Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-04-26
NATION FACES ~
~ A CRISIS.

rms campaign Is going To he n
campaign of mighty questions and
not of candidates.
"ThoSc men who imagine that if
they could by hook or crook-by
trick or trade-nominatc some hero
in the National Democratic Con-
vcntion, that then, with the aid of
money, they could carry the coun-
try-had better be diSillusioncd
for they could not carry six states
in this Union.
This is not II year in which
politicians can deliver. Even the
Democracy of the East is straight
cning its spine. To simply say
that we are Democrats may sound
laconic, but unless we stand for
something definite that earnest
men and earnest women can lay
hold on in life. unless we offer
hope to the toiling, suffering, sor-
rowing children of men, we will be
despised by mankind.
What is it that gives Mr.. Bry
an such Il hold on the Democracy
of America as no man has had
since the days of Jackson. 1t is
his principles and his rarncstnesS.
There is no hero worship about
it. They favor the principles he
advocates and have absolute conf
dcncc in his honesty and courage.
He is an idol, not hero. People
love him because they believe he
SympathizcS with them.
Il hear some good man say,
why could not Bryan consent Ia
modify some features of the Chi
cago platform so that we could all
unite and then we could win!
MY friend, YOU have simpl,
read the newspapers and have not
studied the conditions. You have
not heard the earnest hcartbcatS OF
our people.
1.-THE moment Mr.. Bryan con,
SentS to modify the Chicago plat
form in any particular, that mo
mcnt he is destroyed.
He would at once sink to tn,
level Of the ordinary politician
who was trimming his sails tc
catch votes.
"Ilc would at once cease to b,
the idol of the Democratic heart
Now You respect him for his sin
ccrity-thcn you would dcSpis,
him for his weakness.
Look around. You can coun
hundreds of able, learned and clo
quent men who held high places il
the Democratic councils and tO-da,
are wayside wrecks hidden in duS
because in the supreme hour o
trial they wavcred.
No, if You are weary of TN
Mckinley cant and hyporiSry-i
YOU believe in the Declaration q
lndcpcndcncc-if YOU wish f.
transmit the blessings of free in
StitutionS to your childrcn-thr
take hold aud help to save this Re
public-talc hold and help to over
throw this reign of dcbaurhcry
destruction and death.
And if, when the pirates hay
been driven off the ship, YOU ca
show that we are wrong on any q
on all points, the American pcopl
will soon help You establish tn
right.
I'VE are nt crisis in the hist,
ry of the race.
Shall the hand of toll be cmal
ripat"d, or shall it have new shack
les riyitcd on it!
Shall the American millions |
free men or ScrfS,
Shall government protect III
weak or be- mere convenience fo
the strong!
Shall justice uphold the rigl
or smile ON iniuuty!
Shall liberty illuminc the cart
or he slain in her own temple,
For many decades this Repul
lie has been the greatest worI
Power on the globe; not thru h,
armies or her navics or her wealth
but thru her moral force; thr
high ideals, thru the divinity I
! human rights.
Shall she go on in this rourS
lifting the hopes of all the peop