Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-07
The Rhode Island Democrats
Greet Him Warmly.
HE TALKS FOR TARIFF REFORM
Lower Duties the Only Issue
Before the People.



Congressman McAdoo was speaking ms
Cleveland entered the theatre but as the
(, gathering caught sight Of the ex.Presdent
| Mr. McAdoo's speech ended suddenly. The
National Band started the first strains of
Hail to the Chief and got no further, for
as one man the 5000 persons who crowded
the theatre us it had never before been
crowded, rose 10 their feet and gave vent
to their pent-up enthusiasm.
IL was great reception and was pro-
lOnged for many minutes. Outside tho
Opera House 5000 more were waiting with
no hope of gaining admiltance, but only
DESTROYS of ACQUIRING a view of the features
of the ex-President. They took up the
cheer that came from the interior and
prolonged 1t, after which they settled
down to wait for two hours until the end
of the meeting.
All through the state there was cordial
welcome for Mr.. Cleveland, and every little
hamlet through which the colonial express
rushed had its little knot of townspeople
gathered ut the platform. AT New London
800 persons pushed and crowded each other
III an endeavor to grasp Mr.. Cleveland's
hand, he having been forced to leave his
luncheon by the cheers and calls of the
people. At Westerly there was another
crowd, and at the little village of Kingston
several hundred people gathered and gave
three cheers for "the next President of the
United States.
Here ex-Goyernor John w. Davis, Presi-
dent Baniamin Andrews of Brown Uni
versity, Frank A. Rhodes. and Congress
man Oscar Lapham boarded the train as
an escort to Mr. Cleveland When the
train reached Providence such an enor-
nous throng had gathered at the station
and along the streets that it was seen that
1t would be utterly impossible to force a
passage through the people. Accordingly
the train was stopped further down toward
the southern end of the city and there the
party left it, and were driven through
crowded streets to the Narragansett Hotel
Judge Wilbur of brooklyn the Hon John
J. Heifernan, the Hon. Samuel K. Honey
Gov. Russell of Massachusetts and ex-Con-
gresham McAdoo spoke to the gathering
at the Opera House before Mr.. Cleveland's
arrival. During the latter's entrance a
number of persons outside the building
tainted, so great was the rush to see the ex-
President. His speech was frequently in
terrupted by applause, and the demon
siration at the conclusion of his remarks
rlvaled that of the opening in warmth.
MIR. Cleveland spoke as follows
MIR. cLEvELANp's SPEECH
81 have found it impossible to decline
the invitation you sent me to meet here to-
day the Democracy of Rhode Island.
have come to look in the faces OF the men
who have been given the place Of honor in
the advance of the vast army which moves
November. have not come to point the
way to consolation in case of your defeat,
but have come to share the enthusiasm
which presages victory. | have not come
to condole with you upon the difficulties
which confront YOU, but to suggest that
they will only add 10 the glory Of your
triumph. have come to remind You that
the entertainments of spoils and patronage
cannot avail against the valor and deter
nination of right; that corruption and
bribery cannot smother and destroy the
aroused conscience of our countrYmen,
and that splendid achievements await
those who bravcly, honestly and stub
bornly tight in the peoples cause.
THE PEOPLES CAUSE.
LET us not for moment miss the in
SEPARATION of those words, The peoples
cause They signify the defence of the
rights of every man, rich or poor in every
corner of our land, who, by virtue of sim
pie American manhood, lays claim to the
promises OF our Tree government, and they
mean the promotion of the welfare and
happiness of the humblest American citi-
zen who coniidingly invokes the protec-
ton of just and equal laws.
"The covenant Of our Democratic faith.
as | understand it, eXacts constant effort
IN this cause, and its betrayal ! conceive
TO be - crime against the creed of true
Democracy
'The struggle in which YOU are engaged
arrests the attention of your party brethern
in every state; and they pause in their
preparation for the general engagement,
near ut hand in which all will be in the
field, and look toward Rhode Island with
hope and trust. They read the legends on
your banners and they hear your rallving
cries and know that your fight is in the
peoples cause.
If you should be defeated there will be
10 encouragement in this vast waiting
% rf hair ,i.t,
cover yourselves with glory by winning
success.
BANNER OF TARIFF REFORM.
Large and bright upon your banners
are blazoned the words Tariff Reform
the shibboeth of true Democracy and the
test Of loyalty to the peoples cause.
Those who oppose tariff reform deludc
Npon appeals to selfish considerations and
the promise of advantage, right or wrong,
or that our only hope of winning depends
upon arousing luminosity between different
Interests among our people. While we do
not propose that those whose welfare we
champion shalt be blind to the advantages
accruing to them from our plan of tariff
reform, and while we are determined that
these advantages shall not be surrendered
to the Establishments Of greed and avaricc,
we still claim nothing that has not under
lying it moral sentiment and considera-
iOns Ol equity anu SOou Conscience.
Because our case rests unon such foun-
.ations sordidness and sclshness cannot
2estroy it, The fight for justice and right
u clean and comforting one, and because
the American people love justice and right
ours must he winning fight.
The government Of the union is a
government Of the people; it emanatcs
from them; its powers are granted by
them and are to be exercised directly on
them and for their benefit. This is not the
language OF n political platform. IL is d
declaration of the highest court in the
land, whose mandates all must obey and
whose definitions all partisans must ac-
cept.
VIOLATION OF THE COMPACT.
''In the light of this exposition of the
duty the government owes to the pnople.
the Democratic party claims that when,
through federal taxation, burdens are laid
upon the daily life of the people not neces-
sary for the governments economical nd
ministration, and intended, whatever be
the pretext, to enrich few at the expense
of the many, the governmental compact is
violated
"A distinguished justice of the Supreme
Court, with no Democratic affiliations but
loved and respected when living by every
American, and since his death universally
lamented, has characterized such u pro-
ceeding as none the less Il robbery because
it is done under the forms of law and is
called taxation
LET us then appreciate the fact that we
not only stand upon sure and safe ground
when we appeal to honesty and morality
IN our championship of the interests Of
the masses of our people as they are related
to tariff taxation, but that our mission is
invested with the highest patriotism when
we attempt to preserve from pcrversion
- ftrxtnu tls.