The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-22
GREAT DAY FOR 0LD-FASH|0NED DEMOCRACY
FORMER PRESIDENT CLEvELANDMAKES
GREAT SPEECH At CARNEGIE HALL


anxious solicitude of every patriotic
American.
Hot Shot for Roosevelt.
I'm country like ours, where
parties contest for the direction ol
| the government we must Of course
expect party advocacy and honorable
personal ambitions for political hon
0rs: but who. among those indulgine
in the fartherest retrospect of polit
ical campaigns, can recall one | n
which the advantage of the present
party control have been so palpably
and unblushingly used for its perpet
nation or in which the functions be-
| longing to the entire American peo'
pie have been more insolently forced
| to do partisan service? When before
has it been so distinctly claimed that
all the virtues. all the patriotism and
all the governing ability OF our citi-
.enship are found among the members
Of one political party and when be-
fore have these of our citizens not
among the chosen. been 50 boldly con
sidered as aliens In their own land.
Rho should be cast into outer political
darkness as unworthy to be entrusted
With the power and responsibility OF
1 government established by the peo-
Die for the people. When in all
our history has a party so presnmpi
lusly as now claimed to be the do
lors OF the gifts of God or when has
)ne so persistently plumed himself
pon the creation of all the prospari
Y that has fallen to our country's
o.? Cheers and cries of Hit EN-
igain.")
Insult to American Manliness.
Such arrogance is not new to the
party which now seeks at the hands
1f the people a renewal OF our govern
nent's control; but it has so grown
ly what it has fed on as now shame
essly to assume that the time has ar
lived when popular heellessness on
lullness will permit boasting and
'eckless assurance to pass for truth
nd reason. If this assumption is
justified there can be no doubt that
he sober ana rr ponsible political
hought and watchfulness upon
which the true interest and purpose
t our government depends are in
,rievous peril If. on the other hand,
his assumption is vicicgsly unwar-
anted, 1t is an insult to American
1anliness and should arouse prompt
nd effective recruitment More
,heerlng.)
;upercilious Disdain of Republicans.
Never before have our people
cen so belabured with party deliver
lnces which. in every line and every
yord, from platform declarations to
he last appeal of party advocacy are
saturated with conceited and tire.
'ome claims of infalibility and with
,upercilioug disdain OF all political
forts except such as are attempted
lnder the banner of Replblicanism
shall this pass current at time
when, at the parting of the ways in
our nations development. we are es-
)ecially calling to patriotic and
thoughtful ana careful contemplation
party designs and TO vigilant |
watch against dangers That beset us?
ly faith in my countrymen will not |
permit me 10 believe this. or to doubt |
hat they will insist upon examining |
or themselves the accounts of party I
tewardship. (Cries of THAT we will"
Republican Favoritlsm.
"They know that their country's |
prosperity. like the rains Of heaven,
which freshen and bsautify the orna-
Mental lawn at the same time make
productive the farm and garden,
ihould be distributed among all the
people in every station of life; and
hey will challenge the claim OF a
larty which boasts Of prosperity II
las wrought which gives 20 its pam
1ered favorites added opportunities
o increase their riches. while the poor
md those who toll. wait like Lazarus
o be fed by crumbs which fall from
he rich mans table.
THE party will be given just cred
I which. early or la.e. has endeavored
o safeguard the soundness of the ma
ions currency. but the people will
eject as savoring of presumption the
nsistence that only those belonging
o one party organization can claim
o be the protectors and defenders of
,ur financial integrity: nor viii they
orget that the fight was hotly on
ghen many Of the leaders Of The par
y now making such an insistence
we're worse than lukewarm in the
ause. (Applause.) L
Failure to Throttle the
Trusts.
a party which may indulge in SELF
when II has effectively
offended the people in their daily
fe from. the rapacity Of trusts and
which thrive as private
nterprise Is strsngied and which
row fa1. as their control n the cost
( living, they cause the homes Of :
NJ land To grow. lean; bat the people
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