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) enterprises, conducted by Northern churches and Northern benevolence. It is in Republi- can New England and the West that the
 schools flourish best; and the stronger the
 Republican majority the better, usually, are ] the schools-as in Michigan, Iowa and Kan
 sas. Nearly all the great colleges are in Re-
 publican States, there being scarcely any in
 the South or other chronic Democratic sec-
 tons. They are mainly in New England and
 the Vest The intellectual centers are like
 wise in the Republican stronghoIds-in Bos-
 ton, Concord, Chicago, Denver, and the
 Northern and Western cities generally. Who
 looks for any intellectual leadership in the
 South? What authors are there? What
 books or magazines are published there?
 What- great national newspapers Who
 reads Southern scientific investigations? The
 university towns are notoriousIy Republican.
 Poll the students of the colleges and you will
 find the great majority Republicans; while, ! if you will poll the cock-pits, you will find l them Democratic. When it was proposed,
 some twelve years ago, in Ohio, to allow the
 students to vote in the college towns, it was opposed by the Democrats a measure in
 the interest of the Republican party The
 intelligent and well-to-do are confessedly Re- publican, while the slums of ignorance are as l confessedly Democratic. Literature is made
 chiefly for Republicans, as we'll as by them.
 All the great magazines and reviews, as far
 as they have any politics at all, incline to Re- publicanism - as the Atlantic, Rarpers, | Sc1f67aer's, Penn Monthly, and the quarterlies. l They can express their Republican sentiments
 without seriously interfering with their
 circulation, because they have few readers ! among Democrats. The leading newspapers of the country are nearly all Republican. [ Even in Democratic New York, which has five first class daiies, three of them are Re ! publican-the ITmoes, Tribune and Eoe7at7sg ! Post while only one of them, the World, is { Democratic, and one, the Herald, independ- ! ent. In Chicago, where there are four first ! class dailies, three of them are Republican | the Tribune Inter- Ocedhe and Journal and f one independent-the Times. There are not I enough Democrats who read to support a ! Democratic daily Philadelphia, with four ! frst-class dailes, has three of them Republi- l can and only one Democratic. There is a { like showing in the other cities. The great l newspapers are almost entirely confined to 1 the Republican States and localities, there ! being scarcely any in the South. Whenever \ it has been proposed to make an educational ! qualification for suffrage, the Democrats have ! opposed it design against their party. l All attacks against the common school have come through the Democratic party. It is ! hoped, by the enemies of that system, to eff ! feet, through Democracy, division of the ! school fund, and ultimately the abolition of | the schools entirely. The Democrats have been opposed to schools for negroes or to admitting them into the white schools For long time they prohibited them from learn ing to read. State colleges and agricultural
 
 Democratic party. In fact, the whole inn pulse given to education has come from the Republican party, and against the opposition of the Democratic party.
 Another element of the Democratic party is the whiskey element-those who favor free license and are opposed to the stringent i- quor laws. Whenever there is 8 movement for prohibition or local option, it comes from the Republican party or is supported almost exclusively by Republicans. The Democrats are almost unanimously against it. Such movements can take place with effect only 1n Republican States Nobody would think of organizing them in the South or other strong ly Der. ocratic centers It is only in Maine, Iowa and other Republican strongholds where stringent laws against intemperance are found or can be executed. temperance crusade would be strangely out of place in a Democratic community. Where there is a temperance party, 1t Is expected to draw it's votes from the Republican party; and when the temperance men of a county State seek for recognition or to get plank in the platform, they do not go to the Demo- cratic party. The Democratic States and communities are largely engaged in the man. ufacture of liquor and in some 1t is almost their only industry The same name, Bour- bon, is used interchangeably for 8 strong quality of whiskey and of Democracy. The keepers of dram shops and beer saloons are nearly all Democrats. In fact, the whole liquor interest in politics is yielded in behalf of the Democratic party. This element largely dictates the nominations and reises the funds which conduct their campaigns. Democratic primaries and caucuses are most frequently held in saloons, and liquor plays @ vastly more prominent part in their campaign that in that of the Republicans. The last element of the Republican party which we shall mention is the general i'm moral element The Democrats embrace in general way, the vicious classes-those who uphold wrong and against whom the reform ing and benevolent agencies have to be di- rected. While the Republican party has been the party of "moral ideas" and humanitarian agencies, the Democratic party has included those who have set themselves against these. The Democratic party upheld slavery it de- tended disfranchisement it still defends, as we have seen, inequality 1t organizes and justifes violence in the South to prevent ne- groes from receiving their rights and federal officers from collecting the revenue; it IS averse to severe measures against Mormonism or the social evil; 1t opposes, we have seen, all temperance legislation and legisla- tion looking to strict moral observances it encourages illicit distilling and is largely en- gagged in evading and resisting the United States laws. All great moral agencies have been undertaken by the Republican party led by the Republicans-as the African Col onization society, the Society for the Proven tion of Cruelty to Animals, the various relief associations, temperance societies, education al organizations, the freedman's aid societies, all of which have originated in strongly Re- publican communities. New England, the ''hot bed of Republicanism, is also the hot bed of humanitarianism. Many of the churches are exclusively Republican, and cannot tolerate Democratic principles or practices, as being sins The Quakers con- tain no Democrats to speak of. The writer has never known one. The same may be said of the Unitarians and Liberal Christians generally. The Congregational Church is all most exclusively Republican, and, like the above named churches, cannot flourish in the South or in strongly Democratic commu- nities The Methodist Episcopal church is decidedly Republican. At the last general conference when over one hundred delegates were asked their presidential preferences only one declared for Democrat. The African churches are, of course, Republican In fact, there is not church in the country, except those that are confined to the South and were organized in order to perpetuate some sin, that is not strongly Republican. The only exception is the Roman Catholic church. which is Democratic because of it's foreign sympathies and hostility to our schools and principles of equality. If we were to poll the church membership of the country, the overwhelming majority would be Democratic. Many of the vices against which it is the province of religion to con tend are Democratic virtues-as slavery, inc quality, intimidation, liquor dealing, and i- cense genarally The religious press of the 
 fact is so taken as matter of course that the Democrats scarcely raise protest against it. The great leading journals-like the I1ade- pendent, Congregation0hst, and AdUocate- are as avowedly Republican the regular party papers The pulpit is essentially Re- publican, and nearly all the hostility to '.po- 1itical preaching comes from Democrats, whose kind of politics is therein attacked. In fact, the Democratic party is looked upon as shutting up in itself the political vices of the country, and in preaching against them that party is necessarily attacked by the churches There has never been great pub lie wrong that has not been espoused by the Democratic party and opposed by the Repub liean party. The slums and dens of vice and the localities where these abound are usually Democratic centers; while the moral, churchgoing localities are strongly Repubi- can Five Points in New York is strongly Democratic, while Fifth avenue is Repubh- can Swampoodle in Baltimore is strongly Democratic, while the north and western sec I:1 +bob ba4fo n1a raCi1a Ro-