Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-08-26
Vote With Your Eyes Open.
No. Work Trtbune,
New York Iribn ne


49,. 80 ,o,Son In SIX can vote. Thus about
oOo nstl persons yearly become qualified
Ia ,.o,e so that nearly or quite three
CHARTERS of million voters Will be quail
~ ~ cast their first vote for President
~ ESQ Those who will become citizens
nv naturaliz alton this year came to this
connIrv long after the war closed The
vopnp men who come of age this year
we're born only two years before the war
began, and probably can but dimly re-
member the great rejoicings which FOL
lowed the surrender of Lee. OF the three
quarters of million voters who may cast
their first vote for president this year,
nearly sll were either residents OF foreign
lands OF were boys too young TO nave much
clear suppression OF public affairs, when
the war ended This vast body OF new
voters can probably decide the contest.
A third of them, perhaps, are to be found
a, the South, and, II their vote could be
freely cast and honestly c. lted, they
might change the political complexion OF
several States. But votes at the South
will not be so cast or counted, If opposed
to the party of Free Fraud. The re.
mainder, about 500 900 new voters, may
turn the scale III several Northern States.
ANY plan of the campaign is detective
that is not aimed especially at the enlist
ment OF this army OF recruits.
The Reuublcan party was irresistible
at the North as long ss the large proper.
tiOn of voters were men who had taken
active part ia the great struggle against
rebellion. The men who stayed at home
and iabored and gave, not less than those
who went to the front and fought and shed
their blood, knew the history of that
struggle and what part In 1t had been
taken by the Democratic party. They
Iaknew how perfectly true it was that the
HDem ocratic party had made the rebellion,
land kept it alive. They knew how the
cry that the war was failure and the
hone that Mcclellan would be elected
nerved the rebels to fight on for more
than year after the military success of
the rebellion had become impossible.
knowing these things, the grown men OF
that day knew how to vote, for or against
HE party by which the war was caused
fand prolonged, and It's losses and its costs
VASTLY increased.
But the new voters OF later day have
\ no such pers 9nal knowledge. The Dem
!, ocratic party appeals to them BIS II IT had
.never been guilty of treason. Naturally.
'fit wants to have the past forgotten. by
Gen Hancock, it seeks TO ere
,loysl. or that, If disloyal once, it has be-
Ecome loyal now. Unhappily tor Demo.
bCrsts, their own nomination brings
3 khsrply before new voters that very part
bf Democratic history which ii is fatal to
Nave recalled. If Hancock is nominated,
c hi this late day, because of his services IN
kuppressing a rebellion, new voters are
,skure TO ask what party ii was that caused
And defended and upheld the rebellion,
knd for what reason those who fought
lskeainst Hancock are now supporting him.
leIrhen rivers of blood are brought TO view,
,tInd mounds of dead, and hundreds OF
Hospitals filed with wounded men, and
1prison. pens with all their horrors and In.
smies. The old story must be told again,
Nm every workshop, by every Preside, on
hvery farm, until the new voters can fully
understand why 1t is that the Democratic
party needed certificate of loyalty, aud
why ii is that a certificate bearing the
bame OF Hancock is worthless. They
n must be made 10 understand why it is
hat no nominations whatever, no prOmt-
les whatever, no acts whatever, can ever
{ bniitle the Democracy to tie considered 8
sMDyal party; why IL is that an indignant
people spurned that party, even wheo II
!. Groucned behind a late commander OF the
Army of the Potomac, and would have
yMurned it just the same if it had been
g4ppssible for that party TO nominate Abra
Man Lincoln himself in 1864, or General
,I0rant in 1868.
"'NTne loyal men of this country are not
efready to surrender all that they fought
tor. That ia the lesson which the nomi-
y. Ation OF Gen. Hancock will cause the
w voters to learn, The Democratic
rty could not have made any more fatal
ID animation for itself, in that respect 1t
d ed not get rid OF its war record, But 1t
ii dragged that foul and dirty record be-
e The country once more, by the very
Of trying to hide it under Generals
III h and epsulets. Everybody wants to
I'd ow why such man was set up by the
en who fought sssinst him. Inc answer
Aatal to Democracy.
sMEepu0liCans must be missionaries IN
stGs campaign. From this time 10 the
GDse of the contest every Republican who
nows Whist the Democratic party was
ID is ought to make 1t his business TO
0a u that all new voters shall also know
The main duty this year is TO seek out all
o., he voters who do not know what the
democratic party really IS, and to tell
ZEN. Not With epithets; not with Wordy
snunciation; but with simple and honest
,uiscital of facts, which the loyal men OF
}61 know full we'll. Let it'be known
Ds at the Democracy is the party OF sla-
pro nv. OF rebellion, OF treason and base sur
, conder to treason; and that il does not
range ITS nature or spirit when 1t puts
Mcclellan or Hancock as a ask
70 tlen, If any voter wants to cast his first
seth.s for such 8 party, let him do so with