East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-20
Nnte Demncratic Ticket.

preston in any one or numerous
systems.
Vote Democratic Ticket.
The voter who cannot satisfy him
self this year is indeed censorious.
Eliminating the verblage of platforms,
taking their substance and viewing
the candidates placed on them, the
voter who believes that the cost of
production at home and abroad
should be equaliZed to the manufac-
turer of this country and who wants
an oligarchy to rule, may vote the
straight republican ticket; the voter
who believes in a similar protective
theory but who prefers to an oil
garchy that the president shall be the
state, may vote the progressive ticket;
the voter who believes this govern
ment should be turned into social
ism, may vote the socialist ticket; the
voter who thinks that church and
state are not separate in America
and that the people have a right to
settle religious questions and to de-
termine by ballot what is good and
what is bad, may vote the prohibition
ticket; and all those who insist that
It is not the business of government
to equalize the cost of production at
home and abroad to the manufactur-
er until it equalizes the difference in
the purchase price to the consumer
at home and abroad, who believes
that the only equalization justifiable
in our government is the equalization
of opportunity, who thinks that pub
lie office is a public trust, who does
not believe that the disgruntled and
defeated politicians are genuine re-
formers, and who think that reforms
are not born with sore toes, may vote
the democratic ticket.
Opposed to Privileges.
l respectfully urge all those who
are opposed to special privileges to
| ally themselves this year with the
| historic democracy, the cornerstone
of whose edifice is the Declaration of
! Independence and the keystone of
which is the Golden Rule. At Balti-
more, it proved its right to be be-
cause there it arose and by its pro-
posed policy met the needs and wants
| of a people. Am l to be met with
| the statement that results like those
| of the past four years might just as
we'll have been produced under demo-
cratic supremacy? This l deny. The
| kinkdom of democracy, like the
| kingdom of heaven, is written us. II
comes not by observation. 1t is a liv-
ing, growing, vital principle. 1t is as
essential to the life of the man who
is a democrat as pure air or pure
blood. The power to resist lying is
not in the mouth but in the heart
Of man. His power to resist larceny
and murder is not in his fingers
Democrats, like poets are born, not
made. They are born with the fixed
and unalterable belief that God made
all men, not some men; that al mer
are entitled to an honest chance In
life, unhampered and unharmed by
law or custom. We may separate in
language, church and state, but We
can never have that social condition
which We call democracy until all mer
living in the Republic are full, moi
half, brothers; until all have beer
baptised in the blood of the spirit OF
the revolution and consecrated at ev'
cry altar set up, north and south, ir
the war between the states.
Republican Discomfort.
The discomfort in republican rank:
is democratic discomfort. How much
of it has reached the point wher,
wearied with the bad workings of &
good system, it is willing to toppl,
that system over and try something
new, l cannot prophesy, but l an
quite sure that whatever badges mei
may wear in America this year, what
ever ballots they may cast and what
ever battle-cries they may utter
there are but three grades of citi
} zens The first grade is made up o
the favored few. their hangers-on anC
their beneficiaries, who think tn