The Grenada sentinel., 1899-11-04
TIE PARTY lincoln LED.
William J. Bryan Says it is Not
the Republican Party of
To-Day.
POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES SET ASIDE,
The Republicans Who Would Crush
the Aspirations OF the Ei1ipinOs
for Self Government Should Read
Abraham LincOln'x Speech Deliv-
cred In 1855.

cred In 1855.
The following in from the pen of
William J. Bryan in the New York
Journal:
When, in 1896, the silver republicans
refused to stand upon the st. Louis
platform, they declared that the re-
publican party was deserting its ira
ditional policy and that they were not
willing to follow the party i'll its
change upon the money question. They
pointed out that the republican plat
form of 1888 denounced Mr.. Clevelands
attempt to demonetize silver and that
the republican platform OF 1892 de-
clared that the American people, from
tradition and interest, favored bimet-
aljsm. They took frequent occasion
to quote Mr.. McKinley's speech of 1891
in denunciation of Mr.. Cleveland's at
tempt to make money scarcer and,
therefore. dearer--moncy the master
and everything else the servant Each
year the departure of the republicans
from the early ideas of the party be-
comes more apparent. Lincoln often
referred to ''the plain people and to
'1he common people," but any one
who thus classfies the people at this
time is sure to be called Il demagogue
by the republican leaders.
When the republican party wrote its
national platform, in 1856, it invitedthe
cooperation of all those who were in
fnyor of 'restoring the action of the
federal government 10 tie principles of
Washington and jefferson" and Lin
coin himself was a great aGmirer of
Jefferson. In 1856 the republicans Of
Boston celebrated the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson. and Lincoln, in his
letter Of regret, paid the following
| tribute to Jefferson:
LincOln's Tribute to Jefferson.
"All honor to Jetferson: to a man
who, in the concrete pressure Of q
struggle for national independence by
single people, had the coolness, fore
csst and capacity to introduce into d
merely revolutionary document an alb
stract truth, applicable to Ill men ant
alItimes, and so to cmbalmi there that
to-day and in all coming days it shal
be a rebuke and a stumbling block tt
the harbingers of reappearing tyranny
and oppression
lr: the beginning of the party's ex
istence the republicans appealed to thu
name and the principles of Jefferson
but at Republican banquets nowaday
Jefferson's name is spoken with disre
spect, and Hamilton's name and ideas
are extravagantly lauded.
The significance of this change be
comes apparent when it is remembered
that jefferson was the foremost rep
resentative of the democratic idea
while Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, il
his life of Hamilton, points out tha
the latter was the representative of thu
aristocratic idea. Lodge says:
"The republic Of Hamilton was tt
be an aristocratic as distinguished
from democratic republic, and th
power of the separate states was to b
e1rectually crippled. The first objec
was attained by committing the choic
of the president and senators, VIII
were to hold office during good be
havior, to class of the community quail
flied to vote by a certain amount {
property. The second was secured H.
giving to the president of the Unite
States the appointment of the gov
ernors of the various states who wer
to have veto on all state Legislation
In 1850 Lincoln. in speaking of tn
relation which should exist betwcc
money and humanity. said that tn
republican party believed in both tn
man and the dollar. but that in cas-
of conflict it believed in the man bs
fore the dollar. In one of his earl
messages to congress, Lincoln warne
his countrymen against the approac
Of monarchy, and said that his alarl
, was caused by the attempt to plac
capital upon an equal footing with,
, not above, labor in the structure {
government.
Now the republican party seeks
settle every question upon tinanci:
basis. The dollar mark is plainl
stamped upon every modern republ
can policy. Lincoln signed the bi
!, which provided for a graded incon
. tax; in the Fifty-third congress tt
. republican party voted against an Il
come tax.
Striking Contrasts.
r The republican party created Il
p greentack; now it is planning to d
i, stroy the greenback.
. When the war closed Lincoln begn
!. to plan to make the payment of tt
/. national debt easier by increasing tt
' volume of money available for pa
ment of debt. In Raymond's life
c Lincoln" published in 1868, the pres
dents views are set forth as follows
I "Nothing can indicate more clear
e the elation of mind with which tt
I president regarded the future OF II
country. now that its safety has bet
assured, than the language he II
dressed, in a conversation at this intc
view, to Mr.. Colfax, who was at tn
:, time preparing for journey OVERLAP
to the Pacific coast. Said he: M