The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-05

time In an official way that the Mon- roe Doctrine was to be practiced as well as preached by Americans.
 "Becanse he syn1pathized with and put into actual operation more than any other President has eyer done the rules and regulations of the civil ser aBecause he stood like an adaman- tine rock first. last and all the time In favor of q sound currency.
 Because he never hesftated to do his whole duty as he saw it without
 "in closing. I desire to record the gratitude which I feel. and which believe Is felt by all of the members of our association. because Of Mir Cleveland's connection with the life three years of his life. and to express our appreciation for the valuable Ia bors which he so conscientfously per-
 John H. Finlay. President of the College of the City of New York, spoke of the splendid example of Mir. Cieye- land In his public and private career. Letters from Cabinet officers. Letters of tribute to the late Pres ident By surviving members of his Cabinet were read. These included Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia, and letter sent by Hilary A. Herbert. Secretary of the Navy.
 Mfr. Herberts letter was as follows: washington, Nov. 23. 1903. !
 "Sir:-In responding to your request whose memory you are to honor. and who was formerly my political chiet, 1t is perhaps to be expected tnat him when he was public servant.
 Grover Cleveland. the only Demo cratic President during the ffty-two to I March n sth, 1sis.c viii always stand out as one of the most striking flg- ures in our political history-striking aSt f2nly sscauss % Rs denotoe to lofty ideals, but also because of what he accomplished as we'll as what ne sought but failed to accomplish.
 His first election, 1884, though other issues had been involved, was largely a protest against the political recon. struction that had followed the Civil War and the unfortunate crimination and recrimination that had ensued from it's results. In this happy era of un- precedented amenities in political de. bates the public can have no idea or the angry. discussions of 1872 to 1884. The Republican scheme of reconstruc- tion had been a disappointment, n- stead cf sending Republican senss9ss aas1ss soon began to send Democrats, to such an extent that in the Forty fourth. Forty ;ifth and Forty sixth. Congresses Many of these NSoutherners were ex- Confederate officers. Without reservas tion they took the oath of future f1del- ny lLOL me COnSlltuJ1On anu IH6 OHtO.s and entered upon the discharge of. their new duties in the utmost good faith. But their opponents imPu gned their Southern S Brieadiers. year after year kept alive the passions of the war with the cry Of Southe ern outrages. At an extra session M in iSIs. Democrats Tn si5s tne to pass an appropriation bill So long as 1t, provided for deputy marshals at elections In the debate on that ques- field felt impeiled to cFystalize- the slogan of his party in these aggravat-
 The Southern Brigadiers who failed in tn cir effort to shoot this Government to death have now. come back into Congress to starve it to death. 1880, the southern Brigadiers and bloody shirt were still in issue, and largely On that issue Mir, Garneld be- same President ,sntad Sg in Si4 Sis srri care was to see that Southern outrages and Southern Brigadiers should cease to be the Republican watchAWords He Confederate soldiers and ex-Union sol- diers were alike made cabinet officers, postmasters, foreign ministers; judges, etc., and the silly and ,vexattous cry of Southern disloyalty was ended. The fidelity to their trusts of ex-Confeder- ate officials was the complete answer and new era of g1Sd feeling 9essn saes between the two sections. and Northern thinkers began to study for themselves the horrible satuFnaiia that had driven Into one party the whites of the South.
 Credit to Cleveland.
 Tt Is common at this day to accredit this era of good feeling chieny if not entirely to the Spanish American war army ana E ocers SotS .sS el tions of the Union. Those who speak thus have short memoIles. They for. sSn, ,Iiatrstin,, 1,ist bs b1oogv ssir1 drn,. ped completely out of sight and that during. his second term his Venezuela message elicited the, unanimous sup of Congress In the presence of a foreign powere we were even then one people No such spectacle had oc- question, or when the war with Mexi- co canre on n..s MT. Mckinley acted no- bly, his part and the country will never % Was the if iirst tt great % peacsmaker cen ers'fe be1 tween the North and South.
 MT. Cleveland was an old style Jef- fersonian Democrat. He believed with frugal government, which shall re- strain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to reg ulate tn cir own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take has earned
 
 first term, against the advice of tfmid friends. his celebrated tariff message. That message caused his defeat in the election of 1888, and now he was out for four years, during which though implored by warm supporters to keep silent on the silver question then com ing to the fore, he spoke cut in no doubtful terms for the sound money. Very tme to free Sss sSer a thas a MT. Cleveland well knew, but he did not hesitate and in 1892, in spite of his manly declaration for sound money, and indeed in part because of 1t, he was
 Never since. 1860 had the outlook for Democracy been so bright as when Mir: Cleveland came in the second time. Public sentiment in his first election had condemned the reconstruction pol icy of the Republican party and their bloody shirt program. By electing him for the second time, when his views known to all men. his party and his country were committed to tariff re- form and sound money. This new election could mean nothing else but a new generation of college bred young men had come into the party to sup port this new statesman of the old school, and with them a majority of the learned professors who had taught these young men the early history of their country and the principles upon which our institutions were founded Grover Cleveland was their ideal leader. pendence, his thorough deyotion to old time Democratic ideas, marked him as the leader who was to restore our Gov ernment to It's ancient moorings.
 Reform of Taxation.
 But there were breakers ahead,
 was impossible to foresee. Part of Mir CleVeland's scheme for tha reform