The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-06-24

fashion l believe it will be p1oduc-
tive of the best kind of Democratic
harmony.
"In dealing with new issues we of
the Democratic faith are extremely
fortunate in the simplicity of Demo-
cratic 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 condition
demands, with no unjust favoritlsm
for any particular class; a party de-
voted to the plan Of popular govern
ment as our fathers ordained it and
for the purposes which they sought
to establish; party whose conserva-
tlsm opposes dangerous and un-
American experiments and yet puts
no barrier in the way of genuine and
safe progress, ought to be able to
deal with new questions in manner
quite consistent with Democratic
doctrine and stimulating to Demo-
cratic impulses and instincts.
LET US not forget, however, that
it is not in the search of new and
gaudy issues, nor in the interpreter
tion of strange visions, that strong
and healthy Democracy displays it's
splendid power. Another party may
thrive on the ever. shifting treatment
of the ever shifting moods of popu-
lar restlessness or by an insincere
play upon unreasoning prejudice and
selfish anticipation-but the Demo-
cratic party never. Democracy has
already in store the doctrines for
which 1t fights it's successful battles
and it 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
favoritism in Government care
by inequality in Government bur-
dens, by the encouragement of huge
industrial aggregations that throttle
individual enterprise-by the reck-
less waste of public money-and by
the greatest of all injuries as it un-
derlies nearly all Others, a system
of tariff taxation whose robbing ex-
actions are far beyond the needs of
economical and legitimate Govern
ment expenditure-which purchases
support by appeals to sordidness and
greed, and which continually cor
rupts the public conscience.
"What but infatuation with the
visage of defeat can explain the sub
ordination of these things by Demo-
Gratis when they prepare for battle?
IF we are to have a rehabilitation
and realignment of our party in the
sense suggested it is important that
it be done openly and with no mys-
terry or double meaning. Our peo-
pie are too much on the alert to &C.
cept political deliverances they do
not understand, and the enthusiasm
of the Democratic rank and the file
does not thrive on mystery.
"The democratic harmony OF
which We hear so much cannot be
effectively constructed by mathemat-
ical rule, nor by a formal agree
ment on the part of those who have
been divided that there shall be har-
mony. 1t grows naturally when the
true Democratic principles are plainly
announced, when Democratic pur-
poses are honestly declared and
when, as a result of these, confidence
and enthusiasm stir the Democratic
blood. 1t was such harmony as this,
growing ont of such conditions,
which with the battle cry of "Tilden
and Reform" gave us the Democratic
victory of 1875 against odds great
enough to discourage any but har-
monious Democracy and against an
opposing 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 an
other Democratic opportunity as
| near at hand; but I believe We shall
reap the fruits of it only by follow
ing the line of conduct l have in
dicated. In any event 1 have
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, and
am sure the reserve of patriotic
Democratic wisdom will at some time
declare itself in the rescue Of our
country and our party.
my days of political activity are
past and l shall not hereafter assume
to participate in party councils.
| am absolutely content with retire
ment, but | still have one burning,
anxious political aspiration. I want
to see before I die the restoration 10
health and supremacy of that Demo
cracy whose mission it is to bless the
people-a Democracy true to itself,
untempted by clamor, unmoved by
the guest of popular passion and
incorruptible by offers of strange
alliance the Democracy of ratriot-
lsm-the Democracy of safety-the