Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-01-19
The Democratic PARTY.

wealth, power and greatness, whose
corner stones were universal suffrage
and universal education.
The author OF the Declaration of
indie pendence was the founder of the
Democratic party. Its formation took
place through q process OF natural Sc
lection. While Americans generally |
were unit in favor of independence
of Great Britain, after their independ |
ence was achieved there existed wide |
difference OF opinion among the fore
most men of that day regarding the
character OF government that should
be established
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson soon became the recognized
leaders OF thought and opinion. JEFF
ferson laid down the broad proposition
that life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness were the natural rights OF
all men, and that the true province of
government was to conserve these
natural rights that governments were
just or unjust, in proportion as they
succeeded or failed, measured by this
test. Jefferson solved the problem of
all time. Christ proclaimed God to be
the common father and that all men
were brothers. Jefferson, standing
/ ar al ~ # Al q
be free, sought to so bind men to-
gether into commonwealth that at
last they might melt into brothers.
On the other hand, til ere were
la &c, wealthy and powerful class, Of
aristocratic tendencies, who like the
founders OF the ancient Greek repub-
lies, thought they themselves were en-
titled to be free, but were unwilling to
extend the freedom they claimed for
themselves so as to embrace the whole.
i ey favored liberal government
compared to others existing at the
time, but opposed government con-
sisting Of and responsible to the whole
people. They struggled hard to es-
tablish government giving the Pres
ident life tenure of office with power
to appoint the governors Of the states.
, The government of the choice was, in
, TACT, form OF limited monarchy. AL
exander Hamilton was the recognized
: leader OF this class.
Hamilton and Jefferson were both
men Of extraordinary power. Their
leadership was Of that character that
goes unchallenged. Under the law of
natural selection the people grayitated
to one or the other. The crystilation
OF opinion in favor OF the ideas that
Jefferson contended for, formed the
: Democratic party-at that time known
by the name of Republican party
while those VITO held the views cham
pioned by Hamilton banded them
selves together in their support, aud
were known by the name of Federal
lists
Jefferson and his followers revealed
and our republic with a constitution
guaranteeing and safeguarding the
J liberties of the people was launched
upon the sea of time.
The American republic, hated by
the rulers OF the Old World and re-
viled by the sycophants who subsisted
on the crumbs of favorltism that drop.
ped from the tables of kings and EN-.
perors, at once became the hope of the
world. The success of the republic
, justified the CLAIMS of Jefferson. He
and his followers were the construct
, i've statesmen OF the first half century
of our national existence. Their cour-
ageous, aggressive, and successful adj
mlnistrations were characterized by
the most rigid application OF the prin-
CT les expressed in the greatest good
to the greatest number. The tradi-
tions of the Democratic party contin.
ued to attract to its ranks the same
J class who rallied TO the support OF
of Jefferson in his day.
The Democratic party was the party
! of the people in its inception, and in
spite Of the assault of the money power
and modern Tories, il is the party OF
the people to-day.
In 1896 when the party was in dis
J grace, with President Of It's own Sc
! lection in power corruptly dealing with
J foreign and domestic money changers
aud usurers and trampling under loot
MOI is and deeency, the rank and file
OF the party rose in their might, repn-
dated and conden ned the conduct OF
the administration and demonstrated
tie vitality OF government of the
people, The Chicago platform re-
: affirms anew the Declaration OF indie
pendence. II assures us that the spirit
of rs still lives. Upon this platform
! in 1900 the Democratic party will at.
tract to its fold greater majority of
the American voters than ever before
united in one party.
The duty OF all who believe in a gov
eminent OF the people, for the people
and by the people, Is TO commence at
once to assist IN bringing the people
in the community in which they live
TO a realizing sense of the true mean
ing OF the Chicago platform. We must
not wait until next year. If we do al
, will be lost The money power and
the manopolies have their hired agents
IN every state at this time working Tor
she overthrow OF the Chicago plat