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©f that distinguished honor which with open
|>ride 1 come hither to receive at your hands
feud to acknowledge with gratitude. What
statesman of our preat republic, most vener
feble. most renowned among tiring or dead, in
the verv flower of hia lame, would not have
made haste and traveled long
for the gathering of such a leaf
to bind withal % his laurels?
(Applause. ] The old world las had Its cordial
emhassue from sovereign stare to sovereign
ataie In this new world, where the people
rule, shall we nut brichteu ev*ry tie that links
our democratic dominions, principalities and
powers 10 the bonded sovereignty of an iraper
leh&Me union? I will trust your white haired
veterans, familiar with public cares;
I will trust the youngest man
who treads for the first time these
halls, and burning to hurl his heart into the
service of the state, to know what thankful Less
I shaiiever feel, gentlemen of thestateof Missis
sippi. to have been for an hour the focus of that
reciprocal £oxl will i owe to the favor and re
turn to you on behalf of the stats of New York.
[Applause.]
INTERCHANGE OF TIIOUC.HT.
There is good reason at all times for an inter
change of thought between the peonle of the
forty-four status, banded together for life to
insure one another's liberty in pursuit of happi
ness, but there is excellent reason at the present
tune for bueh an interchange between
men whose political philosophy and prac
tical po.itics alue are summed up in
preserving for our beneiit and for the benefit
of the times to come, the great democratic
faith and tradition. The ground upon which
the democrats of the state of NVw York have
taken their stand is the whole democratic faith
feed tradition, not some corner of it merely,not
•erne splinter of it merely, but the whole. This ,
us the ground upon which I would fain see the
democrats of the slate of Mississippi, with
all the democrats of the north, south,
east and west, both of the regular
organization and the farmers' alliance unito and
take their stand in the approaching contest.
[Applause ] Other duties for another day, for
like the victory of Jefferson and union, this
victory will close a chapter of histor>, will
doom to flual disintegration a degraded party
and will fix the direction of our political prog
ress for some decades in the century to come
How, as then, political principles depend for
their triumph upon parties and the organl/a
tion of parties. They create parties.
STRENGTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
It is the democratle principles which have
treated the Democratic party. In its union lies
greater strength than all Its enemies combined
can ever finally subvert. [Applause.]
It has survived every disaster It is the great
and most efficient organ of the people’s power
The I>emocratic party is stronger than any man
or set of men. No man is ev*r
Indispensable to its success. [Renewed ap
plause.] For Its strength is with the people.
It is greater and more powerful than any class,
however numerous. Therefore it is large,
Xclarant, liberal, progressive; it Invites to Its
membership, to its center all who will uphold
the whole democratic faith and tradition, and
apply them to the people's needs. Let us con
fer, then, upon this. Shall we adapt
and apply our practical politics to
the upholding and triumph of the
old democratic tradition? Shall we commit
the long future of our great republic to that su
preme guidance. There are new lights, plenty
of them, there are cracked, discarded lanterns,
polished up to look as good as new, plenty
of them. There is a young emperor who
says: ‘T rule this state nobody
else, follow me.” There is a little island
■where many say: “The state Isa first rate con
trivance for doing anything we like with.
us get hold of it aud do what we think good for
everybody.” There is a vast empire where
many starve, and all say: "Let us call upon
the little father, t'he white czar.” There is n
great republic over the water where all say:
•’We wtist fight one day; let us give all our
young men to the army and be ready.”
NOTHINO BETTER THAN OCR FAITH.
I doubt if there is anything better anywhere
than our old democratic faith aud traditions,
which among men as civilized as we, finds it
legitimate, to consolidate and employ the whole
physical and moral power of the social aggre
gate, first to resist foreign aggression, a danger
we are dwarfing daily by the mere growth and
wealth within our ocean barriers; next and
chiefly, to prevent and punish individual ag
jpession, in order to establish and maintain
Justice, that we may ail be equally
and forever free to pursue our happiness
as we will. The governmental structures and
social adaptations of any group of men os civil
ized as we must vary with the location on the
earth’s surface to secure that end and aim
progressive Individual form in the pursuit of
happiness. Government help too often entails
government compulsion and implies a lower
stage of growth or less felicity of circumstance
than ours. [Applause.]
IKTEBUIXTI RK OF HACKS.
Every intermixture of men lew civilized than
we complicates adaptation. Any difference in
environments, any differences In the races of
men or regions of earth implies changes In
adaptation. Fancy little Rhode Island lirted up.
carried half way around the glolie and dropped
down in Mongolia with Russia to the westward
and all rhina to the eastward. Would Roger
Williams' patent. King Charles' charter.
Gov. Dorr's constitution or her present consti
tution do at all? 1 suppose that ueither James
Madison nor Abraham Lincoln would think the
constitution of the United States perfect for the
new republic of the island of Madagascar,
comprising just the present white population of
Vermont, and the present colored population of
Louisiana. What disturbance did thelmmigra
tion of a few thousand Chinese cause to our
Pacific coast states? What treaties and laws
have we not yielded to their Bpecial solicitude,
so that our policy with that most ancient and
populous empire may depend on taking back
our own Christian missionaries in exchange for
these disciples of Confucius? All this that the
Pacific states may have their rightful will as to
propinquity with certain Asiatics, whose type
of civilization went through monetary meas
ures like ours, a thousand years ago,
and also created marts still past
all competing by western races. The
south in ner propinquity with the Africans,
whose type of civilization awaits historic rec
ord, has caused the only alteration thus far
made in our governmental structure For the
compromises at first embodied or concerted in
its frame, there are now substitutes In the last
three amendments. The substance of these
amendments is that neither color nor color
status is visible to the eye of the federal law, or
ever should be visible. Now, I do not come
here to discuss this one change in our govern
mental structure.
THE MARVEL OP THE CENTURY.
What I shall seek to fix attention upon is the
absence of any other lawful change, the stand
ing marvel of contemporary history. Here is
the constitution of the United States irovern
mental structure, contrived to unify in peace
■what has been lately calle 1 a group of co-opera
tlve land companies along the Atlantic border
which had been assisted to obtaiu separation
from the parent empire by war Here now,after
• century of storm and stress, is that same fab
ric almost seamless, wholly unruptured, it has
sufficed without important change to house the
Industries and liberties of teeming, thronging
millions on millions who here have lived, or who
here survive and constitute to-day our stupend
ous continental republic of republics between
the Atlantio and Pacific oceans, ! Applause. I
I say It is a standing marvel in the
history of civilised man. Now, concerning
that structure and constitution of government.
I wish to recite three testimonies, one from a
great judge gone, one from a great politician
and one from a great philosopher. I spoke of
the marvel of its endurauoe. Its endurance Is
defined In that decision of the supreme court
epoken in the case concerning Texas since the
war by Chief Justice Chase These are the
words: "Not only cau there be no loss of sepa
rate and Independent autonomy to the states
through their union under the constitution, but
It may not he unreasonably said that the preser
vation of the states and t he maintenance of their
governtnents are as much within the design and
care of the constitution as the preservation of
•ha union and the maintenance of the national
government. The constitution In uil its pro
wisions looks to an indestructible union of in
destructible states.”
A WOKDBETOL ISSTRCHEXT.
The greatest politician of Great Britain, Mr.
Gladstone, lately said that our constitution was
*mong the most wonderful works of civilized
men, and that the group of statesmen who
framed it were unmatched by any other group
to history. Something like that he sai t. I have
had no time to search for his exact words.
The great philosopher of modern times, Her
bert Spencer, told us a few years ago that he
■aw disparity b-tween our old magnificent
fabric of government and the modern one as
now administered, and that was lief.ire my com
mittee colleague, Senator Chandler of New
Hampshire, questioned the comparative value
of some later immigrations. And this
philosopher saw, or thought he
■aw, increasing tendencies toward
perversion of its use to establish justice and
equal liberty, to pursue our happiness as we
will, perversion of its tew powers to many kinds
of governmental aggressions and by conse
quence, too willing submiasiou to one another s
aggressions and a less fine, ken love of liberty.
The blood of many races has mingled here
with the earlier strains. For him, therefore,
the whole decalogue of our political
moralities soul] nave been summed up in tbls
one command merit Live up to your constitu
tion; the way, the truth, the life. Indeed. [Ap
plsufe.l
These are three great testimonial* The olds
const!'ution nt these United Mates exists with it;
Indestructible partssud Its indestructible unity,
it is foremost among mankind's iKiliticsl deed**
IHfig quite authoritative, stll] supreme; live up
to it. Now 1 think we shall find lost the object
of our constitution, the spirit of it, and the let
ter of it, explain that enormous miracle of its
equal adjustment toour past.our present and our
future.
THE POWERS IT GRANTS.
The power* which it grants are few and sj)©ci
fled. it concentrates and centralizes tnose few
it needs most But after prohibiting many
powers to the states, it exp'icitly distributes the
whole residue of the powers not thus del*eart?d
to the I 'nited States, nor by the United States
prohib tei to the several states, as reserved to
the ttates respectively or to the people.
Nor is this enough. The power
of congress to make laws for
carrying into execution these powers vested in
the government of the United States is again
explicitly restricted to such as shall be neces
sarily and properly executory of the same
There is no limitation of government by written
constitution possible among them. If these be
not sufficient written limitation. There is no
sound ‘-oastruction pisdhle thereunder, except
it be strict construction. The old doctrine of
true democracy and that last word of high
political philosophy are then identical. Live up
to your constitution; such as this is the
spirit of our constitution conforming t all its
letter. Nothing to the federal government ex
cept granted powers, nothing vrhioh can oe bet
ter done by the state government and more
jealously watched, nothing to the s ate govern
merit which can be better done by the municipal,
by the county, by neighborhood governments
and more jealously watched, and even to these
neighborhood governments nothing which can
be better reserved to the people to their volun
tary associations under toe ruls of Justice en
forced by equal laws.
IT< OBJECTS.
Where are its objects different from those
which it naineo, ‘‘to form a rnore*[>erfect union,
establish justice, injure domestic tranquillity,
provide for the commou de f ens*. promote the
general welfare and secure the blessings of lib
ertv to ourselves and our posteriny."
This ordained and established constitution of
the United State* of America could
nover have emerged unimpaired from the
tocsin of war of expansion over half the hernia
phere. It is not any legalized excursions by
congress outside the constitution which explains
why wo still live and move and have our being
beneath is icgis. It is in spite of the transgres
sions, not by the help of them.; that we still live
We have not profiled by them, we have survived
them. It is tho old abridgment aud limitations
of functions of the government to its own
proper business despite transgressions;
it is distribution and devolution of
its powers despite usurpations, it is
prohibition of state powers, it is the deci&ra
tion of state rights; it is the reservation and
surrender of the residue to the states respect
ively and to the people by whicn we have truly
lived and still bear our life. It is ihdivldual
freedom, not paternal government rule, which
explains our swift expansion from the fringe of
thirteen feeble colonies to a continent of mighty
states. It 1* individual freedom, not paternal
guidance through the censors of an inspired
press; an established church, an ennobled class
which has converted collisions, competitions
and all intercourse of human society into the
heat and stimulus of life and energy of prog
ress. It is an individual freedom, not repub
lican force bills, nor congressional leading
strings that will enable you, a
strong and highly civilized race,
to guide forward your less gifted
fellow citizens from the plane of
equity before the law, to the higher levels of
thrift, economy, good husbandry, social order,
self imposed and household virtue and thus
transform the present unimaginable difficulties
and unshared burdens of the south into solid
foundations of still more prosperous society and
still more powerful states.
THE WAR AND ITB OTTCOME.
It must he admitted that for a few brief vears
our constitution did not perfectly avail to In
sure domestic tranquillity. That was 1n the last
generation and broken hearts must i e healed
by time or death, and one or two more genera
tions must pass away I suppose, doubling and
redoubling your increditable achievements of
the last twenty years, your magnificent progress
In the productions of field, farm, forest and
mines, before it becomes palpable that
the war, with its devastation*, its passions, its
griefs, may not perhaps have been all too high
a price to pay for transmitting au insoluble
political problem into a soluble social problem.
Tooompasa the security of state rights, which
were end are general, along with the security
of state rights, which were sectional by means
of a compromise, which were not colocideut
with the dividing lines between the federal
powers, state powers aud powers reserved to
the people but which nevertheless were eou
certed in the constitution and attempted in the
laws, was too much for domestic tranquillity.
And the result, as I have said, was through a
war, at last the transmuting of an Insoluble
political problem into a soluble social problem
But that sectional disparity, that sectional ex
posure, has uow ceased. Sectional interference
has lost its only fulcrum. State rights
survive. | Applause. | The late republican
congress tried to put manacles on southern
limbs. The Democratic part v answered “Shall
northern limbs then wear the like, or are we all
freemen now?”
Never beneath this canopy or our surviving
constitution and of an ludegtruotlble union, of
indestructible states, constitution color blind
and equal laws, will the democracy of the great
north and the greater west confound and con
fuse your present social problem with past and
gone political problems.
. FAITH IN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM.
It Is our faith in the sublime principle of in
dividual freedom upon which you may roly for
our sympathetic interest and confident pride ns
you proceed to work out unhindered your solu
tion of that social problem, oontact, inter
mingling of two races so diverse in the measures
of their Inheritance from the bounty
of nature, so diverse in the measures of
their capacity for contribution to the
structures of our civil policy. and
functions of our social order. It shocks historic
sense to witness that recent forging of the foro'
bill chains. Garrison should be alive to tell
President Harrison that slavery is dead, oven
white slavery. Bryant and Longfellow should
be alive to put forth in loftv verse the deep
respectful sympathy with which the nobler
hearts among your kindred race now follow
your exceeding trial.
“There is not a breathing of the common
wind that will forget thou hast great allies, thy
friends are exultations, agonies and love and
man's unconquerable mind ’’
It Is for our going forth into the future with
out fear, with hope and with manly fraternal
hearts beneath the banner of our old constitu
tion. loyal to Che old democratic faith and tra
dltton, that I have taken such paius to set aside
this which seitns obtrusive, but should be no
obstacle in our federal politics. 1 would speak
with you just as if New York were a I’acifio
coast state and Mississippi a New England
state. [Applause.! How otherwise among equal
states should considerate and equal freemen
speak?
TO STAND TOGETHER.
Shall we now go in together and try to live up
to this constitution of ours, whioh survives un
impaired in substance aud supreme iu author
ity? Shall we recur to the whole democratic
faith and tradition and re-estab
lish its supremacy? Supremacy in
our politics and laws? Shall
New York not stand by Mississippi? [Applause.]
Will Mississippi not stand by New York?
|Cheers.| Our federal constitution, I say, un
impaired in substauce, admirable iu purpose,
clear tn letter and prescription is supreme in
rightful authority. And now what is the
condition of our whole land and people? 1
submit to candid judgment, of our fellow
countrymen, and l ask the judges
of our courts, the lawyers of our
bars, the statesmen of our legislature*. I ask
all competent persons to test in detail tlie truen
of my assertion. I submit to your candid judg
ment that every trouble, every disturbance that
exists, every disaster that impends and every
danger that is feared at this time, throughout
our whole land, not merely in some parts of it,
is a dire and obvious consequence of republican
legislation in disregard to the spirit aud the
letter of our constitution. I specify for brevity
now only two great items of present and intol
erable dißturbanee, though many others might
be named, which are marked by egregious vio
lation of the letter and spirit of the
constitution Not for one hour during
the last thirty years has the Democratic party
possessed, nor ones it now possess, power to
repeal or amend these and other laws, the fount
ain and origin or every present disturbance to
the general peace and prosperity.
LOSS or THIS DEMOCKATS.
A little while the Democratic party had tho
Senate; a little while tilt! executive; for longer
periods the Houseof Representatives; but not
for ouo moment during the thirty years has it
had all three So that all these evil-producing
taws have been absolutely beyond our reach and
went on operating and go on operating
now just as if the overwhelming democratic
majority of the House of Representatives were
a republican majority. Every disorder in our
finance, every injustice in our taxation is not
only a conse pience. direct and obvious, of re
publican legislation, but of legislation so plainly
outside the constitution, so plainly disregardful
of its inhibition, or of its ilinila
lions that no one statesman of any party prior
to Irik) ever dreamed of advocating such traits
greseious. That is not all, nor the worst. Three
year, ago the Democratic party experienced a
disastrous overthrow aud lost the House of Rep
resentatives. which till then it had controlled
for many years.
Dowse OK THS uepUBUCAMS.
Both branch** of congress and the executive
being then In republican hands, their power was
complete to write oew law* upon the statute
book* and to do with the government and Its
, administration whatever they would. The
block upon any further, new. bad. uucoostilu
I tional legislation, winch either democratic
[ House or deutociaticexecutivecoui l hitoeffe t
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1892.
ually interposed, was lost. For two years our
1 country was ooce abandoned to their
desizns. What did they do with their un
hindered power? Did they repaal one of those
unconstitutional laws f*r whicn they had beu
pleading the excise of war. its burdens, its
neerssities? Let our worse than war-tariff
taxation reply. Let the dis
orders of our currency make answer.
No, they first cheated m re power into their
own hands and then doubled its prostitution.
[Applause ! Their t|>eaker in the House, by
violent and unparliamentary procedures, (lis
ten iel the actual small to a fraudulent large
majority, all of whom followed him with dog
like docility. | Laugater. ]
STOLE THE SENATE.
In the Senate six new republicau senators
were seated to represent a smaller population
than their census left uncounted in
the city of New York, and one state
was defrauded of its democratic sena
tors Th“ir object was not only to enact
more and worse unconstitutional legislation,
but also to put that legislation beyond the
people's amend meets or repeal. This they did
and occupation within those intrench
ments, and the occupation of the whole repub
lican and mugwump press has ever since
been to plant political discussion on
proffrred bills which their President would
veto and the Senate won’t pass. I regret that
some uQwary democrats in the press and In
congress thus render daily assistance in taring
public attention from the unsurpassable mon
strosities of their living laws and assist the
Republican party in hiding the scone
of that resolution it pursues: These
“cut the purses of the empire and the
rule” ran up expenditures to $1.000.000,000. < >f
course, rhev tried to pans a force bill. They did
pass two McKinley laws, superaddiog to the
protected taxes of the tariff of 163 the re
ciprocity humbug and tho new subsidy and
bounty swindle, oo still higher protect-d taxes.
The tariff on Imported sugar, every dollar from
which went straight into the federal treasury,
they abolished for the sake of crowding up and
perpetuating higher protected taxes, which, be
sides taking no less a sum from the people’s
pockets for the needs of the people's
treasury, take also many times greater sums
from the people's pockets, not one dollar of
which goeg to the people’s treasury nor to raise
workmen's wages, hut all goes into the private
cash loxes of a few employers of less than 7
per cent, of our industrious toiling millions.
I Applause. ) To e vil republican taxation like
that unconstitutional is like calling highway
robbery a fault of conduct and flat burglary an
indecorum [Laughter and applause.]
REPEAT. A DtTY.
But I seek to make it clear that to repeal the
McKinley laws, to wipe them off the' statute
books, reviving the lesser wrongs they super-
Red-*d, is merely to take the first step toward
living up to our unimpaired authoritative con
stitution, and to keep in plain sight yf the peo
ple till next November the republican
crime, the peoples verdict and the
need of its renewal. [Applause.] Against
the united democratic votes the republican
congress also jmssed the Sherman silver law,
into which every republican monetary heresy
is crowded that lias kept our finance in perpet
ual disorder for thirty years tortured our mer
ch auts with uncertainty, turned our foreign
commerce, and our sules of wheat, and of cot
ton into a daily gamble, ft revives a most dan
gerous heresy, which the Republican party
once packed a bench of tiie supreme court to
get a false judgment on as constitutional but
that was the last and final tribute of their
political hypocr sy to legal virtue
[Applause ] Never ouco since they com
pelted this supreme court to reverse its own
righteous ruling to flout history and put our
public law to public shame, never since then
have they cared enough to get fig leaves for
their indecencies to pack that court again,
[laughter aud applause,] And while Senator
Sherman's silver law is drainiug off our
gold to Europe in a steady
stream and driving us headlong to an exclusive
sliver basis, not one republican lawyer, not
one republican merchant or board of trade or
chamber of commerce in all the north has raised
against that law the demand that we repeal it,
for that constitutional reason reviving
ths less bad law which It supplanted. But that
would be a first step toward living up to con
stitution aud would keen in plain sight of tbe
people till noxt November the republican
crime, the people's verdict and the people's
duty to unite in its renewal.
REPUBLICAN SURPRISE.
Propose to a republican to return to the con
stitution just there where its violation is most
fresh, most flagrant and he will stare with
genuine surprise. Yet the inhibitions of a
criminal oo<le are not more sacred than
the inhibitions in the written con
stitution of the government. Restraint
upon malefactors, like restraint
upon republican congressmen,is for tbs purpose
of preventing evil. Tnere is no certain penalty
for violations of the constitution as there Is for
each violation of the criminal code to be sure,
but there is no more reason why the people still
living under an unchanged constitution should
let tolerated violations become a normal way of
life than there is for making murder, rape ami
theft canonical because hitherto unprecedented.
It is idle to expect help from republican parti
sans In our endeavor. They And It profitable
to make laws, not to “promote the general wel
fare,’’ but for their particular welfare. That
tuost stringent limitation written upou the very
preamble of our constitution they
convert into a blanket clause for
the cover of every stretch of
lawless license permitted to make laws in order
to “promote th general welfare,’’ which can
mean nothing else hut what is for the welfare
of all, they read into magnanimity and breadth
their own rascally permissions to support any
body’s welfare that oan bribe an appropriation
from the people’s taxes, or force his way into a
government partnership with protected
monopolies. They promote their own welfare,
but we need no help from repub
lican partisans in the next November
elections, if the good people of
the United States will make alliance with one
another and the Democratic party to repeal
their verdict on the wrong-doings of the repub
lican congress, upon the executive who indorsed
them all and made them a law [Applause ]
That is the first and greatest step in the path
way of our returu to the old democratic faith
and tradition. That is the way to begin living
up to our constitution in full obedience to its
unqualified supremacy, instead of tak
ing paternal guidance from republican
revolutionists over a crucified constitution. We
need no nelp from republican partisans. It is
enough that we, all of us, unite to hate these re -
publican wrong-doings in order to elect a con
gross ami an executive that will put a stop to
them, repeat their odious laws and restore
the country peace and prosperity. [Applause.]
We must never despair of the republic,
but I can truly say that if these enemies of the
republic who now possess its powers shall escape
an overwhelming defeat next November by our
divisions or our failure to unite and oonquor,
they will be able with that reprieve so to but
tress about their stolen powers, so to for
tify and intrench themselves that another
generation, wiser snd more self-sacrificing t hart
we, may have to suffer and take up the noble
effort which has failed and dropped from our
unworthy hands. I Applause ] But by unity and
concord in our ranks now, we can surely tri
umph. Unity will endow with needful power
the great Democratic party, to-day the sole
efficient instrument of reform. Unity will enable
it to force relief from unjust tariff taxes,
to restore the south, the safe, sufficient money
of our fathers, when every dollar was as good
as the gold dollar [cheers]; but to discard co
operation with the Democratic party, organized
in every state old as the government, incapable
to die, is to biud hand and foot the farmers of
our land and hand them over to the cruel
mercies of their thirty long republican spoilers,
from whose clutches they are now all but finally
freed. The day of the deliverance of the farm
ers of the United States draws nigh; it is set
down in the democratic calendar for the Bth of
next November if then again the farmers
themselves shall, as they did in November, 181)0.
reinforce the Democratic party and empower
us to dethrone the indorser of every act of the
billion dollar congress as your help em
powered us to drag down the billion dollar con
gress. [Applause. | Alone you can
do nothing but defeat all your
own Dopes. Alone you wilt
but re-elect tbe party w hose policy of protected
taxes, plundering us all, has always plundered
the farmer first, aud most and worst of all; that
has been for twenty years the democratic in
dictment of the Republican party. At last you
rose w Ith us against the common spoiler. At
last you helped us drag him down. And now
their President comos to his trial whose signa
ture then indorses every act of
the billion dollar congress, whose veto now
blocks every possible reform by the democratic
House. Had his official term expired then our
victory bad lie at as complete ns it was over
whelming. But his term had two years more to
run, and, therefore, two victories were indis
pensable to do the work of one. The last citadel
of republican power stands now at the mercy
of our united assault, is this the time to divide
our forces? Is this the time for the army
of the farmers' alliance many state to renounce
co-operation with the democratic hosts of all
tlie states? Is this the time to divide ami sepa
rate and split? Gentlemen, it is madness.
Once more to the breach, my
frteada; all together just once more
I Applause The poopl t’a victory requires but
union, all together, once again aud then it
stands complete [cheers], for then jieoplo’s
servant* will be empowered, as they cannot be
till then empowered, t * execute the people's
will. [Applause j No, gentlemen, we
cannot afford division next November.
Our strength Is enough, but it needs our
united strength, luvision is defeat. Division
even iu Mis* svlppi Is nothing els> but a vote to
prolong republican domination and renew
ilia party life. Hut unity not* will
doetioy tlie Kcpubicau party and
sweep it off tbe face of the earth.
It can never survive a renewal
of tbe people's verdict pronounced in their
great uprising two ysar- ago. Tbe Republican
party will so Where the feieral party went It
will go wiiere the Whig party went. It will go
where the Know Nothing party went. [Ap-
Slause.J Let us once more unite and once mors
efeat tbe Republican party next Novem
ber, and its defeat will be its death.
It will disintegrate, dissolve and
perish. The curee will be removed. Tue reign
of autocrats plutocrats will be over and
(tone The conspire v of the republican
revolutionists of the billion dollar congress to
wreck this great experiment of demo
cratic justice anl liberty will be crushed,
and we shall awake from tbta
lour larkneas and it* foul dreams to sunrise,
morning and a new Ufa | Prolonged applause.J
CONGBATULATfOVS AND THANKS.
Scarcely bad tbe distinguished New
Yorker resumed bis seat before Hon. R. H.
Henry, editor of the .fiats Ledger of Jack
son, said:
I desire, Mr. Chairman to offer the following
resolutions for the consideration of this
assemblage:
Resjlvei, That the people of Mississippi ex
tend to tbe Hon. David H. Hill, late chief
magistrate of New York, and one of her United
State senators, s cordial greeting: a sincere and
unreserved hospitality in the spirit of brother
hood, which knows no north, no south,
no east, no west, where union is one and insep
arable, now and forever. [Cheers ]
Ketolvtd. That our thanks are due and
hereby tendered him for the words of wisdom
and of patriotism which he has uttered in our
presence v>n this occasion; that they breathe
tbe sprit of the true demo
cratic faith. and in the contest in
which we are about to engage with a vigilant
unscrupulous and powerful adversary, his
words will serve to lead us in the path of duty
and victory. [ Applause ]
/fearsted. That In I ravid B. Hill, an honored
son of tbe democracy of the empire state of the
union, we recognize a gentleman with
out fear and without reprea ch—
a democrat. [Applause.] His “actions an l
words are the touchstone by which he is tried.
His measures are u p t o the highest standard of
Jeffersonian democracy, a leader who has never
compromised principle, shunned a foe, deserted
a friend, betrayed a trust, or lost a battle.
[Applause]
Reaulved, That we bid him godspeed in his
noble, manly endeavor to rescue tho govern
ment from the control of the party which seeks
to perpetuate its baleful ascendancy by the
fiassage of the force bills, destruction of the
ibertietfof the citizens aud tbe rights of the
states; by keeping alive settled issues
of war; bv debauching public service; by im
poverishing many industries to subsidize a few.
and by oppressing the country with unequal anl
intolerable burdens; and through him we send
greeting to to the democracy of the Empire
state, heartfelt assurance of our devotion to
the common cause, and our co operation with
them for the preservation of rights sacred to
us all. [Applause.]
Mr. Henry is not a member of either
branch of the legislature, but lawmakers
and laymen alike forget this little parlia
mentary discrepancy. If there had been
any doubt as to the manner in which the
resolutions would be received the eloquence
of Mr. Henry as be read them to the cheer
ing multitude would have removed that
doubt.
"I move the indorsement of those resolu
tions,” shouted State Senator Harrison of
Lowndes oounty.
One wild affirmative yell greeted this
motion and Gov. Stone declared that the
resolutions wore adopted without the for
mality of asking for a negative vote.
Senator Hill and party returned to the
executive mansion, where later Senator
Hill again spoke. He reviewed the princi
ples of the demooracy about in tbe manner
of his former speechet. Hia remarks were
received with enthusiasm.
THB ART OF DENTISTRY.
It Has Mad* Vary Remarkable Prog
ram i a Recent Years.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
"The progress in tht art of dentistry ha*
been greater than is generally known,” said
J. K. Lamb of Boston at the Lindeil. "You
can see from the swollen condition of my
right Jaw that I am suffering the torment*
of a throbbing, thumping toothache, and,
though I was advised by my dentist at
Boston not to have my tooth pulled,
1 got up thia morning from a sleep
less night, thoroughly desperate
and determined to have the unruly member
plucked out. But wbeu I applied to one of
the most eminent students of Ht. Louis to
perform the operation, he, too, after ex
amination, advised me not to have it taken
out. When he learned that I was nearly 50
years old he told me that I would have to
suffer only two or three days more aud the
nerve would die of Its suffering, my pain
would entirely cease, and I would have my
tooth preserved mtaot.
The discovery of the death of tooth
nerves with advancing age is only two or
three years old, but tn that time millions of
teeth have been saved. Formerly, when a
man with the toothache went to tbe dent
ist's office, it meant either that the tooth
was unceremoniously jerked out, root and
branoh, or the sufferer was subjected to a
long and painful operation of plugging.
The better olass of dentists have ceased
nearly entirely to pull the teeth of man and
women nearing their olimacterio, as they
know that the aches are but the last expir
ing efforts of the nerves to perform their
functions. A curious fact in connection
with this kind of toothache is
that cold water, instead of intensify
ing the pain, as it usually does,
actually soothes it. Another important
advance in dentistry is the method of com*
pletely sawing a tooth in two and joining
the pieces together with a small gold screw.
When a decayed speck or streak makes its
appearance in a molar now, the dentist
who kuows his business will neither pull
the tooth out and substitute for it one of his
own make nor fill the hollow with gold to
preserve it, but he artfully saws the top of
the tooth off close to the gums, and, after
thoroughly soraplng aud cleansing the de
caying part, weld the two pieces together
os firm os before the operation was done,”
Autographic Plaques.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The girls have anew fad now. It is
called the “autographic plaque.” Like all
fads, it has swept the homes of the young
women like wildfire, and has occasioned no
end of sharp comment by members of the
sternor sex who have been mulcted of
dimes.
The "autograpbio plaques" is an ingenious
device of a china firing ooncern, and its
purpose U financial gain for this establish
ment. Pieces of cardboard 10x10 in oho* in
size, are distributed where they are likely
to meet with a favorable reoeption. Those
pieoes cf card contain a circle in the center
—a reserved space large enough for a re
produced photograph. From the circum
ference of this circle extend lines to a larger
circle, like spokes in a wheel from the hub
to the tire. The space between these lines
are for autographs.
There are about fifty such spaces, and it
has been declared the proper thing for a
girl to get the autographs of fifty of her
male friends writtou within them. An un
written law in this fad decrees that each
autograph writer must produce a dime
with his signature. When all the spaces
are full and each name paid for the girl has
$5, aud this $5, if sent to a certain place
with the card and a photograph of the
owner, will socure a china plaque with the
picture and autographs reproduced and
fired.
It is a great scheme for the girls who
have little or nothing to do, anil signatures
are greatly in demand.
Wrenched Out of Shape.
Joints enlarged and contorted by rheumatism
are among the penalties for allowing this obsti
nate malady to gain full headway. Always is
it dangerous from its liability to attack the
vitals -invariably is it agonizing. Hostetler's
Stomach Bitters has in nothing more clearly
asserted its supremacy to the ordinary remedies
for this malady than in Us power to expel the
rheumatic virui completely from the b'ood. It
i sate, too, while eolchlcum. veratrum and
mineral poison* prescribed for it are not. The
efficacy of the Hitters as a cleanser of the circu
lation i* also conspicuously shown where the
poison of mmsma infect* the vital fluid, or
wimre it is contaminated with bile. Consltpa
lion, dyspepsia, ■ 'la grippe.” kidney and bind
her trouble, uervi itnese and debility are elan
removed by it i i.econvalescing an l Lite sired
an.l infirm derive much benefit from fit use.
GUYTON GLEANINGS.
Death of James BevlU—A Canning
Factory and a Bank.
Gcttow, Ga., March 15.—James Bevill,
who has been confined to his bed for several
weeks, was taken to Savannah last week,
and was put under treatment at the
Savannah hospital, where he died on Mon
day last. His body was brought back aud
interred in the Guyton burying ground.
The young men of Guyton organized
themselves into a club one evening last week
for the purpose of giving dances, picnics,
eta Their opening ball, which is expected
to be a very enjoyable affair, will take place
at the town bail on Friday evening, March
18.
The board of education met at Spring
field recently and elected Daniel E. Reiser
to taka the plane of Mr. Wtngard, whose
term expires on Dec. 3.
Guyton is to have a canning factory and
a bank. There is no place that would
support a factory of this kind better
than this, for Effingham county is chiefly a
truck farming country.
Guyton is a most attractive place just
now. It has many flower gardens. The air
is filled Uh the sweet odor of the beauti
ful flowers. I heard someone say the other
day that the town was as pretty and as
sweet a picture as he wanted to look at.
No animal has more than five toes, digits, or
claws to each foot or limb. The horse is 1-toed,
the ox Stood, the rhinoceros is 3-tod, the hip
popotamus is 4-toed, aud the elephant and
hundreds of other animals are 5-toed.
MEDICAL.
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint,"all gone”feeling, bad taste, coated
_ . tongue, and Irregularity of
DIStrCSS tbe bowels. Dyspepsia does
AftOr no * 6 ct well ot itself. It
- requires careful attention,
taring an( j a remedy like Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- Si ok
petite, banishes headache, ® * cK
and refreshes the mind. HOadaCrl©
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Mfiart- distressed me, or did me
n ” a l little good. After eating I
DUrn would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last e rtllr
spring I took Hood’s Sar- 50Ur
saparilla, which did me an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave mo an
appetite, and my food relished aud satisfied
the craving I had previously experienced.”
Geobge A. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists, gl ; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
si'RUJAL NOTICES.
Tint TITLK GI AHANTBK AST) LOAN
COMPANY OF SAVANNAH,
133 Congress Street.
INSURES TITLKB TO REAL ESTATE.
LOANS MONEY AND ERECTS HOUSEB.
PAY INTEREST ON DEPOSITS.
Invests capital in first-class real estate secu
rities.
This company loans money on the "monthly
payment” plan at 6 per ceut. per annum for
fixed periods.
It guaarnteee titles to real estate, protecting
purchasers against all loss by reason of defects
or incumbrances.
OFFICE 135 CONGRESS STREET.
GEORGE H. STONE, President.
E. L. HACXETT, Treasurer.
ISAAC BECKETT, Secretary and Solicitor.
R. R. RICHARDS. Advisory Counsel
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT WATER
TAKERS.
City Treasurer’s Office, )
Savannah, Ga., March 11, 1893. I
Tlie turncock has been furnished with the
names of ail persons who have neglected to pay
water rent due Jan 1, and has been Instructed
to sbut off the supply without further notice.
C. S. HARDEE,
City Treasurer.
GENUINE BAY RIM,
Imported and Domestic,
In ounce up to quart bottles. We arc making a
run on this, and wifi sell It cheap.
SOUTH SIDE PHARMACY.
LIGHTNING VALENTINE BEANS.
For Sale Cheap
—AT—
T. A. MULLRYNE & CO.’S DRUG BTORE
West Broad and Waldburg Streets.
ARNAUD’S CANDY,
HALF POUND BOXES
—AND—
ONE POUND BOXES.
LIVINGSTON’S PHARMACY.
Bull and Congress Streets.
PRESCRIPTIONS OF
BUTLER’S PHARMACY
ARK ONLY REFILLED BY
ROWUNSKI, PHARMACIST.
Broughton and Drayton Sts. Telephone 405.
EXQUISITE PERFUMERY.
DELETTREZ FINE EXTRACTS
THE FINEST PERFUMERY
Ever imported Into this eity; also an assort
ment of his Soaps.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
163 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street.
SPECIAL NOTICE,
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the Aus
trian bark GIUSTO, Mareglia master, wifi be
responsible for any debts contracted by the
crew of said vessel.
BTRACHAN & CO.,
Consignees.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
German bark GODEFFROY, Joerck mas
ter, will be responsible for any debts con
tracted by tbe crew of said vessel.
BTRAOHAN A CO..
Consignees.
NOTICE.
Ticket* over the ELECTRIC RAILWAY
COMPANY'S lines can be bought at the
Treasurer's office, No. 112 St.;.luhau srtoet.
MEDICAL.
WORKING PEOPLE
Are often in that most wretched st*te of
Ijeing. really too sick to work, but so sit
uated that they cannot afford to lose the
time it requires to take medicine and get
well. Loss of time means loss of money.
Medicine is needed to invigorate, regu
late and tone the system. But many
medicines mnkp half-sick people wholly
sick, aDd time and money are lost
tin* well after taking them.
The liver is the cause of nearly all bod
ily ailments, such as
Dyspepsia, Constipation, Headache,
Sour Stomach, Biliousness,
Colic, Low Spirits, Kidney Affections
And a medicine like Simmons Liver Reg
ulator. that will remove and cure these
disorders without causing loss of time,
and strengthen and build up the worn -
out body even while the person is at
work is oertalnly a boon to working jo
-ple.
Rev. R. G. Wilder, Princeton, N. J., says: "I
find nothing helps so much to keep me in work
ing condition as Simmons Liver Regulator.”
FUNERAL INVITATIONS. '
WILKINSON.—The relatives and friends of
Mr. and .Mrs. F. J. Willi sson are invited to at
tend the funeral of the former, from his late
residence, HO Broughton street.at 3 o’clock THIS
AFTEHNOON.
•PECUL NOTICES.
On and after Feb 1, 1890, the basts of meas
urement of all advertising in tbe Mo nun no News
will be agate, or at the rate of gl 40 an inch for
the first Insertion. No Special Notice inserted
for less than $1 00.
NOTICE TO TRA VEKSE^JCKORfL~^
City Court of Savannah. (
February Terr, 1859. j
All Traverse Jurors in attendance on this
Court, who were dismissed and required to ap
pear THIS Day, need not appear until FRI
DAY MORNING, 18th instant, at 10 o'clock.
By order of
A. H. MAC DONELL.
Judge City Court of Savannah.
Philip M. Russell, Clerk C. C. S.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given of the application of
the Electrto Railway Company of Savannah to
the city council for leave to extend its route
over and construct and operate its line of street
railway upon the following streets, to wit: Com
mencing at the intersection of South Broad and
Reynolds streets and running thence north
along Reynolds strejt to President street, thence
east along President street to Randolph street,
thence north on Randolph street to Bt. Julian
street, and thence east along St. Julian street to
the wharves of the Savannah, Florida and West
ern Railway Company.
FIRE ! Flße7 _
At the corner of Aberoorn and Bay there will
be an exhition of the
HOYLE FIRE EXTINGUISHER
At 12 TO-DAY.
Please come and see It.
H. S. TIBBITB. Agent.
_ 21*® Broughton Street.
WAIVTED.
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS,
For a term of three years, oa improved city
property. Address
GEORGE W. OWENS, Attorney at I.ajv,
1 *4 Bryan Street.
THE II A I. L
TO BE GrVEN
THURSDAY, MARCH 17,
Under the auspices of
THE LADIES’ AUXILIARY
OF—
B. OF L. E. DIVISION 258,
Has been postponed to
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1892.
By order of Mrs. W. E. WOODS, President.
DISSOLUTION.
The partnership heretofore enisling between
R H. DRYFUS aud MOSES DRYFUS, under
the Arm name and style of DRYFUS BROS.,
has been by mutual consent THIB DAY dis
solved.
MOSES DRYFUS will continue the business,
assuming all the debts and liabilities of the late
firm, and all amounts due them are to be paid
to him. B. H. DRYFUS.
MOSES DRYFUS.
March 15th, 1893.
NOTICE.
In withdrawing from tho above firm I wish to
thank my friends and the public in general for
the liberal patronage so kindly bestowed on the
late firm,- and ask a continuance or some to the
successor, B. H.DRYFUB,
NOTICE.
I tako pleasure in announcing that I am now
located with Messrs. SOLOMONS & CO. at
their BULL STREET BRANCH STORE, where
I will be glad to serve my friends.
JAMES M. KREEQER.
WALTHOUR <fc RIVERS,
REAL ESTATE AND COLLECTING AGENTS.
Prompt returns and satisfaction guaranteed.
Parties desiring to buy or sell will find it to their
advantage to consult us. Several ohoice iuvest
ments now on hand; call and examine. Corner
Drayton and St, Julian streets,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
GAS ENGINE FOR SALE.
Otto Gas Engine, four horse power, three
years old, but little used. Oan be had at a
bargain. Reason ior selling is that gas is not
used in this town This engine is now at Pa
latka, Fla., and guaranteed. Also four horse
power steam engine and boiler, flood order.
Cheap. Address, BANNER PUB. CO.,
Ocala, Fta.
SULLIVAN’S RESTAURANT,
110 and 113 BRYAN STREET.
WOODCOCK. SNIPE, OC.UL, DOVES, TEAL,
SUMMER AND ENGLISH DUCKS,
POMPANOS AND SPANISH
MACKEREL.
Families supplied. Telephone 545.
WALK UPRIGHT THROUGH LIFE.
Buy a pair of Shoulder Braces, If they don’t
keep you straight money refunded.
I have a large new line of those goods for
men, women and children, Prices range from
15 cents to $3.
R. C. McCALL, Druggist,
Corner Congress and Whitaker Streets.
P Roach Fait kills 'em and their first cousins
(Water Bugs) by the peck. Camphorette makes
a "flee” of moths and your woolen goods are
left undisturbed.
CLOTHING.
APPEL 4 Si.
WE ARE READY FOR SPRING
EVERYTHING IN FULL BLAST.
The most artistic selection of Clothing for
Men. Boys and Children ever before brought to
pat'tera P° sß *ble style, every conceivable
Spring* Derby 70Ur 001118
APPEL k MAI,
One Price Clolers.
s.mm.y^ orthigcityforthe Dr -
HOSE AND ROPE.
Hose ail Hip.
Rubber Hose.
Woven Cotton Hose.
Wire Wrapped Hose.
Hose Reels.
Manilla Rope.
Wire Rope.
) alßßr Hariwaw Cos
WHOLESALE GROCER*.
BEFORE BUYING
Get Our Prices on
ORANGES,
GEORGIA SYRUP.
PLAIN HAIIB.
CANVABED HAMS,
DRY SALT BELLIES,
DRY SALT BETTS.
ALL KINDS OF CIDERS.
Send for Price List.
A. EHRLICH & BRO.,
Wsodbials Grocers and Liquor Dxalzrs,
FOR SALK.
FOR SALE.
GRANITE,
Either dimension work or crushed stone.
SAND OR BRICK
In train or carload lots.
IWPRICES ON APPLICATION.
J. F. BABBITT. JR.. G. F. A.. City.
MACHINERY.
j. w. tynan;
ENGINEER and MACHINIST,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Corner West Broad and Indian Streets.
\ LL KINDS OF MACHINERY, BOILERS,
i \ Etc., made and repaired. STEAM PUMPS,
GOVERNORS. INJECTORS. STEAM AND
WATER FITTINGS of all kinds tor sale,
IG’K.
THE GORRIE ICE
MANUFACTURING CO.
Will sell you ice at their fac
tory at 15 cents per 100
pounds.
J"! 1 1 -LI” 1 '.
PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS.
REO. W. KiCHOLS,
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
Bay St. Savannah.
FINANCIAL. _ __
jT^harman US FISHER it SON.
Bankers and Brokers,
16 South Street. BALTIMORE, MD.
Special facilities for placing collateral notes
on Southern Securities known in Northern Mar
kets. . . _
Reference: Merchants’National Bank of Balti
INSURANCE.
Charles f. prkndebgast
(Successor to it. H. Footman A 0o„)
FIRE* HAU m STORM INSDRIHC*
108 BAY STREET,
[Next West of the Cotton Exchange-!
Telephone Call No. 34. Savannah, Ga
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