The Van Buren press., 1903-03-21
DeArmoud Appeals for Party har-
mOny.

copnt,v Gathered today TO attend
the ANIMAL Jackson Day banquet
t.ooroi, ,l,h Of tho Audi.
'o''"'' "'''''
ffeeeuIhE the "anl"e' many
noiahes in the party held long
talks togeihpr. discussing sUgges.
t;ouS for tho nresidentiaj cay-
e.. ..
P"iS" " IVA =
Inc speakers AZ Tue banquet
made strong pleas FOR ahmed
marty and the adoption of a plat.
form ,bat would meet general an.
III IeSP"p"'hE =" 'no ''"''
Looking to 1914" Congressman
David A. DeArmond of Missouri
oronood tba QOn h,noueters IN a
-, Itch g o,.br.;ae ro,
as" ,.
sIeSSl'ai ''o-h' nlo"u '"''' III P"i
Political parties, like armies, are or
ganized to fight battles and win victor
les. Enhstments in them are not for
any definite period, but subject to can
the enlisted Once enrolled as a party
man, however, it is 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 that an appeal to
prejudice is more potent than everything
else. Parties not well grounded in
sound principles must ever be menace
to good government, varying in degree
in proportion to their relative size and
prospect of winning elections directly,
or diverting enough votes from the
main column to turn prospective vic
tory into sure defeat.
New issues of greater or lesser import
Ance are springing mp almost daily, and
1t is scarcely eXaggeration to say that
each day sun ut setting leaves to the
care of night the tombs of issues which
were born, died and gone in the single
day whose close the sunset marks, Men
quit parties or die out of them, and into
them other men are born or come across
the party lines. Thus generation fol
lows generation, and politics and creeds
show the tracings left by the tide Of
tine as 1t Gibbs and flows
Parties, too, are born and die-oi
them ours alone seems to be endowed
with immortal youth.
In our country to-day two great ri
walls for political supremacy are prepar-
ing for the contest Of l0Oi-the Repub-
lican party and the Democratic party
Flushed with victories unmerited
drunken with power usurped and
abused barnacled with abuses steadily |
increasing, under mighty but bad inau- !
ences constantly growing worse, the
Republicans rely for success upon the
INSCRIPTIONS activity of the CLASSES
whose interests they have fostered at
the public expense, hoping they may
again delude the masses whom they
have BETRAYED
Undaunted by defeat. still confidently
depending upon the people; still refus.
ing to sacrifice the many for the selfish
favor of the few, however powerful
still eherishing the principles upon
which the party, rs well as the super
structure Of our free institutions, rests
the undying Democracy gives promise
that 1t will conduct the coming cam
paign with the strength aud ardor and
wisdom and unseIhshness which so
often gave IT the victory
most sincerely wish that all who
would rescue the republic from the
prohigate, reckless, un-Amercan rule
OF the Republican party may unite in
one grand, harmonious effort for vie,
tory for Democratic principles, under
the proud old Democratic banner.
Let u2 look Into the past without
blinking and into the future with hope
and courage, Let ~ remember that In
1919, and again IN 1900, the Democratic