The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-26
IS IoE coM1NG HOME.

is JOE COMING HOME:
Senator Joe Bailey, of Texas, has
been doing some fine preaching in
Wilmington OF course, he took care
not 10 say what he had in his heart on
the floor of the Senate, for he knew
that If he did, it would get into the
Congressional Record and would for
ever be lost to the world. He adopted
the better course of getting a news
paper man off in the corner and telling
him all that he had in mind-or, at
least. that part of ii which was break
ing his rest
The sum and substance of what
Bailey said was about this: The time
has come for Democrats to return from
the house of bondage and to come back
home. They should dwell no longer IN
the land of the heather and should
worship no more strange gods. TheJ
should come back to the old principles
and revere them. Joe put 1T this way:
II am firm in the conviction that
the only road TO permanent success
FOR either individuals or parties lies IN
an unyielding adherence 10 what they
believe to be right. If we could once
more induce the Democratic party in
every state and in the Union TO recon-
secrate itself to those great principles
which once constituted it's strength
and its glory, we could again enlist
a ma iority of these people under our
banner. and we would govern the
country with a Justice and a wisdom
that would repeat our history from
1900 to 1860, during which time we
lost but three presidential elections,
and never lost two in succession. II,
rejecting all isms and fads, we WI!
set our faces resolutely in favor OF
our ancient principles, without stop
ming to count whether it spells victory
ar defeat. we will make our future Sc
cure. but as long as we paiter with
great issues we can neither restora
ourselves to the confidence of the peo-
ME nor bring this government back to
the principles on which It's founders
intended that it should be admins
tered
This is about what every man has
been thinking who has kept an eye
on the weather and has read the obvl-
GUS signs of the times. If Democracy
is TO be Democracy. 1t can only be by
returning to fundamental Democratic
principles. If fundamental principles
are to triumph, they can only triumph!
over the corpse of every Populistic
wolf arrayed in Democratic lions
skin. This much Is so plain that tho
wayfaring man could not mistake it
even IL he would.
1t is equally plain that real Demo-
cratic principles can never triumph
over what Bailey calls the "fads ana
isms" until the Eakers and molders
of these fads and isms either abandon
them or else cease to call themselves
Democrats What Bailey intimated
may be plainly stated our party never
lost a. real adherent until it opened the
doors and admitted the Populists, and
it never won national fight after
that time. Many of the best mon in
the country refused to support the
radical policy laid down in 1896, aud
they have consistently refused TO sup
mort the men who originated that pol-
icy: They did not leave the party, but
The party left them; they have stooc
upon the solid principles Of the party
and if the party is ever to regain Us
place, it must come back TO those pr!n
ciples.
Eut how docs Bailey stand on TIL:
matter himself? Is the angel win
sounds the blast TO the sleeping chill
i dren Of Democracy willing to heed hi
own bugle-call and fall into line? !
he is, lie will certainly have TO und
much that he has dona iand will hay
TO forget much that hsAsaid when tn
Aidrch Accumulation wis sitting i
high places Bailey says rho wander
: ers should return; ana Railey shonl
nc should renoupes 40 1&ror q ri i
) Way. and hold fast to a tTue pemocsa
5 cy and indebted that knows not prs
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