The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-31
70 rHe YOUNG MEN.

TO THE YOUNG MEN.
In the whole country next year it Z
stated that nearly one million Of younl
nen will cast their first vote for Presi
dent. Many Of them will cast their firs
vote this year. What are they going {,
dot
The New York zri6s.e, in an article
upon this subject treats upon it At length
from which We extract the following and
commend it to the young men of oul
county:
Proud and hopeful young men do moi
want to tie themselves to . disgraced and
defeated party, at the outset. TIT
thought Of such . mistake will lingel
with them long. With what pride and
joy the men who voted first for Fremont
mention the fact. They were at the
birth of the great party which has ruled
the country for twenty years and ha,
changed the history of the world. Does
anybody ever mention with pleasure that
he cast his first vote for James Buch'
ananf Let it be granted that Buchanan
was an honest man, who gave NO willing
or intentional aid to the rebellion which
afterward deluged the land with blood,
still, 10 there man who remembers with
satisfaction that his first vote was cast
for party which, from that day to this,
has never been able to win the confidence
Of the American peoplef
The young men who shall soon cast
their first vote have an easy choice. In
1856 wise men hesitated. It was q new
and untried party, this Republican par
ty, and men doubted whether it could
WELD power without disrupting the
Union, destroying constitutional ties and
plunging the country into anarchy. 1t
was then the thought of many that the
old and tried Democracy could more
safely be trusted. But it has never been
the party of the people from that day to
this. Twenty.three years have passed,
and the Democratic party has never been
able to lift up its head in pride for one
decent thing done. Nearly generation
of men have gone to their graves since
the Democratic party has been able to
call itself anything but the tool of the
South. A sectional party at all times, q
party for twenty years, q dis
graced and dishonored party even more
by the acts of its own leaders than by
the repeated spurning of the people, it
still stands in the way of the Nations
honor and the Nations peace, and men
are still asked to support it because their
fathers did before them.
The situation now is suggestive. In
October last, the Democratic party at
tempted revolutionary movement. 1t
threatened to stop the wheels of govern
ment unless permitted to defy the Con-
and the laws, and to strip the
President of his rightful power. 1t has
appealed to the people, and has met with
gnominous defeat in every State which
has voted since Congress adjourned. A
year ago scarcely Republican was hope
Ful enough to predict a Democratic defeat
n 1880. and the only question gravely
discussed in political circles was whether
he Democratic party would elect one
nan or another to the Presidency. Now
scarcely Democrat dares to hope for the
success of his party in the Residential
election, and the only question is wheth-
r the Republicans will nominate their
'est and worthiest, or an inferior candi-
late.
The young man of to day who ties
himself to the Democratic party has be-
ore him dismal year of penitence aud
hame. He will see the party of his
hoice trampled into the n,ire by the ex- !
'osure of the most infamous things ever
lone under free government. AS same
lies three may be mentioned: the cipher
dispatches, the Chisholm massacre, aud
he vote of the last Democratic Congress
or repeal of the Resumption act. In
very respect and at every point the
party has dishonored and
lisgraced itself az far as it was possible,
nd its ADLER journals are now crying
loud with great bitterness of spirit, that
has thrown away all its legitimate
hances, and has no hope save in the
willingness of one desperate old man to
'uy votes with money most unscrupu-
ously acquired. Is that that the sort of
party to which the young men of to.
ay want to attach themselves?