The Red Cloud chief., 1884-10-31
LET 1T DIE.
The Democratic Party Never Can end never
Ought to Win Another National Victory.

The recent presidential election has
shown that there is an invincible rea
son why the democratic party can new
er win n national victory. II is that
the youths Of this republic are not
democratic. The SONS of the demo
cratic fathers have grown up republi-
cans. So long az slavery and the war
linger within the of Ameri-
cans. the youth IF the republic viii
be remembered rs long as the public
school system exists. The public
schools have slain the democratic party
with the textbooks. II is vain for
statesmen To declare that there were as
nan democrats as republicans in the
nnlon army. 1t is i'm vain tn affirm
that the war for the preservation of
the union could not have been carried
TO a successful close without the aid of
democratic party. 1t j. idle for phil
anthIopy 10 suggest that the attitude
of that party toward the war in the be
ginning was "a humane one: that il was
inspired by the higher and better wish
that the cause of the conflict should I've
peacefully removed, and the spilling Of
brothers blood bv brothers hands
avoided. The democratic party is
ideally identified with slavery and slave
holding. The republican party Is
ideally identified with emancipation
and the war. Therefore are the youths
of the country incapable OF being dem
ocratic. Therefore the democratic
party can never win a national victory.
Its old men are dying away. TIN bows
who catch the ballots that fall from
their stitfened hands are republicans.
This fact cannot he denied. Ii will do
mo good to quarrel with it. All other
use which have operated To dimin-
ish the number of democrats and in
crease the number of republicans are
insignificant beside this one trcmendu-
OILS and i~nviHcihle fact. The curse Of
slavery haspoi>ened the blood and rot
ted the bones of the democratic party.
The malediction OF the war has Dalsied
its brain
The young wife who held The baby
uo To kiss the father rs he hurried L.
the top of the regiment has not suck
led a democrat. The weary foot of the
gray haired grandmother who watched
the children while the wife Wis huSv has
not rocked the cradle of democrats. /
The chair that the soldier father never
came hack TO fill lfas not been climbed
upon 10y democrats. The old blue !
coat that his comrades carried back
was est MP for little jackets. but not
n covered the heart of a democrat.
The babe crnwed for his return, and
its unwilling I'M unanswered notes
were not from the throat Of a demo.
crat. The tear soilSd camp letters
which fhA nanthnr rAn.l l~l =. IL /
long. bitter evenings, while the bows
clustered AT her knees. did not fall up
on democratic ears. The girls sobs,
blending with the mothers weeping
did not make democrats of their broth
ers. Perhaps their father had been a
democrat all his lifel
The children go 10 school. There is
not a democrat on its benches. Tie
The first reader contains the portrait
OF. Abraham Lincoln-that kind and
sturdy face never made a d~en.ro~st
On ITS sImp!e pages, in one or two Svl-
tables, is told the story of his birth and
death; that story never made demo
Gratis. In the prankS OF the play
ground the name s~ilences the frolic-
and makes the iolliest grave
The name eve made a democrat. In
the pictures that light up the georra-
ply are the firing of For. Sumpter and
the death of Ellsworth.
Those pictures make no democrats
The first page of the history contains ii
representation of the surrender of Lee
Appomatox. No boy gazes on that
and ever after avows himself a demo-
crat.
The strains of martial music runs
through the readers, and that music
no democrats. Sketches of the
great generals are given; the brave
deeds arouse the enthusiasm of the
lads, but there is no democrats among
Ihem. The horrors and sullerincs of
me slaves are told; the maadened
blood that mounts the boys cheeks is
rot democratic blood. The curse of {
'iavery has pursued the democratic
party, and has bounded it to ITS death.
therefore let 1t die, and no lip will be
ound TO say a PRAYER over the grass
IN It's grave. h late defeat need not Z
re attributed to anv other causes. is
Dther causes were at work. bat they n
incidental. The tariff was one.
was a second. sIct we'll
alone" was a third. The Del
ober failure / n Indiana was n fourth.
Nj these were trivial. and together T
ould MOI have accomplished the re- =
ut. TIE result was Accomplished he :
arse the youths of the republic were :
lot democratic. The party is. there
IRE. without a future and without a Y
ope. The malediction of the war has 4
alsie3 rs h~a;a. To cersn % slavery .
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