River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-22
MARSHALL SAYS
HE WILL ACCEPT
Governor of Indiana Formally Mo-
titled of His Nomination for
the Vice Presidency.
DEMOCRACY DEFINED BY HIM
Rule of the People Not Essentially
Rule by the PeopIe-He Believes
Return Of His Party to Power
Would Right Prevailing
Wrongs.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 20.-Gover-
nor Marshall was formally notified this
afternoon of his nomination for the
vice presidency by the national Demo
cratic convention. The notification
committee. headed by Judge Alton
Parker, was received at the state fair
grounds at o'clock and the chairman
made brief address.
In accepting the honor of the nomi-
nation, Governor Marshall said In
part:
1t will be well for the voter to clear
up some hazy definitions. We have for
many years been entertaining a belief
founded upon no fact whatever, that
Democracy and Republicanism repre-
sent different ideas of government
The Republican has looked upon the
Democrat as man opposed to the
government. The Democrat has look
ed upon the Republican as a man OPP
posed to the peoples rule and in favor
of aristocratic sway. 1t is time for US
to remember that Democracy is not a
system of government. Indeed, Democ-
Tacy may find it's expression in any one
of numerous systems.
The rule of the people is not essen
TALLY rule by the people. BY their
votes, even when Democracy has UNI
folded to full manhood suffrage, the
people may have a monarchical form
of government The peoples rule does
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nor necessarily upon the system of
government under which they vote.
Good or bad government must go back
to good or bad citizenship, to intelli-
gent or ignorant, to honest or dishon-
est, electors. ] venture the assertion
that if the electoral franchise were now
granted to all the citizens Of Russia,
the Little Father would again be
crowned in Peters City
"CIasses" In America.
The historic Democratic party of
America had it's inspiration and it's
aspiration in the life and conduct of
its great founder. It is time now to
have perfect concept of that Democ-
racy, for. in recent years, we have
divided ourselves into three classes
and the classification has been made
not by the heart-throbs of men but by
their social condition. We have those
who are UNNECESSARILY rich and who
are looking for more, and we have
those who are unutterably poor and
who are growing poorer Between
these extremes, we have a great mid
die class, living well and reasonably
content except for the uncertainty of
not knowing whether they are to rise
into the first class or sink into the
third.
Many have assumed that only the
unutterably poor and those sinking in
to that class were Democrats, and
that the UNNECESSARILY rich and the
climbers were Republicans But these
divisions have not been logical.
Republican "SenlIe Dementia."
This campaign calls upon some for
Justice, upon others for charity, upon
all for patriotism 1t does not call
for the bandyiRg of epithets nor for
an appeal to the personal. We may
which has seized the so-called Repub-
lican party the personalities of this
campaign. It's unfitness to rule the
republic is disclosed by it's inability
to keep its temper 1t was cohesive
so far as its leadership was concerned
while it was engaged in looting the
public, but even it's leaders are now
Orafu Cd
loot
Though a majority of the people
have been voting the Republican tick
ct and have been assuming thereby
that the majority would rule, the dis
graceful but purifying scenes which
have been enacted recently in Repub-
lican conventions disclose that a large
number of those who have been vot-
ing the Republican ticket are Demo-
Gratis at heart. These scenes disclose
further that we have been mistaken
in some of our conclusions touching
government in America. We have
yielded a quiet assent to the PROPOSE
ton that a majority is all-powerful
and that minority has no rights
WAiNh q AAeijO1lIJ ID UOuuQ W I6SpGCI.
But now we know that the theory of
the historic Democratic party, that it
is the right of a majority to rule but
only within constitutional limitations
and without the usurpation of a single
inalienable right of a single individu-
al, is correct.
Majority Becomes Minority.
It is only when majorities thus rule
that governmental machines move
without friction. The right of a ma
jority to thus rule must always be con-
ceded. / wonder, however, if it has
dawned upon the sober second thought
of this people that 1t is possible
for a majority to be a minority and
that it is equally possible for minor
ity to be a majority At first blush,
1t would seem that the officials elect
ed by the plurality of votes become
the representatives of the majority
and that as such, they rule. But |
am not in error when l declare that
it is not the mere number of votes