Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-03-28
Friday March IS, 1918.
FORMER SENATOR BAILEY
LEAVES DEMOCRATIC PARTY

E0NAAsN HEINh L OK BALE
LEAVES DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Newark, A. J., March 2o.-Former
United states Senator Joseph W..
Bailey, OF Texas and Washington, left
the Democratic party in a speech to
night 40 a banquet given By the Road
Drivers Association Of New Jersey
The announcement of the Texas
statesman came as a conclusion OF All
address in which lie deprecated dc
mocracy in its present form and prac
tice and depiOred the trend OF ma
tional authorities to usurp the rights
OF individuals. His contention was
that the Democrats, as the dominant
power in the country. had burdened
the people unnecessarily with taxes
and restrictions.
While essentially his plea was Tor
individual liberty, Senator Bailey con
demned the league OF nations as
robbing the United States OF its soy
ereignty and depriving struggling
peoples, including Ireland OF self
determination" rights. He was EN-
. phauc in his charge that the Demo
cratic party, as now controlled, has
an utter disregard for the rights OF all
the people OF America.
Mich significance was given to the
insurgency OF former Senator Bal
ley BY the hundreds of men who
heard him, with his characteristic ora
torical power of expression
1t was looked upon here as the first
break among many Democrats, in
Congress and out. who are disap-
pointed with present-day democracy
and look Tor political relief elsewhere
In closing his address, which was
punctnated with almost constant ap.
plausc Senator Bailey said:
have been a Democrat all my
liie-a collar Democrat il yor
please-aud ! have never scratched a
party ticket: but those who now con
troll the Democratic party have re-
uounced or abandoned one Demo
cratic principle after another in sucl
rapid and bewildering succession
that they have left us nothing except
the name
Since Thomas Jefferson founded
IT, and first gave immortal utterance
e. its creed, the Democratic party
has always insisted that every State
should exclusively control the local
affairs Of its own people; but a Dem,
ocratie Congress inundated thai
time-honored doctrine upon the alta.
Of national prohibition, and ma.
iority voted 10 repeat the sacrifice il
behalf OF woman suffrage.
Creation Of Many Offices.
For more than century the Dem
oefaAc party has asserted the exciu
siye nsht VI every state TO regulate
so lar as any government mlgn
properly regulate, tie hours and ths
conditions OF labor but a Democrat,
congress invaded that right by en-
acting a child labor law, which ths
Supreme Court was compelled to de
clare unconstitutional.
ror more than century the Dem
ocrate party has opposed the crea
ton OF useless orfices; but in The las
slx years Democratic Congresses hay,
created more otIees-and more use.
less oitlcese-than were ever created
III the same length OF time since thi.
republic was organized.
Our fathers dreaded the extension
OF Federal power 10 a point where
10000 employees would be required
but We have added bureau 10 bureau
ana function to junction, until more
than 590,0o0 are now permanently
employed, and we are complacentll
proposing to add the 100000 more
WHO are employed by the railroad,
telegraph and teiepiione companies
%For more than a century the Dem
oefatlc party preached and practice Z
economy IA all public expenditures
but desplsng our traditions and ouf
teachings, a Democratic Congress,
even before we engaged in the Euro
pean war, had spent more money
Than any Congress which had ever
before assembled in the history OF
the republic.
lens OF Huge Expenditures.
Our lasners were wise enough Il
know that eNtrayagdnc Dreeds cor
ruptOn--tnar al extravagant govern
nleitt can no more escape becoming
a cOirupt government tfan a spcnu-
tAflit caA escape Decomlng BANK
rupt--anu our CnIdren win some aay
realize mat ruen IN bitter expeIi-
enee
Lsen within the last three months
Deniociauc cabinet omeiais nav,
aseed ior appropriations 4ggregauns
the stupenuous sum OF SIo,0v0,Vv0, Ju1
Tor the nscal year-a year Of peace
beginning on July l, 1913, ana ending
june 80, 1870
nat IS more than three times a.
much as the federal government
spent curing the entire war Detweel.
the states. -Four years OF war with
an expenditure OF S4,OOJ, OO0, OOOl One
yeer u peace with an expenditure 0.
Sto,Jlu, Cuo,Jo0i IAN ii DC possiDle
10 TINS appalling waste.
for more than d century The Dem
ocrauc party mas PROGRESSED itselt tnt
advocate "a low taxes, and, unrl re-
ceat years we mace the Jaw square
with tnat PROCESSION; but ii this tiiae
Congress Ievles taxes as il lney weie
MOI a barden upon the people, anu
answers our complaints with a threat
OF further taxation.
FOR more than century the Dem
ocrauc party has enjoined upon US
to reverence tine Constitution OF Our
county, ana to respect its wholesome
hmisauons, Dut IN tins time men eaIi-
ing themselves Democrats, and hold-
ing nign POSITIONS, deride the Consu-
tuuon as an obsolete scrap of paper
and scoh Al its most sacred guaran-
tees.
know, and you know, that this
republic can not be preserved ii the
Constitution which created it is de-
stroyed, and we can give no better
proof " our patriotism than by de-
tending the Constitution winch estab-
lshed, anu which alone can save, ouf
Tree institutions.
For a century the Democratic
parry has taught US, and we have
laught our children, that liberty IS
tae most precious possession OF men
more 10 be desired than wealth, OF
Distinction, or p0wer--and our CON
ceptiou OF liberty has not been merely
that our country should not be SUBJ
ject TO the vail Of foreign nation.
The liberty which we nave been
taught 10 cherish, the liberty which
we have thought worth fighting for
and orih dying for, is the liberty o.
tile ndividual-the right Of every
rsaa to 10 for himself and with his
own whatever .he pleases, 50 long as
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