Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-08

brighter for some act or some word of some
great Republican.
The Procession of the Pa,:y's Heroes.
Count me over your chosen ex-heroes
whom we are teaching our children to love
emulate and revere, and you shall name Re
publicans-Lincoln, Seward, Grant, Sher
man, Garfield, Logan, Harrison and Blaine
They are few of our jewels, and we may
proudly turn to our Democratic friends with
The defiant challenge, match them.
These men became great and RENAME
| great. have not the time even to cata-
logue the long list of good works undertaken
the story. The irrepressible conflict under.
taken and concluded, slavery abolished,
public credit re-established; the Constitu-
tion of the Union restored and recon-
structed. the old flag washed clear of every
stain and new stars added to its glory, the
wide West thrown open to easy access ana
lean labor and American industries estab-
| lished, developed and vindicated, the mar
kets of the world opened by the persuasive
| American workshop and the American farm.
Until to-day, the nations of the earth are
| paying tribute to the sagacity of our legts-
lation and diplomacy in millions upon mil
| lions of increased purchases, and Lord Sells
| bury has been driven to the significant con-
| fession that even in England Tree trade has
| proven disappointment. Rivers and harbors
| have been opened to commerce; the white
| hulls of our new navy are plowing the
| waters of every sea; peace has been main
| tanned at home and respect secured abroad.
Reluctant Homage From the Other Side.
And so the light might be extended and
expanded, while our political adversaries,
though perpetually opposing every measure
of our new Republican policy, are COM
PEELED to act in the wisdom of our course
and to confess that we have been right and
that they have been wrong. They have just
a ~ hon tod in TN,-
gress, one year of Congressional life, in vain
assaults upon three items in a tariff bill made
up OF 80 items. At this rate OF progress
they would have to be trusted for about 500
years in power before we could see tariff
REFORM upon lines agreed upon by our con-
nictlng Democratic friends
But we cannot hope to win merely upon
the recital of the achievement OF our past,
brilliant as it has been, any more than our
adversaries can hope to succeed upon plat
forms of slitsering praises. The past is
chiefly useful to us in so far as it demon
strates the vitality of the party to redeem
its pledges and its ability to govern in a
broad and enlightened way a free and pro-
gressive people.
Our pledges have been kept-ar save one
and greatly mistake the temper of the
Republican party if 1t will ever be contented
until that pledge is made good. Our man.
hood and honor is pledged to continue the
contest for a free and honest ballot. Until
this veXed question is settled right, that q
Tree people should cast a free vote and have
1t honestly recorded and returned, is the
dream and determination OF the Republican
party, and the despair and nightmare of
Democracy.
Democratic Assaults Upon the Ballot.
1t is the pride OF the Republican party
that it never yet has committed an assault
upon political freedom. The entire vocabu-
larry of party lines has grown out of attempts
to describe assaults of the Democracy upon
the freedom of the ballot and fair play in
the exercise of the elective franchise. And
these individual words have been made in
tellfgible by Democratic practices. No ques-
tion has ever been permanently settled, and
settled in the right and until every citizen
white or black, East or West. North or
South-can approach the ballot box with abb
solute security and have his vote counted
with absolute honesty, none of US can rest
assured that our liberties are safe.
The vote of no man is safe. 1t Is not the
negro alone who is DISTINGUISHED; it is every
American. The contest before us assumes
all Its difficulties from the fact that we enter
the Presidential race handicapped by the
certainty that in a., Electoral College of Al
members l56 votes are now already abso-
lutelv secured in advance to the Democratic
nominee, and those 156 votes come from the
South, which is kept permanently solid
through q perpetual breach OF the guaran-
tees of the Constitution of the United
States.
Sometimes We are told the mission of the
our destiny and fulfilled it: but the destiny
OF a progressive party is never fulfilled in
an advancing and expanding national life.
SO long as there remuins u wrong to be re-
dressed, so long as there remains a right to
De enforced, SO long as all the privileges of
citizenship are not freely enjoined under
the guarantee that the Constitution gives to
all citizens of this Union, just SO long will
there be mission Tor the Republican party.
Tho Chairman's Poetic Peroration.
So long will there be great work before
US, and each Republican may e1claim,
live to greet the season,
When man shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
Ana every wrong Is rlRhted,
This whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was OF old.
M live for every cause that lacks assistance.
For the future and the distance
And the good that CAN do.
Some one started the cry of Creed. !
Reed!' and it was instantly taken up by |
the delegates and the gallery. The building |
rang with the popular demand for the ap- |
pearance of the man from Maine. But Mr.. |
Reed displayed all his customary modestv,
and it was not until the chairman of the |
turned and beckoned command. |
ingly to him that he finally arose from his |
seat AT the first sight of the distinguished |
son of Maine, arose every delegate and |
every auditor to do him homage. and long |
after he had resumed his seat the cheering |
Of course, the speech of the Republican
leader of the National House of Represen-
tatives was well received. His illusions to |
the sensitiveness of the Democratic party |
excited the convention and up |
roarious applause punctuated nearly every
sentence OF his eloquent speech, of which
ho fol IN inr rc
Reeds Brief but Eloquent Speech.
1 want to add in the presence of this vast
audience my hearty expression of feeling in
the future of the Republican party [Ap-
plause1 Its past needs the indorsemenr of
no man. It has the Endorsement of its
history, for the deeds of the Republican
party are hist DRY Itself. [Applausel
And while We are prevented from poin ting
with pride to the achievements of our party
on account OF our tenderness for the Demo-
cratic party laughter and applausel, never.
theless we sit he re to- day rejoicing that our
past history sh owS that from our birth until
now our character has been such that it is
guarantee OF the magnificent future which
we are sure to have. [Applause.1
1t is true We have done great things but
i is equally true that we have no right to
rest upon them. Our past is glorious, hut
our future ought to be more so. 1t is true
hat we have given to this country a won
1erf nj reciprocal prosperity.
1t Is true that wealth has been poured into |
The laps OF all our people by the great sys- |
tenn which we believe in and which we have
carried out; but say to you to-day, that
there is a nobler future even than having
given prosperity to a country, before the |
republican party (applause] and that
loDlcr future is to give every citizen of the
United States liberty of thought and action.
Cheers and applause.l Wealth and pros.
rerity are noble. but human liberty is mag
ll1cenr.