The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-12

Detfayeu tne DemOcrdtc party 10
Mckinleyism, the trusts and mill
tarism, with all of their attendant evils
and abandoned Bryan, the selected
standard bearer. These men are en-
while the Democratic party is too great
to seek revenge, still 1t would be a
criminal blunder and an irretrievable
error to restore them to the full priv
ileges of membership until they have
demonstrated their cOntrition by long
period of good works without reward.
II is the duty of Democratic news
paper to warn the public against these
pien. and expose the fact that they are
leagued together in a conspiracy to
throw the DemOmratic party back into
the clutch of the plutOcracy. That cen
spiracy is being perfected by the selfish
and constituencies politicians who DOM
mated the party prior to 1896. 1t is be-
ing managed and financed with the
wealth the Whitneys the Lannon'S, the
Benedicts and the DickinsOns drew
from the trusts which aim to control
the national administration for their
own malign purpose.
The Democratic party knows the
wishes of the people and can and will
crafty them at its national convention
1t can and will protect the people
against the smooth deceiving argu-
ments of these renesades. but the peO-
pie must resist their Establishments and
not succumb to their treachery.
Here is the remedy: Bind all dele
gates to this: "A reaffirmatiOn Of the
Chicago platform" and let such in
structions be uniform and unchange-
able from the district conventions to
the State conventions, thence to the na-
tional convention, where such instruct
ed delegates will see to it that only
such men are nominated as We're loyal
to the Chicago platform and have never
strayed from it since.
Consider all opposition to such in
structiOns as evidence of dislOyalty.
Bear in mind this motto: Instruct. In
structi!
A President Who Does Not Lead.
The people cannot follow President
who does not lead: and they cannot
escape the impression that he is HIM
self following some one else. He at
first. in n public message. urged free
trade with Porto Rico: he now. in pri-
vate interviews, urges a tariff between
us and Porto Rico. Why? This is the
,,aSt;n,, xrb;.h tho panpla or., IN oScinU
which the Presidents best friends and
warmest supporters are asking. and to
which he ought to give an answer as
public and as authoritative as his orig
inal message.
This is not a question for cOmprO-
mise If it be true that the President
has not changed his mind but only his
policy. and has reluctantly become an
advocate of 10 per cent. tariff in or
der 10 unite his party. he has made Il
most serious political mistake. Cues
tions of method are always subjects of
compromise; questions of principle are
not. 1t is the widespread and growing
suspicion that this tariff is levied not
in the interests of Porto Rico, but in
the interests of the United States.
American people against the Porto
Rican tariff. That suspicion is fast be-
coming conviction.
BY his change of policy, unaccOm.
panied by any public statement of his;
reasons. on L question which. though
not financially of great importance.
rightly seems TO the American people
fundamental in principle, the President
has subjected himself 10 the suspicion
of compromising those principles of JUS
tice and liberty which are far dearer to
the people than any conceivable trade
Outlook CRev. Lyman
AbbOtt's paper.