Milford chronicle., 1904-09-16

tue institution Of human slavery and 70
extend slave labor at the expense of free
iaoor. The sacrifice of principle neces-
STATED by this relationship led to rand
oecay' The party ceased 70 nroance
great leaders. Men or conscience and
courage, like Thomas II. Benton left
It. The significance Of this period is tbs
illuStration 1t gives Of the disastrous re-
SUITS OF betrayal of principles, to the
morals il, honor and usefulness Of a party.
Ihe people have not trusted the Demo
eratlc party since. except during the two
Drlet Nightmares Of the Cleveland ad-
ministrations.
Party's Shameful Record.
rounded on the wrong side Of moral
and political ethics, it speut the FIST
sixty years of its existence along tha
nhes OF self-aggrandizement and narrow
partisan legislation. While protesting
IN It's platforms to be the friend of the
masses, 1t persisteuly enacted laws
winch bound them to penury and dis
tress. While publicly advocating A
broad, Intelligent citizenship. il voted
against individual freedom. While heat
ing the tom-toms for prosperity to the
people, 1t voted against cheap postage.
the Homestead law, and the RESUMPTION
OF Specie Payment Claiming to be in
IaYor Of higher standard Of living for
the workingman, it enacted free-trade
measures which sent him into indefinite.
enforced idieness, and reduced him and
ms family to the level Of the pauper
labor Of Europe. Processing the utmost
patriotism, it gave all possible aid to
the rebellion.
Some Comparisons.
ContraSted with the grand Old Repub-
lican party: the one abolished slavery.
the other upheld it to the last; the one
put down the rebellion. the other sun
ported the rebellion; the one preserved
the National faith and credit. and paid
the National debt, the other tried every
scheme and expelient to stultify the re-
public aud avoid the debt; the one pre-
served the standard of value unchanged.
the other sought to tamper with it and
destroy it.
Gets Worse Instead of Better.
The professions and promises of the
Democratic party, during the past forty
three years, and the absence of all per-
fcrmance are rs notorious as ever. They
show the lack Of ideas. or purpose, but
abound in hypocritical dogmas and
hatuient pretenses. 1t has reversed"
itself on almost every important Ma
tiOnal measure and brought upon itself
the ridicule of right-thinking people
AprOpos Of this deplorab bic condition in
the party, Mr.. Dooley" proposed the
following want ad., a little while before
the St. Louis convention:
"wANTED-A good, active, energetic
Dinlmycrat, SthrOng iv lung an limb;
must be in favor iv sound money, but not
too sound; an anti-impeeryalist, but FIR
holdin onto what we've got; an inmy Of
thrUsts, hut a friend iy organized capital;
sympathizer with tn crushed an down
throdden people, but not be amy means
hostile to vested inthrests must advocate
sthrikes, gOvermint be injunction, free sill
yer, sound money, greenbacks, n single
tax, a tariff f'r rivinoo, tn CONSTRUCTION
to follow tn flag as far as 1t can, an 10
farther; civil service rayf0rm iv tn Ia ads
in Office an all TIL grreat an glOryous
principles lv our grreat an gloryous party,
or amy great an gloryous parts thereof.
lie must be akelly at home in Wall street
an tn stock yards, in til parlors iy tn
r-rich an tn kitchens iy tn poor.
CIeveIaudism and Democracy.
During Cleyeland's administration our
dollars a day in the face of the partys
promise of better times. Each day we
lost half million dollars in foreign
trade. During that administration the
value Of farm products decreased more
than five hundred million dollars. Dis
trust and panic paralyzed the great in
dustrial system of the country. Banks
closed their doors; business houses as
signed; the balance OF trade was against
us: capital withdrew from the fields of
legitimate enterprise into secret places;
labor was forced into unwilling idleness;
we had deserted mills, smokeless facto-
ries. silent machinery. We had tramps
and beggars industrial armies, starving
women and children. Two million able
bodied men were begging for work
the opportunity to earn bread for their
starving families.
Unworthy of Existence.
This happened during the administra-
ton of the Democratic party which dur
ing fifty years has added nothing to
progress. nothing to the cause Of liberty,
nothing to freedom, nothing to the glory
of our common country. This is the
party that. no matter what it promises,
always goes into partnership with calam-
ity. 1t feeds on disaster and fattens on
despair. The only time it has had con
troll of this country during this gener-
alton. it shut the doors of industry and
clothed labor in rags. 1t fought under
the dishonored banner of free silver. it
opposed keeping our flag in the Orient,
and advocated that it he lowered in
retreat and trailed in the dust of dis
honor. Such is a part of the record of
the party Of calamity, professions and
promises-the oft-defeated, discouraged,
disorganzad disrracei, divided. decrepit
old Democratic party. 1t stands to-day
without an issue, without a principle,
without policy. without a PLATFORM
without n leader and without hope.
In chasing we ouote :. L. ISisor, of