The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-07-18

faith or hope in the darkest hours
of defeat. A Democrat who
knows the history of his party and
that its principles are vital to the
maintenance of free institutions
upon the North American contin-
ent. A Democrat who believes
that the safety of a free people
lies in written constitution de-
flning and limiting the powers of
government, and that power, un-
bridled by fundamental law is just
as much depotism when exercised
by an American congress as if the
same power were exercised by the
Gear of all the Russians. A Dem
ocrat who knows that we stand in
the presence of impending danger
to the form and nature of our gov
ernment, that the fate of our free
institutions is now trembling in
the balance, and that the ultimate
issue of the pending conflict of
political forces must inevitably be
Republic or Empire. A Democrat
who knows and feels that the GER
tain and unmistakable concomit-
ants of imperial power are already
here, that large standing army,
a swarm of cormorant Office hold
ers fastened upon a subject people
and an alien race, human slavery
of Brown men, military governors,
crown colonies, subjugated prov
inces, government without the con-
sent of the governed and by force,
taxation without representation
and at the will of congress, unres-
trained by the limitations of the
constitution, are both the shadows
and substance of approaching
despotism that have already fallen
upon the land and which with con-
tinued Republican supremacy will
deepen into the darkness of night
! that has no day.
A Democrat who knows that the
only hope of successful resistance
against the the ruthless and blight
ing hand of the destroyer lies in
that reunited Democracy whose
distinctive privilege it is to say,
that, in our loved land no human
agency can subvert and no human
power can permanently overthrow
that political party consecrated to
the preservation of the liberties of
the people; and that greater than
all the other triumphs which the
Democracy has achieved and which
have shed imperishable luster not
only upon its name, but upon the
Republic also, is its enjoyment OF
that majestic quality of character
which succumbs to no disaster,
which bows to no storm, which
yields to no foe, and which is born
of conscious rectitude and immem
orial antagonism to injustice and
wrong. A Democrat who under
stands that there is no room in the
republic for trusts and protective
tariffs; that both of them must go;
that they are the common progeny
of greed and legislative bribery,
expressing toll, sitting competi-
tion, extorting their own prices
from the consumer, crushing out
individual effort and independent
manhood, restraining the operation
of the natural laws of trade, and
obstructing the moral and intel
lectual progression of the world.
A. Democrat who heartily endorses
the ancient battle cry of the Dem
ocratic party, "Free Trade and
Sailors Rights because the latter
proclaimed the dominion Of the
American Commerce and trade up
on both land and sea. A Demo-
crat who knows that the difference
between the Democracy and mod
ern Republicanism is the distinct
ion between principle and plunder
that Democratic policies are die
tated by considerations affecting
the welfare of all the people and
measured by their consistency
with the traditions and spirit and
purpose and history of the Repub-
lie; while republican politics are
dictated by the favored beneficiar-
les of it's iniquitous system and
measured only by the profits which
it promises to the despoilers it has
created; that the Republican
party, sordid, mildewed, and sod
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