The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-01-02
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tiG NUR ypi gaitlfut In NVtDa. nuI
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the people, IA" Dstmocratic aid minis,
tfati6h is spending millions d year in
permanent structures for tho safety
and distribution OF the malls What
would be- the differences ih principle
between doing thisiandH CONSTRUCTING
lines, for, the ttranstnission OF those
mails? "A measure, that dit the same
time protects the invaded rights of
the people and 5furGishesi a general
relief froin an overshadowinS menace,
looks very distinctly Democratic to us,
and 1T Swill3itake Something more,,
General, than an exaggerated Estimate
Of cost to frighten the people from it,
Hi5. You sayin regard. TO our demand
for the election of United States Sena-
tors by the people, that it will require
q change OF the Constitution to effect
this. There IL no'news in'that.N & You
have, we SUPPOSE read thehdemand"
as printed in the body Of your article,
and you must have seen that it is dis
tinctly a demand to change the Con
stitutioh.' 0 You fail utterly In this, as
in previous instances, to adduce a.
single argument why 1t is, undemo-
cratic to propose a needed change in
the Constitution You say YOU
hardly think that therahunge will be
made'in time'to allow any Of tho pre-
sent young aspirants of the Alliance to
test their strength before the people"
lust what bearing this" little Hing at
the "young aspirants of Alliance" 81
has upon the Fundamentally of; the
demand THAT is what you we're to
prove) iis'not apparent. wlX6u say you
have never denounced the Alliance"
Perhaps not; but covert filings at it's
leadership been q favoritedw way Of try
ing to IMPURE il" among people who for
pollticai reasons dare not denounce it
openly. li'''".' 'iitiJ IL. .
g. Yes, as a rule we as individuals
opposed the State bank proposition of
THE Democratic platforms. But what
has that Il do with the Ocala platform
which you'setHoutt to prove inconsistent
with the Democratic :? = "You have,
we suppose, read " the Ocala platform,
and if you did you must have seen that
1T makes nc. reference whatever to
State banks. What bearing then has
our individual opinions upon your pro-
l'position' that N nan who upholds
(the. Ocala' platform) can properly
claim to be a Democrat? ?" '"f' :
But If we are to be kicked out Of the
Democratic party because we as in
diylduals oppose one plank in, the party
PLATFORM we will have a goodly con-
tingent | Y company. We viii
have u majority of the Democrats in
the United States Senate who opposed'
the administration view of the Silver
Fplank&Of! that platform, and we will
have with us the great masses Of the
American people. 7"H" '"nf "'''''
What constitutes the test of u Demo
GRAFT anyway In this degenerate day :?
Is, lit hnquestiohihg adhesion to every
plank OF the Democratic PLATFORM? Is
it fidelity to,principles? Certainly
not, 1T we arctic Judge by the practice
ofithe party. We have goId-bug De-
1-'nocrats,t d free silver Democrats
and National BAN Democrats, and
greenback Democrats free trade De!
mocrats and protection Democrats and
tariff for revenue Democrats. -"'''
'mEFhe party Of free trade elected more
than once q high prOtectionist t o the
highest position in the gift Of Demo-
cratic Congress and even now O former
Republican candidate for the Presi.
dency occupies the highest place in
the cabinet by appointment of 'a'Demo-
cratio president who had behind him.
aiDemocratic Congress and the whOle
machinery of" government. If 'ad-
herencer to every plank of tho PLATFORM
we're, necessary to Constitute a man a
democrat, then Samuel j. Randall, a
pronounced 'protectionist, could mover
nave been Speaker of a Democratic
Congress and Walter .. Gresham,
former Republican candidate for the
Presidency, could never be chief
adviser of 4, q Democratic President.
What then rs the sole test OF a mans
democracy under the practice Of the
party? Evidently it is his support of
the nominee in the general election. n
tinally,.t after oil your somewhat
lengthy discussion you find only five
OUT or twelve points upon which
you take issue with the Ocala plat
ifOrm.i You distinctly agreed with two,
as does "Navefy Democrat YOU say.
To that extent you yourself uphold
the Ocafa platform, and under your
own ruling you cannot properly claim
to be q Democrat" .di
The most casual reading of our letter
II WllLshow that we made no objection to
your organizing what, in the last analy-
sis, would be Democratic clubs indie
pendent of our State Democratic Or
gani2ation. But we had no COM
Germ about that. We simply asked
you to explain your statement tnht
" norman who upholds the Ocala plat
form can properly claim to be a Demo
nswer the questions We asked, ana
proceeded to compare platforms, with
the result shown above, but not oven
on that ground could you defend your'
charge against us. So
'fThis effort to make it appear that
we objected to your organizing Demo
cratic clubs is entirely apart from the
question You yourself raised, and is not
warranted by anything we wrote, 1t
appears to be in line with your other
efforts to read Alliancemcn out of the
Democratic party and d%iscredit the
Young Alliance" leaders, while pro-
Tossing great respect for the organiza-'
tion,,i .,.,,,, -.,.,, ..,, -,'o.