Amador ledger., 1900-09-21


have warned them time and again of
the inevitable results of their stupidity.
The Democratic press and the Demo.
Gratis i'll congress urged and brought ON
the war, and then the De1 ocratic lead.
ers, under the control of Bailey, and
Influenced by petty jealousy, forced the
Democratic party into an attitude of
opposition to the Democratic policy of
expansion. to the very principles of JEFF
ferson, the father of American Democ.
racy.
"The suicidal attitude of the Demo.
cratic leaders began with the opposition
to the annexation of Hawaii. These
leaders proposed driving Democratic
congress into caucus to oppose annexa-
ton. The Journal sent its representa-
tive editors to Washington and fought
this caucus and broke it up, and pre-
rented the Democracy from mu6,iRo a
formal and conspicuous idiot of itself
on that occasion. But the narrowness
of the leaders continued and DEVELOPED
tendency to oppose every Republican
act, even though it embodied Demo-
cratic principle.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS DO NOT SPEAK roR
THE DEMOCRACY.
Democratic defeat is not due to the
Democratic people OF to Democratic
principles, eut to Democratic leaders
who, having, as we say, brought OH the
war, refused to share the honors of the
war or to acquire for the people the
lasting benefits of the war. The Demo
cratic leaders do not speak for the
Democracy, and Republicans have every
where been elected with the aid of Dem
ocratic votes. "W. r. HEARST -
On the next day, November II, 1898,
the Examiner returns to the charge as
follows:
"In the exultation of Republicans II
their general success, i'll the chagrin OF
Democrats over their defeat, the great
moral victories of the campaign should
not be lost to view. The people rebuked
the Democratic leaders for their cow
ardice and trimming at tie time o.
great national crisis, but this tact
rendered all the more remarkable a.. !
noteworthy the rebule of individual
Republicans who have not been true to
their public trust
NOW FOR A POSITIVE DE,!ti,., aCg.
On the very next day, November -,
1898, we find i'll the Examiner the to-
lowing clarion call to take up IA po Tive
instead of a traditional nagging pllicy:
1.-The Democratic party, deteafed H..
cause Of the pusilopimouS stupidity #
its leaders in HASH, g!oa, has lilo
chance of a splendid regeneratien ;
taking up the forceful doctrine Of =.
tional expansion ana giving ali ia .-
ergies to the furtherance If the natissts :;
MANIFEST DESTINY. 1t is high time F,
stop snarling at evcrythi = a;iv2cai.. :
by the Republicans, whcther good. i,,;l
OF Indifferent. Give the people So. >
patriotic rallying cries. Set the Dein..-
cratic standard well in advance of -
tional progress!
"When Ii was proposed to annex !.
Waii many of the Democratic La,le; 5
opposed taking this rich Offering so
freely rendered. Why? Generally hs-
cause the annexation was favored -
the Republican administration r.
the people We're practically unanimous
for annexation, and the Democr;laic
leaders lost the confidence of the nassrs
by their stupid, purblind opposition.
They became mere stumbling blocks i'll
the path of progress.
"Then, when it came to securing III /
itary bases i'll the West Indies these
same Democratic leaders chaffered and
haggled over items of war expenditures.
Now again they are giving evidences Of
opposing the popular will in the matter
of the ANNEXATION OF THE PHILIPPINES,
Tt is high time to call halt. The
Democratic party will not follow such
leadership. The people already baye
repudiated it."
The reader will not fail to note that
the Democratic leaders whom Mr..
Hearst has SO splendidly condemned in
the foregoing paragraphs, and exhorted
to repentance, are still leading the
Democracy in the same old way; that
they are still manifesting the s,me
"pusilanimous stupidity" of "opposirg
everything advocated by the Repnbl.-
cans" aud are still manifestin:; the
same "stupid, purhlind opposition" to
JeffersoniaA principles, with the result
that they viii again be repudated hy
true Democrats as they We're two yesrs
ago.