Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-06
EUREKA COMMUNICATION.

AN EDkELAA
~t;cor~e w. Baker Witldraws from
the democratic state Central
Commtttee and A. Democratic
Party-Hc Apologies for Having
belonged to u Faith Twenty
Years Thrusts ut President
Cleveland.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Vne1S1A. New, Nov. 5.-The following
| communication was published in to-day's
Enterprise: ,oo-
To Hon, j.. C. Hagerman, Chairman OF
| the Democratic State Central Committee:
I herewith hand you my resignation as a
| member Of your committee from Eureka
| county, and it is doubtless in order that l
| should briefly assign to you my reasons
for thus retiring, not only from the CON-
| mittee but also from the party with which
I have affiliated for the past 20 years. 1t
is a fact verified by the experience OF
mankind that our early education is, in
most instances, the chart by which our
political course in after life is ~navigated,
and having been schooled in the Demo-
cratic creed in boyhood and taught TO
revere the grand old traditions OF the
/ DArtV a0Q lb huClCbb lChuSi6J l. wa
launched into manhood a Democrat with
out exercising much choice in my po-
litical preferences, and was ever admon-
ished that the Republican party WAS not
| only the outgrowth of sectional antagon-
ism but dangerous to the perpetuity Of
| free institutions. Instillod with this prof.
| udice, and having entered the Democratic
| camp, il is not an easy matter for one to
| sever his connections and party a1fllia-
lions, even though his better judgment
| may dictate the wisdom Of such a course.
l have for many years felt that the Demo-
cratic party was not the enlightened and
progressive party of the country; That it
| had no great underlying principles, upon
which ii could 60 before the country and
| demand the respectful consideration OF
| the American people. 1t has been
for a quarter of a century the party
of traditions, it's stock in trade
consisting chiefly in achievements OF
its past leaders; but l am persuaded
hat no party can long survive simply
upon its history, and in this respect there
are many pages of Democratic history that
every Democrat, who Ia o lover of his
country and its free Institutions, would
gladly erase from the tablets Of his men,
Dry. Again, the Democratic party has for
the past 20 years, instead of adopting o
policy of its own, founded upon some liv-
ing principle, has simply acted tho part OF
an obstructionist, assailing year after year
the progressive policy of it's Republican
rival and then quietly accepting and act
ing upon that policy, when it becomes an
accomplished fact. Moreover, if it can be
truthfully said that the Democratic party
has any policy which it has manhood to
assert, it is the one aimed at the destruc-
ton of the national resources of the
country, o menace to our industrial In
terests and one which. if carried into
effect, would place our laboring classes
upon q level with the pauper workshops oil
the Old World. While it must Re ad'
mitted that such a measure known as the
Morrison Bill" was defeated in the
Democratic House last Congress, it must
also be borne in mind that a great major
ity of the Democrats supported the
measure, and il would no doubt have
passed that body we're it not for the fear
they entertained OF its effect upon the
country just before the Presidential can
vass, thus demonstrating that upon this,
ms we'll as most every other question, the
Democratic party, through its representa-
tives, does not possess courage OF its con
victions. With such a partyI must hence
forth decline to affiliate, and prefer tC
pitch my tent in the Republican
camp, whose past history may bt
referred to with honest pride. and whose
present policy is in keeping with it,
record. / am also convinced that thu
policy Of the present Administration, sc
far as the same can be controlled by III
Chief Executive and his subordinates
means the destruction of our paramount
industry in this State, and is in league
with the bankers of Wall street and thu
bondholders of the world. 1t may posi-
bly, be said that this is not o party issue
and that both parties in the East arr
united in the effort to discontinue thu
coinage of the silver dollar, but the Presi
lent is using all the machinery Of th,
Government to coerce his party into thu
adoption Of his views. and prior to his in
auguration we find him q willing tool IL
the hands of Eastern capitalists, issuing
manifesto to Congress in the hope to affec
adverse legislation upon the sill
Again, the present Administration
can scarcely be called Democratic. Thu
election of Cleveland was effected by th'
surrender Of the mugwumps and the dudes
OF the Republican party, and it is pain
fully evident to every Democrat hat hi
administration will be controlled by tina
element instead of an adherence TO th'
old Democratic traditions. II we are t.
have q President who is to be controlled
by any element in the Republican party,
, believe that every consistent Democra
would prefer that the nominee of tina
party should BIO elected rather than that
milk-and-water Democrat should win BY
Republican treachery, and as tho Demo
cratic party, so.called, has gone over Il
the self-constituted goody. goodies Of The
Republican party, I prefer to land square
ly into the Republican camp among the
rank and file, where / shall be hereafter
found. Yours truly, GEO. W. BAKER.
GonI xyufoH, WorIx a,.x CuoaE Dn.