The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-01
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 ment to both parties-to the victors, that there has been such a complete rout of the enemy and the extent of their disaster. It seems to the writer that any one who carefully reviews the political history of parties in this coun- .--- -o 't~ -en.t r--77 --s~ Tlv D It year. will not need a Daniel to inter 4~--- .2-~ .-...Iss ,,.-.l--k, oH the s1ii, which rightly interpreted means that the defeated party has been weighed in the balances and art found want ing" And this is not a new judgment, although it is more emphatic than ever before. At the end of the next presi- dential term, for nearly half a century, there has been but eight years of this time, with. the presidency in the hands of the opposition, and only a part or one term, with the democratic party, having at the same time, the president and both branches of the legislative part of the government. 1t is in order to inquire why is this? Are the great mass of the voters of this country so joined to their idols" or so unintelli- gent, that generation after generation they can 'be fooled nearly all the timer" The last election, and it's re- suits seems to be another case of whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" for greater amount of folly has not been shown by any party, in any other canvass, for the last forty years. Passing by the St. Louis convention, and the ineongruous elements that had about as much affin- ity as oil and water, and such a plat form as might be expected, which was neither fish or fowl, and which might mean almost anything in regard to the vital issues of present days, we had the strange spectacle of candidate just
 nominated, hastily telegraphing to the convention to know what it all meant, and coming to the canvass, the car1df-
 date and the party leaders saying that so far as they were concerned, this con test was to be free from personalities and mud singing which promises
 were fairly well kept for a few weeks, when finding that the voters were not responding to the appeal made, iii their desperation. for three or four weeks, at the end we had an avalanche of slam derous abuse against the president, and his right hand man. Cortelyou, and other leaders of the party, which
 equalled or exceeded in vileness any
 thing in the past, and in violation of previous pledges the Sage of Esopus"
 was forced against his better judgment to leave home and join in this dirty
 work, sample of which we had from his lips in our city. The president might well thank his friends, the ere- my" for so much free advertising, calling the attention of the voters to the things charged, and giving them an opportunity to see how false the charges were. Many thousands of votes were lost to the democratic par ty by this procedure. and many other things equally foolish.
 But above and beyond all the blum
 ders of the recent contest, the great millstone that hangs about the neck of the democratic party is it's past history and general incapacity for government especially in national matters The forced slvef. to to the tional constitution, especially as to state rights, and the right of secession, if adhered to, would have changed the whole history of this country and of the world. This found it's continuation in the war of the rebellion which while brought on by the south was much pro- longed, and made more difficult by the sympathy given by a considerable DOT tion of the democratic party of the north, and since then nearly all of the support of this party is from the solid south Are we more likely to find sound views of wise government at the south, or here at the north? We have in democratic platforms, an abundance of 'glittering generalities" about ''equall and exact justice to all men, but words are one thing, and often deeds quite another thing. We have in this so-called land of Freedom, the southern people, disfranchising six mill lions of it's own native born citizens, and much concerned because 1t is thought best to keep ignorant Fflipi- nos, unfamiliar with our language and system of government, a few years on probation before giving them full eiti- zenship. Shall we look to a party which finds nearly all of it's support in a section of the country which under 3 banner inscribed with "equal and exact justice to all men" falls into raging passion because the president sees fit tc invite to lunch, and treat him civilly, an educated Christian gentleman like Booker T. Washington? The last elec- tion must have demonstrated by this time that the voters of this country be- lieye in the main in the principles of the republican party, and justify the conduct of President Roosevelt on all the matters in controversy, and future history will justify him fully as to the Panama and Philippine matters, and others that might be named. And the 1 intelligent freemen of this part of the country are not humbugged by cries of ! buying votes, trusts" general corrup- ! tion and such like, of which there is but little done by any party. Quite | likely there are some men in all parties who are not so good that they will be { translated to heaven, but will depart the usual way. There has been no time in the past history of this country, or [ of the whole world, when so many mo- mentous questions of vast importance, with great interests at stake, were for wise solution, as at the 1 present time, and conditions have so nhanoed that the wisdom of the sageS