Woodruff County news., 1901-08-22
FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRACY. Must Always Include in It's Platform Reforms That the People Are
 Crying For.


 A vast deal of space has been given by republican newspapers to their proposed reorganization of the demo- cratic party. Of course the talk of re- organization is all rubbish; the party is as well or better organized to-day than it was in 1875 before Samuel J. Tilden was elected or in the year pre- ceding the election of Cleveland. There is hardly a township in the Unit ed States that has not it's committee of democrats who are ready and willing to undertake another fight with the party of trusts and plutocracy. The trouble with these republican newspa- pers and some that pretend to sail un- der the democratic banner is that they wish to disrupt the party of the peo- pie. They decry Mr. Bryan as popll- list, they carieature and distort the other democratic leaders so as to lessen their influence, that the people may be led where they would not.
 It is not the money question that they fear except they want to continue the system they have set up and pre- serve the millions they have wrung from the people, democrats and re- publicans alike, by controlling legisla- lures, state and national, to pass laws that have allowed them monopolies and privileges over and above their fel- lows. They see that if the people rule their days are numbered and the re- distribution of wealth will begin and go forward with rapid pace, almost amounting to revolution. The reor- ganization talk is from those who hope to see the democratic party controlled by the same noxious influences that have the republican party by the throat, the trusts, the corporations and the monopolies. This will not be. Democracy is anti-monopoly and can- not be otherwise; it has always been so, unless when once or twice it has been betrayed, and then how quickly it reorganized, and would do so again. The democratic party cannot become less radical to suit a small minority; indeed to be vigorous it must include in it's platform the reforms that the people are crying for or it would not be democracy.
 The crusade of Tom Johnson in Ohio for equal taxation expresses one of the fundamental principles of the party equality of all under the law, that The railroads, the corporations and the rich and powerful must pay their share of taxation, which under the long reign of the republicans they have been allowed to dodge, thus adding to the burdens of the great majority of the people. Plutocracy, aristocracy, imperialism and militarism cannot ex- ist where democracy is in power.
 All the signs of the times point to great reaction towards democracy, because the people are waking up to the fact that the democratic party is sincere and earnest in the reforms that must prevail or the rule of the people would be sham, as it is fast becom ing under republicans with imperial ism, strong central government and organized wealth. The signs of their decadence are multiplying, the unrest of labor, the scandals and rascality in all departments of the government, the breakdown of protection, all show that this republican orgy has reached it's climax and the day of the people draweth near.