Morning journal and courier., 1892-11-02
From ALI quarters.
CLOSING Up TIE RANKS.
Another Speech by Grover
Cleveland.
CANADIANS FL0CkING over HERE.
Details of the Wreck of the
W. A. Campbell.
MORE OYSTER Pirates CAPTURED.
Death Of Twenty-Five Peo-
pie in a Panic.
MIR. CLEVELAND SPEAKS

Three Thousand ConRressman
Breckenridge Also Makes an Ad-
dress.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Grover Cleveland
spoke before the Business Mems Demo-
| cratic association tonight in Lenox
lyceum. The audience numbered about
$500, and the two tiers of boxes were &C.
cupied mainly by women. The hall was
handsomely draped and Cappa's Seventh
regiment band furnished music. When
Joseph J. O'Donohue escorted the ex-
president to the platform, Mr.. Cleveland
was enthusiastically cheered again and
again. Men waived their hats and small
American flags futtered from the hands of
the ladies. Mr.. Cleveland bowed repeatedly
in acknowledgement. The cheering was
renewed vociferously when J. Edward
Simmons, president of the association, in
troduced the ex- president, who said:
Fellow citizens: We have nearly reached
the last hours of discussion in a campaign
characterized by many unusual features
and incidents. I venture the assertion
that never in the recollection of anyone
hele present has a presidential canvas
been carried on with such lack of noises
and excitement and in such an apparent
atmosphere of popular thoughtfulness. If
this is actually the condition, and If our
voters are really thoughtful, it should be
cause of congratulation on the part of
every citizen; for it must be that sober de-
liberation in the exercise of the right of
suffrage is the foundation of our hope
for national perspicuity. None of us can
complain of political result which repre-
sents the conscientious and clear convic-
tons of a majority of our people.
When these convictions prevail 1t
is the misfortune or fault of a party If 1t
is defeated because the principles 1t ad-
vocates are not understood by our voters,
or if understood are not accepted. If we
assume that the quiet of this campaign is
attributed to thoughtfulness among our
people and deliberate sense of patriotic
duty in the exercise of their SURFACES,
there would seem to be no place for fear
or misgiving as to the result which most
of those who support democratic princi-
pies expect. In exactly the form they are
involved in the present campaign these
principles were presented to the
voters of the country and received their
endorsement by a tremendous majority;
since then the difference of public
the doctrines opposed to ours have been
more than ever discredited. 1t must
be conceded, too, that the intelli-
gent and disinterested men who
have left the ranks of our opponents
and Joined our stand are exceptionally
numerous and influential The fact that
with all these things in our favor we are
still not absolutely sure of success would
be startling if we did not know the des-
perats and disreputable methods which
confront us. Our opponents, vanquished
in every argument worthy of presentation
to the reason of our cocntrymen, have ap-
pealed to their passions and prejudioss
through the distribution of the most i'm
pudent lies concerning the record and ao-
ton of our party and its candidates. This,
however, ia not their main reliance nor is
it our greatest danger. 1t is confession
most humiliating to American citizenship
that with a cause so thoroughly entrenohed
in reason and commencing itself so clearly
to the intelligence of patriotic Americans
We daily hear predictions of republican
success, based upon the ability of
that party to purchase the votes of
the people. A little reflection, it seems to
me, cannot fail to arouse the American
conscience to the wickedness as well as to
the peril of debauched suffrage. 1t is
plain proposition that our government is
only true to the principles upon which it
rests when in it's operation it represents
the honest and intelligent sentiments of the
people, When it does not its vigor and its
very life are gone and it remains but the
mere semblance of free government-the
weakest and most deformed plan of rule
that ever deluded mankind. 1t can then
no longer defend the rights of all, because
rights will be forgotten in the capricious
bestowal of favors. 1t will then no longer
be the proud manifestation of the strength
and virtue of free people, because 1t will
l. So
! and sslishness. Who of all those who be-
| lieve our government was created to
bless American people and mankind will
deny that the corruption of our stuff rage
paves the way to these conditions. The
| time has surely come when those who see
| the beginning of this corruption should
look beyond it and beneath it in an
endeavor to discover the source of our
danger and the forces which give it deadly
strength. 1t has its source in the per-
version of our government to the further
ance of limited and special interests, and
| in the invitation thus extended to antici-
pate a continuance of governmental favor
In compensation for partisan support. The
forces behind it were greed and sel6shness,
willing to prostitute the suffrage of the
people to pecuniary gain. In the light of
these considerations there is nothing un-
natural in the situation of the pending
canvass. When our countrymen yield to
temptation and turn their backs upon the
broad and disinterested patriotism that
should characterize their citizenship, and
when they reach the point where they are
willing to subordinate political duty to
business gain it is a short step to active
participation in schemes of corruption
having for their object the retention in
power of the party by which unearned
business profits are promised. The move
ment begins with the corruption by means
of these promises Of the beneiciaries
themselves. They are thereafter willing
instruments for the corruption of others,
instigated to activity by an obligation to
aid the party which has favored them and
stimulated by the expectation of furthe,
especial benefits. This deal between po-
litical party and a private enterprise, by
which governmental aid is promised ir
exchange for partisan support, is covered
by the prete1t of care for the business
interests of the country. While we really
concede the Importance of these interests
and while we hold that no polit
ioal party should be unmindful of them
or needless of their prosperity, We insis
, that no plea for their promotion shall b.
!, used to justify political methods whiol
| andonoar the bene6oence of onr inatitu