Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-30
DEMOCRACY AND ASSASSINATION

Democratic paper and is almost as old as
the Herald or Tribune and is older than
the Times. Its owners, editors, subscrib-
Gratis and take Bourbonism as they do
their whisky, straight, and it is safe to
say that whatever the Express utters on
any subject is good sound Democratic
doctrine. On the receipt of the news
that the Gear had been assassinated the
Express had a leading editorial upon the
subject that was so blood-thirsty and
ominously threatening that it has been
extensively copied and commented upon
by the press of the country. One of the
most notable paragraphs in the article is
the following, which will serve as SAM
pie of the whole:
cit stands every American millionaire
in hand to ponder well the meanings of
recent events and the tendencies OF the
age. Niagara cannot be damned. The
irresistible undercurrent Of American
civilization is Democratic. Our ideas,
sentiments, education, literature, GUS
toms, trade all sweep forward in one di-
rection. The people will rule. They
know their friends. They will honor and
immortalize their benefactors. But their
enemies, whether crowned monarchs or
uncrowned capitalists, who use their
power to oppress the masses, and enrich
themselves at the public expense, and
bulldoze Governments, have no favors to
expect. They who SOW wind must ex-
pect tornadoes. Assassination is one OF
the arts of the devil. Let every killer OF
Kings be punished as he deserves. But
monarchs and millionaires, men who
have power and use it to curse the peo-
pie they should protect and benefit, must
expect nothing but trouble and terrible
reckoning, sooner or later.
There is not Socialist in the United
States, from Justus Schwab down Tor up
to that brainless blatherskite, Dennis
Kearney, who did not read hat article in
the Express with great pleasure; but
there was found one Democrat who en-
phatically dissents from every word in it,
and that is Mr.. Dana, of the New York
Sun, who seems not to have quite forgot
ten his Republican education, and he
comments on it in this manner:
'Does Democracy mean assassination?
If Democracy means assassination,
then we have to say that, without stand
ing upon the order of our going, we step
out OF the Democratic camp at once.
We ask the question on account OF the
appearance in the New York Evening
Express of a most extraordinary article
intimating and threatening that assassin
alton will not be confined TO tyrants up
on thrones, but that it will be extended
to some of our own millionaires unless
they change their course.
The Express is largely owned and con-
trolled by old and respected members of
the Democratic party. Its words on such
subject are presumed to have been very
carefully considered They carry with
them in this case tremendous weight, land,
it seems to us, will fill the country with
CONSERVATION.
At all events. we hereby serve upon all
concerned immediate, instantaneous no
tice that we enlist under no blood-red
flag of assassination, and we will neither
lead nor follow under such flag, by
whomsoever borne, and whether they call
themselves Democrats or by any other
name"
Mr.. Dana ought to be well enough &C
quainted with Democratic methods and
tendencies by this time not to be alarmed
or surprised at anything he hears or
sees. That party not only contains
large proportion of the wickedness of our
population. but it naturally attracts to
itself whatever is essentially vicious and
corrupt, and if it could get into power
I'll
ism, Nihilism and Jacobinism, it's leaders
would not hesitate moment. "The ir-
resistable undercurreut of American civ
ilization," says the Express, ''is towards
Democracy" We should say that as far
as American civilization is concerned, the
current is setting strongly against Demo
cracy, but that all the vestiges of barbar-
ism and social cussedness inherent in or
acquired by our free political system, take
to the party that the Express belongs to
as naturally as duck takes to the water.
To gloat over the assassination of the
Car indicates the spirit of the hyena,
whenever manifested, and to seize upon
such an event to threaten peaceable, law
abiding citizens in this country, whose
only crime is the possession of large
wealth, is simply fendish.
Mr.. Dana's threat to leave the Demo
cratic party instanter, and not to stand
upon the order of his going, if the Dem
ocracy intend to raise the black flag, will
hardly frighten such old wheel-horses as
the Brookses and John Kelly, whose or
gan it is. The truth is, the New York
Democracy never trusted Dana to any ex-
tent; they simply used him to do GER
tain work that he was we'll qualified to
perform with his Sun that shines for all.
AS for assassination, Democratic pa
per in the West, Of ten times the circula-
ton of the New York Express, not only
advised the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln before it was done, but justified
and applauded ]. Wilkes Booth for send
ing the fatal bullet through his brain.
That paper was the La Crosse Democrat,