The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-05-12
The Democratic Party.

The New York World is publishing a
series of interviews with prominent DEM
ocrats of the country relative to the party
and the policies it must endorse IN order
to win success. The World is an out and
out gold bug Conservative OF the Parker
stripe, and sentimens like those given
in the following cause it to shiver. When
the World representative tackled n. E.
Mack, national committeeman and
editor and owner of the Buffalo Times, he
got some blunt declarations, not at all in
accord with conservatism" Mr.. Mack
and his paper supported Judge Parker
during the last campaign, but gave voice
to his sentiments in the following:
The democratic party at this time re-
minds one of the boy baby in the adver-
tisement reaching for cake of soap and
labelled HE won't be happy till he gets
it." The people who make up the rank
and file of the democracy will never be
satisfied till the men who have been en-
gagged in securing and making money
out of special governmental privileges
have been sent to the rear of the, party.
The party just now seems to be made up
of two elements. Ninety eight per cent
of it consists of men who seem to be in
favor OF progressive democracy, which
says what it means, and is honestly op-
posed to the use of the party or the gov
eminent for private advantage. Those
who make up the remaining two per cent
seem to be convinced that they are the
real democrats. but-we might as we'll be
honest, they call themselves conservative
democrats-with the exception of very
few who have been misled you will find
that in nearly every case the se-called con-
servative democrats. who have opposed
the party most of the time for the past
ten years are either at the head of big
corporations looking for special privileges
or are attorneys hired by such corpora
tons to secure special privileges for large
money considerations.
The democrats of the country might as
we'll understand clearly that they can
never win by the use of Doodle. In 1896
it is we'll known fact that there was not
a county in the Union in which 1--WE had
money enough to buy the necessary
postage stamps, and yet we came within
6oI,854 votes of electing a president.
Last year we had all the money we could
use in this or any other state. Yet we
lost the election by 2.542. o62, defeat, in
spite of our abundance of money, more
than four times as great as in 1896,
when we were so hard up for funds. If it
had not been for the strength furnished
by local issues and local candidates in
states like New York, Michigan, Mass
achusetts and Minnesota we should have
come out of the campaign stripped bare.
The truth is that the democratic party
must stand for something definite if it
hopes to win at the polls. If the demo-
cratic party is 10 have any chance to win,
it must have democratic leadership and
a democratic platform.
If the democratic party does not stand
against Capitalization of power and
against organizations of capital devoted
to grating and bribery in the state and
nation, it has no mission and ought to be
defeated. There is not room enough
even in this big country for two trust
parties or two republican parties.