The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-10-09
WHO ARE DEMOCRATS?

Certain self constituted judges, mostly
persons whom adaptabihty would have
made artisans had not some accident
made them editors, have taken upon
themselves to read out OF the Democratic
party those members who refuse to alb
iure their ancient democratic faith and
to accept the new political doctrines of
the republican Lutherans and the Ger
man Catholic bishops. Let them CO. .
say these wiseacres, Into the republican
party where they belong" They, who
would eat dirt to conciliate and win over
the temporary and discreditab'e adher-
ence OF the republican malcontents, say
to those who have the manhood to pro-
test against the platform which disclaims
as unconstitutional state prerogative
sustained by consensus OF enlightened
opinion and the precedents OF an hun
dred years, and which is vital to the per-
petuity of the republic: "Go over to the
republicans. They say to the young
1920 "a Wiz 5sobC, " VIC oSdoOl hioStCl
and his boys, and to all who dare stand
up for their convictions, to all who dis
agree with their new found allies: go
over to the republicans" But the men
who say this are not democrats.
They are not democrats who would
make that party camp for the off -scour-
ings and malcontents OF every other po-
litical organization, cess-pool for all
kinds of political refuse.
They are not democrats who borrow
their theories and principles of govern
ment from the proclamations of bishops,
or the DEGREES of church synods hostile
to popular English education.
They are not democrats who would
subscribe to Haunting lie" in order to
enjoy the perquisites Of Office as they do
In the state platform when they say that
the Bennett Law denies the right of trial
by jury.
They are not democrats who deny the
right OF the state to pass laws making
English education compulsory, aud dis
claim for the sake of office right which
has been exercised by the civil power
since before the fathers of the republic
assembled at Lexington or Bunker Hill.
They are not democrats who, in the
hope of getting Offices at present, would
consign that party to everlasting dis
onI 6ofao{ ~ Il / Il
and the school boy out of it and make
every public school house in the Safe
a nursery OF young republicans.
They are not democrats who, while pro-
Tossing to love the "little school house."
ally themselves with its avowed enemies
and adopt their views in state platformp,
against the protest of those old and tried
democrats who never wavered IN their
political allegiance.
They are not democrats who belittle
the question OF encroachment by churches
upon the state power, or who answer
with fool-born jest the grave questions
growing out Of the assault by the
churches upon the Bennett Law, or who
clamor for the success of the state ticket
on federal questions, such as the tariff,
with which state officers have no concern,
They are not democrats who profess
to believe that that party can uphold the
public schools and at the same time ally
itself with, and owe its success to, those
who are opposed to the public school.
Neither are they democrats in the pro-
per sense of the word who would vote
for anyone who might happen to steal
that name and wear it for few months
before election while avowing principles
| which are European not American, eocle-
s1tical not democratic.
WIN. Fl. TIMLIN.