Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-09-02
NUMBER AZ.
Thoughts for Yonng Men.

ThOuSntS lot IOutfS wen.
: The Bulletia asks young men to
ally themselves with the democratic
party. We have intimated that it is
a hazardous, if not ruinous, expert
ment. We furnish additional facts
in this direction.
First read Senator Thurman's
opinion Of Sam. Cary. 1t has a
freshness and tr-thfulness that
makes it pleasant reading even in
August. "An unscrupulous dema-
gogue, one whose great forte is to ap-
peal to the passions of his hearers"
says the Senator. Can you risk
your reputation upon vote for such
man?
\ Again, there comes an item from
Virginia, which says that the Con-
servatives of that State propose to
change the name of their party from
Democrat to Whig. A Convention
to this effect is talked of, to come off
at an early day. Ohio has so dis
graced the old name that the Demo
Gratis of the Commonwealth of Presl-
dents wish to rid themselves of it.
The Boston Post, the great New
England democratic organ, styles the
Ohio democrats a 'handful of heri-
tics" and begs the people not to
loose faith in the great democratic
organization because of their crash
utterances."
The Cincinnati Commercial says,
Cary drives capital ont of Ohio that
would give employment to the labor
ing men whose condition he goes bel
lowing abont; and so he does more
mischief than he could connterbal-
ance if he were taken and subjected
to hard labor in the public service
for one hundred years.
The Louisville Courier Journal
says victory for Allen in Ohio
would set the ball of imitation rolling
toward reputation. "UndOubtedly
there is danger as well as combustion
in the issue precipitated upon the
country by the Ohio Democrats.
Nay, it embraces a menace that the
public debt OF the United States
may he repudiated entire"
The Cincinnati Gazette says: "On
the currency question the Democrats
are on the side of bad faith and Ma
tional dishonor."
The Cincinnati Commercial SAYS:
"The Republican movement is to-
ward higher gronnd. The Demo
cratic movement is to the bottomless
pit"
The New York Post considers the
possibility of a democratic success
in Ohio, "as National calamity"
Listen tn the words of that COM
manding Democrat, Hon. W. S.
Groesbeck, a fav0ritc son of Ohio.
He says: 81 am Il Democrat, always
have been, but l don't subscribe to
the financial plank in the Democrat
ic platform. 1t is against all prece-
dent in history, and is contrary to
the teachings Of the party in the
past"
Col. Grosvenor, the Missouri ora
tor, aud not longer ago than last
year democratic stumper, appeals
to the young men and the old men in
these stirring words:
l appeal to you, not as Democrats or
Republicans, hut against enemies of So
ciety and the nation. Listen to their
demand! II will remind you of roar
ing mob in the streets of Paris, and the
last savage charge at Gettysburg.
The New York World, the organ of
the national democracy, character
ICES the Ohio campaign as "treason
to the Democratic party" Can you
afford to be Benedict Arnold?
We have already quoted from the
Boston Post, that head of New Eng
land Democracy, but we must add
that it styles the democratic issue in
Ohio "local heresy," and then says:
The men most prominent in this
movement, like General Ewing and
General Cary, are old Wings and Re-
publicans, and fancy they have an op-
portunity to use the Democratic party
for their own designs. But whole
generation of such politicians could as
easily dam the torrent of Niagara as
cause the deep and steady current Oh
Democratic opinion to turn its course
for the sake of setting in motion the
machinery of their private mills. The
masses constitute the Democracy, not
few men who have succeeded in getting
control of State Convention.
These are thoughts enough for one
sitting. They show that the Ohio
democrats have disgraeed themselves
beyond measure, and have placed
themselves in position where no
honorable, weli-meaning citizen, can
follow, old or young, without adding
disgrace and infamy to his own char
acter.