The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-06-27


the burden of issues which have
been killed by the DEGREES of the
American people! Ought we not
to be fed upon something better
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.
SIN dealing with new issues we
of the Democratic faith are eX.
tremely fortunate in the sim.
plicity of Democratic standards
and the ease with which new
questions can be measured by
those standards. a party based
upon care for the interests of all
the people as their aggregate con.
dition demands, with no unjust
tav0ritism for any particular
class; a party devoted to the plan
of popular government as our
fathers ordained it and for the
purposes which they sought 10 eS
tabliSh: party whose conserva
tiSm opposes dangerous and un-
American experiments and yet
puts no barrier in the way of gen.
uine and safe progress, ought to
be able to deal with new questions
in manner quite consistent with
Democratic doctrine and Stimu-
lating to Democratic impulses and
Instincts.
LET us not forget, however,
that it is not in the search OF new
and gaudy issues. nor in the in
depreciation of strange visions
that strong and healthy Dem
ocracy displays its splendid power.
Another party may thrive on the
ever shifting treatment of the
ever shifting moods of popular
restlessness or by an insincere
play upon mreaSoning prejudice
and selfish anticipation; but the
Democratic party never. Dem
ocracy has already in store the
i doctrines for which it fights its
successful battles, and it will have
them in store as long as the peo-
pie are kept from their own, and
just as long as their rights and
| their interests are sacrificed by
favorltl>m in government care;
by inequality in government bur-
denS: 10y the encouragement of
huge industrial aggregations that
throttle individual enterprise; by
the reckless waste OF public money
aud by he greatest of all injuries.
as it undeIlies nearly all others
system OF tariff taxation whose
roObing eXactionS are far beyond
/ the needs Of economical and legit-
innate government expenditures,
which purchases support by APP
/ pealS to Sordiduess and greed and
which continually corrupts the
1 public conscience.
"Wh hat but intatuation with the
viSage OF defeat can explain the
subordination OF these Things by
Democrats when they prepare for
! battle.
'lf we are to have alehabilita-
ton and realignment of our party
in the sense suggested 1t is im-
portant that ii be done openly
and with no mystery or double
! meaning. people are too much
on the alert 10 accept political
deliYeranceS they do not under.
stand, and the enthusiasm OF the
Democratic rank and file does
not thrive on mystery.
"Democratic harmony, of which
We hear so much, cannot be etfec,
lively constructed by mathemati-
cal rule nor by a formal agree
ment on the part of those who
have been devided that there
shall be harmony. 1t grows up
naturally when true Democratic
principles are plainly announced,
when Democratic PURPOSES are
honestly declared, and when, as
"A result of these. confidence and
enthusiasm stir the Democratic
blood. 1t was such harmony as
this, growing out of such cOndi-
tions, which, with the battle cry
of 'Tilden and Retormn gave us
the Democratic victory of 1876
against odds great enough to dis
courage any but a harmonious
Democracy and against an oppos-
ing force brazen and desperate
enough to take from us by down
right robbery what the voters of
the land gave to us.
II 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 l
have a comforting and abiding
faith in the indestructibility of
the party which has so many
times shown its right to live and
its power for good"
The speech of Mr.. Hill was
along the same lines, brimful of
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