The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-18

DuDltc liberty anu private IiSHl dHht tiSi-
| den down, and the material prosperity OF
! the country essentially impaired, justice,
| humanity. liberty and the public welfare
| demand that immediate efforts be made for
1 a cessation of hostilities. with view to an
| ultimate convention Of all the States, or
| other peaceabl means. to the end that. at
| the earliest practicable moment peace may
| be restored On the basis of the Federal
| Union Of the States.
| Demanded states Rights.
In another resolution the principles and
purposes of the Bemonts and Seymours
| Of 1864 were set forth in these tradi-
tional terms:
Resolved, That the aim and object of the
democratic party is to preserve the Federal
| Union and the rights of the States unim-
| paired, and they hereby declare that they
| consider the administrative usurpation OF
extraordinary and dangerous powers not
| granted by the Constitution, the subver-
sion of the civil by military law in states
not in insurrection, the arbitrary arrest
can citizens in States where civil law exists
| in full force. the suppression OF freedom
the right Of asylum. the open and avowed
| disregard of State rights. the employment
| Of unusual test oaths, and the interference
| with and denial Of the right Of the people
| to bear arms as calculated to prevent re-
storation of the Union and the perpetuatlon
of government deriving It's just powers
| from the consent of the governed.
| With the omission of a few phrases
having reference to the then prevailing
condition of war, there is nothing to dis
tipguish these utterances of the Demo-
cratic party forty years ago from those
of the same Bourbon party to-day. The
similarity of phraseology used to de-
nounce to declare and to demand; the
Invocation of the Constitution to pre-
serve rights and liberties from imaginary
perils of administrative usurpation, mill
tary subversion and individual invasion;
| the fictitious concern over non-exiStng
financial and industrial burdens-all go
to show that the Democratic party of
| 1904 stands in the same old shoes of
| 1864, snarling at the heels of the Re-
publican party which now, as then, is
doing things for the advancement peace
and prosperity of the people of the Uni
ted States
1t will be observed that in August,
1854, the Democratic party assumed to
| express the sense of the American peo-
ple' in it's arraignment of Lincoln and
the Republican party an assumption
which the American people in Novem-
Der promptly repudiated by the follow
ing vote:
Popular Electoral
| Lincoln and Johnson. .2,216O67 212
Mcclellan and Pendleton. 1,SUS,72o p
states not voting 81
Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey
were the only States in the slim Demo
| cratic column that year.
Same Old Cry.
Every four years since 1864, the Demo-
| cratic party has gone through the same
formula Of arraigning the Republican
party as the party Of unconstitutional
usurpation. fanaticism sectionaism, ex-
| travagance financial bankruptcy, cen
| tralization, corruption and abuse of pow
| er-and with two exceptions the Ameri-
can people have returned the same YER
| dict they did in 1864. In 1884 and 1892
certain exceptional conditions, for which
the Republican party was in nowise re-
| sponsible, caused the American people
| to lend trusting ear to the reiterated
| impeachment of the Republican admins
] tration. Cleveland's two terms were the
| result, both giving conclusive proof of
! the Incompetence of the Democratic
| party to administer the government eX-
| cept by adopting every Republican policy
and practice they had denounced.
| In Cleyeland's second administration
| the Democratic party attempted to re-
place the Republican tariff with mon
| grel mixture of free trade. class pro-
lection and special bounties. and then
| came to pass the very conditions of rev.
| enue deficits, social disorder and wide
| spread despair and misery of which the
American people had only dreamed under
| the spell of Democratic demagogy.
The restoration of Safety and Sanity
| in the administration of American af-
| fairs came with the election of William
MciAlnley in 1896. Since then the nation
has experienced Il period of prosperity
| unexampled in the history of the world.
| 1t has waged a successful war resulting
! in establishing liberty and popular
government in Cuba, in extending Ameri
| can freedom, justice and protection in
Forto Rico and the Philippines and in
advancing the United States to a power
full. almost a commanding place, in the
polity of nations.
Nothing like the national development
of these eight years has been known in
the past of the republic, and with it
have come worldwide responsibilities
and duties, as we'll as problems OF in
ternal government.
The Republican party within the Con-
stitution. without straining any of the
powers reposed in the Executive or Con-
gress, has met the demands of the hour
with courage, wisdom and success, to
which the chorus of Democratic declama-
ton, denunciation and demands pays the
highest tribute.
SO to-day in its history, its policies
and its candidates, the Republican party
appeals to the American people as the
party of achievement, of resources and
of the courage to grapple with every
new phase of national life. 1t is the |
party of sound principles safe finance and |
sane execution of the laws. The proof /
of its capacity to govern is written in the !
healthy progress of the United States |
during the past forty years. The guar
anty of its fitness to continue in the |
execution of that great trust is in the |
character and experience of it's leaders. |
Which Will You Trust: |