The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1901-06-15

ton returns Of last year. Not in the
resignation of a single usurper Not
by restoration to the people Of trial
by juries impartially selected; not by
a recognition of political equality as a
democratic doctrine by any Demo
crtatic convention, nor by any author
lied agent of the Democratic party.
Until these things are done, until
restitution is made, until the offices
in which usurpers are installed are
restored to the people, the people will
take at their real value all these pro
fessions Of repentance and reform.
In the meantime the Evening Post
continues its war against the irregu-
larities in each party. IL will as fully
and fairly expose sappism as GOebel-
ism. It will contend for popular
rights as. something above mere PNrty
success. II will make no compromise
with political jugglers, nor will it
Join in any scheme for the partition
Of offices, regardless of the wishes Of
the people.
The News is striving for the sue
cess Of the Democratic party; We are
striving for the Advancement Of the
state, The News would have the
country turn back from the path it
has entered, because a Republican
president is leading it along the lines
blazed for him by his Democratic
predecessors. The Evening Post puts
national progress above partisan tri-
umphs
In Kentucky we see the Democratic
party false to all the principles of
free institutions for which jefferson
struggled so valiantly. We see the
rights for which one hand fights by
the other stricken down. We see the
ballot box, we see representative gov
eminent, we see impartial juries, we
see individual freedom over thrown,
in the name and by the authority of
the Democratic party here at home
In national affairs we see no Demo
cratic party at all II has been scat
tered before the wrath Of angry peo-
pie. 1t proclaimed itself an enemy
Of the courts and the foe Of law and
order, Ii urged a people sore dis
tressed to repudiate its obligations,
and TO alter its standard, and TO find a
short way out Of its trouble. II forced
the government into war and
then turned to denounce the admins.
tration for the success Of the war. Ii
adopted a treaty Of peace, and repudi-
ated the obligations Of tina; treaty.
And so it was smitten by the people in
their wrath, and it is scattered abroad
like stubble in a UNEMPLOYED field.
But the "Revengers; yea verify;
the Revengers; the men who destroyed
the Cleveland administration because
it could not satisfy their craving for
spoils. watterson and Hill and Cor.
man and the host Of political cormor-
ants whose demands grew as Cleve-
land fed them, and when he could feed
no more conspired to destroy him.
Let the south beware Of such lead
ers; they are like the daughters of the
horse leech. Cleveland regenerated
and renationalized the south. Cleve.
land put Lamar and Garland in his
cabinet, and Lamar on the Supreme
bench, and made Fitzhugh Lee our
representative in Cuba, and later
made Carlisle secrctay Of the treas
ury. This was the rehabilitation of a
conquered section; this was the re.
establishment Of political equality,
and it was this that brought the south
unitedly to the support Of the govern
ment in its war with Spain.
The south is now beguiled into new
paths 1t is TO be arrayed against ex-
pansion; against progress it is urged
TO declare itself "agin the govern
ment, " all in the name Of the New
Democracy.
We prefer the old Democracy, the
Democracy Of jefferson. We prefer
the old policy Of expansion with
which Kentucky is so thoroughly
idenued. We prefer peace, law.
order, political equality and impartial
juries, and an untainted ballot box at
home, and expansion, world power,
commerce and glory, the true glory
Of free people abroad, such as the
Stars and Stripes will forever secure.