Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-25

greatest American presidents, Benjamin
Harrison, Great applause), was by the de-
cree Of the American people voted out of
poyer and a Democratic administration
voted In. So that for nearly nineteen
poths the Democratic party had been in
Supreme control of every branch of the
Federal government; and for the greater
part Of that time 1t has been engaged in
revising the tariff.
People Anxious to Pass judgment.
During this long period, while 1t is only
nineteen months, they are the longest nine
teen months since the war (great %applause).
The people have had an opportunity for
sober reflection. steadied by the discipline
Of adversely. And as they have had little
else to occupy them. they have employed
most Of that time in sober. serious refiec-
ton. Even congress must have observed
that the people have revised their opinions
and that they were not SO long in revising
their views as the Democratic z
and the preservation Of the Union. | come
tonight very much jaded from a dozen or
was In revising the tariff; and that they
are to-day burning with anxiety from one
end OF this country to the other to pass
judgment upon a Democratic president and
Democratic congress. We have been at
school now for nearly two years. The
tuition has been free but the ultimate cost
has been very great. II has been a sort Of
compulsory education from which nobody
has been excluded Qaughter), and While il
has been expensive l feel that it's lessons
nave been practicable, profitable n per-
nanent.
Great Resnlsson Of Sentiment.
For, after ali. one of the highest forms
81 education Is experience. and il is the
most efficient and enduring Of all forms OF
nQfT1nfGnn Tho AarlN 49, 49, -
ing, and those who have not been thinking
have been feeling Qaughter)-feeling the
stress OF the hard times wrought by the
great enange. Even the eyes of blinded
parusans have been opened. and those who
atnerlo nave never seen any good in the
republican party, and who have repeatedly
wted It's policy a fraud and a robbery, and
~ the eliminating a~trocity Of class
Nssialion, are now ready for q re-
consideration and a change. ZAP
pause) Those for the most part
WHO voted for the change. and those who
,Veo against the change, have been re-
seuui and unhappy ever since. There
p.uoaoly has never been in the history
a this country such a revulsion in public
s.nument In so short a while as in the
=. TWO years. Beaten in almost every
sAe IN the Union in 1892, the Republican
sa'! never Tor e moment lowered its ban
80 tApplause.) 1t valued its principles
~ resi- IN defeat than in victory, for they
80 not invoked to serve in a single
,@mpalgn; they were invoked because they
,,sto u upon the foundations of truth and
naoa,S' lot the benefit Of the American
peOpie. Applause.)
STORY of Last Years Elections.
ara so in 1893 where elections were
W. we resumed battle on the old lines.
neon, appealed from the judgment of the
ths "a iSs2 to the revised judgment Of
chm same tribunal in 1893: and in Massa-
eorsesa' that great, strong, intelligent.
elsc.as commonwealth, that had
es.s,e a democratic governor FOR two sue
sso.ss terms, the Democratic governor
Of nv IN 1892 was displaced, by the voice
puh,,e. people OF Massachusetts, with a Re-
W. Applause.)
anu iowa, which had a Democratic gov
rsrsr, .he voice of the people in 1893
Gov It's former judgment and elected
5000 onson by a majority OF more than
rven tappiause.) In Ohio. which had
plura,,,put htsie more thar a thousand
moved IN 1892, its people having been
mn uy passion and by prejudice, after
lea rn reconsideration, gave TO the Repub-
Ann. ucket more than $4,000 plurality.
Yors ase) Then in the state OF New
eonSra ~ q special election held in two
NJ sfessional districts in that great city,
slec,sSau isg' the Republican candidate, was
In : ny more than a thousand majority.
Clev., district that had given President
pausea $500 majority in 1892. CAP
ID ths IN the other congressional district.
u Tsmmy ~strongholds of Democracy and
oo,. ammany. a Democratic majority of
Dsmocrran 10000 in 1892 was reduced to a
1888. 1 AN plurality of less than 1000 In
Penn v1nppiarse.) Then we swept on to
sressmana ana. In February, 1894, a con-
that snin az large was to be elected. and
Tie sr !; Republican. that veteran in
the Hon"e or his country. the author OF
AomInstaess,ead law, Galusha A. Grow. was
he unns ea Dy the Republicans, and received
plaure pp'egedented majority OF 1856, 900. zap
paci6c Inen across the country TO the
the samo a.es oregon's voice was heard In
can csnss cheerful notes for the Republi-
Vernon, ana the Republican party. Then
Asp tdrlV In Gapfap,hor arA than