The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-11-29
Mr.. BRYAN S


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the Democratic party has spoken for
the masses of the people.
When the Democratic party began
fourteen years ago, to demand rail.
road regulation and spoke out against
rebates and discrimination. the rail-
road officials rushed into the Rcpub.
lican party and made It. the reprcsen-
tative Of the big railway combines
, but now that the Republican leaders
| have been compelled to admit the
necessity for better regulation, now
that the rank ana file of all parties
| demand 1t, the Democratic party Is
recognized as the pioneer in this work
During all these years the Democratic
party has been pointing out the evils
| of private monopoly and insisting up
on the enforcement of the criminal
| law and the passage of such additional
| Statutes as may be necessary to pro-
tect the public. Now that even Re
| publicans are compelled to admit that
| the trust evil demands attention, our
party is recognized as the defender of
the peoples interest on this subject.
our party's opposition to the ship sub
sidy and to extravaganza in legisla-
ton is now more popular than 1t was
few years ago.
For more than twenty years the
Democratic party has been pointing
out the iniquities Of a high tariff and
calling attention to the necessity for
tariff reduction. A great many have
been so welded to the principle of
high protection that it has been diff
ficult to check their faith in the sys
tenn, but the promise made by the
Republicans two years ago and their
violation of 1t i'm the first session Of
the present congress, these together
have opened the eyes of the blind and
aroused countrywide protest
against the high tariff leaders.
The growth of public sentiment in
favor of the things which the DEM
ocratic party has been advocating and
the disgust with the management OF
affairs by Republican leaders, have
led to the signal victory won by the
| Democrats on November s, but the
victory will be of no purpose unless
the Democrats entrusted with power
are in sympathy with the forward
movement which the Democratic
party has been leading. There must
be no backward step; there must be
no dallying with the reactionary ele-
ment of the party, II was the Re
publican party's Wall street connec-
tions that led to the progressive move
ment i'm the Republican party, and
Wall street is much less popular In
the Democratic party than i'm the Re
publican party. a Democratic con-
gress must keep step with the spirit
of the time and lead public sentiment
to the reforms upon which the people
have agreed. The Democratic party
must everywhere urge the election OF
United States senators by direct vote
of the people; the Democratic party
must i'm all sections fight the trusts
and carry out the Democratic plat
form demanding legislation which
makes II impossible for private mon
opoly to exist. The Democratic party
must make n sincere effort at real
tariff reduction. 1t goes without say
| ing that the party must redeem its
pledge to overthrow Cannonism and
establish representative government in
| congress.
| Let the Democrats but be faithful
TO the promises made by the party
and the presidential election of 1919
| will bring an abundant reward, but
retreat would be as impolitic as II
| would be unrighteous. The Demo-
cratic party has no reason for eN'
istence except as it is the champion
OF the whole people in their fight Coz
i Justice and equality of opportunity
| After decade and half the party
| has been gaining strength by its tidel.
ity to the interests of the common
people. 1t has been sowing the SEED
land cultivating the crop. The har-
vest Is now ready,-The Commoner