Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-04-10

land, and-as Tennyson wrote tn
traders OF Chatham, triumphed, tn
saving craftsmanship OF Robert Pee
would have been slain and the poor o
England denied cheap bread. Citizen
of New York, in your own land, il
1872, the principle OF equal privilege
and no discrimination against our mer
chant seamen was refuted by less thar
patriots, because it affected thei
commerce. and only by the renewed
firmness OF James Madison, stimulated
by New York's Democratic Mayor
De Witt Clinton, were our principle
and our Government preserved from
the vandalism which would hay
swept them from us in 1895.
again in 1929, when We asserte'
equal freedom and privileges to ou
commerce along with Britain in tn,
West Indies denied and opposed by
herr, these same cried out Yield, tina
we have no interruption OF business.
But the iron policy of that steel-sin
ewed incarnation of Democracy, An
drew Jackson, cried Nov and to oul
special Ambassador, Mclean, at Lon
don, he proclaimed the doctrine which
must remain ours tonight and for.
ever: AJAX nothing but what is right
submit to nothing wrong By this
we were saved humiliation and granted
equal enjoyments upon the seas which
resulted in giving us for twenty-six
years the mastery of the merchant
marine of the world. Sad is the de-
cadence we view tonight.
might l not advert to q second
live principle lost in the despair of the
darkness, and ask what means a Dem.
ocratic party, born in the vicissitudes
of political persecution, denying her
succor and solace to an oppressed peo-
pie who hold panied hands out to us,
lifting their bruised faces and bleeding
hearts thousands strong and but beg
in their agony for word of encour-
agement?
"When from Spain or her institu.
tions have we a hope to compensate
us for refusing Cuba our cheer of God
speed in her battle for freedom or
death? We did not withhold it from
France in the days when we were in
truth Democratic. Universal emanci-
patton was our creed, and this from
the shackles of political, monarchical'
or commercial bondage. Gods saving
help to all nations was once our faith
and this we pledged to the weakest.
"This espousal of the cause of the
weak in every just encounter, however
small the prize OF contest, was the
anchor which moored us to the hearts
of the plain people, and ever held US
against shot and storm safe within the
harbors OF republic.
"Why have we continued to ignore
the only safe, secure, and permanent
system of currency, that recommended
by Jefferson, adopted by Hamilton
and endorsed by Jackson. What mean
these new beguilers, cajoling us off to
squabbling conflicts, serving only the
good of the less patriotic and of the
less deserving of our nation, while in
the meantime we forget, even desert
the basic principles of the party's e1'
istence, and all the while are forfeitine
the love and losing the support OF q
free nations greatest charge-hei
hope, her strength, her saviors-the
people, the plain people, those who
were ever the solicitude of Jefferson
the regard of Jackson, the love o
Lincoln, and the stay of TildenY Who
has persuaded us from these gods
Whittier are we trending2
al charge that it all is due to those
who of late have assumed to lead the
party, not as Democrats, but in the
way they chose as beneficiaries of 6
system they would use us to perpet
uate, OF personal gain to them, and nc
public good, and we silent3 Shall
say with Baynim, What, Syracusans
do you sleep?' Come, grid on your
armors tonight, let's to the front, the
battles on! We'll drive from the
couutry's places OF blessing those who
are defiling her institutions and slay.
ing her grandeur. Let's purge oul
holy temple of the false apostles who
come to our affairs to worship with g
sword.
"Defeat has never dismayed you
and failure only strengthened you to
new assaults. You were as they
around Troy-twenty years besieginl
the walls before they fell-then you
planted your colors on the crumbled
battlements of your enemy. Shall We
now, that we merely have been re-
pulsed from a position, yield the fort
Not if the old life is within us. We
shout out to the waiting masses, 1--WE
are coming-as of old, our bannerl
stream and blaze with the FIRE of Q
new faith in the old creed-tbe eter
nal hope patriotism and country
- sovereign citizenship and freedom
to the weakest OF EARTH, these first
second, and forever-and even nov
their welcoming shouts is the music
of our step, and with them and fol
them, their cause and their country
history yet will write US as the true
deliverers of oppressed man on earth.
Col. Lewis was heartily congratu
lated at the close OF his speech.