Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
MESSAGE TO
Democracy
UNITED We STAND, DIVIDED
We FALL"
words OF wisdom to Democrats From
Senator Rayner, of maryland. The
Aged Statesman Gives MESSAGE
Worthy of Careful Reading by
Every Democrat.

message mas just been delivered to
the democracy that is worthy of the most
careful consideration of the members of
the party. The message is from Senator
lsidor Rayner, who represents Maryland
in the United States senate. As Mary
land is one of the states that it is neces.
sary for the democrats to carry to win
the next election. this message OF advice
from her most distinguished son on the
course the party should pursue is the
more worthy Of attention.
"Of COURSE" said Senator Rayner,
1--WE all appreciate the fact that when
new issue arises the democratic party
must take its stand upon one eide or the
other, and as new issues develop parties
must enlarge and expand. No one de.
sires to restrict the democratic party
either to dead issue or simply to those
that existed at the time of it's forma-
| ton.
"Now, have we any principles? l
think we have. Has the republican
party stolen them? / acqut them OF
the charge. l think that they are en-.
tirely innocent, and do not believe that
they have any felonious intent or design
whatever to appropriate them. Is the
president a democrat? l most respect
fully deny it,"
Senator Rayner, after showing the
lines that divide the two parties, said
"We must not yield the slightest fraction
of the supremacy of the states over their
own local and domestic concerns. This
ie our heritage, and we must not barter
it for wealth. for progress or prosperity.
Prosperity may be only temporary, but
the foundations Of the republic are per.
petual.
I'm the next place, We are opposed to
governmental paternalism. It is a re-
proach to Jefferson to claim that if he
were living he would be in faver Of it.
| predict, with great respect to others
who may differ with me, that the day
will never come when the government of
the United States will own and operate
the railroads of the country.
"Let us give the present railroad law
fair test and trial, and il it does not
answer the purposes of its enactment let
us extend its provisions and supplement
its remedies 90 that it will meet any
emergency that may arise. There is one
proposition, however, that the demo-
cratic party must contend for in this
connection, and that is it must demand
complete obedience to the existing
statute. The railroad presidents and
officers of our trunk lines must be made,
once and forever, to realize that they are
the servants, and not the masters, OF the
people"
Alter suggesting platform upon
which all democrats could unite, Senator
Rayner closed by saying: If we advo-
cate principles that are not democratic
and be again defeated at the polls, then
it looks to me as if the hour of dsntegra.
ton was at hand, because the only thing
that has kept us alive through all the
strange vicisstudes OF our. fortune is the
| fact that we have never yet wholly aban.
doned the historic traditions of our faith,
and have never yet, upon all the pages
Of our history, sounded a final retreat.
"If the democratic party will only fol-
low Jelfersonian precepts and axioms
without attempting revised edition that
he would repudiate if he were living; if
it will only unite upon essentials and not
divide upon non-essentials; if it will
only stand by the old ritual and not at
tempt to alter it to suit every economic
clique or mongrel denomination that is
willing to array itself under its banners
if it will only abandon the worship of
temporary idols that are broken into
fragments with the close OF every cam.
paign, and return to the worship of those
cardinal principles that will remain i'm.
mutable so long as the republic lasts,
regardless OF the fact whether parties
discard them or not-then believe that
our mission is by no means ended, but
that emerging from the apathy and
lethargy that now envelops US, we shall
be recalled to life to resume the activities
OF our normal existence and to the ac-
complishment OF our historic destiny"