The Russellville Democrat., 1884-10-16
TILDEN,s REPLY,
The Sage of Greystone Ma,
 Formal Reply to the Kesn,es Kes tfons Adopted and Transm,r,aa. by the National Democra,,
 Convention. ''le

LIMESTONE, October X Mr. Chairman asd Gentlemen of the conn,, tee: Ai''
 I thank you for the kind ter,ns which you have communicated resa lutions concerning me adopted h. the late National Democratic Cos vention. I share your cony,ctins that reform in the administrator {, the Federal Government, which our great National want, and ia {. deed essential to the restoration sar preservation of the Goyernmos. itself. can only be achieved throuas the agency of the Democratic paris and by installing it's representatiys, in the chief magistracy of the Up,,ss States. The noble historical t,s ditions of the Democratic party: tb. principles in which it was educated and to which It has ever been in ths man faithful; it's freedom from co, rupt influences, which grow m ,n prolonged possession of power, and the nature of the elements vbieS
  constitute 1t, all contribute to ouaG fy it for that mission. N
 REPUBLICAN CHARACTERISTIC.
 The opposite characteristics and conditions which attach to the Re publican party make it hopeless h expect that that party will be abI, to give better government than tho debasing system of abuses, which during its ascendency has infected official and political life in this coup. try.
 HISTORICAL.
 The Democratic party had It's oy gin in the efforts of the more adyapc. ed patriots of the Revolution to re. sist perversion of our Goyernmer from the ideal contemplated by the people. Among It's conspicuous founders are Benj. Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Saml Adams and Jno. Hancock, of Massachusetts Geo. Clinton and Robert R. Living stone. of New York, and George Wyth and James Madison, of vir. ginia. From the election of MT. Jefferson as President in 1900 for sixty years the Democratic party directed our National policy. ltex. tended the boundaries of the Repub, lie and laid the. foundation of all our National greatness, while it presev. ed the limitation imposed blythe constitution and maintained the sim pie and pure system of domestic al ministration.
 On the other hand the Republican party has always been dominated by the principles which favor lcgisla. ton for the benefit of particular classes at the expense of the body of the people. It has become deeply tainted with the abuses which nat uralIy grow up during long posses. sion of unchecked power, especially in a period of civil war and false finance. The patriotic and virtuous elements in it are now unable to emancipate it from the sway of self. ish interests which subordinate pub. lie duty to personal greed. The most hopeful of the best citizens it contains dspair of it's amendment except through it's temporary ex. pulsion from power,
 FALSE PRETENsEs.
 It has been boastingly asserted by modern Massachusetts state man, struggling to reconcile hmse and his followers to it's Presidential candidate, that the Republican party contains disproportionate share of the wealth, the culture and the i1f telligence of the country. The un. principled Grafton, when taunted by James II with his personal want of conscience, answered.: "That i; true, but belong to q party that has a great deal of conscience Such reasoners forget that the same claim has been made Tn all ages and countries by the defenders of sI wrongs against new reforms. Itwas alleged by the tories of the Ameri- can revolution against the patriots of that day; It was repeated against Jefferson, and afterwasd agains! Jackson. It is alleged by the Con servatives against those who in Eng land are now eRdeavoring to enlarge the popular suffrage.
 REFORM NECESSARY.
 All history showed that reform in Government must not be from those who sit serenely on the social noun tain tops, eyeing the benefits of the existing order of things. Even the divine author of our religion fonnd his followers not among complacent Pharlsees, but among lowly minded fishermen.
 The Republican party is largely made up of those who live by their wits and who aspire to advantages over the rest of mankind, similar to 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 po' litical action IS governed by thell sentiments or imagination.
 It results that the Democratic more readily than the Republican party can be moulded to the support of reform measures which involve a sacrifice of selfish interests. The indispensable necessity of our times