The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-28
THEY 10 NOT SEEK CONTROL.

On Sunday last we published letters that
have been written by Editor Norman T.
Mack, of Buffalo, New York, and Senators
James n. Berry and E. R. TAlman, upon
the future of the Democratic party
Those who left their party or voted
AGAINST its candidates should. and, no
doubt. will, find warm welcome pach 10
its folds. and it ought, in my judgment,
TO be entirely possible for them 20 Hllu
Conscientious place in its councas' out l
do net think that they should return "ith
the expectation of directing The party pol
lev and action to lie exclusion OF Others
VINO i:ay. remained faithful to the regular
marty organization. rake It that this is
the position of many. il no. ali, OF those
who suggest reorganization for any
other idea would seem to me likely to
proluce further d:scord and greater party
disaster rather thar an improved cond!-
ton Of party unity.
we do not know any Democrats who re-
fused to vote for Bryan in 1895 or in 1860
who wish to be put into control OF the
Democratic party. The men who quilted
the party in those two elections did SO
f!cm impulses and motives far beyond
any considerations relating to control OF
parties in holding offices. They are men
who have certain fixed principles Of gov
ernment bred into them as parts OF their
very being and they refused to 20 Win
their party IN those two elections because
they believed their party had deserted and
turned its back upon those principles, ana
they left it before they would do anything
inconsistent with those ideas an6 theories
that were parts of their very being.
What these men want is to see the DEM
ocratic party cut itself loose from Popu-
ism and the tenets OF anarchy that It
permitted Aitgeld and his followers to
bring into it and return TO those elemen-
tary and simple propositions of plain jus
tice that Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson commended to their fellow citi-
zcns. If the party will only do this. the
seeding Democrats will again take their
place in ranks. asking for nothing but the
privilege of casting their votes for DEM
ocratic platform, and be good citizens who
believe in the tenets Of Democracy, and
who will do al, in their power to have
this government conducted upon those
principles.
Then seeding Democrats are not office
seekers. No doubt there are many amongst
them who indulge a laudable ambition TO
wear the honors of their country when
those honors come to them properly, but
the great body OF them are the plain cit-
zeas OF the country who are attending
10 their oWn affairs, and who would not
have public Office If it were Offered to
them.
As was remarked by the Louisville Cour-
Ter Journal IN the extract from that paper
that we printed yesterday. these are the
n,e.. who will hereafter control the elec-
tons They believe in certain elementary
principles of justice and they expect the
political party that they act with to shape
its actions in conformity VIII, those prin-
ciples. If it will not do so. they will vote
with the opposing party or will not vote
al ali.
The two last elections ought TO nave
taught the leaders OF the Democratic party
the truth Of what we here say, and, II 1t
has not, they VIII remain out OF power
forever. Steam and electricity inform ali
OF the people now at the very moment
1t happens of every event that pertains
to their we'll being, and with the facts be-
fore them. tho people think for them
selves and make up their own minds, and
the party managers who do not take this
erea, and all controlling fact with con-