Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-07

publican party believes In the unlimited pow>
ers Of congress-. under the general welfare
clause OF he constitution as did its founder,
Alexander Hamilton
mo democrat can be populist. because the
populist belief is that this government is q
great eleenaosynary institution. The populist
believes that the government should support
the people. instead of the people supporting
the government, No man can be . democrat
who believes that the democratic party can
exist on one single issue, one single detail of
governmental policy. The doctrines OF the
democratic party are as broad as the
great territory we inhabit- There never
has been one single minute, one single
second, or fraction of a second. when
the party which Jefferson founded did not ex-
list in every hamlet township and state OF this
broad Union Never IN peace or war. or IN
party waves everywhere. When the demo-
cratic party becomes sectional, when it is mar
the party Of Jefferson, then our party is no
more. You may believe in the gold standard
and in the free coinage Of silver, but we can
still be democrats and be loyal to the party.
We hear nowadays strange announcements
and strange doctrines from so-called demo-
cratic sources We are told that IL a majority
OF the party should rule one way 1t would be
necessary for the minority to go after the
raes, ali my life has been lost. II that be the
teaching Of Jefferson. have been dolt and
an idiot politically since entering the political
arena.
III the dead can look down on the living. the
spirit Of Thomas Jefferson tonight is wonder
ing that men can in his name preach the doc
trines which to-day are rife throughout the
land tCheers.l
Gentlemen Of the Jefferson club, a response
biiity rests upon to hold out to the Amer
lean people the principles OF the democratic
party he taught them and as We believe
them. And when we cease to teach those doc
trines, and when the American people have
departed from them, then the last vestige Of
constitutional liberty will have departed from
this continent The democratic party to-day
bears the ark OF the political covenant with 1t,
and believe that the pillar of cloud by day
and OF fire by night will guide US in all our
I'VE are told that this great party must die.
have seen darker days than those now upon
us. I have heard that funeral Grafton pro-
nounced time and again in this same state of
Missouri / have heard that the party was
dead and then saw its corpse active and ag-
greSSive, striking terror to its enemies and
carrying its flag to victory. When the demo-
cratic party dies the republic is dead.
Upon the canvas of the past two names will
always be indissolubly and inseparably con-
nected with our struggle for independence
the character of Washington, so justly honored
and preportioned that as long as the republic
exists or as long as colony of Americans can
be found, he will be first in peace, first in war
and first in the hearts OF his eountrymen. To
Jefferson we owe an eternal debt OF gratitude
for his steadfast devotion to the great princi-
Piles OF popular government; for his allegiance
to the fundamental principle that all govern
ments derive their lust powers from the con-
sent of the governed.
What availed the struggle at Bunker Hill,
or the suffering at Valley Ford, or the final
triumph at Yorktown. if the government es-
tablished had been another monarchy like that
from which those who won the victory had es-
capped:
$50 long the human race exists. SO long as
human freedom swells in the human heart, the
name Of Thomas Jefferson will be a synonym
with civil and religious liberty. The love of
liberty is not found in the wealthy and the
great: it dwells with the poor: it dwells In the
heart of the Gagged bird. and with the wasted
and worn prisoner in his dungeon; it has
gone with martyrs to the stake and kissed
their burning lips as their tortured spirits
winged their flight to God.
I'm the temple Of this deity whose dome is
the heavens above us. and whose foundation is
eternal, Thomas Jefferson high priest.
For myself. worship no mortal man, living or
dead, but il could kneci at such shrine. 1t
would be with uncovered head and loving
heart at the grave OF Thomas Jefferson" Loud
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