National Republican., 1880-10-13
pEMooRATIo BLuNpERs.

The page Of history is full of democratic
blunders.
They sent that party into defeat in 1910.
The blunders fdisloyolty, dishonestyand
treason consigned the democratic party to
national defeat in 1862 where it has re-
manned securely ever since.
The blunder of indulging a sympathy for
secession and rebellion, which debarred
that party from uttering q word of con-
demnation for the attempt to disrupt the
government, or OF rebuke for the treason
that involved the nation in needless and
bloody war, has tended to keep that
party out of power, and will continue to
keep it out of power for n long time to
come, and until its record is forgotten by
the loyal people who saved the national
life.
1t was blundcr to declare unconstitu-
tional the appropriation of moneys with
which to raise equip and put armies into
tho field TO crush rebellion
1t was n blunder to denounco the union
army and its heroic officers as band of
"LINCoLN's hirelings.n
| 1t was a blunder TO revile President LIN
COLIN and his proclamation of emancipation
which set four millions of our population
free and put them on tho road to citizen
ship.
twas n blundcr for the democratic party
to dcnounce the laws of reconstruction and
throw every possible obstacle in the way Of
their enactment and subsequent enforce
ment.
1t was n blundcr for it to yield its coun-
tenance and sympathies to the southern
methods by which that section has been
secured to confederate domination by
practices and outrages which shame the
civilization of the nineteenth century.
1t was a blunder on the part of the DEM
ocratic party when it secured power in
congress to attempt to cripple and hamper
the government with short appropriations
to make war upon the credit of the cur
rency by an attempt to repeal the law pro-
viding for resumption-to attempt TO pass
rebel claims that had been once paid, and
to repeal the tariff for protection, under the
influence of which q widespread prosperity
had marked the industrial interests of the
country
1t was blunder in the democratic party
to enter this campaign with the plank in
its platform which declared for "a tariff
for revenue only."
1t was blunder when it declared hy-
pocrtically in favor of maintenance OF
the public faith and a paper currency con-
vertibo into coin on demand, when at
the same time il was coalescing with tho
greenback flatists, and thus betraying the
hollowness Of its own pretensions to ohonesty
in the matter OF our national currency
1t was grave and yet n silly blunder
for it brazenly to declare that the right
TO n free ballot is the right preservative OF
all rights, aud must and shall be main
tanned in every part of the United States
when it was at the same time boastful OF
a "solid south" with 1873 electoral votes
that had been counted in before any cleo
tion had been held in those states and
where a great majority of those electoral
votes have been and will be secured by
trnmpling " the rightto free ballot ruth
lessly under tho heel Of prescription, vio-
lence and outrage.
1t isa great blunder to continue the cry
of fraud in 1876, when it virtually acknowl.
edges that the attempted and defeated
fraud was on their own part, by suppress
ing TILDEN at tho Cincinnati convention
and laying him and his cipher frauds and
Oregon rascalilies carefully away in the
pigeon-holes of oblivion, thereby giving q
cognorH in the case
II made blunder when it declared in
favor of honest election, and then Mt
tempted TO repeal the laws which stand be-
tween tho ballot-boX and its corruption
ii made ludicrous blunder when il de,
clared itself the friend Of labor and the
laboring man." whenits proposed free trade
policy deals q heavy blow upon the en-.
ploymcnt Of labor and lis rewards.
These are only few of ofitsmultitudinoui
blunders.
But the democratic party has never beer
guilty Of the blunder Of being patriotic o.
honest in its intentions, or consistent in III
policies and practices. It's lilo has been
comedy Of errors, and its high-souudinl
professions have uniformly been mer'
7 sham.