The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-05
VITUPERATI0N
SAYS HIS DEEEATIS DUE 0POLITI-
CIL YERMIN.

Could Coerce-The Future is Yet Bright.
Chicago, Nov. 4.-Governor Altgeld
gave out the following statement this
afternoon:
ITO the democrats of Illinois,:
Although defeated, desire to thank
you for the loyal support you have
given and I congratulate you on the
heroic fight. I consider that only six
months ago our great party lay pros
trate; it had been betrayed into the
hands of stock iobbers and monopolists
by President Cleveland; it had been
robbed of everything democratic en-
cept a name; it stood for no principle,
and its. flesh was being torn by poiiti-
cal birds of prey; it was loaded with
political dead heads, men who never
did anything in the party eycep1 to
ride it, and it was infested with politi-
cal vermin Of both the smooth and
dusty variety.
Yet under these sore conditions the
party broke the cords with which the
Liliputians had tied it. Tt rose with
AiNN IiiCi eJs IL tuG tOOSG from Il1e
trusts and syndicates; it repudiated
the man who betrayed 1t; threw off the
load of dead heads, it drove out the po-
litical vermin and with a new inspira-
tion it again proclaimed democratic
principles and espoused the cause of
tofling humnatiy. Althoueh it was
obliged to reform while undar the fire
of the enemy it has made the most he
roic political fight ever seen in this
country. 1t was confronted by all the
Doodle that could be scraped together
on two continents. 1t was confronted
by all the banks, all the trusts, all the
syndicates, ell the corporations all the
great papers.
1T was confronted by everything
that money could buy--that Doodle
could debauch or that fear of starva-
ton could coerce. 1t was confronted by
the disgust which the majority of the
American people felt towards the ma
tional administration for which they
hold us responsible. 1t was confronted
with the unbounded charge Of being
partly responsible for the hard times.
1t was confronted by combination of
loltSo SlAIll llcN ilC'Ci OCSil ohttCu
before and will probably never be
united again, and worse still, the time
was too short to educate the people
while we are defeated, our party is
more vigorous and in better condition
generally than it has been for third
of a century. I specially call your at
tention to the utter insignificance, as
shown by the returns of those who.
after having helped to ruin our party
were either driven out or left in this
campaign. Two years ago these men
were with us and always insisted on
occupying front seats and wanted to
lead. Then we were not confronted
with any powerful opponent and we
lost the state by upwards of 10000 ma
jority.
"This year three men opposed us and
we had to meet all the forces | have
named. We had no slnews of war; we
had all the power Of corrupt wealth
against us, we had to reform under
the fire of the enemy and the time was
too short to make proper campaign.
"Yet we have reduced the adverse
majority of two years ago by about
one-third Those men are at last where
they belong. While we are defeated we
have dug the grave Of the British gold
standard One more campaign of edu-
cation will forever bury the palsied
form of that curse which has blighted
prosperity and the happiness of man
kind My fellow democrats on account
of my health / welcome the retirement
which is now assured men and which
have long wished for, but let me say
in parting that if you cherish republic
can institutions then your country will
need your services. Two years ago
several states were carried by the same
forces that have triumphed this year
"The shadow of the men and the in
huences that will control the coming
administration is already in the land.
Republicans tell us the newly elected
president Is weak, that he allowed the
manufacturers to frame his tariff bill
and that as governor he was very
weak. We may assume that the COM
ing administration viii be controlled by
the men who have been so prominent
in securing his election.
Look at some of them, Mr.. Hanna,
Mr.. Carnegie Mr.. Depew, Mr.. Pullman,
Mr.. Huntington, Mr. Payne, Mr. Thurs
ton of Pacific railroad fame, and a
number of others of the same charac-
ter. Many of them have long been re-
garded as corruptionists, as men who
have helped to spread a moral leprosy
over this country and will use the gov
ernment as a convenience to make
money for corporations. There will
come bond issues and all manner of
government jobs and although we have
no enemy on either side of us an ef-
fort will be made to give this country
a stsnding army.
AN effort will be made to advance
the doctrine that local self-government
does not go hand in hand with federal
supremacy but that the president shall
have the same power to use the army
that the czar of Russia has to use his
army, and efforts will be made to per-
petuate government by injunction and
destroy trial by jury. An effort will
be made to further tighten the grip of
the money power on the throats of the
people and to gradually convert this
republic into a. plutocratic oligarchy,
and it will devolve on the democratic
party to save free institutions I be-
lieve at the next presidential election
the people will reverse the verdict of
yesterday
mo doubt there will be spurt of
activity, built on false hopes, but as
the forces which have produced the