The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-20
TRUE DEMOCRACY CARRIES WITH
If PARTY OBLIGATIONS


Union a lesson on Democracy The
difference between the two papers is
that the Times Union adheres to Dem
Dcratic principles regardless OF the
views Of the president elected as
Democrat. This is a rule with the
Times-U Union that has never had an
The Times follows the
man elected by the Democrats as pres
ident regardless of the principles OF
the Times Union
The above brings up that old story
OF the eleven obstinate Jurors win re-
fused to relinquish their settled con
victions and by accepting the conclu-
sions of the one unstubborn member
were able to reach verdict of unani-
nifty.
The estimable Times-Union is not
by itself in the belief that it alone
is the exponent of the principles OF
genuine Democracy.
For example there is our good ana
amiable friend, Mr.. Richard H. Ed
monds, editor of the Baltimore Manu-
facturers' Record, who claims to be i
Southern Democrat. and seems really
to believe that he is the exponent of
as sound Democracy as the Times
Union, yet on number of vital points
they are the antipodes of each other.
For example: The Times Union, AZ
cording to our judgment, is rightly
and strongly opposed to high pro-
tective tariff, while the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record is hand-in-
glove with those eastern manufacture
ers who gave the country some dras
tic lessons in the art of profiteering
and are demanding at the hands of
the Harding administration the enact
ment of tariff law that will enable
them to continue the process of
profteering ad libitum.
But while widely disagreeing on the
tariff issue both publications lovingly
and heartily joined hands in throw
ing stumbling blocks in nearly everv
foot of the pathway of the National
Democratic administration and at a
time when we were passing through
the most crucial period of the worlds
history
And our good friend, of the Record,
could scarcely conceal his desire for
the election of Harding and the de-
feat of Cox for president. the same
as our good friend, the editor of the
Commoner, who owed such a, tremen-
-dous debt of gratitude to the National
Democratic party.
And, too, Senator Reed, of Missouri,
posing as an orcale Of the true princi-
pies of Democracy and Defender of
the Faith, on every conspicuous occa-
sion has been alert in giving aid and
comfort to the enemy.
The membership of party carries
with it certain well defined obliga-
tons.
Those obligations are loyalty and
fidelity to those who have been en-
trusted with its control
What's to become of a party if its
members are accorded the right to
pull in oppositet directions, to bring
about discord. to provoke strife and
contention, and to give aid and com
fort to the enemy, blindly, indifferent
and oblivious to the consequences
Party obligation requires haE nony,
unity and solidarity Of purpose.
Would it, be possible for any army
under the sun to win victory with
its various division commanders pull
ing in opposite directions, mutinous
to their chief, and all the while giving
announcement to the enemy?
II those discordant elements in the
Democratic party, who have been
mutinous and disloyal to its head, who
have provoked discord and dissentions
within its ranks, who have been faltn
less to its obligations, had practiced
he same tactics in the army they
would have been court-martialed am
executed.