The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-26
MR.. cLEvELAND's SPEECH.

campaign OF 1880.
Mr.. Cleveland started out by sayin.
that he and the other gentlemen ver'
gathered here" anxious to do some
thing for prosperity and to protec
the fair fame of our nation agains
shame and scandal" Nothing could b,
more laudable than such desire. i
recognizes the fact that shame ant
scandal are overtaking the nation
and modestly carries the inference thai
they see danger before others and are
more anxious than others to avert it
Mr.. Cleveland and his anxious friends
can only be likened to seven watchers
upon a tower.
How roundly and soundly the ex--
president denounces the demagogues
who have sought to deceive the people
because they TEMPTED them to accept
without taking counsel of reason or
judgment" or Mr. Cleveland, amy
nostrum cunningly offered them
as remedy for their low
condition" If the memory of the
people deceives them not there were
several nostrums offered them during
the late administration as sure cure
for all their ills. Chief among these uos-
trums was a large gold-coated pill. and
he who compounded and rolled it de-
i'll to which flesh is heir. The bond is
sues nostrum was worthy the reputa-
ton of DR.. Sangrado himself.
| 1t is good to hear man who at a
missionary meeting took particular
. pains to talk about the undesirable
states of the west talking about peo-
pie who do not chance to think as he
does scattering the seeds of discon-
tent" and cuitivating "a growth of
trust which threatens to check or de-
stroy that fraternal feeling which
leads to considerate counsel in the day
of common misfortune and which is alb
solutely essential to the success of our
plan of government" Here Mr.. Cleve
land has done what no one would have
believed possible-he has out-Peck-
shifted Peeksniff.
How glibly Mr.. Cleveland talks
about the, leaders of the Democratic
party. He says that the bold pro-
motors of reckless greed captured the
organization of a powerful party" The
statement is utterly false. The organ
ization of a powerful political party
was rescued from the careful and cal
culating greed of a money power.
power at whose shrine Mr.. Cleveland
worships and to which his soul is sold.
After telling how hosts of honest
Col arfxr 40 tpr>
their party legends had been effaced,
Mr.. Cleveland delivers himself of this:
THE deliverance came through the,
action of those who saw the trick and
loved the principles of their party too
we'll to follow its stolen banners in
an attack upon those national safe
guards which party. as well as patriot
ism, should at all times defend"
Presumably this refers to those who
voted for Palmer and Buckner. because
no man whom Mr.. Cleveland terms
patriotic could possibly have voted for
Mr.. Mckinley. The number of those
who saw the trick and loved the princi
Piles of their party too well to follow its
stolen banners in an attack upon those
national safeguards which party as
we'll as patriotism should at all times
defend, was exactly 1881. While the
number of those who did not see the
trick and who followed the banners of
their party, not knowing at the time
nor having learned since that the ban
ners were stolen, and who never for an
instant dreamed they were making an
attack on national safeguards, because,
most probably, they were very wide
awake, was e.5O2,6S5, or just 6,369.S14 /
more than those who did so much for +
their country.
Mr.. Cleveland says the party placed |
in power as the result of splendid DEM |
ocratic patriotism has failed to meet I
the obligations of the peoples trust
and that instead 'of addressing them I
selves to this task the managers and /
of this victorious party, |
these professed champions of sound /
finance, have, before the eyes of an ex-
pectant people, returned in hot haste to
their wallowing in the mire of extreme
protection, offending millions of voters
Dy their exhibition of a party's bad
'aith and disgusting millions more by
heir unconcealed determination to re-
pay partisan support from the pro-
leeds of Increased burdens of taxation
placed upon those already overladeTi."
For this same party that is here de-
bounced by the only true patriot,
.1O6. 199 Americans voted, while for Mr..
Bryan and his party ESQ.,, SIS Americans
roted, making a grand total of
3. 70S. SS4 Americans who voted against
he wishes of Mr.. Cleveland and there
ore voted to destroy the government.
s he 50 simple minded that he sup
,osed the Republican party was going
o surrender all its principles and ideas
nd follow his whims because he said
hey constituted the only pure patriot
SIN? If he so thought he has been most
undeceived.
Mr.. Cleveland wants those who
rere with him at the dinner
here he spoke to devise means
0 break through the influences of the
leadership that surrounds
ne Democrats and without arrogantly
ssuming that no hardships affiict
hem, and that no reforms in their con- l
itions are needed, wants them to meet /, /,
is countrymen face to face in argu-
lent and counsel. I'VE shall find in {
very locality able, heroic men willing '
, struggle against the tide of miscon-
option. Let US hold up their bands ! !,
v organized effort and by timely as c
stance. Let true Democrats meet the J
assion and bitterness of their former J
ssociates who have assumed the lead I