Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-05-11
Democracy the Nation.. Hope

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Democracy the Nations Hope. 9
There is tidal wave OF Democracy
rising in the hearts of the people Of
this country. Whether the Democratic
party rides on its crest, or Is smoth-
cred beneath it, depends upon the
Democratic party being Democratic.
If the party is dominated by the
agents Of special privilege, 1t will not
benefit by this growing sentiment
against privilege. If the party any
where bows down to the Golden Calf
and prostitutes itself to the greed Of
special interests, this tidal wave will
sweep it into deserved defeat.
Thomas Jefferson taught that the
leaders of the party must hold their
power by needing the just demands Of
the people. not by hushing them. When
a breach occurs between the leaders
of the party and the masses In any
State, the party. must either have new
leaders or its disaster is near. II the
Democratic party is to succeed it must
be progressive. not reactionary. There
is a.battle going on in this nation to.
day between progress and reaction, be,
tween dollars and men, between mon
ey and morals, between privilege and
equal rights If the. Democratic party
is true to Its ideals 1t must stand for
progress and nut men above dollars,
morals above money and equal rights
above privilege. n the party is not
true to its own principles, 1t cannot
expect the people to be true to 1t. s'
There has been too much shouting
of party names and too little teaching
of the principles that political parties
are supposed to stand for. We have
reached the point in this country that
when man says he is a Democrat, or
q Republican. it does not necessarily
reflect the principles he believes In,
and If he expresses the principles Of
government in which he believer we
cannot tell from that what political
party he belongs to-, The hope Of the
nation must be in the principles Of
Democracy. and what the Democratic
party needs is to take an Affirmative
stand for them. There is an independs
sent spirit abroad in the land to-day,
and It is to this spirit we must APP
peal. The party must convince the peo-
pie not what 1t proposes to do for IL
self, but what 1t can do for them. An
aggressive fight for progressive ideas
will do more In winning political bat
ties than all the gold that could be
poured into the party treasury. s.
If the Republican party does not rep
resent privilege, then 1t has no reason
for existence, for the Democratic party
represents the other side. founded as
it was upon the maxim, Equal rights
to all, special privilege to none. This
motto embraces every essential of real
Democracy. Whatever the political
problem before us, we may safely seek
Its solution by this rule. Joseph w.
Folk in, the National Monthly.
y InsurginE I'm Unexpected Spots.
{ In the most unexpected places in
surgency is turning up in most unex-
pected strength. In Maine a move.
ment closely allied with the insurgent
movement Of the West has already
made astonishing Roadway against
Senator Eugene Hale. y
In the direction Of party affairs in
his home State this son-in-law OF Zach
Chandler has adopted many of the
Chandler methods. But things that
We're tolerated a generation ago are
obnoxious to those of this generation,
and In all the thirty years of his ser.
vice in the Senate things have never
looked as threatening for Mr.. Hale as
they do this year.
Judge Frederick A. Powers is the
candidate against him, and 1t is de-
clared that If the direct nomination
prevailed in Maine he would easily win
the election. And his prospect before.
the Legislature is by no means unfa-
yorable. Senator Hale has strong
arm hold on the party as whole, but
II happens that the counties in which
he Is strongest have lately been send
ing Democrats to the Legislature quite
regularly, whereas most of the Powers
counties send Republicans. If this col
league of Mr.. Aldrich, the man who
ranks second to him in the party Of
the Rhode Islanders and standpatters,
escapes defeat, he will at least have.
gathered heightened respect for the
of insurgency.
And another place where insurgency
is showing up strong lis none other
than the district of John Dalzell, origi-
nal standpatter, who is SO intimately
identified with another phase Of Repub-
lican policies that If Cannonism did
not bear that name it would be called
Dalzellism. The graft scandal in Pitts
burg has unsettled everything in poll
tics and there is a vociferous demand
for change In Congress as well as
Mr.. Dalzell is described as
seriously alarmed, for the first time in
twenty-five years, and hastily left
Washington Saturday for Pittsburg 70
look after his political interests.
In discussing Beyeridge. Governor
Marshall Of Indiana. in an interview
in the New York Times estimates that
mot more than 40 per cent of the Re-
publicans of that State are insurgents
while 60 per cent are standpatters and
not specially interested in Beveridga.
Forty per cent! How much would the
most enthusiastic insurgent want? II
there are 20 per cent 1t will mean
Democratic Indiana delegation in the
next Congress. ST. Louis Republic.
The Firing Line.
The Republican party promised. in
Its last national platform, to lessen
the tariff burden Of the American con
sumer,
What intelligent Republicans think
of the so-called redemption of their
party's pledge is seen by the Republic
can revolt from Massachusetts, to the
Pacific coast. and particularly through
out the Middle West.
There is now little doubt that the
States of Indiana. Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota, Wisconsin. Missouri and
Iowa will solidly oppose the admins
fration'c ctapdpaf nolicvy nm tho toriff