Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-09

Eotlascd treaty and trying 10 hoodwink
the people into the ballet that IL was for
one purpose, while the Canadians were
told that it was for another; with treat
ing the United States With discrimination
and extending confidence with the Cans.
dian Envoy; With letting the peopls
learn the true character of tho treatv
from the declarations in the Canadian
farlIament-this was to charge the Pre-
mdent with something graver than
treason-vith crime which Ind
no parallel in the history OF
the executive Office Of the United
States In order TO find upon what
tins grave charge rested he would take
the genuemen's own speech. In il the
gentleman had incorporated certain re-
marks made by Sir Charles Upper 10
inc erect that IN conversation between
INN and Sir. BAysrd, Mr.. Bayard had
declared that he believed reciprocity of
trade With Cansda and that a settlement
OF the yeGRtiOus questions would lscii-
late that consummaton. Did not the
gentleman himself (Mr. Hitt) say that he
favored Canadian reciprocity? Was the
gentleman from Illinois privileged to
say on this floor what Afr. Bayard could
not say III q conversation II? Because
Slr Charles Upper had seen fit TO argue
IN favor OF the treaty on the basis OF
what Mr.. Beysrd had said the House
wa told that the Mills bill was an evil
dence OF conspiracy in which the Presi-
dent took leading part, and that the
majority OF the House of Representa-
tives was delivered over by an executive
false to his own country, untrue 10 his
trust, and that, too, without the
Executive receiving the considera-
ton usually extended to a traitor
as the price of his treason. II the Adj
ministration loved the British Govern
meht so much did not the gentleman Zee
that in his surrender Of America the
President bad sown seeds of conflict
among the purchasers ? There WAS no
man who loved England who wanted to
precipitate quarrel upon her. The
British Lion might love to roar, but for
many years he had shown no disposition
to claw. applause and laughter If
the proof OF the gentleman was good it
the Mills bill the House had not only
sold the country to Canada but all
around tho globe. leaving the purchasers
to struggle over the security of the
purchase. The Administration OF
President Cleveland. the motives
which prompted his official acts,
needed no explanation to the coun-
4~w IAv,Iopen ~, tho Do,oOor.fic eide !
The gentleman from Illinois knew that
they needed no explanation because the
people believed them TO have been
prompted by patriotism and inspired by
a love Of country. Applause 1t would
not do 1T this stage OF the campaign TO
attempt to manufacture campaign thun-
der Of this character for the reason that
the people knew how 10 test its sincerity.
Significant appliance on the Republican
side. He regarded that applause with
pleasure. lie knew to what it re-
ferTed, and he adopted the declaration
Of the gentleman from Missouri (Mr.
O'NeiD that the message was a campaign
document, and it was great one re-
newed applause on the Republican side
because it appealed TO the intelligence
and patriotism OF the people Applause
on the Democratic side, whom the
President trusted, and whom gentlemen
on the other side appeared to diStrust,
and whose intelligence they thought
they could bamboozle. applause on
the Democratic side The gentlemen
need not be mistaken aboRt the effect of
their assault. The sheer they levelled at
the President was but a thin disguise
for the respect they felt for him. Ap-
plsuse and laughter on the Democratic
side. The gentleman on the other side
would say that the President had reached
his present degree of success mostly by
luck. but they would not assert for an
instant that II was eneompassed by dis
honor, and the Republican senators
would declare that never during his III
cumbency had they been able to invade
his privilege and prerogatives. [Ap-
plsuse on the Democratic SIDE. The
gentlemen on the other side might say
that President Cleveland was not great
man. No one would dare deny that he
was an honest man, and he Was great
man in the ewes Of the country, not be-
cause be was the potsessor OF qualities
which lifted him above all others, but
because be WAS a noble type Of tho Ame-
can citizen Of tho land. The Repubii-
cans had their uncrowned king. They
had their shepherd of the people ne
mad So many titles that the mind was
confused and parslyzed in contempla-
ton of his greatnessl, but before the
American people and the ballot box he
had boon vsnqmshed by 4 simple type
of the American citizen. Grover Cleve-
land. [Appisuse on the Democratic
side. 1t would not do 10 say that the
President who did no act for which his
supporters blushed WAS wanting IN great
ness If he who had risen from the
humblest citation TO the greatest, who
had risen by the force OF virtue derisive
laughter on the Republican side, and
not by the sacrifice of it, who had walked
in the full sunlight of publicity, who
after four years of administration
found himself renominated by the
spontaneous voice OF his party.
Who had never held the trust when those
coufided il to him : had not sought to
extend his term OF service who welded
bv the confidence OF the people power
far greater than thst with which the
Constitution clothed him; who found
that the party leader whom he had van,
quisbed when yet united now He'd
prudentiy, ii not inglorously, from
a renewal of the conflict WHO
had no ambiguous acts to de-
fend or unwise epistolary expressions
10 explain. II this man was not great,
then greatness WAS not quality which
should be encouraged on Democratic
soil Loud ana long continued applause
on the Democratic side. Instead OF the
ephemeral, dazzling qualities which
among unthinking men went to make up
greatness, give MS DemocrAt-tho
strength and dignity, virtues and intelh-
gence OF the President who was IN the
Wbite House, of the Democratic candl-
date who would be in it for four years
more.
AsMr. Cochran closed the Democratic
sida burst into enthusiastic applause,
and he WAS Immediately surrounded 10y
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