The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-09
DEMOCRATIC IDEAS VicToRioJS
M DEFEAT.

phis Thur. day nigh. is reported to
have said tina. Mr. Roosevelt. if ne
carried out bis programme, would be
regarded as the greatest president in
tle hi, tory of the United Sta$es.
Mr.. Bryan especially commented
dr. Rooseyelt's plan TO confer larger
covers upon the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and declared that VIII Il
would cause a split in the Reluhli-
an PARTY. Democrats sill be found
siding with the president.
Disraell said in one of his attacks
n Peel: Tho right honorable gen.
eman caught the Wings bathing
nj he walked away with their
c'o.hes." This is what Mr.. Roosevelt
Gems to nave done with the Demo
Gratis.
The Sherman law represented ex
eellens Democratic doctrine. Mr..
IRoc5evelt was tho FIRST president to
enforce livery inadeluately, to be
sure, but enough TO make reputa-
{ on as an enemy of monopoly n
Il g,ng that the Interstate Commerce
conriseiop be Ciyca p7 or = hy
rate wb-n gym rcta IS c1Illeu IL.
I'd tle p, lideut took a plank ont 0f
ne ST. Louis platform. He carried
4way another when he intimated That
Il wac the purpose of the Administra-
ion to bring the Philippines Ultimate
~ into The re a.ioaH that Cuba now
holds to the United States. lie APP
uropriated another in his camp gu
for tariff revision. Commit Stone
Garfeld's suggestion for tie licens
ng by the federal government ~
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce is plagari2ed freely from
dr. Bryan.
Mr. Roosevelt has not hecitated TO
appropriate any Democratic carmen
hat looked as II they might fit what
yer political conditions confronted
him, and for the present the Demo
cratic party is left naked in the
midst Of a hard political winter.
In there circumstances what Of the
pa:'y's future? For the present it
must evidently mark time. There is
no hope Of an immediate reunion Of
he various groups while there arc
UGH radical differences of principle
within the party itsef But it seems
likely that there must come a time
likely that there must come ultimate
~ q general REIMBURSEMENT of party
lines as a con. equence Of the strug-
gle against plu oWacy on the ona
hanI ana socialistic mobocracy on
thc other.
In spite CT the fact that he an
Client dogmas of the Democratic faith
are temporarily discredited, The
WorlI stil believes in them. A ma
lority of the peop'c apparently 10
not, The Word believes that the
principles enunciated at St Louis
are for the most part excellent It
vas a mistake 90 say that "plutocracy
is robberv." II was not true to say
Jf1t MIR Roosevelt: had made war
without the consent Cf congress.
There was lRue nonsense, we be
lieye about Jeffcrsonian simplicity.
But he plea for the reduction Of the
duties that shelter mOnOpolies, the
demand fer he strict enforcement Of
he antitrust laws and the anti-re.
bate laws, the plea for Filipino free
lon. the denunciation Of militarism,
ngoism. Imperialism and govern
ncnt by executive order, the protest
against ;he u.urpaticn of power by
he president, the insistance on
economical governmental tbs is
excellent Americanism as we'll as eX-
ccilent Democracy. No distrrst of
party leadership can obscure ;he vir-
iiily of these principles to watch The
World is devoted no less since the
election than il was before.
For t1e immediate present The fu-
lure of the Democratic party seems
TO rest in The hands of enc man
Theodore Roosevelt. His ajministra
ion may provide the electric spars
xhich will unitc all the different clc
mGnts ami il may not. Time viii tell
( But so far as the Democratic prime
pies triumph through fhC adminisir2
I tion OF Theodore Roo cYelt The
World does not intend to reject the
end because of the means After all
i is not party suecess, but sound
i principles that are most important
Principles arc what make and un
make governments.
In the darkest hour of the Demo
cratic party's history the fact is sig
nificazt that Mr.. Roosevi.'s special
popularity today is due largely to hi.