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yOLUME 5, NUMBER 16
tlon In the democratic organization.
Mn Mack Is short, square built, and
of tho pure Gaelic type. His blood
I was drawn from the mountains of In-
verncss. He has a vigorous, pleasant
countenance, rosy-cheeked and strong
Jawed, with bushy, brown eyebrows
deepset hazel eyes, and a long, thick,
curving mustache of coarse sandy hair
a face and figure common in tho
heart of tho Scotch highlands.
Ho is tho editor and owner of tho
Buffalo Times, which he founded
twenty-three years ago. Ho supported
Mr. Cleveland in 1884, succeeded Wil
liam F. Sheohan as democratic lead
er in Buffalo, supported Mr. Bryan ag
grossively In 1896 and 1900, and last
year helped to sustain tho leadership
of David B. Hill in this state.
Mr. Mack was not anxious to talk
about politics, but when tho divided
condition of tho democratic party was
mentioned ho spoke with characteris
tic frankno3.
Money Grabbers to the Rear
"Tho democratic party at this time
reminds mo oi tho boy baby in tho ad
vertisement reaching for a cake of
soap and labelled 'Ho won't bo happy
till ho gets it.' Tho people who make
up tho rank and fllo of the democracy
will never bo satisfied till tho men
who have been engaged in securing
and making money out of special gov
ernmental privileges have been sent
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to the rear of tho party. The party
just now seems to be made up of two
elements. Ninety-eigUt per cent of it
consists of men who seem to bo In
favor of progressive. democracy, which
says what it means', and is honestly
opposed to tho use of tho party or the
government for private advantage.
Those who make up the remaining 2
per cent seem to bo convinced that
they are tho' real democrats, but we
might as well bo honest, they call
themselves conservative democrats
with the exception of a very few who
have been misled you will find that
in nearly every case the so-called con
servative democrats, who have op
posed tho party most of the time for
the past ten yearfe are either at the
head of big corporations looking for
special privileges or are attorneys
hired by such corporations to secure
special privileges for -large money con
siderations. "Tho democrats of the country
might as well understand clearly that
they can never win by the use of
boodle. I intend to speak frankly.
Take my own county, Erie, for in
stance. In 1900 wo had a fund of
about $4,700 in that county. We lost
it by' about 4,800 votes. Last year
we had a fund of more than $50,000.
We lost the county by more than 13,
000 votes.
"Now, in 189 G it is a well-known
fact that there was not a bounty In
tho Union in which we had money
enough to buy the necessary postage
stamps, and yet we came within 601,
854 votes of electing a president. Last
year wo had plenty of money. I don't
believe that the public should be mis
led, and I will speak plainly. Last
year we had all the money we could
use in this or any other state. Yet we
lost the election by 2,542,0G2a defeat,
in spite of our abundance of money,
more than four times as great as Jji
1896, when we were so hard up for
funds. If it had not been for the
strength furnished by local issues and
lofcal ermtlWates In states like v New
York, Michigan, Massachusetts and
Minnesota we should have come out
of the campaign stripped bare.
Must Have Real Issues
"Tho truth is that the democratic
party must stand for something def
inite if it hopes to win at the polls.
You don't need any better evidence
than that last fall Chicago went 110,
000 republican, while this year, Indeed
within the past few days, when 1 the
municipal fight was made on straight
out-and-out issues, Chicago went 25,
000 democratic.
"These things ought to be a lesson
to tho democratic leaders, local, state
and national.
"If the democratic party is to have
any chance to win, it must have a
democratic leadership and a demo
cratic platform.
"Last fall's campaign was not a fair
test of the democratic party's posi
tion. In our national convention we
attacked the trusts and appeared to
be vigorous and in earnest about it.
But what did we do afterward? The
first thing wo did was to eliminate
tho national committee from the con
duct of the campaign from Maine to
California, apparently for the purpose
of raising money from trusts, syndi
cates and corporations. We put what
might be termed managers and corpo
ration lawyers at the head of the cam
paign. I thought then and I think
now that mado tho democratic party
looic ridiculous. 1 have no desire to
make a personal criticism of any man.
no Room for Two Trust Parties
"If the democratic party does not
stand against centralization of power
and against organizations of capital
devoted to grafting and bribery in
the state and nation, I consider that it
has no mission and ought to be de
feated. There is not room enough
even in this big country for two trust
parties or two republican parties."
From an interview with Norman E.
Mack, by James Creelman, for the
I New York World.
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