The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-08-22
MARSHALL SAYS
HE WILL ACCEPT.
Governor Of Indiana Formally No
titled Of His Nomination for
the Vice Presidency.
DEMOCRACY DEFINED BY HIM
Rule ct the People Not Essentially
Rule by the People--He Believes
Return Of His Party to Power
Would Right Prevailing
Wrongs.

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 2 o'clock and the chairman
made brief address.
In accepting the honor of the nomi-
nation, Governor Marshall said In
part: ~
/ It viii be we'll for the voter to clear
up some hazy definitions. We have for
many years been entertaining belief
founded upon no fact whatever, that
Democracy and Republicanism repre-
sent different ideas Of government.
The Republican has looked upon the
Democrat as a man opposed to the
government The Democrat has look
ed upon the Republican as man on
posed to the peoples rule and !orI
Of aristocratic sway. It Is tire fSI u.s.
to remember that Democracf iii not al
system Of government. Indeed lDaHac-
racy may find It's expression Ia az TnS
OF numerous systems. ..a+y.,lT
The rule Of the people is Inland IL
TALLY rule by the people. B, yar;lrE,
votes, even when Democracy 49, 10,
folded to full manhood suffraE sStss1e
people may have a monarchical form
OF government. The people'ssrule does
not depend upon the number cf votes
nor necessarily upon the system Of
government under which they vote.
Good or bad government must 60 back
to good or bad citizenship, to intelli-
gent or ignorant, to honest or dishon-
est, electors. ! venture the assertion
that II the electoral franchise were now
granted to all the citizens OF Russia,
the Little Father would again be
crowned In Peters City.
"ciassesD In America.
The historic Democratic party Of
America had Its inspiration and its
aspiration in the life and conduct Of
its great founder 1t is time now to-
have q 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 immeasurably rich and who
are looking for more, and we have
those VIM are unutterably poor and
who are growing poorer Between
these extremes, we have "a great mid
die class. living we'll 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 immeasurably rich and the
climbers were Republicans. But these
divisions have not been logical.
Republican "seniIe Dementla.D
This campaign calls upon some for
Justice, upon others for charity, upon
all for patriotism. It does not call
for the bandying OF epithets nor for
an appeal to the personal. We may
safely leave to that senile dementia
which has seized the so-called Repub-
lican party the personalities Of this
campaign. Its unfitness to rule the
republic is disclosed by its inability
to keep Its temper. It was cohesive
SO far as its leadership was concerned
while It was engaged in looting the
public, but even its leaders are now
disorganized while quarreling over the
loot
Though majority Of the people
have been voting the Republican tick
Pet and have been assuming thereby
that the majority would rule, the dis
graceful but purifying scenes which
have been enacted recently in Repub-
1ican conventions disclose that large
number'Sof 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 quiet assent to the PROPOSE
,tion that q majority is allpowerful
and that q minority has no rights
( which majority is bound to respect.
But now we know that the theory of
the historic Democratic party, that it
isi the right OF majority to rule but
only within constitutional limitations
and without the usurpation of single
.inalienable right of single individu-
al, is correct.
Majority Becomes Minority.
It is only when majorities thus rule
that governmental machines move
without friction. The right Of ma
5ority to thus rule must always be con-
ceded. wonder, however, II 1t has
dawned upon the sober second thought
Of this people that It is possible
for a majority to be minority and
that 1t is equally possible for q minor
ity to be 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 l
am not IN error when / declare that
# Il not the mere number Of votes
Paean to PIE.
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