The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-23
What's the Matter
With Democracy?

With democracy!
In all organizations, societies. broth
erhoods, leagues of men, there are
many timid members who quail at the
slightest blow of adversely and proph-
esy disaster. Yes. among ali the peo-
ples who inhabit the round world
there have always been 3 large ag-
gregation who read destruction in
every sign of the sun or moon or stars.
in the vomiting of volcanoes, the rush
OF tidal waves or the rumble and
trembIe- of earthquakes.
These doubling souls are forever
hreading the end of all things, the I'm
Ri,crash of the universe In grand py-
iotechnical display, the incineration of
creation and return to chaos. Great
bodies of them have even gone so far
as to put their houses in order (rath-
er a work of supererogation one would
tainl1) and make ready their ethereal
spirits 80 escape into other and more
congenial surroundings.
Those democrats. newspaper edit
mrs and others, who since the election
have shown scared white faces ami
asked the question, What's going to
fecome of the party are of this class
of neurasthenics and one would scorn
them and fiout them were It not for
The presence of sublime pity that
teaches the strong to tolerate the TIM
idity of the weak and to held out a
hand to tottering brother until, with
confidence restored, he may once more
stand upon his feet
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
tells us what the democratic party Is
and what it stands for. Tells it so
we'll and truthfuly THAT The Journal
reproduces its Words
The democratic party has always
stood for economy of administration,
for official honesty and for the open
door for Individual opportunity. II
has always held that the founders of
the republic intended that the execu-
tive, legislative and judicial depart
ments should be independent of one
another; that congress should make
laws without any intimidation OF UNI
due influence from the executive; that
the courts should construe the laws
as they are and without regard to the
wishes and opinions of the president
and congress, and that the president
should address himself to the task of
seeing tlat the laws of the country
we're carried out and the business OF
the government properly conducted. 1t
may happen in the future a 1t has
happened in the past that an ambi-
tious president might undertake to
run all the departments of the gov
eminent. Then unless there is DEM
ccratic party at hand to stand for
representative government, the Ameri-
can people may find II necessary to
take rude steps TO get rid of Siictat-
CIR"
Tho party that believes in those
things polled in the last election a
great many over six million votes. 1t
is safe to say that one-half of those
who voted the republican ticket really
believe in those things as well as
their outspoken democratic brothers.
Ia voting as they did they were large
ly-the victims OF circumstances, saerI-
ficing themselves on the altar of Mann
mon as they believed they mad to do
in order to insure the daily bread for
their families and for themselves.
Not being deeply versed in political
wisdom they did not see the breakers
that told others of the rocks which
might imperil the ship of state and so
let expediency triumph over principle
to satisfy their own immediate needs.
But suppose the leading spirits who
guide the republican party-a party, in
the last analysis. Numerically oppos-
ed to the policies of the democratic
rarity as laid down by the Commercial
Appeal-suppose these enemies of the
government of the fathers should
some day have the audacity Il. over
step the bounds Of discretion. should
unmask their treachery and wage an
open warfare against the spirit of
the Declaration of Independence and
the American Constitution? Where
would these deserters taen stand?
They would flock to the standard of
deuocracy-to the party that upholds
those principles OF liberty. equality
and fraternity which are destined to
put down the mighty from their
seats and to exait the lowly and
meek"
Destroy the democratic party? The
folly of such a thought It has been
the force that has downed feuJal-