Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-30
Dew0cratiC Candidate for Govern.
or Was at His Best at SedaIia.
on tuesday, August II.
Mastery and Logical Presentation of Dem.
ocratic Principles at the Big Meeting
Opening the State Campaign.--What
Economic Democratic Government Has
Accomplished in Missouri. History OF
Republican Misruie in This State-..FuII
Tex of the Speech,

! Subjoined will be found the full
Gext of the speech made by Hon.. A.
M Dockery, democratic nominee for
tSovernor. at the opening of the State
campaign at Sedalia, August 21st.
speech was delivered at the
fair Grounds, at Sedalia, before one
of the largest crowds that ever as
sembIed in Missouri to listen to n
political address,. Beside Mr.. Dock
cry there were a number of other dis
tl<goished gentlemen present, who
made speeches, including Hon.. Adlai
IL. Stevenson, of Illinois, candidate
for Vice-President; Hon. Webster
Davis, of Kansas City; Hon. Davi!
'Oyermeyer err, and Hon. John II. At
wood, of Kansas, and others. Mr..
Dockery said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Fellow
Citizens: l congratulate you that we
assemble to-day in this beautiful ely,
under auspices which assure an old
time democratic majority in Missouri,
and h election to the presidency
of that intrepid friend of the people,
William Jennings Bryan. The Missou-
Iii democracy are also to be congratu-
lated upon the presence of our hon.
ored guest, that distinguished demo-
crat of Illinois, who has served his
party and his country with conspicu-
Gus ability and fidelity, and who will
again preside over the deliberations of
the American senate-the next vice
president of the United States, Adlai
E. Stevenson.
This contest will determine wheth-
er the J~effersonian theory of govern
ment, under which this young repub-
Aic has grown to be the greatest and
most powerful nation of the earth, is
to be supplanted by the Hamiltonian
theory. 1t will determine the mo-
mentous issue, whether the great
fundamental doctrines of republican
government are to be subverted, and
give place to governmental theories
resting upon a distrust of the capacity
of the people for self-government. 1t
will determine whether we are to
build up a strong central national
government in disregard of constitu-
tional limitations, and nus practical
Iy surrender the control of local af-
fairs heretofore exercised by the
state 1t will determine whether the
government of the British empire is
preferable to the government of the
Republic. The conflicting Hamilton
ian and Jeffersonian theories strug-
gled for supremacy under these great
leaders at the time our government
was founded. Thomas Jefferson was
the very incarnation of faith in the
integrity, capacity and patriotism OF
the people. Alexander Hamilton dis
trusted the capacity of the people
for self-government,and declared that
"the British government forms the
best model the world ever produced
In that tremendous contest Jefferson
wa the victor. Our more than a cen
fury growth under the inspiration of
the principles of the declaration OF
independence, as c~rystalliZed in the
Constitution, has witnessed the es.
Enlistment and development of the
most wonderful republic of all time.
The achievements of the American
people under free institutions consti.
tute the romance of history. During
our national life political parties
have arisen, played their parts upon
the stage of national politics and
passed away. Differences upon pure.
~ domestic questions have appeared
at almost every period of our history
Questions of finance, taxation and
other great issues have aligned ouI
people from time to time under op-
posing political standards, but from
the days of Hamilton, until the pres.
ent Republican administration, no po.
litical party has ever dared to propose
a colonial system fashioned after the
empire of Great Britain. This is tn.
issue rendered by President Mckinley
and the leaders of the Republican par
ty, under the gauzy subterfuge o.
'tmanifest destiny 1t was unneces
sary that the Kansas City platform
should declare it to be the para
mount ISSUE" for 10 is an obvious
fact.
Internal policies may be changed a
any time. Not so with this issue. i
will be settled irrevocably at the com
ing election. If the American people
should decide to surrender the repub
lie and establish the English colonia
system they will be powerless to un
do hat crime against liberty. En-
pires once founded are never over
thrown except by revolution.
In the great contest between JEFF
ierson and Hamilton, the people wer,
triumphant. In this supreme crisis o
our beloved country, may the God O.
fathers be with US and give us victory
as He gave ii to jefferson and tn,
people at the birth of our republic
Let US make the high resolve, in tn
language of Abraham Lincoln, tina
"the government of the people shall
not perish from the face of tn
earth"
Fellow-citizens, the platforms o
both the national and state democ
racy have been formulated, our lead
ers have been chosen, and the grea
fury of the people must try the issue
presented. | most heartily indors'
our party platforms. and will brief,
review some of the issues involved u
tee4s campaign.