Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-20

predestined defeat. Is it too much to ask our leaders to avoid paths that are known to lead to disaster? Is it too much to ask that provca 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 decrees of the American people? Ought we not to be fed upon something better than the husks of defeat? Ii these questions are met in an honest manly fashion, believe it will be productive of the best kind of democratic harmony
 ''In dealing with new issues we of the democratic faith are extremely for tunate in the simplicity of democratic standards and the ease with which new questions can be measured by those standards. A party based upon care for the interests of all the people as their aggregate condition demands, with no unjust fayoritism for any par ticular class; 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 experi- mentS and yet puts no barrier in the way of genuine and safe progress ought to be able to deal with new questions in a manner quite consistent with democratic doctrine. and stimu- lating to democratic impulses and in stincts.
 ''Let us not forget, however, that it is not i'll the search for new and
 ya1 dv i-C11 in, In ;,4 4i of strange visions that strong and healthy democracy displays its splen- did power. Another party may thrive on the ever shifting treatment of the ever shifting moods of popular rest lessness, or by an insincere play upon unreasoning prejudice and selfish an ticipation-but the democratic party never Democracy has already in store the doctrines for which it fights it's successful battles, and it will have them in store as long as the people are kept from their own, and just as long as their rights and inter- ests are sacrificed, by favoritism in government care, by inequality in gov erlfment burdens, by the encourage ment of huge industrial aggregations that throttle Individual enterprise, by the reckless waste of public money, and by the greatest of all injuries as it underlies nearly all others, q system of tariff taxation whose robbing exactionS are far beyond the needs of economical and legitimate government expendi- ture, which purchases support by ap pealS to sordidness and greed and which continually corrupts the public conscience.
 What but infatuation wish the vis- age of defeat can explain the subor- dination of these things by democrats when they prepare for battle?
 If we are to have a rehabilitation and re-alignment of our party ill the sense suggested, it is important that it be done openly and with no mystery or double meaning. Our people are too much on the alert to accept political de liyerances they do not understand, and the enthusiasm of the democratic rank and file does not thrive on mystery.
 The democratic harmony of which we hear so much cannot De effectively constructed by mathematical rule nor by a formal agreement on the part of those who have been divided, that there shall be harmony It grows up nat urally when true democratic priciples are plainly announced, when demo- cratic purposes are honestly declared and, when as a result of these. con- tidence and enthusiasm stir the demo- cratic blood. It was such harmony as this, growing out of such conditions which, with the battle cry of ''Tilden and reform" gave us the democratic victory of 1876 against odds great enough to discourage any but a har- moniouS democracy. and against an op- fnTan q fr enough to take from us by downright robbery what the voters of the land gave to us
 T believe the times point to another democratic opportunity as near at hand, but l believe we shall reap the fruits of it only by following the line of conduct 1 have indicated. In any event 1 have comforting and abiding faith in the indestructability of the party which has so many times shown It's right to live and it's power for good and l am sure the reserve of patriotic democratic wisdom will at some time declare itself in the rescue of our coun- try and our party
 My days of political activity are past, and I shall not hereafter assume to participate i'll party councils. I am absolutely content with retirement. but l still have one burning, anxious politi- cal aspiration. I want to see before I die the restoration to perfect health and supremacy of that democracy whose mission it is to bless the people "a democracy true to itself. untempted by clamor, unmoved by the gusts or popular passion and uncorrupted by of fers of strange alliance, the democracy of patriotism. the democracy of safety, the democracy of Tilden. and the dem ocracy that deserves and wins sue cess.'
 YALE DOES LIGHT WORN.