The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-25
HARMONY DINNERS And
THE DISCORD THEY CREATE
There Can Away be Harmony Among Democrats
Who Have the Purposes Jefferson Had,
Declares Bryan
He OUTLINES BASIS OF TRUE HARMONY

mand for others. He believed in the
rule of the people, in their capacity for
self government and in their right to the
control of their own affairs. He did not
doubt that they would make mistakes,
but he knew that they would bear pun
ishment for their own mistakes with
more complacency than they would en-
dure punishment for the mistakes of
others, and he was certain that their
errors would be unintentional ones. He
knew that, as they found no profit in
bad laws. they wouhl strive to correct
them and would profit by experience.
He was friend of everything that helped
the people, and the unrelenting foe Of
everything that injured them. He was
identified with the masses, and consider
ed that in so far as by inheritance or
by his own efforts he possessed any ad-
vantage over others he held that ad
vantage as trustee for those less for
tunate. The people loved him because
he first loved them. He organizd q party
that has lived for more than a century,
and he so impressed his ideas upon the
party that no defeat, however over
whelming, has been able to crush its
spirit or disintegrate it.
A GREAT GULF BETWEEN THEM.
There can always be harmony among
Democrats who have the purpose that
Jefferson had and are willing to employ
the methods that Jefferson employed
There can always be harmony among
Democrats who believe in a government
of the people and are willing that all the
departments Of the government shall be
operated by the people and for the benefit
o: the people. Differences of the mind can
be reconciled: differences of purpose can
not. Between one who is at heart an
aristocrat and one who is in reality
Democrat there is great gulf fixed.
And, it may be added, among the aristo-
Gratis there will be found the same divis-
ion that exists among the beasts of
prey-some have the courage of the lion,
and others the cunning and treachery of
the fox, but they can hunt together if
their object is spoil, whether it be
avowed or concealed. Between those
really Democratic in purpose there can
be no personal or permanent alienation,
because having no ulterior motives they
are open to arguments and amenable to
reason; being honest in purpose, they
cause, and are content to employ honest
methods. They will neither conspire
against others nor against each other
If they make mistakes in judgment as
all are liable to do they are not only
willing, but anxious to.correct their mis-
takes. In politics, as in religion, there
is an essential difference between
doubt of the head and doubt of the
heart.
at is impossible to secure harmony
between people of opposite sympathes
and it is a difficult thing to change
mans sympathies; it requires a political
regeneration to make a Democrat out
of an aristocrat. 1t is much easier task
to show a man that the principles he
has been advocating and the policies
which he has been supporting are aristo-
cratic in their present effort or in their
tendencies. The Republican party of to-
day is aristocratic in it's policies and
tendencies for it is controlled by few
III the interest of few, but there are
many Republicans who remain with their
party only because they do not under
stand the change which has taken place
in that party within the last few years.
When the policy of a party is controlled
by its voters, then the party stands for
the will of the majority, but when the
party is dominated by small minority
then the organization stands not for the
will of the majority but for the will of
those who dominate it.
PARTY LED BY THE NOSE.
There can be no doubt of the
Democratic instincts of large
majority of the members of the
Republican party, but that party today
is so controlled by organized wealth that
the rank and file of the party are not
consulted about the policies nor are the
interests of the rank and file considered
by the leaders With the exception of
the tariff question the Republican party
has not in recent years honestly sub
mitted a single important issue to the
arbitrament of the ballot, or even to the
judgment of the members of it's own
party 1t has written ambiguous plat
forms and forced its policies through
Congress after elections. In 1896 it used
promise of international bimentallism
to conceal its real purpose to fasten the
gold standard on the country. In 1900
it practiced the same deception on i'm
perialism and on the trust question.
Even within a month 1t has refused to
announce it's purpose in regard to the
Philippines, and has put off until after
November the passage of the subsidy bill
and the consideration of the trust ques-
tion. The leaders of the party show
their lack of vital faith in the doctrine
of self-government by their unwilling
ness TO take the people of the country,
or even the voters of their own party,
into their confidence. The hope of the
Democratic party lies in bringing this
fact to the knowledge of those who have