Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-28
The. Democratic Record.

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WHILE the continued success Of the Re-
publican party is due to its continued fidel-
fly in the great trust reposed in it by the
American people, it is equally true that the
continued defeat of the Democracy, is due
to the more than Bourbon obstinacy with
which it clings to its iniamies. 1921
The Democratic party Is hoary with the
snow of age 1t has record that can
neither be effaced, or explained away. 1t
stands out in such bold relief that every
citizen of average intelligence must under
stand it. 1t is more than a generation old,
and from the very first has been the bane
of the country, taking the wrong side OF
every great question with an unerrirg in
stinct r f@A.-a .aaa ~ r,f.
When the country had monetary sys-
tenn which insured us against the crash
necessarily incident to loose State Banks OF
issue, the Democracy succeeded in its over
throw. The wildcat period in the finar
cial history of the country, with all its dis
asters and depressions, must be laid to the
charge of that party. Andrew Jackson
did not act singly. He was the club Of the
party, knocking the bank to pieces as a
party measure. He was applauded by it,
and has ever since been idolized for it.
Hostility to internal Improvement was
another prominent feature OF Democracy.
The Pacific Railroad would never have
been built had that party been retained in
power Mr. Douglas did, indeed, get the
Illinois Central charter through, but that
was by the hardest struggling, and even he
subsidized at once. He; had no sympathy
with the Pacific project. The agencies set
in operation to develop the country during
the last decade would never have been
adopted by the Democrats. In domestic
Industries, too, the party has from the first
been hostile to it's diversity and enlarge.
ment. The Democratic policy has uni
| formly beentoimport foreign goods, rather
than foreign workmen.
| But the great outstanding crime of the
party was in allying itself with slavery,
and that so closely as to follow it even
| into rebellion, and after its burial upon the
field of battle. The pro-slavery record OF
| the party is too familiar to bear more than
allusion Its treason sympathies are
! equally well known Everybody is also
familiar with the fact that after the Union
had been restored the Obstructionists had
the entire cooperation of this same ally
at the North Finally came the broad
question of finance which has to-day more
vitality than any other issue before the
country True to its traditions, the party
adopted tenets that, if carried out, would
at once destroy our public credit and pop
ular currency. Not only would the bond
holder find his investment dead loss, but
every man would find the money in his
pocket robbed of it's purchasing power.
From first to last, the party has been
wrong, and that without, exception or nit
igation. Ten years of Christening have
wrought no perceptible improvement in
the character of the organization. 1t per-
sists in precisely the same old line, vary
ing only to keep on the wrong side of each
question as it comes up. No sign of re-
form can be discened. No wonder the
the party in power.--C Chicago Journal.