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PLATTSMOUTI1 TYKEiik irA.hw txitHSUAV, AUGUST 2, 18S3. ICISTOTTS BROS, Publishers & Proprietors. TIIK rLVlTHMOUTII JlKltALI) Is )nl)Iislicil every cvenlnjr except Sunday anil Weekly every ThiirHihiy morning llcgls tercil lit the potoltl;e, rialtHinoiilh. Nehr.. i.n tcffiiiil-oUHM matter. Oihce comer of Vine and Fifth fleets. TKKMS KOK llAII.V. One copy on jear In advance, by until. . Oho copy per month, .y t-;iri Icr, One copy per week, by curlier , tin . f. TKKMS FOK WhKKI.V. flne copy one year. In advance, One copy six months, in advance.. ...i no 75 NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET. KOU I'UESIOKNT, B EN J AM IN 1IARRI S N, of Indiana. l'OH VICE I'HESIPKNT, LEVI T. MORTON, of New York. REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. The republicans of the I'nited States, assem bled by their deliiiates in national convention. naUHe on the tlnei-holil of their proceedings t honor the memory of 1 heir first meat leader and iiuinortal champion of liberty and the lights of the people, Abraham Lincoln, and to cover also with wreaths ef imperishable re memhrance and gratitude the heroic names of our later leader who have been more recently called away from onrcoiineilH, Ciant, Cartichl, Arthur, I.ol'iui and ( onkniiL'. may thcirmem iirlcs he faithfully cherished. We also recaP with our meet ini: and iiiaver for his recoveiv the name of one of our livtni; heroes whose memory w ill be treasured in the history both of republican and of t he republic. The name Is that, of the noble noldier and favorite child of victorv. I'bilip II. Slid nlaii. In the f pirit of those meat leader" and of our devotion l htiuian liberty, and with that hos tilily to ail forms of des.otiHn ai d oppression w hich is the fundamental idea or the remihli can party, we i-cnil Iratemal coiinratiilation" to our fellow American of T.razil upon ttieii eteat act of emancipation which completed the alxilition of slavery throuliout the two Aiiii'i icau continents. W e earnest ly hope we may noon congratulate our fellow citicii ol jrih birtli upon the peaceful recovery of home rule for Ireland. MK Al FlltM (i:K I'XSWKHVINii DFVOTInX to I tie iiutioual constitution and to the indis soluble union of st at en to the autonomy re served to the states under the const it lit ion, ti Jhe personal rights and liberties of citiene in nil slates and lelllloilei. In the union ami es- M-cially to the sup'eliie and soyi-ieiim rinht of r-very citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign born, white or black, to cast one free bailor, in ttie public elections and to have that ballot duly counted. We hold a tree and honest pop ular ballot and lust and equal represcntatioi of all people in be the rotimlatiou of our re publican uovernmciit and demand effect iv leiiislal ion to secure the intecuty and piiritv of elections which are the fountains of all pub lic authority. We charge that the present ad ministration ami the democratic majority m con m ess owe t heir existence to the .supprcssioi of the ballot by the criminal nullilicat an of the (institution and laws 01 ttie Lulled Males. We are uiieromiiromisiniilv in favor of the American system of protection. We protest against the destruction proposed 1V the presi dent and his part v. They serve the interests of Kuroue w K WII.I. KIUM'OKT 1XTEHFST3 OF AMKHICA Wfs accept the issue, and confidently appeal ti the iM-ople for their iudmnciit. The pi otect hi system must be maintained. Its abandonment has always been follow ed by general Uis. ste lo all interests except those of the unsure! ami sueriii. We denounce the Mills' bill as destructive t general bunines. labor, and the fai-niiiii; inter csts of the country, and we heartily eiidorsi the consistent iiud patriotic action of the re publican representatives in congress in oppes inirits passage. W e condemn the propositus of the democratic party to place wool on tin lice list and insist, that the duties therein ilt:tl be adjusted and maintained so as to fur nish lull and adequate protection to that m ilu-trv. Tae republican party would effect all needed reduction of the national revenue by repealing the taxes on toliacco, which are an arrogance an.l burden to agriculture, ana the tax upon spirits used lu the arts and lor mechanical pur poses, stint hy sueli revision ot the tarilt laws a will tend to cheek imports or such articles as :i'e produced by our people, the production 01 which gives employment to our labor, and re lease from import duties these articles of for t'iii production, except luxuries, the like ol which cannot bt produced at home, there r-hal still remain a larger revenue t ban is requisiti for the wants of government, of internal taxes rather than surrender any part of our i rotee tivesystem at the joint behest of the whisky ring and agents el loreigu manufacturers. AO A INST rAl'I'EK A"I I.AP.OK Tltl'STS. V declare hostility to the h.troduction int thu country of foreisn contract labor and of Chinese labor alien to our civilization and our constitution, and we demand the rigid enforce ment of existing laws against it and favor such immediate legislation us win exclude such la v ior from our shores. We declare our opposition to alleombit.a lions of capital organized in trusts or other wise to control arbitrarily the condition o trade among our citizens and we recoir mem to congress and the state legislatures in thi; respective jurisdicliorjrf such legislation as will !revent the execution of :t!! schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supiilie or hy unjust rates for the transportation o' their products to market. we approve legislation by congress 1o pre vent alike unjust burdens and unfair discrim illation between states. ruisLir I.AM) I.ROISI.ATIOX. We reaflirni the policy of appropriating tip public lands of the L'hited States to be home steads for American citizens and settlers not aliens, which the republican party established in i.;2 against the persiste.it opposition o! the democrats in congress, w hich has brought our great western domain into magnificent de veloiemeut. The restoration of unearned land rrants to the public domain for the use of ac- tual settlers, which was begun under the ad ministration of l'rcsident Arthur should be continued. We deny that the democratic party has ever restored one acre to the people, but declare that by the Joint action of republicahs nd democrats about fifty million acres of un earned lands, originally granted for the con struction of railroads, have been restored to the public domain in pursuance of conditions inserted by the republican party in the oiigin rtl grants. Wc charge t-e democratic adminis tration with laiimc to execute laws securing to cettlers title to theii homesteads and with us ing appropriations made for that purpose to harrass Innocent settlers with spies and prose cutions under the false pretense of exposing frauds and vindicating the law. ADMISSION OF TEKHITOKIES, The government by congress of the territor ies is based upon necessity only to the end thai they may become states in the union : there fore. whenever the conditions of population, material resource, public intelligence and morality are such as to injure stable local gov ernment therein the people ofiiieh territories should be permitted, a right inherent in them, to form for themselves constitutions and state "overnments and be admitted into the union 1'euding preparation for statehood all officers thereof should be selected tiom bona tidi residents and citizens of the territory w herein they are to serve. South Dakota should id rt be immediately admitted as a state in fife union under the constitution framed and adopted bv her people, and we heartily en dorse the action of the republican senate in twice passing bills for her admission. 'J he re fusal of the democratic house of representa tive?, tor partisan purposes, to favorably con sider these bills is a willful violation of the t iered American principle of local gelf-goveni-ineut and merits the condemnation of all just Lien.' The pending bills in the senate for acts to enable the ueople of Wellington. North JJakota and Mmuauna territories to form con stitutions and establish state governments should be paused without unnecessary delay. The republican party pledges inseu to do all in its power to facilitate the admission of the ter ntorieaof New Mexico. Wyoming. Idaho and Arizona to the enjoyment of seTf-government as states Such of them as are now qualified hs soon as rxis.iible.and others as soon as they may become o. THE J!ORMO. QLF.8TIOX, The political power of the Monnon cinirch in the territories as exerc sed In thi last i a menance 'free institutions too dnt erous to Le long suffered. Therefore we pledge the re- publican '. rty to appropriate icirmiaiiuii. inserting the soveretmity ot t lie nation in an the ten Holies wheie ihe smne is questioned, amto lu lurtherance of that end to place upon the statute bonk legislation stringent nough 10 invoice political lrom ecciemaMieai power, mid thus stamp out the attendant wickedness of polygamy. I tie repuPlican party is in lavor ot me use of both gold and si Iver a-i money, and con demusthe policy of the democratic adminis tration in li enorts to oemouetie sliver. We demand the reduction of letter postage to l e nl per ounce. ii a republic like ours, w here the citizen is the hovert-igli and the otllelal the cerviint. w here no pow er is exercised except by the w ill of the people, it is important that the sover eign eople should possesn Intelligence. The tree school is the promoter ot lliai intelligence w Ii ich is to preserve us a n ee hat ion. j nere- fore. the state or nation, or both conbined, should support free Institution of learning siiMiclen t to allord to eyci y child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common- school education. OUU MKIM'IIAKT MAltINK, We earnestly recommend that prompt action be taken iu confess in t he ei act incut of such legislation as will best secure the rehabilita tion of our American merchant marine, and we protest against the passage by eongreHs of a tree ship bill as calculated to work injustice to labor by lessening the wages of those en gaged in preparing materials as well as those directly employed In our shipyards. vv e de mand appropriations lor the early reminding of our navy, for the construction of coast lortiftcations and modern ordinance and other approved modern mea'is of defense for the protection ot our defenseless linroors and cities, for the payment of just pensions to; our soldiers, for necessary works of national im portance in the improvement of the harbors ami: channels of iuternal, -oast wiser and foreign commerce, for the encouragement of the shipping interests of the Atlantic, (iulf and I'acille states as well as, for tUe payment of the maturing public debt. This policy will give employment to our labor, activity to our various industries, increased security to our country, promote trade, open new and direct markets for our products and cheapen the cost of transportation. We aflirm this to be far better for our country than tne democratic policy of loaning the government's money without interest to "pet banks." FUKKKIN HKI.AT10NS. The conduct of foreign a If airs by the present administration has been distinguished by inef ficiency and cowardice. Having withdrawn from the senate all pending treaties effected by republican administratioi s for the removal of foreign burdens and restrictions upon our coinmeice and for its extension into a better market, H has neither affected nor proposed any ot hers in their stead. Professing adher ence to the Monroe doctrine, tt lias seen with idle complacency the extension of foreign in lluence in Central America and of foreign trade everywhere among our neighbors. It has re fused to charter, sanction or encourage any American organizytion for constructing the Nicaragua canal, a work ot vtal importance to t be maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and of our national inlluenee in Central and South America, and necessary for the development of trade with our I'acitie territory, with South America, and with the further coasts of the I'acille Ocean. KJSHKUIKS yl'KSTlOX. We arraign the present democratic adminis tration for its weak and unpatriotic treatment of the fisheries question, and its pusillanimous surrenderor all pnvileg to which our lisnery vessels are en lii led in Canadian ports under the treaty of jsls, the reciprocate marin tine legislation of IKiii and comity of nations. and which Canadian lishing vessels receive in the ports of the vnited States. We con Jemn thelailievof the present administration and the democratic majority in congress towards our fisheries as unfriendly and conspiciouslv unpatriotic and as tending to destroy a valuable n at ional industry ai id an iudispensible resource of defense against foreign enemy. The name of American applies- alike to all cilizens of the rep.iblie. and imposes upon men alike the same obligation of obedience to the awe. A t tiie same time ci' izenship is and must he the panoply and safeguard of him who weais it, should shield and protect mm w neuier iiiltii or low. rich or poor, in till his civil rights, it should and must allord him protection at home and follow and protect him abroad in whatever land he may ne on a law nil errand. fl VII. SKKVIOK Kl't'OKM. The ii::?n who abandoned the republican par ty in lssl and co.ili'iue to adhere to the deiuo c'ratic party have deserted not only the cause of honest government, but of sound finance, of freedom rand purity of the ballot, but espec ially have deserted the cau.e of reform in the civil service. We will not fall to keep our pledges because t' ev have broken theirs, or because their candidate has broken his. We therefore repeat our declaiatiou of ISst.towit : the reform 01 civil service auspiciously negun under lemiblicati administration should be completed bv a further extension of th" reform sj stem already established by law to all grades ot me service to w nicn it is applied, a ne spir it and purpose of reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at varience with the object of existing reform leg islation should be repealed, and that the dan gers to free institutions which lurk in the pow er I nlicial pa'ronage may ue wisely and ef fectively avoided. ' The gratitude of the n:tIon to the defenders of the union cannot be assured except by laws. The legislation of congress should conform to the pledges made by a loyal people, and be so enlarged and exteuued as to prov'de against the possibility that any man who honorably wore the federal uniform shall become an In mate of an almshouse or dependent on t rivate charity. In the presence of an ovci flowing treasury it would b a public scandal to do less for those w hose valorous service preserved the government. We denounce the hostile spirit show n by ''resident Cleveland In his numerous vetoes of measures for pension relief, and the action of the democrat ic house of representa tives in refusing even consideration of general pension legislation. In support of the principles herewith enun ciated, we invite the co-operation of patriotic men of all parlies, especially of all working men whose prosperity u seriously threatened by the free trade policy of tne present admin istration. They are gatUering from the hill tops ; hey are gathering from the plain, hey are gathering as they wou'd have rallied around the man from Maine. Have you noticed the crowds that are persistently calling Genl. Harrison to the front door.' The coal miner from Indiana hit the nail on the head, w hen he said; "Free "trade will bring us low wages and a bad "smell in the butter." One would surely think Mr. Cleveland was running in Great Britain did tkjy not know the voting yas all done this side the great pond. on The New York Tribune's "09" "Eng land's only choice" is a reyalation that is agitating democratic circles in a way that is interesting to behold. AVhex the American iecp!s raise their hats to the first man of this continent in New York harbor we immagine the great Cartholdi's mouumcnt will wave the old flag with her extended arm in acknol edgement to the eejjtiinent that Ameri can industries are to be protected for American workingnien and that he who comes like a conquering hero will be their chiefest champion. Welcome Mr. Blaine. It is not very comforting to our free trade neighbors to have the cold facts, in figures, placed before them on the tar iff question. False assertions, from Gro ver Cleveland down, on Ihe industrial question will be the order of the day and the country may as rell understand this now at the commencement of the cam paign Go on gentlemen the working men of.thia country understand you. and v, ill settle with you in good time. Republican State Convention. The republican electors of the f-tfite of Nchruska nre requested to scii'I delegates from their several counties to meet in convention at the city of Lincoln Thurs day, August 2,1, 18SS, at 2 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of placing iu nomination candidates for the following ftate oilices. Governor. Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State. State Treasurer. Auditor of Public Accounts. Attorney General. Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings. And the transaction of such other busi ness as may come before the convention. TUB A f'I'oHTIONMENT. The several counties are entitled to re presentation as follows, being based upon the vote cast fur Hon. Samuel Maxwell, judge, in 1 S87, giving one delegate at large to each county, and for each 150 votes, and major fraction thereof: COUNTIKH. VOIKS II rot' NT IKS. VOTK.H. Adams , .folmson Kearney Keyha l'alia. Keith Knox Lancaster.. .. Lincoln Logan Loup Madison Mcl'lierson .. Merrick Nance Nemaha . Nuckolls... . Otoe Antelope ! Arthur I lllaiue 'J lloolie. ... s ... 4 Itox I'.utte. I'.rown Buffalo ... Kutler Hurt ("ass Cedar Chase Cherry.... Cheyenne. . Clay Co; fax Cuming.... Custer Dakota.... Dawes Dawson Dixon Dodge Douglass... Dundy . . Fillmore. . . Franklin... Frontier Furnas Cage Carfield... iosper Crant Crteley .... Hall Hamilton .. Italian Hayes Hitchcock . Molt Howard Jetlerson .. . 8 . ii . 8 . 1 . !l . a U . 8 . 5 . 4 . f. .10 . 7 .1-.' . 7 13 . S .12 7, Pawnee . "I Perkins 17; Pierce . 511'olk . -jITalfe . s: Phelps . r, Kiclianlson. .Pj Hed Willow.. i;7S;dine . 4jSarpy .llliSatniders . TjSeward .10 Sheridan. . '.fisherman .. . .10 . 1!) sioux .. . . . 3 tanton ... 5 Thayer ,.. liThomas . 4; Valley . . ll Washington ...l:Wavne ... X' Webster . .. 4 Wheeler , .. ii York . . .14 Unorganized Ter... It 1 .. ), Total .671 It is recommended that no proxies be admitted to the convention except such as are held by persons residing in the coun ties from which the proxies are given. To Chairmen Count' Central Commit tees: Whereas, At the republican state con vention held at Linc oln October 5, 1887 the following resolution was adopted: liesolcttl, That the state central com mittee be instructed to embrace in its call for the next state convention the submis sion of the prohibition question to there publican voters at the republican pri manes, Therefore, in accordance with the abovo resolution, the several county cen tral committees are hereby instructed to include in their call for their next county convention the submission of the prohi bition question to the ftEirr.Lic.vx voters at the republican primaries. Geo. D. Meiklejohn, Chairman. Wai.t. M. Seelfv, Secretary. Mk. Blaine litis been coaching through England and Scotland at the expense of Mr. Carnegie. Journal. We suppose the Journal measures its readers' intelligence by its editorial stand ard. Such watery falsehoods are wor thy the barroom loafer. W hen a democratic journal gets so far gone" on the tariff question that it refers to the difference between England and Mexico in industrial affairs as an ar gument why free trade should be adopted in this country it is high time for the in sane commission to sit, The matter should not be postponed, Mr. Showalter do your duty. It is predicted by ticn. Harrison's law partner that the soldier vote of Indiana will be cast solidly for the Republican ticket this year, regardless of past politi cal affiliations. And, by the way, what excuse can a soldier in any state give for voting ihe democratic ticket, and thus indorsing Cleveland's shameful record as a pension vetoer? The Journal does not like our figures and cites as an offset to their cold un friendly presence, that somebody con demned the course of the Inter Ocean a few years ago. That's a pretty good dough-face argument against the figures. Don't whine about the Inter Ocean but face the figures, yir. Journal ! They speak a language exceedingly plain and direct. The high smelling record of Grover Cleveland's administration fills four full pages pf the New York Tribune and as a fateful accideat wa issued the same day Mr. Cleveland's last civil service message was pomulgated as an electione ering document. The refuse was light ened by the sickly; cowardly, dishonest message. All the presidents, since the days of Jackson, put together, have not appointed as many rascals to office. The Tribune gives the names and characters of the rotten crew with the newspaper exposes, dates and numbers which is largely democratic authority. This ex posure has paralyzed the mugwump news papers of New York, who are dumb in its presence. The panorama of frauds is a general rogues gallery and is said to upset the president more completly than anything that has happened during his administration; it cannot be answered, it cannot be explained; like the mackeral it feliincs and stinks, and stinks and shines. The American mechanic not only gets better wages under our system of protec tion but he is a better man in every way his food is better; his home is better, his family have greater advantages and more comforts; he buys his supplies and the implements of his trade for less mon ey than his brother England who gets less wages and has a harder time living in every respect. Does anyone with regard for the truth doubt these facts? We rather guess not. When Mr. Mills was cornered in the house debate and competed to admit that the dark lantern bill was changed to suit Havenryer and his sugar trust and that Ilavernyer was consulted by the commit tee, the northern doughface democracy, as represented in congress, made no pro test. The inexhorable caucus machine bound them hand and foot and its liga ments of steel will only be broken, w hen the people next November set the mis re presentatives free by refusing to return them. Down with the doughface, we say ! "IIevence reformers" are not for free trade, Oh, No ! They want protection enough, and only so much, as will furnish enough revenue to pay the running ex penses of the government. They are against the principle of protection. Mr. Cleveland iu his surplus message con demns t lie principles of protection and calls it iniquitous. This message is made a part of the democratic platform; yet, Mr. Cleveland and the politicans of his party, in the presence of anarrouscd peo ple, are denying, like Peter of old. Rev enue reform" unfortunately means free trade and the people know it. Those ancient free trade chestnuts about blankets, quinine and steel rails, have been so thoroughly exploded our free trade enemy has to fall back on gor tried quotations lrom Uarticld and emi nent icpublicans. In the meantime Mr. Cleveland is steadily vetoing the war widows claims and hunting up their anti bellum bad characters upon which to base his vetoes. Mr, Cleveland is not entirely unfamiliar with that phase of human nature and is somewhat of an ex pert when it comes down to ferreting such characters. Brave pure man (?) hr can't stand that sort of thing. The Journal boasts that the Mills bill reduces the average rate of duty only 5 per cent, and points with pride to the reduction of the duty on rice and sugar. Can the Journal explain why sugar and rice are left with high duty and wool placed on the free list? Rice is reduced to a 100 per cent, duty and sugar left well protected. Dare the Journal admit, as Mr. Morresy of the World has admit ted, that this discrimination in favor of the southern products is a defenseless outrage? It was done to favor a section and catch votes enough to save the Mills bill. Those who are crying free whisky to the rtpublicaus will please read the fol lowing: "We declare for the immediate abolition of the internal revenue system, whereby our national government is de riving support from our greatest national vice." Prohibition Platform. "If there shall still remain a larger re venue than is requisite for the wants of the government, we favor the entire re peal of the internal taxes rather than sur render any part of our protective system at joint behest of the whisky trust and the agents of foreign manufacturers." In the face of the above how silly and nonsensical the cry of free whisky be comes. A man who has the elements of fairness in liis make-up, will cease to use it in an argument. The Journal wants to know why Mexico is not better off than it is, as it is a high tariff country. We will answer: Twelve years ago Mexico did not have a tariff that would support her government, laborers only got J 2$ cents per day. Since she has taxed exery thing 100 pei cent, she has commenced to build mauu facturies, the country is prcspcrjng and labor has triblcd as the cheapest labot that can be had today is 37 cts. per day. and if she keeps up her high tariff, rail roads will be built and manufacture.1 will rise up and it will be one of the grandest countries pn the face of the globe, so much for high tariff and pro tection. The following figures should be of some interest to Hon. R. Q. Mills. They are taken from the Texas Lice Stock Journal. They show he prices of Texas wool in 1881 and IS, and the amount which this wool would bring now if the Mills bill were law and wool placed on the free list: Free Wool. lsSS. ISM. Western Texas cc l-j'iC 1 Choice eiirht months.... 7' jc lt".c 2?c Choice twelve months.. 8c I7c 25c In ISiH, two years before the duty on wol was lowered to present rates, that product brought about o0 per cent mon in the market than it does now. If the house bill should be enacted the price of wool would drop to about half present rates, and thousands of wool growers in Texas and other states would be impov erished. The most sensible thing for Roger to do under the circumstances would be to use all his eloquence and per suasiveness to get the senate to defeat the Mills bill. Globe Dera. Daily delegations from surrounding states and localities wait on (Jen. Harrison who receives all and who has already become famous fur the brilliant and ver satile qualities of the m oiy short, ; protntu, addresses he has already made. That made to a delegation of miners on the 'ilh inst. contains inure st atcsiuau- sliip and more loyalty to A mcricati inter ests than Srover Cleveland is capable of comprehending were he to live a rent ury. Presenting the delegation of smne :!Mt( cod miners from Clay county, a miner named Edward Wilson, said: The miners have come here to take a bund in procuring the bread ami butter mentioned by our chairman. 1'n e trade will bring us low wages nnd a very strong smell in the butter. We did not leave the shores of the old country to be bossed ill this land by foreigners. Wu believe in America for Americans. Those who want a foreign policy ought to go abroad to live. The highest wages for miners in Southern England is 1 2 cent?, and the highest wages in England for mining is $1 fi day, and half of this goes for bread. We can make as much in Ameri ca in one day as in two in the old coun try. Let us vote to make a demand for our commodity labor. We intend to vote this time for our wives and children. We are going to take a hand in this fight." Robert Lee McCowan, a colored man. of Knightsville, also maelu remarks ex pressive of the esteem in which General Harrison is held in Clay county. Gener al Harrison saiel in reply: Gentlemen, and friends from Clay county: I thank you for this enthusiastic demoiitiiition of your interest. I am glael to be assured by those who have spoken for you today that you have brought here and desire to evidence some personal respect forme. This demonstra tion has relation, I am sure, rather to principles than to men. You come here as representatives of the diversified inter ests of your country. You are fortunate in already possessing diversified indus tries. You have not only agriculture, l)..t the mine and factory, which provide home markets for the products of your farms. You come, as I understand, from all these pursuits to declare that in your opinion your interests as farmers, as min ers, as mechanics, as tradesmen, are iden tified with the maintenance of the doc trine, of protection to American indut ics, and the preservation of the American market for American products. (Cheers.: Some resort to statistics to show that the condition of the American workman is better than that of workmen of tiny other country. I elo not care to deal now with statistics. One fact is enough for me. The tide of immigration from all Euro pean countries has been and is toward our shores. The gates of Castle Garden swing inward. They do not swing ottt waril to any American laborer seeking a better country than this. (Cries of "Never.") My countrymen, these men, who have toiled at vagcs in other lands that barely sustained life, and opened no avenue of promise to them or their children, know the good laiul of hope as well as tin swallow knows the land of summer. ( Applause. ) They testify that here there ire better conditions, wider and more hopeful prospects for workmen than in any other land. The next suggestion I have to make is this: That the more work there is to elo in this country, the higher the wagis that will be pa'nt for doing it. (Applause.) I speak to men who know that when tlie product of their toil is in demand in the market, when buyers are seeking it. wages advance with the demand, but when the market for your product is de pressed and the manufacturer is begging for buyers, then the wages go elown. 1 it not clear then that that policy which secures the largest amount of work to lie done at home is the policy wdiich will secure to our laboring men stead' em ployment and the best wages. (Cheers and cries of "that is right."; A policy which will transfer work from mines and our factories to foreign mines and foreign factories inevitably tends to the elepres sion c.f wages hero. (Applause.) TI b;e ate truths that elo not need pro found study. Having here a laml that throws about the working man social anel political conelitions more favorable than are founel elsewhere, if we can pre serve also more favorable industrial con ditions we shall secure the highest inter ests of our working classes. ( Great cheer ing.) What, after all, is the best evidence of a national prosperity anel best guaran tee of social order it' it is not an intelli rrent, thrifty, contented working class? Can we look for contentment if the work man is only able to supply his daily nec essities by his elaily toil, but is not able in the vigor of his youth to lay up a store against old age? A condition of things that compels the laborer to contemplate want as an incident of sickness or disa bility is cue that tends to social disorder. (Applause and cries of "That's so." ) You are called upen now to consider these problems. I Mill not debate them in de tail. Others will. I can only commend them to your thoughtful consideration. Think upon them; concluele for yourseves what policy as to our tariff legislation will best subserve your interests, the in terests of your faaiihes, and the greatness and glory of the nation of which you arc citizens. (Cheers.) My colored friends who are here today, the emancipation of the slaye removed from our country that which tended to degrade labor. Men are now all free. You are thro wn upon your own resources. The avenues of intelligence and of busi ness success are open to all. I notice that the party to which we belong lias been recently reproached by the sugges tion that we have not thoroughly pro tected the colored man in the south. This has been urged as a reason why the colored people should join the elemocrat ic party. I beg the gentlemen who urge that plea to answer this question: Against whom is it that the republican party .has been unable, as you say, to protect your race? (Applause and cries of "Good." "Good.") Thanking you again for this demonstration and your friendly expres sions, I will, if it be your pleasure, drop this f i tiial tin thod of coiiuiiutiicatiop, and take my Clay county friends by tin: hands. ( ( ! rent cheering. ) This short, terse, 1 1 ' in h int, vh w of the situation by Mr. Harrison should be placed in the hands f every winking man in America. How well it leads along ide of one of G rover ( b v ! uid's plageri-ius ' Tin: inexcusable coward ice of the not tliwe.-teiii democratic press is what brings ami always lias brought, tint charg.- of doughface against that disloyal branch of the deinorraiic party, disloyal to the interests of tin: section to which it In longs. Every outrage upon the c iti zen at tin south is denied with an elfron tcry that is simply sickening, while tin: more manly press of the south stand up and attempt to justify ballot box shilling, bulldozing and political minders, for democracy's sake. It s a rate thing to find a democratic paper at the north even willing to admit that such practices exist at the south. At the last election in Louisiana the governor of that state sent a communication to the supervisors of election iu the different parishes noti fying them that Mr. Wtirinouth the re publican candidate was devclloping un expected strength and that large demo cratic majorities must be returned; and, saying to his henchmen "titit tin- lam must he stisjH nded" until the danger was past; the result was the votes for the re publican candidate were not even count ed, but stupendous majorities were re turned for Mr. Nichols which caused the democratic press of Louisiana to portest ag.dnst the farce. Who has heard of a democrat ic newspaper out-side o f perhaps the World and tun. of New York, even admit, let alone condemn, this Louisiana election outrage and farce? A commit tee of the senate reported the oth:-r day oa the Jackson outrage and sho .v con clusively how Mr. ( 'lcveland's i.ppoinlei I'nitcd States ollie-ers, participated in Iho complete disfranchisement of the rut ire. colored vote of .Lu kson in a recent elec tion, yet, no one expects to hear or read a democratic newspaper in Nebraska, even, admit the truth of the Jackson af fair. To '' about it to their readers or condone it, is the mission of the average democratic newspaper in the north. This was always the case in shivery days and was the cause of old Horace Greely at taching the oboxious epithet "dough fac:"' to the northern democratic press. lu national affairs when the north w:ix slap petl in the face, insulted, their members assaulted and brutally beaten in their seats, at the national capital a cowardly northern democrat ic press was always found condoning anil defending their southern masti is. So it is today Mr. Cleveltinel and the n.ineiritv of democrat ic members of congress from the fVee north, are found us clay in Lin i.-imi: oi the solid south, ready to swallow and en dorse any m asure ordered by a caucus ruled by that section; hence the Mil's bill was accepted and supported by northern men w ho knew it was unfair and unju.-t in its provisions to their setcion of the union, even if they endorsed the revenue policy of their party. The not th- rn democratic eelitor has no business to whine when the term doughface is applied, to his clar:. ' ' The Journal seems to immagine that the working men of Plattsinouth are not right bright. From a free trade fact he states his proposition that "the object of protection is to raise the price on manu factured goods." The Journal ought to know better than this. The working men. know better, Then the Juuntai fuiihe,' says the working man has nothing but his labor to sell. Well suppose he has nothing but his labor to sell; the Jour nal would destroy that vidue to the working man and it is that commodity that the republican party defend?. In defending It, both the man that Wt.-a anel the man that hires and pays have got to be protected. Does the democratic party propose to keep out the cheap la bor of Europe Not much ! It is in different on that score. - Tin: work in" men of this country unelerstand that un less the manufacturer is protected their wages go down to the English scale and, that the necessaries of life will cosi them, then, just as much, with that low scale, as it does today with almost double th Englishman's wages. No amount oT hog-wash will got the Amerian working man's attention from the main question and fool him iuto cutting his own throat by supporting a party that says our ho;:.o markets should be broken down. Tho working man becomes very much fti"u- eel by such arguments. Gkovek Daal ! I didn't know there was so many sheep in the country. Danl--Yes Groyer ! There be many- sheep anel many shepherds and I fear me, urover, that between the butting of the hee-p and the kicking of the shepherds there will be a very large Hock of demo cratic lambs left out in the cold next November. Grover Well Danl ! It docs bed look wooley. I guess we had belt' up a civil service letter to the wu That is about tli3 only way we the wool over the eyes of the v " Dan in search of a dictionar pedia. ) . .