Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-12-11
WHAT KILLED THE DEMOCRATIC
 PARTY.
An Independent Newspaper. With Lifelong Democratic Leanings, Tells the Whole story.
[Chicago Times. [

lChicago Times.l
 The recent Presidential election has shown that there is an invincible req son why the Democratic party can never win national victory. IL l. that the youth of this Republic is not Democratic. The sons of Democratic fIt CTS have grown up Republicans. So long as slavery anu the war finger within the memory of Americans, the youth of the Republic will continue to grow up Republicans, and slavery and the war will toe remembered as long us the public schools system ex- i-ts. The public schools have slain the Democratic party with the text books.
 It is vain for statesmen 10 declare that there were as many Democrats as RepublIcans in the Union Army IL is vain to affirm that the war for the preservation or the Union could not have been carried to d successful cloSc without the assistance If the Demo cratic party. IL is idle for philan- thropy to suggest that he attitude If the party toward the war in the be- ginning was humane one; that 1t was inspired by the higher and better wish that Ihe cause of the conflict should be peaceably removed, and the spilling of brothers blood by broth CTS hands avoided The Democratic party has been ideally identified with slavery and slaveholding. The Re- publican party is ideally identified with emancipation and war. There fore is the youth of the country incap- able of being Democratic. Therefor" the Democratic party cal never win q National victory. Its old men are dy1ng away. The boys who catch the ballots that fall from their suttened hands are Republicans.
 This fact cannot be denied. It will dono good 10 quarrel with it. All other causes which have operated to diminish the number of Dcm0crars ani increase the number "f Republi- ca,s are insignificant beside this Jre- mtndous and invincible one. The curse of slavery ha- poisoned the blood anu routed the bones of the Democratic party. The maiediction of the war has palsied its bran.
 The young wife who held the babe un 10 kiss the father as he hurried to the tap Cf his departing regiment has not sucked Democrat. The weary foot of the gray grandmother who watched the children while the wife was bu-y has not rocked the cradle of the Democrats. The chair that the soldier4ather never came back Co i'll has not been climhed upon by Demo crais. The old blue coat that his com rades carried back was cut up for little iackeii, but not one inclused the heart of Democrat. The rattled muSket that fell from him with hlS last shot becane the thoughtlesS toy of his boys but noI bend that played with il was rhe hand of a Democrat. The babe ke kissed crOwrd and crOwed for his rsurn, and iis unwilting and un- answered notes were not from the throa of Democrat. The rear soiied camp letters which the mother read ,Irua in the long. bitter evenings whils the boys clu tered around her kne,s did no' fall upon Democratic ears The girls sob-, blending wi.h the mothers weeping, did not make Democrats Of theIr brothers. Perhaps the ather has been Democrat all hi- | life
 The children go to school. There is not a Democrat on its benches. The [ frs, reader contains a portrait nf Abraham LincOln-that kind and sturdy face never made a Democrat. | On is simple pages, in words of one | O. two syllables. i'd told the story 0t his brih and death. That story never made a Democrat In the pictures tlat light up Ihe geography are the fling on Fort Sumter and the death of Ellsworth Those pictures make no | ncmocrats. The tir>t page "t tLe hls- | torv contains representation of the surrender of Lee at AppOmatiox. No tov gazes on that and ever after ayeWs himself a Democrat.
 ! In the higher grades the same sub tie, unresistIng influence IS at work. | The text books cOntsin extracts from patriots speeches during the war. | Those speeches make no Democrats. The great battles are briefly described | their brave deeds arouse the enthu- | liasm of the lads, but there Is n" Dem. ocrat among them. The horrors and ,ufferings of the slaves are told; the maddening blood that mounts the boys cheeks is not Democratic blood. The curse of slavery has pursued the Democratic party, and has bounded Il to its death. Therefore let 1t die; and no lip will be found to say prayer over Jhe grass on it's grave.
 The late defeat need not be attrib- uted to any other cause. Other causes were at work. but they were only ln- cidental. The tariff was one. Sec
 ionalism was second. |" Let wei enough alone was third. The De- tober failure in Indiana was fourth. 1 But all these were trivial. The resul
 was accomplished because the you'll of the Republic Is not Democratic
 That party is, therefore, without future and without a hope. The mal
 edIction of the war has palsied it
 brain. The curse of slavery has pois
 oned its blood and routed its bone 1 Let IL die.