Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-24


 and he. was certain that their errors would be unintentional ones. He knew that, as they found no profit in bad laws they would 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 considered that insofar as by in- heritance or by his own efforts he pos sessed any advantage over others he held that advantage as a trustee for those less fortunate. The people loved him because he first loved them." He organized a party that has lived for mora than a century ,and he so impressed his ideas upon the party that no defeat, however overwhelming, has been able to crush its spirit or dis integrate it.
 There can always be harmony among democrats who have the pur- pose that Jefferson had and are will ing to employ the methods that Jeffer- son employed. There can always be harmony among democrats who be- lieve in government of the people and are willing that all the depart ments of the government shall be oper- ated by the people and for the benefit of the people. Differences of the mind can be reconciled; differences of pur- pose cannot. \ 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 aEistocrats there will be found the same division 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 a1ieniation, because having no u1terior motives they are open to arguments and amenable to reason; being honest in purpose, they have con fidence in the triumph of their 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 mistakes. In politics, as in religion, there is an essential difference between a doubt of the head and doubt of the heart.
 It is impossible to secure harmony between people of opposite sympathies and it is a difficult thing to change a mans sympathies; it requires politi- cal regeneration to make a democrat out of an aristocrat It is a such easier task to show a man that the 1oSx Ian or n O J1d the policies which he has been support ing are aristocratic in their present eff feet or in their tendencies. The re- publican party of to-day is aristocratic in it's policies and tendencies for it is controlled by a few in the in- terest of a few, but there are many 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 party is controlled by it's voters, the party stands for the will of the majority, but when the party is dominated by q small minority, then the organization stands not for the will of the majority, but for the will of those who dominate it. There can be no doubt of the dem- ocratic instincts kOf large majority of the members of the republican party, but that party to-day is so con- trolled by organized wealth that the rank and file of the party are not con- suited about it's policies nor are the interests of the rank and file consider ed by the leaders. With the excep- ton of the tariff question the re- publican party has not in recent years honestly submitted single important issue to the arbitrament of the ballot or even to the judgment of the mem bers of it's own party. 1t has written platforms and forced it's policies through congress after cleo tions. Tn 1896 it used a promise of bimetallism to conceal it's real purpose to fasten the gold stand ard on the country. Tn 1900 it prae- ticed the same deception on imperial ism and on the trust question. Even within month it has nefused to an nounce it's purpose in regard to the Philippines and has put off until after the passage of the subsidy bill and the consideration of the trust question. The leaders of the party show their lack of vital faith in the doctrine of self-government by their 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 been in the habit of voting the republican ticket. One party in the country is Democratic success must be won, not by initiating the republican party, but by exposing it-not by mak ing the democratic party aristocratic, but by convincing the people that it is really democratic and can be trust ed to defend democratic ideas and to cultivate the democratic ideals. As there are many in the republican party who have adhered to the party not the change that the or ganization has undergone, so there are some who will call themselves demo- crats who have themselves undergone. q change which has alieniated them from the democratic party or from any party worthy of the name.
 To attempt to patch up an apparent harmony between those who are not in sympathy with democratic purposes is not only a waste of time, but would prove disastrous. The men who de serted the party in 1896 may be di- vided into two classes Those who left