Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-03-18
The Age Of Parties.

In reply to some inflated pretensions o
antiquity that Senator SALISBURY, of Della
ware, set up for the DEMOCRATIC party, Sena
tor DoOLIrTLE, of Visions n, gave the follow
ing facts in the case:
/ Now, | say to nv honorable friend from
| Delaware; that the Democratic party by name
| is party of very modern origin. | remem
Der long before it was born; | was presen
at its christening. propose in moment tt
strip off this vail which covers what are claim
| ed sometime 10 be the glorious antecedent:
| Of the great Democratic party. What is the
| fact, Mr.. President? hires the Republican
party was originated, and Jefferson and Mad
| ison and Monroe and the great statesmen OF
that period were its founders. In 1900 the
Republican party elected Jefferson President
for four years. In 1904 the Republican par
ty elected Jefferson again for four years
more. In 1905 it was the Republican party
which elected Mr.. Madison President of the
United States. In 1912 the Republican par
ty elected Madison second time President
of the United States. In 1916 the Republican
party elected Monroe as President, and again
in 1920 elected him without any opposition
whatever.
The party opposed to the Republican party
during all that period from 1900 to 1870 was
the Federal party, and in 1920 the Federal
party as such yielded up its existence, and IN
1924 there were four candidates for the Pres
idency. every one of them running as Repub-
hcans, not as Democrats. Mr.. Crawford was
the nominee of the regular caucus in. 1924 /;
Gen. jackson ran as an independent Repub-
lican candidate from Tennessee; MIR. Clay as
an independent Republican candidate from
Kentucky; and Mr.. Adams as an independ-
ID md
for he at that time had given in his adhesion
to the Republican party In 1924 there was
no choice for President by the people; it
went to the House of Representatives, and
Mr. Adams was chosen as President.
In 1928, Gen. jackson, nominated by the
people, not as a Democratic candidate but as
the peoples candidate and as a Republican,
was elected President of the United States;
and in 1892, for the first time in the history
of the country, was the assumption given to
the Republican party, or that branch OF 1t
which supported Gen. Jackson, of the Demo
cratic Republican party. 1t. was a cOntri.
vance of Mr.. Van Buren, to secure, not the
nomination of Gen. Jackson, but his own
nomination as Vice President under him. IL
was then the first National Convention that
was ever held in the United States, called
also at the instigation of Mr.. Van Buren, and
his friends, and then for the first time that
braRch of the Republican party which sup
ported Gen. Jackson, assumed the name of
Democratic Republicans. In 1886, it as
sumed the same; in 1910, the same; and
from that period gradually it began TO
drop the name of Republican," and it was
called the Democratic party. But, sir, as the
Wing party, in 1850, by the issues of that
dav, was dissolved and buried in the tomb OF
Webster and Clay, its great champions and
representatives., so the Democratic party,
when it drew that fatal knife which severed
the silver cord and broke the golden bowl of
peace, when it drew that fatal knife which de-
stroyed the Missouri Compromise, dissolved
also and went into fragments, and upon the
ruins of all those parties sprang into exist
ence, with the newness of light, the Repub-
lican party, based upon the ideas of the old
Republican party of Jefferson and Madison,
and to those ideas it stands pledged and has
from the beginning; and tell my friend from
Delaware that the true Red Republican party,
based upon truth as its foundation, in the ma
ture of things never dies, and it never will.
And, sir, if we who represent that party this
day in the administration of affairs are but
true to the principles upon which it organized
in 1854, and again in 1856, and triumphed IN
1860, it is to hold the control of the destinies
of this country for generation to come but
if it is false to those principles, we shall pass
away the false representatives of the true,
genuine Republican party, ay, sir, the real
Democratic party of the country, as it is this
day its true representative champion.