The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-01-04
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
WILL CONTINUE TO BE At THE
FRONT IN pOLII ICS.
Tariff Reform Cannot be killed---Mr.
Phillips and the Cabinet--Mr Carlisle
Interviewed, &C.. &c.

Tariff Reform Cannot be Kiiied---Mr.
Phillips and the Cabinet-Mr. Carlisle
Interviewed, 49,. Ac.
Especial Cor. to STATE CHRoNICLE.1
WAsHINGToN, D. c., Jan. /, 1889
Secretary Faircilild made great speech
to the tariff refOrmers in Boston on Friday
evening. 1t ought to be read by business
men everywhere. Mr. Cleveland, Mr.. Car
Isle and other distinguished politicians
were invited to be present 1t is perhaps
fortunate that the President had to de-
cline. Mayor Russell made a most bril-
liant speech which. while it might have
embarrassed Mr.. Cleveland to have listen
ed to it. strii.es so pure key note, | take
the liberty OF quoting a portion OF 1t for
the benefit q yoUf read rs. 'cne phase
only of our defeat seems to be irreparable
the defeat OF g brave, patriotic President,
" ho knew his duty and dared TO do it 1t
is his cOuntry's loss, not his. The hIgh
standard he set Of official life entitled him
to her confidence and support. Because
his administration was not ever seeking
votes, but the peoples welfare, ma lOrlties
unsought should have risen to uphold him
His faithful devotion to duty, his consci
entious watchfulness, his manly bearing
when stung by an unjust defeat, | con-
fess, have made of me something Of a hero
worshiper. For one, | find it pleasant to
apply to him those grand lines sent by Sir
Henry Taylor to Gladstone in 1874 n his
hour OF defeat;
What makes q hero? An heroic mind
Expressed in action. in endurance proved,
And if there be pre- eminence of night
Derived from pain well suffered, to the
height
OF rank heroc It's to bear unmoved
Not toll by day scarce known OF human Kind,
Not watch by night when Fate IS on the
Bat worse ingratituGla and poi5oi.ou darts
Launched by the country he had served and
loved.
This with free unclouded spirit pure,
This in the 81 ttength OF silence to endure
A dign " - uogic deHds impartS
Beyond he gaucis and pageantS of renOwn;
THl- is The hero compliment and crown
Later, President Eliot continuing in the
same strain said: u also dissented com
pletelv from a remark OF the distinguished
chairman OF the evening He said and
think it must have been slip OF the
tongue, there was one irrepar bic disaster
in the late defeat, namely, the withdrawal
Of President Cleveland from public life.
Gentlemen. ! believe that IS a disaster
which not only can be repaired, but will
! be repaired. Tremendous applause. long
continued with shouts of approval) It IS
only three years and a half so the next
Presidential nomination. Great applause)
| believe that because | believe that the
immense ma iolity of the American people
have a hearty aad profound admiration
for unwearied Industry. thorough. disin-
terested patriotism and political courage
c'Good' and applause.)
All the other references 10 the President
were in q similar tone and indicated be
lief thar his leadership is to be q contlnu-
ing force il American politics. Grover
Cleveland IS at the front now, and ne is
not gong to the rear On the 4th of March,
1885,
saw MIR Carlisle Yesterday just after
he had been at the White House. | do
not pretend TO speak with authority on
| this matter, but think the tariff reform
| ers IL the House have caught on TO the
| idea eJncclied in the Presidents recent
! letter to Boston In the track of reform"
| he SAYS, "are often found the dead hopes
| of piou GERS and the despair OF those who
/ fall in the march But there will be neith
/ er despair nor dead hopes in the path of
| tariff reform. nor shall It's pioneers fail
| to reach the heights.
| The House reformers were pretty blue
| imme diately after the Senate determined
to vote on the tariff bill January both.
They have recently plucked up courage
| and are going to fight and discuss the
| So The WAYS ard Means Committee show
, less disposition within the past few days
| to entertain any proposition looking to-
| wards reducing the Internal Revenue tax
! as separate measure. These new tariff
complications, and the small majority by
which the Republicans control the next
House, render the probability OF ;,u extra
| session OF Congress apparent
a g eat many contested election cases
will come before the next House. The
| Committee on Elections will be one Of the
! most important to be appointed 10y Mr..
Carlisle's successor. I hope Hon. John
Henderson Will remain on It. \ ma iority
| of the contested casea are from the South,
and that section will need a llan OF Mr..
HendersoG'S legal ability on hat Commit
tee.
Your printers anI proof reader must
have bad more ''Christmas" ,nan usual
first paragraph Of ny last letter to the
| CHRONICLE never wrote that Senator
/ Ransom's courtesy was as strong his
| Democracy" The statement may be liter
ally true, but do not use English in that
way, hope,
Mrs. Cleveland will be at home to her
friends every Monday evening after 8
o'clcok. Miss Nary and Carrie Hastings,
nieces Of the President. Mr.. and Mrs. Stu
art Nelson and Mr.. Richard Watson Gil
der are guests at the White House.
A marble statue of Gen Lewis CasS was
unYacked and placed in position il SJatu-
airy Hall yesterday. Il will be unveiled at
later date. General CasS was said to
bear strong personal resemblance to
Daniel Webster.
The movement to put Hon. S. F. Phil
| lips in the Cabinet meets with favor here
l hope his fellow citizens will do all they
can to advance his interests in this direc
tion from motives of self fprotection, il
nothing else.
Justice in Clinton. According to a Oar.
! key.
From Clinton Caucasian.
On last Saturday night, on Grog Row
two of Clintons ''fast men, got into {
8 quarrel. which grew so warm after while
: It was thought by those standing by tha
they would hitch in an old fashioned way
when . age! daf}ie said to them, Gem
men, gaGamen. don't do dat; the mayor
and police are out OF flour, and you mou
have it to pa. for." They didn't fight.