Show NO O MORE MOnE DEMOCRATIC PARTY P. Up in Portland the Oregonian asks why the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- Democratic cratic party is so weak that it could muster no more than one fourth of or the city cIly vote when a n. strictly party issue was in the balance And the question fUestiOn need not be confined to Portland The same condition exists all over the country The Democratic party has lived Its life No fair fall man can question tho the value of oC Its ancient service the usefulness of ot its men to the nation No reader of ot the tho history of ot the United Stat States s can Ignore the good that party has I wrought in tho the pas vastly past t vastly overbalancing whatever mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes Us Its leaders have mad made But the tho time has come and any one Vi with h even the slightest perception is ablo to tos s see Q o it when the Democratic party should end Its usefulness usefulness use use- Is gone sone Its leaders are discredited its fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental policies arc are of or a past age ase and an ancient condItion condition condition condi condI- tion and ind its promises can not bo be kept The Tho final test lest of ot its coherence ma may be seen in the tho thol l lack ck pf lt loyalty evidenced c by the men mon who direct its ita counsels and provide the sinews of ot war The They are ara not for their party II first last Jast and all the time They arc are for tor their party part when thoy can make most by that relation re relation relation re- re lation and a against It With a perfectly diabolic frankness when It Is to their advantage to throw the masses of ot their partisan followers This was as shown in 1904 when the they named a candidate for the Presidency with the plain intention of defeating him and made that defeat certain b by the manner of ot naming him Parker could coult no more have been elected than could Herr Most or I I I l v I 1 Ben There was no reason why ho should bo be elected He ire had no issue no leadership no tie following no management nt no sincerity And a party without a mission without a n. leader without principles and without without without with with- out the of the voters has little excuse for continued con eon tinned existence In the East prominent men have havo recently made the Gle unqualified statement that the battle of ot tho the future will willbe willbo bo be between the Republican and lh th hit Socialist parties that the Democracy can never novel again assume formidable proportions J. J O. O Donlen Bontell said recently In a n Christian Fellowship meeting In Chicago The Thc Democrats aro arc down and out The They have been defeated for all time Not ot only will they novel never again gain control In Chicago but they can never a again gather nth r a n. sufficient force to tobo tobo bo ho a n. power In national affairs a The Tho time will com come when tho the two great parties aro the Republican Republican Re Ro- publican and tho the Socialist That may maJ be If Ie the Socialists can capture tho the Democracy and Democracy and some of oC Its membership will go o readily to lo the lae newer r propaganda there propaganda there may arise an organization tion ion strong enough to prove interesting to the cans ans For or the tho present there Is only one party part and that thatIs Is tho the one headed b by Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt President of or orthe the lie United States |