Show YOORHEES SPEECH S 8 He Gives the Republicans a I Scorching 1 i i HARRISON IN PARTICULAR S S r Ua ebbU NotesTlie Tarf The Noble lied Alan Electric Storm Dischareed The Campalen Opened by Vorbees TERSE HAUTE Ind August iThe Democrats of this city and vicinity had a mass meeting tonight and Senator Sen-ator Vorhees made the opening speech in the Demooratic campaign in Indiana He said in party Every movement in the machinery 01 tnu government set in motion by Republican leaders and managers hs beeu to swell and bloat the gains of the rieh and increase the burdens of the poor The Republican conspiracy to fasten the fangs of the money power in struggling with the body of American labor took its first great step when in authorizing the legal tender of currency in 1862 tne Rresnback the immortal d glorious glo-rious greenback was discriminated S against and made nonreceivable for duties ou imports and for interest on the bonded debt Ho financial measure meas-ure was ever more oppressive and destructive de-structive to the rights of labor in its results tban this The Senator declared tnia act enabled the bulliooists of Wall Street to realize a profit on naked speculation with bonds ant currency ot the nation of nearly 1000 S OTO 000 I do not behave any i 5 people on the globe would have submitted unless restrained by fore to the monstrous act of Congress of Mdrca 1809 By one dishonest stroke of a disnonesc pen guided and held by dishonest leaders of a great party the debt irnich labor has to pay was swollen 25 per ceat The speaker then quoted a letter 1 written by John Sherman in 18SO 7 wbereia Sherman said 1 think the bond holder violate his promises when he refus s to take the same kind of money he paid for his bonds II Why aSKed the speaker flhoald not the greenback come to the front at tins time ana at all times when the interests of the laboring ciasee are under consideration Persist Per-sist ntly itygoiatized and caricatured as rag baby money for years deDouDc das d-as dishonest money a fraud upon tnc bu mess and commercial world vet it stands today with its purchasing power as great as the brightest The Republican candidate for President suggested m 1878 that an idiot asylum shoulu beer be-er ote i for believers in jrt > enbacks I believed in the greenback men and L do now and I taKe my plttue ulongside f r ot you udder General Harr3ju sjsvveep S ing intolerant brutal criticism and deS de-S unciatiou He can ssed the stlue in 1878 as candidate his party for the Senate as I did as a candidate of mine and the peoDle of Indiana deciied by more than 30030 majority tbat he was nearer a financial idiot than I WAS and p that I should go back to Washington Senator Voorheea then entered upon tne tariff issue and recounted the history his-tory of modern tariff legislation No I relief the speaker said was afforded to Jabor bv a resort to a domestic excise system on the contrary ths system was made the pretext lor still fnrtaer encroachments en the part of monopoly and greets against the rights of those who toil The two acts of ConsrebS of 1832 and 1861 by which pro ttcive duties were madj to ascend to a Pikes peak altitude were demanded on the express ground that the manufacturer manu-facturer snouldbe compensated for tbe amount of his internal tax On this point the speaker quoted extensively ijom Senators Merrill Allison and others For nineteen years the Republican Re-publican party has caused the people to pay the manufacturer at least a hundred hun-dred millions a year in consideration considera-tion of a tax paid by the manu factuier to government The moneyS money-S kings have thus far resisted every effort to reduce the mountainous tann duties by which they have drained the earnings earn-ings of the people Senator Voorhees then discussed the labor question and the surplus He declared de-clared that the labor interests of the 5 country need in circulation every dollar that can be spared from the expenses ex-penses of the government and yet there is piled up as useless surplus enough of the laboring peonies money to pay down cash more than 200 for every day since the birth t of Christ Touching upon the Republican Repub-lican internal revenue plank Senator Voorhees said In this Christian and and age men sometimes spoken of as Christian statesmen have nothing better bet-ter than free whisky and tobacco to ofter the people in response to their cry for relief The slave holders of the south once belonged to a class which composed the money power They once were monopolists of cheap underpaid labor The most bitter and implacable supporters of slavery thirty years ago were in fact the most successful and efficient abolitionists abol-itionists of the nineteenth century They struck too far and their blows A came back to oestroy them and so it will be with the purseproud insolent and milled lareaters of ibe tires entcUv by making uo concession to the overtaxed ptople and by refusing K single dollar of reduction on thu ne cess ties of life but on the contrary insisting that whisky and tobacco should be free Manufacturers have done more to promote ideas of free trade in this countryin the list few months than the eloquent hnd cifted tongues and pens of Frank Hurd Henry Watterson and David A Wells The speaker touched upon the part General Gen-eral Harrison took in suppressing the riots in 1877 and closed bylsaying that as attorney for Elaine Harrison committed a crime against the State by declaring in the Dismissal ofthe Elaine i snif against an individual paper tbat k jizstioe could not be obtained in the S l P rJ S j I S |