The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-06
:. H. DILLON & co.
Our Republics
 Dangerous Tendency By Honorable Thomas R. Marshall, Governor of
 Indiana

| (Issued by the Press Bureau, Nation al Democratic League of Clubs. All rights reserved).
 There was a time when the Demo- cratic party stood for some certain thing. I thing it stands for that cer. tain thing now, and think 1t Will stand for 1t in the future.
 | It is said with sheer, by those who conceive that God has specially l endowed them with the right to rule and govern their fellow men, of the Democratic party that we are oldfash- | toned, that we are not progressive, that we do not advance anything that
 me tell you that the best thing that the old chariot of state ever had put on it was a brake-a brake to keep the blamed old thing from going too fast down hill; and the Democratic party has been the brake that has kept this country from being plunged into an aristocracy or monarchy be- fore this time.
 I hold this thing to be grandly true; that which was true when the morn ing stars sang together will be true when the heavens are rolled togeth- eternal. It can not change. It may
 put on different coats. It may look
 differently to different men. but truth
 once is truth forever, and if the pr1n. ciples upon which this Republic of
 ours was founded were true in the
 the days of Taft.
 Now there was a time say, when
 parties in this country stood for
 som ething. lam not defending some
 men who wear the Democratic label
 and never vote for Democratic prin-
 ciples. I don't defend them. There
 was a large body of Republicans in
 this country who, in tho last general
 election, believed that the platform
 pledge of a reasonable profit to the
 production at home and abroad.
 meant reduction of the tariff. They
 believed that. And the distinguish
 ed President of the United States said
 he believed that. He went down, and
 down, and down, in that doctrine, un-
 til he discovered that the Payne-Al-
 drich bill was the best bill that was ever passed for the benefit of the peo- pie of this country. There were oth-
 CT Republicans, however, who dis covered after the election that what it meant was up and not down. that tariff for revenue meant tariff for revenue. There were other Dem ocrats, however, after the election, who discovered that it meant that the other fellow should pay the tax, and their special interest would get in under the Republican protection um brelIa.
 But this is true that in Indiana, the Democratic party, by it's representa- tives in Congress, kept faith with the people of this country; and I pro- phesy that when a political party next platform, it will be pritten by just three men-a political economist, a philologist, and an honest man and at the back of it there will be glos- sary so the wayfaring men need not err as to what it means; and when it down; and the man who stands on that platform and doesn't vote that way after he is elected will be politi- cally dead the rest of his life.
 Well, that was not what I wanted to say. wanted to say that there was a time In this country when parties stood for something-when the Re- publican party stood for something. You know now one of the evils in this l country. It is this-that every man, l the minute that he gets into an exec l ntive position begins to have what is Is the business of the Democratic par ty of Indiana to have a policy and to 1 stand for it; but it is the business of | 3 Democratic Governor to mind his | own business, and attend to his own | affairs.
 The distinguished ex-President of he United States had policies, and ne stepped into Congress and said: You | 10 my will,' and he stepped into the | courts of this country and he said: | You render your decisions to suit | me- I will not say that the President | lsurped the functions of two other Coordinate branches of this Govern nent of ours. And I.say, that any President or any Governor wh0 seeks 70 usurp the functions of the legisla- i've and judicial parts of our Govern he line that leads to despotism in this 
 And now we hear about my poli- y again in Washington. My policy. The Presidents policy. If President raft had signed the Payne-Aldrich ,een in great deal better shape in America than he is to-day. still try ng to defend it. The Senators and representatives who passed the bill are he people who are responsible to the people of this country for it's pas- las other measures, other policies. Bills are drawn at the instance and uggestion of the President of the United States to be introduced in the lalls of Congress and to be put trough with whip and spur
 There Is good, old Democratic vay of doing things. Why, I imag- ne there is not city in the State f Indiana that could not send off to ome college where they train poli-
 cal economists, and get a man and et him take charge of the city's af- airs, and he would give you a bet CT government at fifty cents on the ollar than you are getting now. Why ont we do it? Because it is in- rained in the American character hat we propose to run our own ar t alrs In our own way; and we are will t ng to have more money spent than is ( ometimes needful to the end that in ur own local communities we may m our own affairs to suit ourselves. hat is the Democratic doctrine of To- , Il self-government. And we are go- lg to set our faces like flint against surpations either in state or nation the right of the people in every ( ommunity to run their own affairs C ) suit themselves-to burn them S