Show BREAK J RANKS RANKS MARCH We Ve c arc are wholly In sympathy with Whit that sentiment on the part of or certain Democrats that their party ought ht to la disband But nut Bute e sc do not flot think they are arC warranted In employing so much solemnity about aboul It it The rho thing Is not I Inn an nn occasion for foz s. adnes It is a 0 thing i that should 1 be e fraught with Joy If done when U Us done w ll lI it were done quickly And happily with smiles and the thc indices of Ot con- con Give GI the old part party a green grcen funeral and let the h horses r cs trot com om- coming lag ing home from froni the cemetery I I 1 has In Democracy been a great arn army y Its its' day It Is the r richest hest party In iii the tho world even en llO now no in the matter mutter of or I memories fifty years old and over o But its founders are arc ghosts and there are arc no pre present ent bodies In which they may be fittingly I reincarnated Its founders arc are ghosts and Its Us founders ou ought ht to be IC If It they he were th there rc ml might ht be no reason reason n for the Democratic army anny to disband But the leaders leaders' of that party arc are simply making making- capital of or orthe the 10 loyalty and pati patience nce of oC the thc men inca in the rankS and ranks ranks' anil have been for the I past thirty years cars In fact tact they began their career of oC trading principle for tor patriotism when they made Creeley their candidate for COl the presidency It would lao have found Cound a parallel only in seeing the Americans nominate Senator Senator Sen- Sen Sen ator for the same office And they have been keeping It up ever since For a third of a century the tho party parly has been trafficking for th the thirty eight votes of oC New York state And nobody but the leaders have havo gained anything by the tho dicker Thero Is one brevet general of oC the Democratic army and his heart is probably in the right place But he lie h hori Is Ison ison on ori the retired list and oven even when whon J lie has been actively in command there thero has been a cabal cabaJ of subalterns formed orated against him which has rendered his orders futile and his campaigns ns a aCa Ca farce Under him there are a good good- many generals and colonels and even a a. sergeant or 01 two who dont don't Ii know now what loyalty looks like nor discipline nor political honor And Anti tho they thoy run a footrace foot Coot race every four tour years trying to get et to the man with the barrel so Uie they can sell out the great big arm army of ot great big souls that serve in the ranks rank and ask nothing but that thoy they be bo allowed to tight fight a t 8 s tight light They dont don't oven O demand part of or the loot They ire are simple splendid souls who would get Iet their heh sufficient reward leward If Ie tho they thoy could see sec their theil banner floating over the tho citadel of oC the everlasting enemy And it Is because e thc they they- cant can't that we tell leU them it Is time for the order Break Ranks Marchl March Their leaders dont don't care for tor them nor for tor the banners banner not nor for fOl tho the principles ples Iles that mean so much to tho the rank and file The They dont don't care a cent for tor anything but the loaves and fishes for fOI the they arc are of or tho ver very hungry and very thirsty that would sell out every everyman everyman I Iman man In the great arm army of oC Democracy t for l' l a federal commission lon You cant can't win with such uch a leader leader- ship You cant can't win on tl You cant can't win on traditions And the themen themen themen men who continue to wear ear the tho gold braid and the plumes of or command have ha not the w wit t or or the wisdom to construct new Issues Issue nor to take advantage ad- ad vantage of oC the issues that conditions produce You cant can't win fighting the Republicans And you OU cant can't get a cause and a slogan which commands the attention and the confidence of oC the eighty millions of oC people of oC this broad land So long as you remain there in the ranks rank you OU will be marched up year rear after year ar n against tho the same ame old earthwork earthworks earth- earth works work and anti left without orders right In tile the face faco of the machine guns gulls that ari ai trained on your yOUl ranks You will bo lie loft belt there to tako tak care enle of oC yourselves es and when It Is all nil O Cl over the thc generals and the colonels and antI the occasional sergeants ser Sor- will put pta Jut In their pockets ho pelf price of oC their leh perfidy antI and laugh at the lie fools the they havo have sacrificed You don't dont like it and you oU know the picture I is true Disband and get Jet Into the Republican Cart can party part where her h by your our decency you belong Get Get Gel into tho tho Republican party where your long life efforts for rOle purity and honest honesty for tor Justice and anil advancement nt ma may have a fair fall show of ot o expression pre lon Get Into o the tho Republican can party Jart where the splendor of or your own Jefferson may ay b bo be r recalled In the glow of oC light fl from m tho tent of ft R. living commander where your our fighting qualities ma may be utilized in it obeying orders of oC leaders who arc are t true lc to their followers and anti where the bugles JeB blow blos' nothing but hut reveille and forward march The trumpeters of oC your our own columns have havo played taps tap for Cor or fifty years cars Tal Take them at their theil word werd and and and- Break Brenk ranks ranks March March |