The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-01

be, It Is impossible to give n detailed review
of the two parties. The Republican party
has been in power for twenty years, and
we have right before US as panorama, Of all
It's acts, all II has advocated, all that II has
proposed, To the patriot, loving his coun.
try, cherlshing the memories of the past,
loving the traditions that have come down 10
this day and time from the fathers Of the
republic, the picture is not a pleasing one.
The Republican party was born Of hate, il
was nourished on malice, it has tor twenty
years wageda crusade of bitter mslevolence,
oppression, outrage, SANDER and wrong. It
Gains to have saved the union Of states, but
there IL no ground for the claim in truth ard
In fact, for the Democrats in congress during
the war supported every measure requisite to
achieve n suGc ssful issue Of the war for tue
union arms, and there were as many Demo.
Gratis with PEASANTS on their shoulders and
muskets in their hands as there were Repub.
licans, This party has overridden the cor
stituton and one of lis leaders and shining
lights is the only man in all the life of this
union that ever blasphemed that instrument,
and it was the only party that claimed there
was a "higher law" the law of expediency,
In his opening speech at the Chicago con-
vention, Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
sounded the key note, not only of this cam
paign so far as the Republican party is con-
cerned, but he defined the "true nwardness"
of Republcansm and uttered to the world
what It's principles are, what the life
and soul of his party is, when he said that
the parties which confronted each other in
1860 confronted each other now, or, in other
words, that the fierce contest of arms, the
sulen roar of the artillery, the deadly fash
of musketry that waged in Virginia and
Tennessee and Georgia and other states, had
not ceased, save that II was transferred TO the
political arena, and that the men who in
those days o. carnage and of peril were
never seen at the front, were leaders now on
tho Republican side. The only issue III this
contest is "the bloody shirt" The gist and
substance Of every Republican speech is
abuse of the south, and the stock in trade Of
the Republican newspapers is SANDER of the
southern people. Hate, malice-thst malice
that murders justice, that throttlcs all tender.
ness, all charity; that makes the heart to
throb and thrill like a seething csuldron with
bitterness and enmity; hate and
malice against tho southern people -
is the sum and substance of
Republcansm, With convicted puriurer,
a bride toker, political stock jobber as its
candidate for president, the Republican
party ignores its infamy in supporting such
n man, and seeks to array the northern PEG.
Pile against the southern people, and to fan
the fires of sectionalism. On the other hand,
the Democratic party, following tho lead of
one of the grandest soldiers of the age,
statesman who stands upon the constitution
and knows only its behCsts, a gentleman with
out guile and with an escutcheon pure and
indebted, asks that all sectional differences
bc forgotten, and that the country, as one
mighty whole, under one flag and the egis
of common interest, march on to pros.
perty, peace and greatness, until the corona
Of It's grandeur may reach in lis efralCence,
even to the shores Of eternity.