The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-01-22
A GOOD TIME COMING.
Chaunoey Depew and Andrew
Carnegie Both Declare 1t.
A MOST ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.
Mr.. Depsw Talks to Republican Editors
and Mr.. Carnegie to Citizens Of johns
Racantinu-

Mr.. Depsw Talks to Republican Editors
and MIR. Carnegie to Citizens Of johns.
town-The Latter Receives q Most Cor
dial 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 the 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, where
a banquet was served In their honor
Chauncey NJ Depew was tho chief speaker
of the evening He said in part:
"You, gentlemen, as Republican edi.
tors, ought to be peculiarly happy tonight.
We have won great victory. We have
done more; we have averted q frightiul
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 II confidence had re.
ceived the shock of the determination OF
tine United States to embark upon the un.
known sea Of deprecated and debased
currency.
"This campaign was peculiarly yours,
because 1t was u campaign of education
under extraordinary difficulties. The ed.
itor and the orator in the late canvass
were confronted with 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
al - . tn w
empty stomach more difficult with ma
turing note or mortgage. In such cases
it is easier to appeal to the imagination
than to the judgment
1--WE won by closer margin than
would have been possible two years or
four years ago upon such an issue Our
victory was duo not alone to the justice
of the cause, but largely to our leader. 1t
Is n lesson as old as representative govern
ment and the suffrage that the party
which can appeal to the people with
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 luborer 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
like impatient thoroughbreds at the COM
mencement of the race. The country cries
where is your prosperity When are the
good times to bcgln?' The bankrupt firm
and insolvent railroad the people over
whelmed by great calamity, do not rise
Instantly to their former conditions or
better ones. Confldenceis not the growth
of night it Is the creation of hundreds
of tributary elements which ultimately
do succeed in enabling it to accomplish Its
beneficent work.
I'VE 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 divisions and tho disorders of the camp
and tho nsubordnation of the generals.
| They felt the inspiration of the true com
mander, and without regard to previous
affiliations Republicans and sound money
| Democrats rallied to the standard of Nc
Kinley. The differences between Cleve-
| land and Mckinley as presidents and pop
ular leaders Is that Cleveland is phi
| losopher and Mckinley man Of affairs
| "The powers of the people will compel
| their representatives in congress to sup
port an administration which is their
! own Already we can feel the good times
1t only needs confidence in the stability of
legislation and administration for the
next four years for that golden current to
| flow into now enterprises, giving new en-
| ploymeht and stimulating every activity
of farm, of mine and of factory"