Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
DEMOCRACY DEFINED
MR.. CUSHMAN OF WASHINGTON
DELIVERS ANOTHER SPEECH.
At Its Conclusion His State Conven-
ton dominates Him for Third
Term.

Representative Francis w. Cushman of
Washington has delivered himself of an
other of his scintiating oratorical efforts.
The speech was delivered before the state
convention of Washington, and soon as
it was concluded Mr.. Cushman was renom-
mated for a third term with great enthu-
siasm. Mr.. Cushman's speech dealt with
the general political situation, with the
democratic party and with its leaders. In
unique expression and word pictures he
kept entirely up to his reputation.
Leading up to the declension of the word
democracy as a noun Mr. Cushman hurl-
ed this paragraph al his hearers:
Democracy, a noun, singular in form,
congomerate as to person, neuter in gen
der, never in the nominative, seldom in the
possessiye and always in the objective
case"
From the word democracy Mr.. Cushman
turned his attention to the party represent
ed by that word.
What of the democratic party he ask
ed. who are their heroes and where are
their idols? What escutcheon records their
fame? What inches hold their statues?
What urns have garnered their ashes, and
on what affairs burn their incense?
I'm forty years of prophecy and four
years of performance they have builded no
monument greater or more enduring than
a whitewashed idol that would not stand
the Misunderstanding of one campaign.
Leaders of Democracy.
"In all these years of the nations great
ness who have been the chosen leaders of
democracy? What great names have they
handed down?
Buchanan, Cleveland and Bryan!
Buchanan, who planted his throne on
the crumbling walls of a holding oil
garchy Who in his later days permitted
a rebellion to tester in the Eltals
of a republic. Buchanan, whose last Of
fetal orders before he left the White House
scattered the army and navy of the Union
and transported the munitions OF war INTO
rebelious territory so that when Abraham
Lincoln stepped across the threshold OF the
White House he faced armed rebe lion
with bare heroic hands. That rebellion
swept Buchanan, his party and his instltu-
ton into chaos and obloquy.
Next came Grover Cleveland. Do you
recall that name? There some names
In my country's history that when ut
tered, always inspire me to take off my nat.
Whenever | hear the name of Grover
Cleveland 1 am always stirred by an ire
sistible impulse to feel my stomach, After
thirty years of strenuous, continuous and
calamitous campaigning up and down a
land blessed with plenty, Cleveland and his
prophets of evil convinced the American
people that the system of protection was,
after all, a failure.
Next came William J. Bryan with his
free-trade heresies and his fiat fallacies
lie stands for turmoil and disorder in the
niarts of trade and in the realm Of in
analysis, proclains the startling doctrine
that if we take one-half of a mans en-
ployment away from him by a free-trade
law, and one-half of his wages away from
him through a free coinage law and a de-
preciated dollar, that you have thereby
vastly benefited the man,
He is trampng up and down the earth
today, harping molderng string like
the minstrel of old. He is prophesying evil
and proclaiming disaster in nation more
blessed with general industry and national
prosperity than any portion OF the Garth
or any of the children of men.
Bryan has talked from ocean to ocean,
and everywhere he has talked he has wit
messed in the prosperity of the country the
ed and the refutation of every statement he
ever made.
Where the Republican Party Stands.
THE other day a man said to me: 'Cush-
man, where does the republican party stand
today?
I'll tell you where the republican party
stands:
1T stands besides the nations industries
above our soldiers graves and underneath
our country's flag.
Our soldier boys have been brave enough
to stand before the guns of the nations
enemies. Let us be brave enough to stand
behind them.
IF they have been brave enough to stand
before the guns of the nations enemies on
the burning sands of Luzon, surely we are
brave enough to stand before the mouths
of the nations enemies here at home!
The wonder to me is not that a majority
of the American people are republicans l
marvel in the light of my country's history
that they are not all republicans.
when you read the platforms of the re-
publican party you are reading the proof
sheets of then unpublished American his
tory.
when you read the democratic platforms
YOU are reading political fiction, Baron
Munchausen, Gullver's Travels, The Fairy
Stories of Hans Christian Anderson and the
Arabian Nights-you are reading the fairy
tales of all American politics
When you read the republican platform
you the faces of Lincoln and of Grant;
you listen to the emancipation proclama-
tion and you hear the thirteenth amend
ment You hear the rattle of breaking
manacles falling from the limbs of slaves.
You hear the battle hymns of the republic
you see the glory of the stars and stripes
and the dignity of independence of Ameri-
can labor.
when You read the democratic platforms
you see the faces of Jefferson Davis and
James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland and W.
]. Bryan. You read the declarat lions of
might against right. You read of the flu
gitive slave law and the bills of sale to a
part of humanity. You read of secession
and rebellion. you read of panic and disas-
ter. the reputation of national obliga tions,
the debasement of the nations currency
the starvation of American labor and the
hauling down of the American flag"
ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY