The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-19
Democracy,. Star Ascendant,

Their individual Importance has
been subordinated TO their revelation
that the country at large is turning
trustful eyes toward the Democratic
party.
Hundreds of thousands of thought
ful patriots are at last convinced that
their hope of relief from many gov
ernmental malfeasances is no longer
to be placed in the Republican party.
| If those reliefs and reforms are 10
come at all they must come through
the recall of the Democratic party to
the control of the national government.
One reading of the returns says that
the people take no permanent faith
| in the claim that the Democratic par
ty Is a destructive party. Being COM
posed of nearly. if not really more
| than. one-half of the entire national
electorate the folly of believing that
they would seek TO ruin themselves
| and the government under their con-
troll as measure of revenge upon a
minority Republican party is an alb
surdity too gross for the duiiest intel
iect to harbor.
Good men, unskilled in politics. who
were swayed from their Democratic
| instincts in the 1896 and 1900 cam
paigns by the cry that the Democratic
program meant national dishonor. dis
honest dollars for the poor man and
the sinking of the country to a MeXi-
| can or Chinese level are now being un-
deceived.
Another reading of the returns re-
| veals that from Massachusetts to
Utah the Democrats have made gains
under circumstances that show they
| were not given on local issues, but
upon the ardent desire to give notice
| that Republican policies are partial,
plutOcratic and unjust as between
classes and sections. The understand
ing is growing that the Republican
| party is not and cannot ever be ma
| tional party. 1t is per Sc sectional
| party 1t embodies the dogmas and
practices of division and a purely pat
riotic electorate can never have in it
respectable representation from every
State and section.
| Patriots everywhere are becoming
convinced that the dominance Of such
party is not desirable and that We
should have in this country political
reunion in fact. and not one Of fine
union they can now promote only
through the broad principles and equi-
ties of the Democratic party.
| Yet another reading of the returns
shows that the Democrats themselves
in particular localities have allowed
the elimination of certain undesirable
persons and propositions that were
apples of discord within the party
ranks. The personages disposed of
were not of the seriousness and equi-
poise desired in Democratic leadership
and some of the ideas of which they
were the propagandists have no proper
place in a righteously constructed
Democratic platform. BY these elimi-
nations the Democracy gains in reputa-
ton for sanity even more than it has
| gained in actual votes.
These readings of the returns cannot
be easily mistaken by Democratic
leaders They indicate growing pop
ular demand and he is not wise
enough to be leader of the Democ-
racy who proves purblind to their sig
niflcance
| The people are demanding honesty
in the conduct of public affairs. They
| are tired of actual a.afts and loots,
and equally tired of legislated loots,
created and protected by the Republi-
can party They believe in the old
commandment, Thou shalt not steal"
and are ready to stand by that party
which will stand on Cat issue and fix
that principle in governmental con-
| duct.
| On the tariff question the masses
and they are those who consume more
largely than they produce for their
own account-want an American tariff
and not monopoly. trust-breeding
tariff. They want necessary protec-
| ton for American manufacturers,
American producers and American Ia
Dor. They want tariff under which
| a protected trust can no more rob
| the American consumer than the cheap
| labor. free raw material old world
would do if we had no tariff
With an honest government we
| would have reduced needs of revenue
| and the tariff could he so revised as to
hold the scales of Justice even between
the holder of the home markets and
the millions who buy in these same
home markets.
The people want currency that is
stable in value and elastic in adapta-
bility to the varying needs Of the coun-
try. Such currency was demanded
by the Democracy of the Tilden year,
1876, currency of gold and silver,
and paper convertible into coin at the
demand of the holder. We have not
such currency now. although the
Republicans have often promised it.
They have not established the gold
standard by law and they steadily re-
fuse TO weed oft the dangerous notes
| embodied in our currency. The people
will support the party that has the
wisdom and courage to stand again for
the Tiltlen demand above quoted.
The order of the day to every Dem
ocrat is TO ''let the dead past bury its
dead" and for every live, sage and
loyal member of the party 10 front
face toward the rising sun. The star
of the Democracy is the star of the
day-spring. There is thousand per
cent increase of hope IN Democratic
hearts to-day over that they held on
Tuesday morning. If they will get to.
gether in earnest, unload every Jonah
from their ships. nail to every mast
head the ensign of equal rights TO all
men and special privileges to none, y
they can sail confidently into the open
sea of 1904 and give Santiago to the
oppressors, looters and power-drunk
crew of the Republican fieet-Atlanta
Constitution.