Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-02

 by Your vote-The Party of the Plain
 People-Republican Arrogance-A Party
 of Monopolists, Rings and Trusts.
 Democrats, the supreme hour is come. The time is here when you must decide by your votes whether you plead guilty to every vile islander uttered against you and your party. Your opponents are brutally plain spoken. They tell you frankly that If you vote their ticket you vote for your own disgrace. For To! these many years they have boldly proclaimed that the Democratic party consisted chiefly of the ignorant and criminal, the poorest and the vilest; that 1t was unfit to hold power and incapable of governing the country; that it was reasonable and lawless, and that Democratic rule would be ruin to the best interests of the country. Is there a Demo- crat who believes these charges?
 If there is one, he should now vote for Harrison.
 Why? Because by so doing he would indorse the old islander.
 Democrat, plain, honest man, if you are hesitating at this moment, thinking of voting any part of the Republican ticket, consider this fact: such vote now is plain confession that the Republicans told the truth when they made these charges. Remember that for a Democrat to vote against his party now is very different indeed from the same act by Republican. The Republican, by changing This vote, would simply acknowledge that he had ! been mistaken; the Democrat would in fact plead guilty to the vilest charges made against him and his party.
 They told you four years ago and eight years ago and many other times that your party, the party which comprises majority of the American people, had not sense and honesty enough to administer the government even four years. If you plead guilty, vote for Republican. They charged that Cleveland's success would injure laboring men and paralyze busi- 1 ness Has it done it? If you say yes, vote for Republican. They taunted you with being in a reasonable association, | an enemy of the Union, despiser of the flag, hater of the veteran soldier, & traitor to truth and patriotism. If you plead guilty, vote for Republican. The very man they now present for president declared repeatedly that Democrats were unfit for public trust, and his main SUD- porter, the man.who will run him" if an affective providence makes him president. hurled all the epithets of 'bulldozer," "vote thief" ''ballot box suffer, !" traitor" whisky party against Demo- crats. If you say he was right, vote for Republican, for in no other way can you say it so effectively.
 We call attention to these things be cause there is great cry just now that d | Democrat here and there is almost per suaded to vote just this time" for the other party. Just this time is the very time for you to emphasize your verdict against the old slander. Four years ago the people made Democrat president. A vote against him now simply means this: "I confess that we as a party arc a failure; I confess that we are as mean as the enemy said; I confess that our president Is not to be trusted and that his admin istration has been bad" Do not mistake the issue This is just what it means. Remember that between parties the con- ditions arc not equal. A Republican can now join the Democrats with the highest honor, and many thousands of them have, because the old issues are settled; but the Democrat who deserts his party now makes so humiiating a confession that he must be despised and sneered at even by those he serves.
 Thank God there are few, very few de- serters. The old ranks are intact, and we have thousands of new converts. All we need now Is q full vote. Let every Demo crat consider himself rallying commit
 tee. Remember that the Republican party has fallen under the control of its worst l elements, that it's success this time is, not l as sometimes, merely the success of one 3 policy rather than another; but it is the succesN of bosses and combines, trusts and monopolies. It Is not the success o1 a Lincoln, Sumner or an Arthur, but the success of Blaine and an Elkins, Quay and 0 Warner Miller, of monopoistit
 greed and party arrogance. Success al this election would so strengthen the
 rings that many years of misrule might
 pass before 8 successful effort could bt . made to dislodge them. Now is the tims
 for you to decide for many years
 perhaps for all the future, whethe, I our government shall be administered d on the principles of Jefferson ant 1T ? Jackson-that is, that all doubts be re
 solved ill favor of the plain people-ol whether centralized wealth and powe
 shall override the poor.
 , Our opponents always have much t say of Democratic mistakes, and Demo
 crats, being human, make mistakes occa
 sionally in government. But here is tn great distinguishing principle between
 the parties: Democracy aims at the goo' t of the plain people, the toiling masses and In their interest it is never ashame
 to admit where it has erred and star I again on another line, but always wit
 the same object. This is the bed roc
 principle of your party; this is what yo
 are to sustain at this election.
 . Consider, then, we repeat, that if ther
 have been occasional errors, they can an
 will be righted; that a failure to vote th Democratic ticket now is an acceptanc
 of all the vile accusations made agains O you; that the party is now only aiming t Q secure justice and liberty for all, espt lo cially the poor and the laborers; that his