The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-09-16

is expected to draw its votes from the
Republican party; and when the tenn
perance men Of county or State seek
for recognition or to get plank in
the platform, they do not go to the
Democratic party. The Democratic
States and communities are largely
engaged in the manufacture Of liquor,
and iii some it is almost their only in
dustry. The same name, Bourbon,
is used INTERCHANGEABLE for a strong
quality Of whisky and of Democracy.
The keepers of dram-shops and beer
saloons are nearly all Democrats. In
fact, the whole liquor interest in poll
ties is welded in behalf of the Demo-
cratic party. This element largely
dictates the nominations and raises
the funds which conduct their cam
paigns. Democratic primaries and
caucuses are most frequently held in
saloons, and liquor plays vastly more
prominent part in their campaign than
in that of the Republicans.
The last element Of the Democratic
party which we shall mention IS the
general immoral element. The Dem
ocrats embrace, in a general way, the
vicious classes-those who uphold
wrong and against whom the reform
ing and benevolent agencies have to
be directed. While the Republican
party has been the party Of ''morsl
ideas" and humanitarian agencies, the
Democratic party has included those
who have set themselves against these
The Democratic party upheld slavery;
it defended Acknowledgement; it still
defends. as we have seen, inequality:
it organizes and justifies violence iii
the South, to prevent Negroes from
receiving their rights and Federal Off
GERS from collecting the revenue; it is
averse to severe measures against Nor
monism or the social evil; it opposes,
as we have seen, all temperance legis-
lation and legislation looking to strict
moral obseryances;i it encourages ;Ilicit
distilling and is largely engaged in
evading and resisting the United States
laws. All great moral agencies have
been undertaken by the Republican
party OF led by Republicans-as the
African Colonization Society, the So. l
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, the various relief associa-
tions, temperance societies. educational
Organizations. the Freedman's Aid |
Societies, all of which have originated |
in strongly Republican communities
New England, the ''hot-bed of Rppub-
is also the hot-bed Of hu-
manitarianism Many of the church.
es are exclusively Republican, and |
cannot tolerate Democratic principles
or practices, as being sins. The Qua
kers contain no Democrats, to speak
of. The writer has never known one.
The same may be said Of the Unita-
rians and Liberal Christians generally.
The Congregational Church is almost |
exclusively Republican, and, like the
above-named churches, cannot flourish !
i'll the South or in strongly Demo-
cratic communities. The Methodist |
Episcopal Church is decidedly Repub-
lican. At the last General Confer
ence, when over one hundred delegates
were asked their presidential prefer
ences, only one declared for a Demo-
crat The African Churches are, of
course, Republican. In fact, there is
not a church in the country, except
those that are confined to the South
and were organized in order to perpet-
uate some sin, that is not strongly Re-
publican The only exception is the
Roman Catholic Church, which is
Democratic because Of its foreign
sympathies and hostility to our schools
and principles of equality IF we were
to poll the churchmembership Of the
country, the overwhelming majority
would be Republican; whereas, if we
were to poll the inmates Of the peni-
tentiaries, the overwhelming majority
would be Democratic. Many Of the
vices against which it is the province
of religion to contend are Democratic
slavery, inequality. intimi-
dation, liquor-dealing, and license gem
orally. The religious press Of the
country is essentially Republican; and
the fact is so taken as a matter Of
course that the Democrats scarcely
raise a protest against it. The great
leading journals-like The Indepen-
dent, Congregationalist, and Advocate
are as avowedly Republican as the
regular party papers. The pulpit Is
essentially Republican, and nearly all
the hostility to political preaching"
comes from Democrats, whose kind Of
politics Is therein attacked. In fact,
the Democratic party is looked upon
rs shutting up Ill itself the political
vices of the country, and in preaching
against them that party is necessarily |
attacked by the churches. There has
never been a great public wrong that
has not been espoused by the Demo-
cratic party and opposed by the Re
publican party. The siums and dens
of vice and the localities where these .
abound are usually Democratic cen
ters; while the moral, churchgoing To-
calities are strongly Republican. Five
Points i'll New York is strongly Dem
ocratic, while Fifth Avenue is Repub-
lican; Swampoodle in Baltimore is
strongly Democratic, while the north /
and western sections, where the better
classes reside, are Republican; in Chi
cago the wards dominated by the
''roughs" are Democratic, while those /
inhabited by the thrifty and moral
classes are Republican; and this will /.
hold generally in the cities, with only |
enough exceptions to prove the rule /.
Such, then, are the elements Of the
Democratic party-the worst elements
of the country; for can we conceive Of
a L ore deploraHe combination out Of
which to construct Earty or a more
serious charge against the constituent
cy of a party than rebellion, Unequal
ity, alienation, fogyism, ignorance. in
temDerance, and general immortality? ?
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