Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-10-06

egation Of young Democrats from
New York that 1.-The certain prospect
of Republican success in November il
that I'VE shall be drawn in one form
or another into the ENVIRONMENTS oil
European war;" and that 1.-The force
of the United States will be used t.
produce in Mexico the kind of Law
and order which some investors II
Mexico consider most to their advan
tage."
To avoid such all outcome, the
president urged that young Demo.
crats-a league of such were his main
hearers - and true progressives
should rally to the Democratic stan"
dard.
Following are the principal points
of the presidents address:
1.-The Democratic party, my fellow
citizens, is the only party whose life
has persisted and whose vigor has
continued throughout all the history
of this nation, and which has not hap
pened by accident.
Governed by Definite Principle.
1T has happened because it is the
only party, l venture to say, all OF
whose life has been governed, or at
any rate inspired, by a definite prin-
ciple-an absolute belief in the con-
troll of the people, their right to con-
troll, their capacity to control their
own affairs and shape them in the
common interest.
1.-THE Democratic party has commit
ted many errors; the Democratic
party has made some fatal mistakes
of action, but the reason it has lived
the reason it is the only party that
has consistently based it's BENEFITS
upon the things and the convictions
that underlie all American history
the belief in the government of the
people by themselves and their own
representatives.
"It has witnessed the life aud
death of two great parties, and, un-
less / am very much mistaken, it will
witness the early disappearance OF
another. It witnessed the life and
disappearance of the Federalist par
II y. It witnessed the life, the in
crease, the decentralization, the de-
cline and the disappearance of the
Wing party.
"And then there appeared upon
the scene the Republican party, first
of all organized for a great and diff
cult purpose; to prevent the spread
of the institution of slavery into the
free portions of the United States.
That object they greatly accom-
plished. And then there seemed t,
descend upon them the spirit Of the
Federalist and the Wing parties aud
ever since then the increasing demon
alization of that party has been evil
dent.
Limited Popular Control.
1.-The spirit Of those parties was
one of limited control of the affairs
of the nation by those who had the
biggest material stake in the pros
perity of the country. Some of them
professed this very openly and some
of them practiced it without profess
ing it. The theory of Alexander
Hamilton, who founded the Federal
list party, was that the best kind OF
government is government by guar
dams and trustees and that only those
who represented the great material
enterprises of the country are cayable
of acting as trustees and guardians
So that throughout the period when
the Federalist party was in control
the whole idea was that a small
group of carefully planning men
should govern opinion and control ad-
ministrative action in the United
States.
1.-THE Wing party, when 1t arose
had somewhat more liberal concep-
ton, but before it had lasted very
long, it acted upon exactly the same
principle-that the great body of the
people is not capable Of doing it's own
thinking, and that small group CT
persons must be allowed to do its
thinking and the Republican party
has inherited that idea; not the idea
of government by the people, but of
government for the people and COZ
troll of the people by those who gov
ern 1t.
Republican Party's Belief.
1.-The Republican party, as now
constituted and led, believes in gov
eminent by the attorneys of special
interests. They are perfectly willing
that the attorneys of the people
should appear before them and Mead