Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-03-22

Its name tins bill was rallroaded
through the House without ade-
quate debate, and with great
flourish of trumpess was sent to its
grave in the Senate. Thus was
the administration saved from
severe criticism and no harm done
TO the railroad trust. That was
the game from the beginning and
will be the game played on the
people so long as the Republican
party is kept in power. Promises,
nothing but promises and deceit
and hyprocisy and chicanery and
graft. q Temporal, q mOres, . HI.
Another of the things discussed
here by the Democratic members
of Congress just before adjourn
ment and since, and discussed with
considerable Solicitude, is the future
of the Democratic party. This, of
course, Is interesting to all Demo
Gratis and all good citizens, for two
parties in this country are essential
to the health of the republic. The
Democratic party is immortal and
will last as long as the republic
endures. Many time it has been
shot at and bedeviled and defeated,
and all but wiped off the face of
the earth, and the announcement
has been solemnly made that the
Democratic party was dead; but
when they came to- bury it the
corpse was not forthcoming. The
party defeated last Fall under the
name of the Democratic party was
not the real Democratic party of
this country. That party is still
in good health, still undiSmayed,
still militant, and its hosts are be-
ginning to marshal in serried
ranks under the banner of leaders
who are honert to the core, who
are honest with the people. who
believe in the real reforms the
people demand, who have nothing
in common with the plutocracy
and who will fight it with all their
might, and who will be found in
the forefront of the battle in the
next campaign leading on the
Democratic hosts; and waving on
the firing line will be the pIumes
of those two warriors for the peo-
pies rights, the Hon. William
Jennings Bryan and the Hon.
William Randolph Hearst.
This is the honest consensus of
opinion here among some of the
leading Democrats. 1t has been
formed deliberately after looking
at the late disastrous defeat which
followed an attempt on the part of
the Wall Street Democracy or
more properly the plutocracy, to
lead the Democratic party. Many
Democratic leaders here believe it
would be suicide indeed TO allow
the same coalition to continue and
attempt another campaign under
the same auspices. The only thing
TO do then is to depose the men
who at present are at the head of
the party and place the conduct of
the party's affairs in the hands of
the real leaders of the party in this
country. The people believe in
the honesty of purpose of both
Bryan and Hearst, and they will
follow where they lead. Mr.. Hearst
says he is not candidate for any
thing on the face of the earth and
will not be again, but anyone who
doubts that he will be formidable
factor in the next fight for the
people, would better dispel such
doubt right now. With his papers
he is every day fighting the battles
of the people and he will continue
until he is at the death of unjust
determinations and criminal trusts.
The party cannot exist half pluto
cratic and half democratic. and the
leaders here think that the only
thing to do is to make it all demo-
cratic at the earliest practicable |
moment. They feel that the re-
cruits from the ranks of the thous-
ands of honest Republicans who
really favor reforms in the interest
of the people, will far outnumber
the assertions on the part of the |
Eastern plutocrats who will 90
into the Republican party where
they naturally belong and where
they will find congenial company.
Every man who believes in
special privilege will finally get
into the Republican party, and
every man who does not so believe
will naturally gravitate to the
Democratic party and he will stay
Al