Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-07-26
WHOLE NO. l77l

ing every appliance Of government to
run this nation into limited or abso
lutte monarchy, undertake to solicit
strength from those seeking rights to
the ballot box, and also eligibility to
office, and claim that republican states
have done much to better the condi-
ton of wives, mothers and widows s
Our opinion is that the party would
taEe away the right of suffrage from
man and keep it from women If they
were kept in power2 $50 they could ex-
ercise that control over the people. If
the ladies and their friends in this
movement give their support to this
party with any such view, they will
sell out cheap, and show themselves
unworthy Of what they ask. They
ought to know that suffrage is only a
means of expressing preference in the
selection OF officers which are to be
the servants of the people, and it only
belongs to a Democratic government.
Monarchysha no suffrage. Repub-
lies only have the right to ballot, and
when the election is made it ceases
during the continuation Of the elect,
so there is no right. The people vote
kings, emperors and monarchs, but
during their existence have sole con-
troll over the subjects that might have
raised them TO power This is not
the Democratic idea; they keep the
power in their own hands, and those
they elect to office are thew servants.
18th. Is fling at the morals of
Democrats as::fostering polygamy and
unity with the South, and thereby
succeed in the election. 1t is not
strange that they are jealous, as guilt
and dishonesty in the bosoms of men
usually manifest themselves in Jealous
les of others. No fair minded man
of any intelligence believes the Demo-
Gratis are any more in favor of South
ern rebellion Or polygamy than are
the Republicans.
18th. Is a remembrance of soldiers
sailors who imperiled their lives in
the war. 1t is easy to see that their
sympathies are warm just as voters
are wanted, and these faithless remem-
brances will all be forgotten when
election is over.
18th. We deprecate all interference
with human rights. This Is to mean
nothing to occasion remark.
10th. A grave charge to Demo-
Gratis of sympathy with treason, with
incapacity in the lower House to run
a government and things generally.
How could the lower House be
chargeable, with a Senate to paralyze
all its actions ? With all the func.
tions of government engaged to
thwart their purposes and then COM
plain of their inbecility or ''ineffici
ency" and with all their solemn warn
Ing to the people to 'look out for
them y We believe change is
loudly called for by the toillng mil
lions all over the land. If this voice
is not needed slavery will be perfected
and future generations will suffer.
18th. And last, is rendering thanks
to Grant and family and the Republi-
can party generally, and comes from
a source that does no credit to any
body.
Thus having given brief review
OF the Republican Platform | regard
it as a whole one of the weakest pro-
ductions of the kind | ever saw
false and foolish in its allegations as
it is deceptive in its purposes. We
commend it to the practices Of the
party who created it for more COM
pleto criticism Of its frauds upon a
condding people. Gould the toiling,
down trodden people of America see
the secret workings Of the real pur-
poses of this party, it would no long
er be necessary to doubt their action
to disabuse themselves from the con-
troll of the false-hearted tyrants who
are ever on the alert to take from us
our liberties, and by our toll, fill their
own pockets. II.
No man who is fit to live need
fear to die. Poor timorous, faithless
souls that we are How we shall
smile at our vain alarms when the
worst has happened !! TO us here,