The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 15, 1888, Page 2

Ss nn an, SLIGHT COMPARISON. Voorhees, Delivered at Indian- apolis, Ind. THE CANDIDATES. But having thus far discussed the the two great political parties in the present contest, it is but proper that we turn our attention for a short placed before the American people for the most exalted position in their gifts. On one point I can and do most sincerely congratulate the lead ers of the republican party. Never did a convention more skillfully adapt its nomination to its platform than was done at Chicago, a few days ago, in June. dates in their natures, habits, avocations and associations, more absolutely their party’s declar- ed policy than Benj. Harrison, of Indiana and Levi P. Morton, of New York. They are no better in their attitudes toward the industrial clas- ses than the most evil features of the Chicago platform, and it is im- possible for them to be worse. They fit the monstrous abominable thing exactly. At the head of the ticket a corporation lawyer and a militia cap- tain in uniform against railroad men striking for living wages, nominated by the management of Chauncy M. Depew, at the behest of the rail- road systems of the Vanderbilts and Goulds, against the grander sup- port of Allison and the labor friends of Gresham. On the ticket with him a millionaire magnate and Na- tional Banker and Broker of Wall street, New York. It would seem that such a combination could only have been made in express derision and contempt of the labor elements and labor interests of the United States. T would not do injustice to Gen. Harrison. The corporation, wealth and power on the one hand, employed Inbor on the other, in 1877, will never be forgot- ten in Indiana. The scenes then en- acted, and the part which men took in them, have become a part of the permanent history of the State. When the poorly paid and overwork- ed attempted, through their lawful and peaceful organizations, to bet- ter their conditions, their appeal was met by some with words of kindness, sound advice, hope and en- couragement, In the breasts of nearly the whole public their condi- tion excited sympathy and a desire to aid them in a fair, equitable and peaceful settlement of their grievan- ces and claims. Gen. Harrison had no share in this feeling. He met them from the first with insult and reproach. He denounced them to their faces as law breakers, conse- quently criminals. He assumed to- ward then the lofty and arrogant bearing of a master over slaves, re- fusing to treat with them for redress of their wrongs while they were in revolt. He required them to cower in his presence, submit to his men- acing insults, and return to their tasks; then he might condescend to look into their case and see what ought to be done. Failing to carry his point in this direction at ence, he was swift in his willingness to shed their blood. He esteemed it an honor to be even captain under Gen. Macauley in such a cause. His encampment, with others at the ar- senal, we tind announced in the In- dianapolis News of July 27, (877, as follows: “Four companies of volunteers un- der the respective commands of Gen. Benj. Harrison, Col. N. R. Ruckle, struggle between Adams, marched into camp at the Extract From the Speech of Hon. Dan | principles and polities which divide | time to the candidates who have been | Never were candi-j; education, | |to make war on you, and to sprinkle | securities were bought and sold. | ten, and the wonder will always be } 3 of Indi dusty streets | the } submit, without terms. to the « | tion of organized cay ital. | men and Christian nations Ces. ing to you but the stern arbit lof the sword. I notice that 1 | recei | tions who call to do him honor. Let | Wore at the arsenal, take a Spring field rifle in his hand, and then he will appear to the delegates calling | on the republican candidate for the Presidency as he did to the laboring The clothes by Washington during the Revolution, the coat in which son whipped the Brittish at New Orleans, the hat which covered Grant's head at Shiloh, and other precious and immortal relics, may be seen sacredly preserved in glass cases in the National Museum at Washington. What shall be done with Harrison's uniform in which he campaigned against workingmen eleven short years ago? I leave it to others to suggest a proper place in which to preserve for future inspec- tion and admiration such illustrious raiment. In the meantime, the man who was more willing to give bullets than bread to the laborer now wants still appears to them. worn Jack- that Inborers vote to mak 2 COM- mander-in-chief of the army and navy. But there is still another labor question on which Gen. Harrison is the consistent exponent of the prin- ciples of his party. When the Re- publican party had its birth, a Chin- ese laborer had perhaps never been TheChin empire was at that time an is seen on American soil. ted lonesome power, seeking neither ne- gotiations nor alliances with oth nations and submitting to non they could be avoided. With the coming of the republican party came the Burlingame treaty and equally pernicious measures, opening our shores to chinese immigration and putting the Chinamen,with his Asiatic blood and habits. in competition with the American laborer. Every almond-eyed Mongolian now in the United States is here as the result of treatise and laws made by the repub- lican party; and when Gen. Harrison voted fourteen times in the Senate against restrictions on Chinese im- migration he was simply carrying out the principles and adhering to the established practices of his par- ty. When he voted in the Forty- seventh -Congress against both the bills reported by Senator Miller of California and Mr. Page, of the House, restricting the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, he was faithful to his instincts of hostility to American labor. When he voted to strike out of these meas- ures all restriction on the right and power of the State courts and of the United States courts, to naturalize the Chinese and admit them to citi- zenship, he was not only consistent with the teachings and logie of his party, but also with the sanction he of Chinamen at Indianapolis, pro- cured by his law partner from the courts with his full knowledge and approval. Ifthe American laborer wants the cheap-living rat-eater as his competitor in every branch of industry, and also his opponent and jrival at the ballot box, he cannot make his wishes more plainly k than to vote for General Harton. 2napolis 2 your blood if you refused to peaceful negotiations and arbitra- tions for the settlement of differen- Gen. Harrison proposed noth- ent is ving many people and delega- him put on the captain’s uniform he | people of Indiana in 1877, and as he | himself gave to the naturalization | Gen. Harrison was Mr. Blaine’s lead- , Though one of her humblest, I am one of her most devoted citizens. When my age was numbered by]t + t a months, and nct yet by years, my infant eyes looked out from the door ofa log cabin upon her dark, unbro- ken forests, within fifty miles, as the crow flies, from where I stand to- night. Irejoice that in her giant progress of the pioneer days of your | father and mine, rank and alleged riority of birth have conferred e sup GEO over those born in the abodes of labor, and who took their first lessous in life behind the plough. But in what respect does the ca- reer of Gen. Harrison appeal so strongly to the pride of Indianians, and especially of democrats. that |they should forego their political convictions and give him their sup- | port, simply because he lives in this jstate? Did any sentiment of state | pride ever move him to speak toler- antly, even, of a political opponent, much less vote for him? No gener- ous words, nor ever words of justice ever fell from his lips for the beloved Hendricks in his lifetime. For McClellan, for Seymour, for Tilden, for Hancock and for Cleveland he has never had anything but bitter and uncharitable speech. Neither the individual members of the dem- ocratie party, nor the party itself as an organization, have ever spared by Gen. Harrison. been Nor has he spared, in his party fanaticism, their habits and modes of life, those who those who differ from him in are «pposed to sumptuary, probibi- tory legislation; and when he finds j the i: of the road, 1 does as he soui h take ly an will always aim to ve one which leads most swift- safely, in his opinion, to the ned those dare to antagonize his narrow fore destruction of who and illibera iews. State pride for Gen I could not paracre his just claims to the respect of his countrymen, is it Harrison! dis- but whose duty to vote for him such Do against whom he declared war and took up arms, and into whose ranks he proposes to force the refuse pop- ulation of China, feel called upon to support him because they are proud of Indiana? Will democrats feel drawn by state pride to vote for one who, in order to return to the Senate, slandered the Legislature of Indiana and at- tempted, in January. 1885, to pervert its honest majority into a minority by expelling the old iron-puddler and Knight of Labor, Cornelius Meagher, democratic member from this county? And upon the pride of the people of Indiana generally, ir- respective of party, what claim has Gen. Harrison. growing out of his own state pride, coupled with a proper regard and care for her good name and fame among her sister states and throughout the world? The republican presidential candi- date in the last campaign, as you all too well remember, brought an action of slander against a demo- cratic newspaper of Indianapolis. It involved the most delicate matters of domestic life, concerning which I have never spoken and never vill. on a ground? labor organizations, ing lawyer, and when he moved to dismiss the case without bringing it to trial, he assigned as a reason for doing so such a libel on the state, and on the court, that J udge Woods refused the paper containing it a | place on his files. In that paper it |was in substance alleged thet a court, presided over by an intense | republican judge, with a republican Maj. J. J. Palmer and Capt. Harry | His election would convey an invita- {marshal and republican jury com- | tion to the tawny, pig-tail sons of | missioners, had become so debauch- the celestial empire. as broad and | ed by the influences of political agi- | far-reaching as divine grace extends United States Arsenal this morning. most formidable and efticient weap on.” Railroad laborers of Indiana, that Spring: gfield ritle was meant for you, because you wanted more wages, and when your wives and children read the announcement made by the News their hearts siood siill with dread and horror at the that 5 the thought u would be brought home to sled by its accursed The men are armed with the new | breech-loading Springfield rifle, a! to sinners: “Come one, come all.” Ihave heard, however, that the | people of Indiana are expected to support Gen. Harrison on a sentiment | of State pride. Iamindeed proud of Indiana, of the fame of her migh dueated, bra ty resources and self- ave at pe has been often on Senate, and ments as the sometimes to her wealth, her vas my Sstate- oh cap- tation, and by the recent democratic _ Victory, that a citizen of Maine could ‘not secure a fair trial nor obtain Justice in it. nor, indeed, in any of the courts of Indiana. I do not _ know whether this letter was written by lawyer or client, nor does it mat- ter; the presentation of it for perma- nent record was the crime against the honor of the state. This vas an ugly, and in fact. a fatal stab. could it have been driven home to the ,Teputation of the judiciary of Indi- * citi- ana, so long known and respected | will be taught a lesson in this ca throughout the United States. and the courts of Europe. Long 1 U go by before it is forgot-| ruption wins not how any citizen of Indiana could be proud of a man and vote for him. ise he lived in the state. when he himself was so destitute of state pride that he was willing to over- whelm the commonwealth with shame TONIC Ys prepared solely forthe | cure of complaints which amt 1 womankind. It and disgrace in order to earn a fee and strength to > et Ss. and or get an imprudent political leader nant iegeiaris Fi } fife. The use of out of trouble. during preg. eves the paiusofmotherhoodand ; It would seem. however, that Gen. It assists nature to Harrison is not making the race for the presidency on his own account ma : FOR S « -S.MERRELL DD: alone, but rather on joint account with his grandfather. From the tone of the organs of the republican party, it appears as if the people of Indiana were expected to have great state pride in the grandfather as well as in the grandson, and to vote for them both. To such as think Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison a good assist- ant to Gen. Benjamin Harrison at this time, I would suggest a careful r g of the early history of Indi- ana by John Dillon. It will be found on page 410 of Dillon’s history that the most important measure ever proposed on the soil of Indiana was a proclamation by Gen. Harrison in December, 1802, for the election of delegates to a convention which M’FARLAND BROS. -aa@e Keep the Largest Stock, Atthe Lowest Prices in. Harness and Saddlery, met'in the same month and year at Vincennes, and over Gen. Harrison presided, for the purpose of memorializing which Congress to repeal, or suspend, the sixth article the ordinance of 1787, and thereby authorize and establish slavery in the Northwest. A memorial and petition were agreed upon and for- ot Spooner Patent Collar! —PREVENTS CHAFING CAN NOT CHOKE A HORSE Adjusts itself to any Horse’s Neck, has two rows ot stitching, will hold Hames in place better than any other collar. for human slavery for all the country then embraced in the Indian Terri tory. ol warded to Congress, asking Congress, under John Ran- dolph, refused this appeal, and thus relieved the people of Indiana at that time, and also succeeding gener- ations, from the peculiar obligations they would have been under to the first Gen. Harrison. When this start- ling chapter of early history has been carefully considered and digested I think it will be seen that the pro- slavery Virginia Whig made a better race in 1840 than he would now, and that the grandfather feature of the present canvass might better be dropped. It does not look well, es- pecially to those who believe in the dignity and honor of free white labor. And now these remarks must come to a conclusion. Ihave spoken to- night to my friends and neighbors of more than thirty years’ standing, and with heart full of kindness for each and for all. I will not pause at this time to pronounce a eulogy on Grover Cleveland; he needs none. I will not go into a discussion of his administration; it speaks for itself in stronger and more eloquent terms than Icanemploy. In my place in the Senate, in April last, I dwelt in detail on its glorious work for the soldier, and for the citizen of every class, as well as for the peace and harmony of the entire Union. I ex- pect to do so again before the people of Indiana. Nor do I, to this audience, need to speak of Allen G. Thurman. You know him and his great career. In intellect, and in devotion to public duty, he has long since taken his place among those to whom impartial history accords the title of great, and in his democracy, his faith in the people and his support of their rights, he will take his place in the annals of his country in that bright, immortal galaxy, where the names of Jefferson, Jackson, Marcy, Polk, Seymour and Hendricks will be found forever shining. Fellow-democrats, you enter this contest under auspicious omens. Your state ticket, led by those two soldiers, Matson and Myers, who, with their associate soldier candi- dates, were conspicuous at the front, and not in the rear, as judge advo- cates or as provost marshals, points the way to victory. Your young and gifted candidate for Congress in this district. Voor- hees Brookshire, the son of my eherished friend in Montgomery. and the namesake of my early years, pre- sents himself for your suffrages, with the record of an upright life. and with veins filled with eenuine demo- cratic blood. Your county ticket is composed of honest and capable men. this day nominated to be elected, not to be defeated. To your tents, then, O, Israel! and let the world see once more how the | democracy of Indiana fights in a | cause that is just and tor men who | } are faithful. And I here serve no-! | tice on the enemy. on their Dudleys, on their Dorseys, the professional | boodlers of the ballot box, that th SCHuiwWwWAaANER’sS \ Prevents braking at end of clip, and loops from tearing out. USED ON ALL OF OUR HARNESS. SOUTH SIDE SQUARE BUTLER MO. WHY NOT IBUY YOUR Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES Where you can get them as represented. to select from. Good quality, low prices, a call will convince you of the fact. A large stock RESPECTFULLY, J, M. 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