Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-10-18
TEACHINGS OF THE FATHERS.
The History. Principles and Organiza-
ton Of the Democratic Party as
Applied to the Ring Rule and Cen
tralizRtiOn.

The History. Principles and Organlza-
ton Of the Democratic Party as
Applied to the Ring Rule and Cen
tralization.
The Hon Chauncey +. Black ad-
dressed the Harlem (New York; DEM
ocratic Club, September 10Th.
First, Governor Black spoke OF the
time honored birth of the Democratic
party, over a century ago. He said
that the fathers of the Republic are
also the fathers Of Democracy, that
other parties may come anu go, but
the Democratic party is here so long
rs the Republic shall last. He con
tinued: !" 1t is founded on the axio-
matte principles Of political science.
1t adopts the doctrines of Jefferson,
that it is wise and frugal government
that shall restrain men from inJurlng
one anoth, =, which shall leave them
otherwise free 10 regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement,
and which shall not take from the
mouth OF labor the bread it earns. So
long as an enemy of home rule and
Republican principle remains, so long
the Democratic party must stand eter-
nal guard No other party has sur
vived the century of its birth.
"Here is the Republican party, the
Fedc: alist party of to-day, the lineal
descendant of the monocrats who were
vanquished by Thomas Jefferson. 1t
is but natural that they should be the
friends of subsidies and tariffs, draw
ing thousand millions of the surplus
every year.
"When my father, the late Judge
Jere Black, was urged to join the Re
publican party, he replied: You are a
fine lot of fellows for all the purposes
of this world-for power and plunder
and good fellowship it is the best party
that could be created. Ii ! was quite
sure that there is to be no future state
of rewards and punishments would
join you instantly. Nothing but the
fear of hell deters me-
Republicans as individuals may
possibly be all right, but the record
shows that when the Republicans get
together they are irreclaimably bad
and incorrigibly malignant. They are
wrong-headed. They tend to centrali-
zation. They attack the Federal char
ter and subvert it to their own purpose.
A second usurpation is always found
necessary to support the first. Itmust
seek its support in the mOnopolies and
rings which secure for themselves the
proceeds of taxes drawn from the
whole people. They are the legiti-
mate successors of Hamilton, who
openly defended the English system
with no faith in the intelligence of the
people. He began to subvert the Con-
stitution of the United States the mo-
ment it was adopted. His plan was
first to misconstrue the Constitution.
He held that men were unfit to govern
themselves. He sought to make the
Federal Government as much tyranny
as he could.
Usurpation, whether by one man
or majority, is equally unjustifable
and calamitous to the mass of the
governed. 1t is none the less danger
Gus when it claims to come from pub
lie necessity, when it is really party
necessity. Paternalism comes always
in the guise of high motive and of pub
lie interest. 1t is really an attack on
the principles of Democracy. The
simple-hearted mass who favor pa
ternal government mean well. The
Blaines and Hamiltons, of course, do
not ever mean well; but the mass Of
advocates OF the paternal theory can
see no reason why their plans should
be limited by the Constitution and
laws. 1t is only one step further for
these paternal government men to
supply Government school books and
soothing syrup or a Government pan
acea for the measles prepared by some
protected favorite, so that streams of
subsidy shall flow out and the broad
back of industry shall break under ac-
cumulated burdens. This is not the
outcome designed by the advocates Of
the paternal theory of government,
but it is the inevitable result.
Hamilton and his friends accepted
the Constitution OF 17S7 in preference
to the old confederation, because they
saw ia the provision for the general
welfare promise CT interference in
the most minute domestic affairs of
the people. Hamilton's spoils system
obtained four years triumph, but
the alien aud sedition laws opened the
eyes OF the people, and the assaults
upon liberty OF the person, of spirit,
and Of the press soon led to a revolt
and rebukc of the traitors to Democ-
racy and the triumph of the principles
of Thomas Jefferson, who was not only
elected but seated. When we have
600 Democratic clubs in New York,
and as many more in other States, it
will not be likely that any Democratic
President hereafter elected will fail to
be seated"
Governor Black traced the progress
of Hamiiton's ideas of subsidies, pillage
and tyranny as they appear from time
TO time in other parties, particularly
in the Republican party of to-day, and
pictured the progress of jobbery and
plunder under forms of law as prac-
ticed by the Republican party in the
interest OF monopolies and rings, and
now, Il quarter of a century after the
war has closed, demands the continu-
| stuCC vi wal tsbAcS W lildAhtdlu tiic Ic-
farious corruption of power.
The party was q minority in the be-
ginning" he continued, "and is in a
minority still. 1t has never had the
unbought suffrages of a majority of
the Americ al people. 1t had major
ity of hundred thousand against it
at the last Presidential election, secur-
ing majority OF the Electoral Com
Mission by votes purchased in blocks
OF five in close States. Is this Repub-
!icanism? or is it the shadow of the
empire? Is this the Republic of Wash
ington and Jefferson, or rather is it not
an empire, not with lawful princes
like those of Rome, but rather the up
start kings of so-called business in
party association with the Government,
at once the electors and beneficiaries?
| What is the fact? All that is left of
local liberty, of personal liberty, of
State rights, of home rule, of freedom
in trade, of purity in elections is due
to the conservative efforts of the DEM
ocratic party to defend the Constitu-
ton of 1857 against the assaults OF CO.
vert enemies of the nation, now united
under the name of the Republican
party, loudly clamoring for the public
good, but all the time working for pri-
vate gain and increasing the burdens
Of the MANY for tho hauaf.f Of tho fov