Show oS THE lTATIONAL DEMOCRACY About everybody acknowledges that the National Democracy is as dead as red herring save W D Bynum and i General S B Buckner The opinion j of the former doesnt amount to anything I any-thing that of the latter will be generally gen-erally treated with respect General Buckner recently addressed a letter on I the subject of the National Democracy to a Kentucky gentleman The general gen-eral having been vicepresidential candidate can-didate of the party no doubt regards than he it as of more consequence I otherwise would He does not feel in I the least discouraged but thinks the I party still has its mission to perform He says speaking of the late election I in his own state that there is nothing I in the result to discourage the National Democracy but everything to incite them to maintain their organization until the sober second thought of the people shall force ambitious leaders to I return to sound principles of govern I meat It is to be feared that the general is in the same frame of mind as that I old lady was who died in Springfield Mass the other day who every night for seventy long years never failed to place a candle in the window for her sailor lover who went to sea but never came back How can the general so deceive himself He should be able to see what is so plain to all othersthat the National Democracy is no more and that it cannot be resurrected His friend Henry Watterson sees this who speaking of this same letter says I that tested in 189G in the nation and in 1897 in a few of the states though notably and conclusively in Kentucky i the sound money organization which took the name of the National Democracy Democ-racy showed itself both an illusion and a snare The instinct of the voters proved wiser than the judgment of their leaders If the voters had followed fol-lowed the leaders the first object of the movementthe overthrow of the fusion which menaced the country with fiat I money and national discreditwould I have been defeated Its second object was the creation of a nucleus about which Democrats might rally and reorganize re-organize the party In Kentucky less than ten thousand earnest enlightened devoted men accepted this opportunity in an actual poIL vote of 375000 and a possible poll of 4r0000 These faithful men are not enough for seedcorn and they look in vain for reenforeements elsewhere General Buckner but dreams The thing for the National Democrats to do is to come back into the old Democracy Democ-racy where they will always find a welcome |