Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-06-11
TRUE DEMOCRACY
TOUCHSTONE OF DEMOCRACY
FROM A SOUTHERN VIEW.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat on the
Political Situation. Let Us Have No More
Trimming, but Stand Either for RepubI.
canism or Democracy.


many men who have not the slightest
idea OF supporting the pa:ty's candidate,
whoever he may be. These meddlers
and marplots are OF two kindS-republi.
cans wi o begin to fear that Roosevelt is
reincarnation of Bryan, and pseudo
democrats who believe, or affect to be.
lieve. that wisdom will die with their
idol.
We need hardly say that the choice will
not lie with these oflicious patriots who,
by their own account, enacted the role OF
Brutus in the elections Of 1896 and 1900
1t is the merest dream to imagine that
sackcloth and ashes will be the garb Of
the six millions who voted for the Ne.
braskan in both those memorable con.
tests. Rather is it to be supposed that
this great electorate will think and act
FOR itself. If history has any lesson on
such points, we must infer that the
republican party will become more re-
publican, and that the democratic party
will become more democratic, as the
years roll on.
AS a matter OF fact, the differences be-
tween the rival organizations are con-
genital, and pierce to the very marrow OF
their being. A fanatical lover of the Hub
once declared that Boston is not place,
but state of mind. 1t may likewise be
affirmed that republication and demoe
racy are not mere badges to be worn or
discarded at pleasure, but are habits Of
thought which draw thinkers in opposite
directions, just as the centripetal and
centrifugal forces draw material things
toward or away from the earth's center
This view of the case is exceedingly well
put by Mr.. Bryan in letter which he
has recently addressed to the New York
Independent: "The difference upon the
money question, among those who under
stood it, was not SO much difference OF
opinion as difference of sympathies,
and that difference exists today as it did
then" This is but another way OF say
ing that a leopard is to be recognized by
his Interchangeable spots.
1t is indeed perfectly tue that the
silver question, terribly important in it.
self, was but one item If long program
for the demonstration of the white
metal, stripped Of all teuhnicalities, sim.
ply stood for the capitalists eternal
hunger after the unearned increment
So, too, advocates of a prohibitive tariff
seek an unfair advantage, and lovers Of
government by injunction would pIosti
tween these believers in utterly opposite
creeds there can be neither compromise
nor reconciliation. The great gulf is
fixed in human nature and will endure
to the last syllable OF recorded time. The
struggle of 1904 will turn upon the ole
issues, though they be modified as to
outward form.
For our own pant, We care little about
the personality OF the democratic nom
nee, provided only that he represents the
principles for which the party must fight
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suffrages OF the American people. A
the council.board of the first presiden
there sat two masteiful men who EN-
bodied ideas which are coeval with thu
race itself. Hamilton's name is synopy
nous with privilege and centralized ad
ministration, while Jefferson's renowl
rests upon his defense OF the man,
against the few. If those pre-eminen
statesmen should return to the land o
the living, they would find no difficult,
in aligning themselves OH the contro
verses of this generation.
The trimmer may perform a usefu
function in periods OF dead calm-whel
the ship OF state is in the doldrums an(
therefore needs no resolute helmsman
1t is not so when the huge craft is in tn,
straits, menaced by breakers and storm
clouds. In that event, there is suprem,
need for a navigator whose vision is keen
whose nerves are OF steel and who's
knowledge OF the chart is without flaw
No fresh water sailor is to be accepted al
a pilot now, nor will we have captain
who would take us to sea under sealet
orders. The democratic party has mad,
one voyage OF that kind, aud has IL,
stomach for another. If the country pre-
fers republican policies, the reins O
power should be intrusted to republican
hands; if democratic remedies are de
sired, truly democratic doctor should b.
called in. Let us have no more OF tn,
quacks who give bread pills and poison
by turns, without thought OF the patient
disease. The practitioner OF this kidne,
is but the undertaker's advance agent
New Orleans Times Democrat.