Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-05


the people of the country, or even the
voters of their own party, into their con-
ndence. The hope of the democratic party
lies In bringing this fact to the knowledge
OF those who have been In the habit OF vot-
ing the republican ticket. One aristocratic
party IN the country Is enough. Demo-
cratic success must DO won not by imitat-
ing the republican party, but by exposing
it--not by making the democratic party
aristocratic, but by convincing the people
that 1t is really democratic and can be
trusted to defend democratic ideas and to
cultivate democratic ideals. AS there are
many in the republican party who have ad-
hered to the party notwithstanding the
change that the organization has under
gone. SO there are some who call them-
selves Democrats who have themselves un-
dergone change which has alienated them
from the democratic party, or from any
party worthy Of the name.
Desertcrs of Two Glasses.
ITO attempt to patah up an apparent har-
mony between those who are not in By1n-
pathy with democratic purposes IL not
only waete Of time, but would prove dis
aetrouS. The men who Deserted the party
in 1905 may be divided into two classes.
Those who loft because they understood
the Issue presented and those who left be-
cauee they did not understand the real
nature OF the contest. Until the former
are completely changed in their sympa-
thies they cannot return to the party with
out tn1uring 1t. The latter will be recon-
ciled TO the party when they themselves
become aware OF the real character OF the
life and death struggle now being waged
between plutocraey and democracy. say
plutocncy, because the aristooracy OF to-
day Is one of wealth rather than OF birth.
and 1t includes not only those who have
been alienated from the common people by
the possession Of great wealth. but those
who. although without wealth, pander to
1t and measure all things by money STAN
dard. Organized wealth has become 80
potent in governmental affairs that gone
even now despair Of applying any effective
remedy. But such underestimate the pa
riotism of the people and the strength OF
the public conscience. The people have a
remedy within their power, namely the
ballot, and with 1t they can and will right
every wrong and remedy every grievance.
Party Must Stand Firm.
1.-THE democratic party must have con-
trolling purpose, unchanged by victory or
defeat: 1t must stand for that purpose at
all timRs and everywhere. unmoYed by
threats OF disaster and unnluenced by
promise Of Temporary gain. It must have
q charactex. for character is as essential
in party as 1t is IN an individual. No one
will trust an unstable man or one 30 with
out principle that his position upon any
moral question cannot be guessed in adj
vance. Neither will the people trust a
party that is willing TO write into It. plat
form to-day anything that promises 10
catch few votes or strike out OF its plat
form tomorrow anything that will alien
ate q few votes. Oven If 1t desired to do
so, our party could not compete with the
republican party in the use of money In
campaigns or in the deception or coercion
OF voters, because large campaign funds
can only be secured in return for the prom
Use OF favoritism. and our people are not
in position TO coerce. Our party must
have principles and proclaim them: it must
stand by them and defend them, relying
upon ttE faith in the righteousness of those
principles and upon It's faith IN the !nteIli-
gence and patriotism Of the people,
An Unendtng Struggle.
THE struggle between human rights on
the one SIDE and greed on the other Is an
amending one. Our party muet take part
in the struggle. but that struggle cannot
be permanently settled by this generation
or by any future one. AS the children of
Israel, wandering In the wilderness, could
not store bread for the morrow. but were
compelled to gather mama each day. 50
the citizen finds 1t impossible to rest upon
the achievements of yesterday, or to frame
government that Will run itself He
must LABOR to-day, to-porrow ard while
life lasts II he would be secure. He must
meet each new problem and examine eacf,
new proposition that is submitted To the
people, but in doing go he will employ tta
same purposes and apply the same gen.
| eral rules. He cannot tell what tempta.
| ttons he may have or of what immedia ke
! gain he may have the promise II he viii
| but surrender his manhood. but he knows
| If he is an upright man, that he will en-
| deayor to resist every temptation. and he
will determine to forego every ADVANTAGE
L that REQUIRES slrrenfpr nf nj.
Issues Must be Met.
$50 with our party. We canont tell what
| issues We may have to meet: we can only
determine to meet them In democratic
spirit, to apply to them democratic prip-
elplee and to take the peoples SIDE always
| In 1892 the paramount issue was tariff re-
| form, and the democratic party boldly &c.
i serted Its demand for a tariff for revenue
| only. 1t fought the campaign and 1t won
but Its majority was SO narrow that few
senators, disloyal to the party on this sub
| ject defeated the verdict of the people rem
dered at the polls. But the failure of the
party to Go all that 1t had promised would
not have been so disa strous but for the fac,
| that the Wilson bill. unsatisfactory as Il
was TO tariff reformers. had to bear the
| s4ns Of republican financial system which
| wac supported by our administration
| against the protest OF an overwhelming
majority Of the voters OF the party. The
defeat Of 1894 was more disastrou. than
any that the party has experienced since
and st was due to the fact that the admin
istration deserted the people on the money
| question In 1895 the money question had
| forged to the front, mace paramount moi
| by the action OF the majority of the dem.
ocratic party, but by the attempt of a
minority Of the party to aid the republican
party to chain this country to an appreciat.
\ ing dollar. Without abandoning It's poei.
to-, hrs art To-, -.
| this Issue and took the side of the peopLe
| In spite Of the desertton of many formerl,
| conspicuous in its councils the Demo.
cratic party polled a million more votes
than 1t had ever pollsd before, and would
| have won but for the indefenstbe
| methods Of the republican party, who's.
| leaders held oil the protectionist republic
| ans BY declaring the tariff issue to be para.
| mount. modified the wrath Of most Of the
| free solver republicans by promising inter,
national bimetallism, and won all the al
vocates Of the gold standard by revealing
to them the secret purpose Of the party K
adopt European financial system Blu,
even then We would have won but for the
l31t that borrowers were coerced and EN-.
ployed intimidated.
The Defeat in 1900.
SIN 1900 the action of the republican party
in turning war commenced for humanity
into u war of conquest compelled the con-
sheraton Of another question: question
so far-reaching in its consequences that
our party rightfully declared 1t to be the
paramount issue. Without abandoning Il.
position on the tariff question OF on the
money question, 1t again espoused the peo-
PIES sads on a great issue. That 1t DID no,
WIN that year was due 20 conjunction OF
causes, any one OF which would have been
ansufheisnt to have accomplished defeat.
me Administration having carried on a
pileA AIlo ENceeEe1Vl war. fell heir to The