Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-10-10
REAL DEMOCRACY.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN TO THE IRE.
ORGANIZERS"
The "Commoner" Gives Some Plain Talk to
the So.Called Democratic Papers that
Aided In the Defeat Of Democracy, and
Would now "Reorsanize" the Party.

Aided In the Defeat Of Democracy. and
Would now "Rsorsanize" the Party.
In real Democracy there is throbbing,
ever present life. There is nothing more
vigorous and virile than Democracy
when it stands for the rule of the people
the right Of the people to control their
own government and the capacity of the
people for self-government. Democracy
in an open fight need not fear either
aristocracy-the rule Of the best Gas the
few style themselves) or plutocracy the
rule of the rich. In an honest fight
Democracy can rely with confidence upon
the righteousness Of its cause and trust
the conscience and intelligence Of the
people. Victory may be delayed, but it
cannot be prevented if the Democratic
party remains steadfast in its support of
Democratic principles. The greatest
danger which confronts Democracy today
is that it will be emasculated and robbed
of it's force and vitality by those who
cling to the Democratic name but con-
stantly give aid and comfort to the re-
publican party. For the purpose of
illustration three daily papers may be
mentioned. They loudly proclaim their
loyalty to Democratic principles and
roundly condemn those who were re-
sponsible for the Chicago platform.
They deserted the party in 1896 and sup
ported the Palmer and Buckner ticket-a
ticket that polled about one hundred and
thirty thousand votes, all told, and car
ried one precinct in the United States.
They gave a protesting support to the
national ticket in 1900 and ever since
the election have been industriously at
work "reorganizing" the Democratic
party. The papers referred to are the
New York World, the Louisville Courier
journal and the Chicago Chronicle.
Each paper is the best representative of
it's class in the section in which it
circulates.
On the money question all three sup
port the republican position; they are
mouth pieces Of the great tinanciers;
they breathe the poisoned air that has
passed through the lungs OF Wall Street.
No financial policy is too cruel, no dollar
too dear, no money system too despotic
for them to endorse; provided, always,
it has the endorsement of the money
changers. They not only want to make
gold the only standard money, but they
want to retire the greenbacks and SUBJ
stitute national bank notes. They often
pirate of their love of Jefferson. and yet
they know that Jefferson was always
and at all times the enemy of banks OF
issue. They conjure with the name OF
Jackson, and yet Jackson made his great
est reputation fighting bank of issue.
If these papers had their way the Demo-
cratic party would disregard entirely the
interests which the masses have in a
stable dollar, and would make the party
the exponent OF those whom Carlisle
once described as the "idle holders Of
idle capital"
On the question of Imperialism these
papers do not entirely agree. The World
still condemns an imperial policy, while
the Courier-J Journal and the Chronicle
advocate a surrender to the republicans
ON this issue.
The Courier-J Journal admits that the
Democratic position is the correct one so
far as principles are concerned, but con-
tends that commercialism is bound to
win and that the Democratic party should
"get into the band wagon" 1t breaches
the gospel of expediency-a doctrine
which demoralixes the party by making
everything subordinate to the desire to
win temporary success.
The Chronicle goes little farther and
declares that the Democratic party would
not carry out the promise made last fall,
even If it could. The following is from
a recent editorial in that paper:
"There will be no revolution in Ameri-
can politics which will result in con-
ferring independence on the people of
the Philippines. If the Democrats should
carry the next presidential election, and
should elect majority in both houses
of congress, the Philippines would not be
abandoned. They are with us for good
or for evil, as time shall determine, and
it is mostly for them to say whether it
shall be for their good.'
1t will be remembered that the Demo-
cratic national convention OF 1900, with
out a dissenting vote, and amid I'M
paralleled enthusiasm, declared it to be
the duty of this nation to Immediately
announce its purpose: First, to estab-
fish a stable government in the Philip
pines; second, to turn that government
over to the Filipinos and give them
independence, and third, to protect the
Filipinos from outside interference as we