Show i SENATOR W A WALLACE in the January number of the North American i Ameri-can Review has an able paper on the mission of the democratic party in f which be does not coincide with the views ol those lame democrats who think the late election sounded the deathknoll of the party as now constituted t con-stituted Mr Wallace does not mention r men-tion the fact but the democracy is stronger today in point of numbers than ever before It contains more voters than at any time during its existence ex-istence and its principles are more firmly believed in than ever beore It has not yet been officially determined deter-mined whether Gen Hancock Gen tjarfifctd had the larger number of votes in the late election One thing is certain the republican candidate fell come distance short of having a majority of the tctal vote With such I Chawing it is nonsense to talk about r 1t thetilemocratiti party being dead or I t ehovving indications of going to decay A party witn the principles t upon which the democracy is founded cannot din in a republic It isone of the peculiarities of our federal sya st m that minor tiea frequently rule and it has BO happened that at the last two presidential elections the successful candidates were not the I choice of f the people There has been i mismanagement of the democratic I party and the wickedest k est ort of blundering on the part of leaders but 1 those things cannot affect principles nor will they kill the organization They have kept democracy out of tho place which it is destined to occupy and may do so for years but every defeat only proves more strongly the neces eity for the success of democracy if rtbe Union is to be preserved and I government continued on the principles prin-ciples upon which it was founded I The longer the republicans are in I power the further from those principles prin-ciples are we straying The late defeat of democracy was due to a series of gross blunders as well as a grievous departure from the theories of the party Lacking in wisdom and wanting in the bravery that is neces eary for victory the leaders coquetted co-quetted with the enemy worshiped strange gods and gave themselves up to vice and political iniquity They deserved their fate but the parly was not to blame though it had to snffrr Senator Wallace iu his paper after citing the causes which led to the taking of the control of government from themasses and vesting it in a centralizing power tells what the democracy must do in order to regain us Heritage Among the events and processes which have kept the masses in the background for twenty years were the civil war the creation and peculiar manipulation of the public debt reconstruction outside tne Constitution Con-stitution universal negro suffrage a phtbora paper money loose publio morals enormous growth of private fortunes and a close connection cf the government with the banking interests in-terests Each had its weight in sap ping the foundations of a government by the masses and in shaping our course toward a different rule The gentleman follows with as clear a statement of the situation as could be made Tho tendency toward a socalled I Etroiiger government is as manifest as I are the causes that have given it form It is in tbo nature of tbjngi for government I to grow stronger at the expense oflho Eovernedjbut the plain proof of theist ex the-ist nce of this tendency isfouod in the opinions of the federal judiciarylin federal legislation over mattershereta1 fore within the control of the people of the states in the modes of execution of thoso statutes by which local rule local courts and personal liberty are overthrown over-thrown and in tbat ramification of executive ex-ecutive patronage which sends its mandates man-dates to the extremities and at will gathersin single hand enormous jcon tributions untcrupulous obedience from ninety thousand paid official Executive patronage will bring us to a master A network of officeholders bound each to thaother wielding 1 time and money and power of place to pick1 primaries diet te nominatiqas crushm dependent thought and action and sub ordinate1ocal control to the will 01 an executive who governs in the namo of the party puiotslthdroad with unerring certainty to the end that Xmnklin the wise man predicted Further guideboards guide-boards on that road are teen in large donations I do-nations of money by corporations mono polhtg and wealthy men to supplement the power of the executive and carry el tiona in the interest of an aristocratic class who dislike and distrust tho people in the domination of employee oy employer em-ployer in the marked ballot in the thirdterm candidacy and pilgrimage on the stamp in the national and abor organizations or-ganizations which are bnt over eloa Poteits against this tendency and in that illconcealed demand for energetic government which has been the fundamental funda-mental thought of the opponents of democracy since the dsya of John Adrfms The distinguished senator says the government of the republic has already al-ready been centralized the executive being felt from theward caucus to the treasury vaults from the primary to the Presidential election Federal marshals detectives collectors secretaries secre-taries Dud all else that are needed are congregated in doubtful states to debauch de-bauch the suffrage and reverse the will of the peopleand suffrage first debased then corrupted then obedient is centralization in its word n form The mission ot the democratic party is decentralization Its duty is to restore the government of the republic to the intelligent in-telligent rale of the masses of tho people It must teach and practice the doctrines of its illustrious founder It must appeal to the people themselves in their own interest in-terest It must preach the eternal truth that the individual citizen Is the unit in government from whom proceeds all power in whom is vested all rights save those which are granted by him for the good of the whole The people tit the base the states and ibo federal government govern-ment each supremewitbin lu sphere is the system to which it looks for liberty and it must teach that he who looks to paternal government to centralization or to empire looks to despotism Care for and perfect the government and it will oroteet the liberties of theDeoi was the thought of Hamilton Give in tollicence and information to the people teach them that it is their government and their interest to preserve law and order or-der was the thought of Jefferson Paternal Pater-nal government end vigor in the fedeM bead on the one band mfcrmation to the masses and energy from the extremities on tho other lisa former gave the republic re-public alien and sedition laws direct taxation tax-ation federal marshals and centralized rule in 1709 The latter swept these out xistence in 1800 carried us successfully success-fully through two foreign wars acquired an empire territory and governed the country for eiiiy years Wo must cbooo between these two now The democracy must again plautritself upon the axiom governments are made for men not men for governments Senator Wallace declares that oppressed op-pressed labor must be taught it3 rights and capital see its safety in the intel igenoe and justice of individual rule the public debt must be managed in the interest of the people and not of he creditor taxation be made equal on every form of property there must be no monopolies no coercion of employ by employer no uso of money in elections and a divorce between government and banks These must be the issues and they will certainly win when the democracy democ-racy ran be made to understand the evils of divided council In conclusion conclu-sion the senator Eays the party is not dead It cannot die whilst it teaches and be lieves in the rights of the mates Tho hour for its triumph wlr havo come when it boldly asserts its true theories and ignores the blandishments of money monopoly und corrupt power He whoso interests judgment or teachings arc adverse ad-verse to thi rule of the masses will join its enemies but in his room it wilt recruit re-cruit scores of those in whoso interests it strike or who respect its attitude and detest strong government The future of the democratic party is the future of the republic |