Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-22
CLEVELAND SPEAKS.
Ex-President at New York
 Democratic Assembly.
GREAT OVATION AT CARNEGIE HALL


 Sage of Princeton Turned orator1cas
 Batteries on the Administrations
 Regarding Trusts, Panama
 and Philippines Policy.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 22.--Thousands ot people were unable to get into Carnegie hall last night. so great was the crowd which gathered there to hear former President Cleveland and former secre- tary John c. Carlisle expound the prin- ciples of Democracy. The meeting waa held under the auspices of the Business Mems Parker and Davis association
 MT. Cleveland was given one of the greatest ovations and one Of the most enthusiastic receptions ever accorded to public man in New York. Return. ing to political platform in this city for the first time in dozen years. his last appearance at purely political meeting having been in October, 1892. when he was himself a candidate for the presidency, MT. Cleveland was taken to the hearts of an saudience which filled every available foot ot space In the great hall.
 MT. Cleveland who after expressing his pleasure in again breathing the at. mosphere of resolute and harmonious Democracy and avowing his intense anxiety for the success of the party in the pending campaign, turned his oratorical battery upon the alleged ar rogance of the Republicans, who, he asserted, claimed for themselves all the virtue, wisdom and honor of the country. Continuing, he said in part:
 "A party may indulge in self congrat- ulation when it has effectively defend ed the people in their daily life from the rapacity of trusts and combina- tions, which thrive as private enter prise is strangled and which grow fat as by their control of the cost Of liv- ing they cause the homes of our land to grow lean, but the people will hard ly approve the vociferous pride which claims that successful attack upon the merger of the stock of certain com peting railroads has rescued them from their oppressors. They will not fail to observe that the huge combinations which directly injure them still four ish, and they may also recall how the consternation among those implicated in such schemes who once feared gen. eral pursuit was quieted when the soothing assurance reached them that the government did not intend to run amuck.' Nor will they probably accept the suggestion that repentance or a change of heart accounts for the man ner by which the threats and animosity of many powerful trust magnates have been displaced by their approval and substantial support of the party which seeks to convince the people of it's trust destroying proclivities.
 When the platform boast is made that in the Philippines we have SUD- pressed insurrection, established order and given to life and property secur- tty never known there before the con- fession will be extorted that the insur- rection suppressed was no worse than the crushing out of resistance to the army of the United States while en- gagged in the subjugation of people thousands of miles from our shores, whom an incident of a war undertaken by us in aid to those struggling for lib- erty and independence in another quar- ter had put within our power, and the people will ask under what sanction was this subjugation entered upon by a nation pledged to the doctrine that all just powers of government are de rived from the consent of the govern ed, and they will deny that imperialism and our forcible rule of foreign people have any place among the purposes of our national life.
 "When credit is claimed for securing 8 route for long desired interoceanic waterway it will not be in carping spirit that the people will look at the incidents accompanying this achieve ment. They do not undervalue the ob- Ject gained, but they keenly appreciate the importance and value of our na- tional honor, our national good name and, above all, our national morality. Not even the great worth of the thing accomplished will close the eyes of thoughtful Americans to the fact that in reaching the results we have exhib- ited such international ruthlessness and such selfish international immoral ity as have lastingly debilitated prec- edent which in time to come may be invoked to justify the most startling and reprehensible abandonment of the high ideals which have made us an ex- ample of the best civilization.
 ''Above all greater than all, guarding and protecting all and fostering every thing that American patriotism should covet, are the service and devotion to country of sincere people who believe that if their government is preserved in it's simplicity and defended against perversion it's blessings of happiness, contentment and true prosperity will in bounteous measure visit every corner of our land
 'T desire to congratulate you, my old neighbors, and the citizens of what love to call my old state, upon the fact that what Alton B. Parker is and what he represents in the nation D. Cady Herrick is and represents in your state. |. Al..>. L