The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-08-23

J. f. P2aSlea for Lieutenant Governor,
besides naming other candidates for
the office Of Auditor, Treasurer, &C.
Senator Brice, who was the presiding
officer, upon taking the chair, made
the following able speech, to which we
call the special attention Of or Demo-
era ic readers:
81 recognize the honor and response
bility OF the position which has been
assigned me and shall endetNor 10 nll
il to the best of my ability, win per-
feet impartiality and due regard for
the right of each and every delegate.
| can only succeed with Your forbyar-
auce and assistance, upon winch |
shall r-ly. knowing that we iave all
come here for the same general pur-
poSe-the success of the Democratic
par in the state. We may, a. we
oijen have i'll the past, differ as To the
details and have warm controversies as
To the manner in which and the ins'ru-
meiItaliticS 10y which we may best
accomplish our common purpose, but
this year. ii ever, he OHIO Democracy
must fight with unhrokcn rauhS and
against the common enemy. We must
recognize the gravity OF the situation.
1t is now less than year since we
Were beaten in this state by nearly
one hundred and forty thousand plu-
rality, nor was this LOCAL disaster at
fecting only the party in the state
DEMOCRATS STAYED HOME.
Millions of Democrats remained at
L. III Il in,
State-as a mute protest against the
powercssness of their President and
their Congress to prevent or protect
them from these disasters. Men from
all parties Were freely saying that the
Democratic party was dead dissolved,
gone off into the camps of the P0pu-
lists and Socialists and had become
mere wandering bands of fngitives,
without union and without hope.
There was wild, fierce clamor against
the President, against the Democratic
Senate, against the Democratic House.
so widespread was this feeling of hope
lessness among our party that we have
already lost our ma jOrity in the Senate,
not to be reyained in many years Our
majority of more than 100 in the House
of Representatives has been reversed
and our membership in the branch of
the present Congress is Il mere hand
full. Is this the time for those who re-
main steadtast and loyal to the great
party of jefferson, Jackson, Tilden and
Cleveland to indu &c in quarrel- and
determinations? Should we not rather
welcome all who are willing to Join
hands and build the Democratic struc-
turc on which, as we believe, lies hap
piness and safety for this government
and its people?
PASSING OF PANIC AND FEAR.
"But, gentlemen, does not this con-
vention, and the intense feeling man
/ Tested 10y those who attend it and
those who have sent their delegates
here, tell the story that a change has
come over the public mind; that the
Democratic party is no longer pros,
/ tratc; that its fortunes are rising, and
| that 1t is quite worth the while to be
III the Democratic army, which al
ready has the assured and confident
step of Il march toward victory? Panic
and fear have passed away. The ben
1 eflcence of Democratic legislation has
already produced and is producing its
effects. Faith is rapidly being restored
confidence re-established and business
everywhere reNiVing, and it is now
clear that it is only question of time,
either in November of this year or of
next year, when the American people
will reward the Democratic party for
its profound service To the republic.
| The three great promises made to the
Am rican people in 1892 have been
/ III fIlf -
nearly into execution than any three
promises ever made by any party in
any platform. What were they? They
were summed up by Samuel J. Tilden
forty years ago rs home rule, sound
money, and free trade as nearly as gov
ernmental requirements permit, and
under the very shadow of the disaster
brought on this country by the Repub
lican law, against which we protested
and whose repeal we demanded-the
force bill, the Mckinley bill and the
Sherman bill These promises were
/ fulfilled.
MIR. BRICE DEFENDS HIMSELF.
| 5, eak with me fullness of feeling
and knowledge of the tariff bill, be-
cause took great interest in it during
I us NNiiolbNItltipll ny VIC iDtIltlt. IdllN
of my Democratic friends in Ohio were
seriously disturbed, some of them quite
indignant at my course in the framing
of that bill. Gen lemeu of the con-
vention, when sent 10y you and your
associates To repeal the Mckinley bill &,
we did not pr pose To return t. you
with the Mckinley bill unrepealed if
1t lay within our power and we did
not. We had also been sent by you TO
support the gOvernm~ of the United
States and to secure the bes prosperity
and happiness to the people of tins
country. This we could not do if we
abolished all taxes and urge appropri-
ations, resulting in the bankruptcy of
the United States treasury and conse-
quent uncertainty and rum of all your
business, financial and industrial ma
chinery. We could, therefo.e not
consent to the passage of bill which
did not provide sufficient revenue.
Had we done SO the confidence of the
country in the ABILITY of the Demo
crat C party to administer the affairs of
the government would have been de-
stroyed. Many of you believe that the
income tax should have been put in the
b;ll-some demanded it. | doubted it
constitutionality. Had | felt certain
that ii was unconstitutional should
have voted against it, but with the bill
framed with the income tax included
sufficient revenue would have been
raised during the past fiscal year to pay
all the government outgo and no more.
With restored trade, however, it is now
clear that the bill, even without the in