The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28

eal m0IluSK, having no IecldeQ prefer
snces? This is a question you ought
to be able to answer. Do you think
there is any issue to the coming cleo
bion? Or Is it mere party c0nten-
ton? Did you ever ask a Democrat
what lie is a Democrat fOrp Ask him. |
We will be glad TO find out. We have
never fully aScertained. An Irishman
usually belongs to the Democratic par
ty. Why? He comes from country
in which Democrats are the popular
party. He has not yet learned that the
term Democrat " in the old country
means any different than in this. He
cannot learn 1t. He thinks he is but
keeping up his allegiance to old party
ties when he enters the Democratic
party in this country. He is ready to be
any thing that has the beloved name
Democrat applied to it. He is heart
and soul for Democracy. whatever the
term may signify. 1t is but the fascina-
ton of name. Republicans and all
parties are Democrats in one sense
the true sense of the word. Germans
are usually Republicans. They grow
Republican the older they become to
the country. The frugal, Industrious,
intelligent German is a Republican
wherever you meet him. There is a
class of Democrats that are such out
of feeling rather than judgment. 1t
pays. There is an attraction to them
in being on the contrary side, the side
of the minority. A Republican is an
intelligent man among thousands of
intelligent men. An intelligent DEM
Ocrat is one among hundreds of igno-
rant men, who don't know what the
party they belong to processes. or, If
drilled in the Democratic catechism,
haven't an idea of what it all means.
Their ideas come down to them
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many Hall or some other ring of politi-
cal dead-beats at the head.
We have an Independent Temper
ance party IN this State. 1t is COM
posed of that old order of temperance
workers known by the name of GOOD
Templars. They were once noble
band who gave their time to reforming
the dcunkard, to retardlng or stopping
the progress of our young men who
were moving down the winding road
of incompetence to ruin, to creating
and strengthening the terror and dread
in which king alcohol has come to be
regarded In later days. In an evil
hour, influenced by men not real tenn.
perance work ers, but politicians, who
could not even work in go promising
held as that Of reforming the drunk
ard without dragging politics into the
lodge, they were influenced to adopt
policy of coercion; to think Of passing
prohibitory laws to drive men from
their evil habits. When politics enter
ed the lodge, temperance went out. 1t
was deprived of the pass and key,
grips and signals. Thenceforth the
thought was not how to reform the
drunkard, but how to deprive him of
that for which his appetite
craved. 1t is true aecessions were
made from time to time to the lodges,
but the real good temperance work
stopped. The formation of the Inde-
pendent Temperance party is q last
spasmodic effort of the Good Templars
to carry out the coercion doctrine they
adopted so many years ago, and which
was the sure sign that they were at the
end Of their usefulness. The reasons
are evident. They obtained and de-
served the sympathy of all who have
seen what degradation alcohol will
bring man to while they were labor
ing to reform him, but when they strike
the glass from his lips they reduce
him to deeper degradation by not recog-
nizing his manhood, and he turns from
them. Not only he, but those who had
been aiding the cause. The treatment
was not so wrong as was the change of
character disgusting. II there are
those who believe that what a man
shall eat and drink are legitimate
things upon which to leglslate they are
welcome to such Il belief: but even
with such belief the question of a
law at present Is one that
cannot be carried. 1t is only nonsense
% think about it.
The Greenbackers are at present like |
,he cloud from a large factory smoke
stack. They have no foothold. They |
loaf. They are fast dissolving in the
of resumed specie payment.
1t is said that the platform Of the
party is its deeds. 1t is the
,arty of progress. Protective tariff, In
Ipite of the sophistries of free trade,
has given the country unexampled pros
,erity. Its financial measures have
brought greenbacks and gold to a level. !
t maintained the Union when the
country was threatened with being
orn asunder. 1t emancipated the
laves and has brought the South to
under free labor system.
Who would wish to see these achieve
nents given over to the despoiling
ands of Democratic rule?
In our own state the Republican /
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