Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-25
BLACKER AND BLACKER
GROW THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE "Ao-
VANCE AGENT OF PROSPERITY"
Deeper and Deeper Sink the Peoples
Feet Into sloughs Of Dcs-
pOndency.

Never has there been healthier OF
more robust organization of the Dem
ocratic party than that which exists
to-day. Two years ago it was help
lessly divided. The Administration
of Mr.. Cleveland had disguised nine
tenths of the Democratic party and
had driven three million of voters out
of its ranks. The Populist organiza-
ton was but an expression of protest
and condemnation by Democrats of
Cleveland's subserviency to Wall
street. 1t contained also many dream
ers and enthusiasts who are always
to be found ready to join any new in
dependent party movement in the
hope of impressing upon it their
honest but not always wise views as
to the remedies for all political ills.
Two million of voters abstained from
voting, and Of their number by far
the larger portion were Democrats.
The Democratic National conven-
ton last year was the result of an in
tense struggle between the money
power and the masses of the party
for control. All the power and the
patronage Of the administration and
all the influence Of the great moneyed
institutions were arrayed on the side
of gold domination. This power
which had heretofore proven irresist-
IDLE in the primary. movement OF
each of the great parties, succeeded
only in capturing the Northeastern
States, and some scattering strength
in the West and South. To be exact
out of total vote of $50 delegates,
they secured BOT votes, Of which B
were from the South, 246 from the
states north of the Potomac and east
of the Alleghanies, and SO from the
West. Three votes from Florida were
all that Mr.. Cleveland and the bank
ers united could control from the
South; while Wall Street and
the administration were beaten down
in the State and Territorial conven
tions of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Kentucky, and every
other State and Territory between
the Mississippi River and the Pacific
Ocean, except in Minnesota, South
Dakota, Washington, Wyoming, and
the Territory of Alaska,-and of
these, 9 of their Al votes were cast
with the majority. A resolution COM
mending the honesty, economy, cour-
age and fidelity of the Cleveland Ad-
ministration was voted down by
vote of 564 to 357. Mr.. Bryan's nom
mated was made by vote of 652 to
1912 not voting. He Heretofore
received 80 votes in excess OF a two
thirds vote of the convention. The
platform was adopted by vote OF
658 to 300, which was 8 in excess of a
two-thirds vote. This action of
the convention was ratified at the
polls by more than six and a half
millions of voters. Less than l34 900
boiling Democrats supported the
nominees of the so-called National
Democratic Convention" which nomi-
mated Messrs. Palmer and Buckner.
Every Democratic voter who could
be controlled by the Cleveland adj
or by the Wall street
money power, went over bag and
baggage into the Republican camp,
and Mr.. Cleveland's greatest utter
ance is an assertion that the Republl-
can party was placed in power last
"as result of splendid
Democratic patriotism"
We have grouped these figures for
the convenience of those who desire
to study the subject of the rehabilita-
ton of the Democratic party. MIR.
Cleveland has given us his view,
which is that the regular Democracy |
Of six and half million of voters, to-
gether with hundreds of thousands of
other Democrats, whose votes were
lost to the Democratic party through |
must abandon their own
party md rally to the support of the
self -styled National Democratic
party, consisting of l34 900 who
voted for Palmer, and an indefinite
of those who proved their
Democracy by voting lor mchlnley
and Hobart, and who may not remain
in the Republican party. The exact
words in which he recommends this
of the regular Demo
cracy and its absorption into the
handful of boilers are as follows:
"Let true Democrats meet the pas
sion and bitterness of their former as
sociates who have assumed the lead
ership of antiDemocratic wanderings
with firm expostulations, reminding
them that Democratic convictions
and Democratic conscience cannot be
forced to follow false lights, however
held aloit; and let us, at the same
time, entreat them in the name of
honorable political comradeship, and
in the memory of glorious victories
won by united Democracy, to
turn from the way that leads to
party defeat and destruction.
1.-The task is not an easy one, but
surely it is not hopeless. The better
we appreciate its magnitude, the less