Evening star., 1924-10-22

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- : 8 ored me with its
ror.r VIZ r.y,s leadership in this
campaign.
Some people claim to see little diff
terence between the two parties be-
yond mutually exclusive hunger for
poiltlcal office. This view is amaz-
ingly superficial. Democracy and re-
publicanism are virtually without es-
sential similarities. BY their natures
they are in perpetual conflict. They
are In opposition in every campaign.
Ihey are at grips in this one.
Parties of Jefferson and Hamilton.
I'm the history of our country we
have had two great and plainly dis
tinguishable political and social in
spirations. One we call Democratic,
the other Republican. My sympathies
always have been with the former.
OF the Democratic inspiration Thomas
Jefferson is our most illustrious expo
nent; of the Republican, Alexander
Hamilton.
Jefferson was a man of genius
gifted. wise, full Of human sympathy.
Hamilton enjoyed a masterful tai
ent-logical, exact, efficient, inexor-
able Both were great men. Which
was the greater? Hamilton undoubt-
edly had more influence in shaping
our governmental mechanism. Jeffer-
| son, with equal certainty, left the
deeper imprint on our national spirit.
Jefferson is our pre-eminent polit-
ical philosopher; no nation has pro-
duced one more human. His social
consciousness was peculiarly sensitive
| and alert. Politics meant for him
more than the balance sheet OF a ledg-
er. 1t was, in his thought, not a
problem Of statistics. but matter of
human liberty. If Hamilton made for
| us well conveiced political machinery,
If he gave us sound ideas and meth
DDS in public finance, Jefferson gave
us the social impulse which has been
the essence of our spiritual life since
the birth Of the Nation.
Inspiration or Jener~on.
II follow Jefferson rather than
! Hamilton in party allegiance because
/ am convinced that the Jeffersonian
inspiration is what this Nation needs.
We have needed it always. but more
especially today, when the drift is so
overstrong toward materialism. We
have become powerful, we have ac-
complished marvels in the realm of
mechanics. but we have fallen behind
in ideals. We need Jefferson's breadth
of wisdom, his compassion, his con-
sciousness of human worth, his loftier
spirituality.
"Cynics may decry these things, but
they are vital. De TocQueville said
| no free communities ever existed
without morals In morals is found
| the secret of freedom and the secret
! of life. Republican talent is prone to
! forget, even to scorn. morals; 1t has
! the defects of its power. On the
H. -.
| much of talent and too little of genius
too much of Hamiltonism and too
| little of Je Jeffersonism. The pendulum
A., has swung too far toward the glori-
| fication of materialism. 1t is high
| time we had change.
Source Of Political Corruption.
"Yo uthink, then, that Democracy is
| apt to be less corrupt than Repub-
| licanism?'
Yes. In my judgment. Democracy
! cares less for money and more for
| immaterial values than does Repub-
| licanism. l am trying to speak what
believe to be true, without party
| bias If we, had had in our Govern
ment during the past few years more
! of the spirit of the author Of the Dec
| laration of independence l have not
the least doubt the Nation would
have far fewer examples of political
corruption to deplore, and of which
to be ashamed. than it actually has.
"If the people of the United States
as l firmly believe-want to turn
the River Alpheus through the Au-
gean stables at Washington, they will
put Democracy in control of the leg
islative and executive branches Of
the Government. 1t is not a mere
coincidence that the people always
turn to Democracy. as they did in
the cases of Jefferson, Jackson. Cleve-
land and Wilson, when national honor
has been sullied by corruption IN high
| places"
Cleansing Power of Democracy.
"You think the people will turn
| to Democracy, rather than to the new
third party, for this housecleaning
job?"
1T think so. They always have.
The troubles which came to head
in Shays rebellion were qufeted
quickly when jefferson installed De-
mocracy at Washington. Populism
was absorbed. disciplined and made
effective by Democracy. Insurgency
in 1910-1912, created by Republican
misrule and the Ballinger scandal.
disappeared when Democracy sent
Woodrow Wilson to the White House
to organize a clean, progressive, for
ward-looking government. Four years
of Republican misrule have created a
new insurgent movement. So much
worse have things been this time
than in 1912 that even Senator La
Toilette has left the ranks of the
party he has supported so long.
Third party movements are protests
against bad government, class rule
and corruption"
And the cure Is Democracy?
THE cure is Democracy"
X n X
Source Of Party Vitality.