Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-01

him to the audience, after wnich ne
proceeded to make one OF the most
forcible, logical and entertaining
speeches which has been delivered to an
Alexandria audience for many years.
Complete master of the subjects upon
which be spoke, he made them as clear
as the MONDAY sun. 'For forty
wears" he said, Gas long as the he
brews were in journeying from Egypt
into the promised land, has this county
been under republican rule, and every
democrat should be as earnest to rid the
nation of its sway as if the issue de-
pended upon his individual exertions.
Such determination counted more than
all the discussion ofeconomic questions"
The speaker contrasted present condi-
tions with those of ante bellum days,
"when." said he, 1.-THE old National In
telIigencer, the Richmond Examiner and
the Alexandria Gazette were the ex-
ponents of the respective political par
ties of the people. We live in day
when any man who attempts to defend
his standpoint by an appeal to the con-
stitution is laughed to scorn. Men Of
new ideas were to the 'front.' men who
presumed to say the constitution
was obsolete. 1t was no longer
country; it is party now" Mr..
Conrad cited the fact that
J. Pierpont Morgan with his many mil
lions. was at present more powerful than
any man in the United States, and was in
position to control the political destiny
of the country. Money was now the
force, and man with several millions
could change the political complexion
of the rulers of any city at his own will.
The speaker could remember when there
was but one millionaire John Jacob As
tori in the country; now they are legion.
Mr.. Conrad proved conclusively that the
increase in the ranks of this class was
due to pernicious legislation which made
the rich richer and beggared others He
referred to the tact that Andrew Carnegie
has written book in which the author
says the accumulation of his millions was
theresult ofthe present tariffregime. Fur
Their on in his remarks Mr.. Conrad al
luded to the millions expended in PEN
sions every year and said the republican
party had an eye to business; they want
ed the votes of the G. A. r., and that
should there be no more pensions paid,
this organization would soon fall to
pieces. Referring to the tariff the speak
err said Mr.. Cleveland was twice elected
on the tariff issue and the party would
have been successful the third time had
that been the chief plank in its plat
form. The tariff is again causing much
uneasiness in the republican ranks, and
prominent members ofthat party, realiz-
ing that they lost twice on the tariff
question, have taken up the democratic
cudgel and are talking loudly of tariff
reform and the curbing of trusts They
have stolen the clothes of the democrats
while the latter were bathing. The
republicans, like Proteus, are ready for
any change. Mr.. Conrad's picture of
the pure republic of years gone by and
the pretentious world-power of today
was graphic. He described the course
of the United States in the Philippines
and was unsparing in his expose of the
senseless waste of money and the cruelty
practiced in subjugating, or, more pro-
perly, exterminating these far-away
islanders. In closing the speaker said
he would say nothing detrimental to the
present occupant of the White House.
This gentleman had been born and bred
in another section of the country, and
his education and his associations
naturally had produced their effects.
He, however, knew him to be a brave
man, and hoped none would cast in
justice upon him, but that he should be
regarded with honesty so long as he did
nothing to forfeit the good opinion of
his fellow-citizens. Speaking for him
self, Mr.. Conrad said he entertained
hopes in him and would await results.
The speaker took his seat amid great
applause.
Mayor Simpson and other citizens had
seats on the stage during the evening.
After the adjournment of the meeting
Mr. Rixey and a number of friends sat
down to an oyster supper in the dining
room of the Opera House restaurant,
and about an hour was spent in social
conversation. Mr. Rixey was exceed
ingly entertaining in his descriptions of
theinner workings of Congress. Among
other things he showed the sectional
feeling still existing among many in
high positions and this spirit kept near
ly all government work in the New Eng
land States. This, of course showed
the necessity of having southern men in
such positions to scatter some of the
government appropriations to this part
of the country. The best evidence of
the injustice of the present order of
things is the fact that most all of the
additions to the navy are constructed in
northern shipyards while the govern
ment, having expensive navy yards of
their own, could build some of them.
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