The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-07
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a continuance Of your indulgence and
courtesy, as well as your full co-opera-
ton 10 promote order, decorum, and
good will until these proceedings are
brought TO a Happy close.
We represent in this Convention more
than thirty millions Of the American
people. We bear Their commission 10
act for them and their injunction 10 act
with all the wisdom that God has given
us to protect and safeguard the institu
iions of the Republic as the fathers found
ed them.
In time when the world was king
ridden and pauperized by the privileged
few, when man scarcely dared to breathe
the word Liberty" even If they under
stood its meaning, the people scattered
along our eastern coast with n sublime
heroism never equalled, broke from all
traditions. rejected all known systems,
and established, to the amazement OF the
world,
THE POLITICAL WONDER OF THE AGES
the American Republic. The Ameri-
can Republic, the child of revolution,
nursed by philosophy. The hand that
framed Ike immortal Declaration OF In
dependence is the hand that guided the
emancipated country TO progress and
glory Ii is the hand that guides us still
in our onward march as a free and pro-
gressive people, The principles upon
which our Government can securely resi-,
upon which the peace, prosperity, and
liberty of the people depend, are The
principles of the founder Of our party,
the apostle of Democracy JET
fersOn.
Our young men under thirty have
heard more in their time of the clash of
arms and the echoes of war than of the
principles Of government. 1t had been
a period Of possession, force, impulse,
and emotional politics, so that we need
not wonder that now and then we hear
the question asked and scarcely answered,
WHAT DIFFERENCE Is THERE BETwEEN
THE TWO PARTGEs -
Every Democrat knows the difference
The Democratic creed was not penned by
Jefferson for section, or class Of the
people, but for all not for a day or
generation, but for all time. These prin-
ciples conserved and expanded The Re
public in all its better days. a strict
adherence to them will preserve il to the
end SO the Democracy of to day, as in
the past, believe with Jefferson in
! EQUAL and exact justice to all men, OF
whatever State or persuasion, religious or
political
. Peace, commerce, and honest friend
ship with all nations, entanglng alliances
with none.
3. Support Of the State Governments in
all their rights as the most competent al
ministra.Ors of our domestic concerns,
and tht surest bulwark against anti-Re-
publican tendencies
4 The preservation Of the general gov
ernment in its whole constitutional yigor
as the sheet anchor of our peace and
safety abroad.
3. A Jealous care OF the right Of elec-
ton by the people, mild and safe cor
rectiOn of abuses, which are Topped oil
by the sword of revolution where peacea
ble means are unprovded.
q. Absolute acQuiescence in the decls-
ions of the majority, the vital principle
of a republic, from which there is no
appeal bu' to force the vital principal
and immediate parent of despotism.
:. A well disciplined militia, our best
reliance in peace and for the first mo-
ments In war.
; The supremacy of the civil over the
military authority.
9. Economy in the public expense that
labor may be lightly burdened
10. The honest payment OF our debts,
and the preservation of our public faith
II. encouragement of agriculture ana
of commerce as its handmade.
10. The diffusion Of information and
arraignment of all abuses al the bar Of
public reason.
13. Freedom of religion.
ii Freedom Of the press.
Is. Freedom of the person under the
protection of the habeas corpus
1G. Trial by juries impartially selected
Add to these
THE GOLDEN ECONOMIC RULE
that no more taxes should be levied
upon the people in any way than
are necessary to meet the honest
expenses Of government, and you have
a body of principles to sin against which
has been political death to every party
hitherto TO sin against, which, III the
future. will be political suicide True to
these principles, the Democratic party
fought successfully our foreign wars,
protected our citizens in every cline,
compelled the respect of all nations
for our flag, added imperial do
main to our territory, and insured
peace, prosperity, and happiness to all
our people. False TO these principles,
the great Federal, Wing, and Know
Nothing parties went down, never TO rise
again and we are here to-day represen-
tative of the party that has survived all
others-the united, triumphant, invinci-
bic Democracy to strike down
forever the last surviving foe in Noyem-
Der. Our standard must be the rallying
point now and in the future for all good
citizens who love and cherish republican
institutions, who love liberty regulated
by the Constitution and the law. who be
lieve ia a government of all The
people. by all the people, and for all the
people.
This has been the asylum for all good
men from over the earth who iied from
want and oppression and mean to be.
come Americans But we invite and
welcome only friends to this ground
and leigemen to the Republic. Our in
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