The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-04-28
Democrat or Third Party ite--Which /,

Speaking to the text, as we under
stahd him, that 1.-The duty of the lead
ers of the party is to do all in their
power to induce Democrats to come
INTO the Democratic primaries, and not
try TO drive them out by the setting up
Of new tests" Mr.. Josephus Daniels,
late editor of the Raleigh CHRO>ICLE,
asks: "Who gave the central Demo
cratic committee of Iredell or any
other county .he right to drive the
Alliancemen who support the ST
Louis demands out Of the Democratic
party" And Mr.. Daniels adds: The
demands adopted by the St. Louis con-
ference of labor organizations were
afterwards endorsed by the Third
party; but there are thousands of Ali
ancemen who endorse the demands
! who are hostile to the Third party"
We are fallen on queer days. Men who
believe strange things that have to Do
with matters of great public interest and
are therefore parts of political creeds
can, it seems, believe in what the
Democracy does not and never will,
and yet be anxious to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, so that those same strange
doctrines may never be tested. What
is Democracy but its principles? And
what is the Third party if it is not the
st. Louis demands: its principles? II
a man believes in the Third party de
mands it is reasonable to suppose he
will wish to act with the party that
does not believe in them? The Demo
cratic party wants all the votes it car
get, hut it wants sin cere votes. TIC
deny man who believes in the ThirG
party place in a Democratic conven-
tor is not ''the setting up of new
tests,' as Mr.. Daniels seems TO think.
The present Democratic tests are old
ones 1t is the Third party that ha,
furnished new tests, and those are fol
admission into that party.
Mr.. Daniels also says: Il would b,
glad for Chairman Smith to say i
leading Alliancemen who believe il
the ST. Louis platform are to be ex
cluded from the Democratic primarie
because of their belief If they ar
not, then the bumblest man in Iredel
county who entertains the same vie
can participate in the primaries freely
and not only has the right to do sc
/ but it is high duty he owes to hin
self to do this and to thus do al he ca
: to prevent the formation Of the Thlr
q party in North Carolina .
!, How an Allianceman, however hun
t bic, who believes in the st. Louis pla
{ form can 'do all he can to prevent Ii
j formation Of the Third party in Mort
Il Carolina" we confess is puzzling. Sue
a man would strongly remind the p
II litical world Of the Democrat WI
r should believe in the platform of tbi
it party and declare he intended to yot
Is the Third party ticket.
q With this statement Of Mr.. DAME
d we can heartily agree: every ms
,e must be the Judge Of his own demo
p racy. His conscience must deciC
.. whether he has right to participa
in Democratic primary Now if
man conscientiously believes what Il
St. Louis demands teach. that Il
= Democratic party is a bad party,
q cannot act with that party. Oil al
n water will not mix. Finally, it 8hou
rs be remembered that a man can
y, good Alliancemen and vote the Dem
al cratic ticket with a clean conscienC
er and thousands of Alliancemen q
IL going to do just that thing.