Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-07-20
PARTY is ALWAYS ADRIFT.
instability of the Democracy Costs
1t the Support of Able
Agencies.

One swallow does not make summer
and neither does the desertion Of
the democratic party by some of its
greatest newspaper organs indicate its
dissolution to the point of immediate
disappearance, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. Two such deSertionS have
taken place within the past year. how
ever. which, because of a wide va
rance of opinion in the two seeding
journals, on the factional issue dividing
that party, indicate Enthusiastically how
far that organization has drifted from
any safe and sure anchorage. Immedi-
ately following the action of Judge
Parker in accepting the edmocratiG
Nomination for the presidency on a
platform which he had repudiated, the
Chicago Chronicle, one of the ablest
and most honest of democratic party
organs, announced that, the party hav-
ing ceased to stand for anything def
mite or positive, and to have any con-
victions touching any point in contro-
versy and offering no assurance to any
of its supporters of what they could or
might expect in the event of its sue
cess. the Chronicle would not consent
to support it, but would, in the fu-
ture, act with and for the republican
party.
Since that announcement the Chron-
icle has been consistent in the perform
ance of its promises. It's change of
party allegiance was decried at the
time, and since, as being inspired by
devotion to the single gold standard,
for which that paper, while still retain
ing its democratic party connection,
had stood in the two preceding cam
paigns. Its detection was denounced
as gOldbuggery," but such denuncia-
tion could deceive but few, if any, in
the light of the palpable straddling the
democracy was attempting. The re-
suit of the poll showed how close to the
line of thinking by many thousands of
democrats the Chronicle had shaped it's
course. DisaffectiOn was as marked in
one factions camp as in the other.
Everywhere, it seemed, democrats had
reached the conclusion that in voting
for such an organization they would be
voting for uncertainty, hesitation,
doubt. weakness, delay and every form
of public calamity to be invited by bad
government
That the breaking up of the party
was not on factional lines the an
nouncement made some months ago
that the Cincinnati Enquirer for years
the organ of the quantitiative money
theory, without reference to the quality
Of the quantity, must no longer be con-
sidered democratic party organ, was
strikingly in evidentt. The Enquirer,
too, had become convinced that the
party, as now constituted, cannot be
relied upon for the carrying out of any
policy in government. The resignation
of John K. Mclean. the owner of the
Enquirer, as member of the national
democratic committee was sent to the
Ohio state democratic convention. 1t is
followed by an announcement that the
Enquirer will soon declare its formal
adhesion to the republican party.
Whether this is done or not, its deser-
tion of the democratic parry may be i'm
mortal, but just now it looks much like
DR.. Holmes immortal one-hoss shay on
the morning when it went to pieces:
AN at once. and nothing first.
Just as bubbles do when they burst"