Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-12
For Brvan and Democracy.
philadelphia Times,)


philadelphia Times,)
q The Times was from its first issu
an independent newspaper, free from
any control but that of it's obligation
to the public, and it's political indie
pendence very early led it to oppos
the corrupt, despotic, and dangerou
Ipolicies of the party then, as now, IL
power in city, State and nation, and t.
support the principles and the candi
dates of the Democracy. From tn,
very first year of its publication it hal
been the leading advocate of every
democratic candidate for Governor ol
Pennsylvania, and from Tilden tc
lCleveland it earnestly sustained every
democratic candidate for President.
! This advocacy was due to no self in.
fterest-for Democracy has had few ia.
Evors to dispense in Pennsylvania-but
Ito consistent conviction of what was
tto the public advantage, conviction
lthat experience has sustained. Not
hione -sAe-degrading effect of machine
politics in Pennsylvania, but the whole
tendency of Republican rule in the ma
tion, with its constant Capitalization
OF authority, the subserviance to the
money power, the building up of IA
vored interests by class legislation had
nowhere more earnest opponent than
the Times, and the Democrats of Pena-
sylvania learned to look to it as their
representative newspaper.
The Times has been unfailingly hos
tile to those measures with which
William Mckinley particularly was
identified, such as the monopoly breed
ing, defcit-producing tariff that bore
his name. Yet, four years ago; in the
sudden crisis that divided the councils
OF the Democratic party, and for the
time being seemed to have checked it's
great career, it seemed better to the
Times, as to many other leading Dem
ocratic papers, to sustain Mr.. McKin-
leY's election as President rather than
that of Mr.. Bryan. The decision was
made in good faith. The result has
shown it to be wrong. 1t is repented
and recanted.
All of the evils and the perils of the
so-called Republican policy have re-
turned seven-fold, developed and ex-
tended till the very foundations of the
government seemed threatened. Al
false economic system has resulted in
vast combinations of capital that
throttle individual industry and hold
control over all the functions of gov
ernment, and the spokesman of the
administration, representative OF one
of these great trusts, is calling upon
bis fellOw.capitalists for contributions
to buy another four years license to
rob, another four years life of their in
flated and false prosperity. The gov
thus controlled has found its
fittest expression in schemes of mill
tary conquest, and the blood and treas
ure of the nation are poured out to
subdue distant people and rob them
of those rights of liberty and independ-
ence that America has always claimed
for all mankind.
Imperialism, militarism, are the ma
tural Outgrowth of c0mmercialism in
politics, of the power of the few over
the many, the elevation Of money above
with all the system of spe-
cial privileges and corrupt control that
the Republican party since the civil
war has increasingly fostered. The
uphOlders of this system are themselves |
aware of it's hollowness, and are call
ing for aid from the money power to
bolster it up for time longer. The |
condition is one that the country must |
meet, and meet now, and the way to
meet it is by a reassertion of the Dem
ocratic idea and the election of a Dem |
ocratic President.
This the Times means to advocate |
with all the force it has. Our belief |
in the essential doctrines of the Demo-
cratic party and in their necessity to
the country is stronger than ever. No
one questions, or can question, the |
ability, the earnestness, the integrity |
Of the Democratic candidates. For the |
rescue of all that has made America
glorious in the past, and that can make |
her strong in the future it is duty to
support their election.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania |
have right to expect this of the Times,
and they shall not be disappointed.
We mean this paper to be recognized
rs a Democratic newspaper-hOnest.
fearless, and truthful-but always SIN
,erely and Loyalty devoted to the inter-
ssts and to the success of the Demo-
cratic party, it's measures. and its men.
We know that the Times has not filled
,his place in the past four years, but
we intend that it shall fill it hereafter,
and that it shall help to rally the Penn
'ylvania Democracy once more to a
lopeful battle for the Constitution and
5he laws and the rights of men In the
for Bryan and Stevenson.