Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-20
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, From All Quarters. THEFIRST CAMPAIGN GUN Rally of the Massachusetts
 Republican Club. THEY WILL ELECT DELEGATES To.DAY Foster Elected Governor of
 Louisiana.
 THE NEW MoDUS VIVENDI RATIFIED. The Severe Earthquake in
 California.
THE NEW MoDUS VIVENDI RATIFIED.

| California.
 EX-SPEAKER REED TALKS
 At the Dinner of the Massachusetts
 Republican Club The Largest
 Political Gathering or the Season.
 Prominent Men Present - Other
 Speeches by SenatOr DoIph, Hon.
 Theodore Roosevelt, John l.. Dodge
 and Others-AllusiOn to Harrison
 and Blaine Received With Cheers.
 BosToN, April 19.-The dinner of the Republican club of Massachusetts this evening was the largest political gathering of the season. and the opening gun of the national campaign was sounded in this state. Nearly 1000 sat at the tables which filled the hall and the balconies were packed with crowd in which were many ladies. The hall was elaborately decorated with flags and bunting and back of the platform hung large banner inscribed ''The Republican Club of Massachusetts, 1892"
 Dinner was served promptly at o'clock and crowds of Harvard and Boston uni versity students enlivened the scene by their college cheers. At the head of the center table, which stretched across the entire platform, sat Hon. John Simpkins, president of the club. On his right were Senator Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, chairman of the civil service commission, ex-Governor Brack- cit, Postmaster Hart of Boston, ex- Senator Hill of Colorado, and w. o. Lowering, chairman of the state convention to-mor- TOW.
 Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed sat at the left, and beyond him were: John L.Dodge, president of the Harvard Republican club; Speaker William E. Barrett of the Massa- chusetts house of representatives; Hon. W. w. Crapo of New Bedford, Chairman Eben s. Draper of the republican state committee, United States District Attor- ney Allen and President Pinkerton of the senate.
 Precisely at o'clock President Simp- kins rose amid enthusiastic cheering and delivered brief opening speech, in which | he was frequently interrupted by the ap- plause. He referred to the failure of Cleveland to discuss the silver question in his Rhode Island speech | and said that no speech upon national | topics that fails to touch upon this vital | issue can be accepted as finished product | by the people. While willing to give the | mugwumps all credit for their honesty of | purpose he believed their work would have | been prolific of more good to the country | had it been exerted in republican cam | paigns, caucuses and conventions. He l then introduced Senator Dolph, who | spoke upon the silver question. The Ore l gon senator was frequently interrupted by ] applause, and was listened to with deep l s,,- ok.ko kt44- age bill could not be passed in the senate l ane his reference to Mir. Harrison's oppo- l sition to such legislation called forth loud | applause, as did his statement of his own position and that of his party in the west. |
 John l.. Dodge, president of the Harvard l Republican club, spoke next. He declared | that the majority of students at Harvard | are and always have been adherents to the | principles of the republican party and pre- scented figures to strengthen his assertion. | His reference to President Harrison and | Secretary Blaine elicited tremendous ap- plause.
 Theodore Roosevelt was then introduced | and was applauded when he prefaced his | speech by thanking the previous speaker. |
 Ex-sPEAKER REEDS ADDRESS.
 The last speaker was Hon. Thomas B. Reed, who was enthusiastically cheered as he rose. He said in substance:
 eff you and were to build this world it would undoubtedly have been builded upon the principles described in the criti- cisms of us in the independent democratic press, which is to say on the basis of per lection. There would always have been fair weather and the democrats would have been righteous before as we'll as after the event. But Providence has builded world full to the brim with human nature. ,%D ay,l thnva ao1r democrats than we can safely digest at any time. Our principal difficulty arises from the fact that we republicans who do something have to live in this prse- tical world instead of the haven of rest in which the democratic party does its work. We do our work and record it in the an nals of legislation. They do their work in their minds and it never gets recorded anywhere. We suffer by comparison: Being human beings we doubtless do wrong things sometimes, though l chal- lenge the worlds history to show an in | stance where we have not done the 1 best that could be done in the history of this country. Tariff and silver | bills are tremendous instrumentalities for good or evil. But the present and imme- diate future of this country depends upon | the state of the human mind this moment more than an ything else. At times men have lost con tidence in each other, have ceased to pull together. have had no hope l of the future and we have been in what we call hard times. At other times every wheel is whirring in full tune, labor is brisk and capital is called for by a thou sand interests and the basis of the l whole prosperity is the confidence of man. kind in the permanency of the immediate future. We are on the verge of prosper ity, and all that keeps it off is uncertainty born of the democratic party. No tariff bill they could frame would De worse for the business world than the uncertainty
 under which they are keeping us. Uncer-
 tainty is the bane of modern business.
 There was 8 time when it was not 80, when
 local dignitary of my state, the Duke of Scarborough, could say that all the beauty
 of the flour trade arose from it's auctua-
 ton. But modern business demands
 there should be no huctuation and has it's
 hope in the small percentage of 6 steady
 business.
 After full discussion before the peo-
 ple we passed tariff bill which day by
 day has been growing in the favor of the | people. Isn't it entitled to a chance2
 don't find any fault with any man who
 criticises the tariff. It has errors which
 can be corrected. But there is wide
 margin between the correction of errors
 and the revision of the tariff. I have
 seen two revisions of the tariff and every : one of them had as many errors as the pre-
 ceding, and the democrats were always mad
 dest at the last. Democrats say the silver
 legislation of 1890 was all wrong. Per
 haps it would not have been passed if
 some democrats had been, in 1890, of the
 opinion they think they are in 1899. But,
 passed when it was, it saved this country
 from free coinage of silver, from disaster; l it gave us the renewed assurance of this > government that every dollar sanctioned
 by the United States should be the equal
 of every other dollar and it gave us the
 cessation of the two million coinage.
 "That may prove dangerous. But if il is, where are you going for remedy9 Tc
 the party that voted for free coinage, 0, to the party that voted for sound cur
 rency7 Whenever you want anything don.
 you come back to that old fountain whicl
 flows necessarily with noble deeds, the re
 publican party of Abraham Lincoln. "Mr Crisp said: No step backward.
 If they can prevent themselves from slip
 ping backward then they are in the full 2 sunlight of grace and glory; witt D us we know that the shadow can neve @, turn back on the dial. To such @ party
 can, with good conscience, invite all younl
 men who believe in the future and all tn i. | old men whose hearts are still green"