The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-17

dence in the county of Shawnee, l have been
treated with every degree of courtesy and
kindness by the people of the county, re-
publicans and democrats alike, and this is
equally true with regard to the people of the
state generally. On the score of kind treat
ment personally, have certainly nothing
whatever to complain of. remember with
deep sense of gratitude, and trust with
pardonable pride, that very many of the
truest and best friends that have had, and
now have, a1e to be found in the ranks OF
the republican party-men of intelligence,
culture and integrity who value men ac.
cording to supposed merit and without re-
gard to party relations or church associa-
tiOns. So far as know, these gentlemen
are my friends still and I hope will ever re-
main so. know that l am still warmly at
tached to them and expect continuation of
these pleasant relations. In return for the
generous treatment have received at the
hands of the people of Kansas l have en-
deavored to perform with zeal and fidelity
the duties imposed upon me, and to defend
to the best of my ability their rights and in
terests, and generally to promote and de-
fend the honor and welfare of all the people
of Kansas. shall continue to hold in grateful
remembrance their kindness, and in what
ever position may be placed in the future,
I shall perform whatever services that fall
to my lot with the same zeal, the same
energy and conscientious sense of duty that
have guided my actions in the past. have
never Intentionally deceived my felloWciti-
zens, nor purposely disappointed their
reasonable hopes and just expectations in
any respect whatever, and hope never
shall.
HamiItOn's Political Theories.
However, when my fellow citizens voted
for and sustained me in public positions in
the past, they did so with the full knowledge
that was a democrat, and never pretended
to be anything else. ~They knew that then
believed as I now believe, that the funda-
mental principles of government as advo-
Gated and maintained by the republican
party were wrong in every respect. Thoy
knew that l believed as l still believe, that
the republican party was founded upon the
political theories of Alexander Hamilton;
that it had no real confidence in the judg-
ment and intelligence of the mass of the
peoples that it distrusted them, and that its
theory of civil government rests upon the
following declaration of Mr.. Hamilton made
in the constitutional convention of 1887:
ST believe the British government forms
the best model the world ever produced, and
such has been it's progress in the minds of
the many that this truth gradually gains
ground. This government has for it's object
public strength and individual security. 1t
is said with us to be unattainableI Ii it was
once formed, it would maintain itself. All
communities divide themselves into the few
and many. The first are the rich and well
born: the other the mass of the people. The
voice of the people has been said to be the
voice of God, and however generally this
maxim has been quoted and believed, it is
not true in fact. The people are turbulent
and changing; they seldom judge or deter
mine right Give, therefore, to the first
class distinct, permanent share in the gov
ernment. They will check the unsteadiness
of the second, and as they cannot receive
any advantage by change, they, therefore,
Will ever MAINTAIN ROOu government Jan
democratic assembly who annually reVolve
in the mass of the people be supposed to
steadily pursue the public good? Nothing
but permanent body can check the impru-
dence of democracy. Their turbulent and
uncontrolling disposition require checks"
This declaration of Mr.. Hamilton has
formed the foundation stone of every pplit-
ical party that has ever existed in the United
States, in opposition to the democratic
party, and is to-day as essentially the repub-
lican creed Of government, as it was in the
days of Alexander Hamilton and John Ad-
ANS. have never believed in this theory
of Mr.. Hamilton.
Political Faith of the Democracy.
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