The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-22
oEMocRAcY vs.. PLurooRAcY


| ami moral ideas. Men change and
! Dimes change and parties change ami
| platforms change and candidates
change, but true principles ana IDEAS
10 not change
We are nearing the end OF one
stage OF Rooseveltism. It's fruits are
before us. In the name of false pa
trlotism they are jingoism. imperial
ism, extravaganza, plutocracy, cen
tralnzatiOn. They are violence, usur-
patton, panic, depression. They are
contempt for law. contempt for courts.
contempt for congress, contempt for
The constitution. All these have Deen
crystalBzed in the machine-made and
corporal Non-hnanced candidacy of
personally am%ble anil excellent
Proxy.
II is imperative that there shall be
Opposition to this sordid and menac-
ing regime TO be effective that OPP
position must be powerful To be
powerful It must be grounded In prin-
ciple, TO be grounded in principle ap-
peal must be made not so much In be-
nalf OF man as in behalf of a Cause
That Cause must be not false but
True Democracy. II Democratic can
didates chance now to be Identified
with this Cause. as they always should
have been, so much the better for
them.
The World has sharply disagreed
with Mr.. Bryan and the Democratic
party In the past. It has upheld them
whenever they represented True De-
mocracN II has opposed their Popu-
lism and Sociali~m. il has nothing to
retract, defend or excuse. In common
with the Democratic millions as dis.
tinguished from the Democratic poli.
ucians, It responds now to tde merits
1 and demands Of a Cause rather than
TO the claims Of any man or any
machine
Independently and firmly, voluntari-
I ~ and conscientiously and with a
Keen appreciation of its own respon-
sioiiity to the public, The Wrold, con-
/ ironted on one side by Rooseveltism
and Roosevelt's Proxy and on the
/ other my Democracy and Mr. BRYAN
aas no hesitation in saying that with
1 IN the limits of True Democracy the
/ Democratic ticket is entitled 10 the
I full Democratic vote.
1 There are planks in the Democratic
4 platform which We repudiate now as
I always. There are phases of Mr.. Brv.
IN career and there are articles in
| his political creed OF which we dis.
/ approve now as always But in the
essentials of opposition to Roosevelt.
ism we are in hearty accord with tae
! Democratic platform
In these things party and canliidate
!
! toric position. to The Worlds well.
tnown principles, to The Worlds oppe-
5itlon to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO
Privilege and Plutocracy.
II is because The World Is a truly
independent Journal thar 1t can do no
less than acknowledge this fact and
act accordingly BY coming to The
Worlds position-the true Democratic
position lin these matters party and
,andida,s have lost favor with Popu-
lsts Socialists ami lndependenee
Leaguers Il Is an impressive fact
nat most Of the extremists now fol.
owing the leadership of men like
watson, Debs and Hearst, have turn.
~ Upon party ana a candidate no
longer subject TO their influence.
! stripped OF its false aud mischief
breeding alliances ami no lonper at.
shlpting TO reconcile Democracy with
iemi'SCciallsm, or with paternalistie
| 'opuiism or with any other form or
sazy radicalism. the Democratic mar.
| appears 10 have recovered 10
, considerable degree rrom its long
niatuation and 70 be once more m a
'ositlon 10 render sufficient service 10
ne Republic. Without scanning It
90 closely for imperfectlons we he
'eFe mat IL deserves announcement
ma Us entitled TO Democratic sympa.
ny and support
Inc Democratic platform aud nomi.
zee are sound in their opposition 10
| lhsolsm and RoOseyelt's war-conjur.
ng spi.lt In their demand for publi.
lty Tor campaign contributions ana
expenditures, in their repudiation of
| Capitalization through "constrlctiye
urlsprudence' in their hostility or
| inr wfetchel. bloody and costly ex.
eriment In Imperialism in the phllip.
| ines, IN their insistence upon genu.
ne tarln reform ana In their call for
etrenchment OF reckless and ruinous
| lauonai expenditures. On an of
Aese things the Republican platform
nd candidate are either hopelessly
Hrong on silent or eyasive
We dislike irresponsible person.
government. government by denun.
iaiion, Executive usurpation and
'opula7izei war s2'rit and prohlgacy
l fe must have real ANA an effective
'emocratie Opposition. a strong popu.
ar protest agains, the party in power
nj vote of confidence In the prin.
4 pies and aspirations OF Democracy
4 s. Pluiocracy