The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-10-12
Twenty Reasons why Democracy
Should not be Trusted.

For the following good and sufficient reasons
the Democratic party is unworthy of public
confidence:
/. Prior to the war of the rebellion It used
its influence for the propagation of the State
Rights theory, and made doctrine that was
infamous under Jackson, praiseworthy under
Buchanan.
2. Before the war its policy was shaped by
those who atterward became the leaders of the
rebellion.
8. During the entire war its sympathies as a
party were with those who had been leaders in
it's organization, and who had gone over to the
Confederacy.
4. To-day its policy is shaped by the same
men who in 1861 left it to make war upon the
Government.
s. All through the period of reconstruction
its influence has been exerted on the side of
the ex-rebel element, and whatever progress
has been made toward the restoration of the
Southern States has been in the face of Its
| bitter opposition.
6. 1t has kept alive the preiudices engen-
dered by the war, and has encouraged the
persecution Of those who were made citizens
| by constitutional amendment.
| z. 1t is the same In sympathy and tendency
as it was in 1861. There has been NO con-
version. On the contrary, its enforced retire
| ment from power has intensified its preludices
and made 1t even more dangerous to the liber-
| ties OF the people than when 1t was In power.
| s. Every disloyal man in the country, every
embittered rebel who looks forward to the re-
viyal Of the lost cause, every negro hater, and
every Ku-Klux and White Leauge raider
throughout the North or South is In full fellow
ship with the Democratic party.
9. 1t is the secret and open enemy of oul
free-school system, and in many States has al
| lied itself with the Ultramontane branch oil
| Roman Catholic IN in ha nd va,
to break up the system by a division of the
school funds In the interest of sectarian in
| struction.
10. 1t is under the control of the most dan
gerous elements of society-the ignorance and
vice of the North and the disloyal sentiment
of the South.
IL. Although some good men, honest ir
their desires to promote the public welfare
may be found In the ranks of the Democracy
they are In such q helpless minority as to be
| powerless to institute reform or to maintain
| that which has already been secured.
IL. The past record of the Democratic party
| and Its present record, In those States af
Hicted by its control show clearly that It lack:
the integrity, the ability and the patriotism
| necessary to secure good government and ar
honest and economical administration of af
fairs.
IS. It is pledged by the promises of It's lead
ers and the sympathies of its followers TO tn,
payment of rebel debts amounting in the ag
gregate to not less than 81 900 900, 900.
IA. Its advent into power would be the sig.
nal for ex-Oonfederate raids upon the Treasury
| of the United States that would soon add tc
our public debt, depreciate the value of oul
currency, destroy our credit and eventually
lead to rational bankruptcy and reputation.
10. The policy Of the Democratic party, al
shown BY Its ante-war record, its record during
the rebellion and sincs It's Nse, and the course