The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-07-24

L tou dS lne fOunluer OF tne NatlUHdl
Thomas Jefferson-the often-quoted when
political and financial errors are to be apollo
| gized for, or galvanized and propped'up against
the gravestone OF some other defunct fallacy
to go through with some CHASTITY gyrations to
scare timorous Democrats and irresponsible
| Greenbackers into semblance of tremulous
amity-Thomas Jefferson is responsible for the
party in politics neatly and suitably labelled
the Provincial party. These two parties, the Ma
l tional and the Provincial, are contrasted most
admirably in DR.. Tefft's essay. One is the
/ spirit and essence of a strong and indissoluble
| Union-the other-arithmetic fails to set down
| the fractional subdivision of its interests, its
| policy, its action. If States rights, why
not county rights, town ward, neigh
borhood rights? Why not an eternal
| subdivision, until every mans hand is not only
| against every other man, but every mans
| right hand is against his left? This is the log
| ical outcome of the Democratic theory. The
| National party is like family, arranged by
| Providence, held together by natural ties, one
| in origin, in affection, in aims The Provin-
| cial party represents the casual association
and incongruous personnel of boardinghouse
every man at liberty to stay or to go, united
only by temporary convenience and the need of
daily dinner No word better expresses the
tendencies and the history of the Democratic
party than this word provincial. Its little ac-
quaintanee with the instructive facts of past
and present political history Of other nations
its lack of interest and of power of vision be-
yond its immediate neighborhood its curious
distrust of every fruit of the knowledge of good
,,,,t;1t tl,a i,,;a has
and the rind thrown away, at which time the.
Democratic party is toleraby certain to set its
foot upon the slippery snare and fall thereon;
its extraordinary activity in bringing u,
the rear lest-to quote the mot of Portland
journalist-the rear shouldn't be brought up
at all: its languid dallying with subjects that
have ceased to interest any but antiquarians
in political science; its remoteness from the
living centre of affairs; its perpetual iteration
of gasconade; its fondness for the traditions of
the elders, and for reading last years LEWIS
the long list of Democratic traits might be in
definitely extended. Limited, unimaginative,
without faith, clutching at all sorts of straws
of outworn political superstition, the Democratic
party, incongruous, amphibious cant live in
land and dies in the water"
Dr. leHt SkeICneS III StrOQg ana clear out
line the contest which for century has been
waged between the National and Provincial
parties, the former holding its course according
to the chart drawn by Washington and the
signers of the Constitution, guiding its way by
the fixed stars; the latter party ready for mu
tiny and wreck. The treason and villainy
ripe for murder which animated the Demo-
crate party, caused the tortures of Kansas, the
overwhelming horrors of the most causeless, un-
grateful and wicked of all rebellions.
The tendencies of party are to be regarded
NOT the personal record merely of the man
who for any one of a hundred reasons may be
nominated as its candidate. The whole theory
OF the Democratic party is behind the age,
opposed to reform and progress. Legend tells
us that when the dead Huns arose to fight
there were men without heads limbless, rid
ing on various portions of horses, fighting with
broken weapons, their dead eyes aglow with
posthumous hate, their soulless bodies re-
animated with desire Of. slaughter Here
always excepting that itlacks any power for
victory-behold the Democratic party, re-
suscitated army of which General Hancock is
about to be the Attila. A field, already de-
cisively fought, has to be battled over again to
assure these fragmentary and inconsequent
ghosts that they are really dead, and may 90
to whatever limbo they like.
And yet, smile as one may at the preten-
sions, the falsties, the inconsistencies os the
Democratic party-the contest is upon u.s.
The National idea against the Provincial
DIR. Tefft. in the eloquent conclusion of his
pamphlet, sums up the good works of the Re-
publican party, the evil doings of the Demo-
cratic, and puts the question plainly to every
voter-not as MATER of politics merely, of
tariff, of banking, of currency. 1t is matter
of the safety of our homes, of our national
honor. Do you wish, he asks, to indorse the
Rebello on, is it safe to give the government into
the hands of those who tried to destroy it?
Will the party that loaded us with debt, re-
move the burden? (They may pretend to pre-
scribe dilution Of currency, as the donkey who
had noticed that a load of salt dissolved in
fording a stream, waded in to tighten his load
of wool, and was surprised that his burden
weighed so much the more.) Will the party,
again asks DIR. Tefft, that murdered your
friends and relatives sympathize with your
misfortunes? Does the political leopard so
easily change his spots, that after tearing your
flocks to pieces he can be taken IN to your
home for watch dog? Are we, who live by
labor Of free hands, anxious to compete with
the ill-paid labor of the South, which by its
system of slave labor has longtime kept down
the wages of free workmen. Whoever likes
this lookout, Dr. Tefft concludes, will vote
for the Democratic ticket. If we would stand
by the tree of Liberty, potent Seeding set by
! the hand of Washington, watered by the blood
If Union soldiers, and by the sacred drops red
finn the great heart of the martyr Abraham
Lincoln; if we love righteous peace, and honor
ablelives, and safe homes; if we hate treason
and al dshonor, if we believe in the progress
of our Aation and the indissoluble union of its
/ States
| ''Distilct as the pillows and one the sea-
we shall cas- our suffrages with the Republican
party, the National party of freedom, progress
and honorable maintenance of the principles
upon which ournation was founded at first to
| stand forever.
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