The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-06-06
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1907.
MESSAGE TO DEMOCRACY.

A message has Just been delivered &c
the Democracy that is worthy OF the
most careful consideration OF the mem
bers of the party The message Is from
Senator Isidor Rayner, who represents
MARYLAND in the United States Senate
As Maryland is one Of the states that IL
is necessary for the Democrats to carry
TO win the next election, this message
of advice from her distinguished son on
the course the party should pursue Is the
more worthy of attention
"Of course, said Senator Rayner,
I'VE all appreciate the fact that when
new issue arises the Democratic party
must take its stand upon one side 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 formation
Now, have we any principles? |
think we have Has the Republican
DdIlN HlOitu llltlii "Nt''N
the charge. think that they are entire
" innocent and | do not believe that
they have any felonious intent or design
whatever to appropriate them Is the
President Democrat? ] most respect
fully deny it, "
I'VE must not yield the slightest frac'
ton of the supremacy of the states over
their own local and domestic concerns
This is our heritage, and we must not
barter it for wealth, for progress or pros
perity. Prosperity may be only tempo
rary, but the foundations Of The republic
are perpetual
In the next place, we are opposed 10
governmental paternalism. 1t Is re
proach TO Jefferson to claim that II he
were living he would be IN favor 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 rs give the present railroad law
fair test and trial and if it does not
answer the purposes of It's enactment let
us extend its provisions and supplement
its remedies so that it will meet any
emergency that may arise. There is one
proposition however, that the Democra
tic party must contend for in this con
nection, and that Is it must demand Il
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.
If we advocated principles that are
not Democratic and be again defeated
at the polls, then it looks to me M if the
hour of disintegration was at hand, be-
cause the only thing that has kept us
alive through all the strange viclssi-
tudes of our fortune il the fact that we
have never yet wholly abandoned the
historic traditions of our faith and have
never yet, upon all the pages Of our
history, sounded final retreat
IF the Democratic party will only
follow Jefersonian precepts and aXioms
without attempting revised edition
that he would repudiate if he were living;
if it will only unite upon essentials and
no. divide upon non essentials; if it will
only stand 10y 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 IL will only abandon the worship of
temporary idols that are broken into
fragments with the close of every cam
paign, and return 10 the worship Of those
cardinal principles that will remain i'm
mutabe so long as the republic lasts re.
gardless Of the fact whether parties dis.
card them or nOt-then ! believe that
our mission il by no means ended, but
that, emerging from the apathy and
lethargy that now envelops us, we shall
be recalled 10 life TO resume the activities
of our normal existence and TO the &C.
complement Of our historic destiny y