Connecticut western news., 1892-07-28
PUBLICLY NOTIFIED.
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS CHEER
 THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

NEW YORK, July 21.-The first decisive Eun of the Democratic campaign of 1899 was touched off last night in Madison Square garden in the presence of a vast as- semblage. The huge auditorium was packed from pit to dome with 10000 persons. The occasion that brought this vast throng to- gether was the notification ceremonies of the two great leaders of the Democratic party-Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Ste venson.
 The platform had a seating capacity for 750 persons, but it had QUO on it before the central figures, in one of the most brilliant tableaux New York has seen in many months, appeared. Mrs. Cleveland and this gave the crowd a chance to give vent to some of their pent up enthusiasm. Quiet had scarcely been restored when 8 mighty chorus of cheers broke out, and there was a universal waving of hands and arms, hats, handkerchiefs and fans. Then John M. Bowers, escorting Adlai B. Steven son, appeared. Mir Stevenson gracefully acknowledged the plaudits with bow.
 The concert pitch of enthusiasm was struck when, surrounded by group of not able men, the leader of the Democracy and of tariff reform made his way to the front of the platform. The cheering and plaudits that had gone before were as nothing compared to the ovation rendered Mir. Cleveland, who looked impressed with the magnitude of the gathering and the won- drous scene it presented as each and every man and woman stood on their feet ap- plauding in the most enthusiastic manner. He bowed his thanks again and again, but the din and poiae c0utinued for many min utes, and the secretary of the notification committee, Nicholas Nj. Bell, finally arose in despair and entreated the crowd to be silent. It was, however, fruitless task, and nothing was left but to begin the exer- cises. Colonel Wilson, of West Virginia, approached the rostrum and Grover Cleve- land rose to listen to the speech of notifca- tion.
 Hon. Nicholas M Bell then read the let ter of notification from the notification meeting. The crowd, when the Democratic standard bearer stepped forward to make response, again lost control of their enthu- siasm. The din was deafening and long sustained. Finally Mir. Cleveland began to speak and the storm suddenly abated. He was listened to thereafter with much atten- tion, and plaudits only came when bis utter ances pleased his hearers.
 
 MR- CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN-The mes sage you deliver from the national Democracy arouses within emotions which would be well nigh overwhelming if did not recognize here assembled the representatives of 8 great party who must share with me the responsibil- ity your mission invites. 1 find much relief in the reflection that have been selected merely to stand for the principles and purposes to which my party is pledged, and for the en- forcement and supremacy of which all who have any right to claim Democratic fellowship must constantly and consistently labor. Never has a great party, intent upon the promotion of right and justice, had better in centive for effort than is now presented to us. Turning our eyes to the plain people of the land we them burdened consumers with 8 tariff system that unjustly and relentlessly de- mands from them in the purchase of the neces- saries and comforts of life an amount scarcely met by the wages of hard and steady toll, while the exactions thus wrung from them build up and increase the fortunes of those for whose benefit this injustice is perpetuated. We see the farmer listening to delusive story that fills his mind with visions of advantage, while his pocket is robbed by the stealthy hand of high protection.
 Our workingmen are still told the tale, oft re- peated in spite of its demonstrated fasity, that the existing protective tariff is boon to them, and that under its benehcent operation their | wages must increase-while as they listen scenes are enacted in the very abiding place of nlSn prOUectlOn LnAt mOck the hopes or tOl and attest the tender mercy the workingman re- | ceives from those made selfish and sordid by | unjust governmental favoritism. We oppose | earnestly and stubbornly the theory upon which our opponents seek to justify and uphold | existing tariff laws. We need not base our at | tack upon questions of constitutional permis- | sion or legislative power. We denounce this | theory upon the highest possible ground when | we contend that in present conditions it's opera tion is unjust, and that laws enacted in accord
 ance with it are inequitable and unfair. workingmen and the Tarin. Ours is not destructive party. We are not
 at enmity with the rights of any of our citi zens. All are our countrymen. We are not | recklessly needless of any American interests, | nor will we abandon our regard for them; but | invoking the love of fairness and justice which belongs to true Americanism, and upon which our constitution rests, we insist that no plan | of tariff legislation shall be tolerated which | has for its object and purpose a forced contri- | button from the earnings and income of the mass of our citizens to swell directly the ac- cumulations of favored few; will we
 permit pretended solicitude for American | labor or any other spacious pretext of benev- | olent care for others to blind the eyes of the | people to the selfish schemes of those who seek | through the aid of unequal tariff laws to gain | unearned and unreasonable advantages at the | expense of their fellows
 | We have also assumed in our covenant with | those whose support we invite the duty of op- | posing to the death another avowed scheme oi
 our adversaries which, under the guise of pro | tecting the suffrage, covers but does not con | ceal design thereby to perpetuate the power | of party afraid to trust it's continuance to the
 untrameled and intelligent votes of the Amer | ican people.
 l We are pledged to resist the legislation in | tended to complete this scheme, because we | have not forgotten the saturnalia of theft and | brutal control which followed another federal | regulation of state suffrage; because we know | that the managers of a party which did not | scruple to rob the people of president would | not hesitate to use the machinery created by | such legislation to revive corrupt instrumen | talities for partisan purposes; because an at | tempt to force such legislation would rekindle | animosities where peace and hopefulness now | prevail; because such an attempt would replace | prosperous activity with discouragement and | dread throughout a large section of our coun
 try, and would menace everywhere in the land Ythe rights reserved to the states and to the
 leople which underlie the safeguards of Amer | ican liberty.
 | cannot, therefore, forbear reminding you
 and all those attached to the Democratic party l or supporting the principles which we profess
 that defeat in the pending campaign, followed | by the consummation of the legislative schemes
 our opponents contemplate and accompanied | Dy such other incidents Of their success as | might more firmly fix their power, would pre- | sent most discouraging outlook for future | Democratic supremacy and for the accom- | plishment of the objects we have at heart | Moreover, every sincere Democrat must be
 lieve that the interests of his country are deep | ly involved in the victory of party in the
 struggle that awaits us. Thus patriotic solici
 tude exalts the hope of partisanship and should | intensity our determination to win success
 h only remains for me to say to you, in ad
 vance Of a more folsoal response to your mes
 sag,s that l obey the command of my party
 an'! confidently anticipate that an intelligent
 and earnest presentation of our cause will in.
 sure popular Endorsement of the action of
 the body you represent.
 There was one more burst of concluding
 applause as Grover Cleveland took his seat,
 and then came the speech of notification,
 made by Stephen NJ. White, of California,
 to Adlai E. Stevenson.