The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-05-26
Political Prospects.

From the american Register:
The Democratic party was never better, ITS
Coas mover worse armed for conflict. Inc
only advantage its enemies have consists IN
their tenure of plumber and power; the hrst
has corrupted the morals, the latter the forms
and facts of free government. Twenty-three
voore Of absolutism has begotten political de-
baucbery. and the Republic becomes a deS-
potism. A glded class OF plutocrats Shapes
legislation, sways the senate, corrupts the
house. pollutes the bench. A richly -pensloned
nobility dances about the White House; WINE
only subsistence is doed out to the true heroes
of battles. The public domain, won by tolls
and sacrifices of common soldiers III Mexico
and Inv the statecraft of Jefferson, is taken
from the people and transferred to halt hun
dred Huntingtons and billions, while revenue
and banking systems, fastened upon popular
industry. breed myriads of tramps and beg
CARS on the one hand and gorgeous arls-
tocracy on the other. Splendorand opulence
crown the governing class; rags and penury
the toilers in mills and mines and fields. In
twenty years of absolutism pseudo Repubh-
canism has instituted in free America every
vice of society and government that distin-
cuisines hoariest despotism of the old world.
Even Africans, given the ballot that the SUI
premacy of the party ia power might be CON
tinued and perpetual, confess the wees OF their
self-styled benefactors, and white men, as
never before, are aroused to a sense of dan
gers impending over their liberties and their
rights as industrial and political factors. The
pendulum of popular impulse and passion,
thrust violently toward Capitalization and I'M
perialism by secessionism, now moves back
ward toward federalism, as distinguished from
consolidation on the one hand and dlslntegra-
ton ON the other, and in the surely coming
triumph of the Democracy the original union
of free States, as instituted by our fathers, will
be REPRODUCED At that point the pendulum
of which we were telling, will stand still, until,
we would fain hope, time shall be no more
| 1t was peoples governments; 1t must again
! be a peoples government TO restore it to
| them is the mission of our party. To govern
themselves is their right.
/ If at any time they govern themselves un-
wisely it is their misfortune. Their present
task -maskers must and will be uncrowned.
With what degree Of earnestness the people
contemplate these facts and necessities, and
/ how thoroughly the spirit and purposes of our
fathers, who, in fighting for colonial indepen-
dence, fought for perfect local and individual
freedom, is reproduced, is illustrated in the
eagerness with which the reproduction in these
pages of Jef1ersonian philosophy is accepted
/ bv the press of the country as represented IN
the catalogue of our exchanges given IN sub
seQuent pages of the Register. The press and
people are recurring, as never before IN our
time, to first principles as never before, since
Jefierson's theories were moulded into facts
and forms of republican institutions and re-
publican freedom, do the people study these
facts and accept this philosophy. To those
who have reached maturity since 1860 1t is a
new revelation; to the aged the reproduction
of delightful visions of the past realized in
their youth. The whole country discovers in
propositions enunciated by the Democratic
party the overthrow of detestable oligarchy
and restoration of the republic of our fathers.