Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-22

Reeds genial qualities enliven his
more solid appeals, and render it al
most impossible for them TO engender
animosity, however close and cutting
they may be. Thus, at the ovation he
received in New York city on Satur-
day night, he said
stSuch is the condition Of the Re-
publican speaker to day. There is no
way in which he can improve on the
defendants confession. [ have been
in the habit for some years Of speak
ing of the democratic party in terms
which seemed to me to be just, but
which the members of it have not
found entirely satisfactory, and yet
never dreamed of using words about
that party or it's chief which have
been shouted in speeches by great
democrats from Maine to Texas, and
italicized in much letter writing by
very exalted public functionary.
[ should never have dreamed of
charging the senate of the United
States, though OF another political
party, with perfidy and dishonor, and
yet that is only portion Of the cpl
thets which were chosen by the Chief
Magistrate of their own selection.
When 1 saw Senator German in the
Senate Chamber, with uplifted right
hand, successfully call witness after
witness to prove that their party chief
had beguiled them into the passage
of the very bill he so bitterly denounc-
ed, I thought how far short in the
last campaign I had fallen of describ-
ing the actions liable to result from
the supremacy of the party to which
was opposed.
have, therefore, no epithets to be-
stow to night; my weapons have been
taken from me, and my occupation as
political speaker for this campaign
seems to be gone. Yet in some ways
do not regret it. IF we can no long
er talk politics, we can, perhaps, do
better. Surely, there never was a
better opportunity for a little bust
ness sense, for little of that whole
some wisdom which we put into the
AFFAIRS OF ordinary HE.
Let us, then, commence with a
frank admission that the action of the
democratic party and it's complete
failure in the art of governing this
country were perfectly natural, and
that, as individuals, the democrats
are not responsible therefor. Nor
can we venture to say that we were
prophets whose predictions are being
fulfilled; for am persuaded that no
man on our side dared to foreshadow
one-half of what has happened, most
of us not 1.-THE. Naturally enough,
if we, who were their enemies, did
not prophesy this measure of calami-
ty, the ordinary democratic voter
could not have dreamed of it, and,
therefore, did not have it in his heart.
AS a general summing up, what an
artistic piece of work is the follow
ing:
II am not going to enter into any
panegyric of the republican party. 1t
is party like another, with MANY
good deeds and some bad ones, but,
on the whole, the friend of sound |
currency, of honest living, OF bust
ness prosperity, and fair Interpreter
of the peoples wishes, giving them
as good a government as they want
ed, and often better. Virtue in this
world is compare We never get
perfection. All we can say is that one
man is better than another, and that
it is wiser to choose the BETTER
The ex-Speaker states the mission
Of the democratic party to be as fol- !,
lows;
4 party is made up for an object, |
to do something, or to stop something,
or merely to criticise the other party. |
That last function the democratic per-
forms pretty well, little hystrical |
and inconsistent, perhaps, but WgOr-
Gus and omnipresent. But wlen it |
came into power the trouble hgan.
1t had to get somewhere, not stand |
on the sidewalk and find fault with |
the driving. Now the fines individual
horses that were ever put into ateam |
would never get anywhere if they all
pulled in opposite directions. They
could only smash the wagon. That is
what the democratic party hasdone. |
They have smashed one wagon and
the only remedy they propose is to
Danish from all future harness the
men who, while they have acted bad
enough in some respects, have saved
all the pieces there are left Of the
wreck. Now, would it not be letter,
on the whole, to have the next wagon
carried to it's next stage with some
horses that can not break it up?
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