The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-01
governor oi lis great state. He Is not untried or It,. vercised in public affairs

untried or t,. vercised in public affairs
 He has represented the country at ont
 Of the most Important foreign courts
 He has represented a constituency ir
 this city in the congress of the United
 States, and as vice president he presid.
 ed with a dignity and power over the
 senate of the United States that was un.
 surpassed. am able to say that few
 men ever exercised the office of vice president with more honor. more ex-
 perience and more dignity than Levi
 P. Morton.
 "Nor do I regard this great cortest
 which 10 being waged in he city ot
 New York for pure, clean, decent mu.
 nicipal government as local issue | the whole country watches that great
 struggle. It has read with amazemen,
 and disgust the revelations of municipal
 corruption and debauchery which has
 been laid before the public.
 "It> watches with anxious solicitude
 the decision of the question whether
 there Is power in the body polite of this
 great city to cleanse itself from these
 impurities and reassert decent gov l ernment.
 T sincerely hope that we shall have
 another illustration of the fact that
 however patient the people may be,
 however unwatchful for season, when
 thing have become utterly bad, men
 without reference to party will rally to
 the defense of their institutions and
 their homes and set things right once more.
 There are national questions as well involved in the city of New York; a congress is to be chosen, and these con- stituencies in the great city are to ex- ercise an important influence in decid- ing the question whether the control of the house at Washington shall be wrest- ed from the democratic party want to call your attention to the situation of the country as viewed from a national standpoint. Our government at Wash lngton has now more important rela- ton to the business of the country than ever. In olden days when our money was furnished by state banking insti- tutions and when our interstate com merce was left to regulate itself or with out regulation, we did not so much ap- preoiate the important touch which the national government has upon the bus- 1ness affairs of the country, Now all our money is issued from Washington. NOW the regulation of these interstate railroads have been assumed by con- gross, and now we realize as we never pefore have that the question of the tarih touches strongly every mans in- terest, whether he be rich or poor, throughout the whole country. Men nave been debating the tariff question until 1t seemed threadbare, but there has come into the debate an orator of most convincing and persuasive power. and that Is experience"
 MT. Harrison said for thirty wears the ,democratic party had been an ir- responsible party, but in 1893 it had been called to position of responsi- bility. The trouble with the demo- cratic party was 1t was an incoherant party. Who could tell what it was going to do; what its position upon the tariff question was? Historically It's position was one in favor of a revenue tariff with incidental protec- tion. It went into the campaign of 1892 upon the proposition that all pro- lection was unconstitutional.
 The ex-president discussed the recent tariff legislation and created consid- erable laughter by humorous alusions to the manner in which the demo- cratic party took up the work of re- .vising the tariff. No business man. said, could tell upon what basis the tariff was to be adjusted, there being no forecast issued by the revisers or any intination of the adoption of coherant principle.
 MT. Harrison continued at length upon this lack of an object which, he declared, characterized the democratic party. He said he agreed that 1t would be misfortune for the demo- cratic party if 1t had failed to pass a tariff bill-perhaps not greated than that which awaits 1t now but what God-send 1t would have been to the country If it had been announced that that tariff bill was dead and that this congress would adjourn without any tariff legislation. There would have been an instant revival of business all over the country.
 MT. Harrison referred humorously to MT. Cleveland's refusal to sign the new tariff act and strongly denounced the attempt to fix the responsibility of the evil times which came upon the country upon the republican legisla- tion. The cause, he declared, was the attempt to enact law framed on the lines of the Chicago platform. He next discussed with sarcasm the Hawaiian affair. Further on he said the democratic party was uninstructed and inexperienced. All of the cost we have suffered has been brought about in an effort to educate them to the of the government. ItJ has been 8 very costly experiment and I submit to you whether we had not better close the school"
 In conclusion he said: ''Let the greatest of manufacturing states by her people in this election speak in voice that shall be heard from ocean to ocean in condemnation of those who have brought these disasters upon the 
 John Proctor Clarke, who followed General Harrison. made g long speech. The Plan Might Fall. !I
 Philadelphia, Oct. n.This was the first day for assenting to the new plan for the reconstruction of the Reading road. In round numbers the holdefs