The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-19

torious when its forces are marshaIled
under its old and well organized stand
ards
Our principles are so simple and they
accord so well with the honest Ameri-
can disposition, which loves freedom,
and cares for the public welfare, that
they are easily understood by the mas
SEES As a result of this. there has never
been a time when false leadership OF
our party and a departure from simple
Democratic faith have not been quick
" discovered and ruthIessly rebuked by
IstieSS support, pronounced detection
and bitter defeat These consequences
have thus been so inevitable that the
lessons they teach can not be disregard
ed without inviting calamity
The healthfulness Of our party may
well be questioned when it shrinks from
sucn an examination OF its position as
VIII enable it 10 avoid disaster, by
keeping in a course of safety, under the
guidance of true Democracy
Therefore. these who claim to be fol-
lowers Of Thomas Jefferson will fail
to discharge &. solemn duty If, in this
time OF doubt and temptation, they
neglect such an examination, and If
this diScloSeS q tendency in party con-
troll to subordinate the principles of
pure Democracy and to distrust their
cOnquering power, then conditions
should not continue without a brave
and early Democratic protest
I have addressed these words to fell
low Democrats in the full conscious
ness that I am now far removed from
any influence in party mana cement, but
I love the old Democratic party, and
have written under the sanction of that
freedom of speech" which Thomas
/ Jefferson placed among the cardinal
/ factors Of our Democratic creed
Yours very truly.
| GROVER CLEVELAND.
A letter was also read from ex-Gov-
| ernor Boies, of Iowa, in which ne ad-
vocated the freedom of Cuba and the
| giving up Of the Philippines
Gen Joseph Wheeler also sent let
| ter Of regret
Joseph J. WiIIett responded to the
toast "A Century OF Democracy"
! In responding to the toast 'sThe Res
toration OF Jeffersonian Democracy
/ Ex-Governor Campbell declared that
i the party Of Jefferson could not sur
I vive half Democratic and half Popu-
I Hstic- He repudiated the sociaIstic
theories brought into the party by the
platform OF go. he declared that it
/ enuuciated many great and enduring
/ truths, but coupled them TO at least one
I fatal error-the un-JefferSenian and
I 6under existing mining and commercial
I conditions) the impossible proposition
( of rs TO L"
The speaker said that a majority Of
/ the electors of the country were bimet-
/ allists, but they had been forced to
/ choose between the two forms Of mono
I metaIism, and they had chosen gold.
| but in doing so they had been saddled
/ with a financial bill which created the
/ most powerful and dangerous of all
| trusts-a money trust
It was sufficient. he said, to know
| that .16 to II was dead, and that Just
| so long as the Democrats proclaimed
| their intention to resurrect 1t just that
| long would their own resurrection be
I postponed
Mr.. Campbell declared that the army
Of voters had plenty Of work at good
. wages Continuing, he said:
! 1T viii be hard to enlist their CO.
operation to destroy oppression in Porto
/ Rico, or stay imperialism in the Phil
| ippiusS, unless we first abandon the
menace to their own prosperity