Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY.

at ChicagO-An Eloquent Exposition of
Democratic Principles and Democratic
achievements.
CHICAGO. April ~ Last night the Iro-
quois Club, the most influential Demo-
crate organization Of the West, and q
number OF invited guests. met in the Eau-
quet hall of the Pa msr House to celebrate
Stephen a Douglas anniversary and &c
discuss appropriate topics OF the day
The remarks m de by Pension Commits
sioner John C. Black on triumphant De-
mocracy" were received with unbounded
enthusiasm. as they deserved 20 be. Af:eY
eIoquently sketching the misruie of the
Republican party for a quarter of a CEN
tury, the General said:
At the call of the people for relief @rose
Democracy. at last triumphant, and ad-
dressed itself to the restoration of power 10
the people No greater task was ever laid
on human organization. Every avenue
TO ascCAdancy was obstructsd by tricAery,
by the fears of timorous allies, and the sui
len inaction OF its defeate opponents All
the machinery of Government was in hos
tile hands; the plainest outlines OF pub ic
affairs had to be studied and mastered By
the men of the Democracy Unused to the
situation into which they Were suddenly
called, they bore into the labyrinth of Off
cialism in one hand the lamp of the explorer
and in the other the scourge OF the reform
er
About to be summoned again to the bar
OF public opinion, n Triumphant Democracy
presents the record OF its brief term OF re-
newed Office, and challenges your calm re-
view of its accomplishment
1T has restored many million acres OF
the public land to the use of the common
people; it has reopened the trail or the
emigrant and made the American pioneer
welcome to his own; it has wrested from
Of
lowed combines the plumber which they
had accumulated under the pretended
processes OF law; it has torn their Illegal
privileges from private syndicates, and is
dragging the giant robbers to the bar OF
justice. 1t has lessened by many millions
the annual expenditure of the cost of Gov
ernment. IL has shorn away a myriad OF
useless Offices. and is at this very day in the
National capitol engaged in the great task
or cutting down excessive taxation, and OF
leaving the surplus wealth of the country
at home with the plain people OF the land
1.-THE Triumphant Democracy has shown
that it Is competent TO administer the
Affairs of the people in their interests; 1t
has dissipated the prejudices which OBJ
scured the Judgement and the fears Which
teri Fl I'D the people; it has demonstrated
that the American citizen, from what sec
ton soever of the country he may come, is
able and fitted to participate in his own
government It has banished the gigantic
phanioms which arose in the mirage Of
war, and in place of hate. revenge and
fury, has substituted Il reign OF peace, of
common interest, and of fraternal Tt @ ird
1t has destroyed the dominance of
section and brought the Ameri-
can people to the consideration of
common interests; it points them to the
common possible achievements and glories
of the future. 1t has turned absolutely
from the things that were sorrowful AMI
blood-stainei, and has advanced to thoss
where the heart and brain OF the whole
American people may find the highest
fruitage of renewed affection and of ma
turing Judgment Away from the Red Sea,
where our beloved persisted, and the wilder
ness where Gods wrath smote us. iG leads
to shore of q nations Jordan, and points
to land of promise. where our children
slall build the temple of concord. and our
sons eat the bret of peace.
@Ihe Democracy has held sacred and has
far advanced the claims of the pensioner as
the common debt of the common people to
be sacrediy. honestly and munifcently
paid NsVer since the tender hand OF peace
first bound up the wounds OF rugged war;
never since the awful fruit OF battle cum
bered the red earth; never since men died
and women wept. and children sorrowed,
has greater munifcence or more eager
Willingness Deen manifest IMAM mas D6en
shown to the pensioners by the Triumphant
Democracy-which, God willing, shall for
many years pour the Nations reviving
streams by the stricken and desolate.
From The general sum OF public tax
alton it has met and is meeting every law
ful demand made by the war, and holds
cure every substantia fruit of victory. 1t
has driven from place and power thou
sands of the unworthy, the corrupt, the ex-
ie yzIa IL, oh -
Government men drawn fresh from the
people, and who are animated by the de-
stres, the wises and the aspirations OF a
generation whose tide of young life sparkle
in the sun of our new heaven; yet il its
vast sweep it leaves unscathed all achieve
ments of righteous victory and all fruits of
National triumph. 1t leaves to history to
gather sacred ashes into sacred urns,
and addresses itself to the living needs of
the blossoming and fragrant present
10 has faithfully collected the revenues
of the Nation; destroyed the scandals in
the customs service; Lroken up The under
valuation systems, and made the custom
houses of the United States the clean out
posts of clean men on all our shores
1t has preserved the Nations faith and
pence with the Indian; removed the ulcer
Gus and irritating plnnderers, who wrought
their nef ,rious practices under Govern
meat contracts in the midst of the tribes;
and in its three and a half years has led
the red men again into paths of peace and
decent rel atoms with their while brethren;
it has re-nwakened the trust that was dead
in the savage bosom; it has taught him
that the cross of Christ does not. under a
Democratic Administration, stand for a
disguised speculator. nor the American flag
for u trading booth.
1t is restoring our navy to the high seas;
and IN another four years of ascendancy
will set the starry flag on the old ocean
home of conquest and renown-
1T has re slored confidence in its meth
DDS and intentions to the business world;
and to-day the volume of our trade is I'M
rivaled at home and abroad in the past or
present
Its traditional politics still welcome the
Immigrant to our shores. Snd make his