The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-09
Democrats wrn Help.

Tn former times the democratic party had convictions and atood for them. IL believed in strict construc- ton of tho constitution. m sound money and in national axpansion. De- mocracy today Is a nondescript patch work of wild and inconsistent dogmas snatched from the fevered rawlings of populism. socialism and anarehism. Fortunately for our country whenever heretofore It's institutions lave bee1 imperilled. large numbers of our dem ocratic friends have not hesitated to place patriotism above parCisanship. In the Civil war. they marched by the hundred thousand, shoulder to shoulder with us and by their herolsm and self-sacrifce contributed in large measure to the preservation of the union.
 In recent campaigns they rallied nobly to the rescue of our common country from the forces of repudia- ton. dslntegration and dishonor. They will do so again next Novem- ber The most conspicuous represen- tative of the safe and sane old line democracy during the last generation and the only president elected by that party since the outbreak of the Civil war was Grover Cleveland. The last service he rendered his country was to compose an address Immediately preceding his death which has just been made public, in the New York Sunday Times of August 30, 1908 1t Is prophetic. discriminating and patrl- otic It is well worth the serious con- sideration of every member of his party who may be in doubt as to his duty in the present crisis He says:
 There is no suggestion of senti- ment of disloyalty on my part to the older principles of democracy under which l have striven always to do my l public duty In matters large and small, when l say that there is large lndi- cation that the coming years will bring forth new ascendancy of those same principles, perhaps under different panoply, and perhaps with reincor- poration of the decayed fragments of an organization that failed to serve | country has ever been wrecked by continued consistency with the prin- ciples that originally made 1t power the rocks on which 1t fell invariably being the errors of opportunists The present campaign as side feature will have long step in the progress to the readjustment to first principles ie is no issue of such gravity that those principles are needed to determine it Never has there been a safer time fol the rehabilitation to proceed.
 When It became apparent that MT Taft would be the nominee of his party. that Mir Hearst and his part, would make clean-cut effort for em placement as a national factor and no endeavor to gain any immediate ad vantage for themselves by any sucl process as fusion--n fact, would seel to destroy Bryanism, or rather MT Bryan's hold on the democratic party not by forcing the hold to relax, bu by lessening that which he had {, hold, conjecture as to the result in tn, . NoNeHpel cOhcluSioHS cOulu De or Dn one sort among sensible men. Witt the several other parties dlsorganiz ing, redeveloping and procreating, thu republican party is certain, thougl
 with considerably lessened strength to move on to a safe victory usstanet by the popular support of reform which should not rebound to it's glor, solely, those reforms having been tn work of decent meg of all parties
 There Is fear on my part of beinl