The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-23
TOM REED TALKS.
Some Safe Pointers for
Republicans.
GREATNESS OF VICTORY.
Foreseen Not Even by the Most
Sanguine.
DEMOCRACY MADE WHOLLY MAD
Then the Work of Destruction Went
On in the Most Expeditions
Manner Possible.
DEMOCRACY MADE WHOLLY MAD

leading Republican or d iZatlon OF MaSsa-
chusetts, was held at Mechanics building
Tonight. Portraits of Mckinley. Garfield,
Harrison, Hayes, Senator HoaT, Thomas
Is. Reed and other Republican lights were
hung about the place. Upon the platform
beside the party forming the reception
committee were General Russell Alger OF
Detroit and Rev. Edward bale of Boston.
After due attention had been devoted 10
the viands, Colonel Clark arose aud ex-
tended the cordial greetings of the Home
Market Club TO the assembly. Colonel
Clark then introduced Governor Green
halge. who extended a welcome to the
guests for the people OF Massachusetts.
Senator George f. HOar OF Massachu-
setts was the next speaker. Referring TO
the recent election he said in part: This
political victory in Kansas, in Vermont. in
Connecticut and Massachusetts, is but the
victory of the workingmen. 1t Is the vic
tory of the farmhouse and the workshop.
of men who prefer TO work in this republic
and to whom these gentlemen OF tariff
reform leagues are total strangers"
When Thomas B. Reed rose he was re-
ceived with an ovation that threatened to
split the -oof. He was obliged to wait
several minutes before he could proceed.
He said:
Perhaps some of this great audience will
recOllect that l cast slight shade of sobernesS
over your dinner last year. and 1 am afraid 1t
may be the same this evening. Yet L have just
one reason more than the rest of you for re-
joicing. The result shows that there is in me
The prophetic instincts, not so fully developed
as l could wish, but still valuable. Once our
Ing The last session of Congress, when the plans
Of the Democracy had been developed veu-
tured 10 say 10 the leaders that when the people
OF this country got at them in November of this
year they would bury them in trenches. This
was nearly true, but there was Slight mac
curacy. l should have said that we would
bury them in trenches until the supply OF
trenches gave out. We cou d not bury ALL and
1 notice some ghosts of unburled bodies ITO
and fro fitting burialless save in the vulture's
craw." I've even reached Boston. and are still
hOarsely murmuring about free raw materials
aud foreign markets ana such like topics of tile
under world. And how richly they have de-
served their fate. these statesmen of the proud
promise and the palIry fulfillment
Did 1t ever occur to you If the brightest man
among you had placed before him on March 4
1894, sheet of white paper and had been told
TO write down all the foolish things be would
have liked to have the enemy DO In order to
compass their own destruction he would hate
left out 90 per cent Of what they actually did 9?
Is there any one of you that would have
dreamed of that which your massachusetts
Democratic convention called the firm and Wig
orous policy OF the administration Could any
one Of You have thought of that letter 10 Will
son and its railing accusations?
Did any one of you ever picture the Chair
man Of the Ways and Means Committee with
his knees under British mahogany receiving
The plaudits of our business iivals for good SER
vice already rendered and better service ex-
pected? Did you ever think Of David B. Hill
as candidate for Governor of New York, and. as
a necessary consequence, an unresident and
homeless President? Had you anywhere hung
In the chambers OF fancy The picture Of a head
without party and a party without head?
Could you have imagined that after all the
warnings which rung out from all the indus
trial States at the elections which you cele-
brated year ago those men would have gone
on 10 cruelty American industry for another
year?
Victories bring responsibilities, and as / have
pointed out to you, our victory is so great that
1t probably means responsibility for many
years. OF these many years | shall not now
speak. If 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, ana all
the folly of 1892. We shall have TWO years to
look over this situation, so as to do the best we
can when our time has fully come. SO tar we
have done all that lay in our power. The bad
work cannot 90 on, even if the good work can
not commence. We have removed one uncer.
tainty. that Of the future, he uncertainty of
possible change, but the uncertsinty OF the
present remains.
This country Is in favor of the doctrine OF
prOtPptInn- N Of II
shows this, and no man whose brains are not
suffering from recent conclusion from the
"heels" can think otherwise. When Mr.. Cleve.
land, for private, personal aud political rea-
sons, threw into the scales the whole organiza-
tion OF the Democratic party he was defeated
before the people at the first opportunity. II
anybody believes that the Democratic plat
form was Endorsed by the election In 1892 he
has no fellowship with the President or the
chairman Of the Ways and Means Committee,
for neither OF them dared to even attempt to
carry it out. L may be that at the last election
hard times caused irrational voting, 1t may
be that disgust at the utter inefficency of the
Democracy as ruler played no small part, but
the fact remains that the overwhelming victory
we have had was a victory for projection, as
the firm faith of the American people.
What we need now is moi general belief in
our doctrines. We need the teaching which
distribution Of facts. When say TO you that
protection will cheaper goods and make better
goods you may yield assent. but it may not be
a fighting faith. But when l show by facts and
figures that ground glass, for example, though
raised 100 per cent by the Mckinley tariff, has
reached almost the same price as before, tue
consumer gets American glass worth 20 per
cent more, and every inch made by American
labor, show you something that is an ever.
present answer TO all the theories of The world
During the next two years this country
needs the help Of every man who has the
slightest morsel OF truth in his possession Why
do l insist on this? Because the stream cannot
rise higher than lis source. II we had an abso-
lutte despotc monareh could we hope for laws
which would be better than he knew? Who is
our ruler? The sovereign people of the United
States-more despoic than any ruler that ever
sat on throne. Now, is It possible to have
laws more sensible than the people are? We
have had mighty vlctory-the greatest In the
history OF our country. II was not won by our
organization. but by our principles. But. great
as our victory is, there is another which we
must win. By our wisdom. moderation and
good sense We must so govern this country that
the great questions OF the next six years may
have as noble a solution as the gre al questions
OF their day lad at the hands of the great Re.