Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14


the Declaration Of Independence Democ
racy SAFEGUARDS Individual Rights and |
the Champion Of Local Self-Government-
1t Favors Such improvements in tn
Methods Of Government as Will Make tn
Federal Government More Responsive t
the Will Of the People-Is the Foe q
Special PRIVILEGES and Private Monopoly
and Holds That Corporations Should B.
Tractable to Law-Favors the Laborin
Man in His Fight Against Corporate Gree,
Opposes Imperialism and Colonial Gov
ernment Which Is in Conflict With tn
National Constitution.
A Kansas Democratic club ask.
The CommOner to set forth brief,
some of the reasons which can b,
given by Democrats for the supper
OF their party's position, and the re
quest is cheerfully complied with.
FirSt-The Democratic party be
lieves in the theory of government
set forth in the Declaration of indie
pendence, namely, that government.
derive their just powers from thu
consent of the governed. The party
was formed by Thomas jefferson, the
author of the Declaration of indie
pendence, and has ever borne the
impress OF his personality.
While all parties have until recent
years to greater or less eXten,
given adherence to the doctrines Sc,
forth in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, the Democratic party has diff.
fered from the parties which have
opposed it in that it has emphasized
the fact that the representative is the
servant of his constituents, while the
parties that take their inspection
from Alexander Hamilton regard
the representative as more or less in.
dependent of his constituents. II
makes q great deal of difference
whether the public official recognizes
it as his duty to give expression to the
wishes of those who elected him or
considers himself sort of superior
being elected to act for the people
but not to be controlled by them.
The official who assumes the right to
to disregard the wishes of those who
elect him strikes at the very foun-
dation OF popular government.
Second-The Democratic party be-
lieves in the inalienable rights OF the
individual and zealously guards those
rights from infringement. There are
individual rights sacred from the
touch even of the majority, as for in
stance, the right to life, to liberty
and to the pursuit of happiness, and
the amendments to the constitution
have named freedom of speech, free
dom OF the press, and freedom of the
conscience as necessary to the pres
ervation of the inalienable rights of
man.
Third-The Democratic party is
the champion of local self-govern-
ment, believing that that govern
ment is best which is nearest to the
people and that the people can act
most intelligently upon the subjects
with which they are most familiar.
Fourth-The Democratic party, be-
lieving in the inalienable rights OF
the individual and in the wisdom of
local self-government, insists upon
respect being shown to the constitu-
tional provision which reserves to
..o .:".oS' H.";eS .I anu W 'ne people resP1c-
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npt,,raiIv - favors .ha olect;on ~ Sena'
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and refar.ndmw w ~
T SovontbMIn ~ +oxo+;or tho Doro
c,ot;o nortv ha,;evoS thot the hnrJons
of % "ovarnment sbo,,IS he Collected in
snch a wav that each citizen viii con.
tr;hnta in nronort;on 70 the hanef;ts
received under the nrotect;on of the
oovernment CARRYING ont this thee.
rv of taxation f has opposed a tariff
levied purely for the purpose of pro
lection and has urged the income tax
as means of eouaIizing taxation.
Eighth-The Democratic party be.
lieves in economy in public expendi-
lures. Taxation being not a blessing
but a necessary evil. should be limited
to the needs of the government econ
omically administered.