St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-28

cardinal principles of its party organiza-
tiOn. [ have been hOnOred by my party
far beyond my deserts. Indeed, no man
can deserve its highest hOnOrs. After
six years of party service l return to
you, my party friends. Six years have
stood as your representative in the
state and nation, and now | take my
place again in the ranks, more con-
vinced than ever that the cause Of true
Democracy is
THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE,
their safeguard and their hope. come
to you with no excuse or apologies
and with no confession of disloyalty.
1t is not given to man to meet all the
various and conflicting views of party
duty and policy which prevail in an
organization where individual opinion
is so freely tolerated as in the Demo
cratic party. Because these views are
various and conflicting, some of them
must be wrong. And yet when they
are honestly held and advocated, they
should provoke no bitterness or con-
demnation; but when they are dis
honestly proclaimed, as a mere cover
and pretext for personal resentment
and disappointment, they should be met
they deserve. If with sincere design
and intent one charged with party
representation has kept the party faith.
that must answer his party obligation.
No man can lay down the trust which
he has held in behalf of generous and
confiding people, and feel that at all
times he has met in the best possible
way the requirements of his trust; but
he is not derelict in duty if he has COLI
ScientiOuSly devoted his efforts and his
judgment to. the peoples service. /
have deliberately placed in close con-
nectiOn loyalty to Democratic principles
and devotion to the interests of the peO-
ple-for in my view they belong to-
gether and should mean the same
thing. But in the day of partisan feel
ing and attachment, it is well for us to
pause and
RECALL THE TRUTH.
that the only justification for the exist
ence of any party is the claim that in
principle and performance its object
and purposes are the promotion of the
public good, and the advancement of
the welfare and prosperity of our en-
tire country. There never was party
platform or declaration of principles
which did not profess these things, and
make them the foundations of party
creed; and any body of men who should
openly proclaim that they were associ-
ated together for the express purpose of
gaining supremacy in the government,
with the sole intent of distributing
Offices and the spoils of victory
a amOng their associates, would
be treated with rdicule and
scorn. Thus are we brought face to
face with the proposition that parties
should. no more than individuals, he un-
truthful and dishonest. Of course, in
the supremacy of party there are ad-
vantages to its members-and this is
not amiss. But when high party aims
and professions are lost sight of, or
abandoned. and the benefit of Office
holding and personal pelf are all that
remain to inspire party activity, not
only is the confidence of those relied on
for patriotic support forfeited, but the
elements of cohesion and of effective
and lasting political strength are gone.
The honest differences of opinion that
must always exist upon questions of
principle and public policy should fur
-m;sh
ABUNDANT OCCASION
for the existence Of parties, and point
out their field of usefulness. The study
fail to rusult in more valuable citizen
ship and more intelligent and better
equipped partisans. When we seek for
the ecause of the perpetuity of the Demo-
cratic party and its survival through
every crisis and emergency and in the
face of all opposition, we find in it the
fact that its cornerstone is laid in devO-
tion to the rights of the people, and
sympathy with all things which tend
to the advancement of their welfare and
happiness. Though heresy may
sometimes have crept into it's or
ganization, and though party conduct
may at times have been Influenced by
the shittiness which is the habitual de-
vice of it's opponents, there has always
remained, deeply imbedded in its nature
and character that spirit of true Ameri-
canism and that love of popular rights
which has made it indestructible in dis
aster and defeat, and has constituted it
a boon to the country in its time of tri-
umph and supremacy. The great
founder of our party, as he consecrated
himself by solemn oath to the faithful
dental Office, and pledged himself to
the preservation. protection and de-
Tense OF the constitution, after present
ing to his assembled fellow countrymen
the
CAUSES OF GENERALIZATION
found in the condition of our country
and the character of our people, i'm
pressively added: With all these bless
ings, what more is necessary to make us
happy and prosperous people? Still,
one thing more, fellOw-citiZenS: A wise
and frugal government which shall re-
strain men from injuring one another
shall leave them otherwise free to regu-
late their own pursuits of industry and
imprOvement-andS shall not take from
the mouth of labor the bread it has
earned. This is the sum of good gov
ernment, and this is necessary to close
the circle of our felicities.' In the
lexicon OF true Democracy these
words are not obsolete. but they
still furnish the inspiration of
our efforts and an Interpretation of our
political faith. Happily the party creed
narrow lines as that obedience does not
vanced thought of the country, and to
meet and test every question and apply
a principle to every solution. True De-
mOcracy, staunch in the adhesion to
fundamental doctrine, is at the same
time, in proper sense, progressive. 1t
recognizes our growth and expansion
and the birth of new thought and senti-
ment. 1t will judge them all by safe
standards, and in all phases
of national development it will
be prepared to answer, as
they arise, every need of the
people and every popular want. True
Democracy honestly advocates national
brotherhood, to the end that all fellow
countrymen may aid in the achievement
OF the grand destiny which awaits us as
a nation, and it condemns that pretext of
and harmony which, when
partisan advantage is to be gained,
gives way for inflammatory appeals to
SECTIONAL HATE AND PASSION.