The record-union., 1899-02-23


has not degenerated into license SO vile
as in Lincoln's day or in the day Of
Washington. A discriminating public
insists upon fair play and the love Of
truth has become a National charac-
teristic."
1.-The Two Poles of Political Polity''
was responded to by Hon. Frank O..
Lowden of Chicago Mr.. Lowden said:
Before the echoes of the last cannon
of the Revolution had died away two
political ideas, as widely separated as
the poles, began to struggle for SUI
premacy in the new Government des-
tined to rise on this side of the Allan
tic This struggle. inaugurated under
the leadership of Hamilton on the one
side and Jefferson on the other, though
sometimes obscured by ephemeraI is
sues, has BEEN ceaseless. Our school
histories teach us that the great polit-
tcal parties have risen and fallen. 1t is
not SO. There have been but two great
political parties in the history of this
Countrywide party Of Hamilton and the
party of Jefferson True these parties
have borne different names, but the
basic principles have been the source
throughout all the changes of nomen-
clature. William Jennings Bryan is the
political heritor of the Americanism, ro-
bust and virile, of Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson had written: All men are
created free and equal but he dared
not to confer upon Government of the
peoples creation the power to preserve
mans freedom and equality.
ITO Hamilton's faith in a popular
Government was added the brave con-
viction that a Government of the whole
people might be trusted with power
enough to make it respected at home
and feared abroad. Hamilton knew the
American people well enough to know
that they would never endure crowned
head within their midst. He feared only
the disintegration of the peoples Gov
eminent, and so he strove for an indis-
soluble union. Jefferson, before whose
eyes was ever present the specter of
monarchy, preferred a crumbling fed
GRAFTON of States to an American Union.
Wherever an insurrection arose Ham
ilton favored it's suppression at the
point of the bayonet, if necessary. 1t
was Jefferson, the Sage of Monticello
(as our Democratic brethren love to- call
him), who said: "A little rebellion now
and then is a good thing, and added
the benign recommendation that REBEL
ion be not discouraged too much. To
Hamilton's mind it was inconceivable
that the General Government was not
superior to the Government of any one
of it's parts. He therefore placed the
ion above the State.
u sarson, logical to the last, was the
hor of the famous Kentucky resolu-
rs, in which the doctrine was clearly
la d down that a. State might withdraw
from the Union at will. Notification
W. the child of Jeffersonian Democ-
lrtey. Hayne but gave it elegance and
eloquent expression when he declared
-or liberty, not union. Webster was a
Eemiltonian when he breathed that
other sentiment, dear to every true
American heart: Liberty and union,
now and forever, one and inSeparable.'
Every soldier who marched under the
flag of the Union in it's crucial hour
but passed along the path that sI7rn-
ilton had blazed out
Even as late as the last Presidential
campaign it was the spirits of Hamil-
ton and Jefferson which captained the
contending hosts. The monster Of
States rights again reared its head
when the Democratic party denied the
power of the Government at Washing
ton to put down an insurrection in I'LL
nois. That party again illustrated the
old Jefferson view of liberty when it
denied the power of the courts to pro-
tect the property of the Government by
writ of injunction because, forsooth, the
exercise of such power might incident
ally interfere with some ones liberty
| liberty to do what? To commit a
crime!
1.-The Democrat looks upon the Con-
stitution as a technical contract among
sovereign States. The Republican re-
CARDS it as the Magma Charta of a free
and mighty people. The Democrat has
found in it only limitations upon the
exercise of power; the Republican also
the creation of power. When Lincoln s
heart was bursting with the wrongs of
a race the Democrat characterized his
every effort to improve it's condition as
a usurpation of power.
THE Democratic denounces a pro-
! tective tariff as unconstitutional He
! inaugurates free-t policy, and
makes reparation to the tattered and
starving workingman under it by call
ing him brother. In fact, strict con-
structionist as he is, the Democrat
would read by implication into the Con
stitution this dogma: Whatever new
policy the Republican party promotes
is unconstitutional He admits that the
first author of expansion was Demo-
crat, but insists that what was a virtue
: IN, Tnf
Kinley. 1t only remains for some en-
terprising Democrat to discover that
the Constitution is, upon it's face, I'M
constitutional.
! THE Republicans function is to
make history; the Democrats to criti-
else it. The Democrat is decorative on
dress parade; the Republican magnifi-
cent in action. 1t was a Democratic
Mcclellan who made the buttons on the
blue coats to shine; it was a Repub-
lican Grant who led those blue coats to
victory. 1t is said the Democratic party
! is useful as a check upon the exercise
of power by the Republican party. Let
it be admitted. The Democratic party.
then, is of service only when out of
power. The brake is useful to the
railway train, but who would suggest
that a train of cars could be run sue
cessfully if the locomotive were taken
F., off and Westinghouse airbrake put
on in its place?
Il have often thought that the best
proof of the Intervention of Provi-
dence in mundane affairs is to be found
/ in the advent of Washington and Lin
coin in the two great crises of this
continent l think it is next best shown
in the periods which are selected fcr
Democratic supremacy. In the dull