The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-04-29

tariff will bring about good times.
The Republicans are in power, and
1 believe the Democrats in congress
should in no way interfere with the
passage of Republican tariff bill as
high as the Republicans please to
make it. Then it will all come home
to the people, and this will be the
last time, as the future will show, that
the political managers will be able to
lay tribute on the manufacturers to
pay campaign debts. And further, 1t
will then be demonstrated that
whether we have high or a low tariff,
under single gold standard no tariff
can bring prosperity.
/ believe that for the first time in
history the Democratic party presents
the spectacle of a party evolving from
defeat in better condition and with
stronger organization to wage a sue
cessful contest than it ever had.
There was heard on every hand
promises of prosperity from the Re-
: publicans, but the people now know
that these promises were pledges
made to the ear but broken to the
, hope.
We Democrats follow the teachings
t and the principles of Jefferson and re-
: affirmed by Jackson principles that
are coeval with history and which are
t bound up in our political codes. And
# so long as we are faithful to these
! principles, more and more will be the
t assurance of victory for Democracy.
d In the last campaign we brought out
:, extraneous matters and by misrepre-
If sentations public fear was aroused.
e We were charged with anarchy and
n disorder. Yet, / believe, if ever there
IS was a party that stood for the people,
for the common humanity, it was the
g Democratic party.
S. We have been through one cam
id paign, and now the people have be
in, come acquainted with the problem:
rs brought out during the last campaign
st and the people will not again take
a fright. Ws have nothing to taxi
ay back. Instead, we must assert thos'
,h fundamental principles again.
is We must follow the precept Q
he Jefferson that government is the ar
OF of being honest. The good and tru'
e men, who make up the ranks OF a
Of political parties, will in the future lin
mt up shoulder to shoulder and we sha
an then go on to success. -,
IS Perhaps it was well that we did nc
ers win last year. We were not ripe fc
me victory. The fruits of our victor
be would not have been so great as tn
people were anticipating Already tn
of Republicans have shown their abs
lit lutte inability to do right, to govel
our we'll and we can look into the futu
ter with the confident hope that the pc
the pie will, at the next presidential ele
ght ton, bestow upon us the government
,re- We were told during the campale
on. that Democratic success would bril-
bli- a panic. Well, there might have be-
AIRY a brief panic. There would ha
the been sharp clashes but the stol
ans would have soon rolled by and t
ma sun of prosperity would have SO
With shone forth. Now the country
the down in the miasma of the dish
re- swamp. The panic is not she
e or sharp one; it is continuous troub
involving all classes of people 1t
Ways seven-year plague and this panic
;sive not spend its full force until 100
top then we shall have Democratic S
nor cess the panic will end then, q
aves our store houses and granarles will
res running over.
by Ex-Lieutenant Governor Chaun'
F. Black endeavored to leave
room during the applause WI
followed but the keen eye OF On
man Garman saw him and w.
ence Hagerty was appointed to lead
'e so genial York statesman before
PLAIN committee Mr.. Black made a
cratic remarks which were loudly applau
Each and was followed briefly by Hon.
II as Witt c. Dewitt, Of Bradford.
d the Loud calls were heard for ex-Cl
+ Re- man James Kerr, but Mr.. Kerr
abso- LETT the hall.
is to