The Russellville Democrat., 1891-10-15
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Ex-President Addresses shc Demo cratic Notifications Meeting as
 Cooper Uaion.
Money of the People Unnecessarily kx- aorted Under the Guise of
 Taxation.

cratic ratification meeting st Cooper Uaion tonight, Grover Cleveland made the following speech:
 MY FELLOW CITIzESs-The Demo cratic party has at all times been by profession and by tradition the party of the people. I say by profession and tradition, but by no means in- tend to hint in the use of this ex- pression that in it's conduct and action it has failed to justify its pro- fessions or been recreant to its tradi lions. It must, however, be ad- united that we have had our season of revival, when the consciousness of what true Democrs5. really means, esnec::ss::iiyy awakened, and when we have been unusually aroused 10 lively appreciation of the sggressiveness and activity, which conscience exacts of those who pro- fess Democratic fsith, and who are thus interested in the peoples cause. We contemplate tonight such & re- viysl, aud the stupendous results which have thus far attended it. We have seen the money of the people Unnecessarily extorted from them under the guise of taxation. We saw that the result of scheme perpetu- sted, for the purpose of exscting tribute from the poor, for the benefit Of the rich. We saw growing out Of this scheme the holesale
 DEsAUcHERr AND CORRUPTION
 sf the people whJm it impoverished. We saw 8 party which advocated and defended this wrong. gai1ing snd holding power in the government by the shameless sppeal to selfish ness. We saw the people actually furnishing the bonds of misrepresentation and mis- conception which held them, snd we saw sordidaess and perver sion of all that constitutes good citi zenship on every hand by sturdy Americsnism in jeopardy. We saw party plan ing to re.sin psrti- ssH ascendeney, throtiling and de- stroying the freedom and integrity Of the suff age through the most rsdi- cal and reckless legislstiou. We saw waste and extrsvsgaDce raid ing the public treasury and justified in ofhcisi places, wbile economy in government expenditures was ridi culcd by those who held in trust the peoples money. We saw the national sssemblsge of the peoples representatives transformed into the mere semblance of legislative ss- sembly b. the brute force of vio- lently created majority and by un- precedented arbitary rulings, while it was ieeringly declared by those who usurped iIs functions to be no longer delibesative bo6y.
 BATTLING AGAINST TEE ABUSES.
 Then it wss that the Democratic party, stspding forth to do deter mined battle against these sbuses which threatened the welfare snd happiness of the people, called upon them to trust it, and promised them that the warfare should be reckless and uncompromising.
 As results of the struggle then en- tered upon, never has the resistless orce of the thought of our country fmsn been more completely demon strated, and never has the irresistible strength of the principles Of Demoe- rscy been more fully ex xemplifsd. From the West and from the East come tiiings of victory. In the popular branch Of the next congress the psr- ty which lately impuden,ly arro- gated to itself the domination of that body will fill hardly more than one- quarter of its seats. Democratic governors occupy the enemy's strong holds in Iowa, Massachusetts, Oaio, Wisconsin snd Michigan. In Penn s, lvsnis lhe election of 6 Democrsti- governor presented conclusive pro of ot Republican corruption exposed and Republican dishonesty detected, but with ali these results of & jast sLd fearless Democratic policy our work is not yet completed, sn3 want 10 suggest to you that any rslsxstion of efforts sishin the lines established by the national Democracy will be B violation of the pleoges we gave the people when we invited their coop erstioD and undertook ,heir cause.
 Ido not forget that we gre gathered together 10 rstify state nomins ions, :, and that we are immediately con cerned with state camps gu. IL seems to me, however, that while ns,ionsl questions of the greatest im- pOrtanee are yet undone, aud when we are on the eve cf national cam psign in which they mus, be agsin pres sed upon the attention of ihs voters Of the country, the Democracy of the greag state Of NsE York csD- not and will not entirely ignore them. lt ge fail 10 retain sScendency iu ihe Empire State, no matter upon whst issue it is lost, it will be claimed ss the verdict of our people sgsiust tbe principles sn platform Of the nation Al Democracy.
 THOSE WHO ACT WITH Us
 merely because they approve the present position of the national Democracy snd the reforms we have undertaken, and who oppose in