The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-12-15
!. AFTER BRYAN-rHE DELUGE. :

Gazette of Dec. Sth, one of the most
influential Democratic newspapers OF
this State contains an arraignment OF
the policy and present principles OF
the Democratic party to which it will
be difficult to find an answer. In
clear and forcible language 1T proves
that the Democratic party in its pres
ent attitude is neither patriotic nor
wise. and is hurtful to business inter
ests at home and the honor of the
flag abroad
eff Democratic leadership in New
Jersey is sincerely anxious to find
out why this State has changed from
a certain Democratic State by ma
jority of from seven to twenty thous-
and to an equally certain Republican
State anywhere from ten to ninety
thousand, let them go first among the
business men who gave their time,
their labors and their means to sup
port Democracy under the leadership
of Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland
Ask them why they have ceased to be
interested in the Democratic party
and why the Democratic vote is di-
minished, and they will answer that
any party whose success would con-
vulse the industrial, commercial and
trade interests of the country, degrade
its currency and impoverish its labors,
cannot command the support of intel
ligent and patriotic citizens
The committee should next go to
the crowded hives of industry to be
found in our mills and mines, and also
among the workingmen in field, forest
and shop who have only their labor
on which to depend for a livelihood.
Ask them why they have ceased to
work and vote for the Democratic
party, and they will answer as with
one voice, that they suffer when bust
ness revulsion forces them to idle
ness; that they are now employed at
increased wages, and that they can
support no party that would pay the
laborer in any other money than the
best the world can furnish They
have ceased to favor Democracy solely
because the Democracy has ceased to
be honest with itself.
Let Chairman Gourley take his COM
mittee next to the scores OF thousands
Of soldiers in our State. the veterans
Of the Civil War and those who have
braved deadly climate to maintain
the flag in the recent war with Spain.
Ask them why they have ceased to
champion the cause of the Democratic
party, and they will answer with next
to universal unity, that they can sup
port no party that does not support
the government and the flag when in
volved in war, and that they cannot
enthuse over Presidential candidate
in this country whose most Jealous
supporter of any land is Aguinaldo,
the murderous insurgent chief in the
Philippines
When the committee shall have made
these inquiries it should finally take
up the political history of our great
country, and learn what Democracy
taught under Jefferson. its founder, and
maintained in uubroken mastery for
sixty years. They will find that De-
mocracy meant honest government,
honest money and honest devotion to
the country and its flag. They will
find, also, that when the party was
broken up by it's leaders inaugurating
armed rebellion to dismember the
Union, it was defeated overwhelming
ly by the people, and it was practically
voiceless in the government of the re-
public for nearly a generation. 1t
gave a large popular majority to Til
den in 1876, whose patriotism was un-
questioned; it would have elected
Hancock, the gallant soldier and wise
statesman, in 1880, but for the pertidy
of Tammany, and it gave to Cleveland
an increased popular majority in three
consecutive battles. Then came bust
ness revulsion and industrial prostra-
tion, and Organism came with repu
diation, agrarianism and thinly dis
guised anarchy, and after him the
deluge.
The committee has an important
duty to perform, and most inviting
field to explore. Let it do it in honesty
and fairness, and let the truth be fear
lessly told why the Democratic vote
is steadily diminishing.
The Trenton True American, Demo
cratic, quotes the following from the
New York World, also Democratic:
1T is sign of quickened con-
science and of returning sense and
courage when number of the Demo
cratic Representative in Congress
from this state are ready to vote for
the gold standard .,whch, is now
actually or in effect the standard Of
the whole civilized and commercial
world !"
AS will be seen these two papers
like the Hackettstown Gazette are
driven by the logic Of events to en-