Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
GOOD MORALS |N,POL|T|CS
The Reform Club Dinner in
New York.
Grover Cleveland the Guest of
Honor.
Distinguished Democrats from Many
States Present.
Brilliant Oratory and wise Counsel Dis-
pensed by the President Elect,
Carl schurz, Mills, Car
Isle and Others.
By the Associated Press.

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| Isle and Others.
BY tha Associated Press.
| New York, Dec. 10.-A party of dis
tinguished Statesmen dined tonight in
the concert hall OF Madison Square gar
den. 1t was the Reform clubs dinner
to President-elect Grover Cleveland.
The prospect of brilliant oratory and
wise council filed the boxes and gal
leries with men and women, and the
audience was not disappointed. A num-
Der of leading statesmen of the Demo-
cratic party, and of the nation for that
matter, spoke well and to the point.
The statesmen and patriots who spoke,
aside from President-elect Cleveland,
were Carl Schurz, Senator Roger @.
Mills OF Texas, ex Gov. James E. Camp
bell of Ohio, Gen. Patrick Collins of
Massachusetts, Congressman Thomas
L. Johnson OF Ohio and Ellery Ander-
on.
A noticeable feature of the dinner was
the number Of outof-town Statesmen
present. Almost every state was repre-
sented. At least one.third of the 575
who eat down to the dinner were from
out of town.
It was almost O'Clock when the pres
ident of the club, Eilery Anderson,
raped for order. The divine blessing
was then invoked and dinner served.
While the dinner was in progress, the
boxes and galleries gradually filled, and
when the course was finished there was
not vacant seat in the house. Dinner
over, President Anderson arose and
made brief eulogistic speech of the
guest of the evening. He .complimented
the president-elect in most felicitoue
manner, and closed with proposing the
health and prosperous administration OF
Mr.. Cleveland. He then introduced the
president-elect, Mr.. Cleveland, and the
applause became almost deafening. As
it began to die away, Mr.. Cleveland
aroee and the enthusiasm was re-
doubled.
THE PRESIDENT. ELECT SPEAKS.
When quiet was at length restored,
he spoke in part as follows:
"We can contemplate nothing more
semblsge than the proof il affords that
manage the government given into their
keeping. If there are those who have
been disappointed and disheartened by
the extent to which our people have
been deceived and misled, or who with
fear have seen the heedlessness of the
duty of citizenship open wide the door
to corrupting influences, or who, with
sad forebodings, have beheld popular
rule nearing the fated rocks of de-
bauched suffrage, or who mourned
because appeals to selfishness
and promises of unequal advantages
we're apparently undermining patriot
lem, which alone jusJifes our hope of
national perpetuity, let this occasion,
and the events which have led to it, re.
instate faith and confidence in our
countrymen. If we have learned that
appeals to the patriotism of our country
men, and an honest presentation of po-
litical principles to their irintelligence and
judgement are not in vain, the thought
must not escape us that while our peo-
pie will in the end repay with their sup.
port the political party which addresses
their understanding and reason, instead
of broad prejudices and selfish interests,
they will heartily avenge themselves
upon those who deceive or betray them.
"The national Democracy and its
allies in political principles rejoice over
the defeat of those whose fate is full of
instruction and warning. If we redeem
the promises we have made to the
voters of our land, the difficulty of our
task can hardly be exaggerated. A
condition involving most important in
terests must be reviewed and modified,
and perplexing problems menacing our
safety must be settled. Above all, and
the ultimate object of all we do, the
rights and welfare of our people in
every condition of life must be placed
upon a more equal plane of opportunity
and advantage. We should not enter
upon our work with the least spirit of
resentment nor with a needless disre-
gard of the welfare of any portion of
our citizens. The mission of our party
and the reforms we contemplate do not
involve the encouragement of jealous
animosities nor the destruction of dis
elimination between American and
foreign interests.
Gin order that we may begin with
free hands, we should vigorously oppose
all delusions which have their origin
in undemocratic teachings or in dema-
gOgic attempts to deceive the people.
We should strive to rid ourselves and
our countrymen of the idea that there
is anything shabby or disgraceful in
economy, whether in public or private
life. If extravaganza in public expendi-
ture has been prevailing in the past, it
affords no excuse for its continuance,
and there is no breach of duty SO culpa-
BILE as the waste of money held by pub
lie servants for the peoples uses. The
cultivation of such "a sentiment
is not only high duty
but an absolute necessity to
the contamination of the reforms we
enter upon. We shall utterly and dis
gracefully fail if we attempt these re-
forms under the influence Of petty par
tiean scheming or fear of jeopardizne
our personal political fortunes. They
can only be accomplished when unseli.
ish patriotism guides the aspirations ol
our people and regulates the action OF
their chosen servants. We, who are to
be charged with the responsibility ol
making and executing the laws, should
begin our preparation for the task by q
rigid self-examination and by self -purga
tion from all the ignoble and unworthy
tendencies threatening to enter oul
motives and designs"
At frequent intervals during his speech