The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-15
REED IN ROCHESTER.
He InduIges In More OF His Accustomed
Bluff and Bombast.

ROCHESTER. \. Y, Oct. li.-speaker
Thomas B. Reed and Senator Frank His
cock addressed an audience of $500 people
AT the Washington Rink shis evening. Mr..
Reed said. when introduced: | thank you
very heartily for this greeting, but
| thank YOU more heartily because
| believe this meeting means something
to the cause Of good government IN tins
country. Parties are not accidents. Inc
lines are laid very deep in the South. one
man follows in the footsteps OF his grand
father. He does not believe he knows any
more than his grandfather. hhotner
man believes in. progress; believes that the
world is going forward. One man IL a DEM
ocrat. the other is a Republican. IL Is un-
fair to speak of the history of this country.
IL is unfair because the Democrats have
had very little 10 do withit. We have 10 go
ahead and drag them after us. DO not say
this in a partisan spirit. Ii any man thinks
what | have said has flavor OF self-asser-
tion on our part, he has only TO take up the
principal events Of the last thirty years and
show what principles have been enunciated
and when the different conventions nave
ratified them. The right of the people 10
rule is supreme. We have asystem OF rule
by the majority. The majority OF the Demo-
tTHiN i've South Nl tltoDu anu biANh
The Northern Democrats vince under the
lash Of the Southern whip. have
heard Democratic Congressman from
the North mutter under their breath
and saw what they would do at some
convenient time. But they never do IT,.
think some Democrats begin to see this
thing rightly. Why do these people gather
together at every election' Why do we
deposit our ballots ON election dayy Our
system of government Is system oil count
ing heads. Some people think there Is a pet
ter system. | believe the angels themselves
could give us no better system than tnat
by which every man Is counted on one size
or the other. Government 10y the people
means the right Of every man TO a place in
the government. You believe in the Consti-
tuition of the United States. Eight millions
of peOple i'm one section are without their
constitutional rights. Who is it that gets
these rights! Every Southern gentleman
counts for three of us. They talk about
negro domination. The Democratic party
hate the negro. We have seen IL in the
House. The Southern Democrats expected
to have the same control over the House of
Representatives as they have over the ballot
boxes They were mistaken and were
deeply grieyed thereat. They denounced IL
As an outrage that they should be obliged 90
ASSIST Ul tu'ii lu1 oiNiA BaN'~'NNf
mental, in the passage Of necessary leFisla-
ton at SllI per diem. They sat during
the passage of the Mckinley bill.
But when the question OF giving
a coored man his seat came up, the DEM
ocratic party was adequately represented
by empty benches. Perhaps it was because
Professor Langston had attained to higher
order of intelligence. For some reason, at
any rate, they got up and left the building
The Democrats allowed the Tariff bill
TO pass for the sake OF testing the
constitutionalty Of the House in pass
ing it without quorum voting. An
Alabama Democrat has already decided
that it is constitutional. IL will soon go to the
Supreme Court, | hope.'But we are to have
decision by power more supreme than the
Supreme Court-by the people OF the United
states. / shall be glad Of the position the
Republicans took. whether the House ~
Democratic or Republican. IL the people
Of the United States are so misguided
as TO want Democratic House let
them have one with all that it implies. II
we get Republican House we control. II
they get Democratic House let them have
control. The Democrats don't want !egis-
lation. They want to sit where they are.
The Republicans want to sit little higher
up nearer the pulpit.