Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1880-08-28
WHAT DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
MEANS.

The coming campaign is TO be po
lltically gilmore Importance. than any
we have had since 1900, and though
the events to follow will be less start
ling than those which followed thai
memorable campaign, they will be O
grave import to our people both north
and south. The result to follow mus
be one of two things; the total dis.
memberment of the democratic party
or its complete supremacy throughout
the nation. If it be beaten, the rotten
fabric cannot be longer held together,
for the southern democracy have no
! sympathy with the northern dough
faces, and only remain with them and
act with them, hoping through them
to get control of the government and
thus get what they failed to gain by
the sword. Let the democracy once
be victorious, and not only the demo-
Gratis of the north but the republicans
also will be forced to submit to the
dictation of the southern democracy
the same men who in lS6r-5 wore, the
gray, and hated the government and
all its institutions with a hatred that
had been taught them as a part of
their religion.
Is there any one silly enough to
think that in cdse of n democratic
victory the southern democrats would
stand back and allow the northern
democracy to dictate plan OF action?
Have they ever done such q thing9
Have they not always ruled the party!
When the southern democracy in 1901
declared this nation only a confedera-
ton of states that could be dissolved
at will did not the northern democracy
1--WE mean the democratic organization
at the north, and not the brave demo-
Gratis who went forth and fought to
establish the doctrine that this was a
natlon), we repeat did not this
same northern democracy in obedience
to its southern masters, do everything
in its power, by holding anti-war meet
ings, by making anti-war speeches, by
organizing the Knights of the Golden
Circle, by resisting the draft and Il |
hundred other means give aid and as
sistance TO the men at the south whose
lick spittle they had been for years?
Then are we to expect any
thing else but southern domination
from q democratic victory this fall! |
Are the people of the north ready to
turn everything over into the hands of
their enemies of few years ago
enemies too, who declare to-day that
their cause was Just. that they were
not conquered but only overpowered |
and that the cause will vet be ui-
Is the northern soldier,
be he republican Or democrat, ready !
to acknowledge that the cause for
which he fought is unjust-to feel HIM
self snubbed because he had worn the
blue or quietly submit to the domina-
ton ofhis late enemies who declare
themselves unrepentan:s Is the
northern soldier, be he republican or
democrat, ready to see his comrade !
who stood by his side upon the bloody
fields Of Pea Ridge, Shilo, Chicamauga |
Antietam or the Wilderness, manned |
though he may be, forced to give up
a position to which he has been ap-
pointed by the government he defend
ed. to give place to a late rebel or
rebel sympathizer. Is the northern !
soldier, be he r publican or democrat |
willing to see his comrade witf whom |
he spent months in the prison pens of
Richmond. Andersonvi!le or Florence .
where he suffered exposure and hard I
ships from which he never can recover.
forced from position where he barely
makes living for his family. to give
place to those who herded and justified .
the herding OF the boys in blue in
those loathsome prisons! Ii the peo-
pie Of the northern states-if the SOL
diers who wore the blue, are ready for
these things, let them vote anG work
for the election of the democratic
ticket for that is what democratic
victory means: but if they are not
ready for that, let them vote and work
'or the republican ticket, and it will, be
he end of the democratic
oai ty-and the questions that were
hought to have been settled in 1863
will then be settled forever.
A feature Of the ratification meeting
which followed the republican con-
'entlon OF st. Joseph county, Ind. at
south Bend, last Saturday evening
vas the appearance OF the torchlight