The Forrest City times., 1901-01-18
fore any attention will be paid to thei pretenses of interest.
 Rights of Party Management.

fore any attention will be paid to their pretenses of interest
 Rights of Party Management.
 Those who are within the party lines have a right to a voice in the making of the platform. and are entitled to make such change in the organization or ma chinery of the party as they please, but honesty and good faith require that any desired change shall be openly proposed and fairly presented. Party organizations are framed for party governments and derive their just powers frons the consent of the governed. Party platforms are of no value unless they reflect the purpose of and the policy desired by a majority of those who belong to the party. Those who are really devoted to democratic principles will neither practice deception themselves or permit others to practice deception in writing a platform or in se- curing control of the party machinery.
 T hope that in this and other states the party may be able to avoid these fierce factional contentious which some times distract attention from party prin- ciples and waste in personal figEts the energy that should be directed against the common enemy.
 Undismayed by Defeat.
 "The defeat which the party recently suffered ought not to discourage anyone who believes in the principles set forth in the Kansas City platform, for if those principles were right when the platform was written and when they were in- dorsed by nearly 6.500,0O0 of voters they are right still The democratic party has been defeated before. but defeat has neither destroyed its hope nor its tenets. In 1872 the defeat was overwhelming and yet won in 1876. In 1880 thought that the people would rebuke the count ing out of Tilden four years before. but We were doomed to disappointment.
 "a in and in Ua won in 1892 and lost in 1896 and 19J0. If anyone is inclined to attribute recent de- feats to the platforms adopted or to the organizations in charge of the fight, let him remember that the defeat of 1896 came at the close of an administration entirely satisfactory to those who are most anx- ious to reorganize the party and that the defeat of 1894, which occurred under a similar administration, was more disas- trous than any that has taken place since.
 No one can foresee the conditions which our party must meet, but we can face the future with the determination to apply democratic principles to every emergency and to make the party faithful exponent of the views of those who believe in equal rights to all and special privileges to none.
 Future of Financial Question. Whether the money question will fig ure prominently in future campaigns will depend upon circumstances which no one can measure with certainty. What is de- sired is a sufficient quantity of money to keep pace with the demand for money. If an unexpected and unpromised in- crease in the output of gold restores the level of prices and protects the producers of wealth from the evils of an appreciat- | ing dollar, those who have labored for bi- metallism will rejoice more heartily than l ba yVh a1VnP4fpd a a standard at a time when gold was scarcer and the dollar was becoming dearer. "Monopolies will ultimately become so | hurtful that the republicans will no long CT be able to defend them. Even to-day | their defense is more secret than open. A colonial policy when put into full oper- ation will prove so repugnant to Ameri- 1 can principles that it must finally be re- | pudiated by the American people If | in the cases now pending the supreme l court holds that the constitution follows | flag, large portion of the republican | party will oppose the retention of the Philippine islands. If, on the contrary. the court holds that a president and con- 1 gress can govern colonies without regard to the restrictions of the constitution, many republicans will be able to realize | what imperialism means.
 Fight Not in Vain.
 But if fate decres change in the ideas ! witness return to the brute force doc l trines upon which empires rest our struggle will still have answered a pur- pose and the work of our party will live in history and inspire the lovers of lib- erty in future years, when mankind again
 takes up the fight for the principles of 1 government. We are advocating . truths that cannot die, and we can af-
 ford to share in temporary reverses that
 may come to them. The love of freedom 1 will live while the human race endures, and those who suffer for the right will
 receive their reward in history even fl their eyes do not behold the victory.
 Tn defeat those who support the prin-
 ciples set forth in the declaration of inde- pendence can take courage from the hero. ism manifested by those in South Africa
 who are giving their lives in defense of the same doctrines. Cronje suffers in loneliness on St. Helena, but his name will live ir poetry and song when the name of Roberts is forgotten and Kruger | will wear a crown of deathless fame l when kings and emperors are known no | more.