Daily Republican., 1880-11-26
TINE DHMOCRATIU PARTY.
Tho Cause OF fta Dow afali Told ~
q RmPtW Organ


q RarsU Organ.
The Chicago Times (Dem.) says;
The recent Presidential election has
shown that there ID an inviueible ies-
son why the Democratic party oan
never win q national victory. II Ia
that the youth Of this republic Ia not
Democratic. The sons Of Democratic
fathers have grown mp Republicans.
30 long as slavery and the war finger
within the memory Of Americanf, the
youth Of the republic will continue 70
grow up Republicans and slavery and
the war will be remembered IS long ~
the public school system exists. The
public schools have slain the Demo
cratic party with text books.
It's vain for statesmen TO declare
that there we're as many Democrats %
Republicans in the Union Army. 1t is
vain ~ affirm that the war for the PIE
servation Of the Union could not havs
been carried TO q successful close with
out the assistance Of the Democratic
party. It's idle for philanthropy to
suggest that the attitude Of that party
toward the war in the beginning was a
humane one that II WAS inspired BY
the higher and better wish that the
cause OF the conflict should be peace.
ably removed, and the spilling oil
brsthsrs' blood by brothers hands
avoided. The Democratic party has
been ideally identified with slavery
and slaysholdipg. The Republican
party Is ideally identified with emanci'
pation and the war. Therefore the
Democratic party can Eevsr win q ma
tionAl victory. Its old men ara dying
away. The boys who satch the ballots
that fall from their s.ifieDe3 hands are
Republicans.
This fact osnnct be denied. II will
do no good to quarrel with It. All other
causes wbioh have operated TO diminish
the number Of Democrats and iDorease g
the namb.r Of Republicans are insig.
uifsant beside this one tremendous and
invincible fact This curss Of slavery
has poison cd the blood and rotted the
bose Of ths Democratic party. The
malsiictisn Of the war hss palsisd its
braiu.
The young wife who held the babe
up TO kiss the father as he hurried to
the tap Of his departing regiment has
not suokled . Democrat. The weary
foot q the gray grandmother, who
watched the children while the wife
was busy, has not rocked the cradle OF
Democrats. The old tlue coat that his
comrades carried back was cut mp for
little Jackets, but not one inc.osed the
heart Of a Democrat. The reitled mus
ket that fell from him with hiS last shot
bvcsme the thouRhtless toy OF his boys
bat not hand that played with II
was the hand Of q Democrat. The babe
no kissed crowed and crowed for bis
return, and Its unwitting and unan
swered notes were not from the throat
of q Democrat. The tear soiled camp
letters which the mother read aloud In
the long, bitter evenings while the
boys clustered at her knees did not fall
pen Democratic ears. The girls sob,
blending with the mothers weeping
did not make Democrats Of theiI
brothers. Perhaps the father had been
Democrat ell his life.
The children 20 to school. There Ii
not q Democrat on Its benches. Tn.
6rst reader contains the portrait o.
Mr.. Lincoln; that kind and sturdy fact
never made q Democrat. On its simple
pages, In words Of one or two syllables
10 told the story OF his birth and
death. That story never made q Dem
ocrat. In the prauks Of the playground
the namo silences the froltcsome Ano
makes the jolliest grave. The namt
never made q Democrat. In the pic
lures thst light up the geography are
the firing on Fort Sumter ard the death
OF Ellsworth. These pictures make nc
Democrats. The first page Of the his
tory contains q representation of the
surrender Of Lee at Appomattox. No
boy gazes on that and ever after avows
himself q Democrat.
In the higher grades the same subtle
and unI resisted influence in at work.
The text books contain extracts from
patriots speeches during the war.
These speeches make no Democrats,
The great battles are briefly described
the narrative has no Democratic lis.
teners. The strain Of martial music
runs through the readers, aAd ths,
music makes no Democrats. Sketches
OF the great Generals are given; theii
brave deeds areuss the enthusiasm o.
the lads, but there Is no Democrat
among them.
The horrors and sufferings Of the
slaves are told; the maddeped blood
that mounts the boys cheeks IL not
Democratic blood. The curse Of slavery
has pursued the Democratic party, and
has hounded 1t to i.s death. Therefore
|Iet It die; aud no lip will be found to
say a prayer ever ths grass on Its grave.
The late defeat need not be attributed
TO any other cause. Other causes were
st work, but they were only incidental.
The tariff was one. ssetionalism was
second. o. Let we'll enough alone"
was a third. The October failure In
Indiana was q fourth. But all these
were trivial and together could NOT
have accomplished the result. The re-
suit was accomplished because the
youth of the country Is net Democratic.
That party Is, therefore, without fu-
ture and without o hope. The male
diotion Of the war has palsied Its brain.
The curse OF slavery has poisoned its
blood and rottsd It's bone. Let 1t die.
Arrival OF Prssident.E Eject Gar
field,
Washington, Nov. 23.-President elect
n r6alA arrival here about 3 O'Clock