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!: SPEECH o. HON. FREDERICK !. WHITE. ;
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are logically deducible from this funda.
mental error are by him cherished as
being right. He starts out wrong and
finishes as he starts. Not 30 with q
democrat. With him the case is alto
gether different. Democracy is built
upon precisely the opposite idea. De-
mocracy is founded upon the distinct
| idea that governments are organized
among men for certain we'll defined pur.
poses and for no other. That inherent
ly governments posses no power what
ever. That all power to be exercised
must first be delegated by the people:
in other words, call just power of gov,
ernment is derived from the consent of
the governed" This clause of the Dec
laration of Independence, incorporated
bodily into the democratic platform in
It's early history, has given wonderful
stamina to the democratic organization.
This accounts for the historic fact, that
though you may defeat the nominees
year after year throughout whole
generation, you can neither discourage
nor disintegrate the party itself. After
each defeat the true democratic voter is
anxious to renew the fight, knowing
that he Is battling for AN immortal, for
an indestructible truth. In ha.mony
with the fundamental principle upon
which his party is built, democrat be-
lieves that the general government
ought never to undertake to do what
the state government is capable of do
ing; that the state government should
not do what the county or township or
municipality may be capable of doing
and then, above all things, real, true
Jetfersonian democrat believes-he is
willing to live and die with this belief,
he baptizes his children in that belief
and that is, that no government, neither
the general, the state nor either of the
local governments, should ever under
take to do anything for the individual
that the individual is capable of doing
for himself.
BASIS OF DEMOCRATIC FAITH.
Now don t you see, if this division of
political authority and responsibility
were recognized and Incorporated into
the legislation of the country, into the
practice of the courts and the habits of
the people, that it would leave to the
individual the very largest possible
amount of personal liberty? The logical
result of democratic faith is enlarged
liberty, all the liberty possible. The
logical result of the theory of inherent
power is liberty diminished, liberty de-
stroyed. Here, gentlemen of the con.
vention, you have the fundamental diff
ference that divides the parties. Lib
erty? Let me ask you what is it that
man has so persistently striven for
throughout all the historic ages? 1t is
that he may possess and enjoy this, the
richest of all earthly blessings, person
al liberty! From the earliest day when
man first began to emerge from the
long dark night of barbarism, when he
first began to learn to some extent his
rights, and comprehend somewhat his
situation; from that early day down to
the present hour mans constant and
supreme effort has been to enlarge, and
not circumscribe, the area of his indi-
vidual freedom. And what strange
story of human effort! The despots of
all countries, the tyrants of all the ages
have always been anxious and ready
to combineeto annihilate this democrat
ic spirit; to crush out of man this natu-
raj longing for liberty. And, oh! my
countrymen, how triumphant liberty
would be in every civilized land had
not "the fools in their folly" always
1ocked to the standard of the oppressor.
JEFFERSON THE FATHER OF DEMO-
CRAZY.
Over century ago an event occur
red in this country which must always
be regarded as one q the most re-
markable achievements in all the his
tory of our race. Irefer to the Ameri-
can revolution, the political separation
of the colonies from the mother coun-
try, and the successful inauguration of
new government, in the structure of
which, the then universally accepted
idea of the divine right of certain
families to rule was emphatically re-
pudiated, and the opposite idea, the
natural right of men, communities and
states to govern themselves was as
emphstically Incorporated. During
this revolutionary epoch many men,
equipped by their Creator.with wonder
full talents, distinguished themselves
each in his own field, in the service oil
the colonial cause. We had our Wash
ington, who led the armies in the field
OF battle; VIC had our Benjamin Frank.
Inns in the field of diplomacy, who
strengthened the colonial cause at for.
eign courts; we had our Patrick
Henrys in the field of oratory, who
fired the popular heart; we had the
Madisons in the field of practica
statesmanship. In this company O
distinguished men there was one more
distinguished tnan any of his assoc
ciates: in this group of intellectual
giants there stood one who, by reason
of superior mental strength, easily
lowered above them all. Amidst thi,
constellation OF shining stars there
was one who easily outshone them all
There was one who, by reason of a pro
founder knowledge of human nature, {
more extensive acquaintance with hu
man history, stood nearer the people
came nearer Interpreting the pulsa
tions of the popular heart, than any o
his compatriots. l need but mention
bis name to inspire us all with a loftiel
devotion to the elementary principles
of the democratic creed; to intensif,
our convictions in thu immortal truth
II he proclaimed. he was Thoma