The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-11-02
VOICE OF FORAKER.
Ohio Senator Heard at Opening of
Republican Campaign.
Prosperity Of the Nation Under Re-
publican Control - Honor and
Good Name Preserved mt
All Times.

The Ohio republicans opened their
campaign at Delaware Saturday, Oc'
tober 10, on which occasion Senator j.
B. Foraker was heard in strong adj
dress which awoke much enthusiasm
in the large assemblage of representa-
| tive republicans of the state. Senator
Foraker said:
"The campaign upon which we are en-
| tering is of unusual character
..The nation is passing through great
sorrow.
putting.
1--WE would gladly forego all discussion
/ that we might tarry longer at the grave
i of our dead president. silently studying the
great lessons of his life and trying to faith
ON the awful mystery of his death.
"But the world moves on and the living
| have claims.
"The Official head of the nation has been
murdered. but the life Of the nation re-
mains untouched. Our great leader Is dead,
| but the government lives and the duties
| Of citizenship survive. They command US
| and we are here.
usual.
| Interchangeable democracy claims to
/ have changed-to have taken 'departure;'
Ito have been born again; to be Inherent
and better this year than last.
N~-"They exultingly point to the fact that
| at their state convention they declined to
compliment or In any way whatever recog-
| nize Mr. Bryan, and refused to indorse
! the platform on which he and they all stood
| last year. .
| {"For this they ask thanks and a vote OF
/ confidence. We cheerfully give them the
thanks, but the confidence is another mat
| ter. We have had experience. Their per-
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| some Ancient History
that excites distrust. They proclaimed
their most notable departure in 1871,
but they have been pretty regularly
/ In the business ever since. They were then
| under the leadership of Clement l.. VAL
| landigham. He was at once the ablest
| and the most audacious democrat ONO
| ever produced.
with high-sounding phrases they re-
solved to accept the results of the war
| which had ended six years before, includ-
| ing the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fiji
| teenth amendments to the constitution, as
| a settlement In fact of all the issues or the
! war, and to acquiesce In the same as no
| longer issues before the country and
T, pledged themselves to bury out Of sight
| all that Is Of the dead past. namely, seces-
| sion. slavery, inequality before the law and
political inequality and devoted and con-
! secrated themselves thereafter and for
| ever to the full. faithful and absolute ex-
ecution and enforcement of the constitu-
! ton as 1t now Is, so as TO secure equal rights
| to all persons under 1t, without discrim-
! nation of race, color or condition.
STANDING on such platform there could
| be no more talk about slavery, secession,
| cot rcion, or "a white mans government
| Thenceforth the nation must be conceded
| to be greater than any state-greater even
| than South Carolina-and the negro must
| ha
| man. but as the political equal of all other
men. That was, indeed, a departure; II
/ was in fact a complete surrender of all
there was of democracy in that day.
cit was an awful thing to bury 1t all at
| once.
'No wonder It was six years after APP
pomatox before they could make up their
| minds to accept such wholesale bereave-
! ment. But as one defeat followed another
| they began at last to perceive that some
| things were indeed settled. and, when
! finally convinced that there was no other
| alternative, they made the doleful business
as spectacular as possible.
with a great futtering OF flags and
| beating of drums they marched out Of the
| graveyard into the highway of progress,
| proclaiming a change Of heart and promis-
| Ing good behavior. And then. as though
that condoned all the vicious past; as
| though, after years Of persistent error, 1t
way better to finally accept the truth al
| though driven to II. than to have been its
! champion all the while, they turned to the
people and asked to be restored to power.
Their sublime effrontery was equaled
only by the overwhelming rebuke that
| followed at the polls. The people were
! their sins and promised to reform, but
| they were not prepared to intrust them
| with the government. They naturally
wanted some proof Of sincerity and some
! guarantee that a party that was so rad
ically wrong on the great problems that
had been solved would not be wrong
again on other questions that might arise.
They thought It we'll to impose a proba-
tionary period; and did SO.
| "The people were wise.
Thirty Years
| have since come and gone. During this
| period the democratic party has adopted
| and advocated every heresy, every ism,
| every fallacy and every evil that has APP
| peared in American politics, and then, in
| turn. abandoned the same. except only the
| latest. which they still uphold as their
present stock In trade.
Taxation Of government bonds and
notes, the payment Of government obliga-
| lions with greenbacks. free trade. free
silver. government by injunction and open
alliaEce with populism and communism,
| coupled with persistent and malicious
violation OF the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments. are but few Of the many
mistakes and ruinous policies and PROPOSE
lions to which 1t has given Its adherence
and support.
when II finally got into power II was
more than mere disappointment. What IL
advocated In the house II abandoned in the
senate. The Wilson tariff law was the
| only measure Of national character and
Importance that It was able to enact, and
that brought discredit upon the govern
ment, disaster to business, and loss and
misery to millions of American homes.
THAT statute holds a lasting place in the
recollections Of the people and In the his
| tory OF the country as a monument to the
incapacity Of the democratic party.
Its whole attempt to govern the coun-
| try was disastrous failure. 1t forfeited
| public confidence and went out of power
thoroughly discredited as a public agency.
1t has since steadily gone from bad to
| worse. II has seemingly reached the point
| where It Is incapable of even proposing
| patriotic and acceptable policies.
"These are harsh criticisms, but they
are far less severe than democratic leaders
ere pronouncing on themselves.
They now confess that they were wrong
last year. and for years before, In regard
to questions Of vital character and Inn
| portance that affected our financial honor,
| our industrial development. our foreign
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