The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-20

by calling each other harsh names. nor
by inaugurating a system OF arbitrary
prescription and Punishment
Party Not Insolvent,
The members Of a business firm in
/ financial embarrassment should not sit
( down and look in each others face in
mute despair, neither viii they regain
financial sOunduess or the confidence OF
The business community by recTimina-
ton and quarrel; nor win any mem
/ 0ers of the firm aid in its restoration
TO solvent strength by an angry in
sistence upon continuation of the
business methods which have invited
7 It's embarrassment. The Democratic
/ party is very far from political in
| solvency. but no one here should be
I offended by the suggestion that its
capital and prospects have suffered
serious injury since AIR. Tiiden was
elected president Then and after
wards. northern Democratic states were
\ not rare cUriosities. Northern Demo-
/ cratic senators, now practically ex-
( tinct were quite numerous, and north
/ ern Democratic governors. now almost
/ never seen, were frequently encoun-
| tered
If this state Of impairment exists. an
1 instant duty presses upon the managers
/ of the Democratic establishment; and
I one Which they cannot evade with
I honor. Those Of us less prominent in
: the party-the rank and file-are long
ing TO be led through old Democratic
ways TO old Democratic victories We
J were never more ready to do enthu-
siastiC battle than now, if we can only
/ be marshaIed outside the shadow of
( predestined defeat. Is il too much to
ask our leaders TO avoid paths that
are known 10 lead to disaster? Is it
too much TO ask that proven errors be
abandoned and that we be delivered
from a body of death and relieved from
the burden of issues which have been
killed by the DEGREES Of the American
people? Ought not we to be fed upon
. something better than the husks of
defeat2 If these questions are met
in an honest. manly fashion, I believe
il viii be productive of the best kind
of Democratic harmony.
In Interest of People.
"In dealing with new issues we of
the Democratic faith are extremely for
tunate in the simplicity of Democra tic
standards and the ease with which
new questions can be measured by
those standards. A party based upon
care Tor the interests OF All the people
as their aggregate condition demands
with no unjust favoritism for any par
tiCular class. a party devoted to the
plan of popular government as our
fathers ordained it. and for the pur-
poses which they sought to establish:
party whose conservatism opposes
dangerous and un-American expert
ments and yet puts no BARREN in the
way Of the genuine and safe progress
ought to be able TO deal with new
conditions in a manner quite consist
ent with Democratic doctrine. and
stimulating to Democratic pulses anC
Let us not forget. however. that i
is not in the search of new and gaud!
ISSUES. nor the interpretations o
strange visions that a strong am
healthy Democracy displays its splen
did power. Another party may thriv
on the ever shifting treatment of tn
every-shifting moods of popular rest
lessnesS. or - an insincere play upOl
3 unreasoning prejudice and selfish an
ticipatiOn-but the DemOcratic part
never Democracy has already in stOr
the doctrines for which it fights it
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