The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

back to Democracy for the relief afford ed by return to equal rights and dimin- ished burdens. The time is at hand when it will again knock at our door. All we need do is to see to 1t that the party has not moved away and is at home.
 And we can afford to smile when the authors of the troubles we are called to cure try to lay them to us because they had not fully broken out when we took charge as in 1893. The people will not be deceived. They will know that it is not the Democrats.
 'Jackson's victory was complete. No like bank was ever again established Our present national banks are not mo- nopolieS. Anybody can start one on the same terms as all others. Unlike the old bank they are subject to State taxation They cannot consolidate except in tha same city. Attempts to authorize branches have always been defeated. The continued existence and usefulness of these banks has been due to the Jack Sonian lesson.
 Tt Is not pleasant to imagine a trust or combinatio of the banking business of the country, nor to think of all that might have happened if Jackson had lost his battle with the bank, and its danger ous principles had been perpetuated to our day"
 Judge DeArmond Speaks.
 Judge DeArmond spoke to the toast Looking to 1904" He said
 "PoHtiacl parties. like armies, arc organized to fight zattles and win Vlcto- ries. Enlistments In them are not for any definite period but subject to can celatiOn at any time, at the option Of the enlisted. Once enrolled as a prty man, however. 1t is a serious matter to desert, and more serious far to go over to the enemy.
 "To attract desirable recruits and hold them party must have principles and management which appeal strongly to the | judgment and sensibilities of the people: though it must be admitted that there are times when an appeal to prejudice Is l more potent than everything else. Parties l not we'll grounded in sound principles must ever be a menace to good govern ment, varying in degree in proportion to | their relative size and prospect of win | ming elections directly, or divertin2 l enough votes from the main column te turn prospective victory into sure defeat l New issues. of greater or lesser i'm portanCe. are springing up almost daily | and 1t is scarcely exaggeration to say that | each days sun at setting leaves to the care of night the tombs of issues which | were born, died and are gone in the single l day whose close the sunset marks. Mer | quit parties or die out of them, and into | them other men are born or come across party lines. Thus generation follow; | generation. and policies and creeds show the tracings left by the tide of time a: | it ehhs and flows. Parties too are borT and die--of them all ours alone seems l. | bA endowed with immortal youth | Each individual must he left free t' | choose his own course. his own conscience | being the final arbiter; but in our nationa l politics great victories are to be woT | only hy a multitude of individuals work ing together for definite results, deemed worth the effort necessary for thet achievement. As with individuals so witt | parties. each must be left free to declar' it's own principles from time to time, th' | edct of the majority possessing com | manding power, the authority or whici l none can gainsaY, whatever may h' thought of its wisdom. and whether O not 1t be accepted as the guide for tn | campaign.
 Tn our country today two great rival | for political supremacy are preparing fo the contest of 1904, the Republican part! | and the Democratic party. Flushed witt | victories unmerited, drunken with powe usurped and abused, barnacled witt abuses steadily increasing, under might! but bad influences constantly growing worse. the Republicans rely for success | upon the unscruplous activity of tn ! classes whose interests they have foster ed at the public expense, hoping the! may again delude the masses whom the, have betrayed
 Depending Upon the People.
 'T'ndaunted by defeat. still confidentl, l depending upon the people, still refusing to sacrifice the many for the selfish favo of the few however powerful, still cherishing the principles upon which tn party as well as the structure of our ire | institutions rests the undying DemoC racy gives promise that 1t will conduc the coming campaign with the strengtI and ardor and wisdom and unSeflshnes which so often gave 1t the victory.
 most sincerely wish that all who woul
 rescue the Republic from the protiiGate reCkness, un- American rule of the Re publican party may unite in one grand
 harmonious effort for victory for Demo
 cratic principles. under the proud ol l Democratic banner
 Let us look Into the past without blink | ing and into the future with hope an
 courage. Let us remember that 1896 am | again In l9N the Democratic party sut
 fAred defeat because too many who pro
 fessed it's faith acted and voted with tn
 enemy, Most likely division in the futur
 would bring defeat as it brought 1t i
 the past. Like millions of others wh | gladly followed the party banner In th
 two great campaigns where Bryan led,
 am proud of my party's record in thos | eventful years Let no one who hope
 for Democratic success in the near futur
 assail the Democracy of those tryin
 times. If he did not or cannot agre
 with them upon all the issues of thos campaigns. for the good of the part
 now let his dissent be in sorrow an silence, Let him try 10 draw the mantl
 of forgetfulness over his estrangement
 estranged he was. For surely all mus
 realize that where the masses of the part
 pitched their tents there camped th party; and where the masses fought ther
 the party fought. Let none who wer away take offense when those who re mained staodfast in the party's battle lin sing of the glory of the conflict; for 6 shall We all sing of the glory of the nat
 tie of 1901 for which our hosts ar marshaliug. Whoever left the part honestly must honestly regret that dut as he saw it took him away from It.. ? cannot feel inclined to be boastful c censorious. He must rejoice in the hope
 l might say conviction-that upon tn
 issues of today and those of 1904 he ca
 with hearty good will fight the party In
 for the triumph of Democracy. He mus
 know that every unkind word uttere
 concerning the men of the platforms (
 the Democracy of 1896 or 1900 must tend
 help the Republicans and hurt the Demo
 crats in 1901. And for my part as
 ardent believer in those men ana mos
 platform with no feeling of regret I,
 the course of the party in those can
 paigns, but unqualifiedly approving It. would lay not so much E straw acros
 the path of any man t
 turn to our policies in 2
 With the recent hl,o.y of
 written as the great 'r4.
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