The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-02-06
tain his popularity, and preserve his
hold on the attention of the people"

mold on the attention Of the people
IA DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY.
From Ell Paso News.
There are astute politicians, and
some Of them are Republicans, who
are now predicting that the Democrar
tic party will carry the State of New
York next November. 1t would appear
that the conditions are such IS to.
justify predictions Of this character,
because the New York Democracy
Is not burdened with the RESPONSE
bility for the Insurance scandals, and
the corruption and subserviency to
| corporations that has beer disclosed
in the administration of the state
government. 1t a nj United States
| Senators whose regulations have
| been brown to the winds and expos
ed as common grafters. The New
| York World asserts that the time
was never more opportune for the
Democracy of the State to proclaim
| the old doctrines Of the constitutional
distinction between the three de-
partments of the government, fidelity
to the people and a faithful account
ing of all the acts of the public's
servants. 1t adds:
L sGTho noonIn oP Nou, vor1y oro rive
for a change, not only in parties but
in political methods, The same pub
lie opinion which proclaimed Odell's
downfall heartily welcomed Mayor
McCellan's inaugural declaration of
independence from Murphy. Politics
in New York had become a business
of it's own, and from that it ~degenera-
ted to being a sub-department of the
great public-service corporations.
The clearer this change is understood
the more emphatically will the people
avail themselves of the opportunity
to destroy the whole system of poll
tics by corporations"
If the Democratic party is to win
in New York and elsewhere in the
country it must show that it is be-
yond the shadow of a doubt the party
Of the people. To do this it must Sc
Ilect as leaders men who are not cor
poration managers and corporation
lawyers. 1t must clearly understand
that nothing is to be gained, but on
the contrary disaster is invited, by
bidding for the support of the trusts
and the corporations. 1t made this
mistake not longer ago than the last
nationaal election with the result
that a million of its voters did not
go to the polls, while thousands of
others voted against it's candidate.
In the beginning of the last campaign
it made an open bid for corporation
support and when it became clear
that the support its managers desir-
ed was not forthcoming, the campaign
assumed an anti-corporation phase,
but the harm had been done, because
hundreds of thousands Of Democrats
had turned from the spectacle in
| disgust and humiliation.
Therefore if the Democracy is to
| win the confidence and the votes of
the people as the party Of the peo-
| pie, it must eliminate from its nation
al and state committees noted rep
resentatives of the great trusts. It
must unload it's Murphys, Taggarts
and McCarrens, its Belmonts and its
Ryans, and give the positions of lead
ership to clean men whose ability and
| devotion to principle cannot be ques-
| toned. Above all it should have sense
enough to show that when it comes
to bidding for corporation support the
Republican party will always be the
| winner, because it is a notorious fact
that the corporations are the strong
est part of the Republican party.
They not only control it absolutely
in the shaping OF it's legislative poll
cies, but they furnish the enormous
camapign funds with which it de
| bauches the elections and carries cleo
lions. Hence the Republican party
and the corporations are practically