Show MVEAGH OPEN TH ll1iUCllA1IC BALL A Stirring Speech That Was Listened to By Thousands GOLD AND SILYEE BOTH NECESSARY MONOMETALLISM THE CURSE OF THE COUNTRY Republicans Directly Responsible For All the Business Panics That Have Fallen Upon the Country in TwentyFive Years A Belief in Tariff Reform The Democrats the Only People Under Heaven WhO Bring it About Chicago Sept 1Frank MacVeagh Democratic candidate for United States senator opened his campaign tonight before an audience which filled every part of central music hall Delos H Phelps chairman of the state committee opened the meeting with a brief address in which he introduced in-troduced Mr William T Baker of Chicago who acted as presiding officer i of-ficer I ficerMr Mr Baker in a few happy remarks i brought forward Mr MacVeagh who i was enthusiastically received personally person-ally and whose speech was frequently interrupted with cheers I Mr MacVeagh in beginning his I speech said the Democratic plan of letting let-ting the people choose United States I senators is not approved by the press and the leaders of the Republican party i par-ty They did not use the Vanderbilt expression about the people but they evidently had i in mind The responsibility respon-sibility of being the only peoples party I is point by point being put upon the Democrats I The Republican party which in its early days was famous in the line of liberalism has become a tory party of I the most pronounced kind Mr MacVeagh reviewed at length the events of the past twentyfive years charging the Republican party with the responsibility for all the 1 I business panics during that period I Coming down to the issues involved in I the present campaign he said Tariff Reform Necessary I am a tariff reformer and know of no way left under heaven except through the Democratic party to makefast make-fast what we now have of tariff reform and to get more I believe in the reform re-form method of the Democratic party in its radical imperative and immovable immov-able demand for free raw materials Republicans in Garfields time believed be-lieved in protection which leads to free trade The Democrats of Clevelands time believe in tariff reform which leads to free trade As to the delay in passing the tariff bill Mr MacVeagh said The blame lies first in our absurd custom of electing a Congress and refusing re-fusing to let i sit except in special session I ses-sion for a year and a month Then the panic came on directly after the President I Pres-ident went Into office and the extra i session to allay the panic crowded out I final consideration of an extra session for tarif reform But as soon as Congress I Con-gress regularly assembled in December the tariff bill was taken up and it I steadily passed absorbed Congress until itJ I Curse of Monometallism Mr MacVeagh said he believed In bimetallism We need absolutely both gold and silver free coinage of both But in attempting the reform we must neither damage the credit of the nation na-tion or stumble unintentionally from gold monometallism which is bad enough into silver monometallism which is worse Up to now neither party has taken a frank position on the silver question ques-tion I must be taken up with frankness frank-ness and determination such as characterized i char-acterized the taking up of tariff reform re-form and the speaker said the Democratic Demo-cratic the only party of the people is not fitted for the task Speaking of the questions raised during dur-ing the recent strike as to interference by the federal government the speaker speak-er said he believed in local self government govern-ment State rights is not what he means but local self government is afar a-far different matter On the other hand he cannot feel certain that it I e may not be necessary for national government gov-ernment to take control qf certain strikes owing perhaps to threatened continual extension of organized strife But if so then let us not blind ourselves selves to the fact this will mean another an-other great step toward the centralization centrali-zation of our form of government and change in our actual constitution and a most serious weakening of the local responsibility for the administration of law and the local sense of self reliance re-liance to weakness which is to weaken American Democracy And if this is to be the effect of the present condition of wider and wider strikes on the one hand and wider lockouts on the other then I say that the duty of the nation becomes more imperative than ever to destroy the present barbarous way of settling disputes dis-putes between organized labor and organized capital And I have a strong hope thatbefore Grover Cleveland Cleve-land has done with the leadership of the Democratic party he will do for the industrial issue what he did for the I tariff |