Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-29
nemooratIc PrineipIes.

be one of the most important in the history
of the country, as an endorsement OF the
present Administration policies would
probably result in the final triumph of the
political theories, derived from an aristo-
cratic organization of society, which Jeffer-
son and jackson successfully fought and
vanquished A. lucid exposition of Demo-
cratic doctrine is given by Judge Murray
F. Tulley, of Illinois, in letter which has
just been published. He is not an active
DO 'itician, and the interests of factions or
their representatives are immaterial to
him. He desires the success OF Democratic
principles because be believes that their
supremacy in the Government will benefit
the people. He is the senior Judge OF the
Cook County Court, whose jurisdiction
includes the city of Chicago. For intellect,
purity of character and general disinteres-
tedness Judge TuIey commands universal
respect, and, though radical Democrat,
he has constantly had the support of the
better class of Republicans. who elected
him to Office while giving heavy msjorities
against all other Democratic candidates.
He holds Democratic principles to include
opposition to a protective tariff, 10 trusts
and monopolies, to the encroachment Of the
General Government in matters of local
administration and to the usurpations OF
the Federal judiciary. He pronounces pro-
lection in particular to be an important
present issue, because it has led to corrup-
ton and the decentralization of legislation
in the conferment of the gifts of franchises
and the creation of special privileges In
treating of trusts he declares that the
United States have become a country in
which there are more millionaires in pro-
portion to the population than in any other
on the face of the earth. He objects to
them because they undertake to control
politics and, through it, legislation. 10
this connection he says
The Democracy makes no war upon
wealth 1t recognizes that every man has
a right to enjoy bis wealth honestly &C.
CURED and TO have the same protected by
law. But when that wealth is used to
corrupt legislation, to Cypress the people,
and combines to govern the country it be-
comes plutocracy. Plutocracy is defined
by the Century Dictionary as being gov
eminent by the wealthy class; the rule of
wealth; a clats ruling by virtue of its
wealth"
The management of the Republican
party is arraigned in this way by Judge
Tulley Mark Hanna" he says, is the
greatest commercial politician this country
ever saw, man who knows the sale price
of every corrupt political boss, from State
to precinct boss, in the United States, and
the purchase price of every corrupt legis-
lative vote in Ohio" This master of
F." commercial politics. and of corrupt
intrigue nominated Mckinley at St
Louis in aconvention which resembled and
was more collection of railroad magnates
and representatives of manufacturers and
trusts and monopolies than convention of
the people. The silence of the platform
on the subject of trusts and monopolies
and their multiplication under the present
Administration show the Influences that
controlled that convention" In regard to
the silver question Judge Tulley finds no
principle in the support of free silver coin
age at ratio of sixteen to one, though he
holds bimetallism at some ratio to be of
the nature of principle. He thinks the
Democrats were led TO take to the above
ratio and to the support of Bryan upon it
by the fact that the combined capital of
the country, as embodied in the trusts and
under the tariff, took the opposite course.
The Issues that the Democrats are now
called to meet he defines as colonization,
imperialism and the maintenance of a
numerous standing army sustained by
systems of taxation which exhaust the
substance of the people. He says
expect to vote the Democratic ticket
at the next election, as / believe that this
country can survive either a silver Oh a
gold standard But will it be worth pre-
serving if it is to become a military re-
public and the bayonet of the soldier be
substituted for the consent OF the
governed ?p Excessive taxation and
monopolies breed revolution. Low long
will the people submit to be governed,
robbed and oppressed by these gigantic
trusts and monop lies ?"
Judge Tuley's letter plainly forshadows
says the Paterson Guardian the issues upon
which the next Presidential election will
be contested They are not essentially
different from those involved in the cam
paign of 1896, but will be more clearly
defined and better understood by the peo-
pie. The record of the Mckinley Admin
istration can hardly fail to convince them
that they were deluded and betrayed by
Republican politicians and to awaken
desire for the accendency of Democratic
principles, which accord equal rights to all
men and special privileges to none.