The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1907-09-03
JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON.
The Great Gulf There is Between
Their TWO Policies.

The national Democracy has gath
cred momentous impetus in the last
year or two and the greatly Increased
vote for Democratic candidates for
congress and the election OF Demo
cratic governors at the last election IS
the proof Of it's increasing favor Win
the people. Ten years ago they cali
cd our ideas insanity" said Mr.. Bry-
an, speaking at Boston, yet on no
question that we ever discussed have
we been more vindicated than on our
idea that more money would make
higher prices and better times. The
Republican party has been In power
for ten years, with undisputed rule.
II 1t hasn't done anything that ought
TO have been done, it is its own tauit.
What is the result? We f1nd the he
publican party not so popular to-day.
The party has gone on the toboggan
slide, SO that now it has just one man
whom it regards as popular enough
to be the candidate for president.
Why is it that the president alone
has escaped the paralysis that mas
fallen upon all the rest? There IS
only one explanation, and that Is tnat
his popularity is due to his follow
ing the Democratic doctrines Ihls
may be true of some things that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has done, but he still
falls far short of being Democrat
or doing all he could have done lot
the people. He has allowed the innu-
ence of the protected interests over
the Republican politicians to prevent
him from recommending tarifr reform.
Thus he has protected the trusts IN
being able to continue to charge enor-
nous profits and keep up the present
high cost of living. He favored the
ship-subsidY bill although one-fourtn
of his own party in congress voted
with the Democrats to defeat It ana
those Republican members who voteu
against his recommendation were the
most ardent supporters Of some OF his
other policies. He favors and mas
done more to centralize power IN tne
federal government than any OF MS
predecessors, which is not only un-
democratic but unconstitutional, and
his efforts in that direction can pc
used as a precedent for further execu-
tive encroachment. In the hands OF
some president in the near future
whose ambition may overtop his pa
triotism. this action of President
Roosevelt may lead to worse ends ano
consequences than at this time.
1t is well for Democrats to remem
Der the great gulf between the politi
cal creeds of Hamilton and Jenerson
The Hamilton policy was, and is TO
day, that the great mass OF the peo
ple are unfit for self-government ane
REQUIRE a strong central government
to manage them. That is why bosses
deyelop like weeds in the Republican
party. The Democratic policy has al
WAYS been the rule Of the majority
and local self-government in thu
states and minor political divisions
that is, home rule and states rights
for the least government is the pes
government for the self-governini
Anglo-Saxon race. The lowest taxa
tion possible to keep order for th'
protection Of the individual in hi
rightss and property is the Demo
cratic ideal
The Republicans seem to like to b
so bossed, but it would be impossible
to find true Democrat that Woul'
peacefully submit to it. The gull
therefore, between Democracy am
this modern Republicanism is as grea
and impossible as that between Fa
, ther Abraham and Dives.