The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-19
Cleveland Sees Canaan
Awaiting Democracy.
ENTER 1T, HE CRIES
But Take the Road Have Marked
Out. Else Ye Return to Your
Wandering in the Wilder
ness. |. the Seer. Have
Spoken.
(By the Associated Press.)


Philadelphia. Pa, Feb lin an article
written for this weeks Saturday Evening
Pest former President Cleveland urges
his rank and file associates of the
Democratic party to unite and take ac-
vantage of the opportunities of next Ne
velnber
81 am one of those" he writes, who
believe that there is an opportunity
FOR Democratic success in the coming
Presidential election.
Through attachment 10 the party in
winch | am enlisted and an intense de-
sire for its ascendoncy make such BELIEF
exceedingly welcome, they certainly don't
create it. 1t is built upon an urshaken
and abiding trust in the patriotism ami
Intelligence of my fellow count,ymen >
Mr.. Cleveland's paper opens with a
reiteraton OF the declaration that he
made three years ago:
Cur fighting forces will respond ls..
lessly and falteringly if summoned to IL
third defeat in a strange cause; but if
they hear the rallying call of true Dem
ocracy they will gather for battle with
cid time Democratic enthusiasm and
confage."
Referring to his faith in his Democratic
associates, he continues:
This trust will not permit me to over
look the meaning of the daily increasing
unrest among our people, growing our
ii the startling and fippant abandonment
by the party of national traditions and
Elaxms; its disregard of our national re-
snGints, its inconsiderate tendency to set
aside national good faith, it's Willingness
TO break away from safe and accustomed
noonngs, and its contemptuous neglect
of our national mission. Surely these
conditions, together with the broken
pledges and forgotten promises of re-
form that veX the sight on every side
not only abundantly explain the popular
dis.rust and fear prevailing everywhere
IN the land, but I submit that in such
stress of political weather those Of our
fellow citizens who thoughfully and con-
stantly love our free institutions will not
be unmindful of such safety and quiet
as may be offered them by patriotic
aid conservative Democracy"
Mr.. Cleveland thinks the conditions jus
t'iy the assertion OF Democracy's oppor
tunity. He says
1T should be remembered, however,
that opportunity may be only distantly
related to actual accomplishment, and
that it does not of itself. unaided and
alone, warrant the expectation of reach
ing successful results.
This is no time for cunning finesse,
not for the use of words that conceal
intentions or carry a double meaning.
The Democratic party has message to
send TO its followers and to the masses
OF the American people. Let that mes
sage be expressed in language easily under
stood, unconfused by evasion and I'M
touched by the faint of jugglery. Obso-
lete issues and questions no longer chal-
longing popular interest should be man.
fully abandoned.
Mr.. Cleveland urges tariff reform. pleads
for economy in the expenditure of public
money, and charges the opposition with
having made promises and broken them
He arraigns the Administrators Philip
pine policy and refers to the isthmian
canal in these words:
THE Democratic party has been consist
ent and unremitting in its advocacy of an
inter- oceanic canal, and has with the
hvelest satisfaction looked forward to
the day when such a highway of COM
merce. built under the auospces of our
government, would be contributed by
America to the worlds progress and civil
llZatlcn. 1t is, nevertheless, not within
the mandates of the Democratic creed
that, even in concentrating so noble an
enterprise as this. the territorial rights
OF any other nation should be disregarded,
or that our own national good faith