Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-24
! A Plea Tor Democrats Harmony.

Hon. William F. Villas of Wisconsin,
Sho was Secretary Of the Interior in
the cabinet Of President Cleveland,
has written letter on the Democratic |
political situation, in response to the |
request Of the chairman of the wiscon-
sin Democratic State Central Commit
tee. Mr.. Villas advises the policy, on
the part Of the Democrats Of leaving
20 the past the burial Of it's own dead,
and pushing on undisturbed to the
great ends open in the future" He
adds:
Whatever the slignments on past
issues, the Democratic party remains
today the hope Of the people OF this
land. On no other can be placed any
just expectation Of n rescue from the
msnscing conditions that beset Us.
ANY one can see, who will see the
truth. that all the combinations Of
greed. all the plotters who work upon
our government 20 win special gain at
the cost Of the people at large, are to
be found supporting tho party now in
power for the Democratic party they
have, as always, only hostility. IL
must OF course. be SO /; because who
ever will sacrifice the public good for
rrivate or class advantage can expect
40 countenance from a party which
stands devotedly for the common vel
fars of all
Under tho false and deceitful name
Of protection TO industry, there has
arisen such a system Of combining de-
vices Of legislation with the vices Of
business management to obtain mastery
Of the people as was never before seen
l. d. ~ l. \ Al - -.
OF which it would be hard to find any
parallel for, unless in Oriental countries
At the pace the movement has at
tanned. it can be but a few years. IL IL
20 unchecked. before substantially the
entire range Of manufacture, mining,
trade. and transportation will stand
composed Of . few masters and millions
Of employees, the latter constrained to
trade only at what may be called praeti-
cally .'companyis stores.n and all
agriculture will be helplessly ensnared,
as il already is to no small extent.
Liberty in the pursuit of livelihood
will ll-nigh have disappeared, for,
with the devices Of our modern inven-
ton, it is Unnecessary longer to mana
Gle the condemned with ball and chains.
The people must aim their stroke at
y the root Of the poisonous tree. IL is
luAf 10 COfnplhln Vi IutEb llClltQbHN TO
merely attack particular evils, to begin
lawsuits against some special con-
spiraey. Tho policy of the ilIustrious
Grant, whose objective was not the
capture 81 towns or the subiugation Of
districts, but the destruction Of the
armies Of secession, must be ours in
the impending conflict The victory
, to be won, which alone is worth win
ming, is tha overthrow of the grand,
central, governing conspiracy of pro-
lection. When that "crowning mercy
shall be voucbsafed, the very purifica-
tion OF the nations soul by the fires OF
the strife will easily enable it TO sub
due the lesser forms in which Satan ID
embodied in our national life.
The contest cannot be longer post,
ponsd but with the utmost peril tc
the rights Of our countrymen.
Here is good Democratic advice, tn,
suggestion rs to the course that tht
Democratic party should follow beins
consistent with the very practical open
ing injunction to leave "to the pas
the burial Of its own dead. But thi
is Just what Mr.. William J. BryaI
proposes not TO do.
Mr.. Bryan proposes to leave the dea,
Of the past unburied nay, more, t
attempt to galvanize them into lif
and erect them into living issues, not
withstanding they have been twic
overwhelmingly repudiated by tn
American people. He proposes tina
:, the party shall march for a third tim
to ignominieus defeat upon dea
Issues
Mr.. Bryan assumes to stand at til
threshold of the Democratic temple
club in hand, and demolish ever
Democratic principle that does nc
| accord with the principles that he lai
! down for the Democratic PARTY in ii
disastrous national campaigns of lss
4 and 1900 He also savagely swings b
"A club at the heads of any Democra
whose names are suggested as leade
5of the party in the national campail
of 1901. Not enc Of them command
the approval Of Mr.. Bryan. Therefor
it may be assumed that in his opiniC
be IL the only unobjectionabls leade
although he deprecates any suggestit
that he should again be the party
candidate for President
It appears, therefore, that there c.
10 no harmony in the Democrat
arty, no burial by the past Of its ov
n I'D, - so long as the alliance Of d
IA .psty with Organism and Populism !
f "a Jnns unbrokeu. So the only cour
E III hfn is to smash the disastrous a
democratic Popuiistic alliance, new
4 "a =, We es med. Its source of weakns
- Athe democratic party was ann
''.onstrated in the campaigns of Is
S| 80 1900 The strength of the DEN
\ rsaIic rarity with Populism openly I
d against it was demonstrated
g, when it defeated both the Repr
licsn and Populist parties, by vi
rnargin.
Democratic harmony. Democrs
III tIength and Democratic victory
~ esomised by the realignment of
uipmocratic party on Democratic issu
/, rhd not by a renewal Of its dissstr'
fliance with Populism.
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IN an address before the Sunni
"a of Philanthropy, Friday,