Evening star., 1936-08-09

under his administration of the Ma
tion'S substance, with the resultant
undermining of the national credit
and the financial structure of the
country"
"Other Counts" Charged.
Other counts in the Democratic in
dictment of the President and his ad-
ministration were left for another
time, such as the highly political and
largely pretended humanitarianism
with which the moneys appropriated
for relief of the destitute have been
used to throttle the free expression of
the Democratic party and facilitate its
capture and perpetuate its use by non-
Democratic appointees of the Presi-
cent, and who have used the power of
his great Office placed at their dis
posal to serve objectives and promote
theories and hidden designs which
ere abhorent to all true Democrats"
In addition to Reed as national
eh irman and Edmunds as secretary,
treasurer Is to be appointed, Ed
munds said. and two national COM
mitteemen from each State. Those
Who attended the meeting have
pledged themselves, he added, to begin
the formation of autonomous State
ORE nlZationS at once
Edmunds said he expected there
would be long list of speakers for
the organization, headed by Reed. Ely.
Colby and Breckenridge. Political
rallies and mass meetings will be held
in many places, he added.
Asked how the organization would
be financed, Reed said: Well have
TO get money from people who have
it."
Text Of Declaration"
The text of the declaration of
principles" follows in part:
The reasons impelfing the members
OF a political party to repudiate it's
leadership and to disavow its policies.
must be fundamental and all-controll-
ing.
Mere dissent from its measures or
disagreement With its policies is not
ordinarily sufficient justification for
30 extreme course
1t is recognized that differences of
opinion are constantly arising within
the membership of a great national
party. Sound party theory assumes
That such differences will be freely
discussed. and resolved in accordance
with the prevailing opinions of the
party membership.
Ihese propositions, however, pro-
ceed upon the assumption that the
party is both led and conducted in
GOOD falth and in loyal adherence to
Its known and declared principles. and
further that the party's attitude to-
ward the country and it's established
and time-honored institutions is one
OF loyalty and support.
Nation Is Democracy.
THE United States of America is
democracy, the most enduring and
successful known to history.
1t has knit together a vast and
heterogeneous population into one
united, stable, industrious and pacific
state, combining the centralized con-
cert OF a Federal system with local
AA0CPC1OCACC dIlQ uIllIlTlR conceive
energy with the full preservation of
individual freedom.
This has been made possible by
the constitutional division of political
power between the States and the
Federal Government, and between the
several parts and organs of the Fed
eral Government itself.
The liberty of Americans, since
the inception of the Republic, has
been the product and the result of the
American constitutional system, to
which we owe our greatness as a Ma
tion and the survival of our freedom
against all attempts to limit or de-
Btroy it.
The Democratic party throughout
the century of its honorable service
to the country has been the alert and
vigilant guardian of American liberty
and Of the constitutional system from
which 1t springs.
Limitations of Power.
"It has been equally watchful in
holding both the States and the Fed
ersl Government within the linita-
tions of power assigned to each re.
spsctively by the Constitution. pro-