The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-20

has got that power because on the whole it
is on the Lords side. | say on the whole,
because the republican party average,
would have said ten years ago, is not as
high as it ought to be for the good of the
world; but | don't say so to-day, because
realize one great fact, and that is that the
republican party has got to do two duties;
the first is to go ahead itself, and the second
is to drag the democratic party up to where
it was itself the last year, and the one duty
is just as imperative AS the other. l am not
testing about this. | am talking to you
sober truth. We have got to have the hui
man race together. Don't you see we can
not go off and leave the democratic party
on a desert island? We have got to take
them along, and in order to take them along
we have got to allow them to catch up with
us. We have got to get them into our last
years camp. We have got to utilize them
as rear guard. Human beings are SO
closely connected to each other, they are so
acted upon by each other, we cannot afford
to leave them behind us. We cannot afford
to allow any portion of humanity to fail to
understand the great idea of progress. Now,
men are differently constituted, and it is
that difference in constitution that divides
parties. One set of men have got sound,
foreseeing, imaginative minds. They can
tell how a thing looks before it is made.
The other set cannot tell how it looks until
after it is made aud they have touched it.
That is why the republican party has to go
ahead and manufacture the article, in order
that by an object lesson they may bring the
democratic party up to where they were be-
fore the manufacture. Laughter.
" Now let me illustrate, just as / did in
Rhode Island. Tremendous applause. l
remember riding, years ago, when the bicy-
Gle first came into use, and by and by
came across a fellow on bicycle, and the
horse began to teeter up and down, and in
. hat ntNlnn 1Nai,
naturally timid, [laughter] but the fellow
that was on the bicycle had sense, and he
got off of his bicycle, and the horse began to
trOt in regular fashion and all was right
Now, you see that horse understood wheel
and he understood man, but he had not
got the combination. Laughter That is
just the way with the democratic party
Whenever a new idea is introduced, it be-
gins to teeter up and down and it utters
vociferous cries, but by and by, Just as
horses have learned about bicycles and the
man and the combination, in just that way
the democratic party begins to quiet down
They begin to say that it is not so fearful as
we were talking about it, last election. The
Mckinley bill has not brought us to ruin as
we thought it would Why, they actually
thought they were going to Jail then, but
they have got quoted down and now they
don't talk much about it.
" But, gentlemen, | came here, as | said
not as duty, but as a pleasure. do not
believe that the republican party needs to
fear defeat in the next election | believe
that a good, strong, honest effort on our
part will redeem the past, and | believe
that that effort is going to be made for the
reason that this country is becoming every
day more prosperous, and that prosperity
can only be made sure by firm adherence to
the principles OF the republican party. The
republican party is not only progressive but
il is honestly conservative also. 1t is pro-
gressve in that it believes that the world is
not yet finished 1t is conservative in that
it takes no step forward without fully
knowing what that step means-only after
full consultation with the people is anything
done, for the republican party believes in
the average sense of the people of the United
States. 1t has no foolish ideas about the
government of the world by its wisest men.
1t believes in the government of the world by
the average sense of its citizens; it believes
thatthe world can 90 on better where the laws
which are to be adapted to us all are made
by the wisdom of us all 1t is conservative
because it represents the staid, solid sense
of humanity, that which has been dignitied
by centuries as the wisest sense, namely,
the good old common-sense. That is the
faith of the republican party. 1t does not
talk to you about Thomas Jefferson or An
drew Jackson or dead patriots. 1t talks to
doris of a glorious future"
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Reeds remarks
she State Convention finally adjourned.