Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-11-25
WHY IT CANNOT WIN.

WIN CANHUt WIN
The Chicago Times, one of. the
most independent journals in the,
country, indulges the following line
of sensible remark relating to the
late election and its results:
The recent presidential election
has shown that there is an invinci-
BILE reason why the Democratic par
ty can never win anational victory.
1t is that the youth of this republic
is not Democratic. The sons of
Democratic fathers have grown up
Republicans.
So long as slavery and the war
llnger within the memory of Amer
leans the youth of the Republic will
continue to grow up Republicans,
and slavery and the war will be re-
membered as long as the public
school system exists. The public
schools have slain the Democratic
party with the textbooks.
1t is vain for statesmen to declare
that there was as MANY Democrats
as Republicans in the Union army.
It is vain to affirm that the war fer
the preservation of the Union could
not have been carried to a
successful close without the
assistance of the Democratic party.
1t is idle for philanthropy to suggest
that the attitude Of that party toward
the war in the beginning was.,a hus
name one: that it was inspired by the
higher and better wish that the
cause Of the conflict should be peacea-
bly, removed, and the, spilling of
bsothers' blood by brothers hands
avoided. The democratic party has
been ideally Unidentified with slavery
and slave-holding. The republican
party is ideally identified with eman-
cipation and the war. Therefore is
the youth Of the country incapable
of being Democratic. Therefore the
Democratic party can never win a
national victory. Its old men are
dying away. The boys who catch
the ballots that fall from THEN stiff
ened hands are Republicans.
This fact cannot be denied. 1t
will do no good to quarrel with it.
All other causes which have opera
ted to diminish the number of Dem
ocrats and increase the number of
Republicans are insignificant beside
this one tremendous and invincible
fact. The course of slavery has
poisoned the blood and rotted the
bone Of the emocratic party. The
malediction of the war has palsied
the brain.
The young wife who held the babe
up to kiss the father as he hurried to
the tap, of his departing regiment has
not sucked democrat. The weary
foot of the gray grandmother who
wathched the children while the wife
was busy has not rocked the cradle OF
democrats. The chair that the SOL
dier-father never came back to fill has
not been climbed upon by democrats.
The old blue coat that his comrades
carried back was cut up for little jack
cts. but not one 1nclosed the heart of
democrat. The attled musket that
fell from him with his lost shot be-
came the thoughtless toy of his boys;
but not hand that played with it
was the hand of a democrat. The
babe he kissed crowed for his return,
and its unwilling and unanswered
notes were not from the throat of
democrat. The tear-soilad camp let
ters which the mother read aloud In
the long, bitter evenings while the
boys clustered at hen knees did not
fall upon democratic ears The girls
sobs, blending with the mothers
weeping, did not make democrats of
their brothers. Perhaps the father
had been asdemocrat all his life! sIa
The children go to school. There
is not democrat on its benches. The
first reader contains the portrait of
ABRAHAM LINcoIN-that kind and stur-
dy race never made q democrat. On
its simple pages, in words of one or
two syllsbles. is told the story Of bis
birth and death. That story never
made democrat In the pranks Of the
playground the name silences the
frolicksome and makes the jolliest
grave. That name never made a dem
ocrat. In the pictures that light up
the geography are the firing on Fo-t
Sumdter and the death of ELLswoRrH.
Those pictures make no democrats.
The first page of the history contains
repres .ntation of the surrender O.