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14
VOLUME! 3, NUMBER 7.
DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY.
(Continued From Pago 1.)
tho nock of tho democratic party.
jGrovor Cleveland cannot come back
to tho party unropontant without driv
ing out ton votes for every voto that
ho can bring back.
What 1 say of him, 1 say of othor
mon who havo been conspicuous lor
their treachery; for their treachery not
bo much to tho ticket as to tho prin
ciples of tho democratic party.
: I boliovo in wolcoming tho prodigal
boh, while I havo had somo littlo sym
pathy for tho feeling of tho son who
did not go astray, and who could not
understand why when ho had stayed
at homo all tho time ho had no fatted
calf hilled for him, but reserved for
tho ono who had wasted his substance
hi riotous living while I have had, as
I say, somo littlo sympathy for him,
yet I recognized that there is for
glvonoss In tho human heart and that
it Is natural to welcome back thoso
who como back really sorry for what
thoy havo dono.
I think an old colored minister de
scribed this forgiving spirit very ac
curately. Ho said that the father saw
tho son coming back, that ho could
soo as tho son camo that ho was sorry.
Tho son had his head down, and ho
walked hesitatingly, almost ashamed
to look his father in tho face, ahd tho
fathor's heart went out to him, and
tho father hastened forth to meet him,
and tho son was glad and tho father
was glad. But, said tho colored
preacher, if tho son had como back
swaggering as if ho owned tho placo,
and had said to his fathor, "Wha's
dat caff?" do you supposo tho fatLer
would havo killed tho fatted calf for
"him?" That is tho way I feel about
-1 caro not what a man may havo
dono against tho democratic party, if
ho will como back sorry for what ho
has done, como back anxious to help
build up . the democratic party and
make it strong, strong in tho confi
dence of tho peoplo and in democratic
principles, I will turn butcher and
help kill tho fatted calf whon ho re
turns. But tho men who are reorganizing
tho democratic party through tho
nowspapers that did not support tho
ticket, these mon aro not coming back
as prodigal sons. They como back
boasting of what they havo doho.
Thoy come back, not to ontor tho
fathor's house, but to put tho father's
house on wheols, and movo it over
onto somo new ground that thoy de
mand tho right to select Thoy como
back saying that thoy are better demo
crats than tho peoplo who stayed at
homo. Thoy como back, not with
heads bowed down, willing to bo
servants in tho building up of tho
party, but thoy como back and seize
the fatted calf, and attempt to kick
out the faithful democrats who re
mained in tho house. That is tho way
thoy aro coming back.
But, my friends, thoso who talk
about reorganizing tho party mistake
tho sentiments of tho democrats who
havo sacrificed and suffered for their
principles if thoy think that thoy will
over bo allowed to tako possession of
tho democratic party again.
I boliovo that tho time is at hand
. whon tho democratic party can do
great things, but, my friends, it is
not by aping tho republican ways. Wo
havo not room for two republican par
ties in tho United States. Ono is
enough. If tho republican policies aro
right, it is presumptuous on our nart
Llf In nnd 8ny' "Wo llflve Just
found it out; now lot us administer
the offices." if thoy discovered before
wo did that those principles and poli
cies wcro good, wo ought not to in
fringe on tnoir patent.
1 boliovo tnat tno democratic par
ty's greatest opportunity, whetner you
predicate it upon high principles or
upon the low. ground of expediency, is
to stand erect and show what dem
ocracy really means. 1 believe that
there is an opportunity in this coun
try to present to tho peoplo higher
ideals than tho republicans aro pre
senting. I was delighted tonight to see the
largo number of. young men at our
public meeting. I want us to go out
and appeal to these young mon. I
want us to show them that the demo
cratic party Is their friend: that it
is championing their interests; that
wo aro trying to keep tho door of op
portunity from being closed against
these young men; that wo are trying
to mako it possible for thorn to reach
tho highest rewards in tho political
and industrial world.
And I boliovo you have here in
Delaware as good an opportunity as
they have anywhere in tho United
States to show what real democracy
moans. I have been talking with
somo of your people, and they tell me
that tho condition here has not beeh
exaggerated in tho public press; that
nowhere in tho United States have as
many peoplo been actually purchased
In proportion to tho total vote as in
Delaware. But, my friends, I am
afraid that tho democrats havo not
always been entirely free from blame.
I do not mean to say that tho demo
crats liavo approached tho republicans
hi tho number purchased, but I am
afraid that the democrats have not
always appealed, as they should have
dono, to tho conscience, while the re
publicans were appealing to tho
pocketbook.
I boliovo that tho fionSfifflnfn In ho
only thing that can he placed against
money. If you can awaken a con
science, no money can buy it It was
a conscience that made men stand
by the stake and smile as the flames
consumed them. Awaken that con
science and all tho money of all the
world cannot corrupt Delaware!
And instead of trying to "reward
people who are democrats for remain
ing democrats, or trying to purchase
republicans who can bo bought, let
your motto be that you do not want
a voto that has not behind it the heart
and the head of tho voter; that you
aro going to fight this battle on demo
cratic ground, and that you aro going
to purify politics in Delaware by set
ting the example, and Bhowing how a
campaign ought to bo run.
You cannot surpass tho republicans
in tho purchase of votes. You cannot
imitate their methods, and win. You
simply estop yourselves from criticis
ing them. Never until you sell tho
principles of tho party, can you get as
iuuu muuuy IOr campaign purposes as
thoy can. They can always offer five
or ton or even a hundred dollars for
every voto where you can offer one
dollar, and if you go into tho market
and bid against thorn, thoy can outbid
you every time. uuiuia
But if you say to them that you
ySudonrney ?r that purPse tEt
you do not want any person to vnr
your ticket because ho fa paid for i?
you will mako it an honSr to be a
democrat in Delaware. You may be
Inn rmb0rs.when you start but if
Pel you ImT and preach th,s
poi you will Increaso, and whon vnn
do got a voto it will' be a vote that
vo esd 1 yU W,H m, rtita
votes and mako yourselves an irre
sistible force in this communTty
You cannot adopt any othor course
Tell mo that you aro going on from
corruption to greater corruption? Toll
mo that thero Is no relief except In
furnishing more money than the re
publicans can furnish? 1 tell you
that that theory looks inevitably to
tho destruction of this republic, You
cannot have a republic long under
thoso conditions, and instead of imi
tating republicans and giving them no
reason to leave thoir party, set before
them a higher ideal, and go and ap
peal to tho consciences of those re
publicans, old men, middleraged men
and young men.
Organize your clubs, and when a
man joins, let him do as the old
Carthagenia'n general's child did when
his father brought him to the altar
and made him swear eternal enmity
to Rome. So when a man joins a
democratic club in this state, mako
him walk up to the altar and lay his
hand on it and swear eternal enmity
to corruption in politics. Let the
world know that the democratic party
in Delaware, however small it may
be, is a party of principles and con
victions. And I believe, my friends, that you
will bo surprised to find how many
republicans, alarmed at what is go
ing on in their party, will be glad
to find some place to go, where they
can act with ease of conscience, and
where they will not be under con
demnation for their own conduct.
And it may be, if you will do that, that
this will be the turning point in our
political history, that out of your con
troversy hero, out ot your disgraceful
condition here, will come the hope of
a better day, and that this corruption
having gono to the very limit, will
arouse the people to resistance, and
little Delaware will lead the way to re
turn to purity in politics.
You are small and some of the re
publicans now do not like small
states; they do not like to bring in
new territories because they are small
but, my friends, virtue is not meas
ured by the size of tho man or by the
size of the community that exhibits it.
Little Switzerland is not large, but
she has given lessons unto the world.
Little Switzerland is not powerful in
numbers or in physical strength, but
she is leading the way in many re
forms to the highest citizenship and
to tho best government
And so little Delaware, small in
numbers and in territory, may lead
tho way to purer politics.
I am glad to have been with you.
You owe me nothing; I owe you ev
erything. I never can pay the Ameri
can people for what they have done
for me, for while I do not assume
tnat those, who have voted for me
have voted for me as a personal com
pliment or that they hav3 placed me
under personal obligations for what
thoy havo done, yet I do mean to say
that the great struggling masses of
this country have given to me all I
have, or am, or hope to be, and all
my life, whether much or little re
mains, will be all too short to show
them how I appreciate what thev
have done,
All that I ask is for an opportun
ity to be in the fight until death takes
me from the scene'. All that I ask is
that where the fight is hottest and the
dinger greatest I may be permitted
to go, for no one has more reason that
I to make sacrifice or risk danger for
tho welfare of the people of this
country. 1H
As I havo seen men who have been
republicans all their lives breaking
the bands that have tied them to S
party sacrificing all the associations
that have grown up in a lifetime; and
order to follow their convictions; and
as these men have supported me in
my campaigns, they have convinced
me that it. Is Impossible to conS
of a situation so had as to be beyond
tho hope of relief. "yonu
If onr party will remain true in na
principles, If, without ylSSne n
temptation, It will prove to tu? rt
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publicans that there Is a party that
can be trusted, there will be multi
tudes of republicans who will turn to
this party. They will turn to it and
placo the government in Its hands.
Then this party, superior to tho
temptations that come from organized
wealth, will so revise the laws as to
place the burdens of taxation equit
ably upon the backs of tho people; so
reform our finances as to give the
country a financial system made by
the people for themselves; it. will drive
every private monopoly out of the
United States, and open tho door of
opportunity again to our young men.
And it will give to this nation a for
eign policy that will make people ev
erywhere lisp with gratitude the name
of Democracy, because it will mean
justice to people abroad as well as
justice to people here.
It was said in olden times that to
be a Roman was greater than to be a
king. And so I want us to. make the
word "democrat" so priceless, that to
be a democrat will stamp a man any
where any everywhere as one who
has principles that cannot he ' pur
chased with money, and purposes that
are above the measures of dollars and
cents.
Some Sort of Change .Needed.
Something is wrong with our su
perior civilization. A woman died
lately in a New York hospital from
starvation. When she collapsed sho
was standing in a line of prisoners
in a police court waiting to be tried
iirAre hieInous offehse of asking help
the streets for her extremity of
need. Professional begging is rightly
classed by the law as an offense
JS u 8,?Lety deserving of punish
ment, but there is some hauling over
or the law required when real and ab
ject poverty is dealt with as a crime.
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