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Show THE WORSE THAN USELESS DEMOCRACY. It Ii Interesting that the vote to open the Uintah reservation to settlement was a party vote. All the Democratic Representatives preient and not paired voted against It All the Republicans present nnd not paired voted for It. Just why this should have been so Is not evident on the surface, unless It Is on the general proposition that tho Democrats always vote solidly ngalnst every proposition for the ndvanvement nnd progress of the country unless It carries an appropriation for their localities. lo-calities. The Demo-ratlc party has degenerated de-generated Into a mere brake on the w heels of advancement. It Is true that a brake is n useful thing In gplng down hill, but it is a mighty tough thing when it Is still kept on while going up hill And as the Republican party never takes the country down bill, but alwas leads It upward, the uws of the Democratic party aro the reverse of valuable, Mo'eover, ns the Democratic party alwajs takes the country down hill, when It sets a chance to take It unywherc. Its use as n brake Is lost, for the Democratic leaders have no means of appllng It when they drive bo that In either case the us of Democracy are nil. Hvcn ns a minority part), where It might be txpected to have somo value in criticism and warning. It fails to be useful because Its positions are so rash und unpatriotic as tn be of no service. When It objects to the propositions nf the Republican party, Its objections are so frivolous and so badly founded that no good can possibly come ot them When It attempt to point out errors made. It cite as rules, principles or provision pro-vision of the organic law that have no application When It condemn the acts of omclals It does so with such Intemperance and hent thnt there Is no comparison between the nets and the condemnation An Instance of this is where Senator Rawlins claimed that the policy hla country ! pursuing In th Philippines Is 'a barbarous policy, a policy thut Is blacker than that of Philip I of Spain, the blackest, In fact. In nil histeuj, ' and denounce leading lead-ing denials In frothy Invective for their pait in cairylng out Mien policy. The country t once nnd Instinctively recognizes such statements as u'terly false, mere strained partisan rant utterances of crazy folly that the speaker venomous desire to say something some-thing strong leids him to speak, and h has not discrimination enough to recognize recog-nize it as nilly rot Instead of th oratorical ora-torical thundr he meant 't to be. It is no wonder th it men of brain and foresight are making nn attempt to reorganize the Democratic party, and to drag It from the foul nnd deplorable pit Into which It has fallen. An opposition oppo-sition party thnt has Intelligence, conscience con-science and candor can be a powerful factor for good In a lepubllcun government, gov-ernment, but un opposition pert) lacking lack-ing all these Is but a putrid excrescence, excres-cence, the only thing to be done with It Is to cut It off und bury the shameful thlrs. |