The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-08-28

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The New York World Is giving Bryan
and Kern splendid support. Read the
following from its issue of the 2lst:
democracy, vs. PlutOcracy.. 'The
World is attached to principles and
moral ideas. Men change and times
change and parties change and plat
fOrme change and candidates change,
but true principles and ideas do not
change.
we are nearing the end of one stage
Of RoOseveltism. It's fruits are before
US. In the name of false patriotism
they are iingOism, Imperialism, ex-
travagaace, plutOcracy, Capitalization.
They are violence, usurpation, panic,
: depression. They are contempt for
law, contempt for courts, contempt for
4 Congress, contempt for Constitution.
AAll these have been crystallized in the
machine-made and corporation-fnanced
candidacy of a personally amiable and
excellent Proxy.
1t is imperative that there shall be
Opposition to this sordld and menacing
regime. To be effective that opposition
must be powerful. To be powerful it
must be grounded in principle, To be
grounded in principle appeal must be
made not so much in behalf Of a man as
in behalf of cause. That cause must
be not false but True Democracy. If
Democratic candidates chance now to
be identified with this cause, as they all
ways should have been, so much the
better for them.
The World has sharply disagreed with
MIR. Bryan and the Democratic party in
the past. It has upheld them whenever
they represented True Democracy. 1t
has opposed their POpulism and Social
ism. 1t has nothing to retract, defend
or excuse. In common with the Demo
cratic millions, as distinguished from
the Democratic politicians, it responds
now to the merits and demands of
cause rather than to the claims of any
man or any machine.
Independently and firmly, voluntarily
and conscientiously, and with a keen
appreciation of its own responsibility to
the public, The World, confronted on
one side by Rooseveltism and Roose-
velt's Proxy and on the other by De-
mocracy and Mr.. Bryan, has no hesita-
tion in saying that within the limits Of
True Democracy, the Democratic ticket
is entitled to the full Democratic vote.
There are planks in the Democratic
platform which we repudiate now and
as always. There are phases of Mr..
Bryan's career and there s articles in his
political creed of which we disapprove
now as Away. But in the essentials of
opposition to ROoseveltism we are in
hearty accord with the Democratic plat
form.
In these things party and candidate
have come openly to The Worlds his
Ceric position, to The Worlds we'll
n 5wn principles, to The Worlds oppo-
eition to Repubhcanism- opposition to
privilege and Plutocracy.
It is because The World is a truly in
dependent journal that it can do no less
than acknowledge this fact and act ac-
cordingly. By coming to The Worlds
pOsision-the true Democratic position
in these matters party and candidate
have lost favor with Populist, Socialist
and Independence Leaguers. 1t is an
impressive fact that most Of the eX-
'tremists, now following the leadership
of men like Watson, Debs and Hearst,
have turned upon party and candi-
date no longer subject 10 their infu-
'ence.
Stripped of its false and mischief
breeding alliances and no longer at !
tempting to reconcile Democracy with |
semi Socialism, or with paternalistic |
Populism, or with any other form of |
craze radicalism, the Democratic party |
appears to have recovered to a consid- |
cradle degree from its long infatuation |
and 70 be once more IN a position to |
render efficient service to the Republic. |
Without scanning it too closely for i'm
projections we believe that it deserves
encouragement and is entitled to Demo-
cratic sympathy and support.
The Democratic platform and nomi-
nee are sound in their opposition to jim
goism and ROosevelt's war-conjuring
spirit, in their demand for publicity for
campaign contributions and expendit
lures, in their repudiationof centraliza-
ton through conservative jurispru-
denee, in their hostility to our wretch
cd, bloody and costly experiment in inn
perialism in the Philippines, in their in
sistence upon genuine tariff reform and
In their call for retrenchment of reclS-
less and ruinOus national expenditures.
On all Of these things the Republican
platform and candidate are either hope
lessly wrong or silent or evasive.