Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-10-05
THE CAMPAIGN.
TINE FREE TRADE COLLEGE
In which Nr. Cleveland studied---A
CnpiinI Picture of the President.

CnpiInI Picture of the President.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew was the prin-
cipal speaker at an immense Republican
rally held at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, last
week. Following is one Of the striking
and characteristic passages in his address /:
Now, know Mr. Cleveland pretty well.
| like Mr.. Cleveland personally he is a
plodding, Woodworking lawyer, who used
before he was elected governor, TO work as
did and do. for corporations, and he work
ed very well. When he was elected Presi-
dent of the United States he had given
such close attention to earning living and
rolling up a small surplus that he had tax
en- no interest whatever in public affairs
understand that he had never been to
Washington that he was unacquainted
with the leading men of his own party, and
had never read or participated in any dis
cussion of the tariff. When he became
President of the United States he brought
10 the office his training and habits as
country lawyer he left 10 the departments
and secretaries such little matters as for
eign affairs and revenues, and debt, and
transportation, aud coast defences, the ma
Wy and all that, and devoted himself with
IA lawyers training and ability to those
things which presented testimony. Now
ON a pension claim there was testimony
llaughter), and ON the appointment Of a
postmaster there was testimony Qaughter),
such as it was. daughter and applause J
Well, after three years his advisers came
around him and said "Mr. President, we
have been wrestling for three years with
AN Internal lot of money which these Re
puhlicans left us we don't know what to
do with it, U.aughter) "Well, - he said
What have they done with il heretofore =
"Well,n ~ they said, "when jefferson had IA
surplus he advised Congress to apply it to
internal improvements, etc. when old
Gen Jackson had "A surplus he advised them
to apply it to internal improvements aud
education and to distribute it among the
states when the Republicans had Il sur
plus they squandered it by paying off the
debt and reducing the interest laugh
ter But now we are new administra-
tiun freshmen daughter and applause y
we can't he bound 10y any Of these old fogy
notions, and by what these old fools, who
have been trying ~ run the government,
have done we are the fellows that know
how to do it,
Well, Mr.. Cleveland necessarily became
at once impressed with the idea, and it was
a very proper impression to have, that he
must be educated as TO how to take care Of
that surplus, and he found himself in the
hest free trade college there is i'll the world
the present cabinet. laughter In
most colleges they have chair Of phioso
ply, chair of astronomy, chair Of his
tory, chair of Latin, chair Of Greek a,
but in this college the professors all sat on
one chair daughter and applausel. There
was Prof, Lamar, an eloquent, able man,
an old time southern free trader and state 5
r ghtsman, senior member Of the college
faculty uAughterl There was Prof
Garland, an old time Southern free trader
and state rightsman there was Prof. Villas,
a new time Western state rlghtsman and
free trader there was Prof. Whitney, my
friend the classmate Of Prof Sumner OF
Yale college (who is the only honest ont
and out free trader in the country, and
isn't afraid to acknowledge his opinionl.
and then at the head of the college was our
old time southern free trader, an able man
and IA furcihe one, Speaker Carlisle, Now
then, these professors educated our Presi-
dent into the principles Of John Stuart
Mil and Of the COhleu club, and when they
h al impressed the principles upon his mind,
then they discovered that he was an honest
man, and "A courageous man, and a man
That believed that ms principles when they
we're formed would be the opinions Of the
American people, and they couldn't stop
him and have him temporize with the ques-
tiun as they had in all the Democratic plat
forms for twenty years. He said 'NO,
gentlemen, you are wrong about this thing;
let us have the idea straight from the shoul
der and he gave it and it took them three
months to get him u pull himself together
aud in letter of acceptance say he didn't
mean it, Laughter and applause