The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-08
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THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND.

Is NJ GROUND.
From the Kansas City Times.
1t is refreshing, though not surpris
ing, to notice in the New York Sun, ever
though it be in the guise of a commu
nication, Il statement defining who an1
what constitutes the genuine demo
cratic party. Although Manhattan, tn,
pen name of the writer, is plainly {
republican, he Is an arrant believer in
party regularity and shows the cuckoos
how far outside the breastworks they
fell when they voted against the nOmi.
nees of the democl attic party at the last
presidential election. s~'NIanhattan''
tells these unfortunates:
"The democratic party, as officially
and regularly organized, is for the
Chicago platform, and there is no other
democracy. Those who spurn that
platform are no longer democrats. The
regular democratic party has driven
them out. A democrat who repudiates
the Chicago platform can not stop
short of r~epudiating the democratic
party also. 1t is the only official
standard of democracy now existing. 1t
was established in accordance with
strict democratic rule, and its authority
and regularity as the current demo-
cratic creed are ~iIdisputable. Gen
uine democracy today is the Chicago
platform. Whoever rejects and repudi-
ates it is not a democrat. He has gone
over to the enemies of the democratic
party as at present organized, and rea-
sonably the regular democracy count
him ont as a deserter in the making up
of their rolls of the faithful"
What is ''genuine democracy Is it
not the formal creed of political princi-
Piles declared by a genuinely constituted
and authoritative national democratic
convention, representative of the whole
partyp Is not obedience to the will of
such a convention n fundamental prin-
ciple of democracy? At Chicago more
than two-thirds of the delegates voted
for the platform and for the candidates
nominated on it. That platform became
consequently, the official declaration of
democratic faith, the standard by which
for the time being ''genuine democ-
racy" was to be determined. Neither
was there any formal bolt from the
convention. The small Directing
minority remained. There was no flaw
in the proceedings. The convention
was of unquestionable regularity and
fully empowered to express ssgenuIne
democracy and there is not, there
could not have been, q contrary declar-
alton by any other convention entitled
to be called genuinely democratic. The
stamp of the democratic party
was put on the Chicago platform
alone.
The Indianapolis platform was utterly
without democratic Regularity and au-
thOrity. 1t was not a convention called
and made up according to democratic
requirements and usages, but was a
volunteer body wholly, with no title
and no power to express the sentiment
of the democracy.
When Senator Teller was unable to
prevent the adoption of the gold plank
in the st. Louis platform of The repub-
lican party he withdrew from the con
and the party, They were OPP
posed to his convictions Numerically,
and he did not make the simple pretense
of remaining, on the plea that his sill
yer theory was "'genuine republican
ism while the gold declaration OF the
convention was spurious republicanism.
He retired, on the ground that he
could no longer be a republican, the
of the republican political
faith having been established authori-
by the convention.
That vas square; it was conduct IN
cumbent on him as an honest man. His
party had adopted q platform opposed
20 his views, and hence he stepped out,
p~erforoe, and he has remained outside.
republicanism, determinable
lnly by a national convention OF the
party, is rejected by him, and accord
ngly he ceased to be a republican.
There is no middle ground for the
ooltocrats. TLeT must return to the
democratic organization or go
'ver TO the republicans. Their little
'pera bouffe organization of last fail
will be without a chorus in 1898 and
900 if they keep it up.