Milford chronicle., 1904-09-16
|FrOBD OF THE DEMOCRACY
Professions and Promises
Compared with Its
Performances.
IRRITABLE CALAMITY PARTY
..,,tss the Gospel Of Discomfort and
Wastes Time in Obstructing Wise
and Beneficent Republican
Policies.

c.,,-sssman ]. Adam Bede tells of
I'M tvpical member of the party
.-,5,isss and calamity hOwlers. The
,,o,rat had Just come out of saloon
-a ba fold Bede he had been buying
n lining for his underclothes. In
n IN Bede's query as to how he was
..tpr on the unfortunate disciple Of
.serson answered;
mat his horse went dead and his mule
went lame,
!, No last six cows in a poker game;
I'm a hurricane came, on q summer my,
"A biew the house where ne lived, away
M an earthquake came when that was
"A Swallowed the land that the house
stood on,
ssB the tax collector soon came round
ai charged him up with the mole III tue
ground.
Rele said that his friend thought that
=, carving the single tax too far. But
roa could analyze his case and those
All chronic compiainers and kickers
nj would find that, ont of a hundred
them. at least niuety-eight ought to
ont and kick themselves.
Short on Perfor nance.
Democrats do not know the meaning
the word performance, when ap-
le to doing anything for the gen
,l good. the advancement of the hui
nsn race. or the betterment of man
Kind. As a party it has been trying
write it for more than a full round
century. and yet it has not succeeded i'll
6ming the first letter. To do anything
obstructive or of permanent benefit
GEMS utterly beyond its moral and
psgchic conception, or physical capacity
b perform. Its normal attitude is with
S face to the past and its back to the
future. 1t never sees an opportunity un-
Il the issue has been permanently set
led by the Republican party and public
ointment. Then it will stand up, with
rnbushing and inconceivable effrontery,
pad say: q did it."
If the question of locomOtiOn, with
Il depended upon the two limbs of prom
sa and performance, it would limp
Through its course Il lOathsome defOrmity.
lhe promise leg would reach several
times around the earth and then to the
noon, while the performance member
could not be found, intact, with a pow
ertu magnifying glass. 1t has been a
helpless victim of promisephobia for a
hundred and one years, and there is not
single symptom Of relief in sight. The
tisease is conceded by the best author
PIES to be fatal, but a SLOW death car
PES its own peculiar form of retributive
punishment.
Founded on Mistake.
Jefferson, its father, while Il man of
peep learning and consummate diplo-
nacy hated Washington, and early op-
Posed the cardinal principles of the Fed
aal Government. He organized the
Democratic party to aid him in this op-
P'Slon Washington and Hamilton
Eaated a strong protective government,
emerson wanted 4 weak "Government
Aat would govern the least" Founded
u the idea Of resentment, resistance. ne
!auon' subversion and an academic and
ase conception of personal privilege
ne party has quite naturally been
loTnlnSt all sane measures directed
0"ard the healthy progress of the coun-
y ana the real advancement of its peo-
,e Being a party Of opposition and
ls1uctlon its policy has been to preach
4aai'y and foster discontent; to prom
'e everything and actually do nothing.
Party odium Under Jackson.
Il Jefferson was the founder of De-
loefaey, jackson is its patron saint. Al
u 'Ae Jetersonian period, 1S01-2J, came
" Jaeksonian, 1S25-40. The signif-
1lce Of the jackson era of Democracy
g IN The fact that he was able to build
machine from the rabble or the less
ll lScaled classes. that enabled him act
lHy TO assert his claims in conflict with
! y constitution and against the idea
hepuolicanism. He assumed posi-
va Oetween Congress and the people. as
.t,e we're; as a patriarchal ruler of the re-
lO.e The curse of Jackson's ad-
lu's'Iatlon was that it weakened re-
'sy' LOT law. The first clear symptom
. '1e decline Of healthy political spirit
az % 'ne election and reelection Of Jack
u 10 the Presidency. His administra-
~ paved broad way for the demor-
aug transformation of the American
,yple. Under jackson, politics were
.'saTlzed and American society was de-
lfel of IFS ri~b+e,,t ;,n,,,,,.,- ...-,,. ,,o,.-
nneat. 0 90
n, Fartisans, Not Patriots.
t"e twenty years from the defeat of
lA buren in 1910 to the defeat Of
9aslas in 1860 brought additional dis
e' n. ana odium upon Democratic ad
!. -'''Taton' The strength OF the party
4 4 d Always rested in the Solid South,
y y 'ne uneducated riffraff of our great
s .r., During the years mentioned the
.,-'e.A .,'. Democracy pursued d policy Of
''.o'laI expansion, not out of patriotic
S'oad motives, hut for the sole pur-
- a.. VI increasing the number of slave
80 80 and thus preserve the sectional
-''.e IN the Senate. These years are
,-',raole in history for the struggle
=. 'e,'ltorial acquisition. the struggle
!. = Dae Wilmot Proviso, the Compro-
~ n.y. " 1870, the repeal of the Missouri
/ s1'e.oliise, s for the long agony in Kan
Z q. 'Or the sensational Dred Scott de-
,t.'' ~. and for the reconstruction of the
~ oA strictly sectional lines.
H.. Rapid Moral Decay.
-Dls all these weighty history-mak-
! .,,.' mrs the Democratic party was
nAlLlg accnlnnlina of tha Snntharn