The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-16
IN HONOR OF N. D. SHERRY.

IN HONOR OF N. D. SHERRY. C0MPLIMExTABYBAg0UET TO THE OONGRESsMAG-ELECT.
 Har. spsrry Makes . Kousing Speeoh-Tho
 Danger of Too Large Majority In Cop-
 grsss-speechos by the stato Officors and
 Other Prominent Republicans.
 The complimentary banquet which was siven to Congressman-elect N. D. Sperry at Harmonic hall last evening by the Republican league was attended by about two hundred guests. The hall was decorated very handsomely by Champion. The company sat down at half-past six to an excellent dinner served by Stewart. After dinner Her bert B. Benton. president of the Re- publican league, who acted as toast master of the evening, made the opena ing address.
 He spoke in part as follows: we are here to rejoice and make glad over a great victory. But want to say that I hope every republican in the United States will remember the circumstances under which that victory was won. It is not complete victory yet. The people at. the polls have expressed an overwhelming confidence in the repub- lican party, but 1t is not until we have gained the executive power in our halls of national legislation that the victory will be complete.
 But I am here to congratulate a friend. I shall not praise and eulogize MT. Sperry. You all know him. But. Mir. Sperry, want to say to you that we are proud of you and we gladly do you honor"
 MT. Sperry was welcomed with cheers and hearty applause. He spoke in the main as follows:
 T have been in many embarrassing positions. I am in one tonight. When one is among old and tried friends and wants to throw his whole heart out in- to his utterances it Is impossible to find words to do so. It seems almost im- possible that you could have accom- plished such victory as that of Novem- Der 6. When we went into the contest in the Second congressional district 1t seemed an impossibility to wipe out the 1000 democratic majority. Our friend Kellogg had made 1t: 2,s00, but the normal democratic majority was 4,0O0. Therefore, I say, gentlemen, that it looked like an impossibility for this district to be carried by the republi- cans. So feel indebted ito you, gentle men, one and, all, who took hold of this campaign to redeem this district and bring 1t over to the republicans. You nave my thanks . thousand Hines my thankA, for the efforts you put forth. I want to speak to>you on two points: u) What was the occasion of this vic- tory? and @ How shall we best act in order to garner in the victory. % to speak?
 "What, I ask you, was the position of the democratic party? When MT. Cleveland was nominated at Chicago that party declared that tariff for pro- tection was unconstitutional and a crime. The people who thus declared fully understood 1t, and the people of the United States had right to expect that the representatives of the demo- cratic party assembled in congress would carry out its pledges. ask you did the democratic party keep its pledges? A party that does not de- serves defeat. I don't say those princi- ples should have been carried out, but they were the principles of the people who elected them. and they should have been respected. When they as-, sembled In congress not a mothers son of them could agree with another moth- ers son on what tariff reform was. They deserve the odium they have brought on themselves Just think of some of the exhibitions of unfaithful-t ness of party principles some of these democratic legislators have placed be-, fore the country. We saw Senator Mur- phy of NewYork standing up and saying that no bill would pass that did not protect collars and cuffs. Then we saw the senators from Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia and old Virginia saying IAdL AO UlAA WUulu pass lIldL ulQ nOC protect coal and iron. The congressman from Hartford, as we saw, advocated protection on certain articles. Our rep fesentaAive advocated free trade. If there is anything the democratic party ought to be ashamed of 1t Is to see it's representative from Hartford voting for one thing, and ours for another, You, as the sovereigns of the country, have g right to know whether you are voting for 3 great principle or for mul- tiform and variable ideas.
 There Is one thing which I want to speak of, which I have alluded to only once before during the campaign, and that is the ominous policy displayed in putting the tariff on coal and iron and making the sheep suffer. The sheep ought to have been the last to have suf- fered. If they wanted to try any free trade experiments they could have taken the duty of from coal and iron, and if 1t proved disastrous to indus tries depending on those raw materials, when the tarif would have been put back, manufacturing would revive i'm mediately. Now the sheep are being killed off at the rate of one hundred thousand per month. It is no longer de- " .aT