Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-07

the hand which formulated the principles upon
which government can securely rest, upon
which peace, prosperity and the liberties of
the people depend the principles of our party
apostle of Democracy-1homas Jefferson.
Our young men under thirty years of age have
heard more in their time OF the clash OF arms
ana OF the echoes of war than of the principles
of government. 1t has been a period of passion,
OF force, of impulse and of emotional politics.
how and then we hear the question asked and
scarcely answered. What difference is there be-
tween the two parties? Every Democrat knows
the difference. The Democratic creed was not
penned by jefferson for a section or elsss of
people, but for all; not for day or generation.
and expanded the republic in its bet
ter days. Strict adherence to them will preserve
it to the end: So the Democracy to day, as in
the past, believe with Jefferson:
First-In equal and exact justice to all men OF
whatever State or region or political opinion.
Second-ln peace, commerce and honest
friendship with ali nations and entangling alli-
ancCs with none
Third--In the support of the State Govern
ments in ali their rights, as the most competent
administration of our domestic concern aud the
surest bulwsrkS against anti-repubical tenden-
cies.
Fourth-In the preservation of the General
Government in its whole constitutional yigor,
as the sheet-anchor of our peace and safety
abroad.
Fifh-In the jealous care of the rights of cleo
ton by the people and in the mild and safe cor.
rection of abuses, which are Topped OFF by the
sword of revolution where peaeeable means are
unprovided.
sixth-Absolute acquiescence in the decisions
of the majOrity-the vital principle of republics,
from which there is no appeal but to force, the
vital principle and immediate resort of despot-
ism.
seventh-A well-disclplined militia our best
reliance in peace and for the first moments of
war.
Eighth-The supremacy of the civil over mill
tary authority.
Ninth-Economy in public expenses that labor
may be lightly burdened
Tenth-Honest payment of our debts and the
preservation of the public faith.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of agriculture and
of commerce as its handmade.
Twelfth-The diffusion of information and the
arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public
reason.
Thirteenth-The freedom of religion
Fourteen--rhe freedom of the press
Fifteen-ihe freedom of person and protec-
ton OF the habeas corpus.
Sixteen.h-Ihe trial by jury, imrartially
selected.
Add to these the golden rule--That no more
taxes should be levied upon the people in any
way than are necessary to meet the honest ex-
penses of the Government, and you have a body
OF principles to sin against which has been
political death to every party hitherto. and to
sin against which i'll the future will be political
suicide.
True to these principle the Democratic party
fought successfully our foreign wars protected
our citizens in every cline, compelled the re-
tI Nll IALONS, 10 In erl;tl CONAN tn
our 'err:torv and insured peace rr. speny and
happiness 10 Al our people. False. to thSse
principles the great Federal, Wing and Know
nothing parties went down never 10 rise again.
And we are here to-day representatives of the
party that has survived all others. United
triumphant, 'nyinci5le, the Democracy is pre-
pared to strike down foes in November.
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 laws,
who do not believe in Government for class
or for few. but Government OF all the peo-
pie. by all the people and for all the people.
This country has been the asylum for all good
men from over the earth who fee from want
and oppression and mean TO become Americans.
but We invite only friends to this ground and
lege-men to the republic. Our institutions
cannot change to hostile wishes. nor be so much
as sensibly modified, save by the peaceful and
deliberate action OF the mass of the people in
accordance with the Constitution and the laws
| of the land. Whatever problems the present
has, or the future may present, as far as politi-
| cal action affects US, will be dealt with by the
American people within the law, and in the
future, as IN the pat, the people will find Sc
curity for liberty and property, encouragement
ana protection Tor industries, peace and pros
perity, in following the party of the American
| masses, which viii ever shield them from ag-
gresslons OF power and monopoly on one side
and on the other of the surgings Of chaos.
While almost the rest of the civilized world is
darkened by armies, crashed by kings or night
mared by conspirGc!es, We alone enjoy healthy
peace, rational liberty and progressive pros
perity. We owe il to our pol teal institutions
10 Democratic teachings at least, as II 1ch as tc
| the exuberant soil. The man is not u good
| America VINO, knowing what we are by act ol
! word. experiment or thought, III any way viii
| attempt t. weaken the foundation of this Splen-
| did political structure, the Republic OF the
| United States.
We meet to-day under conditions of new Dem
ocrltS of the generation. How often have we
stood in Convention in the past when to Others
| it seemed as if the shadow of doubt closed
| about US, when The day of victory seemed
| almost far away. 1t could not then be said We
| met Tor spOllS OF personal GdyG tHEc. We u.et
! 10 keep the fires OF Democratic liberty alive till
| the dawn OF Il better day. If we were party
| of misfortune it must be agreed that we were q
party undaunied in courage and infexible in
| principles.
Twenty eight years ago the Democratic party
wes rent into fragments, heated by feuds that
only time could allay or punishment destroy
! They met, as IL looks now. merely to settle II
| angry mood the terms upon which they should
| become exies from power by their mad dissen
! slons. They elected to go to defeat rather than
wait for the sobering. influences of time to close
| the breach. To the young men of that day the
| act seemed suicidal, mitigated by insanity
Their madness transferred 10 the minority O
! The American people the political Government
That party, however honest aud respectable its
members however atriotic its motives was no
| broad or national ut its base. 1t had but one
central idea and when that idea was set in tht
| Constitution and crystaliZed into law, il ran
Career OF riot that appalled, all men. The his
tory OF that period of political da6auchery is
| too sad and familiar to Americans to be recited
anew.
The Republican party, sometimes peacefully
| and sometimes by torce-somctimes fairly anf
| sometimes by fraud, succeeded in holding powel
for twenty tour years. till at last the Amer car
| people, no longer condonipg its faults or forgiv
lug its sins, hurled it from power and again
committed to the historic party of the COnstitu
ton and the whole Union, the administrator
| Of our political affairs We won by the we'll
earned confidence of the country in the rectitudC
OF onr purpose, by the aid of chivalrous anC
conscientious men, who could no longer brool
! the corruptions Of the Republican party.
was great, deserved. necessary victory.
| Inc Cay On which Grover Cleveland-e plain
straightforward, typical American citizen
chosen by electinn-took the oath of Office il
the presence of q multitude, on q day SO ,ovelN
and perfect that all nature seemed anxious t
sanction and celebrate the victory, that day
marked the close of the OLD era and the begin
ming of q new one. 1t c.osed the era of Ilsurpa
ton of power by Federal authority. of illega
! force, of general contempt for constitutions
| limitation and plain law for glaring scandals
prohigate waste and unspeakable corruption. o
new. narrow sectionalism, and of the reign Of {
party whose good work had long been done i
began an era of perfect peace aud perfec. union
OF the States, fused all their sovereignty sintC
a Federal republic, with linlite1 bot ample
powers; of public service conducted with 40
solute integrity and strict economy of reform!
! pushed to their extreme limit of a comprehen
siye and safe financial policy, giving securit,
"A Democratic Administration, faithful to it.
! mighty trust. loyal 10 its pledges true to The
| Constitution, and safe in guarding the interests
! and liberties of the people.
Now we stand on the edge ofanother and per
haps greater contest, with Il relation to III,
| electors that we have not held for generation
that of responsibility for the great trust o
! Government. We are no longer auditors, bu
accountants; no logger critics but criticised
Responsibility is ours, ana il we have no. takel
All the power necessary 10 mark that responsi
biity, the fault is ours, not that OF the people
| We are confronted by willy, unscrupIlous anC
| desperate foe. There will be no peck ON reeorC
! that they will not magnify into blot no cir
cunlstance they will not torture and misrepre
sent. no disappointment they will not ezagger
ate into revolt, no classes tEey will not seek L
tame, no passion they wall not attempt to rous,
and no fraud they will not be willing to uerpe
| trate- They fancy. indeed, there is mo i'm
| posture " too monstrous for popular creduity
no crime that viii nos BE- oondoned; but vi
stand at guard full armed 1T every point to NEE
them Our appeal is not to passion or to pre-
Judice, to class or faction, to race or creed, bu
: 10 sound cclnmon-sense, to tie interest, intelli
! gence and patriotism of the American people
The Administration of President Cleveland
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