The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-05

Other Speakers Dwell Upon the Ap-
preaching Campaign and Plans of
Democracy for Acknowledgement
of the Masses-TeIegram From Mr..
Croker Read-Mr. Bryan Delivers
IN Address in Georgia.
NEW YORK, July 4-The Fourth of
July was celebrated here under glorious
weather conditions, with much noise,
merrymakng, a profusion of flags, and.
excursions and sports of all kinds. 1t
was stated that there were more fire.
ming than on any previous Independence
day, and, therefore, the police and fire
departments expected to have more than
their usual troubles.
Tammany Hall celebrated with formal
exercises in the wigwam. Joseph ]. Willet,
president Of the Alabama Bar. association,
who made the grafton of the day, spoke
as follows:
1t is fortunate for US and for our
country that we assemble upon this day
all over this broad land and again dedi-
cate ourselves and our country to the
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thereby repleniSh the lamps of patriot
ism with oil by which the fame burns
steadily the remainder of the year.
know of no one having more occasion or
greater right to celebrate this day than
a follower of that worlds greatest DEM
ocrat who penned the famous Declaration
which made this day immortal. In thus
meeting to do honor to the day. we do
honor to the man and to the principles
he represented. Nor do l know any or
ganization of Democrats having a better
right to celebrate this day than Tam
many Hall, which has for century and
quarter kept the fires of Democracy
has never failed to assemble and read
the Declaration of Independence on the
birthday of our independence. It affords
me genuine pleasure to meet YOU and to
acknowledge the debt of gratitude the
South has always felt to the Democracy
of New York, and especially to Tammany
Hall, for its friendship and help when
the Republican party sought to humil-
late 1t and crush 1t with force bills.
Our party has been buried by it's enc
mics many times, but like Antaeus of
old, 1t rises from Gefeat each time strong
er than before. No party could do this
that did not deserve to live, or that did
not advocate principles which found lodg-
ment and sanction down deep in the hu-
man heart II is when chasfened Nv de-
feat that we put forth our best efforts
and win our greatest victories. This is
because we are then nearer the great
heart of the people than when we are in
power and in the flush of victory. Our
enemies sometimes taunt us with the fact
that we lack conference, and when in
power we split up and begin to fight
among ourselves, whereas, they always
present a solid front. There is some truth
in this accusation, but it Is easily ex-
planned. The Democratic party is a ma
tional party-the only national party. 1t
knows no East and no West no North
and no South; and in framing tariff laws
and other measures it conSults the inter
ests of every part of our common coun-
try. This necessarily brings about more
or less of contention and strife; whereas,
the Republican party when in power
contributed to its campaign fund, and
there is one-third of our great country
south Of the Potomac with ,25,OOO,OOO Of
people for which the Republican party
neither cares nor legislates, except to leg
islate adversely. Unity and conference
are not hard to accomplish under these
circumstances. Thank God we do not
belong to a party which consults only the
campaign contributors in framing the
laws, and ignores and treats unjustly one
third of our great country. There is moth
Ing about our party we are prouder of
than its broad nationality, and absence
of sectiOnalism therein.
NO FIGHT ON WEALTH.
Right here I will state our party has
against wealth. In many sections of our
country, notably in my own, the men
OF wealth in nearly every instance are
Democrats, and we have no idea or
thought of driving these men from the
party or excluding them from party
councils. We would that all men were
Democrats, and We welcome the rich and
the poor. All that we insist upon is that
the wealthy and the poor should be
treated with even justice, and stand
equal before the law; but because one
man is rich gives him no right to think
for them or to write the laws for
them. We must be pardoned if we do not
events sometimes prove that we are right
and they are wrong. 1t has only been
u few years when those of US who did
not believe in high tariff laws or that
could make a people rich and prosperous
by taxing them were designated by our
names of doctrinaire, fool and idiot Not
WithStanding our vehement protests and
warnings, an infamous tariff law was by
them caused to be enacted which they
had purchased before the election by
campaign contributions, and which
breeds an annual deficit of seventy mil
lions Of dollars and innumerable trusts
at home, and constant irritation and re-
talfation abroad; within two years there
after We hear the walls of Carnegie,
HaVemeyer and other manufacturers
praying the Democratic party to deliver
them from the body of that death which
they had deliberately fastened upon
themselves and the people of the United
States.
l know of no more striking Illustration
of their utterable folly than in my own
state of Alabama, where there is high
uN1S Ol plS IRON 70 protect the American
manufacturer against European competi-
ton, while the Alabama furnaces are ex-
porting and selling more than so per cent
OF their output in the open markets of
Europe, and have been for several years.
great duty confronts US, that of driv-
Ing from power the party which con
temptuously ignores the rights of the
great mass of people and makes laws for
the favored few. And to win this victory
all that is necessary is that we should
come together in the old time spirit of
mutual concessions, and liberation for
each others views; when we stand thus
shoulder to shoulder and our Republican
enemy gives us battle we usually leave
him very much in the condition of those
Spaniards who went up against Dewey s
guns at Manila and Schley's at Santiago,
But to get together with the old time
spirit and with the old time enthusiasm.
we much fight the coming campaign on
living issues. The American people are
happily, that they prefer to settle the
questions Immediately in front Of them
rather than those which may arise In the
future. Happily for us there are issues
right in front Of us upon which we can
all be, united. One of these is the tariff
with its monstrosities and absurdities
The need of tariff reform was never more
urgent than 1t is today, and every one
Knows we must look to the Democratic
TRUSTS AN ISSUE.
Another issue, however, has arisen. the
direct offspring Of the tariff, which Is
now absorbing the attention of the
tion was first directed to it early last
spring by Judge Augustus Van Wick in
his great speech before the New York