The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-03

The Democratic party is guilty OF the
assassination and murder Of President
Lincoln. Individuals Of the party are
afraid to rejoice openly at that foul muir
der, but let the party once get full power
in our Government, and monument to
the memory Of Booth will be erected at
the National expense.
The Cincinnati Gazette calls up a little
act Of the party in this direction. The
Gazette says:
The intense Democrat who, in lST2,
named his child j. Wilkes Booth. in
honor Of the assassin of President Lin
coin. and was lately appointed clerk OF
the Ways and Means Committee by Mr.
Morrison, is receiving some attention at
the expense OF the Democratic party
Even the New York Tribune criticises
the act with much severity. The Demo
cratic managers, on every occasion, show
where their sympathies were during the
war, and where they are now The man
who imposes upon n helpless child the
name Of the assassin Booth, does not de
serve a place in respectable society yet
the Democratic leaders Of the House give
him place in the most important com
mittee of that body. These accounts will
be settled by the people next fall.
The n. Y Tribune, one Of the meanest
Democratic papers, cannot stand this,
and says:
The Democratic party chooses for the
Government places in its gift men whose
venom is proof against kindness. who
cannot forget to hate, and who in cold
blood and with forethought and delibera-
ton glory in the work Of murder and
give posthumous honor to an assassin
Here was one man in all the South-let
US hone in the name Of humanity there
was but one such-who three years ago,
i'm 1872 or g. the war having been seven
years closed, the men who forsook the
Government and took up arms against il
having been pardoned and restored to
the privileges they had forfeited. and an
era Of reconciliation been opened--who
at such a time and under such circum-
stances gave to his own helpless child n
name for that child to bear through all
its future life, and bearing il TO show
to all the world its fathers undying
hatred for Government that had par
doned him his kissing malignity 10 the
memory Of a great and tender. hearted
man, who had never harmed him, and
only survives by its infamy. Think OF il
for a moment What kind Of a man
must he be who dowers his just born
child with the name Of John Wilkes
Booth7 Does il in the coolest Of cold
blood with deliberation and not upon
impulse. Seven years after the commits
sion Of the murder which sent a thrill Of
horror through the North; a murder so
horrible.t that in the very white heat Of
the war, when the passions Of men were
at their angriest pitch, no decent man
anywhere did other than denounce IL as
a most Infamous crime-this man calmly
fastens on his own poor helpless infant
the murdercrs name This was not
idiocy; though il seems incredible that
il should be done by person Of ordinary
intellect and intelligence. IL was just
dull brutality beastly cruelty. The man
who could approve Of the assassination Of
Mr.. Lincoln would be just such a mon
ster as TO curse his own flesh and blood
with such a christening and make his
child the instrument for carrying over to
the next generation the badge Of his
fathers shame. Poor child 10 be thus
fathered and thus handicapped for life.
And now, there being such a man, such
patriot, such a citizen. and such a
father, where do we end him7 Ask Mr..
Morrison, Chairman Of Ways aud Means.
leader Of the Democratic party ia Con
gress. lie found him and appointed him
clerk Of his committee, where he draws
pay from the Government hc 50 Loyalty
supports Ask Mr. Michael g. Kerr, the
Democratic Speaker Of the House, who
made Mr. Morrison the leader of the
House and gave him the opportunity to
appoint this man. Ask the Democratic
party, which elected Mr. Kerr and Mr..
Morrison, and which is responsible for
their acts and for the appointment Of
this representative Democrat. Who Is
this man, who within three years hes re-
corded at the baptismal font over the
head of his infant son his reverent regard
for President Lincoln's assassin Is he
Of the sort that the Democratic party
chooses out for its honors and em Olu-
ments? Is this what we are voting to
bring in when we aid in securing Dem
ocratic yictory2 II so, let US know il
and have a fair understanding. We have
held the Republican party responsible
for its appointments we do the same
with the Democrats. This man is not
Ar Morrison's or Mr.. Kerr's exclusively.
lie is the party's. Ii must carry him.
lie is not conspicuous, to be sure. lie is
only clerk OF committee. But there =