The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-23
PARTY AGAINST COUNTRY.
A New Party Demanded.


watch and expose the faults of the
other.they are therefore indispensably
perpetual. There is no use Of a per-
petual party. So true is this that no
nortv ever was, or ever will be, ever
lasting. Even the "Co-hesine power
of plunder," is not strong enough
70 hold it forever in an organized form
undsr the same name.
Principles are eternal, but parties
are forever changing platforms,
names, leaders and often the very
principles and policy inscribed on
their banners.
Parties, in this country, were first
known as Feleral and Republican.
There was no Democratic party till
the time of Andrew Jackson.
The Alien aud Sedition laws Of
the elder Alams, followed by the op-
position of the Federal party to the
war Of 1912 and theextension of ter
ritorial dominion, then favored by the
Republicans. demolished the Federal
party organization, and during the
administration Of James Monroe end
ing in 1925, there was but one party,
known as the Republican party, in
whose confidence the younger Adams,
though in all essentials agreeing with
the defunct Federal party of his
fathers day, had grown to honor and
plaee in the Republican ranks as
Secretary Of State in Monroe's Cabin
ct.
Monroe was the last Republican
President elected under that name'
until the elevation of Abraham Lin
coin. in 1S60-thirty-six years after
the exit Of Monroe. In these thirty
six wears the Democratic party held
dominion, and was opposed by the
Whic party, headed by Clay, Web
ster. Adams and their compeers, and
when the Whig ptrty by its advocacy
of a protective tariff, United States
Banks, and its opposition to exten-
sion of territory and the Mexican
war was forced to the barren noun
tains of defeat and sought refuge in
Know Knothing dens, and changed
its name to Republican, and con-
vulsel the nation until war Of sec
tions became.the first fruits OF its as
tendency, like the country ITSELF De-
came ruptured and broken and pow
or less. 1t must learn a lesson taught
the Fedcruls, the old Republican and
the Wing parties, that while it fruit,
lessly and vainly adheres to its old
name. and so trims its platform as 10
be scarcely distinguishable from it'
rival, its old sins and its numerou;
mistakes will outweigh mere name'
ard sink it to defeat, even when led
bv the most shining characters on the
scroll of Independence.
Thus the history Of the country
teaches us that a party never survives
any blunder or mistake of policy, and
mistakes not fatal TO good principles
but to party rames and cognomens
What good comes from watching
the Republicans and exposing then
faults. their follies, their crimes, theil
immortality and their base desertior
of the many for the good of the pam
pered few, when after all this is done
the verdict is against the Democratic
party, and the people repeat the yer
diet again and again, that they prefe
even the corrupt and miserable an'
faithless Republican party.
Is it not plain that the verdict 0
the people is not against the candi
dates Of the party, but against tn
party itself?
Three millions Of the men VIII
voted for Honcock, and three million
who voted for Garfield prefer tn
= >greeback paper dollar to any othe
money, and these six millions adde'
TO the 800, 900 who broke away iron
both and voted for Weaver, are a
hostile TO banking powers, seeking
control Of labor and values by the is
sue Of bank notes, and the power @
contraction and expansion, as eve
Jackson or Jefferson ever were, an
yet what do we behold?
We behold miserable monied al
istocracy speaking in the last messag
of the President in favor of destroy
ing the greenback and deprectatin
the silver dollar of the fathers, rs
they were commissioned by the people
thus to favor the few at the cost {
the many.
j. w. Forney, Of Philadelphia
who left the Republicans and supper
ed Hancock with manly vigor, fine
himsilf ostracised by Goshborn, VIII
stops Forney's paper because it charg'
base practises on John Welch in asl
ing for money to defeat Hancock, @
the ground that Hancock was o.
posed to the National Banks.
Mr.. Forney denounces the assertio
"a false. and therefore leaves rs