The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-20

with new questions in a manner quite
consistent with Democratic impulses
and instincts.
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 strong and
healthy Democracy displays its splen-
did power. Another party may thrive on
the ever shifting treatment of the ever
shifting moods of popular reStlessneSs.
or by an insincere play upon unreason-
ing prejudice and selfish antlc1pS ton.
but the Democratic party. never. De
mocracy has already in store the doc
trines for which it fights its successful
battles, and it viii 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
faVOritism in government care, by Inc
quality in government burdens, by the
encOura cement of huge industrial ag
gregations that throttle individual en-
terpriSe, by the reckless waste of pub
lie money and by the greatest of all in
juries. as it underIies nearly all others.
q system of tariff taxation whose ltb-
5ing exactions are far beyond the needs
Of economical and legitimate govern
ment expenditures, which purchases
support by appeals to sOrdidness and
greed and which continually corrupts
the public conscience.
What but infatuation with the Wis
age Of defeat can explain the sllbor-
una lion III THESE lAl4l3S Dy 0CAuOCE Alc
when they prepare for battle? If we
are to have a rehabilitation and realign-
ment of our party in the sense suggest
ed, it is important that it be done open
" and " it'll no mystery of double mean
ing. Our people are too much on the
alert to accept political deliverances
they do not understand and the enthus-
iasm of the Democratic rank and file
does not thrive on mystery.
The Democratic harmony of which we
hear so much cannot be effectively con-
strueted by mathematical rule nor by
formal agreement on the part of those
who have been divided that there shall be
harmony. It grows up naturally when
true Dem Ocratic PRINCIPLES are plainly an
nouneed, when Democratic purposes are
honestly declared, and. when, a
suit of these, confidence and enthusiasm
stir the Democratic blood 1t was such
harmony as this, growing out of such
conditions. which, with the battle cry
Democratic victory Of 1876 against odds
great enough to discourage any but
harmonious Democracy. and against an
opposing force brazen and desperate
enough to take from us by downright
robbery what the voters of the land gave
Il believe the times point to another
Democratic opportunity as near at hand,
but believe we shall reap the fruits of It
only by following the line of conduct /
have indicated. In any event I have
comforting and abiding faith in the indie
many times shown its right to live and its
power for good. and lam sure the reserve
of patriotic Democratic wisdom viii at
some time declare itself in the rescue of
our country and our party.
My days of political taicivty are past,
and [ shall not hereafter assume to par
tieipate in party councils. I am absolute
ly content with retirement, but I shall
have one burning, anxious political as
piration. I want to see before / die the
restoration to perfect health and suprem-
acy of that Democracy whose mission II
is to bless the people-a Democracy true
to isself, interrupted by clamor, unmOved
by the gusts Of popular passion ana un-
corrupted by offers of strange alliance;
the Democracy of safety, the Democracy
of Tilden and the Democracy that de-
serves and wins success