The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-09

democratic SaSeS, from Jefferson ana
| Tilden to that bravest Of the brave,
that Incompatible cavalier of the Old
Bay state, who gave up his young life
that democracy might live, on the very
| threshold OF the last battle for honor
country and truth. During one night
at least let us consecrate this noble
| theater as a temple of democracy, of
democracy unterrified and undefiled;
| the only kind of democracy which
! Jefferson taught and Jackson prac-
ticed!
1t was said during the political cam
paign which closed the third of last No
vember, that what we call American
| institutions were on trial; and, in a
sense, it may be said that what we call
! government is, more or less, always on
| trial. If, in the creation of the world,
God had meant to make anything per-
feet, He would have begun with man,
whom We are assured He designed af-
| ter His own image. But man, at once
the source and resource of government,
is, among living things, most fallible,
and, as nothing can rise above its own
level-except populism and protection
human institutes are apt to sink some
what below that level. The strife to
| fix it high or low arises out of diver
gencies in opinions among the combat
ants. My reading of history, however,
is wholly at fault if the good of man
be not the final result of every conflict;
for truly believe that, in the long run,
truth is mighty and will prevail.
1 Indeed, if good government were be-
leagured by bad men only the world
would have very much less to fear. 1t
is because of the mistakes of good men
that nations have trembed in the bal
ance, that truth has seemed to waver
in it's flight and that the affairs of lib
erty have been piled up with wanton
sacrifices to passion ard error. Thanks
to God, we have outliVed the gibbet and
the stake; but intolerance, with blind
eyes and deaf ears, still stalks her
dreadful round. To lift the bandage
from those eyes, to sound a trumpet in
those ears, is the purpose which has
brought US together this night.
Estimated by the vote of the people
of the United States in the late presi-
Dental election, the country was di-
vided by two extremes ranged in oppo-
site camps and engaged in a death
struggle. But figures do not always
tell the truth, at least the whole truth.
If in this instance they did SO, there
would be small reason for thoughtful
men to rejoice in the result. The per-
petual swinging of the pendulum from
one dizzy height of party, excess to the
other must in the end exhaust the peo-
pie and leave them to the merest prey
of the professional politicians, whose
meat, drink and respectability is Office
But, happily for goodegovernment and
free institutions, the fact was other
wise. Millions of patriotic men voted
for Mr.. Mckinley who are not protec-
tionists, and millions of patriotic men
voted for Bryan who had no thought OF
striking at the public order, or of re-
pudiating dollar either of public OF
private Indebtedness. Otherwise, our
coming here would be of little avail and
we might as well abolish the Sth OF
January, and go, in a body, to weep
by the tomb of Jackson
What then are the decisive questions
on which the country is to rest its case
for stability and prosperity in the fu-
lule. IHSy are very SllIlple anu OD-
vious, gentlmen. First of ALL the pub
lie order, without with nothing except
chaos can exist; next the public cred
it, largely embarked in the money OF
the people; and next, the system of
taxation, municipal, state and federal
Settle these questions, and settle them
right, and we are safe against every
manner of domestic danger The party
which achieves this end is the political
organization to which a majority OF
the people will henceforward give their
confidence.
AS far as I am concerned, and no
mans democracy can go back of mine
though I got it of Jefferson and Jack
son and not of Tillman and Altgeld--
whenever good morals against bad
morals, good money against bad mon
ey, government against the mob are
the issues, | shall go with that party
which stands true to the public credit
and order, no matter where it takes
me. But, following this law of my be-
ing in the campaign just ended, / sur
rendered none of my original, individ-
ual opinions. To my mind one issue
absorbed all other issues. The public
credit was at stake, and with it, the
public order. The defeat of Mr.. Bryan
the election of Mr.. Mckinley for the
time being secures us both. How shall
we make them secure for all time!
That is the question, and on that point
shall speak with difference to the
opinions of others; though have opin-
ions of my own.
This is st. Jackson's day, and with
reverent hearts we are here to cele-
brate it.. He was a democrat. We
are democrats He was for honest
money. We are for honest money
He stood by the integrity of the ma
tion. We stand by the integrity of the
nation. He believed in the people and
trusted to the fidelity of his conviction
We believe in the people and trust tC
the fidelity of our convictions. When
treason reared it's head in the form OF
notification, he struck it a whitening
blow. When treason in the form OF
anarchy, reared its head, we struck il
a whitening blow. And so again and
again shall we strike it, whenever and
wherever 1t appears, until we have
wiped demagogues and demagogisn
from the face of the earth and brought
our government back to its origina
functions, the just protection of prop
erty and life, and the equalization OF
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