Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-02
TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRATS.


1t is singular. this pertinacity and
non-significance of name, especially
of the name of political party Once
attached to an organization it adheres
to II and its successors, real and pre-
sgs We sometimes during the life
time of nation Perhaps political
party names and their embodiments do
not differ in this respect from cognomi-
nal relations and history in general. An
individuals name is not always indica
tive of the same kind of man at diff
ferent periods of his existence. The
name of Gladstone, for example, meant
tory sixty years ago, the remembrance
of which fact in after years served only
to increase tory rage and to make more
audible the gnashing of tory teeth.
There are people who have inherited
and are wearing respectable denomi-
national designations with an ease and
comfort. perhaps one might say with an
| incouciance. that make you forget the
personal heresies of the individual.
| But political parties afford the most
marked example of the great historic
| fact that cognomens are meaningless;
and of all political parties. the modern
democratic party affords the most
startling illustration of this natural lack
| of logical connection between the name
and the thing.
Here is series of pictures of well
known nen-contrasted two by two,
They are all men generally known and
| classified as democrats. In one group
are men of high character and fine in
tellectuality, men who have risen to
lrare distinction by reason Of character
and ability. In the other group are men
of quite different stamp. These two
groups declare the differences in thei,
| faces One set of pictures is clearly OF
/ a group of men who have the courage
of independence, who reflect and study
and think. Some of the others study
and think. too, but there is difference
between the physical aspect OF the mar
whose mental work is with principles
and the one whose mind is busy devils
ing shifts and turns for his own advan
tage. Compare the faces of Charles s
Fairchild and Altgeld, for example; 1.
lit necessary to say anything more? Car
words add to the story of character
written on the faces of these two men
l Look, again, at the photographs O
Grover Cleveland and William
Bryan. 1t would be a poor compliment
to the readers Of the Weekly to asl
them which one Of these two men coult
be more safely intrusted with import
ant affairs, which is the man OF infiexi
BILE will, of strong convictions, Of stall
wart character, OF complete dependable
ity, whose mind will guide him an,
whose conscience will hold him straigh
in the path which he believes to be tn
right one. Is it not true that the fac
of the other. with his vanity shining
, even in the pictured eyes and his mo
bile mouth ready to fly open at sec
ond's warning, is the face Of maj
i whose convictions lie upon his lips
| ready to be flooded out by wordy emo
ton or passion? Look at Carlisle an
Hogg-the striking examples Of tn
clear thinking lawyer and statesma
and the muddy and fiabby minded rhet
orican, whose pride Is not that he ha
/. come from humble people and demon
strated the sturdiness Of his stock b
r his own achievements, but that he cor