The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-04
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.

The organization of Democratic clubs
in this territory should be continued
and perfected. There should be COM
mon bond of union between them all
This should extend not only to every
club in Utah, but the connection should
be made with all the organizations
throughout the United States. Political
union as well as political education will
thus be promoted and the interests of
the party and of popular government
will be maintained
A letter from the President of the
National Association of Democratic
clubs to General Wade Hampton con-
tains some splendid suggestions on this
subject, and we here append them as
worthy of universal attention. The in
troductory paragraphs which relate
specially to the Southern States we
omit. After them President Black goes
on to say:
You need to maintain the closest po-
litical relations with your Democratic
brethren in the Union. You want to
embody your people upon distinct Dem
ocrattc principles, in a distinct Demo-
cratic organizati ton, which embraces
the entire country and moves with a
common impulse, Heretofore we have
met only in national conventions We
cooperate more or less closely in ma
tional campaigns, but there our rela-
tons cease. There is no further inter-
communica ton. But a system of Dem
ocratic societies, embracing the whole
Union, active every year and all the
year, uniting the great multitude of
primary societies in state and national
associations, in constant fraternal cor
respondence and in warmest sympa-
thetic touch one with the another is.
it seems to me, the practical relation
snip which should prevail between us.
Such an organization is presented by
the National Association of Democra tic
clubs
Its principles are thus formulated in
the second article of it's constitution:
The objects of this association are
as follows: To foster the formation of
permanent Democratic cubs and socie-
ties throughout the United States and
insure their active cooperation in dis
seminating Jeffersonian principles of
government; to preserve the Constitu-
ton OF the United States, the autonomy
OF the states, local self government and
freedom of election; to resist reyolu-
uonary changes and the Capitalization
OF power; to oppose the imposition of
taxes beyond the necessities of the gov
eminent economically administered: ia
promote economy in all branches of the
pubic service; to oppose unnecessary
commercial restrictions for the benefit
OF the few at the expense of the MANY.
10 oppose class legislation, which de-
spolls labor and builds up MONOPOLY:
10 maintain inviolate the fundamental
principles Of Democracy, equality be-
iofe the law; and to cooperate with
the regular organization of the Demo-
cratic party in support of Democra tic
men ana Democratic measures
Ihese propositions embody only in
dlSputable Democratic doctrines They
are, IN general terms, the faith of the
1ounoers OF the party, and of all true
Democrats of this. as of preceding
generations. That statement of them
was not only adopted by the first ma
tional convention of Democratic clubs
at baltimore in 1883, and readopted nv
the second national convention at New
YORK in 1892, but it has been formally
adopted by many state Democratic
societies from tn 0tic to the Pa
cific, and by thousands of primary
societies, members of the state socie-
ties, and of the national association.
can you suppose a more perfect
guarantee of future harmony upon
sound principles than such a mighty
brotherhood of Democrats, north.
south, east and west, ready to encour-
age and defend the party in whatever
section assailed? Such an organiza.-
ton, holding to the letter of the CON
stitution and the strict construction
commandments of our fathers as
the Indispensable conditions of the
continuance of our republican institu-
lions, would, in a very few wears.
make this country permanently Dem
cratic, and, in the meantime, it would
if generally adopted in the southern
states, secure them against the tenn
porary inroads of third parties pro-
voked by momentary ills, and propos-
ing, invariably, undemocratic and IN
constitutional measures of relief.
member that the Democratic society
was the original organization of the
entire Democratic party; that it was
only by means of the Democratic soci-
cites that Democrats addressed each
other. or the world, in the earliest days
of the republic; that it was the expe-
dent of Jefferson and his compeers
that, indeed, the popular club has ever
been the most efficient engine of popu-
lar agitation; that the thunders of the
Democratic societies of the south were
heard from end to end Of the land in
the first. struggle between Democracy
and Federalism. and that the societies
of Virginia and South Carolina were
specially conspicuous in those times,