The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-06
to ourselves and to posterity the blessings


of liberty
Richard Olney was then introduced as
diplomat who had never followed the pol
icy of wandering around the world seeking
quarrels with weaker nations, and as the
pride of New England, but enthroned in
the hearts of all his countrymen. He
spoke as follows:
"In the matters of foreign policy, the
Democratic party will stand for interna-
tional morality and decent international
conduct; continuing our traditional
role as the defender of the weaker states
of this hemisphere.
I'm matters domestic, the Democratic
party will repudiate the stand pat pol
icy and will advocate both economy in ex-
penditures and such tariff reform and re-
vision as industrial conditions and the in
terests of tne country at large demand. In
that view it will stand for taking from
the so-called trusts that kind and de-
gree of protection which enables them
both to monopolize the home market and
to sell to the foreign consumer at prices
greatly below those made to the domestic
consumer.
I'm other matters vitality affecting both
our foreign and domestic affairs, the Dem
ocratic party will first of all stand for
pacific instead of militant republic; for
an army and fleet commensurate with
actual needs, but not used either as play
things or to bully the weaker or provoke
the strong. In short, for the things that
make for peace and not for war.
"The men of all men most thoroughly
representative of the national policies l
have indicated, the most capable and sure
of making them effective-the opportunity
being given-the man of proven courage
of his convictions, who never yet turned
his back upon the approach of public duty
and is too old to learn how, that man I'M
fortunately absent, at this time, but a
New Yorker by adoption if not by birth,
and one whom New York has al
ways delighted to honor, is Grover Cleve-
land, whose record is an all-sufficient guar
antee of his action in the future
Governor "A. J. Montague, of Virginia,
who followed Mr.. Olney, said in part:
AT this period in our party affairs the
South comes forward as the champion of
no candidate; but it is to be hoped that
she will come forward in spirit of CO.
operative leadership for the pronounce
ment of such principles and measures as
may VIGOROUSLY rehabilitate our party
and give to a peoples government peo-
pies rule.
Il venture the opinion that the South
Should not indifferently wait upon a
policy of negation or the slow moving
tides of public opinion. or make para
mount in anticipation the availability of
candidate. but she should affirmatively
stand forth in behalf of the established
IL. z
''She should not only ask, but demand
that issues which are dead should not be
stirred up for our undoing She should
take the initiative in the recrudescence of
our party upon the principles which
heretofore, and for so long led US to
victory and to the peoples service, and
the South should know this not as a sec
ton, but as an integral part of our union,
with an affectionate interest in its well
fare. growth and glory.
Nor does the South direct the consid
Grafton of the country to a candidate.
but she should declare that he be a pure
minded patriot, clean public servant.
urageous but not venturesome, jealous,
but not picturesque. sober in judgment.
but not fanatical in faith. With such
candidate supporting a conservative and
just policy for a sane and safe people, we
may see coming to every fire and to every
hand an equality of opportunity and of
right and of duty. the Republic, of the
best sort
Former Governor David B. Hill was
greeted with loud applause when in his
Introductory remarks he eulogized the
leadership of Charles F. Murphy, and pre-
dicted that Mayor Mcclellan would sue
coed him as Governor of the State and
precede him in the White House.
Mr. Hill characterized the course of
President Roosevelt in the Panama affair
as "a species of contemplate Vaccination
unworthy of the head of great nation
prompted by personal ambition and a de-
sire to startle and daze the people; part
and parcel of a political scheme to prema-
turely fierce his own nomination Tor the
Presidency, and to preclude the consld-
Grafton of the name of any other candi-
date within his own party, and "a cheap
and transparent play to the galleries"
Congress-, he said, alone has power to
declare war, and yet the spectacle Is pre-
scented at this hour of the naval forces Of
the United States being used TO prevent
sister republic from exercising the law
full function of suppressng a rebellion
against its legitimate authority within
its own borders.
Mr. Hill declared it. ''the duty of De-
mocracy to resist the contamination of
this outrage and urged the rejection OF
the treaty in the Senate.
Mr.. Hill next took up conditions in the
army. speaking of ''the studied insult
to Lieutenant General Miles" in the or
der announcing his retirement from the
army and "the constant and persistent
endeavor to confer upon personal favor
ties of the President the highest Offices