The Irish standard., 1895-12-07

1 plain the reason why we went TO deleat
at the recent elections; perhaps it was
/ because we We're departing from Demo-
cratic precedents and principles; per-
| laps it. was because OF party mistakes;
! perhaps mistakes of individuals, and
| perhaps 1T was in spite of all the best
planning and work that was possible.
/, You know that politics is like the hu-
man body; sometimes it gets out of order
| in spite of the best regimen to keep Off
disease and the observance of all the
rules of health that man knows. There
are in the body polite a great many
men who sometimes vote with one side
and sometimes with another, and yo'l
cannot always rely upon what these peo-
| pie will do. But what We can do is to ac-
| cept the verdict with good nature. Il
some say it was the fault of the presi-
! dent, we know that the president is not
I, the Democratic party. It some say con-
gress is to blame, we know that is not
altogether true, because congress Is not
! the party. The Democratic party con-
| sists of the great mass OF the common
! people. No man. no ten, no hundred On
| thousand men are the party.
"Then you know it may not have been
| the fault OF the party at all; Van Buren
was defeated the second time he ran for
president, not because he had not been
an excellent president, for his admins
! tration of the affairs Of the country was
! the very BEST. Defeat is an incident Of
! political affairs wherever the people
rule in country like ours. ! admit that
| the situation is not as we Wo',ld like to
! have it, but let us pick hints and so at
! it again. If we are beaten once we must
! get up and try the next election just as
| xIr% ic,S j,cf
and that if we stick to our principles We
will win the respect Of the men i'll the
other party, and finally triumph. Above
all we must not bend and trim TO every
| passing breeze OF passing fancy: the par
| ty that will endure must not be like the
willow or the palm that bows low to
every wind, but rather like the oak of the
forest that stands firm and defies The
! storm.
'"rhere has been too much CT q dispo
sition on the part of DIR party leaders
| to try TO get into the place Of and adopt
the ideas OF some other party. This is
always fatal to party success. It WAS q
| misfortune, too, that when we snccee'j-
ed in securing the control Of the gov
ernment that We had SO many states IN
the Democratic column. Congress was
overwhelmingly Democratic, and some Of
us lost our heads We tried to do too
| much
! II tried to keep cool. I saw we were
! trying to DO what We were not pledged
| to do, and J. opposed some Of the Populia~
! tic innovations. was opposed to the i'll
come tax, & rehabilitation OF the 6eDuo-
! .ican war tax, which the Democratic
| party was trying, 70 steal from the Fop-
! ulists, and ! voted and spoke against
a 3,
take up that issue, and / opposed it On
| constitutional grounds, which the SUI
preme court subsequently, sustained
Mi, Hill said he would not discuss the
financial question thea as he would take
that matter up the following night in st.
! Paul. Tie continued:
'On the tariff there is such thing as go
ing too far, but we are certain Of one thing:
| this government has mo right TO go further
than to levy a tariff for revenue only. l.
has no right to step in and attempt to
benefit my business Or your business by
ievying tax on some other mans bust
ness But in, the levying Of tariff for
revenue it should be so regulated as to do
the least harm and the most good to the
people OF the country.
y am not one Of these that cry Justify
| to tine victor belongs the spojls;' but on
! the other hand / do not beiieve that tbs
| men who are to be reward7d after po'it-
| ical victory are the dililante reformers
who never. do anything to secure party
success. / think it is entirely right that
any man, who has the ability, should as
pire to the leadership, and~it is these men
who should be remembered at time when
there are honors to bestow
You know we have not been overbur~
,icrSp "a 1CIrE.
of the government in the state Of New
York during the present administration.
Laughter and general applause.) But
what good is patronage??
Il have no use for the man who is in
public life simply for the money he can
get out of ii. Such men are no good to a
party and the sooner yon get rid or them
the better. When / was governor l tried
to find the men who were active in party
service, and il / happened to appoint a
man who, because he held an Office,
thought he was excused from party work,
soon managed to get rid OF him. nave
10 use for the policy which is borrowed
from England and is much talked about
by the young college graduates, such as we
have had taste of in New York recently,
civil service reform l would not include
among political crimes obnoxious activity
for my party, ! would not consider mar
unfit for office because he did campaign
work or gave a dollar to the campaign
fund. That oveahie old Southern war
hero and senator. Jeb Vance, Of North Car
oiiua, used to tell story upon himself. He
was debatingon the stump with one eof those
college-graduate advocates Of the civil
service reform idea, and the young man
asked him where he stood on the PROPOSE
ton. Senator Vance was plain, honely
battles Scared old veteran, and he spoke
very slowly and deliberately. i don't
know exactl, what this pew tangled idea
will lead to- ne replied, but my grand
father used to tell me that she OK that did
the blowing was the one that deserved the
fodder This is MY IDEA of getting the
best man to aspire to Office In my state
we took young Irishman ci 28 and elected
him 1navor of Syracuse That is the way
to do: encourage the young men and en-
conra re those who are willing and have
the ability to do the work Of leadership in
the party.
.sThere are some men who, no sooner
elected to office, thar they begin to regard
the men who put them there, and who
want a little recognition as some people le-
gard their poor relations; that is as though
they we're ashamed Of them
"Then there are the people vino think
that there should be non-partisan tickets
in the state and in city affairs. They get
some men, who under ordinary circum-
stances are very good men to run for Office
OIL the nom bipartisan ticket If they arc
elected they have what We have had 10