The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-03-19

cause of the want of faith and loyalty
on the part Of its following.
We suppose that it can not be help
ed as it is human nature repeating 1t.
self for we must remember that Peter
denied his Lord, Thomas was miners
ed in doubts and Judas openly betray-
ed him.
But we started out by attempting to
Offset the jests and some earnest
doubters propounding the question as
to what is democrat?' by asking:
What about the other fellow
1t pleases US to observe that he is
having troubles of his own.
The denunciation of extravaganza,
corruption and wrong doing by the
republican administration became
so great and so pronounced that there
was a revolt in 1872 and such men as
Horace Greeley, one of its founders,
Charles Francis Adams, Samuel Bow
les, Carl Schurz. and any. number of
others breaking away from it and
had the democrats united then they
could have easily won control
The republican party had to face
the fiercest scandals in the history of
our country, such as the Credit Mob
ilier frauds, the Whiskey frauds, the
Star Route frauds and other scandals
L., L.
The following extract from General
Dick Taylor's book entitled: DE
struction and Reconstruction" will
suffice to give an insight of the con
dition of affairs then existing at the
national capitol.
He says:
"The years of Methuselah and the
pen of Juvenal would not suffice to ex-
haust the list or depict the benighted
state into which we had fallen.
"The examples of thousands of pure
and upright people in the North were
powerless to mitigate the general cor
lruptiOn as sOIfg of seraphin to purify
the orgies of harlots and burglars:
for they were not in harmony with
the brutal passions of the masses"
So things growing no better there
was a revolt in the republican party
in 1884 which landed Grover Cleve-
land into the White House. The same
pure-minded and lofty forces quit it
then that had abandoned it in 1872
Again in 1912 the republican party
split in twain under the leadership of
|ex-President Theodore Roosevelt and
permitted the election of Woodrow
Wilson
Again it is divided on~the League
of Nations and other matters of pub
lie policy and if the democrats will
hold together, show the least political
sagacity, weed out the doubling
Thomases' the denial Peters" and
the betrayal Judases'' it can retain
control of the government for long
period of time.
Even here in Florida the republican
party is hopelessly divided and the
regulars and the lilly whites have
already held state conventions and
nominated full tickets with no hope
Of success except what they expect to,
obtain from the flesh-pots of the fed
eral treasury providing the blunder-
ing of the democratic party permits
it to again seize the reins o. SoTcsa
ment
Surely not
Is it not time to bury sec
tionalism and is not every atiele
of manufacture high enough now in
all conscience and the profiteers
growing fabulously rich without giving
them further bonuses by high pro-
tective tariff under the specious and
fraudulent cry of protection to Amer
lean labor?"
If the democratic party will loyalty
and faithfully hold up the hands CT
Woodrow Wilson in his benevolent
efforts to bring about universal peace
as Aaron held up the hands of Moses
the democratic party will be given a
long tenure of life in which to bring
peace and tranquility to troubled
world