The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-01-22
GOOD TIMES
ARE COMING.
Chauncey Depew and Andrew Carnegie
Both Declare It.
A MOST ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK
Mr.. Depew Talks TO Republican Editors and
Mr.. Carnegie to Citizens Of Johns
town-The Latter Receives a
Most Cordial Reception.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-The fourth an
nual meeting of the Republican Editorial
association of the state Of New York was
called to order in tho Fifth Avenue hotel
by President Berri, of Brooklyn, yester-
day morning. Last night the members
gathered in the handsome dining room Of
the Union League club of Brooklyn whore
a banquet was served in their honor.
Chauncey NJ. Depew was the chief speaker
of the evening He said in part:
"You, gentlemen, rs Republican edi-
tors, ought TO be peculiarly happy tonight
We have won % great victory. We have
done more; we nave averted a frightful
disaster. 1t is not in the power Of the
imagination to picture what might have
happened in the tension of the financial
and industrial world if confidence had re-
ceived the shock Of the determination of
the United States to embark upon the un-
known sea of a deprecated and debased
currency.
'This campaign was peculiarly yours,
because it was a campaign of education
under extraordinary difficulties. The ed
itor and the orator in the late canvass
were confronted with a monetary and in
dustrial distress greater and longer con-
tinued than ever before in the history of
our country. Men out Of work, men in
debt, men who could not realize upon
their assets, were looking everywhere for
relief. 1t is difficult to argue with an
empty stomach, more difficult with a ma
turing note or mortgage. In such cases
1t is easier to appeal to the imagination
than to the Judgment.
owe won by a closer margin than
would lave been possible two years or
four years ago Upon such an Issue. Our
victory was due not alone to the Justice
of the cause, but largely to our leader. It
is n lesson as old as representative govern
mont and the suffrage chat the party
which can appeal to the people with a
candidate who embodies their principle
always wins againsta principle which is
not instinct with the life of the statesman
who heads the opposition ticket.
But the laborer and the artisan waits,
and the money in the vault lies idle, and
the mill and the factory and the furnace
stop and start and stop and start again
hke impatient thoroughbreds at the com
mencement of the race. The country cries
where is your prosperityg When are the
good times to begin?' The bankrupt firm
and insolvent railroad, the people over
whelmed by a great calamity, do not rise
Instantly to their former conditions or
better ones. Confidence is not the growth
of a night; it Is the creation Of hundreds
of tributary elements which ultimately
do succeed in enabling it to accomplish its
beneficent work.
wv can praise President Cleveland for
many acts, for many admirable things
that he has done, but the army of honest
money and of American industries saw
the divisionsa and the disorders of the camp
and the characterization of the generals.
They felt the inspiration Of the true COM
mander, n without regard to previous
affiliations Republicans and sound money
Democratsrallie to the standard of Nc
Kinley. The differences between Cleve-
land and Mckinley as presidents and pop
ular leaders is that Cleveland is a phi
losopher and Mckinley a man of affairs.
1.-THE powers Of the people will compel
their representatives in congress TO sup
port an administrator which is their
own Already we can feel the good times.
1t only needs confidence in tho stability Of
legislation and administration for the
nex four years for that golden current to
flow into new enterprises, giving new en-
ployment and stimulating every activity
of farm, of mine and of factory