Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-14
Mr.. Cleyeland,s Great Speech,

upCio uAO baNlbS W soy
about Mr.. Cleveland's great speech
1T the Jackson celebration in New
York January 9th and the use he
made of Jackson's character, meth
obs and straight Democracy, to Illus
trate the present situation. There is
much in 1t that is worthy to be read
and re-read and closely studied by
every politician and patriot in the
land. Mr.. Cleveland, however, makes
one mistake that will be noticed.
He is clearly tariff reformer on the
Mills line. Aside from this, how
ever, the facts are so well and ably
brought out that we commend the
following conclusion to careful read
ing and study:
"If we are to act upon our de-
clared belief in the power of that
Jacksonian spirit which was the in
spiratiou Of our party in the days of
our great leader, we shall be steadfast
TO the issue we have raised until it is
settled and rightly settled. The stead
faStness we need will not permit a
premature and distracting search for
other and perpleXing questions, nor
will ii allow us to be tempted or
driven by the enemy into new and
tangled paths.
ave have given pledges to the
people and they have trusted us.
Uuless we have outgrown the Demo-
cratic spirit Of Jackson's time, our
duty is plain. Our promise was not
merely to labor in the peoples cause
until we should tire OF the effort or
should discover way which seemed
to promise easier and quicker party
asccndancy. The service we under.
took was not to advise those waiting
for better days that their cause was
hopeless, nor under any pretext to
suggest cessation of effort, Our en-
sagcment was to labor necessarily,
bravely and stubbornly, seeing moth.
ing and considering nothing but ulti.
mate success. These pledges and
promises should be faithfully and
honestly kept. Party faithlessness is
party dlshonOr
"Nor is the saCrednes1 of our
pledges and the party dishonQr that
will follow their violation all we
have TO consider. We cannot trtle
with our obligations to the people
without exposure and disaster. We
ourselves have aroused spirit of
jealous inquiry and discrimination
touching political conduct, which
cannot be blinded; and the people
will visit with qnick revenge the
party which betrays them.
81 hope, then, | may venture to
claim in this AZ semblage that, even
if there had been but slight encour
agement for the cause we have es'
poused, there would still be no justi.
fication for timidity and faintheart'
edness. But with the success we
have already achieved, amounting
toa political revolution, it seems to
me that 1t would be the height of
folly, considered purely as question
of party management, to relax
in the least our determination and
persistency. If we suspect any
where in our counsels compromising
hesitation or disposition to divert
the unity of party efforts let us be-
watchful. The least retreat bodies
disaster; cowardice is often called
conservatism, and an army scattered
into sections invites defeat.
"We have preached tie doctrine
that h )nesty and sincerity should be
exacted from political parties. Let
us not fall under the conde % nation
which waits on shitty schemes and
insincere professions.
81 believe our countrymen are
prepared to act on principe, and are
in no moo 1 for political maneuver-
ing. They will not waste time in
studying conundrums, guessing rid