Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-04-26
IN THE OLD PATHS.
Grover Cleveland Asks Dem ocrats
to Walk.
Campbell I'm Il speech at
Banquet Declares that the Is to
Issue ss Dead and Com
dcmns Any Alliance with
POpuiists.

quet given in Brooklyn last night by
democrats, the following letter from
| eX-PreSident Cleveland was read:
"Princeton, n. j., April II.
$40 Louis +. Burchard-Dear Sir: I
regret that | am unable to accept
| your invitation to attend the dinner
| to be given by the Brooklyn Demo-
| cratic club on the 18th inst. to COM
memorate the birth of Thomas JEFF
| ferson.
| Though the faults of the party in
power are many and though its of
fenses against the political health of
the country are fragrant, these
things should not encourage us to
| base an expectation of success upon
| the shortcomings of our adversaries.
| "Whatever successes may have at
tended party of opportunity, with
sails spread for every transient breeze
| of popular sentiment, or excitement,
experience has demonstrated that
| democracy is only strong when cour-
ageous in the right. and only victori-
| Gus when its forces are marshaled
under its old standards.
"Our principles are so simple that
| they are easily understood by the
| democratic masses. As a result of
| this, there has never been time
when false leadership of our party
| and departure from simple demo-
| cratic faith have not been quickly dis
| covered and rebulted by defeat These
consequences have thus far been so
inevitable that the lessons they teach
| cannot be disregarded without invit-
| ing calamity"
Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, made a
speech, in which he said:
"The political party founded by
| Thomas Jefferson cannot survive half
democratic and half populistic. There
| must be either dissolution or reStora-
| ton of pure democracy. 1t is true
that many thousands of us will again
support the nominees of our party.
no matter into what mistakes it may
| fall. but it is equally true that many
| other thousands will forever abandon
the party if it again supplants truth
with error. Democracy means the
opportunity, elevation and reign of
the individual. but populism is that
perverted form of socialism which
can lead only to the thralldom of the
individual and the enthronement of
the plutocrat.
"The Chicago platform enunciated
many great and enduring truths, but
| it coupled them to at least one fatal
| error-the un-Jeffersonian and (un-
der existing commercial conditions)
the impossible proposition of '16 to l.
| "A ma aiority of the electors of the
country were bimetallists. Forced to
| choose between the two forms of
monometallism they chose gold. BY
| this choice they were not only sad
died with the gold Standard but also
with a financial bill which creates
that most powerful and dangerous of
all trusts-money trust. 1t is sutfi-
cient to know that '16 to L is dead,
and that Just so long as we proclaim
| our intention to reSurrect it, Just
| that long will our resurrection be
postponed"
Mr.. Campbell declared the army of
voters had plenty of work, at good
| wages. Continuing. he said:
| at will be hard to enlist their CO.
| operation to destroy oppression in
| Porto Rico, or stay imperialism in
the Philippines, unless we first aban-
| don the menace to their osvn prosper
ity.
Not only did the fusion with pop
| alsm result in disaster, but defeat
did not seem to teach us anything.
| The party of jefferson has ever since
continued to masquerade in the livery
| of populism, swearing eternal fealty
| to doctrines voted down again and
again by the people, until for four
| successive years the election returns
| show that it has steadily fallen low
er and lower in public estimation.
| Labor is jailed or shot at Occur
| D'Alene, treaties are made which bar
| ter away the Monroe doctrine and
| bind us captive to the chariotS of
| European potentates; the constitu-
! ton of the United States is debauch-
| ed and reconstructed until we are un-
certain of our own rights-certain
only that our unhappy captive lands
have no rights that a white man is
| bound to respect: scandals in army
contracts, purchases of ships. sales of
| custom houses, favored bank deposits
and in all other forms of money
| gra bbing are rife on every hand:
great corporations, already glutted
| with profit, are to he subsidized under
| the Specious preteXt of restoring our
wasted merchant marine.
This may be our last stand. Let
the party of plutourccy once more
succeed, and the census and~the cleo
ton statistics will become the pow
erful weapons whereby The democrat
ic south shall be deprived OF ner
rights under the tattcred remnants
| of the constitution. If the men of
the south love populism more than
they love truth, let them adhere to
| it, let them again fling to the breeze
| the banner of the lost cause of 16 to
/, and once more, and for all. drive
the knife into the vitals of Jefferson
ian democracy. Their day of re-
pentance will come, but it will thea
| be too late.
Mr.. Campbell praises the platform
adopted by the Pennsylvania demo-
cratic convention and advises it's
adoption by the national convention.
Petit To be CosIrI-rnartiaied.
| New York, April ia dispatch
from Manila announces tnat Col.