Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-22
POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRACY.
a Party That Stands for the Best Inter
ests of the People.

A Party That Stands for the Best Inter
ests OF the People.
The early summer diversion of the
Washington correspondents of framing
policies for the administration in adj
vance of the meeting of congress, can be
reduced to a scientific and much more
simple canons of democratic belief
which the gueSsers are inclined to ig-
more altogether. Democracy is not the
party of opportunism, and when it is in
control of affairs it is possible to antici-
pate within general lines its probable
action by reference to its creed. The
democratic platform of 1892 was as
clean-cut and positive a statement of
tie purposes of the party as political
party ever has framed or ever can frame,
| and the party intends, as far as posi-
| bic, to carry out those purposes They
cannot all be attained in a ear or in two
years, but progress toward those ends
| will be steady.
The general purpose of democracy
| was formulated many years ago by
Samuel j. Tilden in words which are as
pertinent to the present as they were
| to the occasion which called them forth,
and we believe that they give the key
to knowledge of the general aims of
the administration in the legislation af-
fecting industry and the medium of ex-
change, which it will favor Said Mr.
| TiIden:
THE whole progress of society consists in
learning how to attain, by the independent &C
ton or voluntary association of individuals,
those objects which are at first attempted only
through the agency of government, and in les
sening the sphere of legislation and enlarging
that of the individual reason and conscience
Our American institutions have recognized this
idea more completely than it has yet been rec
ognized by the institutions Of any other people,
and the democratic party has generally been
the faithful guardian OF its progressive devel-
opment In most Of the great practical ques-
tons OF our time ii has opposed the interfer-
ence Of government, even for the best objects;
and because il was solicitous for those objects,
has preferred to trust them to wiser. safer and
more efficient agencies Devoted to the rights
of our American industry, which is now Degin-
ming to fill the world with the renown of its
achievements, 1t has refused to direct its appli
cation by prohibitory protective tariffs. pre-
ferr1ng that each man should Judge how he can
trusting for the aggregate result to those nat
ural laws which enable everyone of our city
population daily to choose his food, and yet
furnish buyers for everything that has been
provided beforehand Claiming good currency
for the people, and well regulated exchanges,
it has discarded a national bank. and seeks to
put these great interests under the guardian
ship of the laws of trade Friendly TO the
modern machinery of travel and transport
which, by cheapening the interchange of prod
ucts OF different soils and climates, has in ef-
feet added fertility to the one and geniality TO
the other-it has opposed internal improve
mentS by the general government and prohib-
tied loans of state credit and money in aid of
railroads Asserting the freedom of voluntary
association il has refused special charters and
established general laws OF Incorporation On
these Ou0SfiOnS-UficA Ia
pied the public attention for generation-be-
cause the democratic party has favored the
ends it has rejected the means by which arge
parties and many good men have enormously
sought TO promote them
The prosperity Of the country is the
end which the democratic party has in
view, and because 1t has that end in
view it cannot come to the relief of
the market" or offer to bolster up this
particular industry or that particular
interest. The withdrawal of govern
mental interference as much as posi-
BILE from their affairs is what the people
voted for when they gave the democratic
party entire control of the federal gov
eminent, and that withdrawal will be
the basis of all the policies" which the
administration will propose.