The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26
The Great Democratic Party.

hundred years thegreat Democratic
party of these United States never
stood out in more magnificent
prominence with its immortal prin-
ciples than it does at this instant.
After a lapse of more than thirty
years, during which it has been
held in the background and rem
dered powerless by the combined
forces of corruption, bigotry, hate,
avarice, tyranny and sectionalism,
it again assumes control of all the
branches of government, at a time
when the wheels of agriculture,
commerce and trade are paralyzed
by the ill-considered and damaging
laws that have been enacted in the
interest of monopolists and CAPT.
talists.
Pursuing the even tenor of its
way, whether under defeat or re-
joicing in victory, it has held aloft
its motto, "a government of the
people, by the people and for the
people" It has worked to that end
in spite of all opposition, and in
the last ten days has forged to the
front with the grandest lot of states
men and patriots that have graced
the halls of Congress within the
last generation.
Alive to the groanings and NUT
terings of the American people, and
ever patiently working and plan
ming to relieve their oppression, the
great Democrat Party has alike ig-
nored the taunts and sneers of sell
fish Republican centralists, and
the foolish rawlings of ignorant
Populists and insane demagogues.
On the one hand the Republican
politicians have said, you dare not
cross or antagonize our masters,
the money kings of the land. On
the other ignorant Populists and
Communistic madmen have said,
you dare not refuse to entertain
our wild and excited damands.
The sequel proves that Democ-
racy dares to do what it believes
and knows to be right, irrespective
of taunts, sneers or threats, and
the country, within the last five
days, is electrified and set wild with
the spectacle of its grandeur, while
a civilized world looks on and won
ders at the magnificent politics of
the American people. Do national
banks Cypress the people, Democ-
racy says, their days are numbered.
Do the people of the several COM
monwealths ask for local bank &C.
commodations, then the States are
to have the right to do as their
citizens desire. Do gold-bugs and
bankers demand a single gold cur
rency and bonds, in order to per-
petuate and increase their business
of interest and usury on the debt
of the people, and, do silver bonan-
"a kings and their ignorant dupes
rave about free coinage and raise
a howl Of opposition, Democracy,
sitting as Justice, with the scales
equally balanced, says. you shall
have both gold and silver, but nc
more bonds, and, that neither meta
| may have an undue influence by
the fluctuations of value, it is or.
dered and decreed that gold, the
most prescious metal and least lia
BILE to fuctuation, shall be the stan
dard of the dollar, and q fair lega
ratio between the two shall be ss
tablished, and every dollar, whether
of paper, silver or gold, shall b.
equal and interchangeable in value.
Then, shaking its name like
mighty lion reused from its slum
bers, comes the roaring proclama
ton of its future plans, and Dem
ocracy says that the tariff shall b
reformed, a graded income tax shall
be established, and all of the citi