Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-07-12
A Party without Principles.
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The democratic party in earlier days had
proclaimed, but it has none now save what
ever its national conventions elaborate to fit
such presidential candidates as Greely, Han
cook or Cleveland, and subject to quadren-
nial change and mysti6oation. Once Estates
right and the resolutions of '9s" were In the
forefront of the democratic creed but all this
has vanished, and no one now prstends to
fear the national invasion of the rights of
any state. Another ringing articles of their
creed was hard money, Bentonisn gold
instead of paper money, which the denounced
as being made only of"rags and ampblack."
Strange to say there is hardly anything now
that can be invented for circulation too cheap
or too soft and rickety for the major part of
the party. The time has been when the
party was won't to denouncs all internal i'm
provements as unconstitutional; but now no
appropriations for such works appear too
extravsgant to find elastic support in dem
ocratio house of representatives The party
once claimed as It's patent of superiority the
equal rights and privileges of all men; but
in eleven states such rights and privileges
are denied and refused to millions Of Ameri-
can citizens b. those who uasscusrsds end
aim to dominate under the name of the
democratic party. The party, forgetting
it IL itself AS the sole author of the rebellion,
the sole cause of the extraordinary necessity
for the great increase of revenue, puts forth
which it covertly battles for free trade, but
quivsrs and recoils from any deep cut of
tariff duties on Louisiana sugar, on South
Carolina rice, on Pennsylvania iron, on Ten
neesee marble, on North Carolina peanuts,
on Florida oranges, being largely products of
democratic districts, and districts, therefore,
dangerous to touch with free-trade reform
and inclined to revolt. Once the democratic
was wont to :declare and repeat that "the
executive power had increased, was increas-
ing and ought to be diminishsd"; but In
spite of President Clevsland's many frantic
| vetoss; in spite of his depositing sixty mill
] ions of public money In pet banks without
interest and without law; in spite Of his ap-
pointments, without the advice and consent
| of the senate, of ministers (minus the title)
| to negotiate treaties; in spite of his attempts
to govern congress by giving or Withholding
| executive favors in order to effect the repeal
of all duties on wool and to prevent the re-
i peal of the internal tax on tobacco, the
party made no protest against the undue
exercise of extraordinary executive power
which seems to have reached growth moi
less colossal than that under the administra
tion of General Jackson, when Calhoun de-
nounsed the democratic party as bound to-
gether "by the cohesive power of publir
plunder." To secure a reelection, besides
his reported financial contribution, thu
President set forth In his annual message hi
free-trade political sentiments, which, hat
they been previously known, would un
doubtedly have defeated his first election
As candidate for third time he may hav
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ciety, but with no vehement adherents else
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