Courier Democrat., 1904-11-03
Republican Party IL No Longer the
Naturalization of Judge Parker
VIII Bring the Nation BACK to Cow
ernment by Law.

Mr.. Schurz declares that the Repub-
ican party is no longer the party of
liberty and human rights or the party
'of moral IDEAS" AS long as it was he
voted its ticket. ut is more and more
becoming the party of rich men who
want to become through it still richer"
he says.
Mr.. Schurz lays down these princi-
pies:
THE government Of this republic
must be a government of law, not a
government of adventure.
ut must be q government for the
general benefit, not government of
favor for the promotion Of special in
terests.
"There never was political party in
q democracy, however virtuous it may
have been at the start, that was not by
long possession of power more or less
corrupted and made arrogant and arbi-
6ary.
"The things most dangerous to this
republic are excessive party spirit, cor
ruption and false patriotism, which is
another name for national vanity or
greed under the guise of national pride.
"Of oil agencies Of corruption the
farthest reaching and the most gener-
ally demoralizing is system of policy
by which the government deals out
benefits Of pecuniary value to special
interests, those favored interests then
to support by pecuniary aid the party
controlling the government. This is
corruption organized on national
scale.
"Worship of wealth, of force, of pow
er or Of mere success, whether right or
wrong, is in a democracy one of the
most malignant distempers of the pop
ular mind, one of the most prolific
sources of antidemocratic tendencies.
1.-THE degree Of economy in public ex-
penditures may be taken as the barom-
eter of honesty in the public service.
A lavish administration will always
run into corruption"
In conclusion Mr.. Schurz says: "Presi-
dent Roosevelt is an exceedingly inter-
esting, picturesque and forcible char
acter, who would have found most
congenial and glorious field Of action
at the time of the Crusades, but some
times strangely fails to appreciate the
higher moral aims Of modern civiliza-
ton. He is patriotic man who has
done very good service In several ways
and, being still young, is capable Of do.
ing much more in various important
positions aside from the presidency.
His is master nature, but this re-
public does not want in the presidency
q master-least Of all one who cannot
master himself.
"The alternative is the election Of
the Democratic candidate, Judge Par
Eer. do not indulge in the slightest
delusion as to the Democratic party.
I know its faults and shortcomings
very we'll, and l have opposed it often,
but believe that If put in power un-
der present circumstances it can do
the country very important service.
"Of course do not expect the mil
lennium, but think we may we'll ex-
pect that it will put stop to the
strenuous pyrotechnics which for some
years have distracted us and bring the
republic back to the sober ways Of
conscientiously constitutional and legal
government; that it will arrest the
existing lavishness Of public expendi-
lures and introduce wholesome econ
omy into our government household;
that it will thoroughly overhaul the
various government departments,
which is all the more necessary as the
recent Investigation Of corrupt prac-
tees in the postal service have only
scratched the surface, and as further
Investigations by the Republican par
| ty in its own time and its own way
are not promising substantial results;
that 1t will scale down our enormous
and unnecessary expenditures for the
army and navy to figure answering
the real needs of the country; that it
will start vigorous movement
against the extortions and corruptions
Of our tariff system, and that it will
do away with our utterly undemocrat-
ic, financially wasteful and politically
demoralizing colonial policy, thus re-
storing to their old dignity the princi-
pies upon which this republic was
founded.
"Mr. Parker evidently is by tempera-
ment and mental habit as well as by
acquisition Of knowledge par excel
lence Judge, and It seems to me that
Just now, after all the confusing ex-
periences we have gone through, it is
peculiarly desirable that we should
have true Judge in the presidential
chair man who knows the law, who
reveres the law, who win never par
NIT his emotions to make him over
look the Law, who win never presume
that his viii y law and who VIII con-
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