Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-22
EDUCATE AND ACETATE.

There is little doubt that the superior organization of the republican party in the last campaign was very largely in strumental, together with the judicious use of poodle in blocks of five, in carry ing the day for Harrison and Morton. It is gratifying, therefore, to note that the democratic party is disposed to profit by the lesson of that campaign, and intends to begin without delay the work of agi- tation and education that will bring vic tory in 1892.
 Ex-Governor Chauncey F. Black of of the national association of democratic clubs at the convention held in Balti- more last July, has been talking with reporter concerning the plans and purposes of that associa- tion, and it is evident from the ideas ex pressed by Mir Black that the campaign work will not be delayed until after the nominating convention as 1t has been hitherto. Those who have studied the returns of the last election realize that the farmers, the farm laborers and the village people must be enlightened and a large percentage of their votes changed before we can confidently look to the success of tariff reform or of democratic candidates. The voting in the manu- featuring disisicts showed that the wage earners in the protected industries were not scared by the cry of free trade; they saw through the sham bugaboo of the republicans and rebuked them strongly at the polls. To reach those who most need enlightenment as to tariff reform and democratic prin- ciples it is proposed to organize democratic societies whose mission it will be to arouse the countr. from one end to the other to full sense of the bsnefcial purposes of the democracy and tariff reform. In the plan, as detailed by MT Black, each primary society will be member of the state society, repre- sented by deputies in its annual general assembly, body choosing all officers and possessing all legislative authority. The entire system is managed in cordial cooperation with the regular organiza- tion of the democratic party. It will not make platforms or nominees, but vigorously support both as they are made by the ordinary conventions ot the party It will, however, appeal to the public mind and invoke public opinion in the intervals between campaigns as well as during campaigns. It will, like the democratic society of Jeffes s,. s time, discuss, aeitate and arouse the peo- pie to the perils of their situation. It will promote the study of fundamental principlesand disseminate them, through these neighborhood parliaments, where | every citizen may be heard as freely, and if he has that to say which justly commands public opinion. with as much | influence and power as if he were speak | ing in the legislature or in congress. It will print it it will SOW the country with documents; it will educate a swarm of speakers and writers on the true principles of republican govern ment; it will educate the people to teach themselves their rights and their duties it will array the democratic party in harmonious union upon the creed of their forefathers and place it in solid column upon that road which, in the language of Mir Jefferson, '.alone leads to peace, liberty and safety" Then the democratic party will be irresistible and invincible simply because it oIght to be-. | With the democratic party of the country organized on such basis vic- tory would be as certain in 1899 as the rising of the sun. The country is demo- cratic beyond doubt, it is becoming more so every year, and with those who are not fully alive to the evils and op- pression of high taxes educated to full sense of the inequalities of the present exorbitant tariff, of the exactions and monopolistic tendencies of the repub- lican party, it would be as easy to stop the flow of water at Niagara as to keep the democratic party out of control of the government. The next campaign should begin at once. Inaugurated on the lines laid down by Governor Black it would be the beginning of period of agitation and education that would in. sure beyond all peradventure the cleo. tion of democratic president to succeed Benjamin Harrison.
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