The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-08-07
KANSAS DEMOCRACY is FIRM.
An Address so Clearly Put That ii
Can Not be Misunderstood.


The Democratic party of Kan
sas has refused to form a coalition
with the Peoples party, and has
issued an address that can not be
misunderstood. The address was
read at a banquet to the Democrat
ic editors of the State at Topeka
one night last week, when Demo-
cratic enthusiasm was at its height.
The following are among its essen
tial features:
eve, while profoundly sympa-
thizing with the aspirations and
aims Of all who hope and sincerely
strive for better conditions for the
masses of mankind, can not sub
scribe to doctrines that are ident-
ical in character and intensified in
degree with those ideas and doc
trines that have produced the con-
ditions complained Of We. can
not shut our eyes to the fact that
the indictment presented against
the existing wrongs by the Peo-
pies party is a complaint against
wrongs perpetrated by the Repub-
lican party and continually object
ed to and pointed out by the Dem
ocratic party, and while the wrongs
were accomplished with strong
hands unlawfully over the united
and best efforts of the Democratic
party, it was largely by the aid of
those who now clamor for redress
OF these wrongs by species Of
communism and State socialism
that are foreign to American ira
ditions and the constitutional prin-
ciples upon which this Government
was founded.
"These demands of the Peoples
party would, as a necessary Sc
quence, if carried to their legiti-
mate consequences, result in sub
verting and revolutionizing the
Government itself. Neither are
we unmindful of the fact that of all
the demands made by those who
have but recently discovered these
great wrongs there is not one which
can be described as rational and
which is within the bounds of pos
sibility but what has been made
over and over again by the Dem
ocratic party. Nor are we blind
to the fact that the latter move
ment of those who until recently
were the political associates Of the
perpetrators of these wrongs is
> simply desperate effort to get the
benefit of the Democratic measures
! and Democratic policies without
abating their partisan prejudices
: sufficiently to vote the Democratic
: ticket We say to all who hope for
better things, all hail, brother; but
: we can not consent to withdraw
I from the field of activity at the very
Y moment when the triumph Of De-
/ mocracy makes reformatory relief
a possible"
t The address reatirms the party's
stand on the tariff and declares in
: favor of free coinage and the aboli-
! ton of the national banking sys-
q tenn. On the subject of Govern
ment control of railroads the adj
! dress says:
"To those who say that the Gov
ernment can not control the rail
roads without owning them, we an
swer that the proposition that the
railroads are beyond control ex-
hibits them in the form Of such
monstrous power that the bare
u thought Of their exercise by official
: authority is appalling, while to
! purchase and pay for them would
d bankrupt the nation. We there
S fore recommend legislation with a
e view to the control Of the railroads
+ of the country in the interests of
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