Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-01
THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLT.

DENVER, Nov. 1.-(Special. The
serious nature of the Democratic re-
volt in Denver against the dictator.
ship of Patterson has not yet been
fully appreciated. The meeting at
the Democratic club on Saturday
night showed its proportions. The
Democratic club has turned into an
anti-Patterson club 1t includes In its
membership the old party workers
from every precinct in the city. For
years it has been the regular Demo
cratic organizatisn-the organization
that has carried all the elections in
Denver that have been carried for
the Democratic party. It's represen-
tatives in the late state Democratic
convention were "spewed ont at the
order of Patterson. They were
branded as traitors; they were denied
the right to call themselves Demo
Gratis. On Saturday evening Mayor
Speer said that II they were not good
enough to be allowed to sit in Dem
ocratic convention, they had no rea-
son to vote the alleged Democratic
ticket. He called on them to use the
big stick II made no difference,
he said, when you were killing
snake, what stick you used to do it,
they might use Republican stick, or
Lindsey stick, or any other kind of
stick. but the snake must be killed
The real Democracy of this state Is
lighting for its life in the present
campaign. If Patterson wins. there
will he no Democratic party. There
will only be a yellow czar and a lot
of impotent subjects. Democracy
used to mean cossSeryatfsm, state
rights. individualism; II Patterson Is
Democracy, it will mean extreme rad
icalism, government ownership, So
cialism. He alone will be the COVER
nor, the Legislature and the supreme
court. His dictum only will deter
mine who Is Democrat and who Is
not. AS his yellow journals direct.
so must all Democrats believe and
act The man who stood for the old
fashioned Democratic principles in
this state when they were unpopular
the men who were Democrats when
Patterson was the self-appointed
leader Of the Populist party. do not
propose now to let him assume the
sole direction of the Democratic party
nor arrogate to himself the attributes
of a czar.
The real Democracy of this state
stands in the same position as the
real Democracy of New York For
the moment, the organization has
been captured by an outsider guer-
iila. who is not Democrat at all, but
Socialist. The only way for the
Democratic party to continue to exist
is to beat the temporary dictator, and
later return TO real Democratic prin-
ciples and policies.
The Republican party Is opposed
both to the reactionary Democracy of
the er-McClellan-Parker style. and
10 the Socialist Democracy of the Pat
terson-Hearst-Bryan type. It occupies
the safe middle ground of progress
sive conservatism. It holds fast to
that which is good, while it reaches
forward to that which is better. The
reactionary Democrats would bark
back to the past would stop the
wheels of progress would stand still
| and mark time: the radical Democ.
racy would rush blIndly forward with.
out chart or compass, and try all the
mostrums of demagogues and mounte-
banks-municipal ownership OF all
public utilities, government owner
ShIp VI railways ana teItRrapnS ana
telephones. abolition OF the powers of
courts, initiative. referendum. recall,
and all the rest of 1t. Between these
two irreconcilable factions of the pres
ent Democratic party the fight Is on,
not only In this state but In many
others. In Colorado and New York
and Massachusetts. the conservative
| citizens of all parties are rallying to
| the Republican standard Democratic
victory in those state, with the pres
ent control Of the organization, would
mean revolution. II is no wonder that
Democrats who believe In the prlnci
pies of Jefferson, Democrats who be
lieve in a safe and sane" admins
tration Of government, Democrats who
believe in individualism and conserv
atism, should revolt. as the Speei
| Democrats in Denver do. against the
wild-eyed Socialism, the unqualified
bossism. which is represented by
Hearst In New York and in Colorado
by Patterson.
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