The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-04-12
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
THEV ARE REPRESENTED By
BAY ARD AND McDONALD.
But Not by the Presidential Move
ments which Initiate Republican
Methods to Secure the Presidency.


Methods to Secure the Presidency.
Special Correspondence Of The CHRONICLE.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-There is un-
dOubtedly a movement organized TO push /!
Payne and Flower for the Democratic nom
nations. 1t proceeds upon some such
presumption or theory as this
Payne, with his candidacy bottomed
upon his own wealth and the immense
capital of the Standard Oil Company
brings into this political partnership the
States Of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Flower
a New York banker, brings the State of
New York, under and through the recent
reconciliation and coalition Of the Irving
Hall and the John Kelly Democracy in
other words, this ticket means that the
Democratic party no longer considers it
self the friend of the people, or the party
of the people, or the guardian Of the peO-
pies rights no longer considers itself the
fixed and unpaid advocate of our peculiar
system Of government which should re
main as the fathers left it and that in
! the future this party intends to get the
offices, even if by the means used for that
| end the organic nature of the government
| is changed forever
The changes being daily wrought in the
| construction of our governmental systems
| by judicial decisions and monopolies
| through the use and influence of money
are directly perceptible to Observant and
reflective men, and are much more radical
| than those by statutory enactmentS or
constitutional amendments. They are
silently building up monied aristocracy
which will not down until it attempts to
secure in some way the reality-lpSoftt fttctO.
| This Pavne- Flower movement Is a very
| serious enterprise-all the more serious
because its leaders and planners are act
ing for the present and its benefits,
regardless of its consequences to their
party and its principles. 1t means
| this The Republican party has demon
| strated by the use of money in maintain
| ing their hold on the government, that the
people no longer walk in the old paths or
believe in the old faiths, and that the
courts decide every doubtful case against
the people and against the spirit and let
ter of the written constitution protecting
the political rights of the people, in favor
Of corporations and monOpolies, and there
fore the Democratic party, under the
leadership Of this ticket, will get control
Of the government by the same means,
and administer in the same interests and
| for the same purposes.
There is no sense in being crOaker or
maudlin sentimentalist about rights or
| wrongs. All such public movements and
party cries are generally started by the
old maids Of political parties who keep
their virtue because no one VIII take 1t.
But this combination has detC rmned to
| go into this campaign with the methods of
the Republican party, on the seductive
practice that there is in reality no differ
ence between the two parties, except that
the one is i'll and the other is out, and
having adopted the methods of the Re-
publican party, and living by them as a
rule of action, there will be no difference
in reality between the parties in princi
pie.
There is difference And it is the
difference between a constitutional and
limited monarchy whether in reality or in
substance under a centralized government,
and a Democratic government admins
tered under and according to a fixed,
written constitution with economy and
honesty.
Bayard, Of Delaware and Mcdonald,
of Indiana, represents this difference and
no other men in the Democratic party do
represent it in SO positive and reliable a
way They have been weighed in the bal
ance and not found wanting. The Payne
movement begins and ends in corruption
and directly aids the ulterior designs of
the corporations and monopolies.
: The people at large do not trust the
Democratic party because they can see no
2 straight path cut by it and no evidence
IL
no policy in the past except to get into
| office, and this PayneFlower movement
is the climax to the past. 1t nominated
Greeley and oh the political debauchers of
that movement Then came Tilden and
following an honest election continual
1 cry of fraud instead of work to right
l that great wrong !; then a military man tC
catch the war spirit forgetful how it had
cried like baby over the bloody shirt
and now comes this Payne-Flower move
ment, foul with corruption and in its de-
sign and source, a reflection on the party
l and an insult to the people. You have
/ not forgotten the saying of Jugurthf
4 when leaving Rome, ne stood on the brow
4 of one of her hills and looked back over
a the venal city. With Bayard and Nc
s Donald in this fight, the people will have
f one more chance to vote for men who art
, in truth statesmen and honest men, &C
: quainted with every detail of our govern
r and its practical administration. 1t broad
v ems a man S intellect. strengthens his nerve
and muscularizes his character to stan(
g for the right simply because it is right
S when others desert it for money.
u Bayard and Mcdonald will make tn,
f contest one Of honest economical govern
ment under the constitution against ever,
e evil and corrupt force and power and in
It fiuence now at work in public affairs il
), this country, whether relative to the yer,
9 nature or the administration of the gov
; ernment through its various departments
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