The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-04-19
CAN NEVER DIE
Wilson Urges The Democratic Party to
Define lis Position.
A YOUNG MANS PARTY

New Jerseys Governor Speaks Before
National League Of Democratic
Clubs jefferson Day.-''Democracy
is an Energy Of Life Dwelling in
the Rank and File
Urging the Democratic party to
state It's creed in the concrete and
define clearly the especial forms OF
privilege it declares against in gen
eral campaign "for the rights Of the
people," Governor Woodrow Wilson
of New jersey in an address to the
National League of Democratic Clubs
at Indianapolis, Ind, Friday night
set forth the objects of the party as
he believed they exist and should be
stated. Governor Wilson said IN
part:
1--WE are fond of speaking of our
selves as the party of Jefferson and
Jackson, not because we are party
of old men, reminiscent of things
gone by and in love with what has
been, but because we are party
touched with the ideals which made
these men great, whose names we
recall with such reverence land en-
thusiasm, because the breath Of oui
party's life is its utter faith in tho
principles of Democracy. It is its
devotion to the rights of the people
of whatever class OF degrees as
against all claims all selfish vested in
terests which seek control instead OF
freely serving the life and develop
ment of the nation.
''It is so far from being a party OF
mere Renaissance, party which
tries to draw the country back to
policies which belong to another
time, to the circumstances Of anoth-
er age, that it is, above all others,
young mans party, because par
ty of movement, of readjustment, a
party that presses toward the future
with unshaken faith, with unwaver-
ing confidence and ever renewed
hopes and aspirations for the prin-
ciples of freedom, which are none
other than the principles of oppor-
tunity, the principles of men no.
made, but on the make, struggling
from achievem ent to achievement IN
a free exercise.
"These things are embodied in JEFF
ferson.. the thoughtful, phisosophlca>
penetrating thinker for mankind, and
/ in the rugged Jackson, who seemed
to cut his way toward the right by
rough instinct and the mere energ.
of an honest, indomitable nature; and
so We see embodied in them the two
sides of Democracy, its thoughtful
ness, it's vision of hope, its conf
dence in the progress and liberation
Of mankind, and linked with these
it's force as of the common people, its
abounding energy outside as well as
within the field of cultivated thought.
Democracy is not mere theory
of government. 1t is an energy OF
life dwelling in the rank and file, in
terpreted once and again by great
leaders, but not confined to their p:i-
vate cult and understanding. Its
blood is the blood of the people. Its
purposes are the purposes shared by
all mankind. It's hopes are the nope.
of all rational civilization.
''This is the day upon which we
utter our creed and renew our views.
It behooves us to ask ourselves what
our creed is, and to answer the ques-
ton without sublety or sorphistlca-
ton, in the plain terms of everyday
life. We must state our creed in
the concrete, not in the abstract. Our
J thoughts run back Of course, to the
great Declaration of independence
which Jefferson gave US, but we can
not stop with that. The Declaration
of Independence did not mention the
questions of our day. 1t is mere
starting point for our thoughts. It
is of no consequence to us unless we
can translate it's general terms into
examples of the present day and sub
stitute them in some vital way for the
examples it itself gives, so concrete,
so intimately involved in the circum-
stances of the day in which it was
/ conceived and written. It is an emil
nently practical document, meant for
the use of practical men, not thesis
for philosophers, but whip for ty-
rants; not a theory of government
but program Of action. Unless we
can translate it into questions of our
own day, we are not worthy of it,
we are not sons Of the sires who
acted in response to its challenge.
eve say that we are against pri-
vilege and for the rights of the peo-
pie, but privilege has worn many
forms. What is the especial form OF
privilege we now fight? How does it
endanger the rights Of the people,
and what do we mean to do in order
to make our contest against it ef-
fectual? What are to be the items OF
our new declaration of independence?
''By privilege, as we now fight it,
we mean control OF the law, by organ
izations which do not represent the
people, by means which are private
and selfish and worthy of all condem-
nation We mean specifically the
conduct OF Cur affairs and the snap
ing of oI. legislation in the interest
of special bodies Of capital and those
who organize their use. We mean the
alliance for this purpose OF po.4LlcA,
machines with the captains Of organ
lied industry. We mean the exploit
alton OF the people by legal and polit-
| ical meals. We have seen our gov
ernments under these influences cease
to be representive governments,