The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-28
REED MAKES A MOST
VICIOUS HARANGUE
SOUTHERN LAWMAKERS MALIGN
ED BY EX-CZAR.
A Banquet in Commemoration of the
Birthday of Grant Gives Him a
Chance to Reiterate a Few HOary
Republican FaIIacies-'Twas Pitt
able.

Pittsburg. Pa, April 27.-The eighth
annual banquet of the American Re
publica's club, in conmemoration Of
General Grants birthday, was held at
the Monongahela House tonight, and
was attended by prominent Republicans
from all parts of the country. Among
the number were ex-Speaker Reed, Con-
gresham Wanger and Congressman
Robinson, General Frank Reeder, Hon.
Walter Lyon and General D. H. Hast
ings.
Covers were laid for 375 and every
chair was occupied. Previous to the
banquet, a reception was rendered ex-
Speaker Reed. After full justice had
been done to the menu, President Tor
renee introduced General Frank Reeder,
with the toast, General Grant in
which he paid high tribute to the
dead soldier and statesman.
Thomas B. Reed was the next speaker,
and when he arose he was rendered an
ovation. His address was impromptu
and in part as follows:
1.-The last time l had the good for
tune to address this club, this country
was in a state of peace and prosperity
Work was plenty, capital was rejoicing
in it's productive strength and labor was
enjoying the right to sell its services
at prices which brought happiness and
comfort to all our homes. The thirty
years which had preceded had Witness
ed the gradual and steady rise of COM
pensation for service of both brain
and muscle, until every days work was
worth in results twice what it had been
worth since the last domination Of this
Union by southern statesmen and their
principles. So firmly rooted seemed our
prosperity, that all our citizens thought
it beyond the reach Of heat
and cold and all changes of
! sun and weather, and most men felt
| it was beyond the touch of even human
folly. 1t seemed to be beyond laws and
beyond politics, something inherent in
the constitution Of things, something to
be calculated upon with unerring GER
| tainty, like the rise and set of the sun
and the regular motion of the planets
and the stars. 1t is not the disorgan-
! lied crowds which seem to be aiming
but in an aimless way towards the
| capital of the nation. 1t is not that
mills are running on half and quarter
and no time at all, nor capital piled up
| unused at the centers of trade, nor
| even labor unemployed for nearly a
| year past, which completes the sad pro-
| ceSsion.
"Of the picture, to me the sight most
| od1ous OF all, is the utter inability of
the people to reach their own instr1-
ments and to compel the fulfillment of
their own will. Here in a land where
law by the people was fondly hoped to
| have found its truest and latest ex-
preston, the people seem powerless to
control their own legislature and to cor
rect, by sober reflection, the mistake of
the most thoughtless in American his
| tory-the day when the present Con
gress and the day when the present
! executive were chosen to preside over
the unhappy citizens of the United
states. Whatever the majority NAV
| do, whatever the exercise of the right
OF voting could do had heen done in
| large and overlooking measure. Whv is
this and what are the causes? We're we
left TO the tender mercies of the north
ern Democrats, 1 venture to say such a
condition could not exist for a single
Ihour. 1t is because we are under fhe
domination, will not say of the south
but OF southern men elected to Office
without those safeguards which sur
round the election of the northern
/ Democrats.
For the sake of the south itself. 7
nope to see the next election bring us
to an end of this unseemly DONNA
ton. All election laws have been re-
pealed, and the south having been set
free from fear which never had
sound foundation, will be left at Hber-
" to decide her destiny according to
AiCA Aiuuollldl HeeuS, which are the
same as those of the north Instead of
set of men who represent the obso-
lete politics and principles of d dead
generation, their successors. let us
Ihope, will represent what the north
longs to see-an Industrial, prosperous
south, full Of the life of a new coun-
try
Addresses were also made by General
Hastings and Congressman John B.
Robinson.
Letters of regret were read from
Colonel Fred D. Grant, Governor Nc
Kinley, General j. NJ Schofield, Sena-
tors Sherman, Hale, Hawley, Cameron
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln and others.