The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-22
THOUSANDS STRUGGLE TO HEAR
 SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND

JcCl kdtHEu, uut tuGJ hScuty GIt6tC the importance and value ol ,ur na7 tional honor, our national good name and above all our national morality. The Seizure of Canal Zone.
 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 exhibited such international ruthless ness and such selfish international nor ality as has iastingly facilitated our reputation for good faith aud establish ed a precedent which. in time to come may be invoked to justify the most startling and reprehensible abandon ment of the high ideals which have made us an example of the best ciyili- zation--a people happy as we are In telligently free, strong as we are scru- pulously just, and everywhere trusted and honored as we undeviatingly fol- low in the way of uprightness and rec titude. aa
 T have ventured to suggest the mis- leading purpose of the vainglorious claims made by a party organization which seeks a continuance of political control and to intimate the humfliat- ing estimate of our peoples intelligence and patriotic vigilance which the ex- ploitation of these claims involve. It
 
 which prompts me to entreat my coun- trymen to hold fast and sure their in- dependence of thought and their cour- age in judgment.
 Iusecure Foundations.
 Nor do | speak in a tone of partf- sanship when beg them to remem- Der that the true greatness and glory os our nation cannot safely rest upon wealth which finds its way to the few at the expense of the many; nor upon such material success as contaminates the purity or blunts the potency of pa triotism; nor upon expansion in disre- gard of our national mission and intent: nor upon achievements that put in question our national. morality. Above all, greater than all, guaroine and proteching all and fostering every thing that American patriotism should covert are the service and devotion to country of a sincere people who believe that if their government is preserved m it's simplicity and defended against perversion Its blessings of happiness, contentment and true prosperity VIII m bounteous measure visit every corner of our land.
 q do speak. however. as a Democrat attached to Democratic principles and anxious for the ascendancy of my party when congratulate the Democracy of our country upon the clear and satisfy ing statements in our party platform and upon the manner in which It's doctrines are personified by our can didates.
 The Pledges of Democracy. "we pledge to our .countrymen, through our platform. rest genuine prosperity. safety and return to the ways marked out by the constitution: and we promise. through our candis dates, that if it is the peoples will. our platform shall be carried out and that under our governmental manage ment Democratic conservatism and care shall rule the national councils to the exclusion of rash impulse and spectacu- lar demonstration.
 'T desire to congratulate you. my old neighbors. and the citizens of what l love to call my old State. upon the fact that what Alton B. Parker Is and
 what he represent in the nation. D. Cady Herrick is and represents in your State. The time has arrived when there is needed at the head of your State gov ernment a man as able as fearless and as incorruptible as I know your candi- date for Governor to be- Let us hope that the day is near
 when all your people. having a correct appreciation of the value of a free in- | situation which God has vouchsafed | to them. and animated by the spirit of l true patriotism may see their highest duty in continually guarding and de- lending these institutions against the
 decay which comes of neglect, the | weakness which comes of undermining
 materialism and the perversion which | comes of disobedience to the laws of
 our national life and health"
 MT. Carlisle spoke at length on the
 Philippine question and touched upon
 the subject of the tarin. Concluding | he said
 Carlisle Praises Cleveland.
 And how does the Republican par
 ty now regard the great services rem
 dered to the country by Mir. Cleveland? |?
 In its platform and in it's candidates
 letters of acceptance. it. assails his ad-
 ministration for issuing and selling
 bonds which everybody knows was the
 only means by which gold payments
 could be maintained and the gold
 standard preserved. In order to dis
 Ruise the motive of this assault 1t
 states that the bonds were iissued and
 sold to procure money to defray the
 expenses of the Government--a state
 ment which every intelligent man 1T:
 this country knows IS incorrect.
 And one of the first acts of the Re-
 publican administration which suc-
 ceeded MT. Cleveland's was to continue
 the silver question agitation by send ing a rowing commission across the sea to see if the Russian governments
 ar some of them could not be induced
 to adopt what they called internatioD-
 al bimetalIism. That is to adopt two standards for the nation for the same thing at the same time. The mission failed of course and then the adminiis-
 tration abandoned its efforts to do
 something for silver except that af- rewards a law was enacted to coin
 all of the So-called seignorage-- measure which Mir. Cleveland had ve- toed while he was president"
 Mir. Carlisle concluded his address with a eulogy of Alton B. Parker which ! created another demonstration, the
 audience rising and cheering for some time
 CANNON IS OPTIMISTIC.