Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-06-13

| NOIllQ front.
In this situation the Democracy ha:
an opportunity such as it has seldom
had before-not merely to seek parti
san advantage, but 10 serve the Ma
ton. Its hands are clean. Its heac
clear. 1t represents neither radicalisn
nor reaction, but holds steadfast to
those principals of popular government
handed down to us by our great lead
ers of the past-Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland,
and Woodrow Wilson.
II confidence, now shattered, in
American government aud American In
stitutions is to be restored at home or
abroad, it must be through the agency
of the Democratic Party. Without the
Democracy, the people of this country
would be left 10 choose between a
party representing reaction and special
privilege on the one hand, and on the
other, certain organized groups of
radicals-groups that seek to align
class against class, and section against
section; groups that promote lawless-
ness, groups with alien sympathies and
affiliations that would demolish the
very foundations upon which the ma
ton rests.
1t is indeed fortunate for the United
States that the Democratic Party has
not strayed either in the one direction
or the other. Ours is still the Party of
the people-of representative govern
ment. 1t still opposes alike the grant
ing OF special privileges, and the intro
'duction ofthose paternalistic schemes
OF government which are but mask
for socialism. 1t always has, and does
today, set its face against those govern
mental policies which are responsible
for the present state of affairs.
We need no new campaign issue this
year. Let us simply lay before the
American people those tenets of De-
mocracy which have survived from the
birth of our nation, and which are en-
bodied in the Constitution itself. Let
US hold firmly to those tenets now, for
in them lies the hope of the nation.
They are enduring because they are
invincible, because they are Just.
PROGRESSIVE is but another term
for the APPLICATION of these funda.
mental principals to modern con.
ditions and the ever growing needs OF
society The Democratic party no.
only believes, it incarnates and applies
these principles. 1t gives a govern
ment that keeps step with the march OF
mankind. it idulges in no self-prais.
ing prattle of being a forward-lookiuo
party. 1t confidently points to its
legislative achievements as forward
moving party. Time forbids more thar
one typical example. A currenc,
system if ever efficient became obso.
| lete The time came when under h
certain groups of men controlled the
purse of the nation and opened and
closed it to Presidents and Admin
STATIONS alike. AT their mandates
panics began and ended. Democrac,
broke that strangle hold of centralized
wealth, applied the simple principle.
of equal justice in system that stood
| the sudden strain of unprecedented
war without financial disturbance. con
tributed most potentIy to the finance,
of our allies, and as a result of that on,
act, so boldly, ably and courapeousl,
sponsored by a Virginia democrat
when the dust and smoke of war ha,
cleared, we beheld the financial cente
OF the world moved across the Atlantic
/ to our shores, and the American dolla
j the universal unit OF value.
The record Of our party in the Stat
and Nation is an open book. II no
only welcomes. it invites criticism
For hundred years undismayed by
defeat, unintoxicated by victory, it
! faithful followers have held aloft Ii
J standard, emblazoned with sEqus
rights to all and special privileges t,
: nome Patriots of all the decade
past and the oppressed Of every pal
I OF the land have ever looked upon
with hope. Whenever the fundamen
tai rights Of person or of property hav
J been challenged. where toll went III
j rewarded, or human right was crushe
/ beneath oppression, men and wome
have turned to that party and tn:
: standard with the light Of hope in the
{ eyes. They viii turn to II again Il
| the hands Of that party are still clea
and that standard is still unstained.
H We, Of Virginia, have especial reaso
/ to be proud Of our party and Of o.