The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-23

Boston, Nov. 22.-The annual ban
hquet of the Home Market club, of Bos-
ton, the leading Republican organiza-
ton Of Massachusetts, was held at
Mechanics building tonight.
Portraits of Mckinley, Garfield. Har-
rison, Hayes. Senator Hoar, Thomas
B. Reed, and other Republican lights
hung about the place.
Upon the platform, besides the party
forming the reception committee. were
General Russell Alger, of Detroit, and
Rev. Edward Hale, of Boston.
After due attention had been de-
voted to the viands, Colonel Clark
arose and extended cordial greetings
of the Home Market club to the as
sembly. Colonel Clark then introduced
Governor Greenhalge, who extended
a welcome to the guests for the people
of Massachusetts,.
Senator George F. Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts, was the next speaker. Refer
ring TO the recent election he said,
in part.
This political victory Of ours, this
victory in Kansas, in Vermont, in Con-
nect;cut and Massachusetts,, is but the
victory of the work1nen. 1t is the vic
tory of the farm house and workshop.
of men who perform a work in this
republic ITO which these gentlemen of
tariff reform leagues are total Strang-
ers.'
.'I Am a Prophet"
When Thomas B. Reed rose he was
received with an ovation that threat
ened to split the roof. He was obliged
to wait several minutes before he could
proceed. He said:
perhaps some of this great audience
will recollect that L cast slight shade
of soberness over your dinner last year,
and [ am afraid it may be the same
this evening. Yet | have Just one rea-
son more than the rest of you for re-
jofcing. The result shows that there
is in me the prophetic instincts not
so fully developed as I could wish, but
session of Congress, when the plans
of Democracy had been developed, L
ventured to say to the leaders that
when the people of this country got at
them in November of this year they
would bury them in trenches. This was
nearly true, but there was slight in
accuracy. l should have said that we
would bury them in trenches until the
supply of trenches gave out. We could
not bury them all, and I notice some
ghosts of unburied bodies, TO and fro
fitting, buriallesS save in the vulture's
craW,' have even reached Boston, and
are still hoarseiy murmuring about free
raw materials, and foreign markets and
SUCH like topics of the under word.
And how richly they have deserved
their fate, these statesmen of the
proud promise and the paltry fulfil
ment.
A Cry of .syVoIfy
Did it ever occur to you that if the
brightest man among you had placed
before him on March 4, 1S9+, a sheet of
white paper and had been told to write
down all the foolish things he would
have liked to have the enemy do in
order to compass their own destruc-
ton, he would have left out so per cent.
that they actually did? Is there anyone
of you that would have dreamed of
that which your Massachusetts, Demo-
cratic convention called the firm and
vigorous policy of the administration?
Could any one of you have thought
of that letter to Wilson and its railing
accusations? Did anyone of you ever
picture the chairman OF the ways and
means committee with his knees under
British mahogany, receiving the plaud-
its Of our business rivals for good SER
vice already rendered and better SER
vice eApSCISu 1luu you ever LINK OIL
David B. Hill as candidate for COVER
nor of New York, and as a necessary
consequence. a nonresident and home
less president? Had you anywhere
hung in the chambers of fancy the
picture Of a head without a party, and
a party without a head? Could you
have imagined that, after all the warn
ings which rung out from all the in
dustrial states at the elections which
You celebrated year ago, those men
would have gone on to cruelty Aneri-
can industry for another year?
Hope Against Hope.
victories brings responsibilities and
as l have pointed out to you, our vic
tory is so great that it probably means
responsibility for many years. OF these
many years 1 shall not now speak. If
we have wisdom for two years, we will
be trusted more, and the wisdom Of the
next two years seems to be easy. We
have neither the president nor the
Senate, and all we can do is to let the
country try the result Of the folly of
1892. We shall have two years to look
over this situation, SO as to do the best
we can when our time has fully come.
So far, we have done all that lay in
our power The bad work cannot go
on, even if the good work cannot conn
mence. WE have removed one uncer-
I2lnIy, Inat OF the future. Inc uncer-
tainty of possible change, but the I'M
certainty of the present still remains
This country is in favor of the doc
trine of protection-largel in favor of
it. Everything shows this, and no
man whose brains are not suffering
from recent conclusion from the heels,
can think otherwise. When Mr.. Cleve-
land, for private, personal and polite
al reasons, threw into the scale the
whole organization of the Democratic
party, he was defeated before the peo-
pie at the first opportunity If any
body believes that the Demo-
cratic platform was endorsed
by the election of 1892 he has no fell
lowship with the president or the
chairman Of the ways and means com
mittee, for neither of them dared to
either attempt to carry 1t out It may
be that at the last election hard times
caused irrational voting; it may be i
that disgust at the utter inefficiency Of
the Democracy as a rule played no
small parts, but the fact remains the
overwhelming victory we have had
was a victory for protection, as the
firm faith of the American people.
Ground Glass and Tariff.
What we want now is not general