The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-12
ITHE only NAY.IO SUCCESS
Victory For Democracy in the Ma
tionaI Campaign.
Convince the People that it Stands
For the Principles Upon Which
it is Based. No Doubt of the
Republican Position. For
Wealth and Aristocracy.

There is but one way for the Demo
cratic party to win, and that is to con-
vince the people that tho principles Of
Democracy in essence and substance will
DO faithfully and promptly carried ont
TO convince the voters of the country
that these principles will be carried out
it is necessary for the party leaders in
every state to exhibit n renewed and a
more zealous interest i'll tho success of
genuine Democratic principles than ever
The campaign should be begun now.
There is and will be but one issue be-
( fore the people i'll the next campaign
That is perfectly we'll understood, but
behind this issue lies the great question
OF Democratic success. and that uues-
ton hinges on the possibility of con-
vincing the honest voters of tho country
taat the Democratic party, undaunted
and ,uHdismayed, is more determined
than ever to carry ont the we'll defined
principles on which the organization is
based
In this way, and in this way only,
can tho Democratic party win. In this
way only can it recall TO its ranks the
men who have become disguised with
events, or who have grown weary in
waiting for the realization Of their homes.
Let the party leaders convince these men
that there is to be genuine revival of
Democratic principles, and they will
gladly return to the ranks i'll which they
have fought so long and so earnestly
Let the people be convinced that the
Democratic party is now what it always
has been-the party of the common peo-
pie, opposed to class legislation, op-
posed to Capitalization, opposed to aris-
tocratic pretensions and opposed to Shy
lock and his votaries-and ii will sweep
the'country from ono end to the other.
Those who have left the party for rea-
sons sufficient to themselves can have
NO difficulty in perceiving ut this hour
mat, With the money power controlling
the Republican party, there can be no
hope Ill division among those who are in
favor of genuine Democratic principles.
There is no doubt as to where tho Re
publican party stands. Its machinery is
absolutely i'll control of the money pow
or and Its agents. Since the death Of
Abraham Lincoln, it has been the party
OF the wealth aud aristocracy of the
north. Its leaders are tho American
agents OF the British bankers, who. by
means of bribery and corruption, secured
the decentralization of silver in 1878. It
has placed on the statute books all the
CLASS legislation that over disgraced our
laws. 1t Is the author of every legisla-
tive scheme by means of which the shy
locks in and ont Of Wall street have been
enabled to plumber the people 1t was
responsible for the tremendous contrac-
flon OF the currency. which, beginning in
1866, illuminated in the decentralization
OF silver III 1878 and the disastrous panic
or that year. 1t is the author of every
step that has been taken in the direction
OF centralization and the invasion Of the
rights Of the states by the federal power.
1t will be found when parties are ar
rayed against each other next year that
the Republican organization is the only
one; that stands between the people and
justica. To that conclusion all sensible
mon must come, and III so concluding.
they must necessarily be convinced that
the Democratic party, with clear and
an unmlStakable avowal of principles,
and with candidates whose past records
are guarantee of their honesty and
earnestness, is the only organization on
which the people eau depend TO right
their wrongs.
10 this end all genuine Democrats
shonld begin now campaign which
Will end i'll triumph for Democratic
principles. To postpone the beginning
CT the campaign will he to leave tho
people, who have been so sorely disap-
pointed by the results of the last Demo
cratic victory, still in doubt rs to tho
purposes and designs of the party lead
ers. Therefore let the movement for a
Democratic revival on tho basis of pure
and unadulterated Democracy begin
now and be carried forward vigorously.
earnestly and patriotically Atlanta
Constitution.