The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-20

declare tnat you WOuid never agree 20
it again? In 1872, didn't you declare
that the Greeley movement was liberal
republican and not democratic? In
1873, didn't you prove that the anti
monopolists were not democrats, and
tell US that they would not allow the
latter to influence their convention in
any particular? Didn't you last year,
in HID school-house, thank God that
you had never cast a democratic vote,
and declare that you would not sup
port Mr.. W. for congress if you were
not assured that he WAS an anti-mo-
nopolist?'
"In Short" continued George, "have
not you every season since you left the
republican party, denounced the demo-
cratic leaders as a little clique of cor
rupt politicians, who only wanted to
keep up that party organization in Or
der that they might share the stealing
with the St. Paul republicans ?"
Poor Tom hardly knew what to say.
Nearly every man in the meeting knew
that he could only answer all of Georges
questions in the affirmative, and to do
this was utterly inconsistent with the
speech he had just made. He got on
his feet, however, and after stammering
forth some lame excuses for his past
record, he turned on George, and said:
II am astonished that on old life
long democrat, like my friend D., should
rake up the past at a time like the
present, in order to disturb the harmo-
ny of the party and prevent cordial
combination of all the elements of the
opposition in determined effort to
GUST from power the republican cvrrup-
tionists, who, like hungry leeches, have
so long preyed upon the industrial class
es Of this country Firing up as he
proceeded Tom did everlastingly 60 for
the "bloated monopolists, and, then,
as he resumed his seat, he gave George
another dig for treachsrously DESERVING
his old friends.
This brought George to his feet
again. He had always been democrat,
up till the time he became an antl-mo-
nopolist, and he didn't deny it. Says
he:
"Did understand Mr.. B. to say that
his party is the democratic party! Is
Ignatius Donneuy democrat? Well,
he is the leader Of Mr.. BIS. party. He
owns it and runs the machine. He
thinks he has carried over to it the en-
tire anti.monopoly party. Is Mort.
Wilkinson a democrat ? He is a SUBJ
leader Of BIS party. Is Aaron Good
rich a democrat? He's another SUBJ
leader. Is this insignificant ex-preach-
or, ex-doctor, ex-senator and ex every
thing else except gentleman, down
in Olmsted county, democrat )? He's
1 another sub.leader. Is VIM. Lee, a
l democrat? Didn't he work and vote
against Winthrop Young in 1871?
"Gentlemen, our friend Mr.. B. is
> mistaken. His party isn't the demo-
cratic party and has no right to call
itself so. 1t is only the skeleton of the
old time-hono<ed organization, dressed
up by lot of unprincipled political
adventurers, who have been kicked out
!, of other parties, in the secondhand
:, garments they have been able to pick
up or steal. 1t is an insult to true DEM
ocrats for them to be parading this old
dry-bones around, and falsely claiming
for it the glorious record Of the old
party; and all respectable people ought
y to combine and compel these scalawags
to bury the corpse, and thus save the
nation from the baleful effects of its an.
= nual parading before the people. The
masses of the old democratic party are
deceived into following them, because
they claim the party name.
= "If Mr.. B. denies this, let him take
: the democratic platforms since 1874,
q and note the contrast between what that
, party then prefossed and what it now
G proclains to be its theory. Let him
= especially study the first plank Of tho
t present democratic platform Of this
e State. If he does not learn, from pur-
suing such course, that the party Of
odds and ends which now claims to be
democratic, has no right to that title,
y then he ia intanlble of learning.