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Harrison And Morton

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Day
26
Month
July
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Saturday evening the oíd Taird ward did herself proud, and opened the caicpaign in grand shape. A handsome pole, 126 feet io length, bearicg a large HarriBon and Morton streamer, was fUDcessfully raised at the northwest comer of the court-house square, amid the greatest ecthusiafm. The stars and etripes were then run up, and a little later the boom of a cannon from the opera-heuse signified the time for assembliDg. The city band appeared on the grounds and in re-ponse to their stirring music, the strtets were soon mpa88ab!e with crowding humanity. A plaiform had been ereoted at the foot of the pole, and at 7:45 Charles E. Hiscock stepped forward and called the meeting to order. In a neat little fpeech Mr. Hiscock staied the purpose of the meeting, and eaid that they had raised this banner in honor of the candidates who'se names were inscribed thereon, names that were synonyms for "protection to American industries, and names that will lead ue to a glorioas victory next November." He tben introduced John F. Lawrence, who spoke as folio ws : Fellow citizens : It is many years slnce I have nndertaken to address a politlcal meeiing, and am not prepared now to make you a speech, but I feit that I could not refuse to say a few words to you tonight in a general way concerning the issues that the coming campaign presents to us. The one great Issue raised by the democratie party, and the one question on which this fljht must be lought is the tarriff question. Now every one knows that the toilers of a nation are the wealth-producers of that nation. Without the laborer Rnd the farmer there could be no industries. The manufacturer depends on them for the sale of his wares, the merchant derives from them his livelihood and support, and all prosperity depends on the prosperity of laborer and the tiller of the soil. Now a bilí has been introduced in Congress to put wool and nearly every article a farmer raises on the free list. in other "words the demoerats propose to let foreign wool come in here without restraint. President Cleveland says free wool would be a good thing, for the farmers. Now, let's examine that question a moment. The Argentine Republie is one of the flnest countries in South America; has immense grazing plains, whereon 150,000,000 sheep are kept. Stock is cheap there because feed is cheap. No housing, no feeding grain for five or six months, no trouble to take care of them. Under these conditionB wool can be raised there and delivered in New York for 6 cents per pound and at a profit. With free wool, this foreign wool could come in here and sweep your sheep industrv to eternal destruction. I learn tonight that the "bill has passed the house, and if it passes the Senate, goodbye to your wool of the northwest. Now, Loui-ana has sugar to sel!, and the riuty on 6ugar amounts to $53,000.000 per year. If they wisu to decrease the surplus why do they not make stigar free, something that every poor man in the couutry must use ? But no they retain the duty on sugar and ruin our wool industry here in the north, because Louisana is a democratie state, and must be kept so, while they know they can't carry the northern states, and so sacrifice their industries to save those of the solid South. Farmers how.do you like it? [criei of "don't like it. ' They teil us we must have free woollen goods. That the enormous annual productious of English facteries, made cheap by pauperizing English and Irish labor must be dumpedon to our markets free of duty. Do this and down go your manufactories, and then where will their labor go ? Why, as there is nothing else it must go to farming, and your proflts that are now small from competition, would thus be still decreased. Here at Detroit last week the demoerats of this state nominated Wellington R. Burt for govenor. He has becume a millionaire from the manfacture of salt and lumber. He has always been a stroDg protectionist, and today does not indorse the Mills bill, saying in his letter "if not indorsing the Mills bill is not to be good democrat, then I am not one." But at the convention he says, "take me, I Indorse everything, I am yours body and soul." At the convention John J. Robison hired a tolored man to make a speech, and then came home fllled up with lake water (laughter ; and free trade and said that all the colored men in Michigan were going to vote for Cleveland. [At this several colored men in the crowd signified their dissent by cries of "not so."] Yes, I guess he'll find out his mistake on that. Someof us were disappointed because wedid not get the condidate we wished at Chicago ; but our support is just as earnest and bearty for Harrison and Morton [cheers], and with them to lead us we will surely win the flght for American homes, for American labor, and for Protection to American industries. [Loud Cheere.] At the close of Mr. Lawrence's address, the chairman introduced A. W. Hamlton, who delivered the íollowíng masterly speech : Fellow citizens: I regard it as an auspicious omen that the third ward of this city shouid be the flrst toratity the nomination of Harrison and Morton, [cteers.] It provea that you are in earoest It proves the statement of the London Times that the only way in which Irishmeu can be of any benefit to Eugland is by emigrating to America and voting free trade, by voting the democratie ticket, is false. I think it was an enthusiastic young democrat who said, " we love Ceveland because of the enemies he has made." Of our nominee, Gen. Harrison, we say we admire Mm because of the nobility of the manhood he possesses, for the record he made as a soldier and a statesman, we love Mm because he does not and never wiil forget that he is a citizen of a glorious Republie made so by the brave deeds of men who faced danger, and ofiered their Uves in defence of their country's flag. The democratie party is not nor never has been consistent in its principies and platforms. As , they don't like to have s quote from their war I record, I will quote from their platform of 1872, whieh will Ilústrate their remarkable inconsistency. They say: "Recognizing that there are ín our midst honest but irreconcüable differences of opinión with regard to the respective systems of proteetion and free trade, we reinit the discussion of the subject to the people in their Congressional districts, and to the decisión of the Congress thereon, whuüyfrec from executive interferenre or dictaThere never has been an administration which bas so openly asnimed to díctate to the legislativa braneh of the government as has this present administraiion. In this campaign.it is not going to be a question of men, but of measures. A question whether this country shall practically adopt free trade or not. On this question the two parties stand diametrically opposed. The Demócrata support the Presideni's message and the Mills bill, which means free trade, while the Repubü cans contend that tue true policy of the government is to protect its various industries by putting a tax on importations sufficiently high to enable the people to build up their own manufactures, and créate a home market for their agricultura! products by fostering home industries. The President in nis message uses nearly a column to teil why wool should be free, but he has nothing to Bay about that article of every day use - sugar for as my friend has said wool belongs to a Republican north and sugar toa Democratie south. As regards the price of wool I wish to say that as the Democrats claim free trade raises the price, I will quote from a Democratie farmer who wrote to the tOBtiac Gazette as follows: "Now I was born a democrat. and for generations back the Grah&ms were all 'dyed in the wool Democrats.' My father, Benjamin Graham. while he lived was a subscriber to the old Jacksonian, and under a different name to its predecessors, for many years ; and under the teaching of these local papers, politically, I was schooled : and now I feel my party has left me, and gone flshing, and to my mind in dangerous waters when they attempt to float the material interests of this country on the English current of free trade. In this statement I am voicing the opinión and feeling of all intelligent woel growers, who see nothing but wreek and ruin to the wool interests by the adoption of free trade or even in agitating the question of placing wool on the free Now, a word about lumber. We are told that it shouid go on the free list. Canada would then ship her lumber over here and it would be cheap. Now I had a talk with a member of the Canadian parliament a short time ago. and I asked him if he thought'putting lumber on the free list would make It cheaper. He said : "We would like to see it on the free list. It would not help you any but would be a good thing for us. We have got that all fixed. We would say to our lumbermen now you can pay that 2.00 duty on every thousand feet of lumber that yon've been paying to the United States into the Canadian treasury; they would simply increase the excise taz that much and you would get your lumber no cheaper." Salt has been put on the free list. Now if my Democratie friends want that article any cheaper than 55 cents per barrel, I would like to know how muoh cheaper they would like it furnishcd. I recently had the pleasure of making an extended trip through the southern States, and the only prosperous and progressive cities I found were those where manufacturing enterprises were carried on. I could find no free traders there, and yet they must voie the Democratie ticket to keep the administration in power. A part of my jouroey was made in company with a man who had been a colonel in the rebel army. As we passed through Georgia I saw hundreds of colored men in convict suits at work in milis. I asked who and what they were. He says: " Oh, they are eonviets." " Are all your convicta colored men" I asked? "No, we run in a white man once in awhile, but a colored man stands no show here, cspeciaUy if ïahor is scarce." He informed me that the contractors paid the State 13 cents per day for these convicts, per head. I asked. "Do the oolored men vote?" "Sometimes" he said. 'Do you count their votes?" " Sometimes," was the reply. And yet they teil us that the colored men here will vote for Cleveland ["Not so," "Not so."J We are now governed by the men who were conquered. The house of representatives is in the hands of Southern men. We have had one man appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States from the South, a man who is full of Democratie prejudice, and yet the North is called upon to continue this thing for four years more, under the guise of reform. I do not believe in it, and do not think the people of this section ot the country will indone such scheming. No, my friends ! Organizo your clubs ! Register every man ! Keep the flght warm I Rally to the standard of Harrison and Morton, fcheers) of Protectlon and RepublicanUm, and shoulder to shoulder we will win the fight, and place an honest administration again at the head of our government. [Prolonged cheers]. FREE LIST. Hurrah for Harrison and Morton. It was a grand success and our Democratie brethren were disappointed. Charley E dwards and his cannon gent all timid dani8els into hysterics. The speeches were well deiivered, Mr. Hamilton waxing eloquent m be warmed up to his subject. It was a masterly efforf. The thtee cheers for the candidates proposed by Cliairman Hiscock were given with a will and clased the exercises. iluch credit is due Messra. Sweet, Clark, Bowen, Spokes and Edwards, who prepared the pole and banner. Tl.e woik was well done. Hi Kiüredge raised the pole ia just four minutes with block and tackle.

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