The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-25

party in power to ignore and set aside the ex
pressed VIII of a majority Of the neople IL
lends Its AID to the imposition ol exorbftaut
taxes IN order that the prodigal expenditures OF
us own billion congress may be concealed It
IS too hardened in political iniqufty 10 blush az
the scandals which have tainted tine atmosphere
oil IT'S federal administration, or TO rebuke tha
psrtoipators by relcgating them to private life IL
tightens its hands upon the government and r.-
strcts the rights OK the states and the liberties of
the citizens by its movement toward ceutrniiza-
ton And frightened by the emphatic protest
OF the people last November against high tariefs
ana subsidies and force bills and extravagant
appropriations, and desiring new issue in lSg2
u is warmly seeking To divide the Eastern Dem.
ocraey from the Western By false and hypoeritf-
cal professions in behalf of an honest cur.
rency, biindy trusting that it can deceive by it's
professions while by its acts it continues 20
permit the debasement OF u large part OF our
IcilIy anu refuses 10 take the manly stand in
laFor OF the only honest currency-the currency
OF our fathers and Of the constitution.
Inc rule OF such party is not OF the kind
which offers the best opportunities and insures
the greatest prosperity and fullest liberty to the
masses OF the people particularly 10 the people
whose energies are 80 wakeful and whose ambi-
tons are so high rs arc those of the citizens OF
the Northwest. For such a people and for the
great majority OF people in every section of our
land the principles Of Jefferson and Jackson and
Iilden are best The establishment of those
principles in the federal government and in our
state governments means no taxation exeept
Tor public purposes, no legislative bene-
no debascment or contraction of our money no
unreasonable sumptuary lsws but an honest
pure, simple and economical administration,
jealous regard for the welfare of the whole peo-
pie, and strictest observance of the liberties Of
the individual citizen. Such conditions are
cond tions of freedom in its broadest sense and
those are the conditions which bring the great
est general prosperity and happiness. To real
ize them is the hope and purpose of the Demo-
cratic party. remain your fellow-citlzen,
DAVID Is. HILL
Senator Palmer said:
The existence and growth OF the states west of
the Rocky mountains, and especially of those
on The Paciie, which are hereafter to be wealthy
ana powerful, Will in the future test the strength
and value OF the federal union 1t is not sur-
prising that the people OF the Eastern and Cen
tral states. whose interests are nearly identi-
cal. should look with comparative composure
upon the ccntraiizing tendencies which, over
looking local feelings and local necessities seek
10 impose upon them laws enanating from
federal authority which trench closely Ipou il
they do not invade popular rights But
10 the people of the distant Pacifc
states, whose situation and necessities are in
measure peculiar to themselves local self
government 70 the fun extent permitted by the
federal constitution will BE- a necessity which
cannot DC waived cor Tor "a moment forgotten
me Democracy of Washington will therefore no
doubt be found earnest in the support OF tho
cardinni Democratic theory, that 1t is the right
OF each state to order aud regulate its own
affairs IN its own way. subject only to the con-
stitution OF the United states and will declare
with energetic emphasis against the encroach-
in the election law which passed the House of
Representatives in congress, but which failed of
hnai passage.
Governor Campbell said:
need not say that nothing would afford ma
more pleasure than to be present on that ocea-
sion aud iningle with the earnest Democracy of
the new state OF Washington, and to he ASSOC
e1ated also with the distinguished men who viii
there address you; but, as you perhaps have oc-
casion to know, shall be just in the early days
OF eampaign in OHIO which promises to ex-
ceed IN interest and spirit any ever held in the
state. lopen upon the 18th of September, and
shall continue upon the stump, without inter-
mission, except for Sundays, until the day of
election. 1t thus becomes impossible for me TO
leave Ohio, upon any occasion, however pleas
ant send you greeting, however, on behalf of
the Democracy Of Ohio, and ask for your pray
ers and good wishes that our HANDS may be up
held in the great fight before US,
Governor Pennoyer said:
cannot avoid the conviction that the imme-
diate future is to be crucial period for the
Democratic party, as well as for the governments
itself The people are ripe for return 70 the
old methods of government, and the Democratic
party must lead in such revolution or fall by
the wayside. The Republican party, which has
had control of the federal government for tho
last thirty years, has succeeded in the oblitera-
tion of the ancient landmarks of frugal govern
ment, enthronement OF corporate power by
national legislation, in the surrender of the
finances OF the nation to capitalists enriched by
virtue of statutory iavors, and in the practical
subversion OF our constitutional gov
Thirty years ago, when the national
administration was turned over to the
Republican party there class legislation
upon the statute books of congress Industries
were thriving without artificial stimulus and
the money employed therein was So generally
dliiused and 30 remuneratiye that il was loath
TO be invested in government bonds bearing in
terest ut and 10 per cent What il the record
now? After thirty years of Republican legisla-
ton we find the industries demanding lcgisla-
tive protection in order to exc out existence
Class legislation Is written on nearly every
page of congressional enactments. Con-
gfess has given the great bulk of our
public domain now remaining ft for set
tlcmeut to railroad corporations TO be
doied out of their enrichment, ut the highest
figures, to the poor settlers seeking homes. It
has surrendered the control of the national
finances to a class OF capitalists who have been
made millionaires by legislative enactments at
the peoples expense, while the great bulk of
the money OF the country is now boarded in tho
banks, the property Of the few, and so precari-
ous its returns when employed in business
pursuits that it gladly seeks investment in gov
ernment securities at aud per cent. 1t has
legislated the few rich and the many poor.
Jsff Chandler said:
Democracy, which you have met to teach,
signifies individualism as distinguished from
socialism. IL signifies the supremacy of man
over the state and his security to life, liberty
and property. Democracy, faithfully admin
istered, arrests the growth of mouopoies, works
the extinction of oppression, and abates privi-
legged classes. IL declines to permit the vitality
of our general industrial system To be sub
terprises Democracy assumes that money IS
the legal criterion of value of all the products
and property of the Union. 1t knows
that this criterion is of the
great trusts of the government Itself, and
that its stability and uniformity depend
upon the quantity and quality OF the eireuIat-
ing medium. Ii knows, also, that this vital
criterion of value ought TO rest entirely within
the sovereign keeping OF the government. and
not be assigned to mOney-dealing corporations,
hostile i'll interests TO the people at large It
knows that the power TO regulate the value OF
money is not an attribute Of national banks,
but abides ever and always with the people
Democracy rests its claim to power upon the
moral injunction, ''do unto others ye would
have others do unto you" The public mind is
that an appeal to it, in good faith, Will succeed
Senator Reagan said
The Democracy should:
First-Insist on the preservation of the relative
constitutional rights, powers and duties of the
state and federal governments; seeing that
neither shall encroach on or usurp the powers
and duties OF the other.
Second-To this end the Democracy should in
sist on the repeal OF existing class legislation,
and guard against such legislation III the future.
Third-The Democracy should demand the re-
peal of the present protective tariff law, and the
enactment of law providing Tor tariff for
revenue only.
Fourth-We should provide by state and fed
eral legislation, within their respective spheres,
to subordinate the great corporations of the
country, and especially the railroad corpora
tons, 10 the political authority. Either tina
people or the corporations will be the master.
and the American people cannot avoid the con-