The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-18

to personally admire to q very great
degree.
Then he invited all to attend the
big banquet this noon and expressed
with much feeling his regrets that
Judge Wade, his former cIassmate at
school, could not be present at the
gathering. He was loudly ~applauded.
Some Of Harmon's Points.
During the course OF his address
Governor Harmon, who did not am
nounce his candidacy for the presiden-
tial nomination, which seemed to have
been expected by some attending the
love feast yesterday said:
MY Ohio friends were very much
concerned when 1 told them / was COM
ing UP here for a few days In the cold
northwest.
When ! get back, I will tell them
that. they told me here the tempera-
ture WA way down low, but / did not
believe them because my reception
here was so r that 1t a been a
good old summer time for me ever
since / have been here.
/ am very glad to have this oppor-
tupity of talking over some Of the
good old democratic principles.
! am very much gratifed to ind
such a large number of people ass
! sembIed and who could lave come to-
| gether for no other purpose than to
hear a discussion of the principles of
? democracy.
And I am glad to talk to them just
! now, especially because the democratic
! party is coming to another national
election under very peculiar conditions.
I Never before in its history-if you
: make an exception Of the Civil war
] in the more thar 100 years Of its his
tory was the democratic party defeat
! ed four times in succession, IL you do
, not count the election Of '76 as a demo-
j cratic defeat. I am one of those to
go to my grave with a sore spot in
my heart because we were robbed of
= a democratic victory by old Samuel j.
Tilden Of New York.
Now 1 have always believed that
there were unjust accusations that
2 were laboring under. / have known
! people, good and Intelligent people, too,
who believed that if the democratic
party were put in power would re-
instate slavery, or at least that the
enancipated slaves would be paid for
out Of the public treasury. They had
also been told so often by the adroit
: republican politicians. and the organic
ed republican press that a democratic
administration meant hard times, that
they almost came TO believe it. Well
p it took just one democratic admins
tration to demonstrate the fallacy OF
such statements.
Wilson Bill "FaIIacy"
The later fallaey that the Wilson
tariff bill caused hard times has hat
its day and passed away. And we,
people were told and often persuaded
by the republican press with it's grea,
publicity that the Wilson tariff bill
caused hard times. Everybody know
q that at the end of the Harrison ad
= ministration the democratic admin
istrated were saddled with a defci
that had been created and accumulat,
ing through the Harrison administra,
he ton; and the republicans had prepared
K for the issue Of bonds to meet thii
e. deficit, but at the last moment they
found that by a course Of manipula,
&c ton they could hold out a few weeks
AZ longer and dump the deficit on tn,
Id incoming democratic administration.
he The hard times came in 1892 unde
IL Harrison and they reached their eli
max in 1893, as you all remember
and yet you have the statement from
ng no less an authority than the presi
dent {" the United States, made les
ne than a year ago, and I take every op
u p~ortunity to call attention to it, tina
OF the hard times which began In 189
and reached their climax in 1893 wer
es caused by the Wilson tariff bin tina
a was not passed until 1894. The Me
az Kinley bill was the worst tariff bill
hs that had ever been passed up to tina
time. And 1t is to the Mckinley bill
that the hard times of 1892 n IS9
ses should be charged, but they try to la.
ut it OF the democrats, as the do every
thing else.
Now, when times got better in IS9
and the industries and d
Ise the country began to revive, the
on passed a worse bill than the McKinle
bill--the Dingley bill. + don't like t
tut call names, but when I hear men ca,
of that a republican tariff, / don't throv
he bricks at him, And now 1t was nc
ily ten years before we had a panic, an
not a democrat in sight anywhere.
go. am sorry it came. 1t brought depres
lr- sion and suffering widespread. BIT
no there was eternal justice in this, this
INT 1t came at a time when there was nc
ces a democrat pushing a broom or weld
He ing a mop anywhere In the service {
lad the country. And so we have gon
nd on until 1908, still suffering from thes
ST. same troubles.
Election Of 1903.
me- And then we came to the electio
of 1908 and many people had. com
- to realize that they had been foole
by this tariff business. That It wa
& not true that the foreigners paid til
tariff. that 1t was not true that some
one else paid 1t, but everybody can
to realize that every time he bougl
clothes. shoes, machinery or anythin
else, as well as sugar, that he WI
paying a tax to the federal govern
ment on such things. and the Amer
can manufacturer is the man thai ger
the benefit; and that for every dolls
which the government gets on sur
things the manufacturer gets So, an
they anne to understand what tn
means.
And so it came about that yieldir
Ana so if cama ahntIf that ioIH;y