The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-08
.7HEPAR7Y or JEFFERSON
EX-GOVERNOR RUSSELL TXP0UBD5
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

Prosperous Luder Republican
Rule selnshness and Greed Grow
Rampant
The National League Of Democratic
Clubs honorcd tEo birthday Of Thomas
Jefferson by a celebration at Month
cello, Va, the homo Of the great
statesman and philosopher who found
ed the Democratic party. The orator
Of the day was Ex-Governor William Il.
Russell. of Massachusetts,. who said:
ave remember that the party Ief-
ferson founded has had an unbrokon
life of hundred years; that II has
controlled the National Government
for more than one-half of its duration
that It has viotoriously led the people
IN OIL our foreign wars; that under its
sway our National domain was extend
ed along the Gulf and the Mississippi
and clear to the Pacific slope that IL
lathered the settlement of the great
Northwest and the upbuilding of
mighty States; that II established our
flag and commerce on the sea assert
ed everywhere the rights Of American
citizenship, and created the foreign
policy which from Monroe to Cleve-
land has been deemed essential to
our safety. 1t has resisted always the
control of Government by monopoly
and organized wealth; it has given
power to the people, trusted them,
made their welfare its mission and
their will law.
REPUBLIoANIsM's BAD RECORD.
cit finds as its opponent a party
drifting with no fixed principles or
purpose, but the prey of selfish inter-
ests, which demand in return for their
support legislation for their benefit /;
that firmly established in power it
yielded to corruption, which in sue
cessive revolts, drove from 1t its old
leaders and much of its conscience
vote that for nearly generation it
has sought success through stirring up
sectional prejudice and hatred among
a people reunited in love and loyalty /;
that it has used the Nations power to
invade the rights of the States and its
appropriations to supplant their du-
ties; that, repudiating its early pro-
fessions. it has maintained and in
creased a war taxation of the people,
and not for revenue, but for special,
selfish interests; that it has won cleo
tions through their support and then
paid for them with bounties and pro-
tective taxes out of the peoples
pockets; that now within its ranks it
is discussing the question whether
such bargain is corrupt in determin-
ing its candidate, and yet honorable
in aiding his election; that its recent
policy in power, since twice repudiat-
ed by an indignant and injured peo-
pie, has squandered a great surplus,
instituted an era of wild extravaganza
and set precedent for National prof
legacy; that throughout its career it
has made spoils of the public service,
using both the peoples Offices and
their laws to further partisan success
rather than for public purposes. And
now that party on the most important
question OF the day finds its leaders
halting, silent, drifting MOI guiding,
waiting for the chance breeze to move
them onward, and not ready to take
the helm and set their party ship upon
a course.
DEMOCRACY AND THE TARIFF.
"Who doubts where Jefferson would
stand in a contest with such q party
over present issues?
''He would find that the Democratic
party, true to his teaching, was still
the broad, National, peoples party
That it knew no South or North o.
East or West, but only the whole Ma
ton, whose States it has protected il
their rights, and whose people it ha
bound together in a more perfec
union; that it has upheld freedom o
conscience and personal liberty; tina
through q long agitation and a struggl
within its ranks it has asserted tina
taxation is to be only for revenue AM
public purposes. To this end, upol
the emphatic demand OF the country
it has reversed her war tariff policy
This it has done conservatively, an
on the broad lines of first cheapenin
the necessaries of life and freeing th
raw materials OF industries. 1t wa
not sought to reach the goal by on
effort, but step by step, with all til
aid experience can give. It now d.
= mands fair test OF it's law. 1t vigol
ously opposes any reaction or retur
to a tariff policy defeated sand dii
: carded, and recognizes the right {
business interests to period Of rest.
CONSUL LEE TAKES THE DATE