill. which
brought, among others, substantial
prosperity until stricken down by our
free trade enemy. Now we have the
lDinsley bill which came like the even
ing rainbow, big with promise. and
ont. of that sure promise commenced