Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-01-27
BUSTED DEMOCRACY.


 Congressman Patterson, of Ten
 nessee, one of the famous law mak-
 CTS ot the country, was called to
 Baltimore last week to address the
 Merchants and Manufacturers As
 socIatlon of that city, and since
 completing his duty, his eloquent
 aud daring stand is travelling like
 wildfre, the Louisville Courier
 Journal endorsing his political ut
 teranees and stAmPeding the fol-
 lowers of the Bryan phAntasy m
 consequence. The congressman
 speech, together with the ably writ
 ten articles in that paper, are liter
 ary gems, aside from their political
 arguments, and from each there is l presented some points which may
 enhghten as we'll as interest all. The
 article in question says that the
 eleven cCtton-produciug states oi 1 the south, by the blunder at Chi ! cago, have not only greatly reduced ,he democratic vote within their
 own borders, but they have parted company with four of their sister
 southern states and all their old allies and friends of the north, for a hopeless and unnatural coalition with the populist states of the e1-
 treme northwest. Behold the con-
 mercial aspects of the case: With
 whom do he cotton producing states
 trsdei Whence do they expect em-
 migration and capitali Every river,
 every railroad, every coastwise line,
 m short, every interstate channel of
 commerce penetrsteS the eighteen
 states lying north of the Potomac
 and Ono rivers and east of the
 Missouri, that vast and Populous
 region which holds the seat of
 empire in the republic aud which
 gave its entire vote in the electoral
 college to Mckinley. Not 6 river,
 not a rsIiroad and not a ship goes
 from the cotton states tO the inhos-
 pltable mining states of the Rocky mountains, yet, politically, we have
 abandoned the one Section for the other. We have parted company with a giant who has in the past CO., operated with us for pigmy who is powerleSs as gu ally. 1 speak for s
 large body of the intelligent and patriotic citizens of the south when l protest against the folly which has brought about this result. Those for whom speak have the develop ment, the happiness and the pres perity of the southern people most at heart. They are eager for their democratic brethren to abandon an issue which has led to disaster and winch IS hopeless, and ought to be hopeless, and to unite with them again on tbe lines which in the past have led to party success and pro- noted the welfare of 6 common country. The democrats who voted 1 for Mckinley and Palmer, and the democrats who voted for Bryan only for the sake of party regularity, will | never follow their brethren into a repitition of the blunder committed at Chicago. If Bryan is to be the leader of the democracy of the future; if his speech at Chicago is to be its inspiration and the deliver | ances at the Chicago convection are to be its guides, then l say it in sad ness aud Tn sorrow-theTe IS nothing left for US but to take our stand on the Indianapolis platform and there | rrs'st, as best We can, the encroach- ! meats of paternalism, whether they l come in the form of an attempt 10 | create values by the coinage or emission of depreciated money. or 10 the effort to create prosperity by | unnecessarily laying the burdens of l taxation on the substance ot the ! people. With the teachings of such l illustrious statesmen as Jefferson. 1 Jackson, Calhoun, Benton, Lamar i and Hill to guide them, how the 1 people of these states in disregard l of the enlightment judgment of ] the commercial and scholastic world | could have abandoned their old | allies, antagonized the president of | their choice and staksd every thing
 on an economic heresy, which, if l adopted, would have led inevitably | to silver monometallism and na-
 tionsl disaster and dishonor. is a
 problem which de6es a rational
 solution. It is unlike the southern