The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-10-08
WHY YOUNG MEN SHOULD BE RE.
PUBLICANS.
Extract from a Speech Delivered by
Henry A. Pavey, Esq, to Young
Mems Blaine and Logan Club,
at City Hall, Saturday Night,
September 27th, 1884.

The Bourbon leaders Of the Democratic
party are keenly alive to the fact that a
majority of the intelligent voters of the
country have for twenty-five years set the
seal of their cOndemna ion upon it because
of its utter unwOrthiness. Those who have
known the Democratic party longest and
best, distrust and fear it the most, because
they know it was hurled from power twen-
ty-fve years ago for having betrayed its
sacred trust and sanctioned the attempt
made by traitors to destroy the government
and the nation it should have protected.
Ever since that time it has been getting no
better fast
And those who know that party best,
know that it is to-day the same malignant,
hypOcritical, spoils seeking sinner, that it
was a quarter of a century ago. It's rally
ing cry now as then is ''To the victors be-
long the spoils, and every one old enough
to know ought to know that all it's malig-
nnnt hates and bitter prejudices have only
been intensified during its twenty-five
years of negative existence and it only
awaits and Graves a return to power in or
der that it may glut its vengeance for dis
appointments past, and revel in the rich
spoils afforded by a national treasury-to
do this it offers to turn everything upside
down and inside out and call the process
reform.
Knowing that they have been and always
will be condemned by those who know
them best the Moss Back leaders are striv-
ing with desperate zeal and the most skill
full cunning to gain prOselytes from the
ranks OF young men who are Just about to
enter the political arena-to such young
men the most fattering inducements are
offered and the most tempting promises
made il they will only abandon their prin-
ciples and come over to the Democratic
camp. Nearly every saloon in the State is
| Democratic club house, and a large ma
! iOrity Of the saloon keepers and all the
| Democratic ward politicians are missiOna-
ries engaged in this work Of Democratic
evangeliZatiOn. The Democratic party hal
never dared to encounter debate, hence Il
works in the dark by secret and private
methods to win young voters from the path
of political duty, by holding out promises
and offers of reward which it could not II
it would, fulfill, and by stimulating youth
| full enthusiasm and ambition to eXertiOn il
its behalf only to meet the disgrace o.
failure and the bitter modification Of dis
appointment.
It is we'll that young men should b.
warned of this before they take the frs
wrong step which is so hard to retrace.
For the Democratic party is itself GOV
cred all over with stains of evil and th
disgrace of failure.
Hungry and desperate for the spoils o
office it has been in the past "to one thin
constant never; it has for the sake o
votes been "all things to all men, while i
has kept faith with none. It's broker
promises to repeal the Scott Law, furnis
one of the latest instances Of its oharacte
and methods.
The greenbackers, the workingmen, an
every other organization with which it ha
sought alliance have found it always tn
same selfish and faithless hypocrite, and o.
by turns have been compelled to turn froI
it in disgust.
1t is the party Of Mossback leaders an
fossil ideas-it has steadily and persistent
opposed every measure of progress an
every measure Intended 70 secure tuu eAl
tence, welfare and prosperity of the Nation
because it is opposed to the Nation itseL
and believes this union 10 be merely a col
federation Of States from which any Sta
ought to be permitted to withdraw at vii
It's traditions and teachings are all
Slavery, States Rights, Wild Cat Bankin
and Free Trade.
It has not been benefited by past eEpel