The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-03-25

Voters were deceived on the last Elec1-
tions.
Congressman Walker of Massachu-
sets delivered a speech on the tariff in
the House last week, in the concluding
portion of which the following occurs:
81 beg to tender you my personal
thanks for your kind greeting. | am de-
lighted to see so many present, because
it seems that if the Democrats have car
ried the city they can't carry it very far.
Perhaps the very best example OF the
difference between the Democratic and
the Republican party can be seen in the
coming excursion of Japheth in search OF
his father David in search of the Presi-
dency laughter and great applause,
which is now visible under the Southern
hemisphere. David B. Hill is a typical
Democrat, and he ought to be the Presl-
dental candidate of the party because
he represents it. He is like 1T. He I'M
derstands it, and in a short time, II he is
elected, he will be it. The Democratic
party is the party of odds and ends. 1t
is made up of people who are opposed
to us for something which has happened.
1t is party of negation. When Mr.
Hill first bloomed into a United States
Senator he fastened to give the first sig
nal instance of his national leadership in
a speech in which he urged the Demo
cratic Congress to repeal the Mckinley
Tariff law and the Silver act OF the year
30. This was an excellent instance OF
the true Democratic practice Let us,
for heavens sake, get back to yesterday
if we can. We would like to roll back
the tide of 1000 years, but we are quite
sure we cannot do that; but let us at
least establish something that will seem
Democratic in trying to put back civil
ization for a couple of years at least
''Surely, there could not be any better
exemplification of what Democracy is
and what it means The Democratic
party is always against us for something
we have done or something which they
think is going to be done. They always
occupy, from their very nature and
character, a negative position. MT. Hill
says in his speeches that the wing par
ty has passed away, and other partles
have passed away, but the Democratic
marty is forever and ever. That is so.
That arises from the very nature OF
things. There never was in the world
pancake so fiat that it did not have an
under side. Or, to raise this metaphor
to the dignity of the present OCCASION
there never was an army that dldn [
have a rear guard. But, say some OF
YOU, this rear guard of yours seems tC
have been pretty well to the front at the
last election. Well, l admit it, but see
what they are doing in Congress assem-
bled. You can change your skies, but
never your minds, when you cross even
the widest seas. That rear. guard
rushed to the sea front, is to-day looking
as far backward as it ever did In the
DAYS of wore, Nature will assert itself
They no more think of being pioneers
into the future than they ever though
of initiating the civilization ofthe world
Mr. Hill says the Democratic party
should stand by the principles OF th'
party, but he never utters one except al
"a glittering generality about as nsetul al
a rule of practice as the delicate guld
.ance of a will the .wisp of a quagmire
strict construction of the Constitution
must be had, he said. When he ha
been Is wears in the Senate he will tnC
that he will have still to go to the ex
perience of some older Senator, for
Democratic Senator that has not beef
able to construe the Constitution so al
to get what he wants. The best thing
that the patron saint of the Democracy
Thomas Jefferson, ever did, the Louis
lana purchase, was in defiance of strlc
construction of the Constitution and IL
defiance of his own principles. AS ne
said himself, the truth is what the Con
:stitution needs. In the way of construc
ton it is what it has in the long run al
ways had; without trusting the words o.
torturing the sense it is made to conform
to the progress, the grandeur and hber
ty of great country. Applause.
"He says also that we need to raise M
more revenue than will be sufficient 10
the wants of the Government Well
who ever said the contrary? Who eve
insinuated doubt about it? And We
this is claimed as a great principle. |
lis as if a man called attention to hlmsel
with aloud voice, and said: Look
me and see how pious | am. Don't yo'
hear me shouting hurrah for the lei
Commandments If you want to knoI
what all this means, just watch Mr.. Hol
man of Indiana as there comes up
question of expenditure for Indians, an
watch any Democratic Congressman
when there comes up an appropriate
for his District in the River and Harbo
bill. or even an item in the robber tariff
Then you may realize what those grea
principles which they adhere to S
strongly mean.
"The Republican party is the party q
action. Whenever anything is to D
done the country elects Republican of
Gals to do it; then by that strange il
consistency of human nature they ger
orally punish them for doing it. Ger
tleman of the Young Mems Republica
Club, upon this difference between til
two parties hope the young men are
be found with us. 1t may do for an oil
man to sit in the chimney corner an
carp and grumble. An old man dream
of the beautiful days gone by. A youn
man dreams of the beautiful days thu
are to come. The old are wrong, an
the young are right. Day by da,
though we cannot perceive it, year b
year, though we cannot perceive it; yea
by year, though our senses ma
not show it; century after century,
our glad eye can see it, the world grow
richer and happier and our own Ian
nobler and freer. You and l have 81
our faces toward the future and the SUI
light, and if omnipresence itself. we
granted us we would not turn the worl
back one poor syllable of recorded time
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