Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
CLEVELAND'S SPEECH
Accorded a Great Ovation in
New York Last Night.
CARLISLE ALSO TALKS
ARRAIGNS REPUBLICANS FOR AR
RoGANCE AND PRESUMPTION.
Refers to the Tariff, Philippines, Mo
nopolies and Panama Question
Mr.. Carlisle's Remarks.
CARLISLE ALSO TALKS

A dispatch from New York last night
saws: Thousands of people struggled to gain
entrance to Carnegie Hall tonight, where ex-
President Grover Cleveland made his first
and only speech OF the campaign. John IT,
Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury unoer
Mr.. Cleveland, was also speaker, ana
shared with Mr.. Cleveland the great purs'
of enthusiasm at the meeting.
Long before the doors of the hall were
opened crowds surged around the outside or
the building and within ten minutes after
the doors had been thrown wide to the pub
lie every seat in the big auditorium was
taken, while corridors and aisles held their
scores Still hundreds were unable to gain
entrance.
This big democratic rally was under the
auspices of the Business Mems Parker and
Davis Association and ]. Hampden Robb,
president of the organization. presided.
Mrs Cleveland and former Secretary OF
War Daniel Lamont and Mrs. Lamont ar
rived while the demonstration for Mr..
Cleveland was at it's height and were es-
corted to box.
The former President was chairman of
the meeting, and in introducing him Mr..
Robb said: 49,
"A most eminent and distinguished citizen
and democrat will be your chairman His
words and his deeds are known In every
corner of this Union. He Is one of our great
AmericanS-Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland's Remarks.
Mr. Cleveland then began his speech,
saying, in part:
II believe we have fallen upon days when,
more than ever, the enforcement of demo-
cratic doctrine and the acceptation OF DEM
ocratic conservatism and steadiness are
needed if our national greatness and the
well-being of our people are to be put be-
yOnd Jeopardy.
1T is not for me to discuss on this occa-
sion the democratic creed or to deal at large
with the issues involved in the present cam
paign. We are here to listen to one who
stands in the front rank of those who ex-
pound the democratic party faith
Claims of the Republicans.
When before has 1t been so distinctly
claimed that all the virtues all the patriot
ism and all the governing ability of our
citizenship are found among the members
of one political party, and when before have
those of our citizens not among the chosen
been so boldly considered as aliens in their
own land. who should be cast into outer po-
litical darkness as unworthy to be intruste6
with the power and responsibility OF gov
eminent esta blished by the people and for
the people? When in all our history has
party so presumptuously as now claimed
to be the donors of the gifts of God, or
when has one so persistently plumed itself
upon the creation of all the prosperity that
has fallen to our countrys lot?
Never before have our people been so
belabored with party deliverances. which,
in every line and every word, from plat
form declarations to the last appeal of
party advocacy, are so saturated with con-
ceited and tiresome claims of infallibility.
and with supercilious disdain of all politi-
cal efforts except such as are attempted
under the banner of republicanism. Shall
this pass current at a time when, at the
parting of the ways in our nations devel
opment. we are especially called to patriotic
thoughtfulness and careful contemplation
OF party designs and to a vigilant watch
against dangers that beset us? My faith
in my countrymen will not permit me to
believe this, to doubt that they will
insist upon examining for themselves the
accounts of party stewardship
Party's f-Congratulation.
"a party may indulge in self-congratula
ton when 1t has effectively defended the
people In their daily life from the rapacity
of trusts and combinations, which thrive as
private enterprise is strangled, and which
grow fat. as. by their control of the cost of
living. they cause the homes of our land to
grow lean; but the people will hardly ap-
prove the vociferous pride which claims
that successful attack upon the merger of
the stock of certain competing railroads
has rescued them from their oppressors.
They will not fail to observe that the
huge combinations which directly injure
them still flourish, and they may also recall
how the CONSERVATION among those tmpH
Gated in such schemes who once feared a
general pursuit was quieted when the sooth-
ing assurance reached them that the gov
eminent did not intend to run amuck,
Nor will they probably accept the sugges-
ton that repentance or a change of heart
accounts for the manner 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 peo-
pie OF It's misunderstanding proclvities
This item of the account will not be
passed over without a reference to the
platform statement that protection. which
guards and develops our industries Is a
cardinal policy of the republican party
nor without noting the declaration of the
candidate standing on this platform. that
the protective tariff policy ought now To be
considered as definitely established
The people know that this policy has
given rise to reckless greed and to a wor-
ship of gain. menacing patriotic sentiment
and our love for high standards of national
greatness, and they know that at best 1t
lays burdens on the consumers of our land
The Philippine Question.
when the platform boast is made that
in the Philippines we have suppressed
insurrection, established order and given
TO life and property security never known
there before the confession will be ex-
torted that the lnsurrection suppressed was
no more than the crushing out of existence
opposition to the army of the United States
while engaged in the subjugation of peo-
pie thousands OF miles from our shores.
whom an incident OF a war undertaken by
us In aid of those struggling for liberty and
independence In another quarter had put
within our power: and the people will ask
under what sanction this subjugation
entered upon by nation pledged to the
doctrine that all just powers of government
are derived from the consent OF the gov
erned: and they will deny that Imperialism
and our forcible rule OF foreign people have
any place among the purposes OF our ma
tional life
when credit Is claimed for securing a.
route for long-desired interoceanic water
way. it will not be in a carping spirit that
the people will look at the incidents ac-
companying this achievement. They do not
undervalue the object gained but they
keenly appreciate the Importance and value
of our national honor. our national good
name, and. above all, our national morality
Not even the great worth of the thing ac-
complished will close the eyes OF thoughtful
Americans to the fact that In reaching the
results we have exhibited such international
ruthlessness and such selfish interna tional
immortality as have lastingly debilitated our
reputation for good faith and established a
precedent which. I'm time to come may be
invoked to justify the most startling and
reprehensible abandonment of the high
ideals which have made US an example of