The record-union., 1898-08-23
MAGUIRE'S WITHDRAWAL.
DENOUNCED THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY VIGOROUSLY.
Determined to Give His Services to
the Single Tax Party For
the Future.

thanks to the OfhcerS, past and present,
for many courtesies which they have
| extended during our long and pleasant
association.
Let me also assure the members with
whom my personal relations have al
ways been most cordial, that my with
drawal is not prompted by any personal
considerations, but that it is to me a
painful act of duty to political prin-
| ciples and convictions with which the
present policy of the Democratic party
| is not in accord.
AS this resignation is the final act
which sewers my connection with the
Democratic party, State and national,
| 1t is but just to you, and all others who
| have stood shoulder to shoulder with
| me in the political battles of the past,
that I should fully and frankly state
| the reasons which have moved me in
| this serious STEP
Early in life / learned to reverence
the name Democracy, as representing
all that is sublime in the political his
tory of past ages and as connotating
the best of political principles.
The party bearing this sacred name
| being out of power at the time that I
reached my majority, I naturally en-
tered its ranks, hoping, and expecting
that it would ever be the aggressive
and intelligent champion of liberty,
| equality and justice wherever and
whenever these vital principles of So
cial happiness might be either neglect
| ed or assailed.
Finally our party triumphed but,
alas, it has brought no relief to our
suffering people. The benefit of that
triumph has amounted to no more than
the distribution Of a few official prizes
to the friends and relatives of wealthy
aristocrats and to the henchmen of DO
lltical bosses. There are, of course. ex-
ceptions, but this has been the rule.
Wealth is still the standard of re-
| spectability, just as it was under Re-
| publican administrations, and the rights
and wishes of the great Democratic
masses of the country are just as com
pletely ignored
| Rival bidders for the affections of
| monopohsts, the great national parties
nave become like as two peas both in
| actions and principles
The great intellectual statesmen. the
men OF principle and courage, once the
| glory OF our country, have been retired
from our tederal Senate, and the peo-
pie have practically ceased to be repre-
sented there: The chamber which once
held that highest body of earthly legis-
lators is now sort of national stock
| excnange, wherein seats are sold to
monopol1sts and to wealthy seekers af-
ter social standing. In the matter of
| sanctloning this iniquity, honors seem
10 be easy between the parties
Inc entire area of our great country
including the natural opportunities of
all people-natural resources. without
Whlch none of our people can live-has
peen made the exclusive private prom
| efty OF few thousand alien and do
mestlc landlords, who, by virtue of the
| absolute control which they do thus.
as owners, exercise over the only mean
OF living of our landless millions. are
ropplng the latter continually to from
| one-half to four-fifths of the fruits of
their labor, and are daily driving them
10 lower and lower depths of slavery
| and helpless misery
Ihls is system of human seryitude
just as complete as chattel slavery and
IN many respects more atrocious: vet
| the so-called Democratic party while
claiming to be the friend of the laborer
| expressly defends this system. and bids
1or the support of those who profit bv
! IL. But these are not the only matters
10 which the party has been recreant.
| III the late Democratic State Conven-
tioh an emissary of certain railroad
corporations, who acted as a carrier of
messages between his masters and the
committee on Platform, caused that
| committee to eliminate a resolution
condemning the election of the Presi-
dent OF the Central Pacific Railroad
company to the United States Senate
| ana also caused the committee to elm
| mate senator Reddy's resolution upon
tHe ohihese question, which prior to his
| appearance had been adopted. This
iaiilodo emlssary received, as his re-
Wdio Ior this successful service a
Dehiocfallc nomination for Congress
Is put just, in defense of the peonle
lhal should add he was not elected
WIZ not recount the painful history
iiof oWeH upon the deplorable condi-
lioh, oI our local Democracy 1t is but
oiiiicuit TO speak of this branch of the
party III the language of polite corre-
| Spohuehce- Let 1t here suffice to saw
.hat our local Democracy is under the
uoinlmon or man who has been pl1b-
ilciy charged with having openly and
VIGOROUSLY purchased votes on last
election day. This charge has been
| strongly supported by the sworn and
recorded testimony of several citizens.
! yet although this crime against The
elective franchise is a blow at the very
| heart of our liberty, a crime more
dreadful in it's consequences than mur-
oer or open treason, no citizen has vet
manifested sufficient confidence in the
democratic officers who are charged
with conducting public prosecutions to
even hle complaint against this al
| legged offender.
In race of this public charge and of
other equally outrageous doings, as if
TO not only humiliate the State Democ-
racy, and commit it to the ratification
OF such iniquities, the Chairman and
other members Of the State Central
Committee publicly serenaded this man,
| and the Chairman thanked him and
eulogfzed him for his statesman-Ike
services to the party during the cam
palgn. And SO / might go to ad
libitum, ad nauseum usque, but it Is
unnecessary. As a self-respecting man
I would feel justified, and bound in
honor to withdraw from a party which
has fallen to such levels; but there is
another potent reason for my immedi
ate withdrawal, which is: That a. new
party is being formed for the purpose
of restoring the natural rights of the
great landless democracy of America.
1t is founded upon the idea that all
men have an equal right to live and. as
a necessary consequence, that all men
have at all times an equal and an in