Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1884-10-02
"a Republican Superstition"

A Prohibition speaker says it is time
to break down the Republican super
stitionn that if the Republican party
goes out of power "the country will &C
to pot" t... :
This superstition" is all the more
remarkable because the Republicans
who are governed by it are in the habit
of assocating in all other affairs with
the very Democrats who, in case of a
Democratic success, would administer
the Government. They deal with them
in business; they are often partners in
the same commercial enterprises. The
Democrat often intrusts the Re.
publican and the Republican the Demo
crat with his most important interests.
They frequently go to the same church
and take or administer the rtes of it,
mutually in each others behalf. They
are socially the best OF friends and
neignbors do one another acts of kind
ness, help each other in difficulties,
sympathize with each others joys and
griefs, marry and are given in marriage
with one aEother.
Yet, after all these signal proofs OF
trust in one another's honesty. ability
and integrity, many a Republican be-
lieves, or affects to believe, that the
same men would. in public affairs,
wreck his own and his fel 'ow- citizens
interests. Republicans will give the
Democrat unlimited credit in business;
allow him to act as his trustee and man
ager in large and important matters,
and in some cases trust his judgment ard
honesty as he would not trust his own
brother. Yet in public affairs he
shrinks from giving him any lot or
share in the administration of the Gov.
eminent, in which the Democrat has
Just as great and vital an interest as the
Republican has.
A genuine superstition is rational and
consistent. The true Mohammedan re-
CARDS the Christian as vile infidel-
the offscouring of the earth-whom he
ought ALWAYS to despise, and, if he dare,
to kill. Everything the Christian
touches is detiled. and the follower OF
the true prophet associates with him
only so far as his fear of the Christ an s
iron-clads and armies force him to do
so.
But the Republican superstition. ;"
after admit ne that the Democrat may
be good neighbor. a good friend, a
good banker, good merchant, good
trustee, superintendent, president of
manufactures or railroads, honest, up
right and truthful, turns about and de-
clares not merely that the Democrat is
mistaken as to his views of the Govern
ment and public policy, but that he is
eagerly and anxiously awaiting the
chance to destroy the country and ruin
the earthly prosperity of every man,
woman and child in it.
If the Democrats were a mere hand
full of lawless, ambitious, desperate
men, bent on getting possession oil
power by force or revolution, the Re.
publican lear of them would be intel
lgible. Instead of that they constitute
one-half of the people OF the United
States. In 1876, counting the whole o.
the opposition, the Republican party
was 10000 votes in the minority. l
the Democratic party is the dangerou;
party which the Republican superstition
represents it, this form of government il
a total failure. If one-half the people
in this country, who are citizens, voters
farmers, manufacturers, laborers, pro-
fessional men, are bent on getting pos
session of the government only to de
stroy it, then the Nation is doomed i
can never exist with one-half of its citi
zens so ignorant, SO unpatriotic, or Sc
disaffected as the Republican supersti
ton" represents it TO be.
The superstition is all the more alb
surd, because these same terrible an
archists, as the Republican supersti
ton regards them, have had posses
sion Of score of State Governments
They to-day are, as they have been be
fore, in possession of Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan
Delaware, Colorado, Pennsylvania
Tennessee, Nevada and California
Nothing has occurred in these States t,
show that the Democrats are not jus
as capable and honest in their admins
tration SIS their opponents have been
In many instances there has been &C
knowledged improvement in tn
economy and efficiency of the Admins
tration According to "the Republical
superstition these States should hav
been given over to anarchy and deviltr
such as IA led in the Southern State
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