The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
NO NEW PARTY.

" ohO" that enc Ndrlous eApAhhhGohs given for our defeat are unsound and thinks that nothing short of civil rev. olution can put the Republicans out and the Democrats in. "It seems use- less" it continues. "for what is left of the Democratic party to continue to struggle with the old Republican party in popular elections for control of the government, and 1t may be that, rec ognizing this stubborn fact, however distasteful 1t may be. our Democratic leaders will seek alliance with such interests at the North and in the Mid dle West as are suffering from the consequences of Republication. and leave the old Democratic ship in the hope of building a more formidable craft to launch against the hordes of predatory wealth and impending im- perialism before 1t is too late"
 Our peachy contemporary will do we'll to bear in mind that no one likes a quitter. Honorable defeat has never disgraced a man or party. and a righteous cause is not discredited be- | cause it fails to succeed. One of the | truest tests of manh ood consists In re- newing the fight as often and as long as there is an enemy to fight.
 Neither Democracy nor the Demo- cratic party is dead. We have heard I it's requiem sung before and have been invited to partake of funeral baked meats" at the bier of Democracy more | than once. but 1t has always refused to die and "Resurgam" has ever been it's motto. The Know Nothings thought they had killed it; the Abolltionists | thought it was twice dead. and at one time the Populists thought they were | making a finish of 1t. Now the Repub- licans flatter themselves that our party I Is dead beyond the hope of political resurrection. but 1t isn't, not by long way.
 Let not The Herald join Chain and other enemies of true and genuine De- mocracy in pronouncing it dead. and suggesting the organization of a new party. We have no need for new l party and no sympathy with any sug- gestion for the formation of one. We have had more new parties in this land already than was good and the very thought of building up one on the al- legged ruins of Democracy is not pleas ant to those of us who belong to the old guard. who have not departed from the faith of the fathers or lost faith in the sound principles for which the truest patriots of the land fought and in defense of which great statesmen and good men have in times past gone discouraged. "A party" remarks The Pittsburg Post, which has stood up to its convictions and true to it's faith as the Democratic party has during more than forty years of viscissitudes has in it something that is superior to any | sort of defeat" ''rhe Democratic party" adds The Post. will exist in | defeat or success as long as any con- siderable number of the people believe in equal rights for all and special priv ilege for none. It will take more than one defeat to demonstrate to those sell fish interests under the Republican banner that some other way to get the something for nothing they are always seeking will have to be sought"
 And that is true. The party is not going to dissolve or go out of busi- ness. MT. Chain to the contrary not withstanding. What 1t needs, and what the best and truest members of the party should resolve on. is to rebuild and rehabilitate the party on some thing as near the old lines as the changed conditions will admit. We want to get back to the sound Demo- cratic principles of the older and bet ter days of the Republic when the word Democracy stood for sound and vital principles and when It's leaders were men who believed in the Democ- racy of the men who founded the party and who led 1t when principle and loy alty to the faith counted above all else with the men who were the selected leaders of Democracy.
 No. we do not want any new party, whatever name may be bestowed on it and whatever principles or policies may be advocated by it. We want to cling to the old name and all that 1t meant and stood for in the older days. Let cranks and theorists undertake to build up and sustain as many new par ties as they like, but none of it for us. The old name and the old faith are good enough for the old Democrats, of wh om we believe there are enough left to make of the party what 1t was in the long ago.
 CAN'T WE GET BACK.
 The New York Globe advocates the