The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-01-10
PO|dCQ| Comment
To Make the Democracy Feebler.

To Make the Democracy Feebler.
If the ~centenarian Morgan OF Ala
9ama has his way, the Democratic
party will be pushed as far into the
background in the voting in 1908 as
1t was in 1864. Morgan demands that
the next Democratic National conven-
ton declare In its platform that the
Democratic party of the nation is and
always has been a white mans party"
AS nobody has been trying to make
the democracy a red mans, a yellow
mans or a black mans party, the coun-
try will have some difficulty in grasp
ing the p~ertinence of this proclamation.
Neither the antediluvian from Alabama
nor any other man from his section has
been doing anything for the negro In
recent times which would make any
body believe that the democracy was
beginning to lean toward equal politi-
cal rights for all races. Therefore, he
may have some trouble in convincing
the Democratic convention a year and
a half he1ce that it ought to daunt its
disregard Of the organic law openly
before the country. Sitting close to
Morgan in the Senate is a man from
South CAROLINA who is ais opposed TO
all the war amendments. A few years
hence, If Morgan is alive at that time,
he. may be REINFORCED by Vardaman of
Mississippi, who has started out to re-
peal the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments. Tillman and Vardaman
will probably, il they are delegates to
the c%onvention Of 1908, favor Morgan's
declaration that the democracy of the
nation is and always has been a white
mans party"
An immediate effect Of the adoption
Of the Morgan plank for the Demo
cratic platform would be that that par
ty would become even more sectional
and diminutive than it has been in re-
cent times. In 1904 the democracy car
ried no States outside of the South, and
did not hold even all the South. The
great North and West, which contain
the brains, the wealth and the power
Of the nation, repudiated and cast out
the Democratic party. The few mem
bers of the Senate from the North and
West which the Democratic party held
ever through the Roosevelt landslide
two years ago are now taker away
| from them. As a result of the cleo
lions a few weeks ago the Democrats
lost the Senator's from Colorado, Idaho
and Montana Republicans will take
the places of Patterson, Dubois and
Clark. In the entire country there is
no Democratic Senator except from the
Southern States, and In some Of those
States, as in Delaware and West Vir-
ginia. the Democrats are excluded.
Throughout that part OF the country
which has two-thirds Of the popula-
ton, three-fourths of the wealth and
nineteenth of the social and political
influence the Democratic party is
brs1ded as an alien organization which
deserves the contempt of the American
people.
Alabama's ancient Morgan Is work
ing to make his party feebler and more
unpopular thar it has been even in re-
cent years. The effect of his gratuitous
~reversion toward barbarism would be
to destroy the faint chance which the
Democratic party has of gaining any
foorhold in any Of the important States
Of the North or West. Nobody in the
North or West Is asking social equality
for the black man, but those regions
allow him at the polls all the political
rights which the law has guaranteed
to him. From the yellow, the red and
the black man the Republican party
asks no favors. The Republican party
gives a square deal to everybody, re-
CARELESS of the country OF his birth OF
the color of his skin. Morgan's pro
gram would cover the democracy with
a ridicule which would make northern
and western Democrats ashamed In
this twentieth century to cast their
ballots for a party with sixteenth cen.
fury aims and prejudices.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.