Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-14
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me Democrat party never can and
never ought tc win another National
Victory.
We repubIish the following editorial
clipped from the Chicago Times a short
time afterthe presidential election of
1850, and it is worthy Of republishing
again:
1.-THE recent Presidential election
has shown that there is an inyincible
reason why the Democratic party can
never Win a national victory. It 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 and the war
Hnger within the memory OF Ameri-
cans, the youths OF this Republic viii
continue to grow up Republicans; and
slavery aud the war will be remeIn-
bered as long as the public school sys-
tenn exists. The public school have
slain the Democratic party, with the
text book 1t is vain for statesmen to
declare that there were as many DEM
Ocrats us Republicans IN the Union
army. 1t is vain to affirm that the
war for the preservation OF the Union
could not have been carried TO sue
cessfuI close without the aid of the
Democratic party. 1t is Idle for phil
anthrOhpY to suggest that the attitude
of that party to the war in the Begin
ming was humane one; that it was in
spired by the higher and better wish
that the cause OF the conflict should be
peaceably removed, and the splitting OF
brothers. blood by brothers hands
avoided. The Democratic party has
been ideally identified with slavery and
slaveholding. The Republican party
is ideally identified with emancipation
and the war. Therefore the youths
of the country are incapable of being
Democratic,
Therefore the Democratic party can
never win q NJ tiOnal victory. The
old men are dying away The boys
that catch the ballots that fall from
their stiffened hands are Republicans.
This fact cannot be denied. 1t 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 INSIGHT
ficant beside this one tremendous and
invincible fact.
The curse of slavery has poisoned the
blood and rOtted the bone OF Democrat
ic party. The maledictiOn of the war
has palsied its. brain. The young wife
who held the babe Up TO kiss the father
as he hurried to drum-tap of his depart
ing regiment has nos sucked a demo-
crat The weary foot of the gray
grandmother who watched the cradle
while the wife was busy has not rocked
the cradle OF democrats. The chair
That the soldier father never came back
to Ill! has not been climbed upon by
democrats ne old blue coat that his
comrades carried back was cut up for
! little Jackets, but not one covered the
| heart of q democrat. The ratified mus
ket that fell from him with his last shot
| became the thOughless toy Of the boys,
| but not hand that played with 1t was
! the hand of democrats. TIE babe he
/ kissed crowed and GrOWed for his re-
| turn, and its unwilling and unanswered
| notes were not from the throat OF a
! democrat. The tear soiled camp let
| tiers which the mother read aloud in the
/ long, bitter evenings while the boys
! clustered at her knees, did not fall on
/ democratic ears. The girls sObs g.,
/ blending with the mothers weeping
did not make democrats Of their broth
ers. Perhaps the father had been a
! democrat ali his lifei
The children go to school. There is
/ not a democrat on It's benches. The
first reader contains a portrait Of Abra-
/ ham LincOln-that kind and sturdy face
never made a democrat. On its simple
/ pages, in words of one or two sylables ,
/ is told the story of his birth and death.
! That story never made democrat. In
! the pranks of the playground that
! name silences the frOiicsOme and makes
the ioliest grave. The name never
made q democrat. In the pictures that
light up the geography are the firing on
! Fort Sumpter and the death of Els
worth. Those pictures make no demo
er2ts. The first page of the history
/ contains a representation Of the surren-
der of Lee at Appomattox. No boy
/ gazes on that and never after avOWs
himself a democratic,
In the higher grades the same subtle
and unresisted influence is at work.
The text book contains extracts from
7 patriots speeches during the war. Those
speeches make no democrats. The
great battles are briefly described; the
/ narrative has no democratic listeners.
The strain of martial music runs
through the readers, and that music
makes no democrats. Sketches of the
great generals are given; the brave
deeds arouse the enthusiasm OF the lads
but there Is no democrat among them
The horrors and sufferings of the slave.
are told; the maddened blood tina
mounts the boys cheeks Is not demo
cratic blood The curse of slavery ha
pursued the democratic party and ha
bounded II TO its death Therefore
let it die; and no lip viii be found t,
say 3 prayer over its grave.
The late defeat need not be attributes
to any other causes. Other causes wer
at work, but they we're only incidental
The tariff was one. SeetiOnalism We
q second. ssLet well enough alone
was 3 third. The October failure ]
Indiana was q fourth But al thes
were trivial. and together could n