The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-04-14
MUST DEMOCRACY DI TO Be
BORN AGAIh2

Even the South is relaxing If it
has not already relaxed the pre-
iudices aroused by his negro APP
pointment, and there are Demo
Gratis all over the country who
are thinking and saying, in view
Of the Presidents courageous and
vigorous administration. that
Roosevelt is a better Democrat
than Parker.
The Presidents party, if not
sympathetic, is at least quleScent,
either throu Oh astonishment or
timidity, and he is goir.g straight
forward in a great career.
Now, what are we doing in
Democratic ranks? Wrangling,
as usual, with unabated ferocity.
The Eastern Democrats are eag-
erly urging William j. Bryan to
break away from mis- engagement
with the Iroquois Club in Chi
cago and to come instead to the
Jefferson dinner in New York.
To this insistent invitation they
are adding the questionable en-
treaty. But if you don't come
to US. for Gods sake don't tie up
with those radical Democrats in
Chicago
Where is the hope of harmony
in an attitude like this
There in Congress we saw John
Sharp Williams, leading the Dem
ocratic minority, deliberately
turn his back upon the best and
soundest railroad reform bill that
the generation has produced, anc
commit his party TO a haSty and
imperfect measure which needed
constant amendment. for no Othel
ostensible reason than that h'
was unwilling that the credit foI
this vital reform measure shoulC
. go 70 William K. Hearst. who haC
already done a Titan's work Il
, effective Democratic warfar
against the trusts and the puDh
CRAFTS Of the time.
; And where do we find the hop
of getting together in a splrl
like this?
The Eastern. Democrats ar
even now coquetting shrewdl
with the rising fortunes of 10
Folk, Of Missouri. who has ma
the good sense to hear thel
Establishments, to eat their bar
auets and to hold his tongue.
And out yonder in the grea
vide territory of the Centrs
West there are hundreds of thou
sands of the same sturdy Demo
Gratis. who stayed away from Tn
polls at the last election, JUS
waiting grimly to see what tn
Democratic party of their talt
and the Democratic party nf the
fathers is going TO do.
1t may just as well be repeate
here that the difference betwee
the wide wings of the old Demo
I cratic organization Is deeper an
wider than the difference betwee
the platforms Of the two oppo.
| ing parties in the last campaign
How are we going TO get thel
together?
Now this. if ever. Is a time f
. plain speech and definite undel
4 standings.
There is no need for any ma
| to be afraid to speak his mlnC
The next campaign is three yeal
\ away, and this interval must b
/ filled full with the frankest an
7 freest agitation that a great part
n has ever known.
n Faithful are the words OF
/ friend, and that Democrat Is mo-
Z loyal and most worthy who doe
I not hesitate in this vital period
I criticise. to challenge and to d'
( mand. If the Democratic part
4 has any chance I'm the next ere
\ ton. it hesin the complete separ'
I ton of itself from the Republics
\ party. with which it has grow
\ to intimate. And we cann'
\ separate from the Republica
| party until we separate from II
7 Republican Democrats who hay
! led us into bad company.
! Let the fellows who do n
Z believe in the things for whlC
j Democracy stands 90 away
some other party. Don I be ARA
/ to let them go. For every m;
who deserts The party of the pc
4 ple because it stands for the pc
4 ple there will be found a hundr
10 come in.
We are now compelled to SEP
rate the democratic Democra
from the plutocratic Democrat
| Oil and water will not mix. 1
Democratic party cannot a
( longer survive half-plutocra