The herald., 1894-11-23
TOM REEDS PROPHECY
And the Alleged Fulfill
ment Thereof.
FacetiOus Remarks by the
AutOcrat.
Banquet Of the Boston Home Market
Club.
Senator Hosr and Ex-spssker Reed the
Principal speskers-Thoy 0lost
Over tho Lato RePubli.
esn Victory.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Pres1
BosroN, NOV. 22.-The annual ban
quet OF the Home Market club of Bos-
ton. the leading Republican organization
of Massachusetts,, was held at Mechan-
ics' building tonight. Portraits of Nc
Kinley, Garfield. Harrison, Hayes.
Senator Hoar, Thomas B. Reed and
other Republican lights hung about the
place. Upon the platform, beside the
party forming the reception committee.
were Gen. Russell A. Ager OF Detroit
and Rev. Edward Everett Hale of Bos-
ton.
After due attention had been devoted
to the viands, Colonel Clark arose and
extended the cordial greetings Of the
Home Market club to the assembly.
Colonel CLARK then introduced governor
reenbalge, who extended a welcome to
the que SITS for the people OF Msasachu-
setts.
Referring to the recent election, he said
in part: ~ .,,.
VlCtOIv AuAnn5t AZ FOtuAoAss Ah NSh
necticut and Massachusetts ia but the
victory OF the workingmen."
Wien Thomas B. Reed arose he was
received with an ovation that threatened
10 split the roof. He was obliged to wait
several minutes before he could proceed.
He said:
'Perhaps some OF this great audience
will recollect that cast slight shade
OF soberness over your dinner last year.
and am afraid it may be the came this
evening. Yet l have just one reason
more than the rest of you for rejoicing.
The result shows that there is in me the
prophetic instinct, not so fully de-
veloped ae ] could wish. bu. still
valuable. Once during the last session
| f congress when the plans OF the De-
mocrccy had been developed. ventured
to say to the leaders that when the peo-
pile of this country got at them in No
vember OF this year they would bury
them in trenches. This was not only
true, but there was a 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 un-
buried bodies have even reached Boston
and are etill hoarsely murmuring about
free raw materials and foreign markets
and such like topics of the under world.
And how richly they have deserved their
fate, these statesmen of proud promise
and paltry faltllment!
"Did it ever occur to you that II the
brightest man among you had placed
before him on March 4, 1894, a sheet of
white paper and had been told to write
down ell the foOlish things we would
have liked 10 have the enemy do in
order to compass their own destruction, I,
he would have left out 30 per cent of
what they actually did? Is there any
one OF you that would have dreamed
OF tnat which your Massachusetts DEM
ocrstic 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 ao-
cusation? Did any one of you ever pic
tu.e the chairman OF the ways and
means committee with his knees under
British mahogany, receiving the plaudits
of our business rivals for good service
already rendered aud better service ex-
pected?
Ibid 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 cham
bers If your fancy the picture of q head
without party and q party without a
head? Gould you have imagined that
after all the warnings which rang out
from all the industrial states at the
elections which you celebrated a year
ago. those men would have gone on to
cruelty American industry for ano ther
year2
"Victories bring responsibilities, and
as have pointed out to you. our victory
is 30 great that it probably means ro-
sponsibility for many years. OF these
many years shall not now speak. 1t
We have wisdom for two years we will
be trusted more, and tho wisdom of the
next two years seems to be easy. We
have neither the president, nor the
senate. and all We can do is to let
the country try the result Of 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.
We have done all that lies in our
power. The bad work cannot go on
even il the good work cannot commence.
This country ia in favor OF the doc
trine OF protection. largely in favor Of
it. Every thing shows Mis, and no man
whose brains are not suffering from re-
cent conclusion from the heels can
think otherwise. When MIR. Clevs.
and, for private, personal and political
easons, threw into the scale the whole
organization OF the Democratic party,
he was defea atsd before the people at the
first opportunity. If any body believes
that the Democratic platform was en-
dorsed by the election OF 1892, he has no
fellowship with the president or the
chairman of the ways and mesns COM
mittee. for neither of them ever dared
to even attempt to carry it out. 1t may
be that at the last election hard times
caused irrational voting; it may be- that
disgust at the utter inefiiciency OF the
Democracy as rulers played no small
part, but the fact remains that the over
whaming victory we have had was
victory for protection, the firm faith of
the American people.
what We need now is not general