The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-18

people have so signally and unmistak- ably made public declaration and set the seal of their approval upon the question of maintaining inviolate the national honor and the monetary credit of our people"
 Letters of regret were received at a late hour from Secretary of the Navy Herbert and from Secretary of State Olney. Postmaster General w. l.. Will son was introduced by President Orr, and was received with prolonged ap- plause. MT Wilson, in part, said: We have just had a test of the capacity of universal suffrage to deal with ques- tion so confessedly difficult that in other countries it is committed to trained experts and specially educated statesmen That test has been made under conditions least favorable to the safe and correct judgment. That such fight could move forward through all the stages of presidential campaign without a panic and without a cessa- tion of ordinary business enterprise has been a marvel to other nations.
 'sRhat the result has been a triumph for national integrity is cause for thanksgiving; that the result has been dissolution of party ties and that hearty concert of forces irreconcilably antagonistic on other policies is a ground for quickened patriotism and loftier pride in American citizenship.
 ITO make forever safe the fruits of such victory is now the duty and re- sponsibility of those to whom initiative and power have come With the verdict of the late election, which for all citi- zens who love their country and who place her honor, greatness and welfare high above party. allegiance and per- sonal ambition, there is the nc less inn perative duty of dispassionate and anxious scrutiny into the causes and sources of strength of a movement which put all of this into jeopardy.
 If we are to escape in the future the cries we have hard in this campaign of the power of plutocracy, of the classes and the masses, of the antag onism between capital and labor and of the gulf between the rich and the poor, all wrongs or abuse5 that can breed and foster such ideas must be patiently and honestly obliterated. Then the appeal of the agitator, the socialist and the demagogue will be of no avail and there will not be in this republic an army of discon- tented that may be rallied under any banner that seeks to assail the safe- guards of private prosperity, the good order of society or the fabric of the na- tional and individual credit
 Also, if we are to escape great perils in the future and dangerous political issues we. must understand that in a country where every question ultimate ly rests on popular suffrage the cam pafgn of education is a perpetual duty. If men are to vote right on the one day in four years when they decide momen- tous issues they must be trained on all the other days of the four years to right and intelligent issues. The fruits of the victory for sound finance will be frittered away if the momentum of that victory is to expend itself with out complete affirmative legislation. Power and authority have been gained for. such legislation as will place one monetary system on safe and impreg- nable basis We must all admit that the entire body of our financial legisla- tion for thirty years has been a make shift and a concession to mistaken ideas.''
 Addresses were also delivered by Gov ernor John w. Griggs of New Jersey, w. Bourke Cochran General Nelson A. Miles, Hon. Joseph P. Hawley, Mayor Strong, Commodore sicard and General Porter.