The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-27
BREoK1NR1DaE ON THE STUMP.
The Congressman Given a Rousing
81. =, Welcome at LAGRANGE.

:5. =. Welcome at LAGRANGE.
Lexington, Ky, May 26.-Col. Breckin.
ridge arrived at LAGRANGE at IL O'Clock
this morning and was met at the depot by
Capt, j. r. Adams, clerk of Oldham
county. He was taken to the home
of j. w. RUSSELL who gave splendid
reception to the Ashland congress
man. He kept open house and enter
tanned Col. Breckenridge and his friends
in royal manner. After an elegant Ken
tucky dinner had been partaken of, Col.
BrcckinTidge went to the court house,
which was filed to overlooking, half the
voters of the county being present.
At2:30 O'CLOCK he began his speech,
and spoke for over an hour, amid the
widest applause. He began bv stating
that he had come from Washington to
speak to his friends in Oldham county.
They were his friends, and they were his
brothers. They had honored him in the
past, and for that he was deeply CRATE
full, In his ten years of service as their
representative there never. was time
when he had not tried to serve them to
the best of his ability.
WEARS NO MANS COLLAR.
At the same time, he wore no mans
collar anu said that he was an enemy of
all kinds of jobs. For this he was de-
ties ed ana hated by the monopolists. and
in this way he had earned the ill will and
hostility of the high protection tariff men
Whatever of ability and success he had
achieved in had been done in the name
of the people of the Ash
land district, His words, no matter
how stammering, were always listened to
because he was the representative of a
great people, theSefore his words always
had weight, However eloquent NAV be
the ambassadors of petty African
king, their words would not have the
weight of stammering Moses who repre-
sented egreat Jehovah. He did not come
as beggar, pleading for votes, he did not
come as pauper asking their help, but
he came as the representative of the peo-
pie to render an account of his services
and 10 ask at their hands if they saw fit
to give 1t to him, renewal of their conf
dence. He knew that there was work in
life for him to do, whether in or out of
congress, and IT. was for the people of
his district to say whether or not it
should be as their representative.
THE ACTION AT FRANKFORT.
The action of the democratic conven-
ton in Frankfort yesterday was no sur.
prise to him, as he knew beforehand
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close representative of the people it was
natural that the committee should act as
itdid. For the nearer you come to the
great, pulsing, throbbing heart of the
people, the nearer you come to the truth
and right, and when they determine
on what is to be done no party machinery
can thwart them, and no power of parry
machinery can force them TO do that
which is against the will of the. people
Whenever the people are in conflict with
the machine it is that much worse for the
machine.
Mr., breckenridge then reviewed his
services in congress and spoke of his aC-
yocacy of pilden, Hancock and Cleveland.
He said that after the election of Presi-
dent Cleveland for the first time the
Democratic party presented the spectacle
of being unaele to support its principles,
but il gave an outline of what it was bile
to do. The pra tical failure of that ad-
ministration proved disastrous to the
party and b foresaw its defeat in 1883.
Notwithstanding the courageous letter of
Mr.. Cleveland, who, in the face of that
defeat, dared to promulgate the doctrines
of the Democratic party on tariff reform.
On the very Gay the lightning flashed the
story of Mr.. Cleveland's defeat to Wash
ington, he pledged to Mr.. Cleveland his
support four years from that time. He
told how he talked to the people
of seventeen different states. educating
them up 10 the idea of tariff reform, and
how this education had caused the people
to tripmp hant ly elect Mr. Cleveland for
second term. He appealed to the people
of the district as to whether be should go
back or not-whether they would send
him without outside interference or intu-
ence. At this point voice in the crowd
shouted The Courier-Journal can't beat
YOU" This raised perfect storm of APP
plause, and when it subsidized Col.
Breckenridge said: They tell YOU that
Charles Stewart Parnell was turned out
of parliament. Can anybody give the
name of his successor2" This really
brought down the house, and, for five
minutes, unrestrained enthusiasm held
complete sway.
The speaker then referred to his war
record in such touching manner that
many of the old confederate soldiers
present shed tears. He never referred
to the preachers nor to the newspapers.
After the speaking he was detained for
twenty minutes shaking hands with the
people who crowded around him.
Tonight he spoke at Emiuence, and
Monday he win address his constituents
at Owenton.