Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-16
Mlistellameans &eadiua.
MIR. TILDEN SPEAKS AGAIN.
WORDS OF WISDOM UTTERED BY THE
GREAT DEMOCRATIC LEADER.

GREAT DEMOCRATIC LEADER.
In response to the resolutions presented to
him from the National Democratic Conven-
lowing letter:
GRAYsToNE, October 6th.-Mr. Chairman
and Gentlemen of the Committee: / thank
you for the kind terms in which you have
communicated the resolutions concerning
me adopted at the late Democratic National
Convention. / share your conviction that
reform in the administration of the Fed
eral Government, which is our great nation
al want and is indeed essential to the resto
ration and preservation of the government
itself, CAN only be achieved through the
agency of the Democratic party and by in
stalling it's representative in the chief mag
istracy of the United States. The noble
historical traditions of the Democratic par
ty, the principles in which it was educated
and to which it has ever been in the main
faithful, its freedom from the corrupt inf1u-
ences which grow up in prolonged posses
sion of power, and the natural elements
which constitute it, all contribute to qualify
it for that mission. The opposite character
istics and conditions which attach to the
Republican party make it hopeless that that
party will be able to give better government
than the debasing system of abuses which,
during its ascendancy, has infected Official
and political life in this country. The DEM
vanced patriots of the revolution to resist
the perversion of our Government from the
ideal contemplated by the people. Among
the conspicuous founders were Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Samuel
Adams and John Hancock, of Massachu-
sets, George Clinton and Robert R. Liv-
ingston, of New York, and George Wythe
and James Madison, of Virginia. From
the election of Thos. Jefferson as president
in 1900, for sixty years the Democratic par
ty mainly directed our national policy. 1t
and laid the foundation Of all our national
greatness, while it preserved the limita-
tions imposed by the Constitution and main-
tanned simple and pure system of domes-
tic administ' alton. On the other hand, the
Republican party has always been domi-
mated by principles which favor legislation
for the benefit of particular classes at the
expense of the body of the people. 1t has
become deeply tainted with abuses which
naturally grow up during a long possession
of unchecked power, especially in period
of civil war and false finances. The patriot
ic and virtuous elements in it are now un-
able to emancipate it from the sway of the
selfish interests which subordinate public
duty to personal greed. The most hopeful
of the best citizens it contains despair of its
amendment except through its temporary
expulsion from power. It has been boast
ingly asserted by modern Massachusetts
statesman, struggling to reconcile himself
and his followers to their Presidential can
didate, that the Republican party contains
disproportionate share of the wealth, cul-
ture and intelligence of the country. The
unprincipled Grafton, when tWitted by
To T wit nprSnna1
sciousness, answered: "That is true but
belong to u party that has a great deal of
Conscience The same claim has been
made in all ages and countries by defend
ers of old wrongs against new reforms. 1t
was alleged by the tories of the American
Revolution against the patriots of that day;
it is alleged by the Conservatives against
those who in England are now endeavoring
to enlarge popular suffrage. All history
shows that reforms in government must not
be expected from those who sit serenely on
of the existing order of things. Even the
Divine Author of our religion found his fol-
lowers not among the self-complacent Phar-
isees, but among the lowly-minded. The
specimen Republican party is largely made
up of those who live by their wits and who
aspire in politics to advantages over the
rest of mankind, similar to those which
their daily lives are devoted to securing IN
private business. The Democratic party
consists largely Of those who live by the
work of their hands and whose political
action is governened by their sentiments
or imagination. 1t results that the Demo-
cratic party, more readily than the Repub-
lican party can be moulded to the support
of reform measures which involve the sac
rifice of selfish interests. The indispensable
necessity of our times is q change OF admin
istration in the great executive offices of
the country. This, in my Judgment, can
only be accomplished by the election OF the
Democratic candidates for President and
Vice. President. SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
TO r. H. Henry, Chairman, and B: B.
Smalley and others of the Special Com
mittee of the Democratic National Con-
Yention,
A CONTRAST OF CANDIDATEs.-The most
decided change that would result from the
election of Governor Cleveland would be
in the purpose and methods of the admins
tration. The Democratic candidate is ac-
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