The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-08-10
THE GREAT QUESTION.
WILL TIE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS
STAND BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE
DEMOCRACY

Whatever is net democratic i
dangerous, Every Democratic
voter has share in he direct OF
of The party; he bears his portion
Of The responsibility for what h,
does or leaves undone. Thus hi.
personal interest and his pride o
citizenship are enlisted. He ha.
a regard for he consistent eXecut
ion of the laws he has helped t.
enact and for the retention o
platform Pledges he has helped t.,
make.
Democracy j. body Gf highly
trained political units. Noprotess.
edly Democratic leader has been
able 10 deceive his people. Uthei
parties may obey leaders and ap-
plaul the act which bellies the
once apnlauded word. A real
Democrat trusts The principles he
has adopted and judges for himseli
whether they are followed or de-
serted. The Republican party can
promise to reduce the tariff, and
then raise it. Such a violation OF
repeated pledges as that party
committed in 1883 could not be
INIT ated by Democratic Congress
without an atonement which
wOnld consign 10 obscurity every
guilty member.
Each individual Democrat has
in his memory and heart the his
toric struggle of his party against
protective tariffs.
Therefore The Mckinley law
must he replaced with tariff based
upon the general welfare principle
of revenue;for the party is in power
and pledges must be redeemed.
No act of the party which lately
controlled the Govern ment is more
un-Democratic than the Sherman
law, The party is unreservedlv
under pledge 10 repeal it, and to
substitute measure for the COIN
age of geld and silver without dis
eliminating against either metal.
Such are the words of the national
plat form of 1892, passed after the
Democrats in every State Conven=
ton had made the demand in
language 10 plain and well con-
sIdered.
For The Democratic party, il or
out of of power, nothing is safe
which is Snot Democratic. 10 tenn
porIze with the Mckinley tariff OF
TO hesitate in snspending The OPP
Grafton Of the Sherman act would
be unsaie for a Democratic Con-
gress. In principle, in detail, and
in effect these two laws are against
The thoroughly ingrained opinions
OF the Democratic masses. They
were bought by special interests,
and their design did not embrace
consideration for the people. Both
have disturbed trade and offended
The natural laws of wealth. Both |
have brought losses upon the pro-
ducers and consumers. Together
they have contributed 10 create
the uncertainty which has con
tracted the movement of capital
and crushed hundreds of enter
prises.
The tariff and money questions
which will come before the Fifty
third Congress are not The acci-
dents Of The summer. The future
Of the whole American people ell
terS into their settlement
The Democratic masses know
The pledges of the party, because
they voted upon pledges. How
can The Democratic Congressman
face their people next year and
endure the comparison of pledge
with performance if they are ca
pabIe of no better finance than
blind stand against suspending the
Purchase OF bullinn, and Of no
better taxation than a miserable,
in'imidated rehash oi
MrKinieyiSm?
These are considerations Of i'm
)or:. The Democratic party has
, history and a destiny, It's history,