Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-10
| REGENERATED DEMOCRACY.
A Sensible Review of Political
Conditions.
BRYAN THE ONLY CANDIDATE.
when the People Move Resistance to
heir Demands by q Political Party
Means Death to That Party.

their Demands by q Political Party
Means Death to That Party.
TIE president OF the United States. in
dignity, power and responsibility, is the
highest position to which any American
may aspire. The chief magstracy of the
greatest and grandest republic OF all time
is post Of honor incomparably greater
than that OF king. emperor or czar. The
president of the United States is the ex-
ecutive head of mighty nation whose
sovereignty rests in the whole people,
who under constitution Of their own
making, select and empower one OF their
number to act for them for period OF
four years. The honor and dignity Of the
position is commensurate with the moral
and material worth Of the nation.
The American republic stands first
among nations. The corner stone upon
which it rests is the equality OF all men
before the law. Under it privilege is in
tolelable. 1t is the denial Of prerogative.
Its first breath was declaration Of uni
versal emancipation.
During a century and 4 quarter the
great republic Of the Western world has
infused hope and aspiration into the
hearts Of men everywhere and rendered
insecure every throne in Christendom.
In its continued success the despots, plu-
tocrats and privileged classes Of earth
plainly read their doom.
Despite the predictions Of the prophets
OF evil and the deductions Of the plliloso-
pliers Of despair, the great republic, after
weathering the storms of a century and
putting four wars behind it, stands today
stronger than ever, and potent to solve
the weighty problems that lie across it's
path. The republic is the embodiment
Of the principle OF equality before the law,
not Of part of the people, bnt Of the
whole. While this principle vitalizes
the republic it cannot fail, it's progress
cannot be limited, neither can its ex.
ample be resisted.
A government resting upon, and re.
sponsible to, the whole people is moral
force without limitations, intelligence be.
ing the only prerequisite for the reaiiza-
tor Of state whose moral functions
will he perfect.
Church ana SCt,vva l.~..n wrought for
more than a century. Only opportunists
and corrupt politicians are blind to the
work that has been accomplished. Con.
science has become the handmade OF IN
tellect. The people are greater than
parties and are incorruptible.
The people are patient and their pa
tience is interpreted by the unwise as
indiffere nee. That evils do not always
meet instant and indignant protest is
construed by the presumptuous rs toler.
alton.
The Tranquil confidence born OF reserve
power that l,ervades the public conscious
ness from periphery to center causes the
nation TO move majestically, but with
unerring precision. Thus to the super
fetal mind evils appear to have become
fixtures only the day before their doom
/ is pronounced.
New epochs break forth with sudden,
startling and irresistible power, crushing
to powder, as il in mockery. the supposed
impregnable Notifications OF the old.
Presidential elections are the great &C.
caslons that reveal the tremendous forces
that are silently, but none the less posi-
lively, working out the destiny OF the
great republic. When an issue is ripe
for final solution the hitherto peaceful
political waters are disturbed and politi.
clans and parties are impotent to still
the waves.
When the people move resistance to
their demands by both OF the great politi.
cal parties means the death OF one oil
Them. !.
parties were available to the people IN
the solution OF the slavery question.
Hence the republican party was created
to do the work.
1t is an old saying that "none are SC
blind as they who will not fee.' The
leaders OF the wing party in the iiitlef
were oblivious OF the approaching doom
of their party. and the slave power be-
lieved itself to be invincible. So now
the revolution to readjust the relations Of
government to the industrial forces OF the
nation has reached the point OF culmlna
ton, only to find the banks, trusts ant
corporations more insolent, imperlous
exacting and defiant In their demands
than ever before.
The farmers allilnce movement OF
dozen years ago was an uninistakaOl'
premolition OF impending political revo
luton. 1t ushered in an era OF pam
phleteering that practically converted tn
rural population into national debating
society. The swing Of the pendulum
from one political party to the other a
each succeeding presidential election
) since 1872 marked the unrest that va
fast ripe ming into open revolt. In 1889
political lines broke and million voter
supported the nominees Of new part
9 that had been in existence but fou
\ \ months, The money power sense
. trouble, and, having the republican part
9 securely in hand, threw their support il
q 1892 to Cleveland, who, in return, was
8 use the power and patronage Of the feder:
8 government to corrupt tho Democrat
\. : party and deliver it into the keeping
j the banks and corporations.
2 Cleveland's un.democratic policy All
o brutal methods incensed the masses j.,
Q the PARTY and drove them into revol
70 Cleveland with the national committt
. and a majority Of the local committeeme
3 in large number OF the states, togetl'
% with the postmasters, revenue collector
" United States attorneys and marshals