The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-18
With Regard to Democrats
BY n. ID. Cochran

The weakness of the Democratic party is its
strength.
The solidy of the >solid South is liability in
stead of asset 1t isn't solid any principle of
government unless you to call white supremacy
in section of the country where the Negro popula-
ton is densest, principle of government.
In most Southern States nomination at a Demo-
cratic primary is equivalent to election So in both
houses Of Congress the Representatives Democrats
occasionally when the people want to punish the
Republican party, they elect Democratic Congress-
adding enough members from the North to make a
majority with the Southern members.
AS the seniority rule governs in the makeup of
committees in both the Senate and the House, Dem
ocratlc majority in either house that the South
gets the chairmanships; for naturally enough, the
members of long service come from the South.
If nothing but political principles were involved
some of the Southern States would be Republican on
the tariff ssue-notably Alabama and Louisiana
Other States affected by the Of the steel
and textile industries to the Souh and the growth of
manufacturing.
nue. only is merely memory The free trade philoso-
ply of Frank Hurd, who a Democratic leader in
Congress when Mckinley the champion of high
protected tariff, has even faded from memory
Naturally enough, when the Democratic party of
the solid South went to fundamentalism prohi.
bition and KuKluxism, it's opposition to SUMMARY
legislation evaporated 1t got far away from JEFF.
Iersonlan democracy that the shade Thomas Jeer-
son wouldn't have known his party in it's Federal
disguise.
There are, however, many Jeffersonian Democrats
eh ONeL the East ana w est who believe
Dill or rights but they all dressed UP in their JEFF
fersonlan democracy with nowhere to go. They have
been lost sheep since Bryan them into strange
pastures in 1896 and thereafter Many of them came
back home when Wilson led them back to jefferson
and democratic idealsm but the poor old party under
the leadership of the Anti-Saloon League began
Wondering again when McAdoo snatched the shroud
or Bryan and tried to lead them into the wilder
ness Mac was no more Of Joshua than Bryan was a
Moses Anyhow, the sun wouldn't stand still over
GIDEON and it looks like thrtywo more years in the
wilderness unless the party picks up the eersonian
chart and begins sailing the true course
Inc chances of electng a Democratic President
IN 1923 are almighty slim. And it isn't because a
majority OF the people all country do not he
heVe IN the Democracy of jefferson or the Renub.
ncanlsm OF Lincoln 1t is because the Democrats
wandered Tar away from Jefferson and the bill of
rishts ana nave become sectional party and slave
10 tne traditional enemies of liberty If there were
any chance of comeback for Jeferson's ideas of lin
ertS the people would punish the Republican party
ior getting so far away from the Republican principles
of Lincoln.
In being compelled to make choice of two evils
most OF the States take chance with the one they
nave rather than fly to another that seems to have no
sense of direction.
In other words, the game of Democratic lead
ers to win by ducking and lodging won't work. Is