Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-01-16
JUDGE HARMON
GIVEN OVATION
Possible Candidate for Prssi
dent Addressed the Jack
son Club Banqueters.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
Does Not Forecast Future Democratic
Policy, but Avows That Party Is
by No Means Menace to
Prosperity.

Cincinnati, o., Jan. 1.-THE feature C
the Jackson day banquet given by the
Duckworth club here was the address
of Judge Judson Harmon, attorney
general under the Cleveland admins
tratlon. and prominently mentioned as
a candidate for the democratic nom
ination for the presidency. Judge lfar'
mon was given a reception in the cruz
rooms previous to the banquet anC
was received with demonstrations
throughout the evening.
Among the other speakers or tht
evening was NJ. e. ingalls,. president oi
the Big Four railroad, democratic
candidate for mayor of this city lasl
April; Braxton Campbell, Max b. May
Clarence J. Neare, Max GOLDSMITH
and Judge Aaron Mcneil. Two nun
.dred plates were turned and the occa'
sion was made one of especial interest,"
ON account of Judge Harmons pres
ience.
Harmons Address.
Judge Harmon did not forecast any
future policy or new departure lor ms
party. but outlined the conditions I'M
der the republican administration O!
Harrison that confronted the last dem
ocratic administration, and brough oul
many interesting circumstances tha'
preceded the hard times ten years ago
He said in part:
"Of late years the republican pom
ticians have set up the claim that IL Is
their management of public analIS
which makes good times, ana SO tHeJ
must be kept in control If good times
are to continue. This new humbue
worked nicely for awhile. But a year
ago, in spite of the success or the re-
,publicans in the congressional eiectlon
Some Of the clouds and ralnooWS Whlct
had been capitalized and put OH or
the people began to vanish. bahhS
failed here and there, rad
lions toppled, fear and distrust eegar
TO stalk about. And not a democrat lr
power anywhere TO lay it on. n sc
matters have gone on ever since, unui
Mr.. Hanna, the chief apostle or party
made prosperity, has "nnounce thar
all this is due to natural causes.
"a country which is governed throuSE
parties is in n bad way When IL mas
only one party which can be trusted
7 believe the people are now turning
once more to the democrats for relici
from Extravaganza the unfairness ano
the Observation-Disclosures of the present
administration; and the braS and pre-
tense still employed to misle2d them
should be punctured once for all by the
plain facts. All we ask Is to be JudSei
by those facts in the coming campaign
The Party ana FTCSpCFlby'
1t is false that entrustlng the democratic
PARTY with power is or ever was a men
ace 70 the prosperity of the country. The
democratic idea Of what constitutes true
~nrosnerity differs from that Of some oil
ire onnonents. 1t is an old fashioned ldea.
of YOU choose to put It SC, but IT Is round
cd on the precepts of the wise men OF
every age and nation and on the eElleri,
ence Of all mankind. Democrats 40 no,
look to the government as the source VI
prosperity, but to the people themselves
who will. in fair and honest ways, worn
out all the good tina providence rerinlti
thon II the government will leave them
free from needless burdens and lnterter'
'onces. And every one of them VIII Get
the share TO which his diligence ana apli'
itv entitle him If he Is not held bacR
while others are thrust ahead Of him by
laws intended for that purpose.
II is false, too. that there is larger OF
hurtful disturbance in the process or re-
form in the tariff and other things &c
which the democratic party is pledged
MANY of the wrongs to be righted are SO
manifest that even the republicans con-
fess and promise to correct them-at soHie
time which never comes. The history oil
tho democratic party shows that III max,
ing ncedful changes 1T can be depended
unon TO proceed in a spirit OF moderation
and fairness to all CltlHells VIM nav
embarked their labor or capital IN useluI
enterprises. No matter how unjust the
law under which such enterprises nave
been undertaken, they are to De lairlS
and CONSIDERABLY treated.
II the time is at hand, as | thlnk IL Is
when the people require a change or al
minlstration, they are no longer 10 Dc
prevented by false assertions and mag
mary fears from committing it again &c
our marty. There are enough existing
evils and grounds of concern, which are
seen and felt by all fair minded men.
RascaIity of Public Servants.
The expenditures for the current year
are outrunning the receipts, and this is
likely to go on, because the party leaders
will not change the policy they are pur'
suing.
Rascality has been discovered In tho
public service, whose nature and extent
would lead any prudent man, If founo
in a department of his own business, &c
have the other departments o~verhauled.
No man can tell when he goes to BED
at night what the government may be
up to In the morning. And from day &c
day the course becomes more fragrant OF
the leaders who claim TO nave put THEN
trademark on all the public virtues and
who have inhaled entirely too long Tho
insidious vapors of a sure thing.