The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-12-05
THE RICH MANS PARTY.
why the Wealth of the Country Identities
ItseIf with the Republican Organization.

/ why the Wealth of the Country Identifies
Itself with the Republican Organization.
During the later days Of the campaign
the charge that the Republican party
is controlled by rich men, and that
poor men ought therefore to vote the
Democratic ticket, has been used with
persistence and perhaps with some
effect. The great accommodations of
wealth in the hands Of certain indiyi-
duals have been skillfnlly paraded,
and especially those which have been
connected with trusts. Mr.. Richard
Croker, himself one of the rich men of
New York, the sources of whose income
are exposed now and then, much to his
shame, if he were capable of shame,
has become very yoluble on this sub
ject. Not n day passes i'll which he
does not give vent to his adherence
of trusts and Of wealth acquired in
underhand and mysterious ways. The
cutlery against rich men has set good
many people thinking and asking them
selves what is to be the end of ii, not
in this campaign, but in future political
and social movements 1T is certain
that people will not stop getting rich.
Few will curtail their gains rs long as
they can pile one dollar upon another.
Some will give away portion of their
money while they live, but most of
them will part with it only when they
must. If the getting of it is an offence
to be punished either at the polls, or
by the Legislature, or by some kind of
revolution, the apprehension of punish
ment will not deter one human being
from the pursuit Of wealth. 1t will not
prevent the millionaire from getting
another million any more than it will
prevent the day laborer who has bal
ance in the savings bank from increas-
ing it if he can.
If the Republican party is n rich
mans party, there must be reason
why it is so. There were plenty of
rich men in the Democratic party eight
years ago. When Mr.. Cleveland was
elected in 1891, there was no lack of
money for campaign purposes. He had
as important list of capitalists on his
side as his opponent had. In the Til
den campaign of 1876 there was fair
proportion Of rich men in the Demo
cratic party. If there was a prepon-
derance of wealth among the Republi-
cans it was not 50 great rs to occasion
remark or give rise to criticism What
has caused the change? II cannot be
the Protective Tariff, because TINT ex-
listed before. 1t was as rampant under
Harrison rs under Mckinley. 1t can
not be the trusts Democrats can go
into trusts ns easily as Republicans,
and they do so as readily. Not one, so
far as our knowledge goes, was ever
deferred from putting his property in
to Combine" if he thought he could
make money by doing so. Not one
over refrained from buying stock in II
trust if he could see profit i'll it. In
short. there is just as much human
nature in Democrats rs in Republicans.
They ARE Just as ready to make n dol
lar rs their opponents, and are not
more scrupulous in their methods.
The real mystery to be solved is not
why the Republican party contains
most of the rich men Of the country,
but why the rich Democrats have Join
ell the Republican party. They have
not done so on account of the high
T"i@. phoy arc ns rnuoh orponed to
TINT as ever.
The truth il that the Democratic
party has threntened the rich men who
have been attached to it by birth, by
tradition, and by belief, with the loss
of their property, in part by tho use Of
bad money, and i'll part by nm impair
ment of the safeguards which the Judi
cial system throws around poor and
rich alike. 1t IL needless to reeur To
the planks in their platform or to the
speeches of their candidate, in which
these menacing policies are embodied.
1t IL sufficient to show that the party
IL itself Mt fault for the loss of ts rich
men. Whatever loss it has suffered in
this regard il due to its own insensate
folly. This is the reason why SO many
Democrats of position and character
are saying, 1--WE intend to defeat the
party 80 badly that it will abandon its
attacks upon the gold standard, upon
the Judicial system, and upon social
order. When it does, when it returns
to the ancient mornings, and becomes
once more the party of Jefferson, Jack
son, Tildcn and Cleveland, we will re-
turn to it, and give it victory if we
can. y Ne'c York Evening Post Dem.
DAVID CRY, NEB., April /. 1904