The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-09-11
MALONEY'S MESSAGE
TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Secretary State Central Committee
Urges Democrats to Remember
Blessings and Vote the Ticket
Message to Democracy

On the 7th day of September, 1874
the Democratic party having regained
control of the state government af-
ter long era of Republican misrule,
the following memorable words were
selected as the preamble to the state
constitution on that day adopted
eve, the people of the State of Ar
kansas, grateful to Almighty God for
the privilege of choosing our own
form of government, for our civil and
religious liberty, and desiring to per-
petuate its blessings and secure the
same to ourselves and posterity, do
ordain and establish this constitu-
ton"
For just forty years the Democratic
party, faithful to its benefcient prime
iples then nodded into the constitu-
ton, has guided the destinies of our
state. In these years stupendous
changes have been wrought. From
community overwhelmed with debt in
every county and township, not
public building or institution within
tifeSborders of the state of enough i'm
portance to challenge honest pride,
with every village and neighborhood
torn and harrassed with political en-
nifty and strife, private industries
stagnant, natural resources undevel-
oped, civil liberty a mockery, the very
name of the state a synonym of de-
rision and contempt even far beyond
our own borders, has under the in
telligent administration of the Demo
cratic party grown into q magnificent
commonwealth, the home of the hap
piest and most contented people that
the sun sees in all his course. Strife
and bitterness have disappeared, the
mutterings of sectional hatred and
distrust have gone the fierce denUncia-
ton of political controversy finds ia
heard the voice of intelligent discus
sion in the political arena and the
music of contentment and prosperity
echoing from forest and field, while
the hum of busy industry is heard in
all the marts of trade. Emigrants
are coming over our borders from all
points of the compass and the prod
ucts of our mines, fields, forests and
factories are distributed not only
throughout the nation, but have found
their way around the world and are
sheltering and feeding nations across
the seas.
Surely the Democratic party has
kept the faith, Against the honest
and intelligent administration of her
principles, nothing can prevail and no
temporary period Of depression
brought about by external conditions
need alarm. But these very condi-
tons are such as to lull to rest the
busy citizen and cause him to forget
the very highest duty of citizenship
The right to vote was purchased by
the very best blood of our fore
fathers. 1t is the priceless preroga-
tive Of the sovereign citizen of a re
public. No man who fails to appre-
ciate it, or neglects to exercise the
privilege when opportunity is afford
ed, has q right to complain either at
the selection of public servants or the
enunciation CT political principles.
Universal suffrage has been criticized
upon the ground that the idle and the
vicious are thereby introduced as a
factor in governmental affairs. The
Democratic party believes that the
honest and intelligent are always
strong enough to control. Our consti-
tuition has said that intelligence and
virtue are the bulwarks of liberty. No
wiser nor more vital words were ever
written by the pen of statesmen. If
the intelligent laboring man, the farm
er, the merchant, the lawyer, the
doctor, and other professional and
business men, whose own happiness
and prosperity are staked upon the