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COUNTRY SADLY NEEDS
RETURN TO DEMOCRACY.
REPUBLICAN USE OF OFFICE
FOR PARTY PURPOSES
UNPRECEDENTED IN
HISTORY.
former President, in Address to
New York Business Men. Says
Time Has Come for Patriotic
Americans to End Present
Regime.
New York, Oct .21-- Former
President Grover Cleveland spoke
at a democratic meeting: in Car¬
negie hall 'tonight. Mr. Cleve¬
land said:
“There are at least two reasons
why I am gratified by the oppor¬
tunity to participate in this occa¬
sion. It permits me to breathe
the pleasant atmosphere of reso¬
lute and harmonious democracy;
and in addition it allows me to
meet faee to face in such an at¬
mosphere those who largely rep¬
resent the business interests of
the city of New York and who
besides are patrictio enough to
recognize the obligation they owe
to their country as well asiothur
business.
“It would be strange if I did
not recall at this monent with
deep sensibility the days in the
past and the previous political
campaigns when I knew what it
was to have the generous support
of the business me of New York
and if I did not remember in these
surroundings the sustaining pow¬
er of their approval and confi¬
dence amid the peiplexing labors
of high official duty. You will
not, I Know, accuse me of self
conceit if I assume thai I am with
those tonight who demand of me
no explanation or apology for the
manner in which I have served
either my party or the business
interests of my country and who
wilt neither discredit nor distrust
me when I avow my intense anx¬
iety for the success in the pend¬
ing political campaign of the
principles and nominees of the
reunited democracy.
COUNTRY NEEDS DEMOCRACY.
“My attachment to the party
which won my early allegiance
has been intensified with passing
years because I have found in the
principles from which genuine
democracy has derived its life
and vigor, safe guidance and
constant inspiration, when as a
public servant I owed to my fel¬
low countrymen patriotic effort
and unbpariitg devotion to the
people’s trust.
“But the principles and best
traits ot the democratic party
reach t^eir highest importance
and value at such a time as this,
when our people are tempted by
glittering delusions and when
they are offered the kingdoms of
thA world if they will but throw
themselves down and worship the
god of Mammon,
“I believe we have fallen upon
days when, more than ever, the
enforcement of democratic doc¬
trine and the acceptance of dem¬
ocratic conservatism and stead¬
iness are needed, if our national
greatness and the well being of
our people are to be put beyond
jeopardy.
"In a country like ours, where
parties contest for direction of
the government we must, of
course, expect party advocacy
and honorable personal ambitions
for political honors, but who,
among those indulging in the far¬
thest retrospect of political cam¬
paigns can recall one in which
the advantages of the present
party control have been so pal¬
pably and unblushingly used for
perpetuation or in which the
functions belonging to the entire
American people have been more
insolently forced to do partisan
service? When before has it been
so distinctly claimed that all the
virtues, all the patriotism and all
the governing ability of our citi¬
zenship are found among the
members of one political party,
and when before have those ot
our citizens, not among the chos¬
en, been so bodly considered as
aliens in their own land, who
should be cast into outer political
darkness as unwoKhy to be en¬
trusted with the power and re¬
sponsibility of a government es¬
tablished by the people and tor
the people? When in all a0r
history has a party so presump¬
tuously as now claimed to be the
donors of the gifts of God or when
has one so persistently plumed
itaelf upon the creation of all the
prosperity that has fallen to our
country’s lot?
REPUBLICAN ARROGANCE.
“Such arrogance is not new to
the party which now seeks at the
hands of the people renewal of
our government's control; but it
has so grown by what it has fed
upon as now shamelessly to as¬
sume that the time has arrived
when popular heedlessness or
dullness will permit boasting and
reakless assertion to pass for truth
and reason. If this assumption
is justified there can be no doubt
that the sober and responsible
political thought and watehfull
ness upon which the true intent
and purpose of our government
depends, are in grievous peril.
If, on the other hand, this
assumption is viciously unwar¬
ranted, it is an insult to American
manliness which should arouse
prompt and effective resentment.
‘'Never be r ore have our people
been so belabored with party de¬
liverances, which, in evefy line
and every word, from platform
declarations to the last appeal of
party advocacy, are so saturated
with Conceited and tiresome
claims of infallibility, and with
supercilious disdain df all politi¬
cal efforts except such as are at¬
tempted under the banner of re¬
publicanism. Shall this pass cur¬
rent at a time when, at the part¬
ing of the ways in our nation’s
development we are especially
called to patriotic thoughtfulness
and careful contemplation of par¬
ty designs and to a vigilant watch
against dangers that beset us?
My faith in my countrymen will
not permit me to believe this, or
to doubt that they will insist upon
examining for themselves the ac¬
counts of party stewartship.
“They know that thBjr coun¬
try’s prosperity, like toe rains of
heaven, should be distributed
among all the people in every
station of life; and they willchal
lenge the claim of a party which
boasts of a prosperity it. has
wrought which gives td its pam¬
pered favorites added opportuni¬
ties to increase their riches, whiie
the poor and those who toil wait
like Lazarus, to be fed from the
crumbs which fall from th$ rich
(Dan’s table. |
REPUBLICAN claims punctured.
“The party will be given just
credit, which, early or late, has
endeavored to safeguard the
soundness of the nation’s curren¬
cy, but the people will reject as
savoring of presumtion the insis¬
tence that only those belonging
to one party organization can
claim to be the protectors and de¬
fenders of our financial integrity,
nor will they forget that the fight
was hotly on when many of the
taders of the party^now making
such an insistence were worse
than luke-warm in t»-e cause.
“A party may indulge in self
congratulatton when it has effec¬
tively 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
oy their control of the cost of liv¬
ing, they cause Ihe homes of our
land to grow lean, but the people
will hardly approve the vociferous
pride which claims that a suc¬
cessful attack upon the merger
of the stock of certain competing
railroads has resoued them from
their oppressors. They will not
fail to observe that the huge com¬
binations which directly injure
them still flourish, and they
may also recall how the conster¬
nation among those implipated
in such schemes who once feared
a general pursuit was quieted
when the sootfting assurance
reached them that the govern¬
ment did not intend to ‘run
aqpAck,’ Nor will they probably
accept the suggestion that ref en
tance or a change of heart ac¬
counts for the ipanner by which
the threats and animosity of
many powerful trust magnates
have been displaced by their ap¬
proval and f-uHstancial support of
the party which seeks to convince
the people of its trust destroying*
proclivities.
AS TO PROTECTION.
“This item of the account will
not be passed over without a ref«
erence to the platform statement
that ‘protection which guards and
develops our industries, ii a car¬
dinal 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 definite¬
ly established. The question will
be asked, which are the Amer¬
ican industries that at this time
are in need of the shelter of such
a tariff as now in force? And is
there never to be a time when
American enterprise, American
ingenuity and Ameiican oppor¬
tunity will free our industries
from their stage of infancy and
permit American self-reliance to
cast away the leading strings of
a ‘definitely established’ protec¬
tive policy? The people know
that this policy has given rise to
recsless greed and to worship of
gain, menacing patriotic senti¬
ment and our love for high stand
ards of national greatness, and
they know that at best it lays
burdens on the consumers of our
land.
“With these tendencies and
these burdens in mind they will
ask the party professing its anx¬
iety to restrain or destroy harm¬
ful combinations, why a protec"
tive tariff policy should be con¬
sidered definitely established,
which, in addition to its other
sms, contributes to a situation
that permits a combination or
monopoly to sell abroad articles
of our manufacture at lower prices
than are exacted from our own
citizens at home. They will see
the sheer wrongfulness of this
condition so clearly and they will
so firmly believe that in this way
they are made to bear tariff bur¬
dens in order that they may be
discriminated against in favor of
foreign consumers, that they wi*l
not be satisfied with the assur¬
ance that the tariff has nothing to
do with trusts. They will consign
such an explanation to the limbo
of negation, to take its place with
the outworn deception that the
foreign exporter pays our tariff
taxes, and with two other sadly
weak pretences, one that the tar¬
iff should be reformed only by ite
friends, and the other that the
party which believes that a pro¬
tective tariff ought to be consid¬
ered as definitely established,
loves reciprocity in trade.
IN THE PHILIPPINES.~
“When the platform boast is
made that ‘in the Philippines we
have suppressed insur>ection, es¬
tablished order and given tc life
and property a security never
known there before,’ the confes¬
sion will be extorted that the in¬
surrection suppressed was no
more than the crushing out of re
sistance to the army of the United
States, while engaged in the sub¬
jugation of a people thousands
of miles from our.shores, whom
an incident of war undtrtaken by
us in aid of those struggling
for liberty and independence in
another quarter had put within
our power; and that the people
will ask undjr what sanction was
this subjugation entered upon by
a nation pleged to the doctrine
that all just powers of goverri
ment are derived from the con¬
sent, of the governed, and they
will deny that imperialism and
our forcible rule of foreign peo¬
ple have any p'ace among the
purposes of our national life.
PANAMA AFFAIR DISGRACE,
“When credit fs claimed for
securing a route for a long desir¬
ed interoeeanie waterway it will
not be in a carping spirit that the
people will look at the incidents
accompanying this achievement.
They da not undervalue the ob¬
ject gained, but they keenly ap¬
preciate the importance and val¬
ue of our national honor, our na¬
tional good name, and, above all
our national morality.
“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 in¬
ternational ruthlessness and such
selfish international immorality
as have lastingly debilitated our
reputation for good faith and es¬
tablished a precedent, which, in
time to come, may be invoked to
justify the most startling and rep¬
rehensible abandonment of the
high ideals which have made us
an example of the best civiliza¬
tion—a people happy as we are
intelligently fre&, strong as we
are scrupulously just, and every¬
where trusted and honored as we
undeviatingly follow in the way
of uprightness and rectitude.
“I have ventured to suggest
the misleading purpose of the
vain-glorious claims rtTade by a
party organization which seeks
a continuance, of political control,
and to intimate the humiliating
estimate of our people’s intelli¬
gence and patriotic vigilance
which the exploitation of these
claims involve. It is surely not
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narrow partisanship which
prompts me to entreat my coun¬
trymen t<> turd fjisi and sure their
independ tu-e of *><mght and
their courage in judgment; nor
do I speak in a tone of partisan¬
ship when I beg them to remem¬
ber that the true -greatness and
glory of our nation cannot safely
rest upon wealth which finds its
way to the few at the expense of
the many; nor upon such mater¬
ial success as contaminates the
purity or blunts the potency of
patriotism; not upon expansion
in disregard of our national mis¬
sion and intent; nor upon achieve¬
ments that put in question our
na'ional morality. Above all,
greater than all guarding and
protecting all and fostering every¬
thing that American patriotism
should covet, are the services
and devotion to country of a sin¬
cere people who believe that, if
their government is preserved in
its simplicity and defended
against perversion its blessings
of happiness, contentment will in bounteous and
true prosperity
measure visit every corner ol our
land.
CANDIDATES PERSONIFY DOCTRINES.
“I do epeak, however, as a
democrat attached to democratic
principles, and anxious for the
ascendancy of my party, when
1 congratulate the democracy of
our country upon the clear and
satisfying statements in our party
platfoim and upon the manner in
which its doctrines are personi¬
fied by our candidates.
“\Ve pledge to our countrymen
through our platform, rest, gen¬
uine prosperity, safety and a re¬
turn to the way marked out by
the constitution; and we promise,
through our candidates, that if
it is the people’s will, our plat¬
form shall be carried out and
that under our governmental
management democratic conserv¬
atism and care shall rule the na¬
tional councils to the exclusion
of rash impulse and spectacu
lar demonstration.
“I desire to congratulate you,
my old neighbors, and the citi¬
zens of what I love to call my old
state, upon the fact that what
Alton B. Parker is and what he
represents in. the nation, I). Cady
Herrick is, and represent in your
state; The time has arrived
when there is needed at the head
of your state government a man
as able, as fearless, and as incor¬
ruptible as I know your candi¬
date for governor to be.
“Let us hope that the day is
near when all our people, having
a correct appreciation of the val¬
ue of a free institution which
God has vouchsafed to them, and
.animated by the spirit of true pa¬
triotism, may see their highest
duty in continually guarding and
defending these institutions
against the decay which comes of
neglect, the weakness which -
comes of undermining material"
ism and the perversion which
comes of disobedience to the laws
of our national life and health.’’