The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-20

democratic faith are extremely fortunate
 in the simplicity of democratic standards
 and the ease with which new questions can
 pc measured by those standards. A party
 based upon care for the interests Of all the
 people as their aggregate condition ue-
 mahds. with no unjust fayoritism Tor any
 particular class; party devoted to the pan
 or popular government as our fathers or
 dained 1t, and for the purposes which they
 sought to establish party whose consef-
 Vatlsm opposes dangerous and un-Amerlcan
 experiments, and yet puts no barrier m
 the wal of genuine and safe progress, ought
 to be able to deal with new questions In d
 manner quite consistent with democratic doctrines, and stimulating 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 interpretation of strange visions that q strong and healthy democracy displays thrift on the ever shifting treatment of the ever shifting moods of popular restlessness, or by an lnsincere play upon unreasonlng prejudice and selfish anticipation; but the democratic party never Democracy has already in store the doctrines for which It ghts 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 favor in government burdens, by the encourage ment of huge industrial aggregations that throttle individual enterprises, by the reck- less waste of public money, and by the greatest of all injuries as it underlies near ly all others, system of tariff taxation whose robbing 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 con science.
 What but infatuation with the visage of defeat can explain the subordnation of these things by democrats when they pre- pare for battle?
 If we are to have q rehabilitation and re- alignment 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 to accept political deliyerances they do not understand; and the enthusiasm of the democratic rank and file does not thrive on mystery
 believe the times point to another demo- cratic opportunity as near at hand: but l believe we shall reap the fruits of it only by following the line of conduct I have indicated. In any event have comforting and abiding faith in the indestructability of the party which has many times shown its right to live and its power for good; and am sure the reserve of patriotic demo itself in the rescue of our country and our party.
 My days of political activity are past, and l shall not hereafter assume to parti- cipate in party councils l am absolutely content with retirement; but I still have one burning, anxious political aspiration. want to see before 1 die the restoration to perfect health and supremacy of that democracy whose mission 1t Is to bless the people-a democracy true to itself, un- tempted by clamor, unmoved by the gusts of popular passion and uncorrupted by offers )t strange alliance-the democracy of pat riotlsm, the democracy of safety, the demo 2racy of Iiden, and the democracy that deserves and wins success.
 At the point in his speech where MT. Cleveland announced his absolute re- tirement from politics the crowd yelled No, No. No"
 Senator David B. Hill, who spoke | next, was received almost as enthusias- | tically as MT Cleveland. MT. Bowling | in introducing him said: MT. Hill is | -o-day the recognized leader of his par y in New York state and under his | guidance and leadership we are confi- 1 F+