Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-03-02

quent conduct of affairs there may
and probably were mismanaged by
the Republican party, and not SO
well conducted as might have been
the case had the Democratic party
been i'm control of the national
Government, and there would no
doubt have been some reprehensi-
BILE things done by the Democrats
like some of the many evil things
done 10y Republican authority -es-
pecially since the assassination of
Mr.. Mckinley. The morality of the
acquisition of the Philippines is
questionable, but it is well to bear
in mind that there is contrariety
of opinion on this whole subject,
not confined to either Democrats
or Republicans.
when our Government en-
tered upon a war for the professed
purpose of aiding to self-govern-
ment and releasing from foreign
rule struggling people whose cries
for liberty were heard at our very
doors, it rallied to its enthusiastic
support a nation of freemen, in
whose hearts and minds there was
deeply fixed 10y heredity and ira
dition the living belief that all Just
powers of government are derived
from the consent of the governed. :"
Upon the question of the 18th
milan Canal, he insists that all the
methods of our Government in the
accomplishment of this great work
shall be clean and free from the
faint of national wrong-doing, and
that justice or reaSonableneSS Of
such conflicting claims and con
tested authority as may grow out
of the steps already taken for the
location and construction of the
Panama Canal shall be regarded in
a spirit of broad Cancellation and
with ready and scrupulous care for
the dictates of international moral
ity as well as the rules of interna-
tional law Upon the sequences
naturally flowing from this thought
he further fittingly remarks:
1t is not my purpose to reca-
pitulate all the topics that should
find a place in Democracy's mess
age to the people. but rather to
mention some of those that ought
not TO be omitted. They are such
rs involved an appeal to the moral
sense of our countrymen and to
their love of the elevating and en-
nobling qualities of American free
institutions. If the rising wave of
SordidncsS Is to bc allowed to
drown this moral sense. and if the
peoples attachment to our free in
stitutions is only such as has Its
origin in present or anticipated
selfish advantage. Democracy can
not hope to dislodge existing Gov
ernnent control"
Near TO the conclusion of this
message to the Democracy he gives
us another chunk of wisdom in a
very brief paragraph. He says
Il believe the time of need is at
hand, and that our countrymen's
love of national morality should be
invoked; and | believe the Ameri-
can people, conscious of danger.
will heed the rallying CRY of true
Democracy if they are made sure
that peace and safety lie in that
direction.
In the foregoing the COURIER
has given as succinct a statement
of the views of our distinguished
eX-President as we trust will make
clear to the reader the instructions
as Democrats we are to absorb, and
by which our great party Is to be
governed in the national campaign
of this year. The hope that this
year will bring fruition to The
Democracy's Opportunity" is very
strong in the heart of our great
fellow-citizen, if the conduct of the
party in the campaign shall be
upon the broad, national, conserv-
alive, rational lines indicated in
Mr.. Cleveland's able statement of
the case.
In connection, however, with
this subject, it will no doubt strike
others as it has us, that during a
service of eight years in the Presi-
dental office that these wise and
excellent things laid down now for
our guidance were not so incorpo-
rated into as to become distinguish
ing features of his two terms OF
office as President. Although not