Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-31
DEMOCRACY---P4LS present. IN
FUTURE.

DEMOCRACY---P1LsT, PRESENT. And
FUTURE.
When the Democratic party yielded the
sceptre of government to triumphant mi
nority in 1861, it was after rule Of sixty Of
the seventy years of the existence of the
American Union. The government was de-
livered over into the hands of sectional
without spot upon its honor:
in splendor, incompatible in
power; the pride and admiration of the
world Thirteen colonies scattered along
the Atlantic Ocean had grown into thirty
two populous, happy, splendid common
wealths. An imperial empire exceeding in
beauty and in wealth the far famed Oriental
lands, watered by the grandest artery of
commerce in the world, was rising out of the
wilderness under the westward star of civil
cation.
Seventy years since the birth of new
nation. The achievements of Democracy
emblazon the brightest pages of history.
Within less than century, the problem OF
States enrolled among nations as
the first free representative government,
known to mankind. We were at peace with
all the earth, and honored among all nations.
There was no public debt to crush the peo-
pie with taxes. No wars had desolated the
land. The war of 1912 indicated the
rights of our sailors, covered the flag on
land and on water with glory, and asserted
the great doctrine of the freedom of the seas
The war with Mexico upheld the
right to acknowledge the independence
of Texas, extended our limits from
ocean to ocean, added an empire of territory,
opened to the commerce of the world the
gold fields of California and solved the
problem of the Western pathway to the East.
The heroic deeds of our soldiers and sailors
on Lake Erie and the ocean and at New
Orleans, from Palo Alto to Buena Vista, and
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, even
now, excite glow of national pride, and re-
kindle the fires of old time patriotism and
friendship.
Everywhere national honor was respected
and defended, whether in war or in peace. az
when Hollins bombarded Greytown, or In
graham rescued Kosta in the Bay of Smyrna.
Where will one find such State papers as
those of Madison and Marcy? The history
of the Democratic party for seventy years is
the history of the United States. Where is
the Democrat who is not proud of the
record? 1t was Democracy, American Dem.
ocracy, out of which was born civil liberty
The ancient republics were republics onl,
in name. Venice was an oligarchy, the
States of Lombardy fell like stars from
heaven, and even in Holland the people had
no power.
What is Democracy? It is the rule of the
people, it is government of the people, fol-
the people, and by the people. Two ideas
two principles, two theories of government
IN perpetual conflict, in legislation, in poll.
tics, in political economy, in finance, strug-
gled for ascendency, and struggle, now here
The one aristocratic, monarchial, for power
in the few, for Capitalization. for money. fol-
an imperial national government. This
was federalism, Whiggism, Know.
nothingism, and is now called Republican,
ism. The other, for all the people, for labor
for economy and simplicity in government
for the letter of the organic law, for home
rule, for the rights Of all the people in thei,
homes, in their counties and cities and
States. This was and is Democracy.
And there has never been time since
1857, nor before, when the people of this
country we're not Democrats mean-a
majority, and that in party sense
from the days of Thomas Jeffer-
son to- the year 1876, when
Iilden was counted out by fraud. True
there have been exceptional times, unde,
great excitement with some military hero,
but the people were and remained Demo-
cratic.
Let us see. In 1852 Pierce's popular ma
jority over Scott was 215,O96. In 1856
Buchanan's majority over Fremont was 1885,
sos. In 1861 Lincoln's vote was 1,866.352
Douglas vote, 1,375,157; Brecken1idge's vote
S45, 1853; total, Douglas and breckenridge
Democratic vote, 2,22O,92O; majority ovel
Lincoln, 3O4, 1868; besides the vote for Bel
which was 589,581, which shows that Lin
coin was in hopeless minority, and that he
was elected by sectional minority.
There never was another Presidential cleo
ton by and in the United States until 1876
In 1864 there were twelve States out of the
Union, so far as the election was concerned
and the elections, so-called, in 1868, and in
1872, were national and political farces, car
ried and controlled by bayonets and carpet
baggers. The popular vote in 1876 was as
follows: Hayes. 4, O33, 296; Tilden, 1924 .256
Cooper, S1,737; Smith, 1922 Tilden's ma.
jority over all, 1892. Here is a clea,
Democratic majority-of the whole people OF
l57. 1874, after allowing for all the frauds and
rascalities of the Republican Returning
Boards.
Herein is foreshadowed the future of the
Democratic party. It's record in the past
will be eclipsed by the greater splendors OF
the future. The rule of the people will soon
be re-established, and the ancient landmarks
of constitutional liberty restored. Let Dem.
ocrats everywhere take courage. In less
than decade there will not be Republican
State in the valley of, nor west of the Mis-.
sissippi, nor in the Northwest, but govern
ment of the people, and for the people, and
by the people will be declared by every
State and re-established in the hearts of all
patriots.
DISLIKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE.
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