The herald., 1897-01-09
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represent not merely the forces back
Ing the present array of forces, but the
| changes wrought by a century of ma
tional development. In the late cam.
paign the Chicago platform stood for
! organized anarchy the Republican
platform for organized capital On
this latter platform can the vote that
elected Mr.. Mckinley be held togeth-
er? II thought so ] would not be here
tonight l do not think so. On the
contrary. I think that vote will go to
pieces IL 1t be not ce1nented by some
| thing more cohesive than the protect
| i've theory of tariff legislation and a
Republican fiscal policy, which, to say
the best that can be said of it, is yet
put specter bridegroom at the mar
riage feast"
Hon. Charles Hamlin, assistant Sec
retary of the treasury, responded to the
toast, Our National Administra tion. and
In this he recounted some of the matters
OF national Importance that had been
accomplished during Mr.. Cleveland s
term. AS to Jackson, whom they had
| met to honor, he said TO one was ever
more devoted by precept and practice
cause, and his life was marked by a
fearless determination to do what he
conceived to be his duty.
I'm honoring him." said the speaker,
'iet us also render honor to other illus
trious statesmen who in the present.
as was Jackson in the past. are leaders
of our political faith" In this connec-
tion he spoke of Senator John M. Palmer
and Hon. Simon b. Buckner. "They
stand forth today pre-emineratly as rep
resenting courage and conscience in pol
itics. They fought a noble fight. and
though defeated, as was to be expect
ed, their defeat was but stepping
stone to a victory of sound principles
of finance and a vindication of our ma
tional honor"
He spoke of Hon. John G. Carlisle as
"the Intellectual peer of any living
man. who, true to his chief our great
pI esdent regardless of personal con-
sequences. flung himself into the breach
in the recent conflict, and by his intel
lectual vigor, his cogept reasoning and
his brilliant oratory did perhaps more
than any other man to insure the pres
ervation of our national honor"
The name OF Secretary Olney was pre-
sented as the worthy successor of Clay,
Webster Marcy and Seward.
Speaking of the National Democratic
party. Mr.. Hamlin said: 1T represents
liberal, progressive ideas, as opposed to
narrow conservatism. Its motto is for
ward, not backward. Its path is that
of progress not decadence."
Mr.. Hamlin said the toast Of Our Ma
tional Administration had been respond
ed to again and again in the hearts of
the people during the past few months
The administration of our great leader
the peoples leader. President Cleveland,
has been. true to the principles of the
Democratic faith. He has carried the
banner of Democracy aloft with unsul-
lied hands. With a firmness and strength
of purpose almost unknown in our his
Arapx he hos x.-tt \. - l~I -
of the seer. tary of the treasury, main
tained in tEe United States the gold
standard of value--the standard of the
civilized world. originally given to this
country in 1894 by Andrew Jackson.
The federal election law has been re-
pealed. the Mckinley tariff act swept
from the statute book and the present
law substituted. and the purchasing
clauses of the so-called sherman silver
purchasing law We're repealed with Re-
publican assistance and the public credit
has been fearlessly maintained. The
present administration. in Issuing bonds
to protect the gold reserve, has In effect
but reissued those bonds which the last
administration unwisely purchased and
Cancelled.
Passing from domestic to foreign re-
said, had certainly achieved most nota-
BILE successes, some of which he enum-
Grated
I'VE have confidence that history will
applaud the withdrawal of the treaty of
annexation with Hawaii. The attitude
Of the adninistratio ntoward the Cuban
revolt, so clearly laid down in the presi-
dents recent message to congress. is
so fresh in your memory that it need
not be alluded to here
1T may be WE'LL" he continued, "to re-
call one historical parallel. This was
presented when. In 1885, President Jack
son. who for reasons set forth. declined
to recognize the independence of Texas"
Mr.. Hambin continued in part as fol-
lows: 1T is painful, indeed. to realize
that during the late struggle former com
rades We're opposed to us. But we must
not forget that they are still our bothers.
united to us by bonds growing out of the
real underlying principles of our polti
cal faith. upon which they and we agree,
for which in the good old times together
we have fought. Forgetful, therefore,
of the past, and mindful only of the
future. let us stretch out our hands to
them and beg them to turn from the
false light. that will o the wisp-Popu-
lisln-and face toward the sacred fires
of Democracy, which we have kept
burning, and share with us their warm,
bene ficent glow
I'm the present condition of public af-
LARS we SlUuiU Sltduldstly piOCIaIHl
and practice the principles of true De-
mocracy. Let us pledge ourselves to
render the new coming administration
patriotic assistance to secure needful
reforms in our financial system. Let us
march forward. inspired by the thoughts
of Jefferson. Jackson. Cleveland, Car
lislc, Palmer and Russell. We have
work ahead Of us. Let us maintain the
principles of the Indianapolis platform.
Let us insist, in the future as in the
past, that taxation should be limited
by the necessities of the government.
economically administered. Let us re-
form our financial system Let us fur
ther repeal the barbarous navigation
laws which have swept our foreign COM
merce from the seas. But a change, I
believe will soon be at hand. Let every
Democrat grid up his loiEs. and drop
ping wild vagaries born of unrest and
discomfort, fight for the principles of
jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, and
victory again will be ours
Letters from President Cleveland,
Secretar,, Morton and John M. Palmer
were received with cheers.
The enthusiasm was even greater
when Gen. Simon Buckner arose to sueak
ior the State of Kentucky.
He spoke in praise of the defections
from the party which followed the Chi.
cago convention. saying: when send
an agent to market to buy horse and
he brings me back a jaekass, I am not
bound to take it. The Democrats sent
delegates to Chicago to build a Demo-
cratic platform and they constructed
one which bore the earInarks of Popu-
lism. and we did not choose to accept it,