The weekly examiner., 1901-05-25

because the Democratic party or the time was not democratic, but an organ ization controlled by a slave-holding oligarchy.
 Here is a sample of what may be found in this Hartford paper from time to time:- -
 We trust the Democratic party has done for ever with fusion, says the Charlottesville (Va.) Progress (Dem.) It is a fatal policy. It is wrong in principle and disastrous in practice, and the harm it has worked us in recent years is, we believe, incalculable It has not only not brought us any prominent gains, but it. has shaken public confidence in the soundness and conservative people afraid of us. It has placed us in bad company-in the Fellowship of men whose politics are considered wild, radical and revolu- tionary-men whose views are so ex- treme and dangerous as to suggest anarchy; and with these men the world is going to identify us until we cut loose entirely from them, and return once more to our old safe moorings.
 The fault with such reasoning as this is that the things alleged to be facts are not so. The Democratic party as it was found at the end of Grover Cleveland's term of office had no de- mocracy in it. It was because of this fact and the tendencies leading up to it for several years before that the Peo- ple's party became such a growing power. Many of the men of head and heart within the pale of the Democratic organization, realizing that the party was under the control of the money power of the world the same as was the Republican organization, felt the utter uselessnesss of wasting. time and energy in striving to make it what it's name should indicate and so united with the, Peoples party, composed of men who had sensed the situation ear Her, not only in reference to the Demo- cratic party, but the Republican party as we'll, And as these men left the Demo cratic party because of it's not being democratic, so many of them returned to it when the Cleveland kind had lost control and the party showed signs of becoming truly demo ocratfc dzg the guiding influence of such men aseBry- an, A1tgeld. Williams, Stone of Mis- souri, Su1zer of New York and John son and Lentz of Ohio. Yet these are the men who are now characterized as ''bad company whose politics are considered wild, radical and revolution ary."
 But as to cutting loose from these men and their politics and returning to the ''old safe moorings," that would only land the party back into the Re- publican camp, where it was when Cleveland was in command-at least so on every issue affecting the rule of the money power-the supreme ruler of all the other powers. Of course there would be some issues on which the par ties would divide That must be made so in order to ward off the suspicion of the peop1e that they were but two wings of the same army. And when this is done, if it ever will be tried again and with much more success than in '96, then the result will be that the party will be split asunder worse than before, with nothing to hope for on the part of those who belong to the party for the power it may have of securing them office with all that the world inn plies, regardless of the principles in volved. e
 These papers pretend to be awful1y fearful of radical doctrines being inn posed on the country. Yet theirs is the policy that will sooner bring this radicalism to us if it ever is to come
 For it will force the more democratic members of the Democratic party out of it and into the ranks of party more radical still, and the trusts and com pines will do the rest, the people after while learning to realize that noth- ing but radicalism of the most pro-