Show DEMOCRATIC DIFFERENCES To moat Democrats it will be news to learn that there are different principles > fD empcracy JoFlEe lffferent ages of manjibutsnchis really the case Those DelfilJcratSwITose lives are sinking into the late afternoon will b6 surprised to learn their true character while those vyoungel drffes frhtf hdf e seerijna struggles will also be surifnsetTto know flint tfieJi8 purposes arc not now what they will be TU they contlnue to be Democrats i ml ar4iiiIi wi htthe JseVen ages of i man ¼ sri scnSerl bynaespeare but I fevjf any are familiar with the various I ages and stages of Democracy DeToc queville wrote a most philosophical and titixe r is ipoxi9Dernocra in I Americaf and he neVet discQV re3 the two ages that belong to it In his Con etitutionalHistory of the United States Von Hoist makes no mention of 5i8y ifferit g in Pemocracxjjaifd one may search in vain throughput through-put > the short biographies in the I American Statesmen series edited by i John T Morse and still not find the facts iI tlf diseAcbupl 1cc t 1i rni m agOjBishDpcBerkeley said Westward the star of empire takes its way and it was but natural that this great discovery slicful3be inade in theWest the chosen West so to speak It is fitting that the jpeoplhoijljI kiow i by whom this dis very waSpjtdjand tfig t s gN pleasure to be able to say that this dicov I ery was made by Colonel T G Webber I atQ6 > nconY > nthmof the Peoples party par-ty held in the County Court House last Saturday Colonel Webber after being loudly called for responded to the wishes of the Convention and gaye them a profound and soulstirring speech the burdenofihikhiisi1e6teitto expound uig the differences between the Old and Young Democracy The explanation is bothiclear and concise and should rank tne Cblonel along with single 3pebdh Hamilton He said that a previous speaker Ind inquired aV to the difference between the Old and Young Democracy and as he theo the-o i l il nderstood the inatter one was open and avowed while the other was underhanded and worked on the staFintheback principle There is but one objection tothis explanation and that is that it does not definitely indicate which I was one and which was the other It maybe may-be that Mr Webber wished to convey the idea that the old Democrats were open and avowed or were underhanded and working on the stabintheTjack principle as he so justly and appreciatively ap-preciatively distinguishes between the two Like the lad at the circus one I pays his money and takes his choice I When a man has so nice a perception of indistinguishable differences we cannot but regret that those who possess such analytical minds do not occasionally give an explanation of their own principlesThe Convention adjourned without saying what their political principles were and p l eople arc compelled to rely solely upon conjecture It is possible that the Convention Con-vention had not been instructed as to what the principles of the Peoples party are this year It was once announced by a very prominent member of the Peoples Peo-ples party that its principles were the highest possible liberty to man and woman which is a very excellent prin ciple1 and high sounding withal but is lacking one important particular gives no standard by which the amount oiJ libertv tliafc i every man and woman is ill J JCi X ontidedi tooarilxj known and regulated The majority of people here have a very good idea of the amount of liberty that is possible in the conventions of the Peoples Peo-ples party and the amount of liberty to which every member of that party is entitled en-titled no Jong as he does the bidding of the powers Jfhatbe Some people are so steeped in darkness and prejudice that they believe there isj no liberty in the J > y fiJy lLe > fcsud t id 4 doled out to them by the real leaders of the party Mr Webber is tin adept at explaining things and was one of a committee of the City Council lHaTe f faeJa whim of the City Marshal to mean a feeling of sorrow and mourning by a whole com mi h1y j tth Mmwal 1f g11I t > hJiwhbfi lie iijl 12lJCCalt born mittco shed the ray of their greater I light upon the maher and now one of that committee has under ta I1 ttask iul tf9rpeJ tt fli1Ia 1 lalnlh I dfl forences between the Old and Young I Democracy To explain a thing that I does not exist is a very difficult task and VujtJ BiBntm fl < y fcndAwqd fbj3 arfirQyviSii those mental characteristics that make them eminently fitted for such tasks but such a man is Mr Webber It would be a 1110 j Mr3jtvouId explain the difference between a county convention of thePeoples party for the nomination of candidates for various o sAanWvoting < for V W tf members BP the fymyffl KtB6iKlovff free will and choice and the carrying out in if most faithful manner a programme of the whole affair fpccfally pretfafed by the IekdersbI fheTcIinfclrtowliiclt hreHadheres which leider2 ilootattenff the renJiQnS MiJl hiJ V 9l u 1Jt1tJj UiW I fitted by nature and education for such tasks and uiis last is worthy of anymans I el wtA Scr a L |