The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-06-04
MESSAGE TO DEMOCRATS.
United We Stand Devided We
FALL

A message has just been delivered
to 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 rep
resents Maryland in the United States
Senate. AS Maryland is one of the
states that it is necessary for the demo-
Gratis to carry to win the next election,
this message of advice from the most
distinguished son on the course the
party should pursue is the more worthy
of attention
'tOf course" said Rayner, "we all
appreciate the fact that when a new
issue arises the Democratic party must
take its. stand upon olc side or the
other, and as new issues develop
parties must enlarge and expand. No
one desires to restrict the Democratic
party either to dead issue or simply
to those that existed at the time of
its formation.
Now, have we any principles? I
think we have. Has the Republican
party stolen them? l acquit them of
the charge. / 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? | most
respectfully deny it," Senator Rayner
after showing the lines that divide the
/ two parties. said:" We must not yield
the slight fraction 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,
progress or prosperity. Prosperity may
be only temporary, but the foundations
of the republic are perpetual.
in the next place, we are oppos-
ed to government paternalism. 1t
is reproach to Jefferson to claim that
if he were living he would be in favor
of it. | predict, with great respect to
others VINO may differ with me. that
the day will never come when the Gov
eminent 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 if it does
not answer the purposes of its enact
ment let US extend IFS provisions and
supplement its remedies so that it will
meet any emergency that may arise.
There is one proposition, however, that
the Democratic party must contend for
IN this connection, and that is it must
demand complete obedience to the
existing statute The railroad presi-
dents 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.
After suggesting platform upon
which all Democrats could unite
Senator Rayner closed by saying: eff
we advocate principles that are not
Democratic and be again defeated at
the polls, then it looks to me as if the
hour Of disintegration was at hand,
because the only thing that has kept
us alive through all the strange vicissi-
tudeS Of our fortune is the fact that
| we have never yet wholly abandoned
the historic traditions of our faith
and have never yet, upon ali the pages
of our history, sounded final retreat.
eff the Democratic party Will only
follow Jeffersonian precepts and
axiomS without attempting "a revised
edition that he would repudiat if he
we're 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 attempt to alter
| it to suit every economic clique Or
mongrei denomination that is willing
TO array itself under banners if it will
only abandon the worship of temporary
idols that are broken into fragments
with the close of every campaign, and
return to the worship of those cardinal
principles that will remain immutahle
as long as the republic lasts, regard
less of the fact WHETHER parties discard
them or not, then l believe that our
mission is by no means ended but that,
emerging from the apathy and lethargy
that now envelops US, we shall be re-
called to life resume the activities of
our normal exiasance and the -accmp
lishment of our historic existnce. =
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