Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
TANNER RETIRING.
The Governor of Illinois Parting
Words to His Party at
Springfield.

| Leans of Illinois in convention at
| Springfield Friday, December 20, Gov.
| John II. Tanner said:
"Fellow Republicans: I greet you to-day
as representatives of a political party on
which rests, and has long rested, the great
burden of responsible political action for
| the state and the nation. There has been
no other responsible party in American
politics since 1860 Even when democrat
was in the presidency he was compelled to
appeal to the patriotism of the republican
party to prevent dishonor and disgrace in
the management of the national finances,
| and he did not appeal in vain. And now
| the democratic party has degenerated into
| a noisy horde of guerrillas, without order,
discipline or principles. They are mere
political ghost dancers, who have actually
mistaken little Billy Bryan for the true
Messiah. The great sachems Of Jefferson
| ian democracy are discredited and can find
no resource but to vote the republican tick
| ct. Those now in charge of the party are
| not true democrats, but are populistS, with
| all that odious name implies.
| Nothing is so painful to the leaders of
| the popuist wing of the democratic party
| as the fact that their country is now pros
| porous. They are like the old negro who
| answered all inquiries after his health by
| saying: Il am quite poorly, thank God!
| How ungrateful and mean is the task
| which now devolveS upon politicians of the
| Bryan Altgeld dHarrson stripe! They are
| actually compelled to go out before pros
porous and contented people, through
| smiling and happy land where the banks
| are all bursting with money and where
| every factory wheel is turning, ard all
| labor employed, and try to exp:ain away
| the splendid prosperity of their country
Politicians reduced to this extremity
| should fee from land of which they are
| unworthy and join one of Aguinasdos S guer-
| rilla bands in the mountains of Luzon
| \ hsN may HnnUgni1l
such men are colleagues of calamity
| and pestilence. They are sworn allies of
| the cut-worm and the weevil. They are
| full partners of the Kansas hot wind and
| the hog cholera. Nothing suits their style
| of campaign better than an early frost
| They want 4O-cent wheat. 15-cent corn, and
! 1O-cent oats, and if all the bins were empty,
| even at that price, so much the better for
| them. Nothing disconcerts these men so
| much as full savings bank, and the sight
of a workingman carrying Christmas gifts
| home to his waiting children is enough to
| give a populist politician the cramps. Such
| men have only one use for laborers and
| mechanics, and that is to have them sitting
| idle and ragged in a row upon the curb
stone, cursing the administration
| But our country is through with demo-
| cratic calamity times. The holy year will
| dawn in three days more so the pope says,
and it is going to be a republican year.
| In spite of the fact that we committed the
| a,I hot urah h1N cd
81 ~ nf tndanondance eetahlisb-
tlie tt, ,,, a. ,,ins. IN snitn of
| .h fat +hn+ ,,a bo,,a soroly outraped the
| historic tenderness of the democratic party
| for the down-trodden of the earth-partic-
| ularly for the black mani say, in spite of
| all these things, the political highways are
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puthoe man e''''i'', - N I'm -
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| perSihS Asulhaluo army, hdNt hhoChe"
| the last piahk OUT OF the ueHiocrdtic pla'-
form. free trace olea forever WIN tile
| revival OF business uhoer the MchIhley
taflif. ana lfee SILVER at lhe rate Oh 10 10
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Iheh, with the lhstlhct OF a droWhlhE man
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| upon ahtl-imperlalish ana lleo TO MAKE II
a new issue. lie went around quolhs
scripture ana told now the Wfalh Oh poo
| came upon hlng Ahab because ne s'ol'