Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-14
RED BANDANAS WAVE.
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he said should be regulated by the States, to
rescue the masses from undue exaction.
The SiIyer-Tongued Kentucky Orator.


Congressman W. c. Breckinridge, of Ken
lucky, responded to the toast of the "Democ-
racy in America" Among other things he
said: 1.-THE fundamental truths of philosophy
in all its departments must necessarily be the
same among all ages and among all peoples.
The particular form which principles assume
and the applications made of them must be as
diverse as time, occasion and rae IS differ. 1t Is
often difficult to keep this distinction in view;
not TO confound the unchanging abstract prin-
ciples with the constantly changing applica-
ton of them to given condition of affairs in a
particular country at a prescribed time:
Democracy in America is a growth, not
manufacture. 1t has developed naturally.
While man as man is capable of self-govern-
ment, he must unite with other men and form
communities; as he can best develop hlmsel1
so they left alone can best develop themselves
As each community knows best its own grlev-
ances, understands best its own burdens appre-
ciates most its own interest, so too. each COM
munity best knows the remedies for the griev-
ances and what its condition requires NO
lntermeddling can result in aught put INJURY;
no interference can produce good. 1he COM
munities cannot isolate themselves from each
otier, for they have common interests and
wants, which must be the subjects OF consulta-
tion, negotiation and agreement. Internal
peace needs power to resist external attack,
ana so some form of union must be found.
The election, whose victories we nave not
yet ceased to celebrate, was not SO mnch
triumph of the Democratic party as OF the
Democratic principles. 1t was not accom-
plished by Democratic votes alone, but by the
votes of many thousands OF Republicans scat
tered from the Eastern seaboard to the foot OF
the Rocky mountains, and from the borders of
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, who do beleve
that good government is essential to the pros
perity of the country: that force. In Whatever
form it may be attempted, is destructive OF
prosperity well as of freedom, that eXhorDl-
tant taxation of the common people Tor the
benefit of the privileged few is iniQuitous, and
to harrow and Cypress the weaker section is
cruel and unwise. All these flow from our
principles"
Voice From Michigan.
Ex-Postmaster General Don NJ. Dickinson, in
the course of his speech, said: THE Demo-
cratic party to-day has made the trite axiom,
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
part of the ritual of its faith, quIckened it out
of Journalism into the living TRUTH ana written
the new meaning over the door of every home
in the land. Its propagandsm will teach it as
a lesson in everyday life of as close application
to living as the solving of the problem Of how
to get bread. Oppression and misrule have
generated among the masses of the people OF
this country anew and the dangerous force
which is a menace to law and order. Ap-
pause. The representatives Of evil in the
Republican party, intrenched in power, have
shown their contempt of the intelligence of the
masses by their Mckinley bills, by their force
bills, their denomination schemes and the
like, and their contempt by org anizing treas
uries for the purchase of voters.
"In their insoence they have as surely said
to the people as did LOUIS, the Magnificent:
The State! We are the State IL is time that
the Democratic party should say TO these ex-
tremes which are meeting in a common cause
for the destruction of our institutions: Hands
off the guarantees of the Constitution of the
United States i ands off the Messiah of the
nation but we now know, as VIC believed in our
invincibe faith IN the people, that great popu-
lar movement cannot be purchased and cannot
be falsely lea tCheers.j
The House of Representatives.
Hon. William l. Wilson, of West Virginia,
in responding to the toast The House of Rep
resentatives," said: "Mr. Chairman. will take
it for granted that the toast to which 1 am in
vited to respond does not refer to any particu-
lar House of Representatives. least of all to
that house which the people have just made
the victim of their displeasure, 1 shall
treat it as referring generally to that
branch of our federal legislature,
which we sometimes. in language borrowed
fro another country call the lower House OF
Congress, forgetting that the chamber in which
the American people appear by their immediate
members can in no just constituted sense be
subordinate one.
I'VE are told by those controlling the present
House of Representatives that it must abdi-
cate its traditional function as a deliberative
body. and content itself with being hereafter
mere enacting council. This means the substl-
tuition of a committee of rules for a system of
rules. This means that the Speaker of the
House. with two parry associates chosen by
himself, should decide what measures shall be
considered, what amendments shall be offered
to them and what debate shall be had
upon them. Such degradation of the
House would be confession of the failure
of representative Government in its most i'm
portant branch, the law. making power 1t is of
the definition of free Government that people
make their own laws by their own representa-
tves after free. adequate and open discussion;
otherwise those laws be mere legislate DEGREES.
need not say that this is not the Democratic
belief. We are trained to prefer even stormy
e1V
of craftsmanship is to reform. not to destroy,
to establish and widen liberty. not to narrow
and undermine it. Our plan would not be to
retreat. but to advance.
Let Congress keep within the unquestioned
field of its constitutional legislation reserving
to the States unimpaired control over those
matters of domestic concern with which alone
they have the right and competency to deal.
Moreover, let MS never forget that there are
barriers which no Government has the right to
invade. and which free government especially
exists to preserve and defend"
Ex-senator Mcdonald was one of the other
speakers.
A Speech From a Confrere.
Judge Richard A. Harrison, a confrere of
Thurman. responded to the toast "The Early
Ohio Bar" and said in part: THE accom-
plished lawyer, the finished, forcible orator, the
learned and profound judge enlightened saga
cIous, spotless statesman; the public man,
whose principles of action have always been to
act right ana trust TO the people Tor support;
the lifelong, straight, undertaking Democrat
OF the noblest and highest type; the mag
unanimous, ever faithful. private citizen, the
instructive gentleman of the old school, the
warm attachments fond of his home, his
friends and his books, cOnsiderate of the rights
and feelings of his associates. courteous to
all. charitable toward the frailties of all, a
welcome and honored guest wherever he has
gone, whose seventy-seventh anniversary in
Ohio. irrespective of party affiliations
with citizens of many sister States celebrated to
night, and whose life is happily prolonged
many years beyond the common limit of human
existence. entered upon his illusJrious career
as member of 1.-The early Ohio bar"
The address consisted largely OF the early