The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-10-05
Twenty Reasons Why DcmOc.
racy should not be Trusted.


For the following good and sufficient
reasons the Democratic party is un.
worthy of public confidence:
lst. Prior to the war Of the rebellion
it used its influence for the propaga.
ton of the States Rights theory, and
made a doctrine that was infamous
under Jackson praiseworthy under
Buchanan.
I'd. Before the war its policy wa.
shaped by those who afterward becam,
the leaders of the rebellion.
Sd. During the entire war its sym.
pathies as a party were with those
who had been leaders in its organiza-
ton, and who had gone over to the
Confederacy.
| 4th. To-day its policy Is shaped by
the same men who in 1861 left il to
make war upon the Government.
9th. All through the period Of re.
construction its influence has been ex-
ertsd on the side Of the ex-rebel ele-
ment, and whatever progress has been
made toward the restoration of the
Southern States has been i'm the face
of its bitter opposition.
9th. 1t has kept alive the prejudice-
engendered by the war, and has en-
couraged the persecution of those who
We're made citizens by constitutional
amendment.
1th. Ii is the same in sympathy and
tendency as 1t was in 1851. There has
been no conversion. On the contrary,
its enforced retirement from power has
intensified its prejudices and made 1t
even more dangerous to the liberties
of the people than when ii was in
power.
sth. Every disioyal man in the
country, every embittercd rebel who
looks forward to the revival of the lost
cause, every ncgro-hater, and every
ku-klux and White League raider
throughout the North or South is in
full fellowship with the Democratic
party.
9th. 1t il the secret and open enc
my Of our free-school system, and in
many States has allied itself with the
Cltramontane branch of the Roman
Catholic Church i'm the endeavor to
break up the system by division of
the school funds in the interest of
sectarian instruction.
10th. 1t Is under the control of the
most dangerous elements of society
the ignorance and vice of the North
and the disloyal sentiment of the
South.
18th. Although some good men,
honest in their desires to promote the
public welfare, may be found in the
ranks Of Democracy, they are In such
helpless minority as to be powerless
to institute reform or to maintain that
which has already been secured.
18th. The past record of the Demo-
cratic party, and its present record, in
those States afflicted by its control
show clearly that il lacks the integrity,
the ability, and the patriotism nee
essary To secure good government and
an honest and economical administra-
ton of affairs.
18th. 1t is pledged by the promises
OF its leaders and the sympathies of its
followers to the payment of rebel debts
amounting in the aggregate to not less
than ST ,O0O, 100000.
18th. Its advent into power would
be the signal for ex-Gonfederate raids
upon the Treasury of the United States
that would soon add to our public
debt, depreciatc the value of our cur
rency. destroy our credit, and eventu-
ally lead to national bankruptcy and
reputation.
18th. The policy Of the Democratic
party, as shown by its ante-war record.
its record during the rebellion and
since its close, and the course pursued
by its acknowledged leaders in the
House of Representatives, shows it to
be reactionary party, opposed topro-
gress, and in favor of oyerturning
those measures which have been sane
toned by the people as the results Of
the war. -.
10Th. To restore power to party
that cndcavored to bctray the Union,
that placed every obstacle in the way
of preserving it, that discouraged en-
listments and the raising Of the needed
revenues, that tried to elect Prcsi-
dent in 1864 on the express declara-
ton that the war for the Union was Il
failure, and that has placed itself on
record against those amendments to
the Constitution which gave political
rights to the freedmen and protected
the Treasury of the nation from Con-
federate claims would be an act of
national suicide unparalleled in the
history of the world
18th. 1t has been challenged to
show to the people single public act
performed during the past twenty
years on which to base its claim for
support and confidence, and up to the
present time no answer has been made
to the challenge.
18th. 1t has given proof of its unfit
ness to govern the Union by nomina-
ting a man for the Presidency who at
the breaking out of the war publicly
proclaimed his disapproval of its OBJ
jcct, during its prosecution secretly
favored the Confederates, and at Chi
cago, in 1854, signed resolution de-
claring the war for the Union failure.
18th. The false income return of
Samuel J. Tilden for 1862; his failure
to make any returns subsequent to
1868; his unwillingness to pay his
share of a tax that was relied upon to
pay the expenses of the Government
during its severe trial; his intimate
association with such politicians as
VIM. NJ. Tweed his manipulation of
railroad schemes; his participation In
the profits of the illegal paper currency
of the mining companies of Michigan,
and his whole record as a lawyer and
politician prove him to be as unrelia-
bic as the party that supports him, and
as unworthy of the peoples confidence.
The nomination of such man is little