Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-07
POPULIsM.
Editor Tronp Goes Into History fol
 Editor Burr's Benefit.


 Haven Union, in an article which we print on this page.
 The idea of the able writer seems to 1 be that the contest between genuine democrats and populists claiming the name of democrats will be the only real political battle in the United States next year and that all the re- publicans will have to do will be to keep still and enjoy the fun.
 The general plan seems to resemble ] that which defeated Richard D. Hub- bard, the democratic canQldate for ! governor of Connecticut in 1878. We regret not to find in the Unions article any mention of the name of the candi- date whom the Kansas City plat ! form'' supporters intend to nominate next year.-Hartford Times.
 | "A rose by any other name would l smell as sweet" Whether the sup 1 porters of the national democratic i platform, which was adopted at Chi cagO and reatfirmed at Kansas City, 1 are termed by the bolters and traitors | (wno voted directly for Mckinley in l 1896, or gave aid and comfort to the republicans indirectly by voting for | General Palmer) populists or popo- crats, Is matter of very little conse- | quence. The supporters of the nation al democratic platform, now in full force, and which can only be altered or amended at the next national con- vention, are the only loyal democrats we know of. The allged democrats, wolves in sheep's clothing" who are nnfSfdn hes oa4v nYlyc uh boi treachery and duplicity, after doing all in their power to destroy the demo- cratic party for the past eight years, have now the unparalleled gall to die tate, if they are allowed to enter the councils of the organization they be- trayed, the candidates and platform of the partyfin 1904 They are will ing to forgive the loyal men of 1896 and 1900, if the latter will simply take back seat and give their votes and Influence to place these traitors in control, and have confidence in them in the future. The idea of the men who bolted the ticket and repudiated the democratic platform in 1896 and 1900 is we'll understood by all loyal demo- crats. There is no need of guessing. The minority-and very small one since the close of the civil war, had been having matters all their own way, and in 1888 and 1892 it having become apparent to the masses that the lead-. CTS in Wall street were running the democratic organization as an annex to the republican party, the financial policy being so near alike that you could not tell 'tWixt from to-,
 the masses in 1896 took matters in their own hands, and proclaimed to the people that they were no longer silbservient to the monopoly and cor porate interests and in their platform ill that year reiterated the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independ- ence and the principles of Jefferson and Jackson. No sooner had that talk en place than the advocates of major ity rule" failed to stand by the major ity and sought an alliance with the re- publicans, accomplishing the defeat of the democratic party. Of course in 1896 1t was the bolters and traitors that furnished the fun for the repub- licans.
 The editor of the Hartford Times returns to his vomit." He goes back to that campaign of 1878, when Rich ard D. Hubbard was the. democratic candidates: Charles B. Andrews, repub- Mcan, and Charles Atwater, greenback, candidates for governor Charles B. Andrews was elected by the legisla- ture, neither candidate receiving rna- iority of all the votes. Six years prior to this election the democrats in 1872 nominated Horace Greeley, the life- long republican, who had written more bitter things against the democratic party than any man living, and who had never retracted any of them. He was nominated as the standard bearer of the national democracy. If Greeley was a democrat, the editor Of the Un- ion was not. He differed from Gree ley on almost every line of national policy. The editor of the Union vot- ed for Charles O'Connor then, and has no apology to make. The editor and the Union newspaper made no claim to be In the democratic party from 1s72-1S9O. The editor and paper were outside the breastworks and made no attempt to participate in the demo- cratic councils. In 1880 we support e,l General Winfield Scott Hancock, believing that democratic principles could be better served by advocacy inside" rather than "outside"' the democratic organization. The editor has voted and the Union has support ed the ticket ever since, although at times not being dn sympathy with some of the blanks in the platform. We stood by the majority and helped to elect presidents, governors. congress- men. ct al, who in 1896, when they could not have their own way against two-thirds of the Chicago convention did aal in their power to destroy the organization that gave them all the po- litlcal prestige they ever had, and are now conspiring together to control the democratic organization, with hope of gaining the offices, without any re- gard to democratic principles, and are making play to delude the loyal men of the two last campaigns to give Ahem their votes. This is asking too much of poor, weak human nature.