The copper era., 1911-09-22
IT IS TO LAUGH

i principle Of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The Guardian says:
 IT IS TO LAUGH In recent issue the Copper Era,
 commenting on the resolutions adopt ed by the democrats of Graham Coun- ty at the mass meeting held in Saf- ford, picked out that part of the re- solutions relating to the recall of the judiciary, which we quote as fol i lows:
 ''It is our duty as democrats to re- quire from each candidate for office personal pledge that he will be solidly in favor of such constitutional measure of judicial recall before he shall receive our support" and in its
 comments the Copper Era declared
 that the recall of the judiciary was not democratic principle and that if carried out would cause a split in the democratic party in the Terri tory.
 It must be very evident to those who read the article that the Copper Era does not understand what deme cracy means when it says that any provision of law which gives the people the right to recall from offico a dishonest judge is not democratic Such a provision is the very essence of democracy and gives to the people the rights they should have in taking care of the interests and welfare of
 the people as a whole, as against the
 rule and domination Of dishonest
 judges, who, controlled by corpora
 tions or political bosses. render their decisions favorable to their masters.
 No honest judge need fear the re- call and the people of Arizona have a perfect right to place the. recall of the judiciary in their constitution for their own protec tiOn.
 The democrats of Graham county will not look to the Copper Era for instructions in democracy, for the democracy that it breaches is of the kind that would deliver them as serfs into the hands of their masters and would rapidly make our republican form of government farce.
 The democrats of Arizona need not | fear that a progressive democratic | measure like the recall of the judi i ciary will ever cause split in the ranks of true democracy, the fears of | the Copper Era to the contrary.
 The very thin veneer of democracy i of the Copper Era under it's present 1. regime, will not give it much promi- hence in democratic councils, not | enough that you would notice it, and | certainly the democrats of Graha n county will not take orders from such a poor sample of even independent democracy.
 The Copper Era need never fear that the democracy of Arizona will ever split on democratic principle f like the recall of the judiciary. So just worry along. brother, on some- thing else We like you pretty well, but when you try to tell us what dem- ocracy means, why, it is to laugh.
 The Copper Era fully understands the meaning of the word democracy" A ''democracy" and the principles of to which the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is pledged in this Republic represent two different forms of gov ernment. The government of the United States is not democracy. It is republican in form and administer ed by representatives of the people. The founders of this government never intended it for q democracy. The constitution of the United States was so worded as to guard against the evils of a PURE DEMOCRACY on the one hand and a MONARCHY on the other. So much for democracy" and the Democratic party as confus- eG by the Guardian Editor.
 Regarding the Recall of Judges the Copper Era maintains and reas- serts that this new idea in govern meuta al affairs is not now, never has been, and never will be a PRINCIPLE of the DEMOCRATIC party.
 The place for DISHONEST judges, pr any public official, for that matter, is in the penitentiary. But before sentence shall be passed upon the ac- cused official we insist and maintain that the accused one shall have the right guaranteed him under the Con- stitutiou of the United States-that