The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-04-11


How are we going to get them to-
gether?
Now this, If ever, is time for plain
speech and definite understandings.
There is no need for any man to be i
afraid to speak his mind. The next
campaign is three years away, and
this interval must be filed full with
the frankest and freest agitation that
a great party has ever known.
Faithful are the words of friend,
and that Democrat is most loyal and
most worthy wno does not hesitate in
this vital period to criticise. TO chal-
lenge and to demand. II the Demo
cratic party has any chance in the
next election, it lies in the completeI
separation of itself from the Repubd-
! can party, with which it has grown
too intimate And we cannot separ-
ate from the Republican party until
We separate from the Republican Dem
! ocrats who have led us into bad com
pany.
: Let the fellows who do not believe
in the things for which Democracy
stands go away to some other party.
Don't be afraid TO let them go. For
every man who deserts the party of
the people because it stands for the
people there will be found hundred
!, to come in.
i We are now compelled to separate
the democratic Democracy from the
plutocratic Democracy. Oil and wa
ter will not mix. The Democratic
party cannot any longer survive half
plutocratic and half-demOcratic.
1t is high time for a reorganization
of parties in the Republic, anyhow.
There are Democrats who ought to be
! Republicans, and Republicans who
men find their political level. Let
them seek the camps 10 which they
belong. Don't be afraid. Go where
lyour convictions lead you. If you are
not a Democrat, don't be false to your
Republican camp. If you are not a
: Republican, and your interests lie with
the Democratic party, come right IN
to the fellowship of your real faith
and your evident welfare. The curse
of ali parties is the compulsory loyalty
that comes from environment or her
edity. The democracy and the pluto.
;, cracy have great battle which must
be fought out. Let US fight it honest
ly and let US have no nalf-hearted Or
lukewarm followers in either camp.
/, There is no use to get mad about
it. There is no way to drive the Re
publican Democrats out of the party
: The only thing to do is 10 commit the
l party to principles and platforms SO
I essentially Democratic that their fei
lows will have neither motive nor ex
: cuse for remaining.
D We will never have a real Demo
:. cratic party representing the majority
I. of the American voters until these fel
: lows go.
= We can never sail into port until
: we unload this ballast. =
+, have sometimes asked myseii
e whether the Democratic party must die
U before il can be born again.
[ | might find il easy TO quote history
5 to prove that 10 party so RADICAL,
divided as ours ever came into effec
q tive harmony again without buria
Tor a revolution. 1t was so with tn.
q Free Soil party. It was so vita tn
: Democratic party which split int
q ton of 1860 and never came togethe
3 until a civil revolution had washes
a away its antagonisms in blood.
But we cannot afford to die now
o The South is held intact by the shai
e ow of a negro balance OF power, rea
S or imaginary. The party at large i
o held together by the fact that the rea
y Democracy is essential TO individual
I and popular liberty, and because M
d other party of possible relief loomi
upon the horizon except in creeds 81
Il radical that the thought and judgmen
:? of the people is not ready to receiv'
n it.
s. And we must not die now TIL
I, Democratic party is worth fighting 70
IT and worth living for. Its principles ca
J. never die, and its organization alon
normal and traditional lines is to
lie vital to the people and their interests
'e Least of all can We who love tn
lie grand old party stand by and see it g
" down to even temporary dislntegr;
st ton without brave and honest effol
O. to reform its broken lines. to redeel
lie its drift from the faith Of the father
Is to bring IL back 10 the old creeds {
the people, to rebuke it's enemies witt
re in its ranks, and at the cost OF all th
lie truth, and all the courage, and all II
a criticism which its errors may requir
n to rally once more the great peop
ne who are its faithful followers, and
n carry it once more to wholesome an
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