The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-23
Over the Crushing Defeat of the
Incompetent Democracy.
IT WAS a PROJECTION v,crosY.
Aud Means. With Wise Leadership. a
Long Rule of Republicans.
me democrats Have Done Ev-rytatnw
fessahls to Destroy Their Partya
Grave Responsibility Rests ypsn ,hs
Republicans to Restore rrs.n.rt,x

l leading Republican organization of Mas
sachasetts. was held az the Mechanics,
building tonight Portraits OF MeKin.
ley, Garfield, Harrison. Hayes. Senator
Hoar, Thomas r. Reed and other
Republican lights hung about the place.
Upon the platform. beside the party form
ing the reception committee. we're Gen.
Russell A. Alger. Of Detroit, and Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. of BOSTON After
due attention had been devoted to tho
Vlands, Co., Clark arose and extended tha
cordial greetings OF the Home Market
| Club to the assembly. Col. Clark then in-
trodueea Gov. Greenhalgc. who extended
welcome TO the guests Tor the people of
Massachusetts,
Senator Hoar was the next speaker. Re-
ferring TO the recent election he said in
part:
This political victory of ours. this
victory in Kansas, In Vermont in Con-
neticutt and Massachusetts, is but the
victory OF the workingmsn."
When Thomas Il. Reed arose he was re-
ceived with an ovation that threatened TO
split the root. He was Obliged TO wait
several minutes before he could proceed.
He said.
Perhaps some of this great audiencs
VIII recollect that cast slight shade OF
am afraid IL may be the same this eveu-
ing. Yet | have just one reason more
than the rest of you for rejoicing.
The result shows that there Is
in me the prophetic instinct, not
so fully developed as / could wish.
but still valuable. Once during tho last
session oil congress-. when the plans Of the
Democracy had been developed, | yentured
To say to the leaders that when the people
OF this country got ut them in November
of this year they would bury them
In trenches. Thls was nearly true.
but there was a slight inaccuracv.
| should have said that We would
bury them in trenches until the SUNNY of
trenches gave out. We could not bury
them all. and notice that some ghosts of
unburied bodies have even reached Boston
and are still hoarsely murmaring about
free raw materials and foreign mar
kets and such like topics of tho
under world. And how richly
they have deserved their fate.
these statesmen of the proud promise and
the paltry fulfillmenti Did IL ever occur
to you that If the brightest men among
you had placed before him March 4.
1854, sheet Of white paper aud had been
told to write down ali the fool.
ish things no would have liked
TO have the enemy do in order
20 compass their own destruction, he
would have left out 50 per cent of what
they actually did? Is there any one of
you that would have dreamed of that
which your Massachusetts Democratic
convention called the firm and vigorous
policy of the administration Could anv
one of you have thought of that letter
To Wilson and ITS railing accusa-
tions1 Did any of you ever
picture the chairman of the ways aud
means committee with his knees under
British mahogany. receiving the plaudits
of our business rivals for the good service
ai ter erR nd ha rvfa
pected7 Did you ever think of David II.
Hill candidate for governor Of
New York, and as necessary con-
sequence an unresident and homeless
PRESIDENT Had you anywhere hung in
the chambers of fancy the picture OF .
head without party aud party without
a headG Could yon have imagined that
after ell the warnings which rang out
from all the industrial states. at the elee-
tions which you celebrated year ago,
that those men would have gone on 10
cruelty American industry for another
yaar7
victories bring responsibilities, aud, as
| have pointed out to you. our victory 10
so great that 1t probably means RESPONSE
bllity for many years. OF these many
years shall not now speak. IL 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 tbs
country try the result OF its folly Of 1902
We shall have two years to lock over tha
situation. so as 10 do the best we can when
our time has fully come. 50 far We have
done all in our power. The bad work can
not go on, even II the good WORK cannot
commence.
Of protection. largely in favor Of IL.
Everything shows this. and no man whose
brains are not suffering from recent
coucussion with the heels can think
otherwise When Mr.. Cleveland.
for private. personal and political
reasons, threw into the scale the whole
organization Of the Democratic party. he
Was defeated before the people at the frat
opportunIty III anybody believes that
the Democratic platform was indorssd
by the election OF iss2 hs has no
fellowship With the president or the
chairman Of the ways and means.
for neither Of them dared To even
attempt TO carry IL ont. IL may bs that at
the last election hard times caused irFa-
tionai voting; II may be that disgust a.
the inter inesilcieney Of the Democracy 40
rulers played no small part. but the faes
remains that the oysrw hslming victory ws
have had vas victory for protection, the
trm faithlof the American people.
What We need now is not general be-
lief In our doctrines. We need the teach-
ing which comes from practical rssulta
~ e EGHI utNhEA0IklOu DA kUo iACks. ~ HeH
1 say 10 you that protection wilt cheapsn
goods and make better goods you Eaay
Weld assent. but it may not -
a 6ghting faith. But when / show
By facsa and figures that ground
glass. for example, though raised 100 per
cent. by the Mckinley tariff has reached
a.fnoss the same price as before. and the
consumer gets glass WORTH - per cent
more and every inch Of 1t made By Amers-
csu labor, / show something that Is an
syer-psssent answer 70 al the theories os
the world.
"Durinz the next twenty years this
couatry needs the help OF every man who
has the slightest Dorsel Of truth in hls
possession. Way do / insist on thist
Because the stream cannot rise higher
than the sonrce. If we had an absolnts
despoiie monarch. could we hope for
laws which would DO better than
he knewf Who is our ruler? The
sovereign people % the United states.
more dsspotic Than any monarch that ever
sat on a thr0sn. Now, it Is not rossibls
80 have Laws more sensible than the peo-
pie are. We have had mighty victory,
the greatest ia the history Of our country.
Is vas won not BY our organization.
bat by our principles. But great 40
oar victory IL. there is a greater
uhieh as must win. by our wisdom.
moderation and good sense we mnss -
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