People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — TO FACE IT OR DIE [ARTICLE]

TO FACE IT OR DIE

M'CLURE DIAGNOSES THE OEM-. OCRATIC MALADY. ■ ' ■ • igsr* It Is Chaos or Death? —Not a Slagle Hopeful State North, South, Eait o West for Democracy CleTelandiim. The Times, (Dem.,) edited by A. K. McClure, in a long editorial headed “Is it Chaos or Death?” says: “The attitude of the democratic organization before the country today is that of utter chaos, and the only problem for the leaders to solve is whether that once great party can be restored to its respect and usefulness, or whether the sequel to its chaotic condition shall efface it from the history of American politics. “Today the democratic party has not a single hopeful state north of Mason and Dixon’s line; it has not a single hopeful state in the west, and the southern states are all trembling in the throes of threatened revolution.

“The party has been condemned by the people with an emphasis that has never been approached in the history of our political contests, and the overwhelming defeat of 1894 called out no statesmanship in the democratic councils in congress, and intensified the madness of democratic lawmakers instead of chastening and recalling them to the lines of patriotism. “But for the heroic integrity and patriotism of President Cleveland the credit of the nation would have been dishonored, and business chaos and general distrust must have prevailed throughout the land. “No party thus poisoned with dishonesty in its vitals Can survive, and if there is to be a democratic party in the future it must be promptly organized on the basis of honest government, honest money, honest taxes, and honest elections. Perfidy or blundering in republican statesmanship will not restore the democracy to public confidence. It may destroy the republican organization, but it will not revive democracy. It must be in a position to command the honest men of every political faith, or it must die, and if it cannot retrieve its honor and its fidelity to the country, the sooner it shall die the better it will be for is followers. “The time has come when intelligent and considerate men will cast party lines to the winds to sustain the integrity of the national faith and the tranquility of business and trade. The Times will support no man for president in 1896 who 1b not squarely for honest money, for this is the paramount issue. The tariff question is settled, not only for the present, but for the future. “National and state credit must be established so clearly and positively that the whole world will accept it, failing in that we must pay our thousands of millions of obligations held abroad, not one-half of which could be paid with all the money of every kind now in existence in the country. That is the issue the democracy must face, and it must face it now. If it fails to do so it must die. With the democratic leaders rests the solution of the problem whether the present overthrow of democracy shall be temporary chaos or death. Which shall it be?”—People’s Party Paper.