Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-15
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
Ringing Words From Ex-President
Cleveland.
The Democratic Party the Peoples Party
It's Duties Clearly Set Forth-Farrners
Assured That the Party Tnl At
tend to Their interests.


tend to Their interests. 4
At a banquet given in Philadelphia on
Jackson Day January s. by the Young
Mems Democratic Club, the attendance
was very large by representative Demo
Gratis from all parts of the country.
Among the guests present was ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland, who responded to the
toast, 1.-The Principles of True Democ-
racy-they are enduring because they
are right, and invincible because they
are just When introduced by the
president of the banquet Mr.. Cleveland
was received with prolonged applause.
The ex-Prcsident said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen: As I rise to
respond to the sentiment which has been as
signed to me cannot avoid the impression
made upon my mind by the announcement
of the words True Democracy" 1 believe
them to mean a sober conviction or conclu-
sion touching political topics which, fOrmu-
lated into political belief or creed. inspires
- patriotic performance OF the duties of citi-
zenship. am satisfied that the principles
of this belief or creed are such as underlie
our free institutions, and that they may be
urged upon our fellow countryInen. because
in their political purity and integrity they
accord with the attachment of our people for
their government and their country. creeG
based upon such principles is by no means
discredted because Illusions and perversions
temporarily prevent their popular accept
ance any more than 1t can be irretrieyably
shipwrecked by mistakes made in its name
or by it's prostitution to ignOble purposes.
When Illusions are dispe1ed, when mScOn-
1Neptions are rectifed and when those who
guide Gre consecrated to truth and duty, the
ark of the peoples safety will still be dis
cerned in the keeping of those who hold fast
10 the principles of true Democracy.
hes ar
Doubtful. The illustrious founder of our
party has plainly announced them. They
have been reasserted and followed by a long
Dine of great political leaders and they are
GiuQe familiar. They comprise: Equal and
g3xact justice to all men; peace, commerce
slAd honest friendship with all nations-en-
Dangling alliances with none; the support OF
the State Governments in all their rights;
One preservation of the General Government
&c its whole constitutional vigor: a jealous
0are of the right of election by the people;
absolute acquiesence in the decisions of the
Gnajority; the supremacy of the civil over
the military; economy in the public ex-
penses the honest payment of our debts and
sacred preservation of the public faith; the
encouragement of agriculture and commerce
as its handmade, and freedom of religion,
freedom of the press and freedom of the per-
son.
The great President and intrepid Demo
2raic leader whom we especially honor to-
night, who never relaxed his strict adher-
his defense of the rights OF the people against
all corners, found his inspiration and guild
ance in these principles. On entering upon
the Presidency he declared his loyalty to
them in his long and useful incumbency of
that great Office he gloriously illustrated
their value and sufficiency: and his offence
% the doctrines of true Democracy at all
times during his public career permitted
him on his retirement to find satisfaction in
the declaration: SAT the moment when
surrender my last public trust leave this
great people prosperous and happy and in
the full enjoyment of liberty and peace and
honored and respected by every nation OF
Ne world"
Parties have come and parties have gone.
Even now the leaders of the party which
faces in opposition the DemOcratshos listen
for the footsteps of that death which de-
stroys parties false to their trust.
Touched by thine,
The extortioner's hard hand FORCES Che gold
wrung from the DER worn poor.
Thou, too dOSt purge from earth its humble
and old idolatries from the proud fanes,
Each to his grave their priests go out till
none is left to teach their worship"
But there has never been time, from JEFF
ferson's day to the present hour, when our
party did not exist active and aggressive
and prepared for heroic conflict. Nop all
who have followed the banner have been
able by long Grain of close reasoning to
demonstrate, as an abstraction, why Demo
cratic principles are best suited to their
known and felt that as their Government
was established for the people, the princi.
pies and the men nearest to the people and
standing for them could be the safest trust
eT. Jackson has been in their eyes the in
Qarnaton of the Ghings which Jefferson de-
clared. If they did not understand all thai
Jefferson wrote they saw and knew wha
jackson did. Those who insisted upon vot
ing for jackson after his death felt sure tha
whether their candidate was dead aliv,
they.were voting the ticket of true DeEaoc
racy. The devoted political adherent o
Jackson who after his death became in
volved in a dispute as to whether his here
had gone to Heaven or not, was prompted
by Democratic instinct when he disposed o
the question by declaring: 81 tell you, sir
that if Andrew Jackson has made up hi
mind to go to Heaven you may depend upol
it he is there"
The single Democratic voter in more thai
one town who year after year deposited hi
single Democratic ballot undismayed by tn
number of his misguided opponents, thu
discharged his political duty with the utmos
pride and satisfaction in JacksOnian Democ
racy. Democratic steadfastness and enthu
siasm and the satisfaction arising from on
party history and traditions, certainly ough
not to be discouraged. But it is hardly SAT
for us because we profess the true faith an
can boast of distinguished political ancestr
to rely upon these things as guarantees of on
present usefulness party organization
or to regard their glOrificatiOn as surely mai
ing the way easy to the accomplishment
our political mission.
The Democratic party, by an intelligeI
study of present conditions, must be prepare
to meet all the wants of the people as the
arise, and to furnish remedy for ever
threatening evil. We may well be proud
our party membership; but we can not oscar
the duty which such membership impose
upon us, to urge constantly upon our fellow
citizens of this day and generation, the sufl
cheney of the principles of true Democrat
for the protection of their rights and the PIT
motion of their welfare and happiness, in a
their present diverse conditions and su
roundings.
There should of course be no suggestio
that a departure from the time honOrt
principles of our party is necessary to IL
attainment of these objects. On the col
trary we should constantly congratula
oursalycs That 0ur marty creed ia bros