The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-07-12
GOOD BYE, NEW YORK, GOOD BYE


Gratis in the city of Baltimore, New
York was read out of the democratic
party, and was told that she was
wanted in her counsels no more for
ever.
We hope that we will not be charg-
cd with disloyalty and treason when
We say that We part with the great
political organization of the empire
state of the Union with a great deal
of genuine sorrow.
We beg that we shall not be de-
nounced as a hateful "reactionary''
when we make the honest confession
that the real marrow of New York S
offending has not yet penetrated into
the inner consciousness of our under
standing.
We remember with a great deal of
admiration how New York loyalty
stood by the south and the democrat
ic party in the darkest days of the
party's and the country's history.
DO not call it treason when we say
with supreme gratitude that We re-
member how Tammany hall has al
ways stood as the uncompromising
friend of the south when a friend in
need was a friend indeed, and when
friends were few and far between.
We remember when the force bill
and other like measures of vengeance
were sought to be inflicted upon the
south by the progressive wing of
the republican party that it was the
prompt and uncompromising attitude
of the democracy of the empire state
that successfully resisted the enact
ment of those hateful measures.
Because we affectionately refer 20
these things please do not call us a
"reactionary" or a "sore-head." Per-
NIT us at least to occupy an humble
seat in the rear of the band wagon
as the procession marches forward.
We remember how the much-ma-
ligned Tammany organization worked
for its own publication
And We say here without fear Of
contradiction that when a
political organiZation-the same as
an individual-begins the work of pu-
rification from within rather than
from without, there is something gen.
uine about it,
We say we remember with exuulta-
ton how Tammany hall jailed its own
accused of graft and fright
ened others into seclusion across the
seas.
We remember when these things
we're going on in New York how we
hung our heads in very shame anent
the schemes of graft that were in
vogue in the republican organizations
Of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and
not a hand was raised at self-purifica-
ton, and the odious politics of those
cities became very stencil in the
aostrils of the nation.
Yet the picture presented to us at
the national democratic convention,
recently sitting in the city of Balti-
more. the great empire state of New
York, with her illustrious traditions
Of loyalty and devotion to the demo
cratic policies outlined by Jefferson,
was grossly insulted, spat upon and
read out of the party as being faint
ed. and Pennsylvania, which has not
cast a democratic electoral ballot in
sixty years, was crowned with lau-
rel wreath and permitted to name the
nominee.
Don't mock us when We say
In pity, not in anger, that as the
past comes trooping before our eyes
We cannot force back the tear of re-
greet when we bid farewell to the dem
ocracy Of New York that has been as
true 10 the south in her adversely and
struggles and likewise as true to the
principles and policies of the demo
cratic party as the needle to the pole
As we are in reminiscent mood,
We remember that st. Paul was sud-
denly converted while on his way to
stone the prophets of the new dispen-
satiOn. and made good.
We hope that our new political
friends and allies that forced the
nomination at Baltimore-Pennsylva-
MIA. MICHIGAN, Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming,
ete.-will. like ST. Paul, make good,
and in November will be seen march
ing under the democratic banner to
the polls.