The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-09-09


neck and take your hand out Of my peck
ct Cheers and cries of hurrah! hur-
rahD
To live honestly, to hurt nobody, and
to render TO every man his dues, that Is
what the great law-giver. Blackstone,
sums up as the whole duty of good citi-
zen.
He was beginning to be a Democrat
when he wrote that line, aud that is the
creed in a nutshell
Democracy is as simple n creed rs the
Lords prayer, and il n man will especial
ly repeat that part of the Lord Prayer,
which says: Lord. lead me not into temp
tation, he will be in no danger OF getting
into the Third party or any other party.
tCheers) Two great inspirations,' my
fellow-ctizens, possess Democrats IN This
campaign The first is to avert n great
evil which is overshad0wing this lana;
the second is to secure certain great re-
forms in legislation which are essential
to the safety, TO the prosperity and TO the
progress of this people.
The great evil which we lit our voice
to avert from your heads is the Force
bill, of which my distinguished 1riehh
the Governor has spoken. The great re-
forms which we would seek 10 inaugu--
rate are simply these. The reduction OF
taxation that labor may eat the brehd
which il has earned The multiplication
of dollars that there may he more money
in this land. which finds the price OF lana
and the produce Of labor going down
the rich growing richer, end the poor
growing poorer And the third. the har,,
mOnizing Of all classes Of our people ana
Of all sections of our country in the broaG
Catholic spirit of American manhood ana
the American nationality
Glad TO SIZE THE BROOM.
was glad To see TINT flag rise upon
that pole tonight, and I was cspe 1&ily
gud to see the broom upon the top oi IL;
| venture to say that Grover CleVelond
has wished thousand times silce H.
went out of Office in lSSS th1t he had
used the broom little more. And ON
YOU know why he did not use itE n.y.
he had not leen married then. But ia,
las been married since and has learned
better. and ! viii ventur@ TO say tuae II
you will elect him again he viii MAKE Up
for lost time by sweeping the W tl,T
House clean and producing the 'irSt 81 ail
great reforms which Democrats want
that Of turning the other fellows our ah'
of putting the Democrats IN. iApplatS')
Now. my fellOw-citizens,I IN not Deino
crat according to the modern nOtion ~
civil service reform. ! do not helr' d.
law by which you can reform a nation;
It has got to be done in the. heart, a'd
Won will never have 10 reform unitsS
you first get the refOrmer, and you nave
not only got to have the reforlner in t'H'
White House. but you have got to Fave
him all the way up and all the way down.
and the doctrine of putting Dehocralo
on guard if YOU want Democratic prIh
ciples to be perpetuated. Inc only tu'liE
(lOUalnFs
that he did not turn out all the rasct S
when he had the opportunity. But lie
has brought forth fruits, meet for reprn
lance. and | will venture to say that I
YOU will thus give the old man another
chance he will not be idle in his business.
cumming UP THE ISSUES.
am not going to discuss all the issues
which are before you tonight. | am go
ing to try and sum up on few. helr
some of my fellow-citizens who are IN
clned towards the Third party say that
thew are tired of Democracy. mat
sounds very much like Republicanism,
because they have been tired of Demo
cracv for the last thirty years. and we
propose TO make them a little more
tired Of Democracy before we get
through with them And the reason
they say that they are tired or Demo
cracy is that the Democrats have nos
done anything.
Now stop. my friends, right, there. L
take issue with you as to the Demo
crafts not having done anything. But
in the first place | will remind you that
the Democrats have not yet had the op-
pOrtunity of performing their promises.
A man in the field cannot dig without
a hoe: carpenter must have his saw
and his plane; the finest artilerist III
the world cannot throw its ball through
the rank Of the enemy unless he have his
gun. For thirty-twO years the Democrats
have never had the power in the White
House. in the Senate and in the House
of Representatives mt the same time.
Now, it is not fair to blame man for
not doing anything when he has not had
the tools of his trade TO work with.
Archimides the great mechanician and
scientist of ancient days, said on one oc-
casion: '1f you will give me fulcrum
for my lever | will move the world. The
Democrats have never had fulcrum
or lever either. and if the world has
not moved in the right direction 1t has
been because the Republicans have held
the fulcrum and the lever, and have
moved it in their direction.
But | undertake to say that while De
moCracy has been in tie minority, yet II
has accomplished q great deal, and L
will undertake further to say that there
is not a Third party man in Virginia, or
q Third party man in the United States
who can look at any law upon the
statue books to day and say that law is
oppressive, who will not also acknow-
ledge that the Republican party was the
author Of that law. and that Democracy
protested and voted against 1t.
THE TOBACCO TAX.
Some of you say, my fellow-ctlZ lS,
that we ought to have had the tobacco
tnx repealed. but Democracy has never
done it. You don't know your history
when you say that. The Mills. bi.l Or
1855 did repsal the tobacco tax III Inc
House of Representatives. and the re-
healing clause died in the Republican
Senate whore il found the tomb of cabi-
nets to be buried In. All but says ny
farmer friend. we want free silver ard
the Democrats have not given 1t to 's.
AS long ago as the year 1878 the Demo-
Gratis had the Free Silver bill and Hu h
erford HAYES. the Republican President,
vetoed it.
All. but they say. we want relic
The Democrats in 1888 did reduce
the tariff in the Mills bill, and the reh-
son that the higher tax is upon you u
stead of the lower is because the X ~ 10
Icaps in the Senate vetoed the Mills bill,
and the benefits which Democrats hai
before awarded to you were anticlpa"'u
and cut off before its arrival. 80 men,
whatever there is in the law that you
complain of remember that the Repr0:'-
cans put it there. and whatever there Is
desirable in the law, but which you lave
not remembered. that so far as Democra-
II has hppn done. AMI TIE