It Is Allen

Tbs oomniittee oppointed by the repnbüoan oongressiousl oonvectioD, to notify Hon. E. P. Allen of his renoniicatioD, retarned with that gentletnau, who eddresBed the convention and tbe atteDdRBce thereon as follows: MB. ChAIHMAN, ANO GeNTLÍMEN OF THE Repoelioan Convenxion- X come to give an aooonut of my stewardship. Yon are the representativos of the republican parly of tbe seoond congressional district: to yon has been delegated the anthority and the duty of selectiog a candidate for repre?entative in oongress from tbie distriot. Tbat dnty yon have disohsrged ns yon nnderstood it to be best. ïhe reeult oí yonr work, hould it be crowned with the Bpproval of the people, will largely, as I folly appreciate, depend opon wy own couduot.. Two years ao the standard oí the republioan party in this distriot was entroHted to my hands, and tbe verdict of the convention was approved by the people. I went to Washington: I have eodeavored, so f ar bb I knew how, to represent this not as a repnblioan, not as a deinocrat, but as one wbo, taking the oath of office, that he wonld obey the con3titation of the United States and discharge the duties of a representativo in congress with the beet oí his ability by the help of God. That is a broad oath to take, and one who take3 it, knowmg the valno of it, and appreoiatingitsimpqrtanoe, ■willneoessarily me with the responsibilitiea that are thrust. upon hiin, and endeavor to represent the people whom he has eworn to represent jn this unie ist&kable way. As to my Roocess or failnre, it is not for me to speak; I feel and know that I am not oonsoioas Dy vote or voioe of doing nnythiua dtritnental to the interests of thisgieat oongressional distriot. (Applause.) If I rmve. ihen I have made mistakes of tce head and not of tbe heart. I fully nnderetand the Deeds of this distriot; in many respecta, it is the most important in the state of Miohigan, and in all respeots, for intelligenoe, and for worth, it wili stand the peer of any congressional district in the United States. (Applanse.) H is nearer the dintriot that Giddmps repreeented, that Garfield adqrncd, than nny ongressional diBtriot in this country. Tbe jjeople in that and this have always in emer gencies that oalled for patriqtism and for honor, been fonnd npon theside of the right and the side of the flag. This distriot is largely agricultural, and yet thsre are many and diversified iuterests here. Our manufaoturing interests run into the millions. 'l'here is mt in the Btate of Michigan, nor anywhere in tiie United States, the same extent of territory ontside of the omes ibat has more newspapers, more graded schools, more colleges, more gruDges. more farmers' associations, than the Heoond district of the state of Miohigau; and it behooves anyone, who aspires to represent this distriot ia oongress, to be capable of reaohing, or rising above rather, all Belüsh interests, and to remember always, even if it is not natnral for him, that he stands in the van of n district that requires at all times gentility, honesty, and a gentlemanly bearing; beosuse wbat the representativa does, tfleots apon his distriot for weal or for woe. Uavïng said that much, I aooept, and I acoept gladly this indorsement at your hands. Had I proven so recreant to the trust yon have reposed in me, tbat anyone should have said it is better that we seud soine one elee there, I should have feit to-day that I bad signally failed in doing what I believed to be right and what you approved of. Bat my votes in congress, while they have been npon party lines where the great fundamental principies underlying the party were in contest, my votes in oongress have been of tbat sort that wise men and broad niinded men, and men who have anthority, wonld approve of. I have stood not for a seotion; I have voted not for seotionalism, bot I have voted for the best interests of the Amerioan people as I onderstand those interests to be. (Applaase.) I voted nnd strenoouly worked to have tbe direct war tax that was levied upon the state of Michigan repaid to the state. During the ttiroes of war the government had to depart from the usual mode of colleoting a revenue by levying a direct tax upon tbe people, upon tbe states;the state of Michigan assumed half n million of dollars. Tbat tax was levied upon all the states, bnt itis needlens for me to teil yon that tiouth Oarolina, Florida, Mississippi, and all the other seceded states were in a condition ttmt forbade our enforcement of that lien. Aud they never did pay it: Virginia paid hers, and Bome of the other states paid tbeirs in part, but there were eighteen millions of dollars paid by the loyal north regardless or pRrtj1. You men bere who have farms oan go beek to yonr tax rttoeipts for 1W2, and yoa wilt tind that tbey were inoreased by tliat amount: as long es the seoeded states did not pay their share of the tax, we feit that it was no more than rigbt tbat wbat hnd been psid by the northern states should be refunded; we hp.d tbe money in the treaeury; there was a snrplns then - tbere is no Burplns now, it has disappeared, and men will open their eyes to that taot within the nest s-ixty days, that that grand sarplos of one bundrcd and thirty million dollars that tbe president epeaks of ia bis letter of acceptaoce, ia gone, f aded nwHj', so that there will be not to exceed fourteen rmllion dollars on the tirst day of July uext, aooording to the eatimate of the seoretary of the treasury. Now, yon would nata rally suppose that 1 would vote to briog that uiouey back into the state treasory of Michigan; it is onrs. 1'wo partiea agree npon a certaiu thing, bat the oae party falls; the party who has pat up the money is entitled to have it retarned to bim; that is an argument that is Ho plain, so honest, that no man cau dispute it, and ttiey do not dispnte it. Every demooratio member of the house f rom the nortb, and every democratie member of oongresB i rom the state of Michigan, vottd with me at tbe lirót to return that tax. But what as doneV Why, the democratie party is in power, biiupiy and Bolely and only beoauee the lately seceded states are solidly demooratio; if it were not for thut faot, the republioan pirty woald be in a majority of two to one in congres?. But the seocded stateH that did not pay their tax cai led a demooratio canoas, and a demooratio cuneas is like a demouratiu tiger, a terrible animal; and when that oauous was oalled, it was decided that that money shonld not be retnrned, and tlien every demoorat f rom the etaie of Michigan, and almost every deinocrat f rom the uorthbrn states, voted to eustain the deacilock which for ten days kept the house of representativos as still as thoagh frozen by en ioeberg - and we did not get the money, and wo never will get the nioney cntil oougress beoomes repablioan iii the lower liriuoh. (Applanse. ) I oaBt another vote- I cast a good many that I will not tell you about - but I oaat another vote thiit ís of interest to tbis öecond ionnl distriot, regardless of politios or people. I voted opon the Mills bilí. My name being near the head of the list, I liid DOt wait to eee how my democrntio brethren were oing to vote, I did not wait tosee bow th ■ leaders of the deuiooratio eide were guiña to voie, but when uay ñamo as oalled, tbe tirst, geoond or third opon the liet. I voted No, apon the Mills bilí. (Applaase.) Tfce democratie oaneas had decreed that every denioorat shoold vote aye apon the Mills bilí, and as a resalt, every deraoorat voted je, except two or tbree, when tbey knew, when they admitted, that it waa onfair, diehonest, iUogloal and ëectional. Is tliere a democrat in the state of Michigan who believes it rigbt and honest and honorable to pat eslt Hi'.d lamber and wool npon the free list, all Michig&B prodot!. anct let rio and tvgr remnin taxed 08.100 per oent. Now, that is ihoqnestionbeiorena. Myfritrd StenrnB, who is nontestiDK with me for this high plaoe, said yeBterdey that I refueed to vote to rednoe the tariff on augur twelve per cent. He was right, tnt if he had tone oa and said that when I refnaed to vote to rednoe the tariff onsngsr twelve per cent., that Idid it when I voted againet the entire Mills bill, he wonld hve Bhown thatfranknees for whioh I woulil hHve been very gratefnl. We never voted aeporaely upon the qaestion of sngar. We all tried to get them to rednce sngar, not twelve per cent. but fifty per cent., and not a mother s son of them wonld vote for it. (Applanse.) That was the amendment that we oflered to (he bill whioh was rejeoted by thedemooratio honse. And yet roy brother telU the people that I ref aeed to vote to rednoe it tw . Ive per oent. Certainly I did, because it was in the Mills bill: and if I hsd voted for that I had voted for every iuicioity in that bill. Do yon Bnppose I wonld do it? No. I am not auxiona enoagh to be re-eleoted toeongreep, to do a thing that I believe nnmanlj ; aud when I get eo anxioaa to be eleottd to conareea that I woald be willing to Btnke at one of the greatest, ïf not the greRteat. mierest in tbis agricultural district, then I hope yoa will 9ee that I stsy at home by au immense majority. I voted against the Mills bill, because it put wool on the f ree list. I represont a district of farmers; they are known by the zealoas advocates of free trade as ■Oreenhorns," and were po designated by the leading paper which isaupporting the demooratio party dnring the discnseion of the tariff bill. Bat I made up my mind to one tüing, if my people were (reechorDS, I woald not be as green as they were, and vote for the Mills bill, for I kuew yen wonld not do it, and pnt wool npon the free list, whioh sffects this diatriot. It is a wrong to this district, nnd no man shonld go to oongresa f rom this district who is in favor of it. Take your county of Lenaaee. Yoa hove or did have, in 1884, 105.C00 shetp; the average weight of üeeoes shorn that year was br4 pounds. The pres'dent tells us tbnt the tariff is a taxaddedtotheoommodity. There is a tariff of ten cents on wool; the lowest, I will place it at that. Theconntyof Lenaweo sheared 1,200.000 ponnds of wool that jear, and if the ten oents 3 a tariff added to the cost, it was in the farmer's biD. it was in his wool, and to take it off wonld be to take off jost $120,000 from this connty of Lenawee. Bat tbe president, in hiB letter of aoceptacce, sajs that a connty of flO.COO people, ouder the present wicked law pays $108,000 more taxea than they ought to, and by one stroke, ie proposes to take from one olass of the cotumunity, to-wit, the farmers, $120,000 more, than, he says, the whole oounty loses. ow, I am not in favor of that kind of arithmetio; I am not in favor of that kind of reduotion. The revenne from wool amennts to $6,000,000 a yeisr; tbey want to educe the revenue; the revenne from sugar ansountB to $12.000,000 a year. Why don't hey take it off from sngar? If the object s to reduce the revenne, why not take it off of sngar, whioh brings $12,CCO,000 to Ibe reasury, instead of taking it off 'vool which brings only $G,000,000? Well, I will teil jon why, I will tzive jou the reason, eed if there are any demócrata in tbi houfe. 1 want hom to ponder it. The reaeou und theonly eason is that sugar is raised in Loniiana, which is a demooratio state, nd the demooratic administratiou listen to what the representatives from deaiooratic tates want. Michigan with her wool, the great northwest, witb its wool, the men who keep flooks of Bheep, they for the roost art reside in states that are beyond all aestion repnblicaD, from which the demorat has no bopes whatever; and if anjbody o to be ptruok in this world of strikina, my riendp, it is needless for me tu teil jou that we alwfiys strike our enemies and not oor tienda. Now, the qnestion to be voted npon at this lection. ia cot a new one, my frieDde: your athers had the aame thing to oontend with. t is coeval with the age of the governraeut tself, aye, and long before that. It was tbe main thing that prodneed the wp.r of the evolotion, tbis very qnestiou of a tariff for evenuo or proteotion - free trade r proteotion; this one qudstion hpri more to do with bringing about the revontionary war than all other aases oombined. What was the eeult? Aa soon na tha federal overnmeut was established, the second law ïat waa put npon the Btatnte book and igned by George Washington, waa a la ut established a proteotive tariff, and nsed ie word proteotion as we ase it, . ayicg tbat waa neoessary for the public credit to pay ie pnblio debt, and to proteot the mannfao nrers of tbis oonntry that we f hould levy a uty, ai)d they did it. That act of the firet orjgiess, 8anctioned by WaehiDgton, w ndorsed by all adminiatrationa that follow d it, regftrdlees of party, until i became leeessary, nnder the orders of Divine lJrovdence, for men to take aides on thst great nestinn of hnman slaverj ; and theu the ooth became free trade. Öo atrongly was ; impregnated with the dootrice, that in the onfederate oonstitution of tbe confederute tale of America, a oíanse was inserted orbidding forever ihe levying of any duties or the proteotion of domeiüo commerce. braham Lineólo, in 1860, with that manliesB and that courage and that greatness which oonstitnted tbe man, deolared in a few irief worde, ''I am io favor of intercal imrovements and the protective tariff " The epublioan party to-day stands declaring the sine thing, and the question to be voted on whether we shall have ft tariff which shall e for revenne only, or whether we shall have tariff that shall ulso protect the indnetries nd labor of the Uuited States. LaboriDg men, nnder the proteotive tariff, have to come nto competition with other laboriDg men in hs United Htatea. The laooring man has to come into oomibtition with the oheap pauper labor import:d icto tbis country, bat it is imported luto his conntry in violation of lw. The law must be enforoed by the execotive; shall declaim againat Mr. Cleveland and ray hat all this pauper labor that has come into thin oiiMtry, and beeu crowded into tur i)wn and thor reat labor nurte, causing Btrikes and ockouts there; I thall eay nonuchtbing, for Ido not propoBe to bear false witnessagaiostany man or ftny party. ]tiB simply fair andhoneetand ruo to say trat ihia inipotted labor has come in lader the present adminiatnition like a ñood. Itcame in nnder the dtninietration of Arthur 'ilmoet in eqnal volnme, tut in both caeoa, in violntion of the law of tbe United ötatee; and it was done by men who look upon men as they tío upoü horsea - to see juet how much they can get ontof thom. Hut it is not te fault of partwft; it is bocaueo men who are rich and corporations tikt are nch will take their chances: and we are rying now, regardless of party, in Washington, ■o digest legielation that shall Bend the pauper iome, ard the importer of the pauper to the state's prisoti. (AppUuse.) Now, thero is another charge, my friends, that ■a will be callea upon to meet. and that is that the ropublican party haB uever reduced the debt. The fact is this, for I ehall not go lui o detail wïth you to-day- that for the twenty-two yeara last past, it happens that the house of repreeentativee for eleven years has beeu democratie aud eleven yeare republioan. The total reduction in t'iatioa by removing it upon ira portod iirtielee aud the intornal ta&ation duriD the eleven yftRrs if the republican KdminiHtration was #2&6,lX)ü,O0O. Kepreseuted by what? Taking tlio dnty entirely off of tea and coffee, and the balance, for the most. part, upon the ir terc&l revenuö taxation of the country. I need not teil you gentlemen whohave been in the habit, yaara gone by, of giving notes, that jou had to put a stamp on notes, mortgages and deeds; fhia was intornal revenue taxation, and these areepdcimecs of taxation tat the republican jarty sweptaway. The democratie party for the eleven years that it, has been in power in the ïower house has to show for its work a total lednctinn of $6,lXXVJ00, and that is all; and yet they say, we have never reduced taxation and (IihÍ wc are nayintr war tiixes to day. At the begiunicg of thia Éeesion. the prf öidont of the United States told ub that there was great danser of a fir.ancial c aeh, thst all the material interesta in the country wero likely to be overwhelmed becau&o of tht; mirplus in the tren.su ry. e Rsked him why he did not use the surplus to paythe debts of the nation. There never had h en a day. ihere never had beon u month. f rom the time that Lee uurreadered at Appomattox until i'benter A. Arthur left the preaidcotial chair, there was iiot a month thatsomeof the booded debt f the United Htatos was not diachargcd and paid, For the first eleven nionthB of Mr. Cleveland's admioietratioa not a dollar waa paid. 1 say we asked him why he did not tfike the snrplue and pay th debt that was drawins inlereet; aod the preeidmit, hom 1 beHtve to be a welt meaninji man, ar.d whom I kuow [lereonnlly and regard highly in man y respects :i preñe ent who oever bad any more opportunity of knowing any more thhii wh 1 except he wan more favorably nitnatfid -ai tjhx de"t, who, beeause he nevor ha much public experieiice, did not know ae tnucli as aome men who had moro-paid that thia whh a crisis tha conf routed the eafety of the people. Hï did do iÍhio to tke this in o noy and pay tho bonds, au f waleed cr)n(frpsa to pase a joint reerilutiun Fuy in 1hat it tliotight that ho hid tho power, oude the present law, to piy the bon dn wth this tur plus. Bnt it is a siiiKular thiPK; 'lic prp&iiior. BKÏd ihflt tht' law conferrinR npoij kim tc po we to pay bomls was in an apptpriatioti, and h foared that it ws placed in thera iacidentallj and that it d)'i not confer that recfeeary powe which he ought to have. and boing coneervativ he declinoi to use it. But that awme appropriH t ion and that eamo law that authorizpd liim t thke the aurplun and pay t he bond tilao name his salary at tifty thouand dollars a year. Upo the one branch of tho law he had grnve dnubts - ■ir }. bvenodottbti h'jnost otiwi upon tbvothw if he over had an-, thoy did not come to the sarL'Sf; tèendTthl el,otion will eettle for the Den (juarter of a centnry nt least, the financial rondaettf thisgovernment, Wo aie told that they ure not free trsdf-rs, but they are. rheytre tree tradere as far as Michigan ie concerned si leam. ïoumaykm.ck ont 01.0 stone here, anrt anothertherefroma buildiDg; and still persiet you p.re not tejiring Iliebnildliigdown ; but ïf jou snoek ont stoiies ecoufth, down the building will come. They havo kuocked ont wool todav, nnd theie is nothing to hinder thèir knonking out woolens to-morrow, and by and by we ehall have those halcyon days that free traders dream of, when everjthingthat we want hall be brought. to us read? made f rom across the ocean, and in eichange for it, we will giveour raw material; and the men who make onr f-oods. if they want to continue makicgthfm must go where they are made. to-wit, Kurope. We say no. We do rot elieve it; we do not helieve that anything that can be produced in thiê country or made in this country; fhoold como inio competition with abor anywliere elee in the world that is cheaper than ours, bo we inei6t that there ehall be a duty eft upon everythiDg 1 hat is brought into thi country that we ourselves can raieeor make, that hall represent the difïerence in the pnce pid ,ir the labor that goes into goods. in this country and anyother country upon the faei.1 of theirlobe. In m doine, we protect American labor. ín protectmg labor, we protect the ;v foundation of all thiogs in this country, and n ís tor jou and me to say whether we ehall eat that whieh is raieed here, wear that which i minea here and mako the things people want. or whetber we sholl let eomebody else do it outside our jnrisdictiun and beyond our flag. Yonrvpte will settle it. Itis beyond coneress; the nslit that has been goiDg on there for nearly a yoar is simplya conflict of ideae; it is B conflict of systun which the people at the comint election ir uut decide for themselyee. If yon belief in a ttnff forrevenneonly-il yon believeit nghtto tsx euftar eizty-eight cents on tho dollar, rnr ti 'iir a what is done, if tne figures are correct, and to let jour wool, ithich has boen improveu at a great cost t money and of time- if you are willing toadmit that in competition with the other wool of the world. then you will say so, and every loyal man will abide the decisión. As for me. I must return to my dutie; I shall not be ablo to ta'k to the people of thisoonaressional dietrict, I fesr, because I know tbat if a man is so anzioun to be a member of concres that he will leave bis place there. and electioneer for tiimwlf here, that very fact would convince me at letst, that he was not fit to b there. (Applauf p.) But -while 1 ain here to-day, 1 want to eay to jou that I do Dot believe in thn Mills mil -1 do not believe in a system cf tariff rednction founded tipon such unequal factors 1 do b'lieve that the tariff can be modified in many a6es aüd reduced so as to do no harm to any of he industries of this country, and there iswhere stand. If you believe as I do, then your votes will say so. If you do nnt, then I shflll eay that, t.der tbe terms of the constitution, you having xercised the riwht i ven you, if you defeat me t the polis, I shall know that I am mistakeD, ard that the ipeople, whose right it is, rulo. Applause.)