The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-23
FACING THE FUTURE
REPUBLICAN PARTY PLEDGES ONLY
BIDE THEIR TIME.
Great Party Leaders Banqueted by
the Massachusetts Home Market
Club-Reed Crowns the Occasion
With His Oratory - Victory OF
prtncinIes-In Two Years More.

field. Harrison, Hayes, Senator Hoar,
Thomas B. Reed and ether Republican
lights hung about the place. Upon the
nlatform. besides the party forming the
recention committee, were General Russell
Alger of Detroit, and Rev. Everett Hale
Of Boston.
After due attention had been devoted to
the viands, Colonel Clark arose and ex-
tended the cordial greetings of the Home
Market club to the assembly. Colonel
Clark then introduced Governor Green
halse. who extended a welcoms to the
guests for the people of Massachusetts,.
Senator George L. HOar of Massa-
chusetts, was the next speaker. Referring
to the recent election. he said IN part:
This political victory of ours, this victory
In Kansas, in Vermont. in Connecticut
and in Mass schusetts is but the victory OF
the working men, l. is the veto ry of the
farm house, and of the workshop. OF men
who perform a work in this republic to
which these gentlemen of the Iarln Rs-
form league are total strangers.
REED SPEAKS OF FULFILLED PROPHECY.
When Thomas B. Reed rose he was re-
ceiyed with an ovation that threatened TO
snlit the roof He was obliged TO wait
several minutes before he could proceed.
He said:
sPerhaps some Of this great audience
will recOllect that L cast siiShI shaue
of sobelness over your dinner last year
and am afraid it may be tue same this
eyeniuu. Yet, have just one reason more
than the rest of you for rejoicing. Tue re-
suit shows that there Il In me the pro-
phetic instinct; not so fully developed as L
could wish, but still valuable. Once dur
ing the last session OF congress, when tue
pl,ns of the Democracy had become de-
veloped, L yeuturod 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.
''This WAS nearly true, but there was
slight inaccurAcy. | should have said that
we would bury them in trenches until the
supply of trenches gave out. We could
not bury them all, and notice some
ghosts of unburied bodies, to ana fro Ill
ting, burialless save in the vultures craw,
have even reached Boston and are still
hoarsely murm airing about Tree raw
materials and foreign markets aud such
like topics Of the under world.
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN IMAGINED.
"And how richly they have deserved
their fate, these statesmen of tue proud
promise aud the paltry fultillment. Did
IL ever occur 10 you that if the brightest
man among you had had placed before him
Din March 4, 1924, sheet OF white paper
and had been told TO write down all the
foolish things he would have liked to have
the enemy do in order TO compass their
pwn destruction, he would have left out
b0 per cent that they actually did. Is there
any one of YOU that would have dreamed
of that which your Massachusetts Demo
cratic convention called the firm and
vigorous policy of the administration ?
Could any one of you have thought of that
letter TO Wilson and its railing
sccusations7 Did any one of you ever
al, ff hA a
means committee, with his knees
ander British mahogany, receiving
.he plaudits of our business rivals for
goCd service already teudered and better
servic expectedi Did you ever think of
David b. Hill as cafdidaUe for governor of
New York and, Ii necessary consequence,
an uuresidenJ and homeless PRESIDENT
Had YOU anywhere hung in the chambers
IF fancy the picture of head without II
party, and party without "A headf Could
you have imagined that after all the warn
inrs which rung out from all the indus
trial states ut the elections which you cele-
brated year ago those men would have
zone on to cruelty American industry for
anoih her year?
RESPONSIBILITIES LIKELY TO LAST.
"Vlctories bring responsibilities and, AS
[ have pointed out to you, our victory Is so
great that IL probably means RESPONSE
biliIies Tor many years. OF these many
Il
Wisdom for two years. We will be trusted
more, and the wisdom of the next two
gears seems to be easy. We have neither
The president nor the senate, AMI all we
ran do l. TO let the country try the result
Df the folly of 1892 We shall have two
years to look over this situation, SO rs 10
do the best we can when our time has
fully come. So far we have done ali that
iay In our power. The bad work cannot
go on. even If the good work cannot COM
mence. We have removed one certainty,
that of the future, the uncertainty of
possible Change, but the uncertaluty of
The present still remains.
This country Is IN favor OF the doctrine
Of protection. largely IN favor OF IL.
Every hing shows this, and no man whose
brains are not suffering from recent cou-
cussiun from the heels can think other
wise 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 a. the first opporl unity.
1T WAS \ VICTORY FOR PoTECTION.
at any body bel eves that the Democratic
platform WAS endorsed by the elect lou OF
1872 he has no fellowship with the presi-
dent or the chamber Of the ways and
means, for neither of them dared To even
attempt to carry IL out.
Il may be t. at ut the last election hard
times caused ira ional voting. IL may be
that disgust At the lnefficiency OF the Dem
ocracy a. rulers played no small part bat
The fact remaius that the owe NV he ming
victory we have had was a lctory for pro-
lection, IS the III III faith of the American
people
"N hat we need now is not general belief
In our doctrines. We need teaching which
comes from practical results. We need a
distribution of the fact. When | say To
you that protection will cheaper good
aud make better goods, you my yield
assent. hut IL may not be a fighting faith
But when show, BY facts and
figures, that ground glass for examine
though raised II hundred per cent by The
Mckinney tariff, mas reached almost tie
same price a. iefOre ana the consumer Cets
American glass woJJA - per cent more
aud every Inch OF u made by Ampa,c.u
labor, | snow something that i an ever
present answer 10 al the theories of tn
world.
NOT By PARTY But BY PRINCIPLES
During tie next TWO years this coun.
try needs the help Of every maa who has
The slightest Ia .rsei OF truth in his pos
session. Why do Insist on uhiss Becaus-
the stream cannot rise higher than tn
source. II We had au absolute de>notsc
monarch, could Ne hope Tor laws whica
would be belt r uau - knew WAat :
our ruierf lie sovereign people of the
United States, more de>pojic ;han any
monaIcE that ever sat on - throne.
Now is il possible 10 have laws more
sensible tSaB the people arr: Ne hsyr
had a mighty victory, the -rsatest In Ia.
history OF our county. Ii was Won, not
bv our organization but by our PRINCIPLES
But great ~ our victory l. Their i -
greater wB.ca We must win. BY our
wisdom, mod ration and good sens. wr
govern This gounfrV