The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-28

What One Year Of Democratic
Rule Has Accomplished
FRoM PROSPERITY TO MISERY.
The CsaR Addresses . YftssDarg nan
Qnes-Gsv. xleweY vssooo . D0Y
Before Passage.

PrrTRBrBs. April E.-fhs American
Repubsican CAB celebrated Grants birth
day By hsuque: tonight Thomas b.
Reed VAS the chisf speaker When he
arose Ne was rendered IN ovation His
address Vas inprosapsa, and IN part -
follows:
The last time had the gocd fortune 20
address this club this co1ntry vas IN .
plenty. capital Vas rejoicing "a rs p-oduc-
tive strength. and labor vas enjoying
the right 70 sell its services ~
prices which brought happiness and
comfort 20 All cur homes Tne thirty years
which had preceded had witnessed the
gradual and steady rise Of compensation
for services of both brain aud muscle. IN
III every days work was worth IN re-
suits twice what is had been worth
since the last domination Of this Union
oy southern statesmen and their primer
pies. So nrniy rooted seemed our pros-
per1fy that al our citizens thoaghs it
beyond the reach OF heat, cold and all
changes Of sun and weather AMI most men
felt IL Was beyond the touch OF even h1man
folly. Ii seemed To be beyond laws and
beyond politics. something inherent IN the
constitution Of things, something 10 De
calculates upon With unerring certainty.
Ike the riSe and ses Of the sun aud the
regular motion Of the planets and the
slsys. Ii 10 not that disorganired crowds
which seem 10 be aiming, bus IN an
aimless way, toward the capital Of the
nation: II Is not that mills are running On
half and quarter time and no time at all.
nor capital piled up unused at the ceaters
of trade. nor even labor Unemployed for
sad procession.
ITO me the sight most odicus of oil Is
the utter inability OF the people TO reach
their own instruments aad to compel the
fulhilment OF their own will. Here in
land where law by the people was fondiy
hoped 10 have found its sruess and
latest expression. the people seem power
To correct By sober reflection the mistake
the most thoughtless in American
history. the day when the present con-
gress and the present executive were
chosen 10 preside over the unhappy
citizens of the United States. Whatever
the majority may do. whatever exercise Of
right OF voting could do. had been done in
large and overlooking measure. Why
10 this, and what 10 the cause?
Ii left TO the tender mercies Of Northern
Democrats. / venture to say such
condition could not exist for single hour.
1t is beause We are under the dom.n ation,
l will not say of the South, bnt of South
ern men elected TO Office without
those safeguards which surround the
election of Northern Democrats. For the
sake of the South itself hope
10 see the mex. election bring Us
to an end OF this unseemiy domi-
nation. Ali the election laws have been
repealed, and the South. having been
set free from q fear which never had sound
foundation, will be left At liberty to decide
her destiny sccording TO her industrial
needs, which are the same as those of the
North. Instead of set of men who
represent the obsolete politics and prin-
ciples of dead generation, their success
ors, let W hope. will represent what the
North longs TO see-an industrial. prosper
Gus South. full OF the life Of . new
cnun1ry