Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-15

shining example to be kept up in perpA-
tuity.
suppose that here in this place, where
there are no Democrats, ! may freely en-
press my opinion about the Democratic
party without fear of giving offence to
anybody. You must not understand that
| mean to be harsh. l believe that \
Democrat is a Democrat because he can't
help it, it is a part of his makeup, his
cOngenital characteristic. He was born
that way or he would not be that way Il
is a matter for sadness. Laughter. The
Democratic party is a party remarkable
for its powers of vociferation. 1t can say
more things and find out after they are
said that they are not so, than any party
that was ever invented since the pyramids
were built. They can produce more cry
and less wool per sheep than any flock
that ever fed upon the rocky hills of NG-
mont or the swelling plains of Australia
! During the last 81 years, tell me what az
gument has been used by the Democratic
party or what assertion of fact has heen
made by that party which is to-day alive
and believed in.
This is a curious world. After great
event the world is very apt to want a vaca-
ton. After the Republican party has
done the supreme things there is always
reaction. The people of the United States
want breathing spells, they want vaca-
tion to turn and look at things, and then
they usually put the Democratic party in
possession of the House of Representatives
| Laughter. Because they are absolutely
certain that nothing will happen during
that time. Great laughter and applause. !
Why, the Democracy are incapable Gf
carrying out the wrong things which they
| nrOniSpd n do which is a roma Ia blo civ
cumstance.
All over this country, outside of New
England, the Democratic party has been
promising the people of this country that
they should have free coinage of American
silver. | remember perfectly well the
scene which took place in the House OF
| Representatives of the 51st Congress when
| the Democratic leaders tumbled over each
other in their anxiety to be put on record
as friends of the free coinage of silver.
| The man they elected speaker shouted il
aloud, the man they didn't elect speaker
| shouted it aloud, and all the men that
| they put i'll prominent places proclaimed
themselves in favor of it. and announced
that the Democratic party were determined
to give to the people of this country free
| coinage of silver. Others might stand by
the wicked monopolists, but the Democrat
ic party was the friend of the poor man,
and would enable him, so help heaven, to
pay off his debts for 20 cents on a dollar!
| Prolonged laughter. And they got posses
sion of the House of Representatives.
Three to one. Three to one. And there
were two to one in favor of the free coin
age of silver-and they didn't dare to do it,
They absolutely were unable to carry their
own belief in favor of any positive meas
IRE, no matter how strongly they believed
in it themselves. Why is this2 They
were so afraid that they would do some
thing to injure their contest next time that
they did not dare to do what they had pro-
claimed to be righteousness, at the very top
of their voices
realize one great fact and that is. that
the Republican party has got TO do two du-
ties; the first is to 90 ahead itself, and the
second is to drag the Democratic party up
to where it was itself the last year, and
the one duty is just as imperative as the
other. ] am not iesting about this. ] am
talking to you sober truth. We have got
to have the human race together. Don't
you see we cannot go off and leave the
! Democratic party on a desert island? We
have got to take them along, and in order to
| take them along we have got to allow them
! to catch up with us. We have got to get
them into our last years camp. We have
| got to utilize them as a rear guard. Hu-
man beings are so closely connected to
each other, they are so acted upon by each
other, we cannot afford to leave them be
hind us.
| told you that these men were mighty in
vociferations. Can you tell me Demo
cratic idea today outside of the tariff that
is two years old? What has become of that
tremendous crop of statements with which
this country was flooded in 1902 What
has become of all the stories they told
about the Mckinley bill? Every one of
them dead, dead as Julius Caesar No
Democratic falsehood ever approaches TO
have near enough resemblance to the truth
to last two years.
| remember riding years ago, when the
bicycle came into use, and by and by /
came across fellow on a bicycle and the
horse began to teeter up and down in man
ner that was unpleasant to me, being natuF-
ally timid, but the fellow that was on the
bicycle had sense, and he got off of his BIZ
! cycle, and the horse began to trot in regu-
lar fashion and all was right. Now, YOU
see that horse understood a wheel and he
understood man, but he had not got the
combination, That is just the way with
the Democratic party. Whenever a new
idea is introduced, it begins to teeter up
and down and il utters vociferous cries,
but by and by, just as horses have learned
about bicycles and the combination, in
just that way the Democratic party begins
to quiet down. They begin to say that il
is not so fearful as they were talking about
last election.
The Republlcon party is not only pro-
gressve but tits honestly conservative also.
1t is progressive in that it believes that the
world is not yet finished. 1t is conserva-
tive in that it takes no step forward with
out fully knowing what that step means !;
only after full consultation with the peo-
pie is anything done 1t is conservative
because it represents the staid solid sense
of humanity, that which has been dignified
by centuries as the wisest sense, namely
the good old common sense. That is the
faith of the Republican party. 1t does not
talk to you about Thomas jefferson or An
drew jackson or dead patriots. IL talks to
you about the living present and the splend-
Ors of glorious future.
In a few days the Western railway traffic
association will be no more. II was form
ed for the purpose of preventing a cutting