The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-04
A GLOWING TRIBUTE.

A GLOWING TRIBUTE.
Postmaster General Dickinson's Euloey on
the President.
DETROIT, MICH, September 26.-The
campaign in this city was opened to-
night by the Democracy with big
demonstration in honor of the visit Of
Postmaster Dickinson, Gen. John c.
Black, Ex-senator Joseph E. Mcdonald
and other distinguished guests. AT s
O'Clock a parade, composed ofnumer-
Gus ward clubs, first voters, visiting
delegations, etc., was reviewed from
the balcony of the Russell house, and
then the guests were driven to the
rink, where they were greeted by an
audience that filled every inch of
available space.
Postmaster General Dickinson was
the first speaker. He said he had un-
expectedly been called upon to preside
at this great meeting. He had told the
committee of arrangements that 1t
would not be just to the other guests
for him to make any extended remarks.
He would be in Michigan two weeks
during the campaign, and all his
friends would have an opportunity OF
hearing him on the issues of the cam
paign. The committee, however, had
insisted that he should say something
about the President, and this he would
proceed to do. He said:
I have been asked to tell you some
thing of the President, and in the brief
time remaining to me I can say but
very little of what's in my mind and
heart on the subject. In the first place
he has been, all the time, since March
4, 1885, President of the United States
no usurption ofexecutive privileges, no
pruning of the powers of the peoples
chief magistrate, no en:-oachment upon
the official rights of the chosen of sixty
millions of free men, have been tole-
rated or permitted; several early at
tempts of the kind were resented with
power and. virile force, respectfully
borne in mind by the upper House of
Congress. His rugged, masterful per-
sonality since he took his seat, his ro-
bust patriotism, like the heart of
system, has sent vital current of
health giving honesty pulsating through
all the arteries of the public service.
'Public Office is a public trust'' has not,
as used by him, been merely smooth
phrase, catch-words of the stump and
canvass. Consistently squaring his
official action by the spirit of the max
i'm, as by the commandment, he has
made it the rule ofconduct, practical,
Of every day use in all public business
in every department, and in all high
ways and byways of executive and ad-
ministrative action.
In the political atmosphere Of the
capital the President was for long
time phenomenon, a puzzle and an
enigma to those accustomed to the old
conditions. It is said that at one time
in the history of Zululand there was
an abnormal season of rainy weather;
the heavens were overcast for weeks
and months, and life had settled down
to accommodate itself in its ordinary
avocations, to the change. Suddenly
one day there was remarkable ap-
pearance in the West a light like fire
streaked up to the zenith and down to
the horizon from a common centre.
The king and court, awe-stricken at
what seemed portent, summoned the
wise men from all over the land to in
terpret the sign or to account for it.
Some gave one explanation, some
another some said that it was the
beginning of the end of the world;
some that the moon had fallen. At
last, in the confusion of the counsels
and contradictory theories, plain old
fellow from the backwoods came along,
took a look at the wonder and said
"Why, just simply goin' to clear off,"
and that what they saw was the old
fashioned, familiar Gods sunshine,
and, a glimpse of the blue vault Of
heaven.
Dickens tells us that at one time there
was great excitement among the learn
ed men of England over the discovery
of strange figures and characters upon
fragments of stone which came to light
in some excavations. Archeologists,
students Of Roman antiquities in
Britain. scholars and readers of ancient
Egyptian inscriptions, Sanscrit scholars
and others gathered from far and near
to view and, if possible, decipher this
message from the prehistoric age.
Scholars quarreled; theories conficted;
several societies went to pieces for
opinions sake; the world Of culture
was in an upcoar, when a very common
person came along, looked over the
fragments and broken letters, changed
them about, made the pieces fit and
spelled 'Tom Nokes, his mark" And
so the politicians of the country, accus-
toned to perverted craftsmanship and
perverted methods, and perverted
polices-those who were trained for a
generation to consider public men and
politics as the game of gamesters-did
not st first make out this President Of
ours. As be started on his way the
Senate attempted to crowd him. The
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