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Show Democrats Desert Principles Princip-les Claims Ex-Senator Baily NKWAUtv, is. J March 24. Asserting As-serting that the Democrat party hat "srasod to support democrat principles," princi-ples," former United States Senator Joseph W. Ualley of Texas declared in an address hero Inst Wednesday night that ho would "never again voto for tho candidate of any party Which contsanlly reduces ou liberty nnd unnecesarlly Increases our taxes." tax-es." Mr'llalley, who was the principal speaker at tho "Victory banquet," of tho Hoad Horse association, bit med tho Democrat party for the passage of tho prohibition amendment to th consitutlon and for he near-passage of Uie amendment granting suffrage (to women. "I have been a Democrat all my life," ho said. "A 'color' Dcmociat, If you pleaso, and I havs n'.ver scratched a party ticket. Hut those who now control tho Democrat par-y par-y have renounced or abandoned ono Democrat prlnclplo aftor anotl.or In such rapidity and bowlldorlu,; su"'.(fi-slon su"'.(fi-slon thnt thoy have left us nothing excep't thu name. Since Thomas Jefferson founded It, the pomocrat party has always Insisted In-sisted Uiat every state should exclusively exclu-sively control tho local affairs of lln own people, but a Democrat Congress Immolated that time honored d c trlno upon the altar of national prohibition pro-hibition and a majority voted to ro peal thf sacrifice In behalf of woman suffrage." The doctrine of severance for the constitution, he declared, had been altered until the constitution was regarded re-garded "as an obsolete scrap of pa per." "The liberty we have thought worth fighting for and dying for," ho declared, "Is the liberty of the Individual Indi-vidual tho right of every man to do for himself and with his own what, over ho pleases, so long as ho does not Interfere with the right of other oth-er mon to do the same. "Dut In this day thoy tell us that It Is better to bo good than It Is to bo free, and thoy have multiplied our penal statutes until the lawyers cannot can-not carry even an Index of them li their minds. Wc hnvo restricted the rights of men until no civilized country coun-try on Uie globe Interferes with tho habits, the pleasures nnd the business of tls peoplo ns much ns this freo government gov-ernment of the United States." |