Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-06

The address delivered by. Mr.. Char
les e. Chadman, Ashtabula, the
Democratic nominee for Congress in
this district, to the delegates at the
County convention in this city, Sat
urday, was the finished product of an
orator. IL made deep and favorable
impression on all those who heard it.
His address follows
Our national life aud integrity as
well as the liberty, welfare and happi-
ness of the mass Of individuals are
inseparably Interviewer with the issues
and the men in the campaign of 1900.
James Madison, student of Jeffer-
son, and one of the trainers Of the
fundamental law of the United States
said: Let it be remembered. that it
has ever been the pride and boast Of
America, that the rights for which
she contended were the rights of hu.
man nature"
As result of this stand taken for the
rights of human nature, the same
statesman said, 1.-The citizens of the
United States are responsible for the
greatest trust ever contided to politi-
cal society, Should our government
fail in justice, good faith, honor. graf
tude and all the other qualities which
ennoble the character of a nation, then
the great cause which we have engag-
ed TO vindicate will be dishonored and
betrayed: the last and fairest expert
ment in favor of the rights of human
nature will be turned against them;
and their patrons and friends exposed
to be insvlted and silenced by the vo-
taries of tyranny and usurpation."
Thomas jefferson, whose master
mind did most to shape and mould the
institutions upon which our civilization
is based, sounded the keynote of the
true American policy, always con-
tending for the rights Of human ma
ture, i'm the declaration that govern
ments are instituted for the purpose
of protecting the rights of all, 'deriving
their just powers from the consent Of
the governed"
James Monroe, also follower of
Jefferson, extended this American pol
icy Of cherishing the rights of human
nature by declaring that this govern
ment would protect American terri
tory and American republics from the
encroachments and designs of Euro
pean monarchies. Every American
President has been proud to stand up-
on the Monroe Doctrine. That doctrine
was not inspired by greedy CONNER
cialism aroused by the gleam of gold
or the mirage of empire, but was pure
unadulterated Americanism speaking
for the rights of human nature and
the spread of liberty and self govern
ment.
Abraham Lincoln, applying the
American principle to chattel slavery,
asserted; iNo man is good enough, to
govern another man without that
mans consent"
1t is clear, then, what has been the
policy and responsibility of America
in the past. Today there is a tendency
to revolt from the teachings of the pa
trlotc fathers. 1t is cOntended that
We have grown good enough to govern
others; that We should cease being an
example to become Il world power,
an international dictator-ap Empire;
that our government must simulate the
bureaucratic and aristocratic ideas of
monarchies, and assist q few of the
people by financial ana tariff legisla-
ton rather than the whole mass of
the citlzenry. In short, this reaction
ary policy Is, TO admit the nominal
supremacy of the people hut to farm
out sovereignty in such way as TO
benefit the governing classes only.
In 1896 new issue came for the first
time before the American people, The
Democrat party made a fair and open
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