The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-12
IT'S SILLY, SAYSE.MSHEpARD.
bISCJPLINING M'CARREN WON'T
HELP THE DEMOCRACY.
what Is wanted Is 10 VItalIye u with TtIden
Rather Than Denis Kearney as Its Ideal
Not 10 Try SIKH cures on a DIsergan-
lied system Patronage Won't Heal II.

lied System Patronage Won't Heal II.
Edward NJ. Shepard declares the proposal
of the Democratic state committee to
discipline Senator McCarren to be singularly
silly and fatuous and advises building up
the party on the old Tilden lines. He
gave ont Yesterday this statement;
Il nave read of the proposal to discipline
Senator McCaTren by eXpeling him from
the Democratic State committee for the
part that Kings county played in the last
~siection. The proposal seems TO me to be
singularly silly and fatuous. Naturally
enough the Senator seems to welcome ii
as a contribution to the increase OF his
: political power. which seems to most Of us
already quite sufficient il We are in future
Ato hsve a sound, useful and united Demo-
%cratic party.
NO doubt MIR. Hearst's warm supporters
have provooation. For as against his vote
of about IOs,OO0 in Brooklyn, the OF her
democratic nominees for State Offices
shave $4,000. Tbe 10 1000 citizens in that
Thorough who generally voted the Demo-
icrstic ticket but gave Mr.. Hughes about
fthat number OF additional votes, takingA
like number from Mr.. Hearst, thus gave
Mr.. Hughes about 40 900 out Of his 10, 900
aplurality.
This. however, was but a part Of the
4ehect OF the open collision bet tween Mr..
Hearst and our organized Democracy.
SSo widely and ~emphatically advertised
was the rupture in Kings county and the
probability that it represented but one
fdetail in the intention Of Mr.. Hearst's
managers to disrupt the Democratic party
Hthroughout the State that the instinct Of
f~elf-preservation induced very many thou
sssnd old time and regular Democrats in
Sthe country counties to bolt his nomination.
fSuch Democrats we're, to their own minds.
~irregularly voting for regularity and an
deficient Democratic party. 1t is true.
Therefore, as alleged to the State COM
fmittee, that the Kings county situation OF
tAnd by itself induced IA sufficient change
aof votes from the Democratic to the Re-
spublican candidate for Governor to represent
kmuch more than Mr.. Hughes's plurality
psnd 80 brought about his election.
But none the less, as | have said. the
Fproposal TO discipline Senator McCarren
els silly and fatuous His effective blow.
$leCisive though il was, was itself simply
the result of a condition. AND the con-
Milton is one Of party disorganization. |
tearnestly hope that Mayor Mcclellan, how
ever excellent his motives and however
fstrong the temptation to him, will not con-
s'Elude that he can help this really profound
ldisease by any eXpedients Of patronage,
Fhut that the high class appointment of
slawson Purdy will be the precedent to
@follow. | earnestly hope that all shallow
schemes of coalition and device and make
shift and reconciliation will be abandoned,
and that Democrats will instead seek to
build up their party
First. by definitely committing il TO a
sincere, non-demagogic, practical pro-
Rramme on the line of its own true doc
trines of hostility to special privilege,
equality of right, jealousy Of monopoly
NWhafhar nndar Ia w mr. in Hafta npaf f \ "a n 4
Jealousy Of the extension of Governmental
powers and jealousy. especially. OF increase
Of Federal or central powers at the expense
Of state and local powers.
Secondly, by firm. patient, aggressive
promotion Of such doctrines without de-
pendence upon the lurid, hollow centre Of
the stage tactics in which Mr.. Hearst is
far from being the only able and inhuen-
tial sinner; and
Thirdly. | venture TO add. by running
the politics of this great nation or this
great Democratic party ON something
better and more fruitful and certainly more
solid and lasting than personal hatreds
and the weapon Nontumely and con-
tempt-that is TO 10y by making politics
which, rightly understood and prlctised
ia a noble vocation the art of cons Iruction
and building up, not the mere art Of de-
struction.
lam so in~Corrigiblv optimistic as TO hope
that the large body Of sincere and patriotic
Democrats who lately espOused Mr.. Hearst's
cause no less than perhaps even more
than the large body of equally sincere
and patriotic Democrats who opposed u
will find the ideal Of political action not in
Denis kearney Oh the sand lots OF San
Francisco but in Gov. Tilden. to whom the
work of furnishing public and powerful
criminals and DISCRIMINATING public wrong
xfoing, necessary and useful as it was, never
dwarfed the truly constructive and creative
work OF government, Or, il you please, in
MIR. Gladstone, Of whom a great adversary
rf his said that to his legislative career
was due a real and material lettering of
the condition Of life for every man, woman
and child in that kingdom over which, as a
tribune OF the plain people, he ruled 50
Anany- years