Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — Democratic Principles. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Principles.

Speaking of Democratic principles, Comptroller Lckels said in ins speech before the Democratic editors of New York that “they are so few in number as to b* stated in a single sentence, and yet so comprehensive as to form the sis ot the right conduct of this government of 65,000,000 people. They found their birth in the wisdom of the fathers of the party and from that day to this they have been voiced in every Democratic platform, sanctioned by every Democratic leader of commanding importance and vindicated by every Democratic chief executive from Thomas Jefferson to Grover Cleveland . VV hen you have stated that the will of the people is always to govern, local selfsgovernment always maintained, guaranteed individual right neither taken from nor denied to the ci f izen by legislative or executive act, the best govarum ;nt the one which governs least, the taxing powers to be exercised equally and impartially, raising no more revenue than necessary to meat the expenses of ths gove-nment and pay th„ public debts, and a fiuanci il and monetary system upheld which guards sacredly the public credit and makes each dollar which bears the government imprint or sanction worth a dollar, you have written the whole democratic creed.