The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-06-27

"Expediency Never Got a Nation Any
thing" He says-Themas Jefferson
No Westrer Vane-What the De-
moeraey SheuId Do.
Governor Johnson was the principal
speaker ut the jefferson day dinner in
Louisville. lie WAS received with
cheers. He said In part:
Il realize. my friends, that on the
grounds of expectancy executives are
sometimes prone TO temptation to do
things which are not justified by the
written law Of the country | believe
that the written law OF the country has
Il majesty which compels the alegi-
anee of every man who lives under the
government. and | should like to see
the time come in this country again
when we were willing TO abide 10y the
constitutional forms of government
and not be ruled by those eXpedients
which change with the tides. | remem
Der, In the history of Henry of MI
varre that phmed knight who led the
hosts from Que camp to another fight
ing for sacred cause. when he he
came king 1T France, on the ground
of eXpedieney he renowned the Old
faith aud took mp new which he had
been fighting. and what became Of the
people by whom and with whom he
had been lighting all the years of that
turmoil aud trouble? They disappear.
ed as the dew before the morning sun.
and the Huguenot had to come to
America 10 live.
"Expedieney never got nation any
thing; it never got Il people anything;
II never Will get the Democratic party
anything When the Democratic party
In its national convention plants Its
cause upon the ground of eXpedipncy
and adopts platform based on eXpe-
diency it cannot win and 1t ought not
to win. What we want today Is to 20
before the people with patriotic man.
ly declaration and ask for the concur
renee of the people in that declaration.
The Democratic party has not always
been worthy of Thomas jefferson. but
he has always been worthy Of the
DcIbONl dli0 itil9 III was NbiNuy vi IT
because he WAS not II weather vane in
politics. He was there yesterday and
tomorrow, and If the Democratic party
Is to build wisely and well 1t will
stand by Thomas Jefferson and the
things he stood for and abate the
wrong wherever ii might exist.
IL know ii may be long road to the
victory which we all want to see come.
If we have the patience to endure IT, II
we have the faith that ought to be IN
us and if we have the lntrepidity
which ought to be characteristic of Il
Democrat we will get there. remem-
Der a few years ago that ! stood with
my Wife overlooking Puget sound, |
heard much of the place. and | wanted
to see 1t first from the Mount Rainier
side. We went over there one Of those
misty days when the bay was over
cast We hadn't anything to do down
town, and we went and stood aud
looked from Mount Rainier. A half
hour, an hour perhaps. had passed.
we NcIG dpout itduy " SlNO w anu 50
back to town when suddenly the
clouds began to separate. My wife
said to me. There is the mountain.
| said: No; it Is not In that direction,
1t is over here She said: You are
mistaken. 1t is there. said to the
driver, Where is Mount RalnIerY He
said, over there felt Endorsed.
Suddenly the clouds began to break
away, the gloom disappeared, and the
sun broke through and sent its slantlng
light down on the snow capped peaks
Of the Olympic mountains, 100 miles
away. We saw the glory of heaven
reflected upon the mountains of Olym-
pus, and they were greater and better
and brighter than those over yonder,
If we shall stand long enough and look
for the sunlight to shine through the
clouds of gloom and do our share to
lift the clouds, we will see the noun
tain of Olympus. and we will be able
to get up there on the summit and
look down into the caves of gloom
where we once had lived, and we will
see bright and glorious the heavenly
triumph of the Democracy Of united
nation"