Show JUDGED BY THE RECORD I could not say amen when they did saGo sa-Go bless us Wherefore could I not pronounce amen I had most need of blessing and amen I Stuck In my throat I We suspect that many gentlemen In I tho Southern States who this year will I inveigh against imperialism and will read the plank in the Democratic plat i form We declare again that all Governments Gov-ernments Instituted among men derive I their Just powers from the consent of tho governed that any Government not based upon the consent of the governed is a tyranny will feel as did Macbeth when he was most in need of blessing I but could not say amen So long as men like Senator Tlllman are able In the Senate of tho United States to boast of the success of the Southern States in disfranchising the colored men of that section so long as It takes thirty limes as many votes to elect a Congressman in New York as It does In Mississippi we take It that those people will not press the point that It is an unqualified tyranny to govern some people without the consent of the governed We take It that they will construe the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence as Jefferson did that when he said that all men are equal and entitled to certain inalienable rights he meant men with the intelligence to govern themselves He did not mean the wild tribes out in tho wilderness of North America he did not mean the slaves which he and the others owned He meant tho Intelligent men who with education with training and with high breeding have reached a point where they are capable of selfgovern ment And wo suspect that the first time Mr Bryan raises his voice to declare de-clare that imperialism Is the chlcfest plank in the platform that it is the paramount Issue this year If some gentleman gen-tleman asks him the simple question why it takes thirty voles in Nebraska to count for as much as one vote In Mississippi It will break In upon his theme We take it I that the people will remember that whenever Republicans have control there is always a free ballot and a fair count and when there arc not a free ballot and a fair count there are always Democrats In control This Impeachment of the party of freedom free-dom this noisy assertion that the men who have held tho ark and tho covenant of tho Republican party for fortyfour years at this lato date stand ready to betray the country will cause that talk before the autumn comes to grow weaker and weaker BO preposterous will It seem even to those who proclaim it And when Democrats are advocating something which they can find no Democratic precedent for when all their quotations arc from Linqoln and from Seward and from Sumner and the old first apostles of thd party they give away tho fact that there Is nothing In the history of their own party or their great dead leaders which gives any Justification for their words Further they excite a suspicion that inasmuch as they during the life lime of Lincoln assailed him with all the slangy epithets which they are now hurling at tho Administration it IH possible that their descendants In the grand scramble for ofllcc will repeat re-peat what their fathers are now doing They will thirty years hence be lauding laud-Ing what the Republican party did In 1000 while yet its ambition was lofty and its leaders were pure If any one can find that the Democrats have established es-tablished anything In the last forty years except their Incapacity to handle successfully the Government of the United States It will be worth while to hear the explanation It has not come yot we fear It never will dorfAzt rla and rent his rooms for 4 a day but he could not build a > sleeping sleep-ing car unless he could get a new invention in-vention superior to the Pullman and I should he then he would treat Tip Just as tho old company treats him now because tho rule of the world IB that most men take all they can get |