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Show THAT DEMOCRATIC LOVE FEAST. j, B In his letter of regrets that he could not bo j fl present at the Democratic love feast on Monday 1 fl night last ex-President Cleveland exhausted some 1 fl two hundred and sixty words. All he said could fl have been reduced to less than one hrnndred words fl and his meaning would have been plainer and I fl vastly more felicitlously expressed. He had to j fl fire with a slow fuse three of his 13-Inch ponder- fl ous shells filled with words, but carrying only a fl bird-shot charge of powder. ' 'fl Mr. Richard Olney followed and re-nominated I H Mr. Cleveland for President. He led up to it by i fl a covert arraignment of President Roosevelt for jfl the Panama Incident. It was well that the j B President's message on that same Panama theme fl was published the same morning. It made either ' fl the President or Mr. Olney look rather small and B cheap and it was not the President. In nominat- ' fl ing Mr. Cleveland Mr. Olney declared that his H "record in the past is an all-sufficient guarantee ' B of his action in the future." I fl Unfortunately that is true. From the time he hired a substitute in the great war, from the 1 time he vetoed a negro woman's pension, due fl because her only son and support, was killed in - H the Union army, on the ground Khat when her jj B son was killed he was a slave and therefore no- j B body; from the time he had the flag hauled down ' fl in Hawaii and went out of office princely rich but j' fl leaving the business of the country a wreck, his fl record has been most conslstant all tho way " i fl through and we could certainly count on his do- IS fl ing again the same things any time if again re- t fl stored to office. j B Mr. David B. Hill next made his essay. He fl charged the President with making war on the i fl Isthmus, of slighting Generals Miles and McClel- j fl land and denounced his military promotions and , fl picked up the charges sent out by a vindicative I fl press against General Wood and assumed that ' fl they were true. The vote General Wood re- j fl celved in the Senate committee next day was fl sufficient answer. Then he got down to the ex- ' fl presslon of the fear which business men feel un- fl der President Roosevelt, which is the programme ' t fl to be played. He then declared that several de- ) I fl partments of the Government are reeking with i corruption, and all he knows on that question is ' what the prosecuting officers of the Government j have supplied the public. He wants tariff reform, &, of course. The country has had several samples ' of Democratic tariff reform in Its day, and has got a deal the worst of it every time. He wants i laws to regulate the control of combined capital. j He was many years in the Senate when the same i monopolistic cry was being sounded, but he was, silent then. For the country's financial help he ' would have bimetallism established by international inter-national agreement, saying that "the logic of Ill II Hm i events has cleared the atmosphere." Indeed, the m i 'is sicies and the aii f tii west were ciear n the Bjl ! fjj , question twenty-five and twenty and ten years Mm 1 1 jig' j ago, but not one of the various statesmen around H f ij 1 the board of that love-feast could see. Then ho out- BH i II lined a platform. Mr. Hill's speech came in the Hi i i ff same solemn manner that any other resurrection Bf j ," ' from the dead would be witnessed. The banquet Bit was most appropriately presided over by Bourke HP j j, Cochran, he of the ample mouth and resonant Hi! il j vocal choids which represent "that sound and HI j j fury which signifies nothing." mm h l |
