The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-13
DEMOCRATIC IDEAS
VICTORIOUS IN DEFEAT.

Mr.. Bryan in an address at Memphis
Thursday night, says the New York
World is reported to have said that
Mr.. Roosevelt, if he carried out his
program. would be regarded as the
greatest president of the United
States.
Disraeli said in one of his attacks
on Peel: The right honorable gen
tleman caught the Wings bathing and
he walked away with their Clothes"
This is what Mr.. Roosevelt seems to
have one with the democrats.
The Sherman law represented ex-
cellent democratic doctrine. Mr..
Roosevelt was the first President to
enforce livery inadequately to be
sure. but enough to make a reputa
ton as an enemy of monopoly. In
urging that the interstate commerce
commission be given power TO fix a
rate when a rate is challenged the
president took a plank out of the St.
Louis platform. He carried away an
other when he intimated that il was
the purpose of the administration to
bring the Philippines ultimately in
to the relations that Cuba now
holds to the United States. He
appropriated another in his cam
paign for tariff revision. Commits
sioner Garfield's suggestion for
licensing by the Federal govern
ment of corporations engaged in
interstate commerce is p~lagiarized
freely from HINT. Bryan.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not hesitated to
appropriate any democratic garments
that looked as if they might fit wha
ever political conditions confronted
him, and for the present the democrat
ic party is left naked in the midst of
a ard political winter,
In these circumstances, what of the
party's future? For the present it
must evidently mark time. There is
no hope of an Immediate e-union of
the various groups while there are
such radical differences of principle
within the party itself; but it seems
likely that there must come ultimately
a general readjustmenI of party lines
as a consequence of the struggle
against ~plutocracy on the one hand
and socialistic mobocracy on the 9th
er.
In spite of the fact that the ancient
dogmas Of the democratic faith are
temporarily discredited, the world
still believes them. A majority of the
people apparently do not. The World
believes that the principles enunciat
ed at St. Louis are for the most part
excellent. 1t was a mistake to say
that protection is robbery" 1t was
not true to say that Mr.. Roosevelt
nae made war without the consent
of congress. There was a little non
sense we believe. about J-effersonian
simplicity. But the plea for the re-
duction of duties that shelter mono |
poles. the demand for the strict en-
f4r4arno ~F &h4 .-%; ,-& r-- -
the anti-rebate laws, the plea for Fill |
pino freedom, the remuneration of mil |
jingoism, imperialism and
government by executive order, the
protest against the u~surpation of pow
er by the president. the i~nsistence OH
government-all his is
excellent Americanism as well as ex-
democracy. No d~istrust of par
ty leadership can obscure the viril- |
ity of these principles. to which The
World is devoted no less since cleo
ton tina it was before.
For the immediate present the flu
ture Of the Democratic party seems
to rest in the hands of one man
Roosevelt. His administra-
ton may provide the electric spark
will unite all the different ele
ments. and it may not Time VIII
tell. But SO far as democratic prin-
ciples triumph through the admins
of Theodore Roosevelt. The