The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-14

known during his career In conclusion he
said: before l conclude there is one state
ment feel it my duty to make.
Ia one Oh our town papers few days ago,
saw my name suggested as that of pro-
per candidate for the presidency or vice.
presidency in 1892. l regretted very much
TO see the suggestion, for appearing in a
paper known to be very friendly to me, and
published in my place of residence. it might
naturally be suspected by strangers that it
was inspired, or at least approved, by me.
But such was not the fact, nv friends. Let
me say to you, in all sincerity, and without
tne least reservation, that | am not, nor
snail ever again be candidate for office.
nave been sufficiently honored by my
party, and neither ask nor desire any fur
Gner nonor than its continued friendship
ana good will. Gentlemen, you have glad
oened the heart and frightened the foot
sIePs OF au OLD man, your DEVOTED friend,
IN MS descent of the hill of life, when he
mas almost reached its foot. May God
DleSS you all, IS his earnest prayer''
TX President Cleveland next responded
TO the toast American Citizenship" He
SAID, In part; II follow the promptings of
d heaft full OF devotion and generation, as
lender from the democracy of New York
SIate, her tribute OF affection for the man
we honor to night. l anu commissioned to
cialm Tor my state her full share of the
glory which has been shed upon the Ameri-
can name and character by one whose
career and example cannot be pre- empted
al d whose renoWn cannot be limited in
ownership to the neighbors and friends of
any locality. We rejoice in the example af-
Iorded on TINS occasion of genuine Ameri-
can cltlzenship revealed to US as safe and
lnlalllole interpreter of duty in all the
emergencies of long and honorable public
career, and this an unfailing guide to USE
Iulness and fame. In this presence, and in
the atmosphere of these reflections. we
should not miss the lesson they commend to
US or lall TO show appreciation of the value
vi thls citizenship and revive our apprecia-
tlon OF the sentiments and conditions in
Wnlch III has its rise and growth. First of
ail, we should be profoundly grateful that
the elements which make up the strength
and vlgor of American citizenship. are so
naturally related to our situation and are
SO simple that here the plain people of the
!anu are rulers. Their investure of power
is only accompanied with the conditions
that they should love their country. that
they should jealousy guard and protect its
! interests and fair name, and that all the
lntelngence with which they are endowed
should be devoted to an understanding of
1ts needs and a promotion of its welfare.
LII should never be forgotten that the infiu-
ence which, more than all other
| Things has made our people the
safe deposit of governmental power, and
which has furnished the surest guarantee
OF the strength and perpetuity of the re-
public, has its source in the American
nome. Here our patriotism is born and
entWlnes itself with the growth of fiial
love, and here our children are told the
story OF our freedom and independence but
above all, here is breathed the wholesale
atmosphere of frugality and economy.
Wnere the mental and moral attributes of
our people have been firmly knit and in
MIGRATED.
Never could it be said of any country so
truly as OF ours that the permanency of its
institutions depends upon its home. | have
spoken OF frugaGty and economy as import
ant factors in American life find no fault
with the accumulation of wealth. and lam
giad to see energy and enterprise receive
their fair reward, but believe our govern
ment IN It's natural integrity is exactly
suited to frugal and economical peopIe
ana L believe 1t is safest in the hands of |
those who have been made strong
ana sell reliant in their citizenship |
by self-denial and by a surrounding air of |
forced economy. When, therefore, men in |
hlgh places OF trust, charged with the re
Sponslolllty OF making and executing orr
laws, not only condemn but fiippantly de-
ride cheapness and economy within the
homes OF our people, and when the ex
Pehaltures OF government are reckless and
n
ing wrong with US and that a condition
exists Whlcn calls for a vigorous and re-
sentful defense of Americanism bv every
man worthy to be called an American
citizen. Upon the question of cheapness and
economy, whether it relates to individuals
or TO the operations of government. the
Democratic party, true to it's creed. will
unalteringly remain attached to our plain
and frugal people Thus, when the dues-
ton Is raised whether our people shall have
the necessities of life at cheaper rate L
we are not ashamed to confess ourselves
in full sympathy with the demand for
cheaper coats, and we are not dis
turoed by the hint that this seems
necessarily to involve cheaper
man or woman under the coat
When the promoter of party measure
which invades every home in the land with /
higher prices declare that cheap and nasty
go together, and the whole system of chean
Things Is badge of poverty, for cheap mer
coandlse means cheap men and cheap men
mean q! cheap country, we Indignantly repu-
date such an Interpretation of the
American sentiment And when an.
other one high in party coun-
ellis, who has become notorious az
the advocate OF a continuance to perpetu- S
ate partisan supremacy by an outrageous
interference with the suffrage announces {
that the cry for cheapness is un-Ameri s
cam we scornfully reply that his speech
1oeS not indicate the slightest concept1on of
5rne Americanism. | will not refer tn {
other utterances of like import from similar j
sources. content myself with recalling |
nose OF most prominent significance. The /
wonder Is that these things were addressed
by Americans to Americans.
what was the occasion of these con-
formations, these epithets! 1t is hard to i
speak patiently as we answer Step bv =
numbers
been led on, following blindly in the path Il
IL party. They have been filled with hate u
md sectional prejudices; they have been p
'aJoled with misrepresentation and false C
promises; they have been corrupted with n
money and appeals to their selfishness. All
hese Things led up to their final betrayal
o satisfy the demands of those who sun
lied the fund for their corruption. This =,
betrayal was palpable, and it was impossi-
lie to deny or conceal the fact that the pre- :;
ended rellef rendered the people in fulfill =
1ent OF the promise to tighten the burdens =
I their life, made by party entrusted i'
Win the government. 1t was but a scheme
pay debts incurred by the purchase of
arty success while it further Increased
he impoverishment of the masses The a
eople were at last aroused and demanded Is
n explanation. The leaders of the party n
'nlcn was caught In the act of robbery.
nd which was arraigned by the people for W
Violation OF its trust, were forced nv "
heir sad predicament to the desperate Ii
xpedlent of reversing the current of trne ig
and discredit the most hon b.
ranle sentiments belonging to American Ii
lanhood. These were the disgracefuI G
ASKS OF those who ins1lted our people by Ii
he announcement of the doctrine that tn W
eslre cheapness was to love nastiness. and Il
practice economy and frugality was un- o
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