Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-02-14

independence. In refusing to force upon
them our government against their own
will; likewise in outspoken Democratic
sympathy for Dom Paul and the brave
and dauntless Beers. and in repudiatine
the ADMINISTRATORS Anglo-American
Alliances not Bryan, backed as he is
so enthusiastically by the Democracy of
1900, is not Bryan loyalty asserting JEFF
terson's wise doctrine "Peace, commerce.
and honest friendship with all nations
entangling alliances with none1"
Democratic principles.-aye, in every
line of them is the wisdom of the ages!
| No good man who once embraced them.
would league them for the "isms" Of the
Republican party. Gold Standardism,
Imperialism or other tangent from the
right line. No Democrat should abandon
his party when he thinks it is temporarily
forgetful of these principles. but on the
contrary he should strive in every way
within his party to bring it back to its
true position. History shows that all
such efforts are more fruitful than at.
tempts of factions to mend matters by
building new parties. say this in no
spirit of harsh criticism OF those who
temporarily left the Democratic party IN
Colorado; it is only an observation and
l think a true one. Democrats should
be magnanimous enough to forget such
differences in the actions Of individuals,
save to point the value OF steady adher.
ence to sound Democratic principles.
Andrew Jackson never thought of new
party when the money magnates of the
democratic party threatened him and
his friends with political oblivion. He
withdrew the United States deposits. de-
fed the party leaders land they were
relatively stronger those days. than we're
the Gold Democrats in 1866 and he ap
pealed to the plain people-the Demo
cratic masses. And these same plain
people, the same stock as now unhinch.
ingly and uncompromlsingly support
Bryan,-thsn supported Jackson and re
turned him in triumph to Washington.
And all this was done within and as the
act of the grand old Democratic party,
founded upon the simple but eternal
truths which Jefferson, better than Jack.
son. could formulate. but Jackson, better
than any other could enforce in the face
of apparently crushing opposition. Long
live the memory OF such Democratic men
and such Democratic deeds And so not
with false pride or boasting. but with Sc
rlous and earnest wishes for the good of
all, should you in Boulder, revive and
promulgate these Democratic deeds. acts
and principles, so that all men may be
mindful of them. And knowing of them.
may not pass them lightly bu, ponder
and think many will embrace. Certain
ly every sincere Populist and every earn
est Silver Republican cannot long reject
these principles. And except those Of
the Republicans whose interests steel
their minds against argument, those in
whom some natural bigotry leads them
10 f1out Democracy without any reason.
exc, pit only those. even Republicans may
profit by such contemplation. Tn: older
| grow, the more charitable in judgment
| become, and l think it we'll to admit
the masses of all parties are well mean.
ing and sincere. Argument therefore
should be on equal basis, free from as
sumed superiority which is always Of
fensive to an adversary. have such an
abiding faith in the wisdom and good.
ness and lasting truth of cardinal Demo-
cratic principles. that fair exposition
of them and constant reiteration by and
through your society. regard the best
advice can give you in this hurried let.
ter. Bryan in himself is the very en-.
bodiment of Democratic principles. The
publication of his speeches in the local
press would spread the doctrines you
want to teach, for it is marvellous truth
that Bryan alone Of public men appar.
entity, in the hurry Of extempore speech,
never utters any false or unfortunate or
damaging statement by mischance or
otherwise.
At the dawn of the goth century, the
people of the whole world are nightly
in need of a great intellectual and moral
leadership to halt the forces of vast and
aggregated wealth, that would ride
rough -shod over property rights and over
sweet humanity itself in the greed of
vaster wealth and its rush for foolish and
vain display-an arrogant and vulgar
force that unstayed, will build upon the
basis of i'll gained wealth. the lust of os.
tentatious place and power. even to the
topping of this grand republ'c-grand.
to nay mind, not in splendor or show. but
grand because it is the conception and
III. ealiza tion of the most nr0found wis.