The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-03
NOT TRAITORS. BUT SONS.

ated currency, should be added an as
sassinated Judiciary and a powerles.
executive.
NOT TRAITORS, BUT SONS.
| Fellow citizens, we are not traitors
TO our party. We are in the house OF
our fathers We cannot be driven from
| it. We will defend the honor OF our
! country and the integrity Of our princi-
! pies as long as life endures. We can
neither be ousted Of our political herr
| tage nor forced into the ranks of our
old-time adversary. We intend to pre-
! serve intact, unimpatred and unsullied,
by, and through the organization which
We perfect today, the Democracy OF
Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland, and
propose to furnish a refuge and an abid-
ing place for such Of our brethren as,
shocked and grieved at the betrayal of
our principles at Chicago, are inclined
to go to the Republican camp. The
principles of Democracy are imperisha-
bic. They are antagonistic to the pa
ternalism Of the Republican and the
Populist; the destructiveness OF the an
archist and the vagaries of the infla-
ZIONIST and repudiator.
Byron wrote: While the Colosseum
stands. Rome shall stand, and while
rome STANDS, the world
I'VE say: While Democracy stands.
the republic shall stand, and while the
republic, human liberty
STRAYING FOR A SEASON.
For a. season our party was astray
after false doctrines and floundered
amid quagmires until the beacon light
Of truth breaks upon it 1t will rise
from every fall like Antaees of old, and
Fen IN fits ashes viii live its wonted
fires If, in the decree Of fate our party
must perish, let no historian write such
epitaph on its tomb as this: Came to an
untimely end from swallowing political
and financial poison but rater let this
grave, dug mid the ruins Of the capitol:
1t did not survive the loss Of liberty,
the destruction Of the republic and the
decay of public and private morals
I'VE are propagandistS of no new
creed. We are the upholders OF the old.
We appeal from Democracy drunk with
delusions to Democracy sobered by rea-
son. With an abiding faith in the in
telligence and honesty of our people,
we lay before them and the world the
reasons that prompt us to unfurl the
old flag that has f1oated over many a
triumph and many a defeat and never
yet been soiled by reputation or STAIN
ed by dishonor.
ACHILLES IN TWO ROLES.
eve deem it wise to pursue a pro-
gresive rather than a negative policy:
to be Achilles dragging Hector around
the walls Of Troy, rather than Achilles
eulking in his tent We propose to
make a funeral prye Of the cadavers OF
Populism and anarchy. We propose to
drag behind our triumphant chariot
wheels in defeat and disgrace around
the national capitol, the dead Franken-
stein personifying their pernicious creed
and their turbulent fanticisTn.
1--WE cannot make bedfellows, even in
a night of furious storm and thick dark
ness, of our lifelong antagonists We
cannot, even to escape as great evils
as are the necessary result Of the sue
cess Of the Chicago platform, be the ex-
ecutioners of our beloved and vener-
ated party. We cannot, even by inn
plication, be held to the false theory
that the people can be made rich by
taxation, nor to the theory that the
federal power and treasury can or
ought to be used to impair the autonomy
OF the states, on the one hand, and on
the other, to dispense largesse to favor
Ell classes. The election of Mckinley
or of Bryan, with our support, would
mean the destruction of our whole party
for a generation
a POLITICAL ORGY.
For, when our people recover from
the debauch of Populism, and anarchy
they Will discard the men who have led
their orgy. IF we go to Mckinley, those |
men viii be the reorganized opponents |
OF Democracy. When the fumes of the |
oebauch are dissipated and sober rea-
son resumes her sway, our flock will |
turn towards its fold only to find it de- /
stroy'ed. We, therefore, stand fast. We |
sound a bugle call throughout the land |
for all Democrats to rally to support our |
government and laws, for the honor Of |
their country, and for the maintenance |
and preservation OF their creed, its !
and its glories If not needed |
low, it will be In the near future And |
hen those clouds which lowered over /