The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-05-31
b r. l. A 1 r, M d.
HOnOrs TO Cleveland.

The dinner given to exPresident Cleve-
land, in New York, Monday evening, by the
Young Mems Democratic Club, is worthy
OF notice. Men seldom pay distinguished
honor to defeated candidate unless he rep
resents some great principle or possesses the
confidence, trust and affection of the people.
This distinguished mark of respect ought to
he and no doubt is thoroughly appreciated by
Mr.. Cleveland. He no longer has offices to
bestow or party patronage TO dispense, and
the dinner given to him may therefore be re-
garded as sincere token of admiration and
confidence The affair was more notable
from the fact that Governor Hill, of New
York, was present and took a prominent
part in doing honor to the illustrious EXPIRE
sidcnt.
Mr. Cleveland made, as he always does, an
excellent speech, in which he ably reviewed
the Democratic principles and policy. In
the course OF his speech he said
when we seek for the cause Of the perpe-
tuity of the Democratic party and its survival
through. every crisis and emergency and in
the face of all opposition, we find 1t in the
fact that its corner -stone is laid In devotion
to the rights OF the people and sympathy with
all things which tend TO the advancement of
their welfare and happiness. Though heresy
may sometimes have crept into its organiZa-
tion, and though party conduct may at times
have been influenced by the stiffness which
is the habitual device of its opponents, there
has always remained, deeply imbedded in its
nature and character, that spirit OF true
Amercanism and that love of popular rights
which has made it indestructible in disaster
and defeat and has constituted it boon to
the country in its time of triumph and SUI
premacy."
"True Democracy honestly advocates ma
tional brotherhood, to the end that all our
fellow countrymen may aid in the achieve
ment of the grand destiny which awaits US as
a nation and it condemns that pretext Of
liberality and harmony which when partisan
advantage is to be gained, gives way for in
flammatory appeals to sectional hate and pas
sion. II insists upon that equality before the
law which comedies the care and protection
of the government to simple manhood and
citizenship. 1t does not favor the mulipliCa
ton of offices and salaries merely to make
partisans, nor use the promise and bestowal
of place for the purpose ofstiiling the press
and bribing the people 1t seeks to tighten
the burden Of life in every home and to take
from the citizen for the cost Of government
the lowest possible tribute.
I'VE know that we have espoused the cause
of right and Justice We know that we have
not permitted duty to country to wait upon
expediency. We know that we have not
trafficked our principles for success. We
know that we have not deceived the people
with false promises and pretenscs and we
know that we have not corrupted nor be-
trayed the poor with the money of the rich"
,.,., No Presidential candidate, after his defeat,
has ever before occupied so large share of
public attention. Enthusiastic cheers greet
him wherever he goes and it is evident that
Grover Cleveland is to-day the most popu-
lar Democrat in the country Apparently
he does not seek these honors. They are the
spontaneous expression Of admiration for
one who has measured up to the full capsci-
ty of all that was expected of him. Cleve-
land stands before the people of this country
as the representative OF the cause for which
his party contended last fall-an equalization
OF the burden OF taxation and the promotion
ofthe business and industrial interests of the
country.