The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-09
PREACHED
HON. HUDSON HARkoN ORATOR
 AT CINCINNATI.
In Letter to Faithful in Philadelphia Senator Ttllman Says the Wings of the Party Must
 "Flap Together."

Cincinnati. Jan. s.-The feature of the Jackson day banquet, given by the Duck
 worth Club here tonight, was the ad- dress of Judge Judson Harmon, Attorney General under the Cleveland administra- tion and prominently mentioned as can didate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency.
 ing was M E. Ingalls,, President of the Big Four Railroad, and Democratic cam didate for Mayor of this city last April. Two hundred plates were turned Judge Harmon spoke as follows:
 "Of late years the Republican politicians have set up the claim that 1t is their management of home affairs which makes good times and so they must be kept in control if good times are to continue. The new hnmbug worked nicely for while. But a year ago, in. spite of the success of the Republicans in tho Con- gressional election. some of the clouds and rainbows which had been capitalized and put off on the people began to van ish. Banks failed here and there, trade combinations toppied, fear and distrust began to stalk about, and not a Demo- crat in power anywhere to lay it on. And 90 matters have gone ever since, until MT. Hanna, the chief apostle of party made prosperity, has announced that all this Is due to natural causes
 "A country which is governed through parties is in a bad way when 1t has only one party which can be trusted.
 'T believe the people are now turning to the Democrats for relief from extrav- agance and unfairness and the undepend- ableness of the present administrati ton. and the brag and pretense still employed to mislead them should be punctured once for all by the plain facts. All we ask Is to be judged by those facts in the com- ing campaign. It Is false that entrustins the Democratic party with power is.- Of ever was, menace to the prosperity of the country. The Democratic idea of what constitutes prosperity differs from that of some of it's opponents. It is an old fashioned idea if you choose to put it so. but 1t is founded in the precepts of the wise men of every age and na- ton. and on the experience of all man. kind. Democrats do not look to the gov | ernment as the source Of prosperity, but | to the people themselves who will, in fair | and honest ways. work out all the good that Providence permits them, if the gov- ernment will leave them free from need less burdens and interference.
 Tt is false, too. that there Is danger of hurtfui disturbance in the process of re- from in the tariff and other things to which the Democratic party is pledged. Many Of the wrongs to be righted are so manifest that even the Republicans l confess and promise to correct them-at some time which never comes. The his tory of the Democratic party shows that in making needful changes it can be de- pended upon to proceed in a spirit of moderation and fairness to all citizens
 who have embarked their labor or capital
 nj useful enterprises. No matter how
 unjust the law under which such enter
 prises have been undertaken, they are tO
 be fairly and considerably treated. If tEe time is at hand as I think it is
 when the people require a change of ad.
 ministration, they are no longer to be
 prevented by false assertions and imagt-
 nary fears from committing 1t again tc
 our party. There are enough existing
 evils and grounds of concern which are
 seen and felt by all fair minded men,"