The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-09
DEMOCRATIC TR|k|TY,
Jackson the Incarnation Of the
Things Which Thomas Jeirsr-
son Declared.
And Cleveland the Embodiment Of
the Sterling Qualities
OF Both.
The Principles OF True Democracy Elab.
Grated ut y Philadelphia banquet
on jackson Day.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. s.--Jackson day was
celebrated tonight by tho Young Mems
Democratic association with a banquet at
the Academy Of Music, at which many
prominent persons were present. Ex-
President Cleveland was the orator Of the
evening. President Thompson. Of the
association, in introducing Mr.. Cleveland,
spoke OF him as the man who, with great
courage, threw down the gauntlet Of tariff
reform and, like his great prototype, Jack
son, practically declared, by the eternal,
its principles are right n should prevail"
Gov. Pattison, Congressman Breckenridge
and others also spoke.
Ex-President Cleveland spoke in response
Democracy" He eulOgized democracy and
its creed and said parties have come and
parties have gone, but there never has been
4 time from JeffersOn's day to the present
when the democratic party did not exist,
active. aggressive, II prepared Tor heroic
conflict. Not all who have followed its
banner have been able to demonstrate, rs
an abstraction, why democratic principles
are best suited to their wants and the coun-
try's good, but they have known and felt
that rs their government was established
for the people. the principles and men near
est the pcople and standing for them could
be safest trusted. jackson has been in
their eyes the incarnation OF the things
which Jefferson declared. The democratic
party, by intelligent study of present con-
ditiOns, must DO prepared to meet all wants
Of the people aS they arise, and furnish a
remedy for every threatening evil. We
cannot escape the duty which party mem
bership imposes upon us to urge constantly
upon onr fellow citizens OF this day and
generation the suficiency Of the principles
of true democracy for the protection of
their rights and the promotion Of
their welfare and happiness in
all their diverse conditions. Their
that a departure from the time-honored
principles OF our party is necessary to the
attainment Of these objects. On the con.
trary, we should constantly congratulate
ourselves that our party creed - broad
enough to meet any emergency that can
arise in the life Of a free nation. Thus,
when we see the functions Of government
Of many by an unjust tariff WHICH banishes
from many humble homes the comforts Of
life in order that in palaces of wealth lux
ury may more abound, we return to our
creed and find it ~enjoins equal and exact
justice to all men," Then, if we are we'll
be deceived nor permit others to be deceived
BY plausible pretext or smooth sophistry.
When We find the farmers in distress and
their long hours Of toll so poorly requited
that money lenders eat out their substance,
while for everything they need they pay
tribute to the fayorites Of governmental
far removed from the encouragement
of agriculture which our creed commands.
When we see the extravaganza Of public OK
penditure fast reaching the point of reck-
less waste, we remember that economy in
public expense is nm important article of
democratic faith. We We see our political
adversaries bent upon the passage Of a fed
oral law with the scarcely denied purpose Of
perpetuating party supremacy in elections,
we will stubbornly resist such a dangerous
and revolutionary scheme in obedience to
our pledge for the Support Of state govern
ments in all their rights"
Under anti-democratic encouragement we
have seen constantly increasing s%elfishness
attached to our political affairs. The de-
parture from the sound and safe theory that
the people should support governments for
the sake of the benefits resulting to all mas
bred u sentiment manifesting itself with
astounding boldness that government
may be enlisted in the furtherance m
advantage of private interests through their
willing agents in public places. Such ADAM
donnent Of patriotic political action has
naturally led to an estimate OF the peoples
franchise so degrading that it has been
openly and palpably debauched for the pro-
motion of selfish schemes. Money is in
vested in the purchase of votes with the de
liberate calculation hat it will yield profit
able return in results advantageous to the
investor. Another crime akin to this is the
intimidation by employers of voters de-
pendent upon them for work and bread.
| Nothing could be more hateful to true de-
| mocracy than such offenses against our free
| institutions. In several states the honest
oort;n,.nt nf tina marty has ueaortad itaalf
i'll the support Of every plan proposed for
rectification. This is a terrible wrong.
To fail in support would be to violate that
principle in the creed of true democracy
| which commands the Jealous care of the
right of election by the yeople."
Pennsylvania will not long remain behind
her sister states in adopting an ef-
fective plan to protect her peoples suf-
frage, and added that in any event the de-
mocracy of the state can find no jurisdic-
ton i'll party principle nor in party tradi-
tons nor in the just apprehension of dem
ocratic duty. for failure earnestly to sup.
principles OF true democracy" he said,
"are enduring because they are right, and
invincible because they are Just. In the
campaign which just closed with such plo-
rious results, while party managers were
anticipating the issue in the light Of the
continued delusion of the people the people
themselves and for themselves were consid-
ering the question of right and justice.
They have spoken and the democracy of the
land rejoices. Nowhere" said Mr.. Cleve.
land, in conclusion, has the sensitiveness
of the people OF questions involving right
ard wrong been better illustrated than in
Pennsylvania"
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