Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-15
LET IT DE-"
The Democratic Party Never Can and
Never Ought to Win Another Ma
ti0nal Victory.

Chicago Times (Dem.) November
1880. The recent presidential election
has shown that there is an invisible
| reason why the Democratic party can
never win rational victory. Ii is
that the youths of this republic are
not Democratic. The sons of Demo-
cratic fathers have grown up Republi-
cans. So long as slavery aud the war
linger within the memory of Ameri-
cans, the youths o. the republic will
continue 10 grow up Republicans; and
slavery and the. war will be remem-
bere6 as long as the public school sys
TEN exists. The public schools have
slain the Democratic party with the
text books. 1t is vain for statesmen %
declare that there were as MANY Demo-
Gratis as Republicans in the. Union
army. IT is vain TO affirm that the
war for the preservation of the union
could not have been carried to a sue
cessful close without the aid of the
Democratic party. 1t is idle for
philanthropy to suggest that the atti-
tude of that party TO the war in the
beginning was humane one: that ii
was inspired by the higher and better
wish that the cause of the conflict
should be peaceably removed, and the
spilling of brothers blood by brothers
hands avoided. The Democratic par
ty has been ideally identified with
slavery and slaveholding. The Re-
publican party is ideally identified
with emancipation and the war.
Therefore are the youths of the coun-
try incapable of being Democratic.
Therefore the Democratic party can
never win a national victory.
ITS OLD MEN ARE DYING AWAY.
The boys that catch the ballots that
fall from their stiffened hands are Re-
publicans. This fact cannot be de-
MED. II will do no good to quarrel
with it. All other causes which have
operated TO diminish the number of
Democrats and increase the number of
Republicans are insignificant beside
this one tremendous and invincible
fact. The curse of slavery has poison
ed the blood and rotted the bone of
the Democratic party. The maledic- |
ton of the war has kissed its brain. |
The young wife who held the babe up
to kiss the father as he hurried to the |
trap of his departing reg iment has not |
sucked a Democrat. The weary |
foot of the gray godmother |
who watched the children while |
the wife was busy, has not
rocked the cradle of Democrats. The
chair that the soldier father never |
came back TO fill has not been climbed |
upon by Democrats. The old blue coat |
that his comrades carried back was
cut up for little jackets, but not one |
covered the heart of Democrat The |
ratified musket that fell from him with
his last shot became the thoughtless
toy of the boys, but not hand that
played with it was the hand OF Dem
ocrat. The babe he kissed crowed
and crowed for his return, and its un-
whiting and unanswered notes were
not from the throat of Democrat
The tear-soiled canp-letfers which the
read aloud in the long, bitter
evenings while the boys clustered at
her knees, did not fall on Democratic
ears. The girls sobs, blending with
the mother's weeping, did not make
Democrats of their brothers. Perhaps
the father had been Democrat all his
life.
THE CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL.
There is not Democrat on its bench
Is. The first reader contains por-
Lrait of Abraham Lincoln-that Kind
md sturdy face never made Demo-
,rat. On its simple pages, in words of
)ne or two syllables, is told the story
Of his birth and death. That story
never made Democrat. In the pranks
IF the play ground the name silences
he frolicso me and makes the jolliest
yrave. The name never made Dem
,crat. la the pictares that light up
he geography are the firing on Fort
sumter and the death of Ellsworth.
Those pictures make no Democrats.
The first page of the history contains
representation of the surrender of
zee at Appomattox. No boy gazes on
hat and ever after avows himself a
Democrat.
I'm the higher grades the same SUBJ
lie and unresisting influence is at
work. The text book contains ex-
racts from patriots speeches during
he war.
MAKE NO DEMOCRATS.
The great battles are briefly describ-
u the narrative has no Democratic
listeners The strain of martial mu-
ic runs through the readers, and that
music makes no Democrats. Sketches
# the great generals are given the
rave deeds rouse the enthusiasm OF
he lads, but there is no Democrat
mony them. The horrors and suffer- /,
ngs of the slaves are told the mad {
Iened blood that mounts the boys .
heeks is not Democratic blood. The |
urse of slavery has pursued the Dem ,
cratic party and has bounded it TO its I
cath. Therefore, let il die; and no /
p will be found to say prayer over ,
Is grave.
The late defeat need not be attribute
d 10 any other causes. Other causes I,
we're at work, but these were only ill., ,
idental. The tariff was one. Sec {
was second. LET well |
nough alone" was third. The DC c
ober failure in Indiana was fourth. 4
Tut all these were trivial, and together a
ould not have accomplished the re- {
ult. The result was accomplished c
ecaIse the youths Of the republic are C
o, Democratic. The party is, there 6
oie, without future and without q b
ope. The malediction Of the war b
as palsied its brain. The curse of c
avery has poisoned its blood and c
~ tod ,tc hnna L ef II die n