The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-15

tidal wave and won control of the
state from the republicans because he
had a democratic message to deliver.
He is a rich man, a great employer,
but he stood for the rights of those
that are not rich.
He denounced and defied the trusts
that robbed the nation behind the
tariff He represented men, not a
Wall street clique. And he carried
Massachusetts.
Does that look as though democra-
cy were dead?
And Peabody in Colorado. What
happened to him? He had the repub
lican party back of him. Every trust
and every man that hates to pay fair
wages was back of him. Every man
that believes in government by class
in the inferiority of the workingman,
was back of him.
Peabody represented predatory
reckless wealth. He had put money
above the law and above men. He
for crushing the rights of the citizen.
What happened to this republican?
He was heated by the democrat that
opposed him. The Roosevelt wave
was not high enough to carry this
man above the reach of the peoples
contempt 1t could not lift him
above their reach.
Peabody of Colorado knows that
democratic feeling in this country is
not dead.
Other Successful Democrats.
and Folk of Missouri Johnson OF
Minnesota and Toole of Montana. Do
they not prove the vitality of the
democratic idea?
The democratic party has proved
its vitality and power by supporting
and electing those that came before
the people on a truly democratic bas-
is
1T has forever purged itself of the
sham democrats, the traitor demo-
Gratis, devoured by that inordinate
thirst for power against which Jack
son wisely warned the nation.
THE democracy is not discouraged,
not beaten, not divided and not de-
fol
prophets.
THE democracy has but to study
now the interests of all the people,
as it has studied those in the past.
Confidence will reward political rec
titude, and the people will again en-
trust with power a real democracy
that will deserve it.
Some honest but misguided demo-
Gratis have hurt their party by con-
shutting themselves professional
prophets of calamity. Their only eff
fort has been to find fault, to predict
disaster. They have foretold gloom
and trouble in democracy's name, and
they have not charmed the average
citizen, who is quite willing to see
the nation prosperous, even under |
republican rule. The party has suf-
fered also from the exaggerations of
temporary, artificial or distant issues.
What is wanted is a democratic |
in
lea, with their wishes, their welfare
and their rights.
There are many openings for
democratic useful activity here at
home. Those possibilities-in part, at
least-are open to republicans as
WELL Doubtless the republican party, |
led by a man who has publicly put
aside future ambition, will seize some
opportunities put before it.
Good democrats, putting the well
fare of the country ahead of all party
considerations, will hope that the re-
publicans shall go on the road to re-
form. And democrats, in congress or
out should help with their votes and
their approval to encourage righteous
republican inclinations if these de-
velop.
Democrats need not fear, however,
a lack of work that can only be done
by them alone. Entangling alliances
with the trusts will prevent the re-
publicans doing the most pressing
and the most obvious things.
THE people are bound to realize
that the democracy alone can deal
with the three great allied questions
that now press upon us-the trusts,
the tariff and government ownership
of national monopolies that are pub
lie utilities.
1.-The duty of the peoples govern
ment is plain, but the republican par
ty is tied down, it cannot do it's plain
duty.