Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05

of rowing savages. But thank God
they were made of different material
and Jefferfcn, the father of democracy,
took the precaution in the Louisiana
purchase to send federal troops to
guard the inhabitants of that purchase
"for the purpose if need be of obtain
ing the consent of the governed" 1t
was the consent of the governed
when General Robert E. Lee surren-
dered to General Grant at AppomatoS
his army and caused the entire COL
lapse of the southern confederacy
after more than Il billion dollars of
treasure had been expended and more
than a million lives were lost, and this
was done to maintain the consent of
the governed. The declaration fore
told an ideal government, but to have
that we must have an ideal citizenship.
is it an ideal citizenship in Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, North and
South Carolina? What does Senator
Iillman. of South Carolina, say about
it? Remember that Senator Tillman
was Il delegate to the democratic con-
vention at Kansas City and read the
the resolutions adopted by that COLI
vention in which they had a clause in
favor of the consent OF the gov
erned." What did this same Senator
Iillman say in the senate of the United
States on the Goth of February, 1900,
speaking of the negro voter i'll South
Carolina. after he had the elective
franchise for eight years. He says, tive
took the government away (from the
colored MANI, 1--WE stuffed the ballot
boxes; we shot them; we are not
ashamed of it," This is what Senator
Tillman said in the senate of the
United States. Have you ever heard a
democrat or a populist condemn it,
from Bryan down? and yet these fell
lows will prate about the consent of
the governed" in the Philippines
where we have the title without a flaw,
both by purchase and conquest. For
more than seventy years the demo-
cratic party interpreted the Declare.
ton of independence in favor of Slav-
cry and no place was found in it for
the slave. 1t was left to the republi-
can party to wipe the dishonor of
slavery that existed in this country for
more than two hundred years and
make living truth of that declaration
shat all men land women toy were
created Free" 1t was not until recently
that the democratic party has shown
much solicitude for the declaration
and that only with the mouth, for
where they have had the power as in
the south they have violated every
principle of self government for a
large class of American citizens.
"First take the beam out of your own
eye and then you can see more clearly
to take the mote out of your brothers.
eye." The republican party is arraigned
because it proposes to establish free
in the Orient; to supplant
tyranny and oppression and internal
struggle by law, order, progress and
The allied forces of fusion
democrats, populists, free silver re-
publicans and Tagals-marshalled I'M
der the leadership of William j. Bryan,
assault the sovereignty of the republic
under the title of the defenders of the
declaration. What hypocracy, when
you take the history of the two parties
into consideration. BY their fruits We
Shall know them. In 1864 the demo.
cratic party attempted to discourage
patriotism by declaring in their plat
form that the civil war was a failure
and nominated a democratic general.
They propose to try it again by nomi-
mating a democratic colonel and de-
claring the Spanish.American war a
failure, but our flag floats over the
islands of the east, an emblem of free.
dom and the forerunner of law, order
and good government. The flag is
there to stay and represents the sov-
ereignty of government and who
will dare to pull it down?