Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-03-16

has made the democratic party the scapo-
goat for his political crimes, and his
record still hangs as Il milestone about
the neck Of the democratic party.
Grover Cleveland cannot come back
to the party unrepentant without driving
out ten votes for every vote that he can
bring back.
What say OF him, say of other men
who have been CONSPICUOUS for their
treachery; for their treachery not so
much to the ticket as to the principles OF
the democratic party.
, believe in welcoming the prodigal
son, while have had some little SYM
pathy for the feeling OF the son who did
not go astray, and who could not under
stand why when he had stayed at home
all the time he had no fatted calf killed
for him, but reserved for the one who had
wasted his substance in riotous living
while have had, as say, some little
sympathy for i'm, yet recognized that
there is forgiveness in the human heart
and that it is natural to welcome bal k
those who come back really sorry for
what they have done.
think an old colored minister describ-
ed this forgiring spirit very accurately.
He said that the father saw the son
coming back, that he could see as the son
came that he was sorry. The son had
his head down, and he walked hesitat-
ingly, almost ashamed to look his father
in the face, and the fathers heart vent
out TO him, and the father FASTENED forth
to meet him, and the son was glad and
the father was glad. But, said the col
ored preacher, ii the son had come back
staggering as if he owned the place, and
had said to his father, "Wha's dat caff?'
do you suppose the father would have
killed the fatted calf for him ?" That is
the way | feel about 1t.
care not what man may have done
against the democratic party, if he will
come back sorry for what he has done,
come back anxious to help build up the
democratic party and make it strong,
strong in the confidence OF the people and
in democratic principles, will turn
butcher and help kill the fatted If when
he returns.
But the men who are organizing the
democratic party through the newspapers
that did not support the ticket, these men
are not coming back as prodigal sons.
They come back boasting of what they
have done. They come back, not to en-
ter the fathers house, but to put the
fathers house on wheels, and move it
over onto some new ground that they de-
mand the right TO select. They come
back, not with heads bowed down will
ingly to be servants in the building up
OF the party, but they came back and
seize the fatted calf and attempt to kick
out the faithful democrats who remained
in the house, That is the way they are
coming back.
But, my friends, those who talk about
recognizing the party mistake the senti-
lnents OF the democrats who have sacri.
feed and suffered for their principles if
they think that they will ever be allowed
to take possessionpf the democratic party
again.
believe that the time is at hand when
the democratic party can do great things,
but, my friends, it not by aping the re.
publican ways. We have not room for
two republican parties in the United
States. One is enough. If the republic
can policies are right, it is presumptuous
on our part to rush in and say. 1--WE
have Just found it out now let us adj
minister the Offices" If they discovered
before we did that those principles and
policies were good, we ought not to in.
frir &c on their patent.
believe that the democratic party's
greatest opportunity. whether you pre-.
dictate it upon high principles or upon the
low ground of expediency, is to stand
erect and show what democracy really
means. believe that there is an oppor-
tunity in this country to present to the
people higher ideals than the republicans
are presenting.
was delighted tonight to see the large
number Of young men at our public meet
ing. l want us to 60 out and appeal to
these young men. l want us to show
them that the democratic party is
their friend: that it is championlng
their interests; that we are trying to
keep the door Of oppo' tunity from being
closed against these young men that We
are trying to make it possible for them to
reach the highest rewards in the political
and industrial world.
And believe you have here in Della
ware as good an opportunity as they have
anywhere in the United States to show
what real democracy means. 1 have
been talking with some Of your people,
and they tell ms that the condition here
has not been exaggerated in the public
press; that nowhere in the United States
have as many people been actually pur.
/ Ohio cod in DrOporf,Op r. tho total vote oc