Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-11-07
POLITICAL BELIEF
Several Reasons Why 1 Prefer
Democratic Tenets


The following excellent article,
"Why 1 am a Democrat" is taken
from an exchange and is common
ded to our readers for their careful
consideration:
lam Democrat because the
eternal and immutable principles
eff Democracy are necessary ID a
free government, which vary only
in their application and express
ion as the heed and exigencies of
our country demand.
| am C. Democrat because Demo-
cracy means the rule of the people /;
the rule of the majority, freely and
fairly expressed.
am a Democrat because the
Democracy of the United States
endorses and he's always endorsed
the enduring Declaration of Inde-
pendence, in which amongst other
things the fathers Of the Republic
particularly declared that:
The right of petition is ours ard
sacred.
All men are created equal = \
with certain Inalienab!e Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty
and the Pursuit Of Happiness.
| am a Democrat because the
Democratic party stands for Equal
Rights to All and Special Privileges
to None;' which is the natural
corollary of the great Declaration.
L am a Democrat because the
Democratic party is for the preser-
walton of all the rights granted to
the Federal government by the
Constitution, and for the preser-
walton of the reserved rights of the
States, and especially for the right
of the people to alter or change the
fundamental law when they deem
it necessary.
Lam a Democrat because the
Democratic party stands for Home
Rule-the right of each organized
community 10 manage its own
affairs as many seem best to the
ma ority of it's citizens.
| am a Democrat because tie
Democratic party stands for the
least taxation, national, state and
local, that will support the federal,
state and local governments honest
ly and econc mically administered.
l am q Democrat because the
Democratic party opposes and has
always opposed the Capitalization
of power in the hands of the Fed
eral government, other than those
powers granted By the Cohstitd-
ton.
lam Democrat because the
Democratic party is broad enough
for all men to enlist under its
banner, who believe in and endorse
it's fundamental principles, and
yet catholic enough to shelter with
its everlasting wings the rich
and powerful and the poor ard
needy, where both labor and capital
and all conditions of men can work
out their own salvation with abso-
lutte equity.
| am a Democrat because the
Democratic party stands for the
equal right of every citizen in his
person and property and in their
management TO achieve what his
own efforts entitle him to, without
anyone to modest or make afraid,
if he does not commit aggressIons
upon the equal rights of another,
and this is all from which he ought
by law to be restrained.
| am a Democrat because the
Democratic party has always OPP
posed and is to-day fighting T .rcn-
opolies and ,sFGsrs and tie moneyed
Toligarchy, even as it fought and
vanquished the political oligarchy
under Jefferson and the mOneyed
oligarchy under Jackson. And te-
cause / believe it is the only party
honestly fighting the unlawful COM
binations and corpOrations-made
possible by law, entrenched behind
prehibitive tariff, buttressed by
subsidies and fostered by special
rates and rebates, plundering the
people with the one hard, while
with the other they reach for
foreign conquest and sell their
product CHEAPER abrold than they
sell 1T to our own tariff taxed
people.
lama Democ because the
Democratic party in ell its enviable
history since the foundation of the
Republic, has always been the bull
wark of the people against specia'
privilege and the defender of the
many against the power of money
in the hands Of few.
| am Democrat because the
Democratic party is conservative
enough to hold fast to that which
is good and radical enough to push
all necessary reforms.
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