. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. or worthy to the fervent aspirationsand high hopes of this patriotic and progressive a country which rejoices in restored unity and concord,they tender the renewal of sectional strife. To a nationwhich feels the impulse of a mighty growth and yearns forleadership in noble prosperity, they offer the inspiration ofnational calamity and misfortune. To a proud and sensi-tive people demanding deliverance from dishonoring cor-ruption, demanding decency in seating, and cleanliness inholding their publ
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. or worthy to the fervent aspirationsand high hopes of this patriotic and progressive a country which rejoices in restored unity and concord,they tender the renewal of sectional strife. To a nationwhich feels the impulse of a mighty growth and yearns forleadership in noble prosperity, they offer the inspiration ofnational calamity and misfortune. To a proud and sensi-tive people demanding deliverance from dishonoring cor-ruption, demanding decency in seating, and cleanliness inholding their public stations, they offer the gilded earth ofskillful demagoguery. [Applause.] The generous orderof youth, nobly ambitious to achieve a freemans manhood,they proffer the enervating sentiments of the party machine;to the men of toil seeking only equal opportunities to earna freemans livelihood they cry, *Be your masters villainand you shall have bread. [Applause.] The burden oftheir campaign is already made manifest. Shouting and,in common political parlance, soap [laughter] is its inspi-. COLONEL W. F. VILAS, OF WISCONSIN. Permanent Chairman of the Democratic National Convention. 34G LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ration, its ^ammunition. [Laughter and applause.] Theboisterous cry of the drill sergeant, the black list for thehesitating, rewards to the willing—this is the politiciansshare; while from the ranks of those who amass the fruitsof others labor the copious streams of pecuniary profit willsummon the booty of sweetened sophistries to the ear of theweak and ignorant. The air already is filled with thevapors of visionary schemes addressed to the various inter-ests and factions of weak and undeserving men, and someare induced to expect advantage from the chaotic possibi-lities of a foreign war, others relief or gain for legalizedirruptions on the National Treasury. The history of theRepublic will have-been read in vain if such a prospect doesnot alarm and warn us. Twice alread
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