The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-31
LYNN W. WILLS SON TALKS TO NEWS CLUB, STAMFORD Object of Democratic Party to Keep Privileged Orders From Treating People
 As Bees
 National Democratic Organ ization Now Progressive and Double Machine Sys- tenn Must Disappear.
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 wide as the progressive Democrat who all burt administered the coup, de grace to Congressman Hill, two years ago, addressed the Mems club of the Congregational church, in the parish house. last evening. A sharp thun- der storm did not prevent a diligent attendance of the faithful, including number of ladies'
 Mir. Wilson had been asked by. the club to talk upon the purpose and principles of the Democratic party, an understanding of the issues before the country and the relation of the several parties to the issues. Sei
 The club had already heard a noted socialist, and will learn the principles of the Republican and Bull Moose
 ''The Democratic party" said MT. Wilson. was founded by Thomas Jefferson, who was its leader for a third of a century,
 We are fortunate in having from him statement of the broad prin- ciple upon which the party was founded. In a letter written to Wit liam Johnson, June, 1923, Jefferson said:
 At the formation of our govern ment many had formed their politi- cal opinions on European practices and writings. The doctrines of Europe were that men in numerous associations cannot be restrained with in the limits of order and justice, but by forces moral and physical yielded over them by authorities Independent of their will. Hence their organiza- tion of kings and hereditary nobles. Still further to constrain the brute force of the people, they deem It necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them as from bees so much of their earnings as that un- remittfng labor shall be necessary to obtain sufficient surplus barely to sustain a scanty and miserable life.
 And those earnings they apply to maintain their privileged orders in splendor and idleness, to fascinate the eyes of the people and excite in them a humble admiration and adoration. as to an order of superior beings
 +ETo recover in practice the. pow CTS which the nation had refused and to warp to their own wishes those ac- tually given was the steady object of the Federal party
 '' Ours, on the contrary, was to maintain the will of the majority of the (conStitutionaD convention and of the people themselves. We believed that wisdom and virtue were not y machinery consumed sby their expense those earnings of industry they were meant to protect and by the inequali- ties they produce exposed liberty to sufferance. We believed that men, enjoying in ease the full fruits of their own industry enlisted by all their in- terests on the side, of law and order, habituated to think, for themselves and to follow their reason as a guide, would be more easily and safely gov nryNo @I10 L~w T error and debased, as in Europe, by ignorance, indulgence and opposition.
 Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties, those who fear and distrust the people and who wish to draw all their pow CTS from them into the hands of the higher classes; and those who identify themselves with the people, have con- hdence in them, cherish them and con slider them as the most wise depos- itory of the public interests ''
 s'1he issue as Jefferson stated it, is the issue today" said Mr. Wilson Those who would take from the peo- pie as bees their earnings, have sep arated the people so much from their government that we have among us bers live in fdleness, and affect a splendor to 'fascinate the eyes of the people,
 ITO gain their end of taking all the powers of government away from. the people" continued MT Wilson, s'these privileged orders, the trusts, the pub lie service monopolies, the plutocracy in general, found it necessary to ob- tain large measure of power in both the great political parties. They be- gan to control party conventions, and, while observing the forms of a free government. succeeded in filling the high places with their own creatu lures. 3. Tn some states and ill many towns and cities so called double machines came into being, and became potent factors in assisting the privileged or ders to treat the people as bees.
 Republican and Democratic politi- clans united against the Republican and Democratic voters to control the government for their own pockets and the profit of those who exist in splen- dor and idleness.
 "At last came rebellion against these conditions of public betrayal. The voters of both old parties waged war against the bosses. The climax in the Republican party came at Chi cago, when the privileged orders gained control, and the progressive Republicans formed a new party.
 s"The situation was similar at Ball. tirnore. Very nearly did a situation arise in the Democratic party which would have sent progressive Demo- crats into new organization.
 But the situation was saved by the votes of few delegates, and Balti- more made a progressive platform, and the national organization fell into progressive hands. the Democratic party became again the party that trusts the people, and stands once more upon the principles Jefferson enunciated.'
 MT. Wilson continued: T do not say. however, that the work of puri- flying Democracy is finished. It is perhaps finished within the area of national Democratic activity, but our system is a Federal system, and party power follows the Federal plan.
 "We have the spectacle of a party organizat tion in the nation that is pro- gressive. and of organizations in some of the states that are reactionary and maintained under the double machine plan.
 ''The double machine is found in Connecticut, even in Bridgeport.
 But these reactionary machines cannot long continue to exist. They cannot exist in the presence of the in- itiative and referendum, the direct election of United States senators. di- rect preferential presidential prima- ries, nominations by direct primaries and strong corrupt practices acts.
 These measures are designed to re- store government to he people. In every state where they have been ap- piled they have restored government to the people. The douLle machine, bond servant of the privileged orders