San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-26
THE sgwrLpEREp DEMOCRACY.

THE 8EWILDERED DEMOCRACY.
All is not smooth water, steady
breeze and plain sailing for the demo.
cratic squadron. The East and West
are In antagonism ON vital points, and
there is no homogeneousness in their
ideas. When the national conven-
ton meets there will be music in the
air and the two wings OF the party will
go for each others scalps. That this
is not republican exaggeration, but
bald fact, is evident from the tone of
the democratic press. Even the Fort
Worth Gazette, that democrat among
democrats, which seldom sees any
thing but harmony and glorious sue
cess, as the result of all democratic
conferences, feels moved to cry
danger" under the ever increasing
strainedness of relations, and re-
marks:
IF Eastern Democrats think that
by furnishing q campaign fund they
are entitled to dictate the platform of
principles, the South and West
will undeceive them. They will not
permit Southern and Western Demo
Gratis to even insert an anti-natfonal
bank plank in the platform. The
has about to make up it's mind
to have no members of congress
or delegates to the national. conven-
tion who think that democracy means
subserviency to eastern domination.
II the eastern democracy will not
stand any reduction of the tariff ex-
cept on raw material for their facto.
ries, and will not permit free coin
age of silver or any increase in the
circulating medium, of what benefit
are they to the party? The democ.
racy of the south and west object to
being manipulated in the interest of
a few Eastern Democrats in return
for little campaign fund used to buy
votes in the east that rarely count for
much. The democratic party
proposes to be the party of the
people. This feature is being dis
cussed by the democratic masses all
over the south and west"
This article serves to show how
absolutely impossible it is to put
forth party platform that can be
acceptable to Eastern and Western
democrats. The great questions of
tariff and coinage find the democrat
ic party at war within itself, and
holding such extreme views as to
render abortive all attempts at COM
promise. The party has made over
lures to all classes of political ideas,
to all forms of political faith, to all
inconsistencies of political &C
ton in order to secure con-
troll of congress, until in the
first hour of their triumph they find
themselves but a heterogeneous mass
of conflicting elements, with no COM
mon ground of action or idea save
hatred of republicanism. They are
met by the united and harmonious
opposition of party committed to
certain great principles, and flushed
with the triumph of every party
principle for which they have con-
tended. In this dilemma the dem.
ocrats are required to reconcile
their own irreconcilable differences,
and allay the jealousy of the Western
sections, which. have been growing
FESTIVE under Eastern domination
until patience is exhausted. II the
East surrenders it's views to the West
the East is lost to the democratic
party and republican triumph is as
sured. If the West accepts the
dictation of the East, as in the past,
the great West is lost and all hope of
democratic victory is surrendered.
II is hard lines upon which the
democracy has fallen. plain case of
heads, lose; tails. you win"
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