Show 0 THE RETURN OF DEMOCRACY The return of the Democratic Party to the control of the government after a ci period of twentyfour years the most I Irving period in our national life augurs well for the strength and stability of I Republican government It is another fund most emphatic declaration by the people that government in the United States of America is an institution created by them and taking its powers and being I tfrom them that the affairs of the government govern-ment are their affairs and that the officers elected or appointed to administer them will be retained and respected only Ii I too long as they are faithful and capable i President Cleveland as the chosen I leader of this return is a most worth I representative and is the legitimate and I rightful successor of the great Presidents of our early history He represents Democracy as it was in the days of its purity before the heresies of secession Lad brought upon it the reproach of being the party which sought t for power f that it might support oppression To read hi his inaugural address that in the r discharge of his official duties he will J endeavor to be guided by just and unrestrained un-restrained construction of the Constitu I tion and a careful observance of the distinction I dis-tinction petween tithe powers granted to i the Federal Government and those reserved I I I b served to the States and to the people is like a truth from out the works of Washington or from the pages of Jefferson Jeffer-son the sentiment has been so rarely uttered that it sounds like a voice from the tombs of the dead heroes of the past and has been heard so rarely that it seems unreal But the sound will be r heard often and the balance between the I powers of the General Government and the State Governments will be das d-as Our foreign policy will be based upon 1 11 the policy of Monroe and Washington and I 1 Jefferson and when treaties with Gut Gu-t ropean powers need modification they will not be ignored but the power with whom made will be respectfully invited to their reconsideration and if they are in nowise changed the plighted faith of the Nation will be kept until time shall release us The policy is not brilliant for ho brilliant man is not there I i The civil service of the country will be 1 M 1 upon the principle of reform in its L and aim and not merely upon its jm sigre letter Democrats will find their t reward for fidelity to the party in free government whose laws will be faithfully I and jus y administered whether the chosen ny < nts be Republicans or Democrats p Demo-crats cratsWith With t tl j < ivy there will also be and icvolul > n a-nd our men of war will be upon the iUiii and not forever upon the docks Tin strength will be such that an early shau in the East river shall Y not wreck them That our merchant marine will roomer some of its lost prestige I pres-tige and regain our carrying trade we sincerely belIeve That the carrying trade of our own commerce is the valuable valua-ble thing and the one most to be sought and encouraged and not the erroneous d h idea that the bottoms are to be constructed I con-structed in American dockyards at prices i beyond the wealth of our greatest millionaires I mil-lionaires will be recognized Mr Roach will we most fervently hope no longer be able to dictate who shall I I and who shall not own ships P The Democratic administration will not 1 undertake to make commerce and business J busi-ness where they are not They can but give l them encouragement and untramel I them from legislative fetters It is all that asked can be done it is all that can be |