The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-27
CLEVELAND rs HEARD
Former Democratic PRESIDENT Urges
Party Harmony.
Scores the Party I'm Power and Lauds
the Standards of His Political
Faith-sees Opportunity
for Democrats,


Faith-sees Opportunity
for Democrats.
A hew era for the democratic party
was inaugurated at the Tilden club
meeting in New York city, Thursday,
June 10, when eX-President Grover
Cleveland and former Gov. David Il.
Hill met and clasped hands. There was
large number of members and visitors
present and enthusiasm ran high. MI.
Cleveland made an earnest and impress
siye speech, the substance OF which is
here given:
MIR. CLEyELAND's SPEECH.
ST have been urged to participate in this
occasion by those who have assured me
that this handsome structure Is TO Deideol-
Gated tonight in the rehabilitation and con-
solidation of the democratic party, under
the inspira ton of a name which during the
days of democratic strength and achieve
ment was honored in every democratic
household. Such an assurance made to one
who followed with hearty devotion the lead
ership of Samuel ]. Tilden when living. and
who has since found in his career and fame
the highest incentive to democratic stead
fastness, could hardly fail to overcome the
temptations of my contented retirement
from political activity.
Against Feuds I'm the Party.
at am here to take counsel with others
protesting the same party faith concerning
the democratic situation. l suppose we
all are convinced that this situation might
be improved and some of us may think 1t Is
perilously undermined. Whatever the meas
ure of its impairment may be, our
condition as an organization cannot be i'm
!, proved by calling each other harsh names
nor by inaugurating system OF arbitrary
prescription and Punishment.
fsThe members Of a business firm in flnan-
cial embarrassment should not sit down and
look in each others faces in mute despair;
neither will they re gain financial soundneSS
nor the confidence of the business commu-
nifty by recrimination ard quarrel: nor
will any members of the firm aid in its
restoration to solvent strength by an angry
insistence upon a continuation of the bust
ness methods which have invited its en-
barrassment.
1.-The democratic party is very far from
political insolvency, but no one here should
be offended by the suggestion that its capt.
tai and prospects have suffered serious in
jury since Mr. Tilden was elected president.
Then and afterward northern de mocratic
states were not rare curiosities northern
democratic senator's; now practically ex-
tinct, were quite numerous and northern
democratic governors, now almost never
seen, were frequently encountered.
Urges Returns to Old Ideals.
eff this state of impairment exists, an in
democratic establishment; and one which
they cannot evade with honor. Those of
Us less prominent in the party-the rank
and file-are longing to be led through old
democratic ways to the old democratic vic
tories We were never more ready to do
enthusiastic battle than now, If We can
only be marshaled outside the shadow of
pre- de tined defeat.
us it too much to ask our leaders TO
avoid paths that are known TO lead to dis
q ST TC rrn11N n a
errors be abandoned and-that We be deliv
cred from body of death and relieved from
the burden of issues which have been killed
by the DEGREES of the American people?
Ought We not to be fed upon something bet
ter than the huSkS of defeat?
''If these questions are met in an honest,
manly fashion believe it will be productive
of the best kind of democratic harmony.
Democracy to Guard All People.
I'm dealing with new issues we of the DEM
ocratic faith are extremely fortunate in the
simplicity of democratic standards and the
ease with which new que lions can be meas
ured by those standards. A party based
upon care for the interests of all the people
as the aggregate condition demands, with
no unjust favoritism for any particular
class; a party devoted to the form of pop
ular government as our fathers ordained
1t and for the purposes which they sought
to establish; party whose conservatism
opposes dangerous and un-Ame rican ex-
perlH6ntS ana yet puts Darrler IN the
way of genuine and safe progress, ought
to be able to deal with new questions in
a manner quite consistent with democratic
doctrine and stimulating to- democratic i'm
pulses and instincts.
scores the Party in Power.
Let us not forget however that it is not
in the search of new and gaudy issues nor
in the Interpretation of strange visions that
a strong and healthy democracy displays
its splendid power. Another party may
thrive on the ever-shifting treatment of the
ever-shiftiEg moods of popular res tlessnesS,
or by an insfhcere play upon unrea soning
prejudice and selfish anticipation, but the
democratic party never.
Democracy has already in store the doc
trines for which it fights it's successful bat
ties and 1t will have them in store as long
as the people are kept from their own and
just as long as their rights and interests are
SACRIFICED by favoritis m in government care,
by inequality in government burdens, by the
encouragement of huge industrial aggrega-
ti2ns that throttle Individual enterprise, by
the reckless waste of public money and by
the greatest of all industries as it underiies
nearly all others, system of tariff taxation
whose robbing eXactiors are far beyond the
needs of economical and legitimate govern
ment expenditure, which purchases support
by appeals to sordi6ness and greed and
which continually corrupts the public con-
science.
What but infatuation with the visage
of defeat can explain the INSTRUMENTATION
of these things by democrats when they
prepare for battle?
Wants Platform Made Openly.
IF we are to have a rehabilitation ard
realignment of our party in the sense sug-
gested it is important that it be done open
ly and with no mystery or double meaning
Our people are too much on the alert 10 ac-
cept political deliverances they DO not un-
derstand; and the enthusiasm of the DEM
ocratic rank and file does not thrive on
mystery.
1.-THE democratic harmony of which we
hear so much cannot be effectively con-
structed by mathematical rule nor by