The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-02-23
WHERE LIES THE REMEDY?

for the space OF two years, the sover-
eign people nave again turned the
government ever to the republican
party.
The great tidal wave of 1894 did not
come perchance. .
Effect follows cause.
The American people ear be trusted,
and for their actions on the sixth day
some w~ell-founded reason.
While it is true that the democratic
party found u depleted treasury and a
bankrupt government upon assuming
control, and while it also found the
product of thirty years of bad legisla-
ton upon the statute books, and while
it met with republican stumbling
blocks at almost every point, and the
republican lcgacy-the Wall-strcst-
'Sherman-panic-was very ~wrongfully
charged to the democratic party
while these things attributed, to some
extent, TO the democratic defeat, in the
opinion of the INTELLIGENCER they
were not the direct causes that led to
our party's downfall.
Honesty, and fa%ithfulness to duty are
the only channels through which men
can command the respect of their fel-
low man.
Pcrversisn of the facts is bad law
pleading. A good lawyer often advises
u client to plead guilty and throw him
self upon the mercies of the court; and
now that the democratic party is about
to turn the reins over to the republI-
cans, it would be foolish for party
leaders to go before the great jury of
American taxpayers and plead 'nOt
guilty. to the charge of not having
done their full duty.
A golden opportunity has passed and
gone, and fraud and deception will not
be the instruments through which
another Is presented. We had better
tell the truth-the whole truth-and
rely upon the people for an equitable
verdict, for the people are the COVER
nors, and they a be relied upon in
any and all emergencies.
The INTELLIGENCER is not pessi-
mistic. 1t believes tina. democratic
principles will survive, and will be the
means through which the subjects of
monarchics, plutocracies and aris-
tocraciss of ether countries will be
restored to liberty.
As sure as the night follows the day,
just so sure will the people again
entrust the government Of the United
States to the democratic party, but
before the people repose that confidence
the party will have proiited well by its
past mistakes.
Both of the two great parties have
able, honest statesmen in their ranks.
The intelligence of the members of the
n does not exceed that of the other.
Evil mingles alike with the good in
both. Each Is to an extent tinctured
with corruption, and in each we are
forced to believe that honor predomi-
mates. The two parties differ on priA-
ciples more than on policies.
The democrats are responsible for
legislation since March 4, 1898.
While the record the party has made
along many lines is o fair one, along
others it is a miserable legacy left for
future campaigns.
The direct cause of the republican
tidal wave of last November, plainly
stated, is broken promises.
The great mass of the people who,
in 1892, voted for q democratic admin
ls%tratlon, did SO intelligently and in
good faith. They did not vote for any
..mugwump" legislation. They put
the party in power, in absolute control
of every branch of the national govern
ment, and they had reason to believe
that "a purely democratic era was soon
to follow.
The people are today no less demo-
than they were in 1892. They
as iervently cling to those principles as
they did two years ago. 1t was not
democracy that they ~repudiated at the !
polls, but mugwumpery and broken
pledges. .
Who Is responsibleP
The President? 1
Yes, to a large extent.
He was elected by the democrats, ,
and to them he should have looked for {
To the Chicago platform he !
should have looked for his instructions. s
cannot be denied that he repu dated q
his friends to appease his enemies. lie i
.alienated himself from a majority Of q
his party in the senate and house G
Utmost upon the eve of his Inauguration.
He has been dictatOrial and obstinate,
neither for the sake of his party '
nor of his country has he ever shown
= Willingness for any kind of a COM
promise of differences. q
But he must not bear all the blame. $
A number of senators are us deep in l
he mud US the president is in the d
nire. And a number of members of !
he lower house, too, are ''particeps
,riminis" to the result of the last !
q
On account of the complication of y
affairs at Washington, the democratic I
party is pretty much tangled. I
What is the remedyP
1t is plain and simple. S
The principles are alright. In the
men elected to carry them out we find
The wrong. Not all the congressman a
nor all the senators have failed to do I
heir duty, but a number of them are S
IN the wrong. These must be re- S
placed by patriots. ..None but Amer I
should be put On guard"
Surely the people have enough of .
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