Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-18
WEDNESDAY MAY IS, 1899.
A PLAN OF BATTLE.

From jefferson to Lincoln the line OF
Democratic succession in the White
House was not often broken in upon.
The Democratic party was in all respects
true to it's name, party OF the people;
and it was American to the core. Its
policy was non-interference with the
politics OF Europe and the maintenance
of the Monroe doctrine on this conti-
nent in all its force. 1t brooked no die
tation and stood no bullying from any
foreign power. 1t would not have paid
Italy an indemnity for the acts of a
mob in Louisiana, nor would it have
paid an indemnity to any power for any
reason if such indemnity had to be pal d
secretly, surreptitiously, without let
ting the direct representatives of the
people, congress, know what was being
done. The party in these years OF its
dominance secured the larger part of
the territory of the United States from
foreign powers by conquest or
by purchase. In these days of its
supremacy the flag of our nation
was most familiar sight in the waters
of all seas, and in all ports and on all
seas that flag was honored as the ensign
of brave people, and honored as the
emblem of equal rights to all men and
of the personal liberty of the individual
under just laws.
From Buchanan to Harrison the Dem
ocratic party has elected two presidents
in thirty years, and has allowed itself to
be cheated out of one OF these.
The Republican party, which came
into power by the split in the Demo-
cratic convention at Charleston in 1860,
in the thirty years of its ascendancy,
has succeeded in the general subversion
of the constitution. 1t has centralized
power in the hands of the federal gov
ernment until the rights OF the sover-
eign states have been almost OBJ
liberated in the practice of our
courts. The Republican party
an its thirty years of power
has built up wide-reaching system of
monopoIies so vast and powerful, that
manhood, with all its rights, declared
inalienable by the declaration of indie
pendence, has been robbed of all its
significance and honor. These monopo-
lies have filled the upper house of con-
gress with nest of purse proud, un-
American millionaires whose soul am
bition ia to ape the manners of European
lords, and whose lifelong desire is to
render the principles of free government
as nearly nugatory as possible. The
Republican party has invaded the
sanctity Of the halls of the highest court
of justice in the land, and has
played battledoor and shuttlecock
with it's organization and mem
bership until it has been
able to get from this once august tribu-
nal any decision in law that might suit
the needs of the party at any particular
junct Ire. The Republican party by the
basest conspiracy that ever stained the
record of party, took away the coin
character and purchasing power of
silver, the money of the people, in or.
der to enhance the value or purchasing
power of gold. the money of the million
aires.
In the fall we are to enter the lists
once more in an earnest endeavor to
wrest this government out of the un-
righteous and interruptions hands of
this party, the tool of monopolies, the
servant of millionaires, and to retore
the people to their rights and privileges
under the constitution and under the
local autonomy of the several
sovereign states of the union.
The dangerous element in the warfare
of our opponents is the inherent hypoc-
risy of the Republican party. Two of
them never got together that they did
not set up howl about pure politics,
and view with alarm the corrupt prac-
tices of the Democracy. Corruption.
will always be part of all politics
while the world lasts, but some one has
said, and with good deal of truth, the
corruption of Democratic politics is
wrought by its Buckleys and Tar Flat
contingents, while this work in the Re-
publican party is effected by United
States senators, such as Dorsey, Dudley
and Quay, and by cabinet ministers,
such as Wanamaker and Elkins. The
pious Sunday school leader who runs
the postoffices is reported to have raised
nearly half-million to buy votes in
Indiana in order that his pious brother,
the indianapolis midget, might be elect
ed president. The reward of pious John
il his place in the cabinet.
The fight of this campaign will be
hard one, and the Democracy will
need to husband all its resources
and use all its forces so as to secure the
best results.
There are three issues on which our
party can 60 before the people with
hope OF success. The first and greatest
is the reform OF the tariff. The true at
titude of the party in this leading issue
IL that historical one whose author was
the grand founder Of the Democracy
which wrested the government out Of
the hands OF the semi-monarchial Tories