The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-12
PRINCIPLES AND PARTIES.

Inc attention of The Herald is CALL
ed by contemporary to the following
which appeared recently in the Atlanta
Constitution:
Inc time has passed when the voters
OF the South can be drummed into line
by the mere name of Democracy. That
tact mas been demonstrated on more
than one occasion and in more than
one state. The call of Democracy
must have something more substantial
oehlnd it than the mere name 1t must
have behind it genuine Democratic
principles. We should not like to see
the experiment tried in any Southern
state. We should feel that it was the
beginning of the disruption of the old
party which has won so many victo-
ries. The great body of the common
people prefer the old principles under
the old name, but they will care moth
ing for the name unless it represents
the old principles.
There is nothing in that paragraph
from which The Herald dissents or mas
dissented. But the paper which quotes
it approvingIy has been a most extrav-
agant dissenter from Democratic prin-
ciples and even now, when for ffnan-
cial reasons it pretends to be "Iade-
pendent" or rather Populist, it's ten
dency is anti-Democratic
The Herald has been and is the pro-
mulgator of Democratic principles as
the political guide and creed of voters
of the Democratic ticket. Let the col
umns of The Herald be compared with
those of any newspaper in the United
States. and it will be found, taking
the year round, that there is more
sound Democratic doctrine expounded
and defended in The Herald than in
any of them.
1t is on principle that the support of
the voters is asked by The Herald for
the Democratic party. It is because
the principles of Democracy are
founded in eternal justice and
everlasting truth, and are for the bene-
fit of the whole people of our country
instead of a selected portion, that we
have held them forth as worthy the
acceptance and fealty Of the people of
Utah in common with the masses of
the United States.
But principles in the abstract have
little force in politics. They must be
embodied in an organization to make
them effective. Therefore we uphold
the Democratic party as the body
which enshrines Democratic principles,
and which carries them into active ap-
plication.
We do not claim perfection for the
Democratic party, nor Availability for
any of its leaders. Both have been,
on occasion. time-serving and paltering.
But the principles of Democracy re-
main unchanged through all the di-
versities of the party and the depar-
tlfres from the exact line by its lead
ers in and out Of office.
The policy of the present administra-
ton has not been true in all respects
to the tenets and traditions of pure
Democracy. For that reason The Her
aid has criticized the administrat ton.
Wherein it has reflected and practiced
the principles of Democratic govern
ment we have applauded and defend
ed it. But for those deviations there
from which have marked its financial
policy we have exposed and denounced
it.
The errors which are thus exhibited
are Republican in their spirit and ten
dency. Cleveland and Carlisle have
drifted into the Republican financial
current and have therefore, so far, di-
verged from the pure stream of genu-
inc Democracy. For that we have no
apology but only disapprobation. If