Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-21
ANALYSIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
BY A POLITICAL CHEMIST.


The Democratic party is composed of:
l. The men who raised peace flags in Con.
necticut during the war for the Union.
9 The Knights of the Golden Circle in
Indiana.
8. The men who committed the Fort Pi,.
low massacre.
4. The ruffans who committed the Ellin,
ton murders.
s. Those great and good men (?) who re.
sisted the draft in New York city.
6. That patriotic ~ body of men who fed
the country to escape the draft.
z. The "White Liners" of Louisiana and
Texas.
8. The I" Rifle Clubs" of South Carolina.
8. The "Copperheads" of the North.
10. The men who voted fer ordinances of
secession.
IL. The men who tore down the flag and
tramped it in the dust in 1861.
II. The Kuklux Klan.
13. The mob who murdered Judge Chisholm
and his heroic daughter.
IA. The masked rutfian who shot DIR. Dink-
grave.
15. The men who shot Union soldiers.
16. The men who kept bloodhounds to
hunt and tear fugitives from slavery.
IL. The men who sought and still seek to
impair the public credit
Is. The men who have repudiated State
debts by the hundreds of millions.
10. The men who said we could never pay
the national debt.
90 The men who voted to pay the public
debt in irredeemable promises, in violation of
the plighted faith of the nation.
81. All the bushwhackers of the war.
o. The men who believe this republic
confederacy, net nation.
%. The men who fired orphan asylums
durino the war in New York
"a. The men who sought to spread small
pox in the North as a means of warfare.
%. The men who, by perjury and forgery,
secured 6S, 900 false and fraudulent naturali-
cation certificates, and voted them in New
York. Connecticut and New Jersey, and by
which means those States indorsed Tilden in
1876 by total majority of IS, ,0S7.
26. The men who favor the doctrine Of free
trade, and prefer pauper labor to the labor of
freemen and skilled Americans.
q. The men who thanked God when Lin
coin was assassinated.
2S. The men who called Union soldiers
IS 'Lincoln's hirelings."
90. The men who pronounced the war s.
failure.
80. The men who sought to starve the Gov.
ernment
81. The men who turned MANNED Union
soldiers out of Office to make place for ex-
rebels.
3D. The men who seek to steal the reins
Of government from the hands of the loyal,
brave and true, by fraud at the ballot-box.
49, The men who seek to expunge the
Federal election laws from the statute books
that they may revel in the prostitution of the
ballot under the State laws.
81. The men who prevent free speech and
free ballots in thirteen States of the Union.
So. The men who have spent half million
dollars on Congressional investigating COM
mittees, and failed to turn up one Republican
thief among the officials who handled the
millions of the public funds
&c. All the men whose political sins and
vagaries have expurgated them from places
of honor, trust and profit for twenty years.
81. The men who filled the land with fresh
graves, half million widows, two millions
of orphans and cost the country nearly ten
billions of money, were and are all Demo-
Gratis. Every Union soldier who lost a limb
in defense of his country lost it by the hand
of Democrat. Everyone wearing a rebel
bullet in his body had it put there by DEM
ocrat, and every scar borne upon every heroic
body in the land was made by Democrat.
49, All of these political lepers of the Re-
public. together with some good but mis-
guided men who found their way into the
political sewer of the Democracy, which
seeks to hide the stencil of its foulness by the
disinfecting influences of one of the i'm
mortal soldiers of the war of the Union.