Smyrna times., 1894-08-29

people but even to the large minority
which help compose it, l am not in
dulging in any language of partisan
ship, but in the language of truth,
known and visible to all who hear me
to-day. TO my mind it has always
seemed that such would be the result
of the control of the country by the
Democratic party which is now in pos
session of it, although in my widest
party feeling have never pictured a
scene such as is now visible upon this
continent.
"You will bear me witness, for you
are my constituents and have heard
me often upon this subject, that at no
time have undertaken to prophesy
future which is at all like the present.
And yet the present condition of things
is not at all unnatural. No party acts
in obedience to the wishes of its most
superior men. Its action is always
based upon its average intelligence and
at whatever height that is to be found
there you will be able to prophesy
what the party action is likely to be.
1.-The Northern Democratic party is,
in many respects, like the Republican
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sense and business ability. The diff
Guilty with the Democratic party to-
day, as it has been in all past time, is
the fact that its great majority resides
in the South. In calling your attention
to this fact have not the slightest de-
sire to make any sectional difference
nor the slightest wish to cause any
sectional feeling. The Southern men
are men of intelligence and men of
learning.
1.-THE difficulty with them is that the
kind of learning which arises from a
thorough knowledge of business as it is
carried on in the North is entirely
lacking. Such learning cannot be OBJ.
tanned from books. 1t must be obtained
from the experience of ordinary life.
ut would be a great mistake for the
people of the United States to suppose
that the action of the Senate, so much
blamed by the Democratic party and
so much attacked by the people of the
country in general, was to be deemed
entirely the result of personal feeling.
The truth is that the action of the con-
servative Senators on many subjects is
the result, not of their individual opin-
ions, but the result of business interests
which surround them. A Senator from
the State of New Jersey could not be
reckless with the business interests of
his constituency, like a Senator from
Arkansas; and even Senator from
Arkansas, like Mr.. Jones, who has de-
voted patience and intelligence to this
tariff question, although not surrounded
by business interests which control
him, was irresistibly borne in the di-
rection of the Senate bill as it finally
passed that body.
"The reason why the Democratic
party has been a failure is reason so
simple that it is wonder that We did
not understand more fully and com
pletely that the result must take place.
1t was inevitable.
THE Democratic party has had in
the last 80 years no underlying prin-
ciple on which it was united from one
end of the country to the other. This
is not said as a reproach; it is said
simply as an historical fact. That such
should be the fact, also, is entirely ma
tural.
"a party which has been in the
minority for long period of time
gathers together all the people who are
| opposed to the party actually in power,
and opposed for different reasons.
'It is only when they endeavor to
combine, and take positive and affirma-
tive action themselves, that we begin
to realize the tremendous diversity of
opinion which was massed under the
seeming unanimity of opposition. That
incapacity to control was so great, as
has been shown during the past year
no one ever dreamed. Not even the
| bitterest enemy of the Democracy ever
prOphesied any such thing as has actu-
ally become the history of the country
THAT they should fall short of an
exhibition of ability to run the country
in a matter suitable and satisfactory tC
its people seemed foregone conclusion
but that they should make failure in
every way was something not to be
anticipated. Least of all was it antici
pated by many good men who have
always acted with the Democratic
party, and who wish to act with it uL
to the end of time.
"Mr. Reeds main effort was to prove
that the Democratic party had showI
itself incapable of ruling the country il
manner satisfactory not only to the
majority of the people, but even to the
large and respectable minority which
helped 30 compose it.
''In alluding to the protection fur
nished the Sugar Trust in the tariff bill
he said it would give that monopoly
$12,000,000 this year outside of pro
lection to refining"
The action of Mr.. Cleveland toward:
the tariff bill shows that he is standing
as sternly as ever for Tariff Reform
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun in speaking of the Presi
dent and the adjournment of Congress
SAYS:
"In preparing for the approaching
campaign the Democratic Representa-
tives who are candidates for reelection
propose to show to their dissatisfiel
constituents that the fight for tariff re
form is not over. Democracy hasnot mad
the advances it should have made, bu
it has gained some successes, and witt
the aid of the people will continue t.
fight until Republican protection shaI
be succeeded by a Democratic tariff i'm
posed to obtain revenue for the govern
ment without granting special priv
leges to any individual and and cor
poration. In order to do this success
fully, however, these Representative
must repudiate the sections of the bill
for which Senators German, Brice an
Smith successfully contended. Th
people of the country are justified i
feeling that they were betrayed by tn
conservatives, "and no good can resul
from an effort to deceive them concern
, ing the responsibility for this betrayal.
4 Delegates.