The Republican journal., 1892-03-24
Plain Words from Truthful Tom.

! A reception was given March to Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, at the Nation
al Rifles armory in Washington by the
National Republican Auxiliary associa-
ton. Senator Perkins, of Kansas, presid-
ed, and congratulatory addresses were
made by Hon. J. c. Burrows of Michi-
gan, and others, to which Mr.. Reed re-
sponded as follows:
"Only one year ago last Friday, only
one short year ago on March the 4th, 1891,
l had occasion to address an august as
sembly in the presence of many spectators.
The Republican party had been subjected
in the election just before to the severest
reverse, but one, in all it's history. All
that partisan malice could do had been
done. Reproach, clamor, recrimination
and derisive epithet were at high tide on
every shore, and seemed to be rolling
landward STILL
Il ventured then and to that audience
to express my unshaken confidence that
time would do justice to the House of
Representatives of the Fifty first Congress,
and that the verdict of history, the only
verdict worth recording, would place the
man of the ma jority on the list of those
who had done the State some service.
'With all my faith, however, did not
dream that the verdict would be so swift,
SO sure and so complete. But history in
this age of the world, and in this land of
surprises, does it's work for the living as
in old days it used to do it for the dead
''Time has not yet justified all that we
did, but the catalogue is already large,
and every day brings its just additions.
Since the new House came into being the
majority have shown how incapable they
are to cope with tariff revision. Unable
to make warp and woof of their own, they
have confined themselves to trying to
shoot holes through the cloth we have
made.
DISABLED by prejudice and passion
from adopting in it's entirety the admir-
able system of rules left them by their
predecessors, they have reused cries of
shame from their own party by the ruth
less manner in which they have surpassed
even their own false description of our
acts.
''Since yesterday there remains but one
solitary shred of foundation on which to
base their outcries and reproaches of two
years ago, and that remains there in de-
fiance of the opinion-the unanimous opin-
ion-of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
'Our works do follow us. Only two
years ago these men connected the name
of William Mckinley with every derisive
epithet and every term of reproach Elect
ed since then Governor of his great State
by the greatest majority of recent times,
he has lived to see returning prosperity
justify his work and crown him with
honors.
"The charges of extravaganza and waste
are in like fashion falling to the ground.
All the rest of the country will soon know
it as well as you know it in the District of
Columbia, where you have seen that the
only attempt to reduce expenditures has
been on items like that on streets where
by the growth of the nations capital will
be impeded, and like that on school books,
whereby are lessened the chances of edu-
cation of the children of the poor. Mean
while, the Republican party, emerging
from its temporary disaster, turns its shin
ing face to the future, now, as ever, the
one hope of progress of the people of the
United States. -