The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-06-11
A DEATHLESS PARTY.

| the one party worthy CT laSLlng sup
port. Toledo Bee.
Words wisely said.
When man wants to quit the
Democratic party, he has right tc
do so He has right to join the
Republican party or help form a
third party" We think it more
honorable for man to form "third
party" or join. another party, than
to claim to be a Democrat, remain
in the Democratic party and fight
the party all the time, by denounc>
ing its leaders, its principles and
its usages. The Democratic party
Knows how to fight it's avowed ene>
mics, but it does not know how to
fight protested friends or those
claiming to be of the same political
faith and household.
No man has the right to use a
friend treacherously. No man has
right to use party treacherously.
Some time you hear people say
they are tired of being bossed by
old politicians. Then take down
the old set and put up new set and
be bOssed by them. There can be
no organization without leaders, and
the members of that organization
make the leaders. All the power
they get is delegated to them by the
people. The people are the power,
they make or unmake. Take the
Democrats and Republicans, Farm
ers' Alliance, Knights of Labor, or
what not, and put them all in one
party and under another name. and
they are the same humanity, with
the same virtues and vices. "a
rose by any other name will smell as
sweet"
New parties have sprung into ex-
istence ever now and then, but they
have all gone down in front of the
Democratic party, except the Re-
publican party. When the Demo-
Gratis split and put out Breckenridge
and Douglas, then the Republican
party went into power, entrenched by
a bloody ar,and has remained there
ever since; but its oppressive bad
laws and corruption is killing it and
1t is fast going to pieces. The Dem
ocratlc party fought and exposed it,
until the popular vote of the coun-
try has marshalled itself under the
banner of Democracy.
Sometime people are misled and
wave of fanaticism sweeps over the
country, but there comes reaction
and the sober sense of the people
return and they also return to their
first love. Look how Feltonism
swept over this district and for sew
eral campaigns the old Independent
had things his own way, but the
Democratic hosts, often weakened
by disaffection, continued to bat
tie and fought on until victory once
more perched on the Democratic
banner. The Democratic party is
the party of the people, and the
people will keep it alive despite all
the ''isms' that may lnAict the
country. Turbulent men and dem
agogical agitators may leave the
Democratic party and 60 into new
movements, but they are the same
old leaders and demagogues and the
people soon see through their mos
tives and abandon them in disgust
and they will be consigned to the
shades of private life. The people
can be deceived sometimes, but
they can't be deceived all the time.
Revolutions may come, but they can
only be successful when the masses
are overwhelmingly in the majority.
The revolution is coming in 1892.
and the Republicans Will be swept
from power and Democrat elected
President. The Senate will gradu>
ally become Democratic and then
the reign of Democracy begins in
earnest. Tariff reform and free
coinage of silver are Democratic
principles, and they are going to be
incorporated in the next Democrat.
| ic platform. Why? Because if the
people, who are for these, are in the
majority in the Democratic party
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