Not One Idea, But Many
Editor Itowley is right when he says that the Democratie party ís not a party of "one idea." There tnay be times when some particular questlon pTesses forward for irnrnediate solution and becomes for the moment of all-absorting interest. But he Democmcy is builded upon a broader foundation than the determination of any one question. It is the living exponent of those principies which eonstitute the true theory of popular government and whieh conserve the political equality and the rights of the raasses. From the beginning politici parties in America (have divided upoa fundamental proposi'tions in the administración of federal affairs. In its earlier years the Democratie party was representative of the inlerests of the common people as against the classes, of men against ppcperty, of local 'home rule against cenrralization. It is not to be deniec! that in its later history it, for a tlrue, relapsed itíto a mere vehiele of private ambition. Bat, by the series of events which led up to the climax o-l the 'Chicago coirntion of last year, the common people again assumi'd control of the Demoera cie party, reconsecrated it to the service of popular government and wumiüted it to tho solution of live questions of the day upon the lines of true Demoeracy. Mr. Rowley will not care to contení] that eaoh and every position occupied by the Chicago platform is not ölöroughly, intensely Democratie, and clearly in line with the teaehings of the iüustrious founder of frhat party. That gome questlons should be more prominent than others is in the very njiture of bhings. All public questions cannot be settled at once. Tiiose wliieh are most pressing must be determined first. Each will have its turn. And when those issues which are today demanding rtvognition 'have pi'.ssed into history. there will be others ready Tor political aetion which are now forming in an atmosphere of careful strjdy and consideration. These will the Demoocracy take up and settle upon Democratie lines. This "one idea" 'business is a mj-fh, a delusion. So long as popular governinent shall endure and the Eecessity shall exist for the protectlon of t!he peopl the gref-d and jtower of orga-iized wealth- the self-constituted Amorican aristocracy - the Demoeratlc party will have a mission to perform.
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