Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-01-05
DEFINING THE ISSUE.
THE MISSION OF THE DEMO,
ORA TIC PARTY.

The following article from the pen
of Senator Wallace appears in the Jan.
uary number of the North american
Reuiel0:
The events and processes of moro
than a generation have taken the con.
troll of governmental affairs away from
the intelligent rule of the masses and
vested it in power as yet formative
and underlined. Among these were the
civil war, the creation and peculiar
manipulation Of the public debt, re.
construction outside the Constitution,
universal negro suffrage, a plethora of
paper money, loose public morals,
enormous growth Of private fortunes,
and close connection of the Govern.
ment with the banking interest. Each
had its weight in sapping the founda.
tions of u Government by the masses,
and in shaping our course toward
different rule. Whether that rule is
to be suffrage, qualified and rarified, or
suffrage controlled by the power of
aggregated wealth monopoly, or
Senatorial oligarchy, or hereditary
Government, is beside the present in.
quiry, save as they each and all show
distrust of the people, and build their
foundations upon universal suffrage
debased, corrupted and dominated.
The tendency toward q so.called
stronger government is as manifest as
arc the causes that have given it form.
1t is in the nature Of things for govern.
ment to grow stronger at the expense
Of the governed but the plain proof
of the existence of this tendency is
found in the opinions of the federal
judiciary, in federal legislation over
matters heretofore within the control
ofthe people of the States, in the modes
OF execution of those statutes, by
which, local rule, local courts and per.
sonal liberty arc overtbrown, and in
that ramification Of executive patron
ago which sends its mandates to the
extremities, and at will gathers in
single hand enormous contributions and
unserupulous obedience from ninety
thousand paid officials. Executive
patronage WIN orihg US 10 q master
A network Of office holders bound
each TO the other, welding time and
money and power of place to pack
primaries, dictate nominations, crush
independent tnought ana actloh ana
suo1Tulila,o n. local coh'rol 10 the WIN oil
an Executive VINO governs IN the
name Oh party, points the road with
uherTing certainty 10 the END that
franklin, the wise man, predicted.
rurtner gulue'poarus on tnat ROAD are
seen 10 large uonalionS Oh money oy
monopVusts ana wealthy
men 10 supplement the power oil the
executive, ana carry elections IN
Ino interest Oh an aristocratlc class
VINO uislike anu u'ssrust .ne people !
W tne uon'lia''on VI empioyo ny en-
Pioyerj III tue marked oanot III 'he
.hlru.torlh canuiuacy anu pligrimageoh
inc stump; IN the Nationai ana La
Dor Dor organizations wnien arc put over
Noa'ous protests against TINS tehuency,
ana IN that illconcealeu oemaDu ior
ehcrgelis goYerhmeht men, wniclr mas oecn
'ne lunuaInTnlal n tnougnt Oh ,he op-
popeh's oi Democracy s'nco inc uays
Vi ~, Sonn Auans. ,oo ,ooo
ino 'ssues vi 10 anu ioVV hgMn
oon,r9h. .,! tno pcople. ING tneories oi
Una. uny are T again 70 struggle lVr the
,nIsseiy ,'in nv Iho g1vein.nops oi 'ne re.
pupno u "reaay ,oaoy oontra'zeu' ,r mhe
y ,, g, oi looo ', tcachcs 'nls. Inc
leuerM executive mas peeh ieIt from
lhe ward caucus 70 the vaults oi the
treasury IRON the primary 10 inc
rTesldentlal election, a hlgh Federal
oneiai quits MS place 10 take nom,
nation i9r uovernor o. the plvctai
o'ate, anu a. once .he i.Aecu,lVe arm
ls extended 70 n's support marsnais,
detectives, collectors, secretaries, ana