The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-13
THE DEMOCRACY IN 1892
Gov. Boies' Eloquent Address at the
Banquet Of the Greystone
Club, Denver.
His Candor. Honesty, Clearness
and Ability Won the Highest
e7 Compliments.

The Tariff Ably Discussesl by One Who
KNOWS Its Eject ON the Farmers
and Labsrsrs. q
DENVER, Feb. 12.-The guest of the aven-
ing and the most conspicuous figure at the
successful banquet of the Greystone club,
Tuesday night, was Gov. Horace r. Boies.
of Iowa. The most exhiliaratinQ scene of
the evening occurred when the toastmastsr
in words full of complimentary ~eloQuence
introduced that distinguished gentleman
and announced that he would respond to
the sentiment ."rhe Democracy in ls92."
Az the governor arose and faced the audi
snce applause broke forth IN cheers and
shouts that shook the foundation of the
theatsr. Many in the audience ross, waved
their handkerchiefs, and continued to cheer
for several minutes. Meantime Gov. Boiss
smiled and bowed his acknowledgment for
the cordial reception, and when quiet was
generally restored proceeded to deliver his
address. Although he confined HIS re-
marks entirely to the tariff question, no
acquired the INTEREST Of the audience from
the start and hald it to the finish. The
candor and honesty with which he dis
oussod the question, as we'll az the c%learness
and ability with which he made his'points,
won the admiration of his hearers. lie was
frequently interrupted with manifestations
of approval, and IS he concluded was loudly
chesred AGAIN. His remarks we're as fol-
lows:
Mr.. President, Gentlemen of the Grey
stone Club. and Fsllow-C Citizens: The atlas
from which in my school days I learned the
geography of my country located the place
where We meet tonight within the bound
aries Of what was then termed "The Great
American Desert. At that timein all that
vast expanse of imaginary sand and barren
hills beyond, out Of which we have since
carved states sufficient for a kingdom by
itself. and in which great oities have
sprung into existence in a single decade,
few signs that foretold the westward march
OF empire had yet been zeen, few sounds
that betokened the coming of civilization
had then been heard, and here, and around
US. hushed in the deepest silence of it all,
lay the limitless plains. the gently rolling
hills, and lofty mountain peaksthat stretch
away from the feet of your " imperial
city of the central west.
In coming to Denver ] had a twofold OBJ
ject. 1 wanted to meet a people that had
manifested a desire to become acquainted
with me and l wanted to look into the
heart of that wilderness whose circumfer-
ence l was taught in my childhood to be-
lieve fixed an impossible limit over which
no tide of emigration would ever dow l
have seen all for which l came Except the
desert), and I have seen that which pleases
~ i,Hpitaly mara than anv AREA Nf gnnHE
or barren hills could do. for | have found a
busy, busting, hurrying multitude of men,
gathered, l suspect, from the cream of the
older states ana transplanted to this lane
of silver and gold to spend their energ1e!
in the development Of the most exciting II
not the greatest of all our industries.
/ have seen plains. too. that look az
though they were bounded by the borders
of the sky alone, not barren, as in my
sohooldays l was taught to believe them
ed men, and I have seen hills following
hills until they lead away into the twilight
of that which to me at least is still the IN.
known, and mountains that cleave thu
clouds and drink the sunlight from region.
above the storms.
have seen more than this, for l have
stood in the capital of a state containing
500, 900 people that has doubled its popula.
ton in a single decade and more thai
quadrupled it in two. I have traversed thu
streets of q city that in ten short years hal
Increased it's inhabitants from 81, 600 tx
100, 900 souls, and I have stood at the foo
of mountains from whose rocky sides boil
gold and silver streams flow out into thu
worlds great channels of trade, adding
thereto in a single year more than 1927, 900,
600 in value of precious metals alone.
l shall go back to my prairie home. to
state rich beyond comparison in the pro
auctions of its soil. to a people intelligent
industrious, and contented with that whicl
nature has done for them, but l shall bea
with me a broader conception than I ha'
before of the limitless resources Of tina
magnificent country the foundations O
whose political institutions our father
laid, but whose superstructure our ow
hands are necessarily aiding to shape. BIZ
the occasion that calls us together, tn
sentiment assigned me as the subject Q
my remarks, the audience that it is M
privilege to address, all remind me that
am expected to speak of political question
in the brief time allotted me this evening
The Democracy of 1922 What will til
people expect of it? On what lines mut
its battle be fought? For what principle
These and kindred questions crowd tt
mind as we look forward to the politics
struggle in which we are so soon to engaR
In a broad sense the democratic party mu'
continue to STAND as the champion of tt
personal rights of the individual. II mu
n U BAL 4oIcRAAAV II ~ oAub liz Il
from their Maker certain natural RICH
that neither kings, potentntes nor major
tics can rightfully despoil, That Chi
among these in a government of the peop
is the right of each individual to be
fairly and justly treated by the laws there
as is every other member Of the same.
That extending the scale from the ind
vidual to the smallest unit of organic
%society. and thence upward until each
the order of ius Importance in our form
government is included, every one of the
so long as they act within constitution
limits in matters that pertain to their OK
welfare and affect their own interet
must be permitted to be sole judges
their own affairs. from whose {
cisions there can be NO appeal. Ser
rating those who compose the factors
our government into groups and consid'
ing thsm as distinct parts of the grand a
gtegate of which the nation is compost
democracy must stand for tho infex11
rule that between classes, as between
dividuals there shall be no diatinction
right, no favor to one at the expense OF
other. Applying these principles to pr,
teal questions with which the Americ
PEOPLE must deal, and remembering
position to which the republican party
committed, it is easy to foresee the supre
issue on which parties will divide in