The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-20

be good Democratic timber went to
wreck on the Buckner and money-wor-
shipping ticket, but there's always hope
that living sinner may repent. Whatev-
err great evil prevails, under the Demo-
cratic party. for which it is responsible
while in office, will be paid Tor by the
humility of defeat and the Republican
party will set about to right the evil.
Whatever great evil the Republican
party is responsible for while in power
will be paid for also in the humility of
defeat, and the Democratic party will
set about to right the evil and there's
a great deal of that kind of work COM
ing up for the Democratic party to do,
but she must do it with clean hands 1t
is a good thing there are two parties for
the excellence of government is promot-
ed thereby and thus the strength of the
government remains in the hands of the
people, preventing the Capitalization of
power in the hand of 4 few by long
terms in office that tends to create faV-
ored classes and legislation favorable to
the richer classes, that invariably seek
to control the office holding and law
making power.
A man too good to find home with
either of these two great old parties is
too good to be a voter in American pol
tiles The only serious error Democracy
has ever made. was in trying to fuse
with these "goody goody' elements
that have never secured a reform or
won an election on their own platform,
but have set UP on the auction stool to
be hidden off by the highest bidder of
the two real living parties, thus sowing
seeds of discomfort, lowering the stand
ard CT political creed and honesty and
creating a money price for the sacred
right of voting franchise, which is the
most sacred privilege of an American
citizen, by which we have maintained
equal rights to ALL until we began TO
buy and sell Independent voters under
party names. He who stoops or COM
promises with wrong to win in religion,
love, business or politics, will reap hu-
initiation for his reward, and when the
grand old Democratic party hoists its
banner in the next national campaisn
there should be emhlazoned> on its folds
the motto: mono but true and tried
will be no watch, none but true converts
will be received, none but true re-
VIII De taken JdCk lIcu tHc
ranks of back sliders, and no more fus-
ion of any nature will be considered, no
matter from what quarter or on what
principle, local or national.
The sample of fusion between the
Reps. end Pops. that gave Rep. fus-
ion Legislature to North Carolina
should have cured the Democratic par
ty from the desire to ever practice fus-
ion again, and l think it has cured the
Repp blican party. Hereafter whenever
either of the parties go into the fusion
business, explosion at the end of the
fuse, should be the same as that that
exploded in the North Carolina fusion.
Let the Democratic party stand by it's
platform and vote for the man the con-
vertion dominates on it, and trust to
the wisdom of Congress to manage the
man. If it loses, better lose in an honest
cause than win in dishonest one, or
win by the sacrifice of principle or
creed. No one dreamed that Mckinley
would win the nomination at ST. Louis,
the whole nation looked Tor Thos. i.
Reed, ex-Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, to be the nominee of the
Republican party. He was entitled TO 1t
by every honorable claim on his party.
but Mark Hanna with the great money
trusts and combines wanted man less
independent and strenuous in order to
secure tie legislation under which the
country is today struggling, so they
nominated him on Reeds platform that
Reed would have carried out. which
was good platform for the country and
the Republican party voted for him. but
their platform has not nor ever will be
carried out.
Had Reeds party friends. like David
B. Hills party friends, deserted the
party. run off and nominated an indie
pendent ticket and cast 10000 votes for
it, while Reeds friends were casting
10000 votes for the Ruckner contingent,
Democracy would have won, bur Iced
shut mis- mouth, after advising his
| friends to stand by their party. Tom
| Reed was too Honorable a party man to
go about knitting and slaughterirS his
party because King Doodle defeated his
nomination. When he saw the purpose of
| his party was to ignore the rights of the
people and legislate, in the interest of
combines and trusts, he retired to pri-
vate life, voted for his party ticket.