Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-12

of the United States in national conven-
tion, assembled according TO custom,
adopted platform which received the
sanction of nearly two-thirds of a very
large proportion of the Democrats of the
nation.
"Ihat convention had a right to define
Democracy in party sense, and we have
right to declare that those who in
dorsed that platform are Democrats and
that those who refused to support the
platform are NOT Democrats. 1t is
strange that there should be any contest
over this point. 1t is strange that those
who secured for their candidate less than
4 per cent of the popular vote of the
United States, should insist that they are
entitled to be called the real Democrats,
and then urge their claim to respectable
lty in numbers on the ground that the
majority of them voted for the Repub-
lican candidates. If a majority has a
right to give party definition of De-
mocracy, then there may be as many def
initlons as there are individuals. If those
who bolted the Chicago nominees have
right to call themselves better Democrats
than those who supported such nominees,
then the boiling Democrats who bolted
the boiling ticket and voted for the Re-
publican nominees have a right to call
themselves better Democrats than the
boilers who supported the boiling ticket.
"The right to the party organization
belongs to the majority and the right to
the party must also belong to the major
ity. There should be no difficulty in under
standing the relations which should exist
between the Democrats who remained in
the party and those persons who went out
of the party. A party is defined as an as
ISOLATION of persons who agree upon
an important question or questions and
who unite to give effect to their ideas.
"This campaign has shown the impos-
sibility of keeping bimetallists and gold
standard advocates in the same political
organizations, and it will be more diff
cult task in the future than it has been
this year. To use a common illustration,
a hen is always disturbed if she has in her
brood few ducks which insist upon pad
ding in the water while the chickens are |
content to scratch upon the land. The
Democratic party will in like manner be
i'll at ease if it has few web-footed mem
bers who Insist upon crossing the ocean
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of the party are willing to find their po-
litical food upon American SOIL
"Not only is this separation between
the gold standard Democrats and free
silver Democrats a necessity, but it
ought to be desirable to both sides. If
the gold standard Democrats are bad po-
litically, as We think they are, we ought
not to care to affiliate with them, and if
those who supported the Chicago plat
form are half as bad as the goldbugs say
they are, they are apt to contaminate all
who associate with them. In my opinion
there should be no compromise of the is
sues involved in the late campaign and
no terms short of absolute surrender Of
Tered to those who have deserted US. If
my Democrat becomes convinced that
The gold standard Is necessary or becomes
! defender of trusts, he can leave the
,arty and join the boiling Democrats or
he Republicans. If any boiling Demo-
rat sees the error of his way and is will
ng to indorse the Chicago platform and
abor with those who seek to carry it in
o effect, we will welcome such a Demo-
rat back into the fold. We are engaged
low in Just such contest as that through
which Andrew jackson passed, and we do
veil on this occasion to take encourage
nent from his devotion to the cause of
he people. He gained his greatest vic
ory in his fight against the national
,ank. We have the same fight on hand
o-day. .