The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-18
THE DEMOCRACY.
An Eloquent and Stirring Campaign
Document.
Address of President Chauncy F. Black tc
the Pennsylvania Democratic
Societies.

dent Stevenson was present with a
number of prominent men of the party
from various points. Ex-Lieutenant-
Governor c. F. Black who is president
| of the national and state Democratic
associations and a good friend to
Utah, delivered the following address,
which we take from the York Gazette:
Gentlemen of the General Assembly:
! 1t is with feeling of intense pride
that call to order this, the fifth an
nual general assembly of the Demo
cratic societies. of Pennsylvania. Since
the institution of this purely Demo-
cratic organization by the state con-
vention of Democratic clubs, in 1888,
you have entrusted me and my hon
ored associate, our rarely efficient Sec
rotary, with its executive management
under the general direction of your
principal committee. For the gen
erous Import we have enjoyed, for the
unbroken harmony which has pre-
vailed among us for the remarkable
growth of the organization, and for
the very valuable services it has been
enabled to render we must acknowl-
edge our Indebtedness to the noble
spirit of the rank and file of the De-
mocracy of this state. They have
frowned upon faction; they have toll
Grated no selfish political intrigues;
they have enforced harmony and they
have looked forward with hope, cour-
age and mutual confidence in each
other, to the complete ultimate tri-
umph of the principles of our death
less party, Notwithstanding the adj
verse circumstances, which usually
confront us in this state. need hardly
say that in all these years the Demo
cratic societies have received the most
generous encouragement of our state
committee and our national commit
tee, and especially has this been the
case under our present national chair
man, under whose steady guidance,
and in large measure in consequence
of it, the signal victory in 1892 was ac-
complished.
The circumstances under which we
assemble here today are such as to in
spire every Democrat in Pennsylvania
to his utmost exertion. No state in
the union has a larger stake in the
re-establishment Of Democratic poll
cies than has Pennsylvania, with hen
vast resources and diversified indus
tries. We have suffered more than
any other from unequal laws and cor
rupt misgovernment, and our people
have every conceivable reason and in
centive to overthrow finally, within
the limits of this commonwealth, the
party which has SO long abused and
plundered the masses for the benefit
of the classes. It is but a question Of
time. At the core and at the bottom,
Pennsylvania is Democratic. Liberate,
by the institution of truly secret
ballot, the hundreds of thousands Of
honest and enlightened voters, depen-
dent for the opportunity to earn their
bread upon the favored miring, manu-
featuring and transportation corpora
tons of this state-destroying at the
same time the power of money in cleo
tions-and there would never be an
other conflict worth speaking of be-
tween the monopolies and the people
Of Pennsylvania.
We are bound at all events to gain
by the continuous and permanent ad-
vance of the party elsewhere. The
time is. here, when New England and
the great west and the restored south
put their tpreemptory veto upon the
policy, whicssarobs the farm, the work
shop and the home to gorge the treas
uries of the monopolies. A revision of
the tariff on constitutional lines-the
restoration. of a sound currency of
gold and silyer-when the laboring man
shall receive his wage in money worth
! its face-in accordance with last year S
Chicago and this years Harrisburg
platforms will reduce the protected
few, whose means have hitherto been
poured out to protect their special
privileges, to the common level of
ourselves and atl1e masses of the people.
This alone will aid beyond calculation
the Democracy of Pennsylvania in it's
| future struggles for the legislative
and executive power of this common
wealth, and, with them the opportu-
nifty TO correct the fragrant abuses
which have prevailed through
thirty years of almost continuous
Republican rule. Surrounded as we
are by the great free states Of New
York, New Jersey and Maryland, with
their Democratic governors and legis-
latures, and Ohio about to complete
the circle, why should we, with in
even deeper interest in the result, des-
pair of an early change of similar
character? We have here with US,
bidding us hope and fight, some of the
most distinguished leaders of our
party, including the vice-president,
publican state of Illinois was, but last
year, led a splendid captive into the
Expanding and conquering train of
! American Democracy.
| Never before has the opportunity of
the Democratic party on the federal
! field been greater or palmer. Happily
the president, although a Democrat of
Democrats by conviction and princi-
| pie, is the universally accepted chief
magistrate of his country, even more
than that he is the official leader of his
party. Three times the nominee of his
party and twice elected, he comes to
the presidency under circumstances
which place his opportunity of national
service practically without limit in any
| direction.
Many very clever politicians doubted
the possibility of Mr.. Cleveland's cleo
ton in 1892. Some of these favored his
nomination, nevertheless, believing it
would be better in the long run to fail
under statesman SO sound and pure,
than to succeed under a candidate
nominated for mere availability. Others
still so dreaded the abuses of contin-
ued federalist misrule were so i'm
pressed with the dangers of further
corrupt misconstruction of the consti-
tuition, of lavish expenditures, of boun-
ties and subsidies, to be maintained bv
the prevailing system of unequal taxes.
crushing many and enriching some.
that Notwithstanding natural prefer
ence for the candidacy of our greatest
and trueSt man, they were ready to
adopt any expedient which promised
success. Among those who doubted, it
seems was Mr.. Cleveland himself.
There was at least one expression from
him in the spring of 1892 which indi-
Gated serious misgivings as to his own
availability, coupled with very
pointed intimation TO his followers that
they should be quite sure of their abil-
! ity to elect before they rushed into the
nomination And nothing contributed
more to his strength with the people
than this conscientious subordination