Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-15

and over every part of land or water
withinsits national boundaries,
Every Constitutional Democrat can
truly reply to such propositions that
they are fraught with such gross
inequity between man and man as is
inconsistent with public safety, because
it employs the most far reaching and
sovereign power known to government
to impoyerish the worker and poorer
members OF society who form tho great
numerical majority, and aggrandige
those already financially stronger. That
it extonds d system which has aready
created Inequality before the law, and
subjects the Industrious citizens to
competition with their own govern
ment and their own money, drawn
from them by taxation, and employed
for the private profit of allied classes
who have established themselves as CO.
partners with the government in tho
exercise of the inexorable powers of
taxation over the entire population.
Such perverson Of public powers
inevitably carries with it seuse Of its
injustice, and spreads broadcast the
seeds of popular distress and Just dis
content, and into this swells current
which undermines respect for tho law
and confidence in tho justice and integ-
rity of the government. Therefore,
whom candidates are presented, as are
Messrs Mckinley and Hobart, upon d
platform promising no abatement of
taxation, but an intensificativn of
principles so unjust and wholly out of
harmony with the spirit, as woli as
the letter. of tho charter of our liber-
ties, every Democrat, faithful to the
principles of his party, can properly
refuse to aid the election of candidates
avowipg principles and policies that
have SO plainly led to our present
dangers. and which ara manifestly fatal
to the welfare Of our country.
But, happily, there remains citadel
and an asylum for the political con-
science of any man honestly convinced
that the path of duty leads him to
keep steadily in view the great purposes
for which our fathers ordained the
Constitution of tho United States,
''the formation of more perfect union (;
the establishment, of Justice; the in
surance OF domestic tranquility; pro-
vision for the common defence; promo
tion of the general welfare. and tho se-
curity of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity." Such are the just ends of
every political party in the United
States, and parties have no right to
exist except they are the means to such
ends. Happily, candidates are pre-
sented upon clear and unambiguous
platform that assures safety to the
financial honor of our country to the
honest business transactions of all it's
citizens, without discrimination of race.
age, sex, occupation or fortune. The
personal reputation of the candidates
of the National Constitutional Democ-
racy, Messrs Palmer and Buckner, is
unsullied, and guarantees their fidelity
to their pledges, and their election
would 60 far to reestablish the moral
health Of our country.
hope and believe that in every
State Of the Union, an electoral and
Congressional. ticket will be placed
before the people; and that every
citizen may have the opportunity Of
recording his vote according to his
conscientious belief, and in support of
those principles essential to the mainte-
nance of the government OF the land Of
our birth and dearest hopes.
| am sincerely yours,
4. Il. Bayard.
To Samuel Bancroft, Jr.