National Republican., 1880-08-12
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The democratic party assumes to be the
peculiar friend aud protector Of the rights
and interests of the working classes. II
illustrates tile business of this claim by
placing its standard in the hands OF an ar
rant aristocrat who has no sympathy what
ever with the toiler, rather regarding him
as an inferior being and unworthy Of the
slightest care. Then, TO strengthen the
head Of the ticket and make it the more
repulsive to the laboring classes, the demo-
cratic party has placed rs second in COM
mand of the democratic legion flinty-
hearted miscr, who, like the grist MILL is of
no utility unless he is grinding, and whose
chief employment through life seems to
have been the grinding of the face of the
poor The personnel of the democratic presi-
dental ticket can be briefly aud truthfully
summed mp in two words - aristocrnt,
miser; for that is what it is. The aristo-
crat was manufactured at the national ex-
pense while the miser has been nursing his
avarice uninterrupted by q solitary known
benevolent prompting for continued period
of forty years.
Upon such ticket the democratic party
bases its claim for the vote of the workers
of the country. 1t is q most absurd claim,
and one that never will be recognized by
the thoughtful toilers of the nation when
they carefully survey the situation. Aris-
tocracy that borders upon snobbishness and
avarice that is miserly are not the most
attractive features that can be stamped
upon the head of the government. At all
events, when properly understood and con-
sidered outside the pale of party bigotry
that blinds, these characteristics will repel
rather than attract the great mass of the
working men, from whose toilings come
the accumulated wealth and prosperity of
the country. An aristocrat is well enough
in the army, especially when made to order
by the government and at its own expense
So is the avaricious man well enough, per-
haps, in the marts of trade and commerce
and at the tables of the money-changers in
| the temple of the gold king. But neither
should be clothed with civil power and au-
thority in administering the affairs of gov
ernment. The farther both are removed
from the seat of civil power the better for
the interests of the toiers of the land. A
successful and beneficent ruler must be in
sympathy with the ruled, including all
grades and distinctions of society. With
an educated arstocrat or q sordid mser
such relation is simply impossible in the
nature of things. Both in power would
take to their afiinities, aud all outside of
that charmed circle in the land, to use nm
humble phrase, would be left TO browse for
themselves These are the distinctions
promised in the democratic programme,
and if the lnboring people Of the nation seek
to stamp the administration of their gov
ernment with the brands of exclusiveness
and avarice they have only to vote the
democratic ticket and so far as their infu-
ence reaches they will secure an established
aristocracy of imperialism at the head of
a republican form Of government If this
is what they seek then the true way to at
tain that end is TO vote for HANCOCK and
ENGLISH, and the work may be accom-
plished if the good sense of the people does
not interpose to prcveut it.
In General GARFIELD, the republican
candidate for the presidency, we find the
antipodes of HANCOCK in everything that
lends a charm to private and civil life. A
man of the people, who has been steady
toiler from his boyhood he has never been
fortunes favorite, except so far ns she has
fl vored his manly efforts to overcome diff
cultes, surmount obstacles and hew his
path through life to distinction with we'll
balanced mind, a strong will and sound,
honest and courageous heart. He is the
true type of republican citizen and states
man. Self-made aud eminent in scholarly
attainments, simple in manner, but full of
that gentle courtesy which distinguishes,
stimulated by the great American idea of
pr ogression and success, he has marched
steadily on from the tow-path of the
canal through the avenues of honest toll
either with his hands or his books, until,
step by step, he has already been designated
for seat in the senate of the United States,
never for a moment forgetting that he is of
the people, with whose interests, irrespective
of birth, color or distinction, his sympathies
were closely intermingled and identified.
1t is for the laboring people of this nation
to decide whether or not they will have
southern arstocracy established at
their capital, to consist of union
general who knows little else than his
duties as soldier-and au aristocratc
soldier at that-backed by the leaders
who raised the flag of an aristocratic re-
bellion in behalf of the institution olslayery
in the SOUTH This is the choice to be made
in this election. We are to have either the
perpetuation of a republican form Of gov
ernment under republican auspices or an
aristocratic dynasty that is TO be estab-
lished in the name Of democracy, to lord it
over the toilers of the nation The bone
aud sinew of the country will settle this
question: and will be responsible for the ills
that follow fatal mistake.
, DAVID MISSING 1T.
Uncle DAVID DAVIS for keeping an eye
. to ,yiu1yyard i'm nolitics has lrod few