The Forrest City times., 1888-05-26
Democrat. in r.rsee. Unity.

American politics have never pre- sented a more admirable spectacle than the spontaneous regularity of movement with which the Democrats of state after state wheel into line be- hind President Cleveland for the pitched battle that is to be fought to decide the destiny of the party and the history of the country. They move with all the precision of trained soldiers. There Is no indication of doubt; no questioning of issues; no hesitancy; no toleration of faction anywhere. The rebuke to faction was not less em- phatic in New York than in Georgia. Everywhere the masses of the party insist on drawing the lines tight against demagogues and machine politicians who oppose themselves to party prin- ciples and the leader the party has created to represent them. There has not been Since lS60 an election on which so much depended; there has not been since 1882, when Andrew Jackson was elected the second time, such popular movement as that which is now going on in the Democratic party. Nothing could have produced 1t but a general and deep-seated feeling that crisis has been reached when great issues are to be decided and the policy of the government shaped for many years to come. If the Democratic party could be repudiated and driven from power now it's future and the future of the country would be gloomy indeed, for not only do the Republican, leaders re- fuse all relief from oppressive war taxes and the more oplress ve monop0- lies created and fostered by them, but they insist on an aggressive con tinuance of their policy of civil-war sectionaiism. The great strikes and the Anarchist troubles ln the North and the race riots in Louisiana and Mis- sissippi have impressed on all thinking people tre fact that We have once more reached one of those turnU z points N hich must come from time tO time m tine politics of a free people. The labor qut stionN at the North ex- ists only through the sectional Repub- ican policy that forced it into exis- tenee. 1t will cuntinite, and he eys aggerated in continuing, until the causes for it are removed No Democrat doub's that the chief of these causes is ths s.s,~..n s,,rs.n or taxation, which to benefit a favored class in favored section has robbed all other classes and all other sections, forcing wealth into fewer and fewer hands with every year that passes. At the South every thinking man knows and even the minimizing feel that if the threats of such Republi- cans as Sherman, Ingalls and Halstead could be carried out the races would be forced into collision. The reform of taxation. the removal of the heavy burdens on the countrys worl CTS by the removal of the causes which pro duce monopoly; the entiie and 6omplete re onciliation of the sections; the ob- Iteration of the civil war issues which the civil war party thrusts into our politics; the maintenance of the natural friendship between he Caucas an and African races at the O nth, and of local self-government everywhere; the re- storation of honest work to the position of comfort and dignity from which 1t has been thrust by the pride and greed of class, enriched by LII lual taxation and unjustly discriminating laws these are the objects for which the Democratic party strives; and every Democrat feels that when so much is finally at stake there is no time for hesitating; no room for compromises of principle; no possibility of tolerating faction.
 It will be glorious fight, and the glorious old party of Jefferson and Jackson will fight to win.