The New York herald., 1921-07-05
WALSH URGES NEW
CODE OF DEMOCRACY
Must Attract Virile and High
Minded Young Men of
the Nation.

United States Senator David l. Walsh
of Massachusetts told the Tammany So
ciety in it's Fourteenth street headquar-
ters yesterday that the fortunes OF the
Democratic party have seldom been AT
such low ebb as they appear 10 De To-
day He said it was time for PLAIN
speaking and demanded that Democrats
face facts Senator Walsh spoke at the
Independence Day celebration.
The vote In November was the answer
to an acceptance of a campaign In which
foreign issues rose above domestic is
sues The result, declared the Massa-
chusetts Senator. was staggering de-
feat.
Now we stand rejected at homo and
abroad" he said, ain the most laznenta-
BILE of all predicaments, that OF the po-
litcial party inherently possessed with
high principles, but bearing the penalty
for having forsaken them"
Refusing TO accept the explanation or
many Democrats that defeat was the
result of marrow. selfish, un american
| decision" Senator Walsh insisted that IL
Democrats adopted a new programme
the position of the party was not alto
gether hopeless.
Instead of irremediable disaster, our
| defeat offers us almost an unexaanpled
opportunity" he continued in more op-
| timistc tone. "At least 1t enables us
| to clear the decks and get ready Tor ac-
| tlon In the next conflict"
With serious and great problems AT
home after the war. the last Administra-
| tion, which the speaker said was one of
| the most advanced forces in the political
world during its early years, failed TO
| put forward any after war programme
to construct industry and business 1t
did not release the people promptly from
the autocratic war fever or restore to
them the enjoyment of democratic rule.
A rejuvenated Democratic party should
take account of these things, and should
take arms against the "servile con-
servatism" manifested in Republican
control. he counseled.
First, the League of Nations should
find no harbor within the party" Sena-
| tor Walsh said. because it is unwise to
put upon America the task of moraliz-
ing and policing, financing, refinancing
and soldering whatever part of the
world happens to be endowed with suf-
ficient influence in the League councils
to put moral obligations upon US TO such
] things.
Second, the tasks of the Democratic
party. IL 1t wishes TO succeed, are to
restore individual liberties of express
| sion and action, to oppose the growing
| tendency to curb individual liberty. to
| insure to every man his inalienable
| right of life and happiness. to fight
savagely against the forces assailng
| the fundamental concessions of Dur
Constitution; to insist upon American
| ism before internationalism to preach
| brotherhood and destroy political and
| economic oppression at home; to de-
| fend against unrestricted capitalism
and unbridled radicalism and to recon-
NIT the forms OF democratic institutions
to their original state.
"Reactionism has entrenched itself
within the Republican party" Senator
Walsh continued, ready to bow it's
head to every whisper of special privi-
lege." He believes this extreme con-
servatism together with vacillation
which will probably lead TO entangling
foreign alliances In the exercise of Re-
publican foreign policy. are the seeds of
destruction that will bring Republican
disaster.
cit is not for us to be content in
beneftting from Republican failures
he added. ANY one can lay out the
tree that the wind has already blown
down. But we must recreate a code
which will draw to our banners the
virile. high minded. liberal young men
OF the day. The Democratic party
cannot hope to win without enlisting
the millions of liberal. independent.
! thinking voters"