Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-28


Convention, lately assembled at Chicago.
accept the nomination with q grateful ap-
probation of the supreme honor conferred
and solemn sense of the responsibility
which in its acceptance l assume. l have
carefully considered the platform adopted
! by tie Convention, and cordially approve
the same. So plain q statement of Demo-
cratic faith, and the principles upon which
| that party appeals to the SURFACES of the
people needs no supplement or explanation.
II should be remembered that the Office OF
President is essentially executive in its ma
ture. The laws enacted by tina legislative
branches OF the Government the Chief Ex-
ecutive is bound faithfully to enforce. and
when the wisdom Of the political
party which selects one of its mem
oers as the nominee for that Of
fee has outlined ais policy
and declared its principles, it seems to me
that nothing in the character of the office
or the necessities of the case requires more
from the candidate accepting such nOmina-
ton than the suggestion of well known
truths SO absolutely essential to the safety
and welfare of the Nation that they cannot
be too often recalled or too seriously en-
forced. We proudly call ours government
by the people. 1t is not such when class
is tolerated which arrogates to itself the
management of public affairs, seeking to
control the people instead of representing
them. Parties are the necessary outgrowth
of our ms itutions, but government is not
by the people when one party fosters its
control upon the country and perpetustes
its power by cajoling and betraying the
people instead of serving them. A govern
ment is not by the people, when result
which should represent the intelligent will
OF free and thinking men. is or can be de-
torn hv "a hQ~ oil
of their suffrages. When an election to
Office shall be the selection by the vot-
ers of one of their number to assume
for time public trust instead of his dedi-
cation to the profession of politics, when
the holders of the ballot quickened Dy q
sense of duty shall avenge the truths be-
trayed and pledges broken, and when the
suffrage shall be altogether free and uncor-
rupted, full realization of Government by
the people will be at hand, and as the
means to this end nothing would in my
judgement be more effective than an
amendment to the Constitution disqualify-
ing the President from reelection. When
We consider the patronage of this great Of
fee, the aliurements of power, the tempta-
ton to retain public place once gained, and
more than all the availability party finds
in an incumbent whom a horde of Office
holders with zeal borne of benefits re-
ceived and fostered by the hope of tavors
yet to come, stand too ready to aid with
money and trained political service, We
reconize in the eligibility of the President |
for reelection a most serious danger to that |
calm, deliberate and intelligent political
action which must characterize Govern |
ment by the people.
A true American sentiment recognizes the |
dignity and the fact that honor lies in hon
est toll. Well paid labor is sign of Ma
tlonal prosperity. Ability to work cOnSti-
tutes the capital, and the wages oflabor the
increase of a vast number of our popula-
ton, and this interest should be jealousy |
protected Our working men are not ask
ing unreasonable indulgence, but as intelli-
gent and manly citizens, they seek the same
considerations which those demand who
have other interests at stake. They should
receive their full share of the care and at
tentiOn of those who make and execute the
laws, to the end that the wants and needs
of the employers and employed shall alike
be subserved, and the prosperity of the
the common heritage of both, be
advanced As related to this subject, while
We should not discourage the immigration
OF those who come to acknowledge allegi
ance to our Government and add to our pop
ulatiOn, yet, as means of protection
to our workingmen, different rule should
prevail concerning those who, if they come
or are brought to our land, do not intend to
become Americans, but who will I'M uriously
compete with those justly entitled to our
field of labor. In letter accepting the
for Governor, nearly two years
ago, 1 made the following statement, to
which have steadily adhered: 1.-The labor
ing classes constitute the main part of our
population. They should be protected in
their efforts to peaceably assert their rights
when endangered by aggregated capital,
and all statutes on this subject should rec
ognize the care of the State for honest toll,
and be framed with a view of improving
the condition of the workingman, proper
regard tor the welfare of the workingman
being inseparably connected with the integ-
rity of our Constitution" None of our cit
zens are more interested than they in
guarding against any corrupting influ-
cent purposes of our Government,
and none should be more watchful of
he artful Vaccinations of those who allure
hem to self inflicted injury. In free
the curtailment of the absolute
lights of the individual should only be
uch as is essential to the peace and good
order of the community. The limit be- I
ween the proper subjects of Governmental S
control and those which can be more fit {
ingly left to the moral sense and self
imposed restraint of the citizen should be
arefully kept in view. Those laws neces- t
arjly interfering with the habits and Gus {
oms of any of urpeople which are not Of
ensive to the moral sentiments of the civil c
zed world, and which are consistent with i
God citizenship and the public welfare,
re unwise and vexatious. The commerce t
f a nation to great extent determines its a
supremacy. Cheap and easy transporta- q
ion should therefore be literally foStered
7ithin the limits of the Constitution. The
ieneral Government should improve and t.
rotect its natural water ways so that they b
I'LL enable the producers of the country to p
each profitable market. The people pay t.
le wages of the public employees and they G
re entitled to the fair and honest work il
'hich the money thus paid should COM tt
land. 1t is the duty Of those entrusted
it'll the management of their affairs to see Il
lat such public service is forthcoming; the
election and retention of subordinates in tt
Overnment employment should depend n
pom their ascertained fitness and the value
their work, and they should be neither E
kpected nor allowed to do questionable q
arty service; the interests of the people n
ill be better protected; the estimate of
ublic labor and duty will be immensely j
approved; public employment will be open F
all who demonstrate their fitness to enter t.
The unseemly scramble for place under c
le Government with the consequent i'm. n
ortunity which embitters official life will Il
,ase, and the public departments will not n
: filled with those who conceive it to be Il
leir first duty to aid the party to which h
ley owe their places, instead of rendering pl
stient and honest return to the people. V
believe that the public temper is such
lat the voters of the land are prepared W
support the party which gives
le best promise of administering the Gov OF
in the honest, simple and plain ii
amer which is consistent with its char in
ter and its purposes. They have learned