Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

In all this believe you. have always re-
garded you friend to the city Of Topeka
and that as good citizen you took a natural
pride in the capital of your state, and felt an
ambition to see 1t built up and beautifed In
such a manner as to harmonic with the intelli-
gence. the morality and manhood of the people
OF the state generally That you are still
actuated by the same intelligent pride. have
no doubt. but you mar the beauty of the pretty
picture you have drawn by the following SEN
tence in your letter
You are well aware no doubt that the people
OF Topeka have nothing to hope for from the
calamity party by way of any further appro-
prations for the completion of the capitol,
judging by the action of the last legislature
Every republican legislature has acted very
literally and generously with your people
You have certainly to look to the republican
party and not to the calamity party if you get
anything further in that direction -
On behalf Of the citizens of the city Of To
peka generally answer this statement by say
ing that our principles and convictions not
for barter and sale in the manner you suggest.
We shall rely upon the justice and merits of
our cause: upon the intelligence, the integrity
and natural state pride that belongs to every
true Kansan. and that appeals to the honest
Judgment of every citizen of the state, whether
he be republican, democrat or peoples party
man, to see to it that the great public interests
and public institutions that are located in the
city of Topeka shall be carried forward upon
the basis of interest of right OF justice of pro-
priety, and that no citizen OF Topeka republic
an or democrat, shall be required to barter
away his integrity and manhood for the support
OF any political party, in order to obtain the
favor of an appropriation for the benefit of pub
lie institutions that have been located here by
thecommon consent and friendly action Of all
the people of the state.
However. do not admit your suggestion
to the illiberality and ignorance Of the mem
bers of the peoples party to be true. presume
that they will be more cautious, exercise greater
prudence, and, perhaps, be less liberal toward
all public institutions, in Topeka and else
where, than a republican legislature would be-
because they will be spending their own money.
Having produced it by their own toll and labor,
they will in all human probability, be more
prudent in the manner and method OF its eX-
penditure. admit that if the republican party
should get control of the state offices and 1egis-
lature, it might be more generous and lib
eral in its appropriations generally. because
it is quite certain that those who
are intrusted with the appropriation of
other peoples money are as rule,
less careful about the manner of its distribu-
ton than if is their In addition to
this, am inclined to the opinion that repub-
lican legislature and republican state govern
ment would also be more lavish in their ex-
penditureS in order to more enectually main
tain the rings and cliqueS that have grown up
and been fostered by the republican party for
years and years. and who now dominate and
control the actions and policies of that party:
and for this reason I think it will be prudent
and entirely safe TO irtrust the administration
of public affairs, at least for awhile. to your
calamity howlerS,' if for no other reason than
that "a new broom will sweep clean. ,"
Personal Courtesies.
Preference is here made to the remark in the
letter from his republican friend that Judge
Martin had always been kindly treated by
many republicans in his locality when ne
candidate for Office. which he frankly admits,
and says he will always remember gratefully;
but, he says, ''when my fellow citizens voted for
and sustained me in public positi in the past
they did so with the full knowledge that I was
a democrat. and never pretended to be any
thing else. They knew that then believed as
now believe, that the fundamental principles
of government as advocated and maintained by
the republican party were wrong in every
spect. They knew that believed, as L still be-
lieve, that the republican party was founded
upon the political theories of Alexander Hanil-
ton; that it had no real, confidence in the judg-
ment and intelligence OF the mass of the people:
that it distrusted them - and that Hamilton
believed the British government forms the best
model the world produced. Hamilton's
speech in the constitutional convention of 1877
is quoted to show that he believed that all
communities divided into two classes-the
first the rich and well born; the other the
masses who could not be trused
Political Faith of the Democracy.
The first formulated political faith of the
democratic party, or. as then called the repub-
dress OF Thomas Jefferson, in these words
Let US then with courage and confidence,
pursue republican and federal princi-
pies our attachment to our union and represent
atIve government. Kindly separated by ma
ture and wide ocean from the eXterIninating
havoc of one quarter of the globe. too high
minded to endure the degradationS of the 9TH
ers; possessing q chosen country, with room
enough for our descendants to the thou
sandth generation entertaining due sense
of our equal right to the use of our own
faculties. to the acquisitions of our industry
honor and confidence from our fellow citizens.
resulting not from birth, but from our actions
and their sense of them; enlightened by be-
nign religion profesSed indeed and practiced IN
various forms, yet all of them including hon
esty, truth. temperance, gratitude and the love
OF man. acknowledging and adjoining an over
ruling Providence. which by all it's dispensation
proves that it delights in the happiness of men
here and his greater happiness hereafter: with
all these bleSS sings, what more is neceSSa-
ry to make US happy and prosperous people?
Still thing more, fellow-citizens. a wise
and frugal government, which shall restrain
men from injuring one another, shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits
of industry and improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor the bread it has
earned This is the sum of good government,
and this is necessary to close the circle of our
felicities.
About to enter, fellow-citizenS, on the ex-
erclSe OF duties which comprehend every thing
dear and valuable TO you it is proper that you
should understand what deem the essential
principles of our government, and consequently
those which ought to shape its admins ira ton
I will compress them within the narrowest
compass they will bear. stating the general
principles, but not all its limlta tons. Equal
and exact Justice to all men, of whatever state
| or persuasion, religions of political peace,
| commerce and honest friendship with all ma
| tions entangliny alliances with none; the sup
| port of the state governments in all tseir
| rights. as the most competent administrations
| for our domestic concerns and the surest bull
! warks against anti-republican tendencies: the
preservation of the general government in it's
whole cons titutional vigor, the sheet anchor
! of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jeal-
| Gus care of the right of election by the people
| Topped. by the sword of revolution where
| peaceable remedies unprovided absolute
| acquiescence in the decisions of the majority
| the vital principle of republics, from which is
no appeal but TO force the vital principle and
| immediate parent of despotism; we'll dis
| ciplined militia our best reliance in peace and
| for the first moments of war, till regulars may
relieve them: the supremacy of the civil over the
] military authority: economy in the public ex-
| pense, that labor my be lightly bur thened:
the honest payment of our debts. and sacred
| preservation Of our public faith: encourage
ment of agriculture and of commerce as its
handmade; the diffusion OF informa ton and ar
| raignment of all abuses at the bar of public
| reason; freedom of religion; freedom OF the
| press and freedom OF person under the protec-